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Home » blog » books » Derrick Belanger » pastiche » review » Review — An Improbable Truth: The Paranormal Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Review — An Improbable Truth: The Paranormal Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Belanger Books March 10, 2017
"It seems most improbable" [BRUC]
Holmes and the paranormal may at first seem a bridge too far. The rational detective always found a solution to his mysteries grounded in the real world, and as he famously stated in "The Sussex Vampire" when faced with a possible case of vampirism, "No ghosts need apply."
Yet below the surface of some of Doyle's work, one can see some cases with not so logical conclusions. Take, for example, these unfinished tales mentioned in "The Problem of Thor Bridge":
"Among these unfinished tales is that of Mr. James Phillimore, who, stepping back into his own house to get his umbrella, was never more seen in this world. No less remarkable is that of the cutter Alicia, which sailed one spring morning into a small patch of mist from where she never again emerged, nor was anything further ever heard of herself and her crew. A third case worthy of note is that of Isadora Persano, the well-known journalist and duellist, who was found stark staring mad with a match box in front of him which contained a remarkable worm said to be unknown to science."
Men and women disappearing into thin air may have some logical explanation...or not. And a worm which drives people insane seems to come straight from science fiction.
I mention the above to give credit to A.C. Thompson, the editor of An Improbable Truth: The Paranormal Adventures of Sherlock Holmes for finding an excellent balance of paranormal stories which range from those with logical conclusions to those with monsters from other worlds, and most which fall somewhere in the middle. Take for example Lucy Blue's "The Fairy Pool," a story in which a girl goes missing in the Lake District. What starts out as a straightforward case delves into the realm of magic, or does it? This author does an excellent job keeping the reader guessing.
Then there is "Sherlock Holmes and the Hungry Ghost," written by the wonderfully talented young Sherlock Holmes author Katie Magnusson. Ms. Magnusson, even when she delves into Holmes cyberpunk, always stays close to the Canon in her approach to Holmes. This tale is the most traditional story in the collection, and I believe strict canonical Holmesians will find it to be the best.
The story I personally found to be the best in the collection was "The Arendall Horror," by Thomas Olbert. This story involves a young Miss Corbett who seeks Holmes help in fending off a demonic attacker. The story grows in its complexity, and by the end I found it to be downright terrifying. This story does the best job of balancing the traditional Holmes mysteries with the horrors of paranormal monstrosities. Both Doyle and H.P. Lovecraft would be proud.
Other standout stories in the collection include the humorous "The Diamond Carter Ghost" by Matthew Wilson. In this story Holmes uses his boxing skills to take on an opponent with supernatural powers. In "The Canaries of Clee Hill Mines" by Robert Perret, Holmes and Watson investigate the disappearance of three men. Holmes believes it will be fun to identify an underground murderer, but the case does not develop in the way he predicts. Finally, we cannot have a paranormal collection today without having at least one story involving zombies, and we get tat from Trenton Mabey's "The Case of the Rising Dead."
Overall, this is a fun and exciting collection of stories perfect for the Halloween season. I do have to add one disclaimer. The editor does start her introduction by stating "I am NOT a devout Sherlockian." Beyond the fact that this book involves the paranormal, it also has many stories in which Watson calls Holmes "Sherlock" and Holmes calls Watson "John." For some purists, that will be hard to swallow. If you are open to different takes on the Holmes and Watson relationship and certainly, if you are a fan of the BBC Sherlock series, you should be able to see past the disclaimer and enjoy these stories. Just make sure you don't read them in the dark!
An Improbable Truth: The Paranormal Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is available from Mocha Memoir Press and Amazon.
Derrick Belanger is the author of the #1 bestselling book in its category Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Peculiar Provenance , which was in the top 200 bestselling books on Amazon. He also is the author of the MacDougall Twins with Sherlock Holmes books, the latest of which is Curse of the Deadly Dinosaur , and he edited the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle horror anthology A Study in Terror: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Revolutionary Stories of Fear and the Supernatural . Mr. Belanger has recently started the publishing company Belanger Books which released the Sherlock Holmes anthology Beyond Watson. He resides in Colorado and continues compiling unpublished works by Dr. John H. Watson.
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Roku TV Is No. 1 Selling Smart TV Operating System (OS) in U.S. and Canada
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Unveils Wireless Soundbar to Enable OEM Brands to Build Audio Devices for Roku TV;
Expands Roku TV Ready Program Further in U.S. and to International Markets
Roku, Inc. (Nasdaq: ROKU) today announced that Roku® OS was the No. 1 smart TV OS sold in the U.S. and Canada according to NPD’s Weekly Retail Tracking Service. Roku TV™ held 38% of market share in the US and 31% in Canada, based on available data from January 5 through December 26, 2020, maintaining the lead spot in both regions.* In North America, millions of Roku TV models were sold across thousands of retail stores offering consumers hundreds of models to choose from in a range of sizes and picture quality options -- from 24-inch HD to 75-inch 4K HDR models.
With the Roku TV reference design, TV OEM brands efficiently and cost effectively build and sell best-in-class smart TVs at competitive price points that consumers love. Roku TV models feature a simple home screen to enable consumers to easily access thousands of free and paid streaming channels, plus advanced features like fast search across top channels and voice compatibility for Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant-enabled smart devices. The easy-to-use remote, automatic software updates and seamless audio integration offers added convenience.
Roku TV Ready Wireless Soundbar
Expanding the Roku TV Ready ecosystem further, Roku today unveiled a new wireless reference design for consumer electronics brands. This new wireless soundbar reference design uses Roku’s proprietary audio technology to connect seamlessly with any Roku TV model wirelessly, offering impressive audio and video synchronization, making it even easier for Roku TV customers to add great audio to their TV experience. It will also ensure simple set-up without the clutter of cords and easy operation with one Roku TV remote.
The new reference design will enable consumer electronic companies to build and sell wireless soundbars under their own brand. TCL is expected to launch the first wireless soundbar and will announce device specifics at their CES 2021 event on Jan. 12.
“We are proud to power the smart TVs that are most frequently purchased in the United States and Canada. Every day we work to ensure our customers have the best TV experience and that means – ease of use, choice, endless entertainment and great value,” said Mustafa Ozgen, senior vice president of Account Acquisition at Roku. “Additionally, with the introduction of our new wireless soundbar reference design, we are continuing to expand our home entertainment eco-system to ensure consumers can pair any Roku TV with great sound.”
Expansion of Roku TV Ready Program in U.S. and to International Markets
In the United States, Element will launch a 2.0 Roku TV Ready Soundbar and 2.1 Roku TV Ready Soundbar + Subwoofer later this month. Element joins TCL, Hisense, Enclave, Sound United & Bose who all released Roku TV Ready certified audio products in the U.S. in 2020. Roku aims to expand the availability of Roku TV Ready program internationally and will announce partners and products by country at a later stage.
Roku TV models are available from more than 15 TV OEM brands and today can be found in the U.S., Canada, UK, Mexico and Brazil. OEM TV brands and consumer electronics companies interested in learning more about Roku TV and the Roku TV Ready program in the U.S. and abroad can contact OEM@roku.com.
About Roku
Roku pioneered streaming to the TV. We connect users to the streaming content they love, enable content publishers to build and monetise large audiences, and provide advertisers with unique capabilities to engage consumers. Roku streaming players and TV-related audio devices are available in the U.S. and in select countries through direct retail sales and licensing arrangements with service operators. Roku TV™ models are available in the U.S. and in select countries through licensing arrangements with TV brands. Roku is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. U.S.A.
This press release contains “forward-looking” statements that are based on our beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to us on the date of this press release. Forward-looking statements may involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These statements include but are not limited to the content, benefits, features and availability of HBO Max on the Roku platform; trends related to the shift to TV streaming; and the features, benefits and reach of the Roku platform. Except as required by law, we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements publicly, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future. Important factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially are detailed from time to time in the reports Roku, Inc. files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019 and our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2020. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are posted on Roku’s website and are available from Roku without charge.
Roku, Roku TV, and Roku TV Ready are trademarks of Roku, Inc. in the U.S. and in other countries. Trade names, trademarks and service marks of other companies appearing in this press release are the property of their respective holder
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Google Hangouts will no longer support video calling on Android, web
Google Hangouts users will no longer be able to use the group video calling feature on the Android app and the web version.
Ankita Chakravarti
Google Hangouts users will no longer be able to use the group video calling feature.
The users who are trying to make video calls on Hangouts are being redirected to Google Meet.
f you have not updated your Hangouts app on your Android phone, you can still use the feature.
Google Hangouts users will no longer be able to use the group video calling feature on the Android app and the web version. However, the new changes are applicable only to the latest version of the app. If you have not updated your Hangouts app on your Android phone, you can still use the feature. The users who are trying to make video calls on Hangouts are being redirected to Google Meet.
So when you update your Hangouts from Google Play Store, you no longer get the option to host a group video call. When you try making a call, you are greeted with a message that reads, “Video calls in Hangouts now use Google Meet. That gives you live captions, screen sharing, and more.” However, you can still make one-on-one video calls and audio calls from the app and the web version of the app.
Google is trying to make the video calling feature exclusive to Google Meet. When you tap on the video call icon on a Hangouts group, a Google Meet link would be instantly generated and pasted on the group for everyone else to join. Users can join the meeting by clicking on the link. This is pretty similar to how Facebook uses the Messenger Rooms feature. The Room shortcut is available on WhatsApp but that would not let users host a video meeting on the app itself. It will redirect users to Facebook Messenger Rooms.
As per a report by Android Police, users can still revert to the old version of Hangouts that supports group calling by using an APK link.
Google Meet currently allows up to 10 people to join a video call on the free version and up to 25 users on the paid version. Google Duo, another video conferencing app by Google, allows around 30 people to join a call. Google has launched a host of features in the past and recently it rolled out a new feature that would allow users to raise hands virtually during a meeting. So if you want to ask questions in the middle of a meeting or say something, you can use the raise hands button to make yourself heard. It is better to notify the moderator before blurting out something in a jiffy or interrupt the speaker. When the button is clicked, the moderators get to know about it
Apart from this, it also rolled out the feature that allows a user to change his background during a video call. Google Meet is one of the widely used video conferencing apps. Apart from Google Meet, there are Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and even Facebook Messenger Rooms.
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Duo hold station in Murray Bridge
Tour Down Under Race Report
Rohan Dennis
Tour Down Under – Stage four: Norwood - Murray Bridge, 152.8km
Rohan Dennis and Dylan van Baarle maintained their overall positions at the Tour Down Under following a frantic finish to stage four.
Caleb Ewan (Lotto Soudal) sprinted to victory in Murray Bridge following a tense final 25 kilometres after the early breakaway was caught, with a number of teams pushing the pace with the possibility of crosswinds on the cards.
The windspeed did not materialise, but there were some difficult moments in the run-in to the line as the pace picked up however, with several crashes slowing the bunch and Van Baarle narrowly avoiding one particularly high-speed tumble in the bunch before Ewan sealed victory.
Pavel Sivakov maintains his lead in the best young rider classification with two stages remaining.
1. Richie Porte (Trek-Segafredo) 13:39:22
2. Daryl Impey (Mitchelton-Scott) +3"
3. Robert Power (Team Sunweb) +9"
4. Simon Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) +11"
5. George Bennett (Team Jumbo-Visma) +14"
8. Rohan Dennis (Team INEOS) +15"
9. Dylan van Baarle (Team INEOS) +15"
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Collective sale of Dalvey Road apartment
The latest condominium to climb on the en bloc bandwagon is the Villa D’Este on Dalvey Road in prime district 10. The freehold site currently holds 12 apartment units ranging from 3,456 sq ft to 3,949 sq ft and 10 owners have already agreed to putting the site up for sale. And the asking price? $96 million.
The pros for this site is that there are no development charges and with the $96 million price tag it comes with, that works out to be about $1,730 psf for the 55,480 sq ft land site. Land acquisition moves by developers have been aggressive this year and quite a few collective sales efforts have come to fruition and more mature residential establishments are feeling confident about putting themselves out there.
Other properties which have started their en bloc sales process recently are The Albracca, Serangoon Ville and Tampines Court with the latter 2 being former HUDCs. The Villa D’Este is a private property with relatively few units on site, which could mean each owner getting $7.5 to $8 million from the sale. And its location would attract developers since it is rare to find a site so close to a Good Class Bungalow (GCB) area. This could translate to promising sales of projects eventually launched here as the area is popular with expatriates and also provides the exclusivity of ambience and address. Other private land plots which were sold this year included One Tree Hill Gardens, Goh & Goh Building, Rio Casa and Eunosville.
The Dalvey Road site holds the potential to yield 1 to 3 GCBs or 24 new apartment units sized approximately at 2,000 sq ft. There was a previous collective sale attempt in 2015 for $115 million.
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Viterbi Nanosatellite Blasts Off From Cape Canaveral on Space X Launch
December 13, 2010 All systems were go — and went perfectly — December 8 at Cape Canaveral, with the newly developed Falcon 9 heavy lift vehicle sending into earth orbit a packet of nanosatellites, including a unit that the Viterbi School's Information Sciences Institute (ISI) and its Department of Astronautical Engineering's Space Engineering Research Center (SERC) jointly played a key role in developing. Read More >
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Digg This: ISI Researcher Forecasts Social Network Behavior
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July 2, 2010 ISI Executive Director Herbert Schorr has announced that Dr. Michael (Mike) Fritze, currently a Program Manager at DARPA's MTO office, will be joining ISI's technical staff in mid-July, 2010. Read More >
IEEE Computer Security Group Honors ISI Cyberdefense Expert
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'Ethical Hackers' a critical need to bolster cyberdefenses, DoD Deputy Secretary tells ISI-hosted gathering
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ISI Startup Powers High Performance Design for Small Cap Manufacturers
April 9, 2010 A successful DARPA-funded Information Sciences Institute collaboration with a high technology parts manufacturer has taken a giant step upward from R&D to real world applications. Read More >
ISI Recognized for Key Role in Internet Development
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March 8, 2010 The new division will also will assist in ISI-wide development efforts, in areas like manufacturing, microelectronics, and other ISI strengths that can be leveraged to create strong programs in wireless technology Read More >
Two-Module Tool Removes Water from Natural Gas Wells
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Aeneas Cubesat Mission Blasts Off at ISI
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Almost Half of Injured Haitians are Children, ISI/Childrens Hospital Study Finds
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Internode appoints its first chief operating officer
By Staff Writers on Sep 9, 2009 3:00PM
Customer service manager leaps into mahogany row.
Internode has rewarded its long-serving customer services manager for her work keeping the ISP's subscribers happy during its massive growth phase by elevating Liz Cornelissen to the new position of chief operations officer (COO).
Internode founder Simon Hackett stays as the broadband provider's managing director.
Cornelissen (pictured) will have responsibility for the broadband provider's Internode Media group that oversees the design and delivery of services such as video. In her previous role, she was responsible for leading customer services, sales, media, product management and business programs.
She said her new role was to ensure Internode improved as it grew.
"We need to focus on our core business and ensure we maintain superior customer service and innovative products," Cornelissen said.
"We'll continue to do that by having great quality service, adding plenty of extra value for our customers and staying ahead of the industry."
The ISP's chief executive officer, Patrick Tapper, said Cornelissen had a "wealth of experience" to bring to the role.
"As well as more than six years leading our customer services group, she previously held senior management positions with Reuters and AAP, leading customer service teams in Asia and Australia," Tapper said. "The role is a new one within Internode and will be key in leading a number of important transformations for the business."
During the past year, Internode has altered its management structure to provide more services to more Australians.
The restructure included:
Appointing group general manager Tapper as chief executive officer;
Promoting financial controller Sean Habgood to chief financial officer;
Recruiting Mike Damms as Internode's first chief information officer.
The Adelaide company has grown four-fold in the past four years and has 430 employees and 150,000 broadband customers nationally, it said.
It delivered services such Naked ADSL2+, private IP networks, voice over IP (VoIP) and managed data centres.
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Chapter 7: Shadows of War
Erygan Dalrey had come to resent the Deshika in a new way. They could not take a hint. No matter how many times he raised the Storm Cloud banner of Torridesta, new Deshik armies poured in behind him and tore it back down. Fighting the same battles over and over again annoyed him, but what worried him more was that he continued to lose men he could not afford. And while in his heart, he longed to simply sweep along on horseback and cleave one terrible and bloody road, torching Deshik encampments and slaughtering any who might get in his way, he did not have the horses nor did he have the reinforcements behind him to leave his lands undefended. So he kept refighting the same battles over the same half dozen towns all within the same fifteen leagues. If it took him an eternity, he would carve a territory where the Deshika would not go because of how many of their kind had died within its bounds. But he did not have an eternity. At seven hundred and fifty-three, he was not an old man, many would say he was still in his prime, but he felt in his heart that he was slowing failing. It was time for someone else to lead, someone that the Merchant Clans did not yet control. The cost of smuggling a message to Makret Druoth asking him to get Eildar out of Shiabira, a small city in Storinea near the Armandan border, had been ridiculous, but Erygan could afford it. He had needed Eildar. And now, though he and Eildar disagreed about the best way to drive away the Deshika, they both detested the four-armed giants and wanted them gone.
Eildar sat on a hay bale on the other side of the second story of a barn in the most recent town that they had reconquered. He was rubbing his chest, a nervous tick that had become a habit since the Battle of the Cardor when he had been stabbed in the back. “Father, what if we send part of our force in a direction that the Deshika don’t expect? They’ll be forced to divide their soldiers to chase us, and then they’ll be easier to trick into a battle of our choosing.” “No, Eildar. We’ve paid a high price for these villages. I won’t see those sacrifices made needless by marching somewhere else. The Storm Cloud must fly free.”
“The Storm Cloud can’t fly free here, father. Most of the villagers from this area have already fled towards Toredo. They are protected only by our advance. Guinira isn’t sending her armies to fight a battle that she can’t control. She wants the fight to centre on Toredo, but she knows that we will simply sit here and wait, or keep marching. She knows that the only way of stopping you is to kill you. She can’t do that if you are choosing the battles.” “You’re saying that she’s massing an army that will march on this land here, because this is where I am.”
“I’m saying that she’s already sent it.”
“I believe that this land is important to the Deshika in some way. As long as we’re here, they can’t take control of it. I won’t hand it back to them.”
“Maybe they believe the same thing you do, father. What if, to them, this land means nothing, but they fight for it because you won’t give it up?”
Erygan had not considered that possibility before. As a Morschcoda, he had always acted on what he knew or believed his opponent’s logical motive was. But Eildar’s logic felt flawed to him. This was not the first land he had reclaimed from the Deshika. It had not been the most heavily guarded land he took. It had no strategic or economic importance to either side. Why had the Deshika fought so hard to retain this land, and why did they still? But maybe, that was the simple brilliance of Eildar’s reasoning. They had no leader with them, Devil, Deshik, or Morschen. Eildar had ridden north after Armanda’s Dothorin campaign, and because of his spying while in Storinea, he knew much of what there was to know about the ordering of the Deshik armies in Torridesta. Because there was no real military leader to make the decisions, the Deshik armies threw themselves at Erygan simply because he was there: because he was too stubborn to leave the land to the Deshika, and they were too stupid to understand that the land itself was not important to the Morschcoda.
“Eildar, do you know when Guinira’s reinforcements might be getting here?”
His son did not respond, but pulled out a telescope and pointed it southward. The telescope was an expensive artifact; it had been a gift from a powerful Merchant Prince to Erygan’s great-great-grandfather. Even one that was poorly crafted, so long as it worked, commanded prices of over one hundred gold paroes. One as well made as Eildar held would cost a small fortune to craft, and a much larger one to purchase. A gift of such extravagance could not be refused, not even with all of the implications and expectations that came along with it. Erygan had borne the telescope in his time, and now, so did Eildar.
Erygan watched as his son directed the glass southwards, sweeping it from west to east in a long, slow circle. What the piece’s range was, Erygan had never tested, but through it, he had beheld the stars and the moon like one who walked beside them, so he knew for himself its power. Eildar’s lips tightened in a grim frown as he gazed almost straight towards Airachni. Slowly and carefully, he placed the telescope back in its pouch on his belt. “I don’t think that they’ll take long, father. But something’s wrong. They aren’t The Kindler’s Deshika, and they aren’t Nasheem’s.” He withdrew the telescope and handed it to his father. “They bear the Whip of Vorteez as their standard. The Master of Pain has arrived in Anaria.” Erygan did not bother to raise the telescope to his eye. He could now see the Deshika without it, like ants, just barely visible, creeping over the horizon. He knew that his son would not mistake The Kindler’s Candle or even Nasheem’s Curling Feathers for the Whip of Vorteez. “Take two thousand men on horseback and ride hard for Rista. That might draw enough of them off.” “What about you?’
“If they’re here for me, then you’re right. They’ll have to divide their army …”
“Because they won’t know which force you’re leading.”
“I should warn you, I think that more will follow you than will stay here. Guinira thinks of me as a pawn of the Merchant Conclave, who will do everything possible to save his own skin. The harder you ride, the more will follow you.”
“I’ll drag them through the three hells if I must. I’ll ride for Agrista. The ruins are defensible.”
“You may find more than just ruins there. Marrdin has been busy throughout Rista, trying to avoid The Kindler’s eye.”
Eildar walked slowly to the stairs, but stopped at their head. “If none of the Deshika follow me, don’t stay here. This town may have held against small armies, but Vorteez’s soldiers won’t go out of their way to keep this village intact. They will burn it.”
“I have my own plans for them, Eildar. I’ve been waiting for this army for over one month now. I am prepared for them.” Eildar turned to go, but Erygan said one more thing. “If you make it to Marrdin, tell him that nightfall comes soon.”
Eildar stormed down the stairs and passed the guards at the large barn door. He called loudly for his commander, who appeared quickly. Almost too quickly, thought Eildar, but he shrugged it off. “The old man wants to wait for this army, and meet them in honest battle, as if there is such a thing. He has no strategy, no skill of command, nor depth of deception. I am not going to sit here and wait for death’s tide to roll over us. Gather as many men as you can, and all of the horses you can find in the next hour. I want to be gone before my father knows what’s happened.” “But sir, if there is to be a battle …”
“There will be no battle. Vorteez wouldn’t send a force that this army has any hope of defeating, and my father knows it. All he wants is some sort of heroic last stand, like Regath Encarthian. He was a lord such as the Morschen need now, but all my father will be doing is wasting lives. I ride for Rista. Any who want to not die are welcome, so long as they can keep the pace. With Vorteez’s hordes behind us, we won’t have the luxury of waiting for stragglers.” …
Months before, even before the betrayal of Makret Druoth and the discovery of Domrar Cadrick as a spy in her court, Guinira had decided that she no longer trusted non-Armandans. That decision, as well as her desire to find a replacement for Druoth, led her to make a controversial appointment. She had found a ninety-two-year-old Armandan pureblood named Hialed Volkure. He was a Ringlord who had chosen to remain loyal to her instead of following Xari into exile. He was inexperienced, he held neither rank nor office in the Armandan army, and most importantly, he was young. Ninety-two meant nothing to most Ringlords, or ordinary Morschen. It was not even a respectable age among the Deshika. But his age had an upside, and Guinira found that to be more important. She could mold him into the man she needed. He was not distinguished, so no one would follow him if he betrayed her. But she doubted that too. The man was a zealot. He was one of her Morschledu Hunters, willing to track down and kill even his own kin if they were traitors to the Armandan Throne. If he proved himself capable of command, and survived, then he would be named Guinira’s High General. If he was incompetent, he would likely not live long enough for her to learn of his failure. Nasheem had ‘borrowed’ forty-nine thousand warriors so that Volkure could have someone to command. The warriors that Nasheem took were those Vorteez normally sent to raid the Morieden warrior clans of northern Drogoda, or when hunting wild Mordak and Dragons. Vorteez did not trust Nasheem, a rift that had widened since the Dread Commander’s soldiers had failed to take Dothoro under Druoth’s command. But, Vorteez’s warriors needed a commander, and Hialed Volkure needed a test. Guinira could give him no advice about hunting down his quarry, for she had never marched against Torridesta itself, either as Queen of Anaria, or as Queen of Armanda. Hialed Volkure would have to discover a way of killing Morschcoda Erygan Dalrey on his own.
Hialed Volkure’s eyes burned as he stared at each of the War Chiefs in turn. Each of the seven War Chiefs stared back, not quite sure what they should think about their ‘General.’ They had never served under an Anarian, though they had killed many of them. But, despite the boy’s young age, they could see that fire burning. He wanted power, and now, he had it. Nobody before him had managed to win a battle against Erygan Dalrey. Few had managed to find him to fight one, but now, Hialed Volkure had found the old Torridestan. Within a few hours, he was confident he would claim victory over Torridesta as well. Just as he withdrew his gaze from the last War Chief and was about to start giving orders, a Torridestan slipped into the tent and bowed his head.
“General. Your arrival is unexpected, but welcome.”
Volkure ran his eyes over the Torridestan. He didn’t seem impressed with what he saw. “Guinira did not tell me that she had spy in Torridesta’s army. What is your report?”
The man would have answered, but he looked horrified at the mention of Guinira’s name.
“You said her majesty’s name? But … How dare …?”
Volkure’s red eyes flashed with fire at the challenge, and flames began to dance around his fingertips as he prepared to answer. “I am in command here. I do as I wish. Now, do you have a report or not?”
The man was shaken, but answered. “Yes, my lord. Um, Morschcoda Dalrey is intending to make a stand where he is.”
“No sir. Eildar Dalrey has denounced the Morschcoda as an old man with no military skill. The land that he intends to hold has no value, economically or strategically, so Eildar Dalrey has taken as many men as could find a horse and fled the camp, riding hard towards Rista. Apparently, Morschcoda Redernin has returned to his homeland and has begun fortifying it. Two thousand Torridestan Knights would be a significant aid in holding that country.” Hialed did not think long. “I was ordered to find Erygan Dalrey, engage him in battle, and end the threat to Guinira’s northern borders. The son does not figure in to those orders. All troops will prepare for immediate head on assault. I want Dalrey’s head before the day is finished.”
“But sir!”
“General—” The oldest War Chief and the Torridestan spy both tried speaking at once. Hialed held up his hand, and the Torridestan went silent. A glance from his fire-filled eyes was enough to silence the War Chief.
“I take that to mean that you both oppose.”
“If Eildar Dalrey is riding towards a fortified Rista, then we cannot allow him to reach the border. If your orders were to end the threat to Armanda’s northern bounds, then that is at least as significant as Morschcoda Dalrey. Possibly even more so, now, due to how many soldiers he has taken with him eastward.” Hialed took in the spy’s words in quiet. “And why do you think I should not crush Dalrey now?”
“We do not know if the Torridestan King is in the camp anymore. This may be a trick, and he could have disguised himself, leaving a lesser lord in charge.”
“That is not a pitifully, hopelessly moronic suggestion, War Chief.” Hialed stood up and walked over to the spy. “Is Dalrey still in the camp?”
“With the Morschcoda’s powers, not even I could be certain.” Hialed nodded once and turned around. Then, he drew his sword in one swift motion and cut off the spy’s head. It fell to the floor, followed a half second later by its body.
“Guinira did not tell me that she had a spy in Dalrey’s camp, because there was no spy in Dalrey’s camp. This was an attempt to divide our forces, to push us in the wrong direction. And it almost worked.” He turned towards his War Chiefs. “If any one of you hears any Morschen even say the word ‘Morschcoda’ you are to kill him or her on sight as a traitor. Now, prepare the men. We march as soon as possible, with everything. Also, one of you, collect that head and take it to my tent. It’s my eighteenth. I need to preserve it with the others so that I can present them all to my lady.” Erygan watched as the forty-nine thousand Deshik warriors assembled in ranks along the brow of the hill south of the village. With his horses gone, he could not counter attack before his enemies were ready, but it also meant that he could not run. Even with the small protection offered by the village’s buildings, he doubted that he could hold the village for any length of time against so many Deshika.
When his scout did not return, and the Deshik ranks were still forming, Erygan knew that something had gone wrong. Eildar had not been able to tell him which, if any, of Guinira’s Morschen Generals would be leading the renewed invasion of Torridesta, but Erygan suspected a new leader; most likely Armandan, and judging from the head-on tactic, a young one. From the aggressive nature of the offensive, he guessed that whoever it was would end up being a man, one that he knew sooner or later, he would meet face to face.
Eildar stopped just out of sight of the village. He knew the plan, but he doubted that a head-on charge would have the effect that his father wanted. He turned towards his commanders and gave orders.
“The Deshika look as though they are going to march head on through the village. If they reach the houses before we attack, we will die, our brothers in the village will die, and Torridesta will fall.”
“What if we rode back, charged through the roads, and attacked them head on.”
“No. They have the advantage in size, even with our horses. Their four arms will let them kill us before we are even close enough to do any damage.”
“What about a southern charge. The ridge of the hill will hide our movements, and if we travel slowly enough, the Deshika will not feel our charge until we are cutting into their backs.”
Eildar thought. “If we ride too slowly, they will have reached the houses. We have to keep as many as possible outside of the village.”
“What about an illusion?” All of the commanders looked at the young man who spoke. “Place shadows in front of the village, make our force seem stronger. It might keep them back from the village long enough, especially if they aren’t sure what they are truly fighting.”
Eildar knew that he did not have the time to waste, but he could not make up his mind. He kept repeating one word that his commander had said. “Shadows … Shadows?” Finally, he understood. “We don’t have the strength as we are to fight the Deshika head on. But … You all know what it is I am suggesting?” His men nodded. “I want them to be volunteers. They know as well as we do that no one who stands in front of the Deshika, whether we win or we lose this fight, will not be coming back.” “My lord, all Morschledu know what it means to channel their Elemental Forms. I will not be surprised if they all volunteer.”
Hialed watched as three hundred horsemen rode back to stand between his advancing Deshika and the worthless village that hid Erygan Dalrey. To his Morschen sight, they were inconsequential. Three hundred, even on horseback, was no challenge for Vorteez’s First Battalion. He had heard other Morschen call them the Whip Crackers. He did not know if there was a Deshik phrase to match, but he doubted it. The Deshika were a very serious and traditional sort of people. He liked that about them. They did not see the need to take erroneous titles. He gave the order to attack.
As the Deshika drew closer to the line of houses, Hialed looked closer at the three hundred horsemen. They bothered him, and he thought he knew why. The spy had told him that two thousand had abandoned Erygan. Obviously these three hundred had a collective backbone, as well as some measure of loyalty to their soon to be dead Morschcoda. Not even before the return of the Seven would Hialed Volkure have acknowledged Erygan Dalrey as a King.
Volkure was about to order the Deshika to charge when something happened that even he considered interesting. The three hundred Torridestans each grew in size, but lost any defining features. Their armour did not shine in the midday sun, their drawn swords no longer mirrored the grass and huts and sky like his own blade did. He could not explain it, until, even from over half a league away, he saw one of the Torridestans turn sideways and disappear. “By all the gods …” He knew what was coming, and a part of him wanted to run as far away as he could, but it was too late. He could not even get the order to retreat out of his mouth. Three hundred Living Shadows charged the advancing Deshik line.
Erygan watched with wary interest as the three hundred horsemen took up a position about two hundred yards from the southernmost house. ‘Eildar, what are you doing?’ He could not bring himself to voice the question, dreading that one of his commanders might have an answer for him. What he dreaded more, though, was that the answer might make sense.
He did not have to wait long for the answer that he did not want. He felt the surge of magic. He knew what they had done. The Pure Elemental State was one that any Morschledu could reach. It involved transforming one’s body into a being of pure elemental energy, bound together by magic. Erygan bowed his head at the sacrifice his men were making. The Pure Elemental State ended exclusively with death.
The three hundred Living Shadows were weapons of a kind the Deshika had never faced before. Their prowess was unmatched, but they did not need swords, or any other weapon. The Living Shadows wielded mystery and terror, and being shadows, no Deshik weapon could truly harm them. All the Whip Cracker’s swords did was slow the Shadows down, and maybe quicken the rate of magical exhaustion. When Morschledu transformed themselves into pure energy, they died when that energy ran out. There was no return to the flesh-bound world.
Hialed had never seen anyone so devoted to a cause that they would transform themselves into living energy to fight on its behalf. ‘And they call me a zealot?’ It was his only thought. The devotion of the Living Shadows, he knew, went far beyond what he would do for his Queen. But now, all he could do was watch as the finest Deshik warriors in all of Anaria, possibly even the world, were slaughtered.
Occasionally, one of the Shadows would die, but he knew that nobody could take any credit for it. The Shadows, though, had carved a long and strangely bloodless swath out of his first ranks, and many of the rearmost Deshika were turning away from the battle so that they did not join their comrades in death. It was bloodless because the Shadows did not bleed, and because while they used their swords, they had a weapon even faster. Living Shadows possessed the power to reach inside of a being and rip out their soul. Some Demosira argued that by ripping out another’s soul, the Living Shadow gained more energy or power, and could survive longer. Hialed watched in silent horror as rank after rank of Vorteez’s finest fell over lifeless without a scratch. He finally got the word out in one loud screech. “RETREAT!”
7. Chapter 7: Shadows of War
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Nearly one in five SMBs use Twitter for local marketing efforts
March 7, 2011 – Twitter usage has been growing quickly among small and medium-sized businesses, according to a report on small local firms.
The �Local Commerce Monitor-Wave 14� from BIA/Kelsey and ConStat found that Twitter usage by SMBs more than doubled between Q3 2009 and Q4 2010, to 19% of respondents. Over the same period, usage of traditional print yellow pages remained unchanged.
Twitter was still behind many other social media tactics, with nearly half (48%) of respondents using Facebook for marketing and a quarter using some other social network.
More than a third of SMB respondents had increased their use of links and ads on social media sites over the past year, and 46% planned further increases in the next 12 months. Customer ratings and reviews were another social tool with significant planned increases.
The report also found that younger businesses were most active in social media�and least active in traditional media. In the Q3 2009 study, businesses less than 7 years old were more likely than average to use Twitter, but less likely to advertise in print yellow pages. By Q4 2010, Twitter usage had increased across the board, though penetration was still below average for older businesses.
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OrderWise underlines growth plans with 16 new hires
A leading Lincolnshire software business is going from strength to strength after welcoming another batch of new recruits across the company.
Having recently announced plans for an expansion worth £1.3 million, Business Management Software developer OrderWise is continuing its ambitious growth with the addition of 16 new employees.
The Saxilby-based firm has welcomed a host of new faces since the start of the year, increasing its total workforce to more than 110.
Jon Roberts, Sales and Marketing Manager at OrderWise, said: “Although our new building isn’t due to be completed until early 2017, that hasn’t stopped us recruiting. We’re still just as committed to expanding our team to reflect the growth and opportunities we are seeing amongst our customer base.”
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Over the last two months OrderWise has hired experienced professionals to fulfil specific roles in the following departments: Alex Trott, Lewis Moore, Craig Telezynski and Christian Moles have joined the Website Design and Development team, while Tom Newton has bolstered the Software Development team.
On hand to assist with internal accounts is Hayley Elsom, while Maxine Woollcott and Stephen Jackman are now working within the Technical Support department. Andy Sedgbeer and Jay Lee have also been recruited as internal IT support specialists.
Then strengthening the Client Services team are Dean Reddington and Joe Osbourne, with Zoe Wells offering her experience to the OrderWise Training department. Meanwhile, Ben Berger, Olie Hanson and Jenny Bowman are taking care of reports and layouts.
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Jon added: “By making such a sizeable investment into both our staff resources and building premises, OrderWise is showing its dedication to the continued development of the products and services that we offer throughout the UK and Ireland.
“We’re delighted to be welcoming so many fresh faces among our workforce and are excited to see what the future holds during these exciting times for the business.”
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by Bradley Olson · August 31, 2018
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The theme for the month of September at the Joseph Campbell Foundation is “Timeless Tales,” and what tales are more timeless than those of the Matter of Britain, the thematic cycle containing the legends and tales relating to King Arthur? In September, the Joseph Campbell Foundation in association with Amazon’s Kindle eBooks is releasing Romance of the Grail: The Magic and Mystery of Arthurian Myth, edited by Evans Lansing Smith. For Campbell, the Grail Legend, and particularly Wolfram’s Parzival, “…is the great mythos of the modern European world” (Romance of the Grail, 23). But the Arthurian cycle was not the only recognized “cycle” of the middle ages; in fact, two other commonly recognized cycles of the medieval age were called, the Matter of Rome, stories that centered on the life and adventures—adventures that were conflated with the Trojan War—of Alexander the Great, and the Matter of France, which contains the stories of the adventures of Charlemagne and his paladins. In addition, there were a number of other, non-cyclical romances written by medieval authors such as Robert the Devil, a personal favorite which is a story about a Norman knight (of whom legend says was the father of William the Conqueror) who discovers that he is the son of Satan.
One of the things that made Joseph Campbell a remarkable scholar and storyteller was his ability to contextualize and frame his expositions in such a way that the reader (or the listener) is rewarded with deeper and deeper insights. For example, in the first chapter of Romance of the Grail, he notes how Europe formed itself into something entirely new as the result of powerful forces brought to bear upon it from the East: “An Oriental religion swept into Europe with real force at the end of the fourth century—namely, Christianity…” (5). That simple statement delivers the plangent reminder that at one time, Christianity was something strangely alien to a European sensibility, and perhaps it remains unconsciously strange to modern ears (hence its enduring power to fascinate) because, as Campbell goes on to write, “A century or so later [after the establishment of Christianity as the State Religion of the Roman Empire] the European portion of the Roman Empire collapsed and what we called Rome from then on is really Constantinople, which is Byzantium, which is Asia again.”
Looking at even the most common of themes in the Arthurian tales — love — forces us to re-contextualize and rethink the stories in this way. In the traditionally Christian European world, until roughly the 12th century and the appearance of troubadours and romance legends like Parzival, essentially two types of love existed: Agapē, which was spiritual love, impersonal and meant for everyone equally, and Eros, also impersonal in the sense that it is largely rooted in biological and instinctual yearning, largely absent of personal, volitional choice. Till that point, love was merely a calcified act of duty: social, political, financial, and legal. Marriage was less an act of love, than an act of reinforcing the status quo: “…when you think of the Provençal and the Latin word for love, amor, and spell it backward, you get Roma. Rome was regarded as representing the exact opposite principle to love—and love was held to be the higher principle” (Ibid, 28).
Troubadours and the author-poets of the Arthurian Romances saw love not as an impersonal, social duty to be performed, but as a personal revelation, a revelation of the self in service to something higher, something greater; love reached the level of an ideal, an aesthetic, a calling. No longer could it remain an empty, social convention but instead as the result of a personal quest, a revelation facilitated by an individual heart. Romantic love was something more, too; a dangerous and risky something, a transgression. If marriage was, as Campbell noted, a violation of love then romantic love must be a violation of the conventions of marriage; a trespassing that surpassed all impediments to the marriage of true minds and true hearts.
In these timeless tales, therefore, love becomes something both familiar and strange, a curse and a revelation. To be truly human means to test limitations even though the cost of doing so may be very high. Iseult’s nurse said to Tristan, “…in that cup you have drunk not love alone, but love and death together.” Understanding that life can never be one thing or the other, Tristan was simple and resolute: “Well then, come Death” (The Romance of Tristan and Iseult). Tristan’s response conveyed understanding and acceptance as well as another, nearly simultaneous, opportunity to transcend limits, even the limits of death! Amfortas, the suffering Grail King, used the cry, “Amor!” prior to incurring the grievous wound from which he suffered. And in part, he suffered because he was young, callow, and unprepared for the demands, trials, and pain inherent in the revolutionary new force of romantic love. Amfortas imagined Amor within the conventions of Roma. He may have fared better if he, like Tristan, knew and accepted the dangers of love and had quietly, resolutely uttered the cri de coeur, “Well then, come Death.”
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Bradley Olson, Ph.D., is the editor of the Joseph Campbell Foundation’s MythBlast series. Dr. Olson is a Depth Psychologist in private practice in Flagstaff, Arizona; his work with clients is heavily influenced by his interest in Jungian Analytical Psychology, literature, and Mythological Studies.
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On December 3, 2020, California announced a new Regional Stay Home Order (“Order”), which will take effect no later than December 5, 2020. The Order divides California into 5 regions, and mandates that once a particular region’s ICU capacity falls below 15%, residents of that region will be ordered to remain home or at their place of residence, except for permitted work, local shopping or other permitted errands, or as otherwise authorized. Specifically, the Order prohibits private gatherings of any size, closes sector operations except for critical infrastructure and retail, and requires 100% masking and physical distancing in all others.
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The Order will remain in effect for at least 3 weeks and, after that period, will be lifted when a region’s projected ICU capacity meets or exceeds 15%. This will be assessed on a weekly basis after the initial 3 week period. More information can be found at the state’s COVID-19 website at https://covid19.ca.gov/stay-home-except-for-essential-needs/. We will keep the blog updated as more information comes available.
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Arcadio “Jhojho” Moraga was born in the Philippines and spent most of his early life in Meycauayan, Bulacan. At the ripe age of 13 he developed a liking to the arts and had but banana trees to practice on and movies to teach him the way. He has come a long way since then.
His parents moved to the USA in the early eighties and he along with two siblings came right after them. This move opened a whole new opportunity for him to learn the arts as he gained access to the world’s most renowned experts: Remy Presas ( Escrima), Hock Hochheim (Kempo), John Pelligrini (Hapkido) and John Thompson, to name a few. Sifu Jho has also attended multiple seminars including a seminar presented by Sifu Jerry Poteet that he had the honor of attending. Sifu Jho's acheivements include a second degree black belt in Jiu Jitsu, second degree black belt in Combat Hapkido, black belt in Eskrima, second degree black belt in Kempo and Certification as a Jeet Kune Do Instructor.
His coaching humbly started in his partner’s garage. The students grew to a number that lead him to open a school at Frankfort, Illinois in the year 2002. Jho-Boun Martial Arts started out as a Jeet Kune Do centered school, which is famed by its founder, Bruce Lee. The curriculum expanded as the demand for his various expertise grew. He along with his instructor and partner now teach women’s self-defense, street fighting, and competitive mixed martial arts. His enrollees range from toddlers to older adults. He enthusiastically trains his students with the way of the arts and instills in them the essentials of the intercepting fist. Along with the movements are the real life application and lifetime relevance of the fundamentals and discipline of martial arts.
It has been over twenty three exciting years of living with the discipline now. Along with his school’s success is his marriage to a loving wife and fatherhood to two wonderful boys, with whom he hopes to pass on this continuing legacy of the arts.
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Understanding how our brains work makes for better buildings
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Applying the cognitive neurosciences to architecture and real estate development may raise some eyebrows and creates a certain amount of scepticism.
However, some solid peer-reviewed studies give reason to believe that, one day, these disciplines might be more closely aligned and complimentary than we thought. Let’s go back in time by way of illustration.
We’ve spent more than 99 percent of our entire time on the planet not in a building, but in a savannah, sojourning for millennia in the unstable worlds of the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater. This big fat brain of ours was thus forged outdoors, scrambling around Africa in small bands. Such pre-history affected the way we interacted with our environment. Still does. We’ve not spent enough time in civilization to outgrow our Darwinian reflexes.
There are two ways to illustrate how this might inform the design of buildings, from workplaces to retail environments.
The first comes from something that’s been researched famously: the impact of natural environments on behavior. Well-regarded data shows that exposure to natural elements—trees, running water, even pictures of trees and running water—provide benefits ranging from shortened hospital stays for adults to increased academic performance for kids. Researcher David Strayer uncovered a 50 percent boost in problem-solving abilities after test subjects sustained a 72-hour exposure to nature. This makes perfect sense, given that 99 percent history part. The brain sees natural elements and says “I’m home.”
The second illustration also concerns evolutionary history. Most of us think humans were among the Pleistocene era’s biggest chickens, ones who got beat up a lot in the hardscrabble African plains. Just look at human fingernails and remember we competed against African lion claws for survival space. Not exactly a fair fight. With a founding population measured in the low hundreds, we almost didn’t make it.
The will to survive
But we did make it. One reason was our ability to use our obese brains to respond and develop preferences for specific types of physical surroundings. We needed to survey the vast flatlands quickly, which might involve scrambling up a cliff, looking in the distance for sustenance and predators, formulating acquisition and avoidance strategies.
But we couldn’t stay up there forever, given our extreme physical vulnerability. We also had to be able to hide quickly. Developing simultaneous preferences for expansive space and enclosed shelter was thus fundamental to our survival.
The late geographer Jay Appleton proposed years ago Prospect-Refuge theory, which embraces this history: “People prefer environments where they can easily survey their surroundings and quickly hide or retreat to safety if necessary,” he wrote.
Designing modern buildings
How might these translate to architectural design? For companies, what kinds of spaces can get the best from your employees?
Many people want creative, friendly spaces to be competitive in the global world of 21st century business. Yet most don’t take into account the intersection between Darwin and Appleton. Designers end up either creating prospect or refuge, but never deliberately putting both together in dynamic, accessible tension.
Is that imbalance toxic? Could be. Open office spaces are a form of prospect, closed rabbit-warren offices are a form of refuge, and in isolation from each other, neither perform very well. Open offices often raise stress hormones. Closed environments don’t allow much collaboration.
These are questions behavioral researchers need to tackle in collaboration with architects, even given this evidence, because the real answer concerning toxicity is “we don’t know”. If the data showed that such asymmetries were counter-productive, however, monolithic designs should be binned.
The pessimist in me says it’s still too early for brain science to be prescriptive. But that doesn’t mean we don’t know enough to collaborate, to design behavioral experiments capable of inserting bricks and mortar into the pages of On the Origin of Species. The optimist in me says we know just enough to fill up a blog.
While architects and developers are not neuroscientists, everybody involved in the design ecosystem should know something about how the brain works. Better informed they might make better business and design decisions.
Dr John Medina is a developmental molecular biologist focused on the genes involved in human brain development and the genetics of psychiatric disorders. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller “Brain Rules”— a provocative book that takes on the way work and school environments are designed; a fellow of architecture firm NBBJ; and holds an affiliate faculty appointment at the University of Washington.
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Extensive Public Comments Cause City Council to Temporarily Extend Local Emergency Ordinance
By Emily Hofstaedter | May 13, 2020 | 3
After a contentious five-and-a-half-hour meeting, the Nome City Council voted to extend the local emergency ordinance through next week [May 20th]. This ordinance authorizes the City Manager to restrict travel and limit non-essential businesses, if deemed necessary to prevent the spread of COVID-19. That’s in spite of the state’s latest mandate on intrastate travel.
Nearly 40 citizens made verbal, electronic, or telephonic comments to the Council during their regular meeting Monday night. Many of those people were against renewing the emergency ordinance, which originally contained language to extend it through July.
The City Council does have rules to regulate citizens comments, including that there will not be further debate with the public during their comment. At times Monday night, this was violated by Councilmember Jerald Brown, who was serving as the Acting Mayor in place of the late Mayor Richard Beneville (who died early Monday morning). And, although they have the authority, the Nome City Council did not set a time limit for each individual’s comments.
Some, like Nome’s Howard Farley, believe the state and local mandates have gone too far. Farley called the worldwide reaction to the virus “a folly” and demanded Nome open back up to the rest of the state, including allowing normal air traffic.
“You gave your City Manager dictatorial powers. I have never had anybody tell me what to do. We are law abiding citizens and we are being treated like we don’t matter.”
– Howard Farley
Despite the authority given to the City Manager in the original emergency ordinance, the closures of non-essential businesses in Nome were first implemented by Governor Mike Dunleavy’s administration.
Farley expressed dismay that commercial fishermen would have to quarantine before working in the summer fishery, and that local hotels, like the Aurora, are sitting empty with the absence of tourists and birders.
His sentiments were echoed by many Monday night. Other citizens argued that they believe the recovery rate for the disease is high and so Nome should go back to normal operations. At this point, various health experts are reporting differing numbers for the mortality rate of COVID-19.
What an overwhelming majority of Nome residents wanted on Monday night, was a return to non-permitted and non-regulated air travel. Locally, the City Manager does have the authority to do away with travel permits. Some Nome residents like Jessica Farley questioned whether those permits were even being enforced fairly. Farley owns a new hotel that she’s been trying to use for quarantine, and said she doesn’t understand why some of her customers are being cleared as “essential” and others aren’t.
Also in attendance Monday night were some like Nome resident Charlie Lean, who did not feel that the emergency ordinances were misguided. He advocated for the slow and safe re-opening of the city.
“Whether Mr. Farley likes it or not, he should thank the State of Alaska for saving his butt.”
– Charlie Lean
Most of the Councilmembers agreed that the virus is not a hoax and is a real, potential threat. Councilmember Jerald Brown reminded the Council that Nome acts as a wall to prevent the potential spread of COVID-19 to the region’s villages. He opted for being cautious in resuming local travel and business.
“I personally don’t accept the premise that sacrificing 1-2 % of the population for the enriching of 20% of the rest of the population is acceptable. And also acknowledge it’s not just the one or two people out of 100 that would die but the 20 people that are going to end up at the hospital with problems for years or possibly the rest of their life.”
– Councilmember Jerald Brown
Councilmembers Brown and Meghan Topkok advocated for some type of extension to Nome’s emergency ordinance. Without an emergency ordinance, the Council would be powerless to take immediate steps to mitigate the spread of the disease, if Nome saw a resurgence of COVID-19. Also, the Council would need to hold two public hearings to pass a regular ordinance, a process that can take weeks. With an emergency ordinance in place, an order can be passed after a giving 24 hours of public notice.
So, Councilmember Jennifer Reader proposed passing an amended ordinance that potentially puts the responsibility of making mandates on the City Council rather than the City Manager. Although Glenn Steckman was put in a position of power by the elected Council, she understands that Nome doesn’t currently feel represented by his decisions.
“I think people would feel way more comfortable if we put our name on the bottom line. So I have no problem with going for another two weeks so that something else can be written.”
– Councilmember Jennifer Reader
Councilmembers Adam Martinson and Doug Johnson voted against any extension of an emergency ordinance. But City Clerk Bryant Hammond recommended that Reader’s suggested changes be reviewed by the city solicitor before a final vote, hence the extension until May 20th. Overall, all six Councilmembers were amenable to finding ways to safely re-open Nome.
Monday night’s true point of contention was Nome’s travel permit and quarantine requirement. Travelers to Nome can only be required to quarantine for 14 days if Nome has a local emergency ordinance in place that mandates it. Dr. Mark Peterson, medical director for Norton Sound Health Corporation, recommended the City Council shorten the quarantine in Nome to seven days with a test at the beginning and end of individual’s travels in and out of the city.
As this week’s City Council meeting was in session, the state released a clarified intrastate travel mandate that extended the limits for travel off the road system to include critical personal needs and essential services.
Regardless, the City of Nome is still asking anyone coming into the city to do a 14-day quarantine and submit a travel permit. The state has not challenged Nome’s travel ordinance. Alaska state mandates still require a 14-day quarantine for all out-of-state travelers who want to travel anywhere in Alaska.
The Nome City Council will be meeting in special session sometime before May 20th to review this latest revised emergency ordinance, which would take some power out of the City Manager’s hands. The timing and location of that special session is yet to be announced.
Image at top: Roughly 40 citizens made comments during Monday’s Nome City Council meeting, but most had to relay their input through e-mail or telephone, as social distancing prohibited everyone from attending the meeting in person. Photo from Emily Hofstaedter, KNOM (2020).
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Robert Bolen on May 13, 2020 at 4:03 pm
Nice to see that they were so concerned, only 2 wore face coverings.
Paul on May 13, 2020 at 11:52 pm
Can anyone name the 7th Council Member???
There are only 6.
Davis Hovey on May 14, 2020 at 7:26 am
Thank you for pointing that out. We have corrected the mistake in the article and we apologize for the error.
KNOM Radio Staff
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Stitt extends COVID-19 state of emergency, removes 11 p.m. curfew for bars, restaurants
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MINUTES. >> DEVELOPING, A DISTRICT JUDGE HAS EXTENDED A TEMPORARY INJUNCTION ALLOWING BAR AND RESTAURANTS OWNERS TO CONTINUE TO SERVE FOOD. THE JUDGE RULING IN FAVOR OF THE BARS TODAY. AT LEAST UNTIL JULY 6 WHEN THE PARTY WILL BE HEARD AGAIN IN COURT. SHE CITED A LACK OF EVIDENCE ON THE STATE'S BEHALF AS TO HOW THE CURFEW WOULD SLOW DOWN THE SPREAD OF COVID. THIS STATEMENT WAS SENT SAYING -- THE COMMISSION
Gov. Kevin Stitt on Wednesday issued an executive order to extend Oklahoma's COVID-19 state of emergency that has been in place since mid-March and removed the requirement for bars and restaurants to close in-person service at 11 p.m. each night.Related video above: Judge extends temporary injunction allowing bars, restaurants to serve food & alcohol past 11 p.m.Although the executive order removes the time requirement, bars and restaurants will still be required to space groups 6 feet apart or separate tables with properly sanitized glass or plexiglass."As we continue to adapt to the ever-changing environment of COVID-19, we are maintaining our state of emergency to ensure the state and our front-line health care workers can continue to effectively respond to the pandemic while also allowing our businesses to remain open safely," Stitt said in a news release. "The Oklahoma State Department of Health continues to lead the way in vaccine distribution as we are now ranked No. 7 among all states by the CDC in vaccines administered per capita. We have made great strides in the right direction and I continue to ask all Oklahomans to help slow the spread of the virus by taking proper safety precautions, including wearing a mask and social distancing." Click here to read Oklahoma's ninth amended executive order.The state-of-emergency extension comes after the health department announced 44 additional deaths and more than 3,900 new COVID-19 cases. So far during the pandemic, Oklahoma has reported 341,364 total positive cases and 2,848 COVID-19-related deaths.On Tuesday, a district judge extended a temporary injunction allowing bars and restaurants to serve food and alcohol past 11 p.m. A group of bar and restaurant owners challenged Stitt’s order requiring them to stop serving at 11 p.m. each night, leading to a temporary restraining order.
OKLAHOMA CITY —
Gov. Kevin Stitt on Wednesday issued an executive order to extend Oklahoma's COVID-19 state of emergency that has been in place since mid-March and removed the requirement for bars and restaurants to close in-person service at 11 p.m. each night.
Related video above: Judge extends temporary injunction allowing bars, restaurants to serve food & alcohol past 11 p.m.
Although the executive order removes the time requirement, bars and restaurants will still be required to space groups 6 feet apart or separate tables with properly sanitized glass or plexiglass.
"As we continue to adapt to the ever-changing environment of COVID-19, we are maintaining our state of emergency to ensure the state and our front-line health care workers can continue to effectively respond to the pandemic while also allowing our businesses to remain open safely," Stitt said in a news release. "The Oklahoma State Department of Health continues to lead the way in vaccine distribution as we are now ranked No. 7 among all states by the CDC in vaccines administered per capita. We have made great strides in the right direction and I continue to ask all Oklahomans to help slow the spread of the virus by taking proper safety precautions, including wearing a mask and social distancing."
Click here to read Oklahoma's ninth amended executive order.
The state-of-emergency extension comes after the health department announced 44 additional deaths and more than 3,900 new COVID-19 cases. So far during the pandemic, Oklahoma has reported 341,364 total positive cases and 2,848 COVID-19-related deaths.
On Tuesday, a district judge extended a temporary injunction allowing bars and restaurants to serve food and alcohol past 11 p.m. A group of bar and restaurant owners challenged Stitt’s order requiring them to stop serving at 11 p.m. each night, leading to a temporary restraining order.
Judge extends temporary injunction allowing bars, restaurants to serve food & alcohol past 11 p.m.
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Expanding trails to create connections in Marion
By Nicole Agee
MARION, Iowa (KCRG) - Biking has become a popular way to get around, especially this year with families looking for safe ways to have fun.
But plans have been around for a while to expand trails in Our Town Marion to accommodate a growing community that enjoys the outdoors.
The Grant Wood Trail takes you from the new development in the city’s central corridor and east side into Linn County. It also passes through Waldo’s Rock Park, a newer park that includes a granite boulder from the last Ice Age.
The city says it will add $10 million worth of trails in the next few years. That includes the CeMar trail, which will connect to downtown Cedar Rapids.
“There’s going to be the ability probably in the next 18 months to literally get on your bike in Uptown Marion and ride that bike all the way down to Cedar Rapids,” Tom Treharne, the community development director for the City of Marion, said.
Treharne said the city will replace two bridges, including an old railroad bridge over Marion Boulevard, for the new trail in the coming months.
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SimpsonHaugh
SimpsonHaugh are a successful architects practice, 51st in the AJ100, based in Manchester and London. They came to us with a requirement to resolve their name and brand strategy, before refreshing their identity in preparation for a new website.
They were previously called ‘Simpson Haugh and Partners’, giving the impression that there are two individuals leading the practice. Moving forward, this won’t necessarily be the case, so they were keen to appear as an entity rather than as individuals.
We held workshops in Manchester and London, their two offices to redefine their brand strategy. This involved a selection of staff across the ages and skill sets of the practice.
It became clear that there is a powerful combination of very precise, repetitive analysis that goes on and big picture ‘great’ architecture. this is captured in their core proposition: ‘Beautiful design, responsible and uplifting’.
This inspired our solution, which uses a set of patterns that use a shape that both morphs into something else, but also looks like it is being analysed from every conceivable angle in a series of repetitive steps.
The logo joins the two names into one entity, presented in a style that looks more logotype than font, architectural in nature.
We created a range of colour combinations in the yellow to orange spectrum, which when applied to the pattern, gave them a distinct backdrop.
The refresh is being rolled out by the in-house design team, applied to stationery, reports, bid documents, brochures and office graphics.
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Plant a Tree for Patricia (Koncsol)
Patricia (Koncsol) Daniels
Of Springfield, Delaware County, PA, died unexpectedly on December 26, 2020. Born and raised in North Braddock, Pat was a graduate of Scott High School Class of 1954. In 1958, Pat married Robert A. Daniels who then took a job with the Vertol Company, later known as Boeing. Pat & Bob settled in Springfield, where they raised their family. Creative in Arts & Crafts, Pat shared that talent as an instructor in the local school districts’ evening enrichment classes and craft stores. A long standing and active member of St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Springfield, she volunteered as an Offering Counter, Sunday and Vacation Bible School teacher and was involved with various women’s groups. Pat enjoyed playing cards and board games with family and friends and was an avid baseball fan.
Pat was preceded in death by her husband, Bob, in 1992 and her sister, Fritzie Glus in 2017. She is survived by her children, Robin (Joe) Bellenzeni of Morton, Tracey D. (Joe) Pullen of Bath, NC and Robert A. Daniels of Springfield; her grandchildren, Stefanie Phillips Valerio, Robert Morgan, and Matthew Phillips; her great-grandchildren, Chase, Brycen and Dylan. Pat is the sister of Ted (Mary) Koncsol, Diane Hreha or Norh Braddock, and Don (Laurie) Koncsol of Murrysville. Pat’s service and interment were private. Contributions in her memory to Purple Heart Foundation are greatly appreciated. Arrangements were with Toppitzer Funeral Home, Drexel Hill, PA.
You can still show your support by sending flowers directly to the family, or by planting a memorial tree in the memory of Patricia (Koncsol) Daniels
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FOOTBALL: Lampeter-Strasburg storms past Conestoga Valley, 54-7
John Buffone
LAMPETER- Friday's game between Lampeter Strasburg (2-1) and Conestoga Valley (1-2) had the billing of an offensive fireworks show.
Unfortunately for the Buckskins, the only pyrotechnics going off were coming from the L-S offense.
The Pioneers struck early and often as quarterback Collin "Bear" Shank went 15-of-22 for 260 yards and five touchdowns, pushing L-S to a 54-7 victory to claim the another Lampeter Bowl win.
Coming into Friday's game, Conestoga Valley was averaging 52 points per game but the Pioneers defense showed up big; sacking Buckskins quarterback Grant Stoltzfus seven times (eight total in game) and throwing the CV offense out of sync.
The Buckskins lone score came early in the second quarter when Stoltzfus hooked up with Tyler Humphreville on a fifty-seven-yard pass to make the score, 21-7.
"We saw they tend to pass quick so if we kept our coverage and gave our defensive line some time to get to him, it would click," junior defensive back/ receiver Chad Gaudino said.
Stoltzfus ended the game completing 13-of-25 passes for 191 yards (145 yards below his average) and a single touchdown.
"There were some coverage sacks too. I think the whole unit played well together," Pioneers coach John Manion said. "Sometimes we were on him (Stoltzfus) quick and sometimes we covered well. I can't say enough about the entire eleven."
The Pioneers would strike two more times in the final six minutes of the half to extend their lead to 34-7.
At halftime, Shank had three touchdown passes (Caleb Lopez, George Grau, Gaudino) including a twenty-five-yard dart to Gaudino with 2:54 remaining in the half.
"I just wanted to get to the endzone. I knew Bear could throw that ball and the line did their job," Gaudino said. "I knew we could get the job done and capitalize on the momentum."
L-S picked up right where they left off when Shank hit Gaudino again on a twenty-seven-yard touchdown pass two minutes into the third quarter.
"We told each other that it was 0-0 (at halftime) and it was a whole new ball game," Gaudino said. "We needed to keep pushing each other on offense and defense and not let up at all."
Gaudino finished the game with 4 catches for 83 yards and two touchdowns. He also rushed for 40 yards and scored a rushing touchdown in the second quarter.
L-S tailback Shane Lawler rushed for a game-high 75 yards with a three-yard touchdown run in the first quarter.
A thirty-six-yard touchdown pass to Darren Metz three minutes later gave the Pioneers a 47-7 lead and sparked a running clock for the remainder of the game and an early exit for Shank.
A Dan Reidenbaugh touchdown run from the one-yard-line midway through the fourth quarter proved to be the final act in the Pioneers' dazzling display of offense.
"We were happy that our offense got in gear. We have way too many weapons to not being putting up more than 20 points," Manion said. "Offensively, we've been looking for more than just big plays but big drives. That was probably the best thing of the night; we weren't just scoring on the long ones."
The Pioneers will now look ahead to Week 4 when they travel to Quarreyville to take on Solanco (2-0) as Section Two play opens up next week.
Despite his team's success on Friday night, Manion pulled no punches on how he feels about playing Solanco next week.
"I think they're the best team in the section," he said. "We're going to have to show that we're right there with them but it's going to be a tough week."
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An Exclusive Interview With The Man Responsible For Reading the Allyson Felix 100m Finish Picture
Roger Jennings Explains How Allyson Felix and Jeneba Tarmoh Ended Up in A Dead Heat
Will The Rule Book Be Followed And Lots Now Drawn To Determine The Final Olympic Spot?
By LetsRun.com
LetsRun.com got an exclusive interview with Roger Jennings of Flashresults.com, considered by many to be the best timer in the world and the man responsible for reading the women's 100 final picture, as Jennings was exiting the stadium on Saturday evening (You can watch the interview in it's entirety at the end of this article).
In the interview, Jennings explains the process of how he originally placed Allyson Felix 4th and then effectively immediately protested his own decision. Ultimately the four meet referees and Jennings met and determined that the visual evidence showed it to be a dead heat for third between Felix and Jeneba Tarmoh.
"When I immediately looked at it, I could see their torsos and what I could see visually, it was in essence a dead heat," said Jennings. "But then I looked at the (right) arm position of Tarmoh (being ahead of Felix) which I felt was a torso coming across ahead of Allyson's Felix's torso. So I called it on the board, unofficially, as lane one Tarmoh ahead of Felix. But I immediately wanted to get a meet referee in there. In essence, I protested it myself. We had four referees come in and look it and we all decided that what we saw visually was a dead heat and at that point we called it a dead heat for third."
After getting this explanation, we asked for a little clarification and asked Jennings, "You originally thought Felix was fourth but now you think she's third, what made you change your mind?"
Jennings answered, "Looking at it the way I read it, I still see lane one beating lane two from what I (was doing at first) using an educated guess on torso position, but on visual evidence, on what I can actually see in the picture, it's a dead heat so I'm comfortable with that decision."
USATF has issued an official statement on the dead heat which is very much in line with Jennings explanation. USATF's statement reads in part:
Looking at the inside camera images, timers initially looked at the twisting upper bodies of Jeneba Tarmoh and Allyson Felix and interpolated the obscured body positions from the photo finish image. They posted Tarmoh as finishing third in unofficial results on the Hayward Field scoreboard.
Timers then immediately called referees to notify them of a potential dead heat. The photo-finish image, shot at 3,000-frames-per-second, was then analyzed by timers and referees and unanimously ruled to be a dead heat based on visual evidence. Tarmoh and Felix are both officially timed in 11.068 seconds. An image of the photo is attached.
USATF officials are meeting to determine the procedures necessary to break the third-place tie.
A Dead Heat Is Official So Now What?
Now that a dead heat or tie has been declared, how while USATF make a decision as to who is the third American going to London in the women's 100?
USATF communications head Jill Geer stated in a hastily arranged press conference that there was no protocol for such a scenario and that officials would be meeting this evening to figure out what to do. Despite that statement from Greer, the USATF rule book does in fact envision such a scenario.
Rule 167 of the USATF's 2012 Competition Rules book, which can be found on page 89 of the rulebook, states the following:
RULE 167: RUNNING EVENT TIES
1. In determining whether there has been a tie for a qualifying position for the next round based on time, the Photo Finish Judge shall consider the actual time recorded by the competitors without regard to the rule that the time should be read to the next longer 1/100th of a second.
Whether by time or finishing place, if it is determined that there has been a tie, the tying competitors shall be placed in the next round if it is practical to do so. If that is not practical, lots shall be drawn to determine who shall be placed in the next round.
So there you have it, in the day and age of facebook, twitter, and the Internet, an Olympic spot may be decided based on the old-fashioned method of drawing lots. Good enough for us. One other option would be that Felix and Tarmoh might just figure it out themselves as they are training partners.
Additionally, people not willing to talk on the record said that a one on one race-off during one of the off-days of the Trials or possibly after the trials might be considered.
Either way, we think it's all great drama. Human beings hate uncertainty but sometimes that's what life presents you.
Editor's addition: Some people have written us claiming that the USATF Rule 167 isn't meant for a final race but rather only for a preliminary round race. Our response is that the name of the meet is Olympic Trials and that this race in fact a preliminary round race for the first round of the Olympics.
More: MB: Exclusive Interview With Man Responsible For Reading Women's 100 Final (Allyson Felix's Race) Finish Image
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Shore-Fishing the Finger Lakes
The pier at Watkins Glen is popular with both anglers and tourists.
Most of the Finger Lakes quiet down considerably after Labor Day weekend when “summer people” padlock camp doors, drain water pipes and move boat hoists to dry ground. Not everyone says such an early good-bye, however. In recent years, it has become increasingly common to see docks left in place long after Halloween. Some of the docks are used to launch trailered boats, but on several of the lakes they serve mainly as casting platforms for ardent shore fishermen. Municipal piers, beaches and other places where public access is available also bustle with activity after the lakeside foliage turns color.
Partly because of their comparatively easy public access, lakes in the eastern part of the Finger Lakes chain – Otisco, Skaneateles, Owasco, Cayuga and Seneca – give non-boating anglers their best opportunities to catch a variety of species. In these lakes, shore fishermen find everything from delectable pan fish and walleyes to hard-fighting bass and pike to shimmering trout and salmon. Based on observed angler effort, the salmonids – salmon and various species of trout – appear to be the main attractions in the region, especially during the autumn months.
My frequent fishing buddy and avid shore fisherman, John “Kid” Corbett agrees: “It’s my favorite time of the year. Lots of guys look forward to the first day of trout season in April, or the June opening of bass season, or whatever, but fall fishing is as good as it gets, in my opinion.”
Camp Lourdes, a summer camp on the eastern shore of Skaneateles Lake, is owned by the Syracuse Catholic Diocese and is open for fishing when campers are absent. Carpenter’s Point at Lourdes is a favorite spot of Corbett’s and is great for catching salmon and autumn trout, most notably large rainbow trout. My personal-best catch at Lourdes was a 26-inch bruiser that bit at the western tip of the camp’s north shore in October, 2009. You’re probably wondering what sort of “wonderbait” accounts for all those big rainbows.
My go-to rig, and that of most other diehard Skaneateles rainbow-chasers as well, is the “marshmallow sandwich,” which consists of a garden worm or nightcrawler on the bend and a cocktail marshmallow on the point of a size 2 or 4 hook. Corbett is one of a few regulars on the Skaneateles fishing scene who deviates from the standard recipe – he normally uses two marshmallows and no worm.
Of course there’s more to fishing marshmallows, with worm or without, than merely baiting up and casting into the nearest water.
The most important component of a successful day of shore-casting for Finger Lakes trout and salmon is a location where the targeted fish swim close to shore at least part of the season. If you have a fishy spot, you’re on your way to shore-fishing success. Without a suitable location, you can look forward to plenty of casting practice and long waits between bites. Aside from finding a sloping point, creek mouth, sudden drop-off or other type of structure that is of moderate depth, you will find shore-casting to be a rather simple pursuit.
Successful devotees of the worm-and-marshmallow tactic rig up by putting a 1/4- to 1-ounce egg-shaped slip sinker onto a 4- to 8-pound running line, then knotting a bead swivel to the end of that mono. A 24- to 30-inch-long piece of leader – I prefer 4-pound test – is affixed to the free end of the swivel, and a bait-holder hook completes the terminal set-up.
The worm needs no dressing up before it hits the water, but I like to wrap my marshmallow in a 2-inch square of Spawnee salmon egg-sack mesh. It’s tied off with elastic thread and trimmed neatly. This improvement means my marshmallow will stay on the hook without dissolving for hours, instead of minutes. Whether you are shore-casting, trolling, or fly-fishing, the more time your bait is in the water, the more fish you will catch.
People who don’t do this sort of thing routinely ask why I bother with the marshmallow. After all, worms are the most popular fishing bait of all and work just about anywhere they are legal. It’s a good point, but a marshmallow topping has at least three things going for it in the Finger Lakes scenario. One, they must taste good, or trout wouldn’t eat so many of them. Two, they are buoyant: When fished on a slip-sinker rig, they float 6 to 12 inches off the bottom. The worm goes along for the ride and bobs seductively at a depth which is patrolled by neighborhood predators. Finally, if you use plain white cocktail marshmallows over the pastel-colored ones, as I do, they can be seen far off, as well as at close range.
Some Shore-Fishing Accessories
Shore-fishing is patient, feast-or-famine fishing. I often bring a couple of sand spikes, which are tubular rod-holders with pointed ends that can be pushed into the soil or gravel to hold my rods upright at a steep angle. If my outing is to last more than an hour or two, another essential is an empty bait bucket or a folding chair sturdy enough to support my weight as I relax between bites. My rods vary from 5 to 10 feet in length, but they have in common a soft tip that wiggles and then stands at attention when a trout takes the bait.
So as to not spend an entire afternoon or evening squinting at my rod tip, I often attach a small bell to the tip guide. When the bell rings, I hurry to the sand spike, lift the rod, tighten the line, and set the hook with a joyous shout of “got one” to my friends. When the bite is on, bells are ringing and reels are screeching up and down the beach.
Not everyone uses the sand spike or a derivative to fish for inshore trout. Kid Corbett is a bit of an innovator – or perhaps just a rebel – in that he frequently sets one of his rods in a horizontal “bait-runner” stand. Unlike the sand spike user, who reels his line in just enough after casting to make it bend slightly (and straighten when the bait is picked up), the angler with a bait-runner holds the rod parallel to the ground and leaves the bail open so that a biting fish can easily pull line off the reel. To detect strikes on such a rig, Corbett takes a loop of line from his reel and puts it under a small rock. When the loop is gone, Corbett quickly gives his line a visual check, and if it’s moving, he lifts the rod from its holder and sets the hook.
Corbett likes to fish marshmallows solo, without worms, because he’s found that only trout seem to hit them consistently. Especially on warmer-than-average days, Skaneateles Lake’s rock bass and smaller yellow perch nibble incessantly on my worms yet leave the marshmallow intact.
“If I get bites on my marshmallows, I’m pretty certain they’re trout,” Corbett said.
However, there is no corollary that says trout don’t bite on worms. The indisputable fact is, trout love worms – always have and always will, whether they’re washed down with sugar or not.
Everyone who gets serious about Finger Lakes shore-fishing will eventually come up with their own little tricks of the trade, and apply them to a variety of species. While Skaneateles Lake is one of my favorites, several others in the chain offer good opportunities for salmonids, and some also feature excellent seasonal fishing – in both spring and fall – for walleyes. Bass and assorted pan fish are also available to shore-bound anglers. See page 60 for a lake-by-lake prospectus.
1. Conesus Lake
Star attraction: Walleyes
When, where and how: The spawning run of walleyes in Conesus Inlet is like a “coming attractions” trailer shown just before the feature film begins. Sometimes the preview is better than the “reel” thing, yet whopper walleyes can sometimes be caught after dark for three to four weeks after the season-starter date in early May. Try Long Point Park, midway along the west shore.
2. Hemlock Lake
Star attraction: Bass
When, where and how: While most think of lakers when Hemlock is mentioned, the conversations among shore anglers inevitably swing toward the plump largemouths and smallmouths that cruise around the weed lines. Almost the entire shore can easily be fished in all seasons.
3. Canadice Lake
Star attraction: Chain Pickerel
When, where and how: Almost the entire shore of Canadice is accessible to anyone willing to hike through the surrounding forest and cast a spinnerbait and rapidly retrieve it in weedy areas.
4. Honeoye Lake
Star attraction: Bluegills
When, where and how: Aside from the state boat launch off East Lake Road, and a small town park at its north end, Honeoye Lake has no public shoreline. However, the boat launch area, like the rest of the lake, teems with 7- to 8-inch bluegills, just right for frying. They bite best during the late-May to mid-June spawning run, when their rubber-tire-size nests are visible in the shallows.
5. Canandaigua Lake
Star attraction: Yellow Perch
When, where and how: The city pier at the north end of Canandaigua Lake is very popular, especially in the spring when big jack perch and other pan fish come within casting distance. Use small jigs tipped with mealworms or minnows.
6. Keuka Lake
Star attraction: Lake Trout
When, where and how: From early November and on into April, bank fishers might connect with lake trout by casting fast-sinking spoons or jigs from Keuka Lake State Park in Branchport.
7. Seneca Lake
Star attraction: Northern Pike
When, where and how: Picking the best shore fisheries on Seneca Lake is not easy because public access is somewhat limited even though a wide variety of species can be targeted from its banks. The municipal pier at Watkins Glen and, to a lesser extent, the pier at the north end in Geneva, teem with lake trout, northern pike, yellow perch, black crappies and bluegills. Fish it with appropriate-size minnows.
8. Cayuga Lake
When, where and how: Taughannock Falls State Park is a west shore hot spot for salmonids located off Route 89, about 8 miles north of Ithaca. The steep drop-off at the mouth of Taughannock Creek provides great shore-casting for landlocked salmon and brown, rainbow, and lake trout. Lakers are very abundant and average around 5 or 6 pounds. They – and other trout and salmon – are susceptible to ¾-ounce white jigs, but fishermen do even better by casting a minnow and slip bobber beyond the drop-off.
9. Owasco Lake
When, where and how: Shore access is quite limited on Owasco, with one major exception, Emerson Park in Auburn. At the north end of the lake, it has a long pier which attracts a variety of fish, most notably in the late autumn. Perch, pike, walleyes and lake trout are all possible here. Try minnows and slip bobbers.
10. Skaneateles Lake
Star attraction: Rainbow Trout
When, where and how: As noted above, hefty rainbows are available at numerous locations around Skaneateles Lake, but public access is somewhat limited. The most popular spot is Lourdes Camp, owned by the Syracuse Diocese. It’s available spring and fall when the kids’ camp is not in session, but anglers are urged to pick up after themselves and not build fires. Another favorite location is the retaining wall in the park next to the Episcopal Church in the village of Skaneateles, but be sure to bring a long-handled net.
11. Otisco Lake
When, where and how: From early May through June and again from mid-October until ice-over, walleyes chase alewives and other baitfish after dark along the Otisco Lake shore. Headlamps are recommended for safety, but turn them off while waiting for a strike as light beams may spook the fish. Cast stick-baits such as Rapalas and Thundersticks in black-and-silver, fire tiger, clown, and other color patterns. Night fishermen gain access along Otisco Valley Road, at the dam, and at the causeway – a long-retired road bed at the end of Masters Road on the west shore.
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5 OTT Debuts of 2020 That Left Us Wanting More
Eva R Sachdeva
Posted in Events & Entertainment
OTT has been on the rise this year, owing to the nationwide lockdown. Being stuck at home, wiling our time watching shows and movies was the only good thing that happened to us. A number of newcomers graced the OTT platforms with their incredible performances. Some old actors also made a comeback and did not fail to impress!
These 5 actors made a great OTT debut, and we cannot wait to watch more of them!
Pratik Gandhi
Pratik Gandhi owned 2020! His popular show ‘Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Scam’ was one of the most-watched series this year. The show won many accolades and Pratik stood out for the performance he gave in portraying Harshad Mehta, a popular stockbroker from the 90s. After making a great audience for himself in the Gujarati film industry, he is now set to take over the Hindi film industry as well.
Masaba Gupta
We all recognize Masaba Gupta as a popular fashion designer. Her label ‘Masaba’ is worn by many celebrities in India and abroad. But little did we know that Masaba is also a great actor, taking after her mother, the beautiful and versatile actress, Neena Gupta Ji. Their show ‘Masaba Masaba’ was released on Netflix in August 2020 and we got a sneak peek into the lives of the mother-daughter duo. From Masaba’s divorce to her fall and rise in her career and Neena Ji’s comeback as an actor – the series is full of emotions! We are eager to see what happens in season 2.
Actress Sushmita Sen was missed by all her fans for more than a decade. She finally made a comeback this year with the hit series ‘Arya’ on Hotstar Special. She portrays the character of a dutiful mother who takes on her husband’s business of running a drug cartel after his death. Her performance was exceptional and fans were so excited to see her return in a character that was made just for her!
Arshad Warsi also made a comeback this year with Voot Select’s ‘Asur’ that combines spirituality with science in a one-of-a-kind thriller mystery. Warsi portrays the character of DJ a.k.a Sr. Dhananjay Rajput who is a forensic expert. This show saw exceptional performances by all the actors involved in the plot.
Ishwak Singh
We all remember Ishwak Singh from the hit movie Veere Di Wedding. His charming good looks caught everyone’s attention. However, his popularity rose only in Amazon Prime’s ‘Paatal Lok’ which was produced by Anushka Sharma. He played a badass cop and did justice to his role. His latest release, ‘Unpaused’ will have more of him and we cannot wait to see his acting prowess revealed there.
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#SocialSkim: Peach Buzz.... All About the New Messaging App, Plus 10 More Stories in This Week's Roundup
by Angela Natividad
What's Peach, and why's the world abuzz about it? You'll find out. You'll also find out who's rivaling Facebook in mobile video views and how Messenger's getting a serious boost; and you'll score a handy guide to A/B testing (and how social can help). Skim to keep up with all the other good stuff, too!
Here's the story on Peach. The importance of messaging apps will only grow this year, in part because they feel more private and personal than other social networks. Peach, from the founder of Vine, brings a twist to the category with features that make it part Twitter, part AOL Instant Messenger, part Get Glue, and part Slack.
The platform, currently available on iOS, lets you use "magic words" like "GIF," "draw," and "song" to better capture the moment you're living: "GIF" opens a search box to find the right one, "draw" activates a sketch pad, and "song" listens to what you're playing now (like Shazam!) then shares a link to it from iTunes or Spotify. Here's how it works.
Time will tell whether Peach sticks around, but in the meantime, a wildly influential crowd is flocking to it... and brands, including Merriam-Webster, have already jumped in.
We just signed up to ?? and their on-boarding is magical ? https://t.co/wzPeljRLcN https://t.co/fA9wAhCgQ2
— Product Hunt (@ProductHunt) January 8, 2016
1. Snapchat now rivals Facebook in daily mobile video views
Fueled by its Stories feature, which lets people record videos that others can view for 24 hours, the ghost-branded social media giant now delivers more than 7 billion video clips per day—drawing it tantalizingly close to Facebook's 8 billion.
This is an all the more impressive feat because Snapchat has 15 times fewer users than Facebook does, and users must click on a video to watch (whereas videos auto-play on Facebook). If you're throwing down on native video this year, it may be time to give Snapchat a go.
2. 2015's fastest-growing app: Facebook Messenger
With a 31% increase in users from 2014, the app now boasts over 800 monthly million active users and is the second most popular app in the iOS app store behind—wait for it!—Facebook. Nielsen also revealed that Messenger came in third for unique monthly users, with 96 million, behind Facebook (126 million), and YouTube (97 million). We'll see if that growth continues into 2017!
3. What'll FB do with all that growth? Monetize it, of course...
The driving force behind Facebook revenue this year will likely remain its flagship social network, but Messenger could pave the way to more monetization as it begins layering and incorporating third-party applications. To wit: Facebook announced plans to bring Uber to Messenger last month, letting users hail, track and pay for rides. Dutch airline KLM will soon issue confirmations and boarding passes on the platform.
Such small conveniences may pave the way for referral fees, better retargeting ads, or new promotions on both Messenger and WhatsApp later on. Combined, both Facebook-owned networks boast 1.6 billion users.
4. A newbie's guide to A/B-testing, on social and off
A/B-testing lets you compare two versions of a Web page, ad, or app to see which performs better, leading to better marketing results. But where to begin? Visual Website Optimizer's infographic helps newcomers find their feet. Want more? See how social media can help you A/B-test for stronger headlines, calls to action, images, and reviews.
5. Seven ways to turn Twitter into a CRM powerhouse
If you're only using Twitter to push content, you're missing a chance to develop more meaningful relationships. Learn how lists can help keep track of VIP customers, or how to match Twitter handles to users in your CRM database, with these seven best-practices for wedding Twitter to your CRM strategy.
6. Everything you need to Pin your heart out this year
Why limit yourself to LinkedIn? Pinterest is expected to hit 50 million users this year. Take advantage of those eyeballs by checking out this nifty article packed with tricks for boosting Pinterest followers and engagement.
Covered in detail: sSetting up a Pinterest Business account, adding Pin buttons, crowdsourcing content, building a board that reflects your brand, and making the most of Rich Pins. As GE shows, below, your brand doesn't have to be fashion-, DIY-, or food-based for Pinterest to work for you!
7. Now (iOS) users can add Periscope broadcasts to Twitter timelines!
Twitter-integrated Periscope broadcasts will auto-play in users' timelines and go full-screen when tapped, creating another opportunity to share in-the-moment content with users. The broadcasts, which can be live or replays, are available only on iOS, but Android compatibility is coming.
8. Top social media tools to add to your arsenal in 2016
Here's an indispensable list of 20 social tools your team can use in 2016 to make good on that resolution to increase customer engagement. Expect resources for high-quality images, tools for curating trending social stories, business intelligence programs that turn data into actionable insights, tools for finding the right influencers, and more... for all your B2B marketing needs.
9. Instagram's Spotlight Compilations: Not just for holidays anymore
"Spotlight Compilations," or vertical slideshows of the top videos related to a theme, first surfaced for special events, such as Halloween and Thanksgiving, in 2015; now, Instagram appears to have decided to extend their use. Expect to see quirky compilations that are no longer tied to a holiday or season, like Odd Couple Animal Videos (below).
If they catch on, this may prove a better way to target ads based on topic and moment, instead of packing all ads onto the streams of relevant users (as Instagram currently does).
10. We'll wrap with social's impact on politics
The White House made headlines this week by joining the Snapchat community, giving citizens across the US—and the rest of the world—more (somewhat) unfiltered access to the most carefully guarded house in America.
Obama's team has markedly embraced social media, leaving an impact on younger voters with a delicate balance of entertaining and serious content.
As future presidents and other politicians realize the value of connecting with constituents on social, we hope this trend will encourage more transparency, wider dissemination of information, and a more educated, actively engaged nation (beyond Likes, that is).
Continue reading "#SocialSkim: Peach Buzz.... All About the New Messaging App, Plus 10 More Stories in This Week's Roundup" ... Read the full article
Angela Natividad is a social media strategist, copywriter, and journalist based in Paris. A Bay Area native and lover of vending machine candies, she co-founded AdVerveBlog.com and is a frequent guest on marketing podcast The Beancast. You can follow her on Twitter at @luckthelady.
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Alex Oxlade Chamberlain
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain hoping England start can help kickstart his Liverpool career
Midfielder plays at Wembley despite just one start since move to Anfield
Andy Kelly
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain will start for England tonight as he attempts to put the stuttering beginning to his Liverpool career behind him.
The midfielder has started just once since his £35m move from Arsenal at the end of the transfer window and that in the dismal 2-0 defeat in the Carabao Cup at Leicester.
He has failed to make much of an impact in five substitute appearances, including a late missed chance against Newcastle in the 1-1 draw at St James' Park on Sunday.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain looks on during an England training session at the Spurs training ground on October 4 (Image: (Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images))
The 24-year-old is expected to start at Wembley against Slovenia in a game which should seal England's World Cup qualification.
It gives Oxlade-Chamberlain the opportunity to try to find some form and rhythm as he seeks to establish himslef at Anfield.
Talented German midfielder Kai Havertz scores four with Liverpool scouts in attendance
Some have expressed doubts about where exactly Oxlade-Chamberlain fits into Jurgen Klopp's starting line-up, although the Reds boss has stressed the player can play four different roles depending on the set-up of his team.
Jurgen Klopp with Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain during the Premier League match against Burnley at Anfield (Image: (Photo by Andrew Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images))
Gareth Southgate is expected to start him on the right of midfield with Raheem Sterling moved into a number '10' role.
A strong performance would give Oxlade-Chamberlain a real boost as he seeks to put a difficult period behind him and start to justify his decision to leave the Emirates for a new challenge with the Reds.
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Racism still exists in football despite initiatives like Kick it out.
Surely I’m not the only one to have a feeling of déjà vu? In January of this year I wrote a blog about allegations of racist abuse in football which had overshadowed various anti-racism campaigns and initiatives such as Kick It Out. Well here we are again, same old, same old. Is it too much to ask that those people in the higher echelons of English and European football finally take firm and decisive action around blatant racism on the terraces and on the pitch?
Take for instance the recent Serbia v England European UEFA Under-21 match, where a section of the Serbian crowd clearly racially abused Black players. Incredibly the Serbian Football Association issued the following statement “FA of Serbia absolutely refuses and denies that there were any occurrences of racism before and during the match at the stadium in Kruševac” Yes, you did read that correctly, senior officials of a governing body, members of UEFA since 1954 had the audacity to deny that racist chanting had taken place.
On the programme ‘Sports Tonight’ a member of the English press, present at the match, stated he heard monkey chants levelled at Black players throughout the evening. However, on the same show a Serbian journalist - trying to play down the event and that the National team should not be banned – said it was only about 10 or 15 people chanting. The football pundit and coach Leroy Rosenior was very clear in his response by saying it does not matter if there were only a few people chanting, the team should be banned especially as the Serbian FA have not taken responsibility. Serbia does have form in this area - Serbian football, like many European countries, the UK included, has to some degree been infiltrated by extreme right-wing groups.
In the Balkan region this is a particular problem. UEFA President Michel Platini has warned Serbia and Croatia in the past that there will be serious ramifications for further racist incidents but there has been no bite behind this bark.
This is the time for action, rather than get involved in a debate about whether or not Black players should wear the ‘Kick It Out’ t-shirts (and I see both sides of the argument). Enough is enough. The Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) has announced a 6 point plan, one of which states that racial abuse should be considered gross misconduct in player and coach contracts (and therefore potentially a sackable offence). It is a start but have UEFA followed suit and made a firm and clear decision? Well, not quite, the UEFA Control and Disciplinary Body will meet on 22 November. Only a month or so then to wait before a clear message is sent to racist fans and racism denying football federations. But wait a minute, UEFA already have a ‘zero tolerance’ approach according to their declaration against racism adopted in 2005. Interesting then that the aforementioned Control and Disciplinary Body last week only fined S.S. Lazio €40,000 for what they call on their website “improper conduct of the club's supporters (racist behaviour)” during the UEFA Europa League group stage match in September against Tottenham FC. Add to this a €20,000 fine for Porto after their fans racially taunted Black Manchester City players (City were €30,000 for running onto the pitch late) and you get some idea of their interpretation of ‘zero tolerance’.
Just put yourself into the shoes/boots of Black players subject to racist abuse. How many of us would stand for going to a conference, being racially abused by the organizer, and then waiting over a month for someone to act? Or a colleague gets four weeks garden leave for using racially insulting language… not me, so why should footballers?
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Last Whist
Your last chance to take home money from “Willie” land in pre-summer 2013 comes on next Tuesday night in Aughawillan Community Centre where the last Whist of the 2012/2013 season will take place. There will be the usual attractive prizes and all card players will be welcome.
Alzheimers’s Foundation
On Wednesday, May 5th a Coffee Day will be held in the home of Bernadette and Michael McGovern, Corraleehan. If you are one of the minority who is in gainful employment hereabouts you could visit their house with a subscription after working hours. The onus should be on the healthy to look after the unwell so do the best you can for such a worthy cause.
Sympathy to Molly Prior, Lisacarn and her family on the recent death in Australia of Bernie Fox, formerly of Drumcullion, Aughawillan. The late Bernie’s death at the age of eighty-two years meant that he was born in 1931 and spent all of 60 plus years working in that land so far away “Down Under”. May he Rest in Peace.
Clothes Appeal
United Christian Aid is once again appealing for clothes for families and orphanages in Moldova. Any kind of wearable clothing, men’s, women’s or kids bedward, napkins or soft toys will be very welcome. The Moldovans are also in need of Communion and Confirmation dresses. Collection will take place at O’Brien’s Sports Shop on High Street, Ballinamore on Saturday, May 4th from 11am to 4pm. For further information, you should contact Lily at 071-9644043.
Relaxation Classes
Mindfulness and Relaxation Classes for both males and females to reduce stress and anxiety will be held weekly from Monday April 29th in St. George’s Visitor’s Centre, Carrick-on-Shannon. Booking is advised. Classes cost E10 a time. You are asked to bring a friend. For further details, you should contact Geraldine at 085-2749493.
What’s New, Pussycat?
Since the demise of the late lamented Celtic Tiger, RIP, there has been much “vowel” movement about how the cost of vehicle fuel kept rising while their owners’ income kept falling due to lay-offs, Budget cuts and so on. Indeed, the cost of motoring itself is also a strong talking point due to rises, some steep for windscreen “decoration” like the cost of putting the oblong discs and its circular counterpart side by side so as to prove to all and sundry that “she” is taxed and insured. You often wonder do drivers bring a lot of it on themselves?
In our teenage days, no ordinary Irishman’s engine exeeded 1000 ccs or one litre capacity and there was even the Baby Ford of point 8 litre. About the above, the older folk used to say that they do 60 miles on the “full of yer cap” of petrol and could be taxed and insured for the proverbial song as well as having engines that were easy to remove and rebuild unlike the modern nuisances. When we joined the Common Market, now E.U, causing German money to arrive via envelopes, etc and to fund various schemes such things as twin carburettors of American style came on the scene and motorists began to boast about having bought a car with the Yankee phase, “twin carbs”.
Sensing the weakness for grandeur, the wily motor companies began to add on such sophisicated needless things as central locking, electric windows and “turbo”, causing undertakers to have a field day “planting” collision casualties in little cemeteries because of the extra power on impact the turbo charger caused. They even came up with heated rear windows and above all things “heated seats” to prevent cold upholstery from freezing their asses. The upshot of it all is that if anything goes wrong with such complex cars, they have to be brought to places where they must be wired up to the modern garage “computer” so as to trace the electronic fault at sometimes savage expense. It’s a bit like their drivers with a suspected heart complaint being sent to a hospital for an “ECG”.
On hearing of the death of the late Bernie Fox in Australia, one thought of the days when there used to be five families in existence on the Liscrudy to Drumcullion Road of maybe less than a mile duration. There were the McGoverns, McCartins, Keegans, Currans, Foxs and Gallaghers and at one time, its population was in excess of 30 mortals. Now as the older folk used to say, there’s “not a cricket” in existence along that stretch. Most fled poverty to go abroad in the days of no local industry while the Grim Reaper “airlifted” a number of others to the great Camelot in the sky.
In the interim, many significant industries were founnded locally especially in Newtowngore and Ballinamore and emigrants even returned home to work in these factories. History repeats itself as they say and now that all these industries have dried up, the youth are being forced to emigrate again so we can expect to see many more rows of derelict houses. From now on, Mon Dieu, when we think of De Valera’s dream of “a countryside dotted with little houses and comely maidens dancing at every crossroads” and see the mess his successors left after them like the after-effects of the shenanigans of Haughey, Ahern and their golf playing buddies, the bankers. Wouldn’t it make your blood boil and you often wonder was De Valera for real?
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Caroline Blower, a consultant radiographer, told the Society of Radiographers website that the award was "great news for the team" and shows what a great provision they provide.
"The advanced practice radiographers are former postgraduate students of Glasgow Caledonian University, and being named Scottish team of the year is further evidence of the success of the postgraduate programme.
"The team has had to work extremely hard to get to where we are today, but they have managed to establish a cost effective and quality service which benefits both patients and staff. The advanced practice radiographers have won the confidence of their radiographer colleagues, by showing them the learning opportunities available. And regular audits show a consistent accuracy of more than 98 per cent," she added.
With the end of 2012 on the horizon, award ceremonies are taking place around the country, while others are being planned for next year.
This includes the British Institute of Radiology (BIR) Trainee Award for Excellence, which. This ceremony will have two new annual prizes sponsored by the BIR and Philips Healthcare.
An award will be made to the best multidisciplinary trainee collaborative effort on a poster or PowerPoint presentation with the winner being given £750.
The second prize is the BIR Student Travel Bursary, which will help fund the attendance of a relevant training event.
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Timing Devices Market
Timing Devices Market by Type (Oscillators (MEMS oscillators and crystal oscillators), Resonators, Clock Generators, Clock Buffers, and Jitter Attenuators), Material (Crystal, Ceramic, and Silicon), Application, and Geography - Global Forecast to 2022
Report Code: SE 5153 Apr, 2017, by marketsandmarkets.com
The timing devices market is expected to reach USD 5.92 billion by 2022, at a CAGR of 7.27% between 2017 and 2022. The growth of this market is propelled by the increasing demand for mobile devices, and healthcare and medical equipment.
To define, describe, and forecast the timing devices market, in terms of value, on the basis of type, material, application, and geography
To define, describe, and forecast the overall market, in terms of volume, on the basis of type
To forecast the market size for various segments, in terms of value, with regard to four main regions: North America, Europe, Asia Pacific (APAC), and Rest of the World (RoW)
To provide detailed information regarding the major factors influencing the growth of the market (drivers, restraints, opportunities, and industry-specific challenges)
To analyze the micromarkets with respect to the individual growth trends, future prospects, and contribution to the total market
To provide a detailed overview of the value chain in the market and analyze various market trends and competitive benchmarking of the timing device manufacturers
To analyze the opportunities in the market for various stakeholders by identifying the high-growth segments of the market
To strategically profile the key players in the market and comprehensively analyze their market position in terms of the ranking and core competencies, along with detailing the competitive landscape for the market leaders
To analyze the strategic developments such as new product launches and developments, collaborations, mergers and acquisitions, and expansions carried out in the timing devices market
The base year considered for the study is 2016, and the market size forecast is provided for the period between 2017 and 2022.
The research methodology used to estimate and forecast the timing devices market begins with capturing data on key vendor revenues through secondary research. Some of the secondary sources include associations such as Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI, US) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE, US). The vendor offerings have also been taken into consideration to determine the market segmentation.
The bottom-up procedure has been employed to arrive at the size of the overall timing devices market from the revenue of the key players in the market. After arriving at the overall market size, the total market has been split into several segments and subsegments, which have been verified through primary research by conducting extensive interviews with key experts such as CEOs, VPs, directors, and executives. The data triangulation and market breakdown procedures have been employed to complete the overall market engineering process and arrive at the exact statistics for all segments and subsegments. The breakdown of the profiles of primary respondents is depicted in the below figure.
The timing devices market ecosystem includes research design and development such as companies’ in-house research centers, Northeastern University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); raw material suppliers such as crystal providers, ceramic providers, and other component providers; OEMs such as Seiko Epson Corporation (Japan), Nihon Dempa Kogyo Co., Ltd. (Japan), TXC Corporation (Taiwan), Kyocera Corporation (Japan), Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (Japan); suppliers and distributors such as Digi-Key Electronics (US), Mouser Electronics Inc. (US), and Future Electronics (Canada); and system integrators such as Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (South Korea), Toshiba Corporation (Japan), LG Electronics, Inc. (South Korea), and Sharp Corporation (Japan).
Type, End User, Offerings, and Region
Geographic regions covered
North America, APAC, Europe, and RoW
Northeastern University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); raw material suppliers such as crystal providers, ceramic providers, and other component providers; OEMs such as Seiko Epson Corporation (Japan), Nihon Dempa Kogyo Co., Ltd. (Japan), TXC Corporation (Taiwan), Kyocera Corporation (Japan), Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (Japan); suppliers and distributors such as Digi-Key Electronics (US), Mouser Electronics Inc. (US), and Future Electronics (Canada); and system integrators such as Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (South Korea), Toshiba Corporation (Japan), LG Electronics, Inc. (South Korea), and Sharp Corporation (Japan)
Raw material and manufacturing equipment suppliers
Electronic design automation and design tool vendors
Component manufacturers
Integrated device manufacturers (IDMs)
Product manufacturers (ODMs)
Assembly, testing, and packaging vendors
Technology, service, and solution providers
Intellectual property (IP) core and licensing providers
Suppliers and distributors
Government and other regulatory bodies
Research institutes and organizations
The timing devices market has been covered in detail in this report, segmented on the basis of type, material, application, and region. To provide a holistic picture, the current market demand and forecasts have also been included in the report. The market has been segmented as follows:
MEMS Oscillators
SPMO
TCMO
VCMO
FSMO
DCMO
SSMO
SPXO
FCXO
Others (SSXO, MCXO, and HiFlex crystal oscillators)
Clock Buffers
RoW (South America, and Middle East and Africa)
With the given market data, MarketsandMarkets offers customizations according to the company’s specific needs. The following customization options are available for the report:
Market size for 2019 and 2021 for segments such as type, material, application, and geography.
Company information: detailed analysis and profiling of additional (5) market players.
Increasing demand for mobile devices and increasing adoption of advanced automotive electronics to drive the global timing devices demand close to USD 5.92 billion by 2022
The growth of the timing devices market is majorly driven by the rise in the number of mobile devices, such as tablets, smartphones, and other consumer electronics equipment (mobile phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), handheld game consoles, mobile media players, and digital cameras).
Timing devices are used in various high-end mobile phones, tablets, laptops, wearable devices, smart TVs, PCs, cordless phones, e-book readers, and other consumer electronics to generate control signals for stable frequency and time. For example, in a cell phone, the transmitter and receiver circuits contain oscillators that produce radio-frequency signals.
With the continuous development of technology and increase in per capita income of consumers, there is a rise in consumption of mobile devices. The number of timing devices used in mobile devices varies from 3 to 4, whereas in smartphones, it varies from 6 to 8. In the current scenario (2016–2017), cell phones, Wi-Fi-enabled tablets, and other electronic gadgets use microwave oscillators tiny devices that generate the electrical signals used in communications.
Thus, owing to the recent advancements in mobile technology that requires frequency-stable components, such as oscillators and resonators, the consumption of mobile devices is rising, thereby leading to the growth of the overall timing devices market.
Increasing demand for mobile devices
Increasing adoption of advanced automotive electronics
Rise in demand for healthcare and medical equipment
High development cost
Evolution of MEMS-based oscillators
Development of LTE and 5G technology
Rapid development of IoT technology and connected devices applications
Difficulty in achieving customizations and small form factors
Critical questions would be;
The timing devices ecosystem witness concern of high development cost, when will this scenario ease out?
How are the industry players addressing this challenge?
According to MarketsandMarkets’ forecast, the timing devices market is expected to be valued at USD 5.92 billion by 2022, growing at a CAGR of 7.27% between 2017 and 2022. The growth of this market is fueled by the increasing demand for mobile devices, growing adoption of advanced automotive electronics, and rise in demand for healthcare and medical equipment. The market is further driven by the rapidly expanding consumer electronics industry.
This report covers the timing devices market based on type, material, application, and geography. In terms of type, oscillators are expected to hold the largest market size during the forecast period. Oscillators are found in every electronic circuit. The oscillator circuit is one of the simplest timing solutions to implement, and it offers a wide range of frequencies. These circuits can manage fluctuations in the external voltage. These features are required in various end-user applications such as consumer electronics (mobile devices), advanced healthcare equipment, automotive electronics, and telecommunications network. Thus, these factors are fueling the growth of the market for oscillators.
The market for automotive application is expected to grow at the highest rate between 2017 and 2022. The major use of timing devices in the automotive sector is in premium audio systems, in-vehicle audiovisual equipment, car navigation systems, infotainment systems, advanced driver assistance systems, driving control systems, and safety control systems. The market for automotive application has amplified owing to the increasing demand for the abovementioned applications in this sector. Additionally, the market for automotive applications is witnessing increasing demand across major regions such as APAC and North America. Thus this market is likely to grow at the highest rate between 2017 and 2022.
The timing devices market in APAC is expected to hold the major share between 2017 and 2022. APAC is among the major hubs for most of the established markets such as those for consumer electronics and automotive industries. These sectors in countries such as India, China, South Korea, and Japan are witnessing a rise in investment. Timing devices is an essential component in consumer electronics and automobile manufacturing; hence, the market in APAC is expected to continue to hold the largest share and grow at the highest rate during the forecast period.
The major challenge for the companies in the market is the difficulty faced in achieving customizations and small form factors in the studied market. Companies have adopted the new product developments and partnerships, contracts, agreements, & joint-venture strategies, to expand their market presence and distribution networks in the timing devices market for the forecast period.
The major manufacturing players in the timing devices market are Seiko Epson Corporation (Japan), Nihon Dempa Kogyo Co., Ltd. (Japan), TXC Corporation (Taiwan), Kyocera Corporation (Japan), Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (Japan), Rakon Limited (New Zealand), Integrated Device Technology, Inc. (US), Knowles Corporation (Vectron International, US), Asahi Kasei Corporation (Japan), Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (US), Texas Instruments (US), Microchip Technology Inc. (US), and IQD Frequency Products Ltd. (UK), among others.
Increasing adoption of advanced automotive electronics and increasing demand for mobile devices likely to accelerate demand for timing devices
The overall consumer electronics sector has shown robust growth in recent years with the increasing use of and demand for smartphones, tablets, and PCs. Timing devices such as crystal oscillators are also used in handheld consumer applications, which impacts the battery life of these devices with their low power consumption and fast start-up. These devices are used in hard disk drives, LCD TVs, SLR cameras, desktop PCs, cable TV systems, cellular and cordless phones, watches, clocks, and others. Smartphones play a crucial role in the overall consumer electronics industry market. The availability of budget smartphones and the increasing number of players in the market are expected to keep the growth momentum intact in the coming years. Additionally, the advent of CMOS and MEMS technology plays a strong role in making the device compact and energy efficient by using multitasking components.
Telecommunications and networking play a crucial role in the communications sector. Networking keeps all the data successively flowing to electronic devices such as cellphones, computers, and TVs. The telecommunications infrastructure, such as switches, routers, and base stations, provides the speed and reliability in telecommunication. Moreover, telecommunications and networking applications require high-precision devices with high-frequency stability. The demand for timing devices is expected to grow with the strengthening and expansion of communications networks, as well as with the installation of 4G/LTE and 5G networks.
Timing devices are used in automotive electronics for in-vehicle audiovisual equipment, car navigation systems, infotainment systems, advanced driver assistance systems, driving control systems, and safety control systems. In the past few years, there has been significant growth in the demand for timing devices in the automotive sector, owing to the increase in demand for high-end electronic systems in luxury cars and SUVs. In this modern era, the transition from traditional automotive to modern automotive has taken place at a very fast pace with the installation of advanced systems. The increasing interest of automotive manufacturers toward self-driving cars or vehicles (the advanced form of automobile automation) launch is also expected to fuel the demand for automotive electronics during the forecast period.
Where will all these developments take the industry in the mid to long term?
Which application will hold the major market potential in timing devices ecosystem?
Which will be the major market expansion strategy adopted by the players in the studied market?
1.5 Package Size
2.2.1 Bottom-Up Approach
2.2.1.1 Approach for Capturing the Market Share By Bottom-Up Analysis (Demand Side)
2.2.2 Top-Down Approach
2.2.2.1 Approach for Capturing the Market Share By Top-Down Analysis (Supply Side)
2.3 Market Breakdown and Data Triangulation
2.4 Research Assumptions
4.1 Attractive Opportunities in the Timing Devices Market
4.2 Timing Devices Market, By Type (2014–2022)
4.3 Timing Devices Market Market, By Application (2017 vs 2022)
4.4 Timing Devices Market Market, By Application and Region
4.5 Timing Devices Market Market, By Geography (2017–2022)
5.2.1.1 Increasing Demand for Mobile Devices
5.2.1.2 Increasing Adoption of Advanced Automotive Electronics
5.2.1.3 Rise in Demand for Healthcare and Medical Equipment
5.2.2.1 High Development Cost
5.2.3.1 Evolution of MEMS-Based Oscillators
5.2.3.2 Development of Lte and 5G Technology
5.2.3.3 Rapid Development of IoT Technology and Connected Devices Applications
5.2.4.1 Difficulty in Achieving Customizations and Small Form Factors
6.2.1 Core Industry Segments
6.2.1.1 Research Design and Development
6.2.1.2 Raw Material Suppliers
6.2.1.3 OEMS (Timing Device Manufacturers)
6.2.1.4 Suppliers and Distributors
6.2.1.5 System Integrators
6.2.1.6 Applications of Timing Devices
6.3 Key Industry Trends in the Timing Devices Market
6.4 Strategic Benchmarking
6.4.1 New Product Launches and Developments
6.4.2 Major Supporting Factors for New Product Launches and Developments
7 Timing Devices Market, By Type (Page No. - 49)
7.2 Oscillators
7.2.1 MEMS Oscillators
7.2.1.1 Simple Packaged MEMS Oscillator (SPMO)
7.2.1.2 Temperature-Compensated MEMS Oscillator (TCMO)
7.2.1.3 Voltage-Controlled MEMS Oscillator (VCMO)
7.2.1.4 Frequency Select MEMS Oscillator (FSMO)
7.2.1.5 Digitally Controlled MEMS Oscillator (DCMO)
7.2.1.6 Spread-Spectrum MEMS Oscillator (SSMO)
7.2.2 Crystal Oscillators
7.2.2.1 Simple Packaged Crystal Oscillator (Spxo)
7.2.2.2 Temperature-Compensated Crystal Oscillators (TCXOS)
7.2.2.3 Voltage-Controlled Crystal Oscillators (VCXOS)
7.2.2.4 Frequency-Controlled Crystal Oscillators (FCXOS)
7.2.2.5 Oven-Controlled Crystal Oscillators (OCXOS)
7.2.2.6 Others
7.3 Resonators
7.4 Clock Generators
7.5 Clock Buffers
7.6 Jitter Attenuators
8 Timing Devices Market, By Material (Page No. - 64)
8.2 Crystal
8.3 Ceramic
8.4 Silicon
9 Timing Devices Market, By Application (Page No. - 67)
9.2 Consumer Electronics
9.3 Telecommunications and Networking
9.4 Automotive
9.5 Military and Defense
9.7 Medical and Healthcare
10 Geographic Analysis (Page No. - 95)
10.2.1 U.S.
10.3.2 U.K.
10.3.5 Rest of Europe (RoE)
10.4 APAC
10.4.5 Rest of APAC (RoAPAC)
10.5 RoW
10.5.1 South America
10.5.2 Middle East and Africa (MEA)
11.2 Key Players in the Timing Devices Market
11.3 Dive Chart Analysis: Vendor Assessment of Timing Devices Market
11.3.1 Vanguards
11.3.3 Dynamic Players
11.3.4 Emerging Players
11.4 Product Offering By Major Players in the Market (25 Companies)
11.5 Business Strategies By Major Players in the Market (25 Companies)
*Top 25 Companies Analyzed for This Study are - Seiko Epson Corporation, Nihon Dempa Kogyo Co., Ltd., TXC Corporation, Kyocera Corporation, Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Rakon Limited, Integrated Device Technology, Inc., Knowles Corporation (Vectron International), Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, Asahi Kasei Corporation, Texas Instruments, Microchip Technology Inc, IQD Frequency Products Ltd., Microsemi Corporation, Silicon Laboratories Inc., on Semiconductor, NXP Semiconductors, Daishinku Corp., Cts Corporation, Aker Technology Co., Ltd., Zhejiang East Crystal Electronic Co., Ltd., Taitien Electronics Co., Ltd., Delta Electronics, Harmony Electronic Corp., East Crystal Electronic
(Business Overview, Products Offered & Services Strategies, Key Insights, Recent Developments, MnM View)*
12.2 Seiko Epson Corp0ration
12.3 Nihon Dempa Kogyo (NDK) Co., Ltd.
12.4 TXC Corporation
12.5 Kyocera Corporation
12.6 Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
12.7 Rakon Limited
12.8 Knowles Corporation (Vectron International)
12.9 Integrated Device Technology, Inc.
12.10 Asahi Kasei Corporation
12.11 Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
12.12 Texas Instruments Incorporated
12.13 Microchip Technology Inc.
12.14 IQD Frequency Products Ltd.
12.15 Key Innovators
12.15.1 Microsemi Corporation
12.15.2 Silicon Laboratories Inc.
12.15.3 NXP Semiconductor N.V.
*Details on Business Overview, Products Offered & Services Strategies, Key Insights, Recent Developments, MnM View Might Not Be Captured in Case of Unlisted Companies.
13.1 Insights of Industry Experts
13.4 Introducing RT: Real-Time Market Intelligence
List of Tables (67 Tables)
Table 1 Timing Devices Market Size in Terms of Value (USD Billion) and Volume (Billion Units), 2014–2022
Table 2 Market, By Type, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 3 Market, By Type, 2014–2022 (Million Units)
Table 4 Market, By Oscillator Type, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 5 Market for Oscillators, By Application, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 6 Market for MEMS Oscillators, By General Circuitry Type, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 7 Timing Devices Market for MEMS Oscillators, By Application, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 8 Timing Devices Market for Crystal Oscillators, By General Circuitry Type, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 9 Timing Devices Market for Crystal Oscillators, By Application, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 10 Timing Devices Market for Resonators, By Application, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 11 Timing Devices Market for Clock Generators, By Application, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 12 Market for Clock Buffers, By Application, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 13 Market for Jitter Attenuators, By Application, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 14 Market, By Material, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 15 Market, By Application, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 16 Market for Consumer Electronics Application, By Type, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 17 Market for Consumer Electronics Application, By Oscillator Type, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 18 Market for Consumer Electronics Application, By Region, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 19 Market for Consumer Electronics Application in North America, By Country, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 20 Market for Consumer Electronics Application in Europe, By Country, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 21 Market for Consumer Electronics Application in APAC, By Country, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 22 Market for Consumer Electronics Application in RoW, By Region, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 23 Market for Telecommunications and Networking Application, By Type, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 24 Market for Telecommunications and Networking Application, By Oscillator Type, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 25 Market for Telecommunications and Networking Application, By Region, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 26 Market for Telecommunications and Networking Application in North America, By Country, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 27 Market for Telecommunications and Networking Application in Europe, By Country, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 28 Market for Telecommunications and Networking Application in APAC, By Country, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 29 Market for Telecommunications and Networking Application in RoW, By Region, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 30 Market for Automotive Application, By Type, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 31 Market for Automotive Application, By Oscillator Type, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 32 Market for Automotive Application, By Region, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 33 Market for Automotive Application in North America, By Country, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 34 Market for Automotive Application in Europe, By Country, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 35 Market for Automotive Application in APAC, By Country, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 36 Market for Automotive Application in RoW, By Region, 2014–2022 (USD Thousand)
Table 37 Market for Military and Defense Application, By Type, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 38 Market for Military and Defense Application, By Oscillator Type, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 39 Market for Military and Defense Application, By Region, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 40 Market for Military and Defense Application in North America, By Country, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 41 Market for Military and Defense Application in Europe, By Country, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 42 Market for Military and Defense Application in APAC, By Country, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 43 Market for Military and Defense Application in RoW, By Region, 2014–2022 (USD Thousand)
Table 44 Market for Industrial Application, By Type, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 45 Market for Industrial Application, By Oscillator Type, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 46 Market for Industrial Application, By Region, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 47 Market for Industrial Application in North America, By Country, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 48 Market for Industrial Application in Europe, By Country, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 49 Market for Industrial Application in APAC, By Country, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 50 Market for Industrial Application in RoW, By Region, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 51 Market for Medical and Healthcare Application, By Type, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 52 Market for Medical and Healthcare Application, By Oscillator Type, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 53 Market for Medical and Healthcare Application, By Region, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 54 Market for Medical and Healthcare Application in North America, By Country, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 55 Market for Medical and Healthcare Application in Europe, By Country, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 56 Market for Medical and Healthcare Application in APAC, By Country, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 57 Market for Medical and Healthcare Application in RoW, By Region, 2014–2022 (USD Thousand)
Table 58 Market, By Region, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 59 Market in North America, By Country, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 60 Market in North America, By Application, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 61 Market in Europe, By Country, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 62 Market in Europe, By Application, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 63 Market in APAC, By Country, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 64 Market in APAC, By Application, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 65 Market in RoW, By Region, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 66 Market in RoW, By Application, 2014–2022 (USD Million)
Table 67 Market Ranking of Key Players in the Market, 2015
List of Figures (54 Figures)
Figure 2 Research Flow
Figure 3 Timing Devices Market: Research Design
Figure 4 Market Size Estimation Methodology: Top-Down Approach
Figure 7 Timing Devices Market (2014–2022)
Figure 8 Market, By Type, 2017 vs 2022 (USD Million)
Figure 9 Consumer Electronics Application Expected to Hold the Largest Size of the Market By 2022
Figure 10 APAC Held the Largest Share of the Market in 2016
Figure 11 Increasing Demand for Mobile Devices Expected to Drive the Growth of the Market Between 2017 and 2022
Figure 12 Oscillators Expected to Hold the Largest Size of the Market By 2022
Figure 13 Market for Automotive Application Anticipated to Grow at the Highest Rate Between 2017 and 2022
Figure 15 U.S. and China Likely to Be the Top 2 Markets for Timing Devices During the Forecast Period
Figure 16 Increasing Demand for Mobile Devices and Adoption of Automotive Electronics Expected to Propel the Growth of the Market
Figure 17 Mobile Phones Shipment Forecast Worldwide, 2013–2018
Figure 18 Increasing Global Mobile Data Traffic for Lte Cellular Technology (2016–2021)
Figure 19 Increasing Penetration Rate of Connected Devices (2012–2020)
Figure 20 Value Chain Analysis: Raw Material Suppliers and OEMS Phases Add Maximum Value
Figure 21 Leaning Toward Offering Miniaturized Timing Devices for Next-Generation Communication Technologies (IoT and M2M)
Figure 22 Nihon Dempa Kogyo Co., Ltd. (Japan) Had More Number of Product Launches Between January 2013 and January 2017
Figure 23 Market for Oscillators Expected to Grow at the Highest Rate Between 2017 and 2022
Figure 24 TCMO Expected to Lead the Market for MEMS Oscillators By 2022
Figure 25 Telecommunications and Networking Application Expected to Hold A Major Size of the Market for Resonators Between 2017 and 2022
Figure 26 Automotive Application for Jitter Attenuator Expected to Grow at the Highest Rate During the Forecast Period
Figure 27 Crystals Likely to Lead the Market Between 2017 and 2022
Figure 28 Consumer Electronics Application Expected to Hold A Major Share of the Market By 2022
Figure 29 Market for Consumer Electronics Application in China Expected to Grow at the Highest Rate Between 2017 and 2022
Figure 30 APAC Expected to Hold A Major Size of the Market for Telecommunications and Networking Application During the Forecast Period
Figure 31 Market for Automotive Application in U.S. Expected to Grow at the Highest Rate Between 2017 and 2022
Figure 32 Oscillators Expected to Hold A Major Size of the Market for Military and Defense Application Between 2017 and 2022
Figure 33 Crystal Oscillators Expected to Hold A Major Size of the Market for Industrial Application By 2022
Figure 34 APAC Expected to Hold A Major Size of the Market for Medical and Healthcare Application Between 2017 and 2022
Figure 35 Geographic Snapshot of the Market (2017–2022)
Figure 36 Snapshot of the Market in North America
Figure 37 Market in Germany Expected to Grow at the Highest Rate Between 2017 and 2022
Figure 38 Snapshot of the Market in APAC
Figure 39 South America Expected to Lead the Market in RoW During the Forecast Period
Figure 40 Companies Adopted New Product Launches and Developments as the Key Growth Strategies Between 2013 and 2016
Figure 41 Overview: Dive Analysis
Figure 42 Geographic Revenue Mix of the Top 5 Market Players
Figure 43 Seiko Epson Corp0ration: Company Snapshot
Figure 44 Nihon Dempa Kogyo Co., Ltd.: Company Snapshot
Figure 45 TXC Corporation: Company Snapshot
Figure 46 Kyocera Corporation: Company Snapshot
Figure 47 Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.: Company Snapshot
Figure 48 Rakon Limited: Company Snapshot
Figure 49 Knowles Corporation (Vectron International): Company Snapshot
Figure 50 Integrated Device Technology, Inc.: Company Snapshot
Figure 51 Asahi Kasei Corporation: Company Snapshot
Figure 52 Cypress Semiconductor Corporation: Company Snapshot
Figure 53 Texas Instruments Incorporated: Company Snapshot
Figure 54 Microchip Technology Inc.: Company Snapshot
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Home / News + Politics / Nation / LGBTQ Center of Southern Nevada vandalized with anti-gay graffiti
LGBTQ Center of Southern Nevada vandalized with anti-gay graffiti
Police have released surveillance footage of a suspect and a person of interest in the case
By John Riley on September 6, 2019 @JohnAndresRiley
Photo: The LGBTQ Center of Southern Nevada, via Facebook.
Police are investigating an incident in which someone spray-painted an anti-gay slur across the front doors of The LGBTQ Center of Southern Nevada in downtown Las Vegas.
The incident occurred around 6:47 a.m. on Sept. 5, when an unknown individual approached the Center’s front doors and spray-painted the slur.
Surveillance footage, since released by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, shows a white male adult, thought to be 20 to 25 years of age and somewhere between 5-feet-8-inches to 5-feet-10-inches tall. He was last seen wearing a black shirt, black pants, and dark shoes.
Police also released surveillance video showing a “person of interest” in the case. That person is described as a white adult male, also 5’8″ to 5’10,” approximately between 20 and 25 years old, wearing a black hoodie, brown pants, and a camp baseball hat.
“We woke up today like any other day, but on this day we’re met with a reminder as to why we are still needed,” the Center wrote in a post to its Facebook page. “Hatred will not stop us, it shows us more and more that we need to stand taller, shout louder and love harder. We are The Center.”
Thursday’s incident is the second time that The Center has been targeted by a crime believed to be motivated by bias.
In June, police launched an arson investigation after someone torched a palm tree at The Center during Pride Month celebrations, reports Las Vegas CBS affiliate KLAS.
“I am saddened that The Center was the victim of a hate crime yet again,” Joe Oddo, Jr., then president of the Governing Board at The Center, said in a statement. “In June, on the eve of the anniversary of the Stonewall riots, The Center was the victim of another alleged hate crime when an individual set fire to one of the palm trees at the entrance of the building, resulting in permanent damage.
Oddo added: “While today we focus on what happened on the outside of our building, I am reminded of the amazing work that has occurred and continues to occur on the other side of that door that enhances the lives of the LGBTQ community here in Southern Nevada.”
Anyone with information about the incident or the men in question is urged to contact Las Vegas Metropolitan Police at 702-828-4314.
Tips can also be provided anonymously by calling 702-385-5555 or visiting www.crimestoppersofnv.com.
See the photos of the suspect and the person of interest below:
Suspect in the vandalism against The LGBTQ Center of Southern Nevada – Photo: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
A person of interest in the vandalism against The LGBTQ Center of Southern Nevada – Photo: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
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Exotic and Laboratory Animals /
Aquarium Fishes /
Viral Diseases of Fish /
Herpesviruses
Carp Pox Koi Herpesvirus: Herpesviral Hematopoietic Necrosis: Herpesvirus of Angelfish:
Rhabdoviruses
Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia (VHS): Spring Viremia of Carp (SVC)
Iridoviruses
Lymphocystis Disease Megalocytiviruses
Other Viruses:
Overview of Aquarium Fishes
Management of Fish
Nutritional Diseases of Fish
Parasitic Diseases of Fish
Bacterial Diseases of Fish
Mycotic Diseases of Fish
Viral Diseases of Fish
Neoplasia of Fish
Pet Birds
Which of the following best indicates respiratory distress in a blue-headed parrot (Pionus menstruus)?
Crop stasis
Rapid sniffing noises
Respiratory rate of 30 breaths/min
Tail bobbing up and down
Barbara D. Petty
, DVM, North Florida Aquatic Veterinary Services;
Ruth Francis-Floyd
, DVM, MS, DACZM, Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida
Last full review/revision Oct 2015 | Content last modified Oct 2015
Descriptions of viral diseases of fish are rapidly expanding. Viruses are being reported in new species, and interpretation of the significance of findings is also changing. Several viral diseases of ornamental fish are reportable (see Table: Fish Diseases of Regulatory Concern in the USA).
Although viruses of homeothermic animals are cultured at uniform temperatures, fish viruses have wider, but specific, temperature tolerances in fish cell cultures at lower temperatures. Because of this relatively defined temperature range, variation in temperature may enable control, although often it merely induces latency. Because many viral diseases of fish are geographically limited, regulatory agencies and fish farms in disease-free areas consider them exotic diseases and require certification of introduced stocks. Many result in high mortality in young fish and little or no losses in adults, which may become carriers. For these reasons, avoidance of carriers and certification of SPF replacement stocks are frequently required. Specific testing procedures are available. Most vaccines used for control of fish diseases are for bacterial agents; however, use of vaccines to control some viral diseases is being introduced. Drugs are not effective; however, antibiotics and other drugs may be used to control secondary bacterial infections. Management techniques that minimize stress and crowding, biosecurity measures, and temperature manipulation hold the greatest promise for control of piscine viral diseases.
Carp Pox
One of the oldest recognized fish diseases, carp pox is caused by Cyprinid herpesvirus-1 (CyHV-1). Pox lesions may be seen on other species of fish and are sometimes referred to as fish pox. Lesions typically are smooth and raised and may have a milky appearance. They are benign, non-necrotizing areas of epidermal hyperplasia. Severe cases may result in development of papillomatous growths, which may be a site of complicating bacterial infection. Generally, lesions are self-limiting and of minimal clinical significance. Carp pox can be a significant problem in koi because their aesthetic quality, and hence market value, is severely compromised. For the serious koi enthusiast, fish affected with carp pox should be culled, preferably during quarantine. Surgical removal of the lesions has not been rewarding.
Koi Herpesvirus:
Koi herpesvirus (KHV), caused by Cyprinid herpesvirus-3 (CyHV-3), was first recognized in 1996. It is widespread in the USA and considered endemic. Confirmed cases must be reported to the State Veterinarian and the USDA Area Veterinarian in Charge. Because the disease is endemic, regulating bodies report its occurrence to the OIE, but they do not require specific action, such as depopulation, when the disease is reported.
KHV causes clinical disease in koi and common carp. Goldfish and grass carp are refractory to clinical disease but may serve as carriers. Koi that are exposed, but survive, may also serve as carriers. Clinical disease is seen at water temperatures of 72°–81°F (22°–27°C), with maximal mortality at temperatures of 72°–78°F (22°–25.5°C). Mortality rates can reach 80%–100%. Fish of any age are susceptible, but mortality rates may be higher in younger fish, especially fry. The most obvious lesions are seen on gill tissues, which are severely affected and develop a mottled red and white appearance with obvious hemorrhage in some cases. Affected fish are lethargic, swim at the surface, and may show behavioral signs of respiratory distress. The presence of severe bacterial or parasitic disease may mask the fact that KHV is the primary cause of gill lesions. The disease is transmitted horizontally by exposure to sick or carrier fish and also by exposure to contaminated water, substrate, or equipment.
When KHV is suspected, affected fish can be shipped to a laboratory for confirmation. Freshly dead specimens shipped on ice and received within 24 hr should be adequate. PCR or virus isolation and identification can be used to confirm the infection in dead animals. Because of the value of koi, there is significant demand for nonlethal testing protocols. Blood, gill tissue from biopsy, feces, or mucus may be used to assess the status of moribund fish. It is important to note these tests can result in false-negatives if performed on clinically normal fish. Indirect tests using blood samples, including ELISA or virus neutralization, are less straightforward. Negative test results could indicate a true negative or, alternatively, that the infection is in its early stages and the fish has not yet developed a measurable antibody response. A negative test result could potentially be obtained from a previously infected fish that has had a decrease in circulating antibody; however, such a fish could still function as a carrier. There is a misconception among some hobbyists that a negative blood test is an adequate screening test to exclude carrier status. Practitioners should communicate this clearly to owners, because it is easily misunderstood.
If KHV infection is confirmed in a population of koi, depopulation is strongly recommended. Surviving fish are carriers and can serve as a source of infection for naive fish. Although mortality decreases or stops as water temperature approaches 86°F (30°C), survivors will retain carrier status and therefore put other populations at risk.
Prevention of KHV is best accomplished with careful quarantine protocols. A minimum quarantine of 30 days at 75°F (24°C) is recommended to minimize the chance of introducing KHV to an established population of koi. If disease develops during the quarantine period, fish should be evaluated with special consideration for excluding KHV. After quarantine, a new fish may be placed in an isolated area with a few fish from the established population and monitored for signs of disease for at least 2 wk as an added precaution. If koi are taken to shows, quarantine protocols should be followed every time they return. Koi enthusiasts should be strongly encouraged to attend English-style shows (versus Japanese-style shows), where competing fish are not placed in a common container.
Herpesviral Hematopoietic Necrosis:
This condition of goldfish is caused by Cyprinid herpesvirus-2 (CyHV-2). It is probably widespread throughout the USA, but it is not a reportable disease. Clinically ill goldfish often are anorectic and exhibit pale gills and ascites. At necropsy, the spleen and kidneys (anterior and posterior) are often enlarged. As is typical for herpesviruses, survivors can be carriers and exhibit clinical signs of disease if subjected to stressors. Water temperatures between 10° and 22°C will result in replication of the virus that can be detected with quantitative PCR. There is no treatment.
Herpesvirus of Angelfish:
A herpesvirus of angelfish (Pterophyllum spp) has been detected by electron microscopy of skin from moribund angelfish. Affected fish produce copious amounts of skin mucus that gives affected fish a grey sheen. Often, these fish have multiple parasitic infestations and bacterial infections, similar to that of KHV in koi. It is suspected that survivors are carriers.
Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia (VHS):
This reportable disease is caused by a Novirhabdovirus and is a member of the family Rhabdoviridae. This disease is listed by OIE as notifiable. Most of the reported hosts are not ornamental fishes, but koi were shown to be susceptible experimentally to genotype IVb. This genotype affects a diverse group of fishes in the Great Lakes region of North America.
Spring Viremia of Carp (SVC)
This acute, virulent, usually hemorrhagic disease of cultured carp is caused by a Vesiculovirus that, like VHS, is a member of the Rhabdoviridae family. The disease is listed as notifiable by the OIE. Historically, it was reported in Europe and the former USSR; however, several outbreaks have been reported in the USA between 2002–2007, in both wild fish and cultured ornamental koi. SVC is considered a foreign animal disease in the USA and must be reported. It causes disease in common carp, including koi, as well as grass, bighead, silver, and crucian carp. Limited experience suggests that common goldfish may be susceptible.
Clinical signs are nonspecific and may include darkening of the skin, exophthalmia, ascites, pale gills, hemorrhage, and a protruding vent with thick mucoid fecal casts. Pinpoint hemorrhage in the swim bladder is indicative of SVC, if present. Coinfection with Aeromonas or other systemic bacteria may obscure the presence of the virus. The bacterial component of the infection can be controlled with antibiotics; however, depopulation of affected or exposed fish is required in the USA. The disease causes death in both adult and young fish. Clinical disease occurs at cool temperatures, 54°–72°F (12°–22°C), an important distinction from KHV. The virus is readily isolated in common fish cell lines and identified by serum neutralization and fluorescent antibody tests.
Lymphocystis Disease
This typically chronic, viral infection of wild or captive marine and freshwater fish is caused by an icosahedral DNA virus of the Iridoviridae family. Infection may be manifest by benign, cauliflower-like lesions typically located on fins. The disease affects a wide range of fish and is generally considered to have a global distribution. Within the aquarium trade, painted glass fish and marine tropical fishes such as the anemonefishes (Pomacentridae), marine angels (Pomacanthidae), and butterflyfishes (Chaetodontidae) are susceptible. Presumptive diagnosis is based on the presence of enlarged fibroblasts (up to 1 mm), which are easily visualized with a light microscope. Microscopic examination typically reveals the appearance of grape-like clusters of virus-laden cells. Diagnosis is confirmed histologically. Feulgen-positive cytoplasmic inclusions and a hypertrophied nucleus are pathognomonic. The disease is usually self-limiting but is of aesthetic concern.
Megalocytiviruses
Several other iridoviruses have been described in ornamental fish. Megalocytiviruses consist of two major groupings, red sea bream iridovirus (RSIV) and infectious spleen and kidney necrosis virus (ISKNV). RSIV has been found in >30 other marine fishes so far; many of the affected species include some tropical fishes kept in aquaria. RSIV is a reportable disease. ISKNV includes megalocytiviruses that primarily affect ornamental freshwater fishes. ISKNV is not currently reportable.
A megalocytivirus has been described in freshwater angelfish (Pterophyllum scalare), but the agent has not been isolated. It can result in high mortality. An iridovirus has also been isolated in the USA from gourami in the genus Trichogaster using a tilapia heart cell line. This virus does not grow on FHM cells or other common cell lines used for isolation of fish viruses. The gourami virus has been associated with systemic disease and mortality of T trichopterus and T leeri gourami. Efforts to fulfill River’s postulates were supportive although not conclusive. Clinical disease with the USA gourami megalocytivirus appears to be more severe at water temperatures ≥30°C, based on very limited information. A megalocytivirus is known from dwarf gourami Trichogaster spp, but it is not known whether it is the same virus that affects gourami in the USA.
Koi sleepy disease is also known as carp edema virus. Caused by a poxvirus, it was first seen in Japan in 1974 and has since occurred in other countries, including the USA. Affected fishes appear lethargic, lay on their sides, and have thin body condition. Mortality is usually low but can be variable. Gill hyperplasia is a common histopathologic finding. Infected koi can recover, but it is unknown whether they retain a carrier state.
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Michaël Neuman & Rony Brauman
Director of studies at Crash / Médecins sans Frontières, Michaël Neuman graduated in Contemporary History and International Relations (University Paris-I). He joined Médecins sans Frontières in 1999 and has worked both on the ground (Balkans, Sudan, Caucasus, West Africa) and in headquarters (New York, Paris as deputy director responsible for programmes). He has also carried out research on issues of immigration and geopolitics. He is co-editor of "Humanitarian negotiations Revealed, the MSF experience" (London: Hurst and Co, 2011). He is also the co-editor of "Saving lives and staying alive. Humanitarian Security in the Age of Risk Management" (London: Hurst and Co, 2016).
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Medical doctor, specialized in tropical medicine and epidemiology. Involved in humanitarian action since 1977, he has been on numerous missions, mainly in contexts of armed conflicts and IDP situations. President of Médecins sans Frontières from 1982 to1994, he also teaches at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) and is a regular contributor to Alternatives Economiques. He has published several books and articles, including "Guerre humanitaires ? Mensonges et Intox" (Textuel, 2018), "La Médecine Humanitaire" (PUF, 2010), "Penser dans l'urgence" (Editions du Seuil, 2006) and "Utopies Sanitaires" (Editions Le Pommier, 2000).
We often hear it said within MSF that the aid system - that is to say all the institutional actors involved in international humanitarian aid - is unable to provide effective relief, or that the aid system's ability to provide aid is in decline. These statements, which suggest that MSF is itself outside the \"system\", are based on the very real number of people in relief operations who need help but do not receive it, or do not receive enough of it. But such a negative assessment could equally be applied to some of the operations of which MSF staff are most proud, and it ignores the transformations - both qualitative and quantitative -in aid techniques and policies. To have a practical application, any critique of the aid system needs to be located not in the ideal world, where disasters incur no victims, but in a historical and concrete reality. The aim of this paper is to explore MSF's relationship with the aid system, while showing how the ambitions of the aid system itself have evolved.
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Warner Chappell Music inks global deal with Africa-based music company Africori
Yoel Kenan, Africori
Yoel Kenan, the owner of African digital music distribution, music rights management and artist development company Africori, has signed a global sub-publishing deal with Warner Chappell Music France.
The deal follows April’s news that Warner Music Group has invested an undisclosed sum into Africori.
With offices in Johannesburg, London and Lagos, Africori publishes and produces a wide range of African artists, including Master KG, who had a 2020 global smash hit with Jerusalema (feat. Nomcebo).
The song, which was distributed and promoted worldwide by Warner Music/Elektra France, peaked at No.1 on Shazam’s global chart, was a Top 5 airplay hit in Europe and is currently sitting at No.6 in the global Shazam chart.
The new deal will see Africori and Warner Chappell Music offer new opportunities for African artists to collaborate with creative songwriting talent from around the world.
“This new partnership provides a great opportunity to connect our African songwriters and producers with the global talent signed to Warner Chappell.”
Yoel Kenan
Yoel Kenan says: “African music is inspiring creatives from around the world.
“We are very excited about the future and we see this as a key alliance to support, help and develop incredible African talent globally.”
“Yoel is an experienced A&R man with a great sensibility for, and huge expertise on, the African underground scene.”
Matthieu Tessier, Warner Chappell Music France
Matthieu Tessier, incoming Managing Director of Warner Chappell Music France, added: “Yoel is an experienced A&R man with a great sensibility for, and huge expertise on, the African underground scene.
“This new collaboration offers us a great opportunity to promote new African songwriters and contribute to the renown of their music worldwide.
“Master KG’s success is a great example of how we can develop talent and help amazing songs to cross borders.”Music Business Worldwide
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Verdict in case of Toronto cop & brother accused of beating Dafonte Miller expected today
Const. Michael Theriault and his brother Christian are seen on the light and Danfonte Miller is seen on the right of this composite image. (The Canadian Press)
A Toronto police officer and his brother who are accused of brutally beating a young Black man more than three years ago are expected to learn their fate today.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Joseph Di Luca is set to deliver his ruling in the case of Const. Michael Theriault and his brother Christian by videoconference this morning.
A ruling was expected in the case on April 9 but was postponed due to the Ontario courts being closed amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Theriaults have pleaded not guilty to aggravated assault and obstruction of justice in relation to the Dec. 28, 2016, incident and its aftermath.
The judge-alone trial has heard Michael Theriault was off duty at the time.
Prosecutors allege the brothers chased Miller in the early hours of the morning, cornering the then-19-year-old between two homes in Whitby, Ont. and beating him so badly with a pipe that his left eye burst.
Defence lawyers have argued the brothers caught Miller and his friends breaking into a vehicle and acted out of self-defence, alleging Miller was the one wielding a pipe.
Awaiting the ruling on Friday morning, a large group gathered outside the Oshawa courthouse for a solidarity protest in support of Miller.
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Bursting your (tiny) bubbles: New research points the way toward pore-free 3D printing
(Nanowerk News) Additive manufacturing's big advantage is the convenience of fabricating geometrically complex parts. Need to quickly design and build a new engine component for an airplane? Fire up the 3D printer and make one. But with that convenience often comes a drawback: 3D-printed parts are not as durable as those crafted through traditional manufacturing processes, and won't hold up under repeated stresses over time.
A team of scientists may now have the answer to that problem. Even better, their pivotal discovery does not require redesigning and updating 3D-printing machines. Researchers say it can be done with the technology we already have.
Additive manufacturing, commonly called 3D printing, has been a reality for nearly 40 years. This process transforms computer models of, well, anything into fully realized 3D structures made of plastics, metals or other materials. As part of the process, however, microscopic pores find their way into the finished product, weakening the structural integrity. Eliminating these pores from 3D-printed metal parts is key to advancing the technology into more useful applications.
As any scientist will tell you, the first step toward fixing a problem is to get a good look at what is causing it. Researchers have been using the Advanced Photon Source (APS), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility located at DOE's Argonne National Laboratory, to study the additive manufacturing process since 2015. The APS generates intensely bright X-rays, which can penetrate into the metal parts, taking images as the metal is shaped from powder in real time.
This video created from X-ray images captured at the APS shows the additive manufacturing process for aluminum over two milliseconds. The laser creates a pool of liquid metal, and also creates tiny pores that can be seen trying to escape. (Video by Tao Sun)
"The APS provides a way of seeing things that we couldn’t before," said Kamel Fezzaa, a physicist in Argonne’s X-ray Science division, who oversees the high-speed imaging program at APS beamline 32-ID-B. "Instead of using static samples after the printing is complete, we are able to see inside the process as it happens."
That process is called laser powder bed fusion, and it involves using high-power lasers to melt and fuse powdered material together. Using a laser-and-powder setup at the APS, a team of researchers documented the formation and subsequent movement of pores – many smaller than the width of a human hair – within the melt pool. The team was led by Lianyi Chen, formerly of the Missouri University of Science and Technology and now of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Tao Sun, formerly of Argonne's X-ray Science division and now of the University of Virginia.
The APS allowed them to capture 135,776 images per second, each image lasting for less than a microsecond, and the result was the most detailed look at the additive manufacturing process ever seen.
"The APS has the best capability of doing this type of study," said Sun. "It would be impossible to do this at a lab-based X-ray source. We’re probing a highly dynamic process, and the APS offers us nanosecond-level time resolution."
What this research team found surprised even them. In a paper published in Nature Communications ("Pore elimination mechanisms during 3D printing of metals"), the group described the three forces acting upon pores within the melt pool: buoyancy, which should force the gas up and out of the melt area; melt flow drag, which should swirl the gas around within the molten pool; and thermocapillary force, which drives the pores to move along the temperature gradient.
Of these three forces, they discovered that the thermocapillary force in certain area of the molten pool exerts the most influence over where the pores ended up. The drag created by the melting liquid metal is second, which means that the natural tendency of these gas pockets to move upward and out of the melt area was countered.
"We did not expect these results," Chen said. "As the laser strikes the material, the pores move out of the melt pool rapidly in the laser interaction area."
The team found that it is the temperature gradient induced thermocapillary force that drags the pores out, Chen explained, so simply exerting more control over the temperature gradient during the 3D-printing process itself can move those pores outside the melt area, ensuring that the resulting metal part is pore-free.
"This is not a force that people thought about before," Sun said. "But we can utilize this force to remove all of the pores in a printed component."
Making use of this technique, researchers say, should be possible with existing 3D-printing equipment. Controlling the power and speed of the laser, and adjusting for different types of material, should allow manufacturers to find the right conditions to shape the thermal force as the laser is doing its work.
It would take some trial and error, Fezzaa said, but it should not require an additional device to eliminate pores from the finished product.
"This is a proof of concept," Fezzaa said. "One of the main challenges in 3D printing is to make it as reliable as traditional manufacturing, and if this concept could be used as an effective tool in a real 3D system, that would be a giant leap forward for the additive manufacturing industry."
Source: By Andre Salles, Argonne National Laboratory
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Wilderness with traces left by former hunters.
The Reinheimen National Park is in the next largest area lacking major infrastructure in southern Norway, and wilderness best characterises this very varied mountain area. The highest mountains in the park tower more than 2000 m above sea level, while the lowest point in the protected area, at the foot of Trollveggen, is about 130 m a. s.l.
Much of the original alpine ecosystem, including wild reindeer, wolverines, golden eagles, gyr falcons and ptarmigans, is still intact. Reinheimen has numerous cultural heritage traces from the former hunting of wild reindeer, including pitfalls, mass trapping systems, bowman’s hides and habitations where the hunters lived.
Address: Skjåkvegen 4073, 2690 Skjåk
Web: https://www.nasjonalparkriket.no/nasjonalparker/reinheimen-nasjonalpark
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Obamacare At Center Of Debate Over California Health Insurance Initiative
Christopher Cadelago
By Christopher Cadelago, The Sacramento Bee
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As state insurance commissioner, Dave Jones has the power to regulate rates for car and homeowner insurance. He can halt an insurer’s proposed increase if the company can’t justify the higher cost.
Health insurance is another matter.
The former Democratic lawmaker has spent years working to give elected commissioners regulatory authority over health insurance rates. He’s asking voters in November to give him that ability with Proposition 45, asserting it’s the only way to slow down spiraling premium costs.
Insurers, long opposed to the idea, now are making a new argument against it, saying the Affordable Care Act complicates his effort. Under the health care law, they argue, California already has a new system in place to manage the health insurance market.
“California just established a new independent commission responsible for negotiating health plan rates on behalf of consumers and rejecting health plans if they’re too expensive,” says the proposed argument against the initiative.
Officials at the state exchange, known as Covered California, have also raised a host of questions about how Jones’ plan would work now that their market is in place.
Diana Dooley, secretary of the Health and Human Services Agency and chairwoman of the exchange board, emphasized that she plans to stay neutral on Proposition 45. But she noted the initiative was drafted years before the state exchange had adopted various consumer protections.
“This looks like a rate regulation regulating the old market without taking into consideration what the advantages are of the Affordable Care Act,” Dooley said. “I am really working to try to bring down the cost of care. That would bring down premiums.”
Health insurance rates have increased more than 150 percent in California in the last decade, a figure greater than five times the rate of inflation, Jones said. Not only is the measure compatible with the new health law, he argues, it’s the missing piece. He said that’s why Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer of California, strong supporters who helped craft Obama’s plan, also are behind Proposition 45.
“There is no provision in the Affordable Care Act or in state law to stop health insurers and HMOs from charging excessive rates,” Jones said. “And they have and will continue to charge those excessive rates unless Proposition 45 is enacted.”
Jones said more than 35 states have enacted health insurance rate regulation, and California has had a successful experience overseeing car, homeowner, and property, and casualty insurance since the passage of Proposition 103 in 1988. He said drivers and homeowners have saved tens of billions under the changes.
Given the market power of insurers, he argues the state exchange will never have the clout to negotiate better rates. Of the 11 plans on the exchange, four offer insurance statewide and make up more than 90 percent of its individual market. However, even they are not each offering insurance everywhere in California.
“We’ve given them a legal monopoly,” Jones said. “Now, by law, everyone has to buy their product.”
Exchange officials say they negotiate aggressively and note that Covered California has the ability to bar insurers from the exchange. Jones said it isn’t likely to exercise that power because its chief mission is to insure as many people as possible. Last year, he unsuccessfully urged officials to bar Anthem Blue Cross from the exchange for small businesses for excessive hikes.
“They did not negotiate lower rates last year,” Jones said. Regulators “were able to get some reduction of the rates just by using the public bully pulpit as we’ve been doing for the last couple of years. But certainly we did not get the full measure of reductions that we could have gotten if we had true rate regulation.”
The proposal supported by Jones and sponsored by Santa Monica-based Consumer Watchdog would affect about 6 million people — mostly individuals and families who purchase health insurance directly from insurers and those with job-based coverage provided by companies with no more than 50 employees. The measure includes policies offered through the state exchange, covering as many as 1.4 million people so far.
Under the rate-regulation initiative, insurers or plans would begin the process by filing an application for a rate or benefit change with the California Department of Insurance. If the rate increase exceeded 7 percent, organizations, and individuals seeking to intervene could request and would be entitled to a public hearing; though objections to a rate increase could be submitted to the commissioner for any rate filing. Denial of a hearing request would be subject to judicial review.
If no hearing were held, and the commissioner took no action within 60 days, the rate would be automatically approved. The commissioner could approve an increase, deny an increase, or order a rate that it deemed not excessive.
Dooley said she worries about allowing anyone to challenge rates negotiated by the exchange. She said while the “intervention” process works for other types of insurance, it could encourage critics of the controversial law to challenge rates to the detriment of the exchange.
“We have seen in the history of the Affordable Care Act that there are people who are opposed to Obamacare without regard to any of the facts, and anybody could throw a monkey wrench in this,” Dooley said. “That gives me quite a bit of pause.”
Jones countered that fewer than 1 percent of all property and casualty filings have an intervenor. He said there have been only a small handful of “full-blown” hearings with decisions going to the commissioner over the last decade. In that time there have been a total of two lawsuits, and the commissioner won both.
“Even the filing of a lawsuit does not delay the rate determined by the commissioner. The rate goes into effect,” Jones said, adding courts are required to give “great deference” to commissioner determinations under state law. “It’s just simply not the case that there are going to be lawsuits that gum up the works.”
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Banned From YouTube And Twitter, Bannon Still Reaches Millions Via Apple
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Reprinted with permission from ProPublica
Late at night on Jan. 5, the day before President Donald Trump was scheduled to deliver a defiant speech before thousands of his most dedicated supporters, his former adviser Steve Bannon was podcasting from his studio near Capitol Hill. He had been on the air several times a day for weeks, hyping the narrative that this was the moment that patriots could stand up and pull out a Trump win.
<div> <p> “It's all converging, and now we're on the point of attack tomorrow. It's going to kick off, it's going to be very dramatic," Bannon said in his fluent patter, on a day that would see four of his “War Room" shows posted online, up from his usual two or three. “It's going to be quite extraordinarily different. And all I can say is strap in. You have made this happen and tomorrow it's game day." </p><script id="3d14008d7e044c36b256c61ff82728bb"> if(cnxFlag){ cnxFlag=false; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: '5573e7ba-804a-4971-a00f-3e2eeec6c0a9' }).render('3d14008d7e044c36b256c61ff82728bb'); }); } </script> <p> The next morning Bannon was back. “We're right on the cusp of victory," Bannon said, as protesters massed at the Ellipse to hear from Trump. </p> <p> “This is not a day for fantasy, this is a day for maniacal focus. Focus, focus, focus," Bannon went on. “It's them against us. Who can impose their will on the other side." </p> <p> To the protesters massing in Washington, Bannon's message was clear: They could force the outcome by pressuring Vice President Mike Pence and Congress not to certify the electoral vote. </p> <p> Ultimately, the day resulted in a bloody brawl that took the lives of both police and protesters, in a security breach unlike any America has seen in decades. It was planned in explicit detail across websites that were taken offline, like Parler, or censored, as Twitter did with thousands of QAnon-affiliated accounts and even the president's. </p> <p> But Bannon, who himself was banned from YouTube and Twitter after saying in November that Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray should be beheaded, continues to reach an enormous audience via Apple's podcast app, which is installed by default on every iPhone. Although the app doesn't show the number of times the show has been streamed, Bannon gives updates every few days on its popularity. As of last week, he claimed total downloads of 29 million. </p><div class="inarticle_ad_placeholder" data-aa-adunit="/5931858/NatMemo_RM/NatMemo_Middle_Desktop_3" data-aaad="true"></div> <p> Bannon did not respond to a request for comment. </p> <p> It's not just Bannon. Several podcasts that spread baseless claims of election fraud, including shows by former Trump strategist Sebastian Gorka and Judicial Watch's Tom Fitton, continue to be broadly available on major platforms. The fact that such beliefs were the battle cry of a violent mob that threatened congressional leaders has brought podcasting platforms face to face with a difficult question: What are their responsibilities when it comes to stifling what otherwise could be seen as protected speech? </p> <p> In the weeks since Nov. 3, Bannon has spent several hours a day exploring the minutiae of baselessly disputed elections in several states, giving ample airtime to Trump defenders like Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and presidential adviser Peter Navarro. Using a mix of football, military and religious analogies, Bannon speaks often in apocalyptic terms about the risk of losing. </p> <p> “It's the children of light and the children of darkness," he said on Jan. 3, after interviewing the right-wing Archbishop <a href="https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2020/06/11/president-trump-tweeted-about-archbishop-vigano-so-who-he">Carlo Maria Viga</a><a href="https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2020/06/11/president-trump-tweeted-about-archbishop-vigano-so-who-he">nò</a>, whom Pope Francis fired as the Vatican's ambassador to the United States after he sided with anti-gay culture warriors. “One side's going to win and one side's going to lose. Everything that the Judeo-Christian West represents is at stake. That's what this battle is about. That's what Wednesday is about." </p> <p> While social media companies have become more willing over the past few months to censor accounts that engage in hate speech, podcasts are still largely unmoderated. Part of that has to do with the industry's structure: The main podcast portals merely index the shows, like Google indexes websites. Despite canceling Bannon's YouTube channel, Google Podcasts still indexes “War Room." (Apple <a href="https://chartable.com/blog/apple-podcasts-vs-spotify-which-is-more-popular">accounts for</a> more than half of the number of podcast streams, with Spotify a distant second.) </p> <p> “Online platforms know that rhetoric promoting violence and disinformation absolutely matters. That is why most of them ban such activities in their own terms of service," said <a href="https://facstaff.elon.edu/msquire/#">Megan Squire</a>, a computer science professor at Elon University who has studied the right-wing podcasting ecosystem. </p> <p> “However, in the case of podcasts, Apple usually explains that they are just cataloging the show and not actually distributing it," Squire said. “For example <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/apple-is-removing-alex-jones-and-infowars-podcasts-from">when they banned Alex Jones</a>, they just stopped listing him, but what guidelines they used were a bit unclear. Contrast this to their <a href="https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#scraping-aggregation">app store guidelines</a>, which are very clear." </p> <p> Apple declined to comment on how it evaluates whether to de-list a podcast. Its <a href="https://itunespartner.apple.com/podcasts/articles/podcast-requirements-3058">terms of service</a> prohibit “content that is illegal or promotes illegal activity, self-harm, violence, or illegal drugs, or content depicting graphic sex, gore, or is otherwise considered obscene, objectionable, or in poor taste." </p> <p> Audio files themselves are supported by a much more fragmented network of hosting services — which costs money, unlike simply being catalogued by a portal like Apple's. “War Room" is <a href="https://podnews.net/podcast/1485351658">hosted by Podbean</a>, which did not return a request for comment. Its <a href="https://www.podbean.com/podbean-terms">terms of service</a> forbid content that is “malicious, false, or inaccurate." </p> <p> To be clear: Since his “heads on pikes" <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/11/06/twitter-bannon-beheaded-fauci-wray"></a>episode, Bannon has shied away from advocating violence. He sometimes caveats his calls to arms by cautioning that he's talking about political protest or “coloring inside the lines." He has downplayed allegations against Dominion Voting Systems, which <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dominion-trump-fox-news-newsmax-oan-sidney-powell-defamation-lawsuits-2021-1">threatened to sue</a> other Trump allies and news outlets for spreading baseless claims of fraud. In the wake of Jan. 6, like many in the right-wing media ecosphere, he has praised peaceful protest and claimed the riot was instigated by liberal agents provocateurs rather than Trump supporters. </p> <p> However, extremism experts say the rhetoric still feeds into an alternative reality that breeds anger and cynicism, which may ultimately lead to violence. <a href="https://www.luc.edu/soc/decookjulia.shtml">Julia DeCook</a>, an assistant professor at Loyola University Chicago's school of communications, notes that listeners who are convinced about one conspiracy theory are more likely to accept others, which is what makes more mainstream commentators like Bannon “dangerous." </p> <p> “It's not like they hit you with the crazy stuff all at once. It's the little things that sow distrust and skepticism," DeCook said. “Steve Bannon goes right up to the line of what is acceptable and what is hate speech. But platforms are really bad at understanding borderline content." </p> <p> Bannon seems to understand very well how the information he's putting out in the world influences his audience. On the eve of the Capitol riot, one of his co-hosts interviewed a young man at a pregame rally in downtown Washington who said his whole family had been dejected after the election. After discovering “War Room," they were increasingly encouraged and listened to every episode, resulting in his presence at Freedom Plaza that night. The “War Room" crew celebrated this exchange as evidence of its impact. </p> <p> “As soon as you're able to create the structure or the context, and let them come to their own conclusions, they're going to be able to have their own mental map, they can then start making their own decisions, and then become disciples or force multipliers," Bannon said. “We've helped provide the information to people who are jacked up." </p> <p> (Of course, Bannon also had an interest in helping Trump, who reportedly is prepared to use his pardon powers to dismiss a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/nyregion/steve-bannon-arrested-indicted.html">federal charge</a> concerning Bannon's alleged misuse of funds donated to a charity that said it was helping to build a wall on the border with Mexico.) </p> <p> De-platforming Bannon, however, would be tricky. </p> <p> Podcast directories and hosting services are loath to open the Pandora's box of content moderation. Todd Cochrane runs one of the largest, called Blubrry, which hosts 85,000 shows and indexes 1.3 million of them. Since Jan. 6, he said that many of his customers — especially Christian shows — are worried about being de-listed from other podcast directories. As long as they aren't using hate speech or inciting violence, which Blubrry's terms of service forbid, he said they're safe on his platform. </p> <p> “This is a fine line for us," Cochrane said. Blubrry has a formal process for submitting complaints about shows with objectionable content and has only ever removed a handful. “Let's say I respond to a social justice campaign saying this show is ultimately resulting in violence. It's an internal decision of whether or not we want to host that content, but I wouldn't want to be in Podbean's position today." </p> <p> Even if “War Room" were kicked out of Apple's directory or dumped by Podbean, that might fuel the argument — which Bannon has already exploited after being booted by Twitter and YouTube — that Big Tech has it out for conservatives. Plenty of liberal-leaning shows aren't paragons of truth either, but they haven't been banned. </p> <p> “The inconsistency is a huge catalyst for these folks, because it gives them an endless supply of pretty accurate grievances to raise about 'why are we being shut down in this way,'" said <a href="https://www.chapman.edu/our-faculty/pete-simi">Peter Simi</a>, an associate professor of sociology at Chapman University. “It amplifies their sense that there's this left-wing conspiracy that's hell-bent on preventing them from even expressing their views." </p> <p> Though Apple offers access to an enormous audience, it may only be a matter of time before Bannon and others are able to build up an alternative streaming universe that doesn't depend on the grace of Silicon Valley tech giants. On Jan. 13, Bannon talked on his show with Andrew Torba, the founder of Gab.com, which has become a haven for conspiracy theorists. Torba boasted of having built up enough of his own data-center capacity to support all of the traffic from people leaving Twitter and Facebook, but service is still groaning under the weight of new traffic. In emails to Gab members, Torba has been soliciting donations to support the expansion. “No one is coming to save us," he wrote on Jan. 8. “We must save ourselves." </p> <p> “It's a conundrum, because now you have the right wing moving into their own silos," said Adele Stan, the editor of Right Wing Watch, a project of the left-leaning People for the American Way. “The thing we know about the right is that they're good at building infrastructure, in the way that the left has never gotten their act together on. We're just at this moment of chaos where it's hard to know if there's a base that's radicalized enough to be there for the long haul, when things start to not look very good for their side." </p> <p> In the meantime, Bannon seems to know exactly how far he can go before his remaining platforms have an excuse to yank his access. </p> <p> Also on Jan. 13, having just been <a href="https://www.cnet.com/news/youtube-bans-steve-bannons-war-room-podcast-channel"></a>booted off YouTube after the site banned videos that spread false election fraud statements, Bannon again had Giuliani as a guest. The leader of Trump's legal team said he had acquired videos showing “Antifa" agitators leading the Capitol violence, and at one point he suggested that one of them had actually shot Ashli Babbitt, the Air Force veteran who was, in fact, killed by a Capitol Police officer. </p> <p> Bannon tried to rein in Giuliani and finally cut him off. “I don't mind being shut down for my craziness, but I'm not going to be shut down for yours," he told the former New York City mayor, who seemed offended. “I don't say crazy things," Giuliani responded, after Bannon had directed listeners to Giuliani's website to view the videos. </p> <p> “I know, I'm teasing you," Bannon said. </p> </div><script async="" src="http://pixel.propublica.org/pixel.js" type="text/javascript"></script><div></div><script async="" src="http://pixel.propublica.org/pixel.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
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- Do you own your crematory?
Yes we do. We own and operate a state-of-the-art crematory, according to all state and Federal regulations. People who wish to inspect our facilities, or who just want to say “good-bye” to their loved one, are warmly welcome.
- How can I be sure that my funds will be safe?
Your money is placed into state-required trust fund, then held and invested according to state law for future need. Trust fund report ae filed with the California Department of Consumer Affairs.
- What if we move?
If you move within California, the policy will be honored by one of our eight offices. No additional charges will be incurred if you live within a 75 mile radius of your local office. If you move out of state, you should add Worldwide Coverage to you policy. With this coverage, we will take care of you, wherever the death may occur. There will be no additional cremation charges for your survivors.
- Do you offer monthly payments? How much interest do you charge?
Yes, we offer two plans with monthly payment options, each with 0% interest.
- How long has your company been in business?
We want you to be wary of providers who focus on the number of years of experience. What you really want to know is will they be there when you need them. We’re pleased to share that the Neptune Society has a 37-year track record of proven service.
What is the difference between Neptune and Nautilus?
Neptune Society®, Neptune Society of Northern California and the Trident Society® are subsidiaries of SCI (Service Corporation International) based in Houston, Texas. SCI is a publicly listed, Wall Street Corporation, where shareholder profits come first.
The Neptune Society of Central California, with offices located in San Jose, Fresno, Modesto and Bakersfield California is not affiliated with the SCI group. These Neptune Society locations are independently owned and in no way connected with the Neptune® / Trident®; policies, procedures, management, financials, sales, or facilities.
Neptune Society of Central California operates under a “concurrent use” agreement. We operate independently where no royalties or fees are paid up to a governing body. The concurrent use agreement allows us to use the name Neptune Society of Central California only in Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, San Benito and Monterey Counties. In Central California, we cover; Kern, Stanislaus, Tuolumne, Fresno, Tulare, Kings, Madera, Mariposa and Merced Counties. In Southern California, The Neptune Society of Orange County has an agreement that covers Orange County.
In 1980, The Nautilus Society was founded as a subsidiary of the Neptune Society of Central California and shares the same ownership. Nautilus Society has offices in Sacramento, Oakland and Los Angeles.
What makes Neptune Society Different?
We know we're different, and we want you to know why:
- We provide a 100% Service Guarantee.If we ever fail to live up to expectations, we'll make things right, or refund that portion of the service.
- We adhere to, or exceed, industry standards and guidelines for accurate identification of the cremated remains.
- We have trained knowledgeable and courteous staff to guide you through the process.
- We allow -and welcome - inspection of our facilities.
- We use modern state-of-the-art equipment.
- We own our equipment and facilities.
- We have a proven reputation with more than 37 years in business, and we'll be here when you need us. Guaranteed.
- We are members, in excellent standing, with the Better Business Bureau.
- We cremate only one person at a time, in strict accordance with our own ethical policies and government regulation.
- We cremate only human remains in our crematory, and offer no pet cremation services.
- We are licensed, and regularly inspected, by the Department of Consumer Affairs.
- We are local family-owned business, which means we do not answer to corporate stockholders looking for higher sales and profits.
- We offer 0% financing with easy monthly payment options.
- We offer coverage anywhere in the world.
- We have a straightforward approach, with no up-selling and no hidden costs.
How does your plan work?
Each enrollee is provided with an Emergency Alert Card which provides 24-hour contact information for Neptune Society. After a death has occurred, the following steps will take place:
- The surviving family, friends or authority calls Neptune Society’s toll-free number.
- Neptune Society removes the body from the home, hospital or other location.
- The body is placed in a cremation container.
- Neptune Society staff prepares death certificate, disposition permit, and other necessary records while consulting with the family.
- Neptune Society takes death certificate to doctor to obtain official records of cause of death and files paperwork with the State of California and the County Health Department.
- Cremation usually occurs several days after death.
- Cremated remains are taken to the Neptune Society office in an appropriate urn for scattering at sea, release to the family or designated person, or scattering in a cemetery garden.
Aside from cremation, do you offer other services?
Nautulis Society owns two beautifully-appointed motor yachts. They are clean, comfortable and safe. One is located in Berkeley, California, and the other is located in Newport Beach. Both boats are available for private boat memorial services. For more information and availability, call :
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The ORCA III is a 62 foot motor yacht which can accommodate up to 42 guests for private and group memorial services on the San Francisco Bay. The boat and crew are U.S. Coast Guard certified. The Orca III is berthed in the Berkeley Marina.
Scattering ashes of a loved one can be a beautiful and memorable way to celebrate their life. The calm waters and gorgeous view at our scattering location in the San Francisco Bay provide a meaningful backdrop for saying goodbye.
Multi Family Sea-Scatter (not available for pre-pay) $595.00
Up to six family members/friends may accompany the urn to the scattering waters. There will be other families onboard, each family will take turns scattering. Only one multi family trip will be scheduled each month. Call 510-568-5400 for availability.
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The Orca III can be chartered privately and can accommodate up to 42 family members/friends for a private memorial service on the San Francisco Bay. Dates and availability are open to accommodate your schedule.
There will not be other families onboard for private charter.
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The ORCA TOO is a 65 foot luxury motor yacht which can accommodate up to 40 guests for private and group memorial services on just outside the Newport Beach Harbor. The boat and crew are U.S. Coast Guard certified. The Orca TOO is berthed in front of the Bluewater Grill, on the Lido Peninsula in Newport Beach, CA
Scattering ashes of a loved one can be a beautiful and memorable way to celebrate their life. The calm waters and gorgeous views at our scattering location off the Newport Coast provides a meaningful backdrop for saying goodbye.
Up to six family members/friends may accompany the urn to the scattering waters. There will be up to 6 other families onboard, each family will take turns scattering. Only one multi family trip will be scheduled each month. Call (949) 646-7431 for availability.
Private Memorial At Sea (not available for pre-pay)
The Orca TOO can be chartered privately and can accommodate up to 40 guests for a private memorial service off the Newport coast. Dates and availability are open to accommodate your schedule.
Prices include Newport City trip permit fees and required passenger dock loading fees. Cost of clergy (not required) is not included.
1–6 Passengers / Guests - $995.00
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What assurance is there that my survivors will receive my ashes?
The Neptune Society adheres to the strictest identification guidelines in the industry, in order to minimize the chance of human error. To reassure our clients, the entire cremation process is monitored by closed circuit video. Additionally, a numbered metal disc is assigned to the deceased and accompanies the body throughout the cremation process. The disc stays with the ashes as they are placed in a temporary container, awaiting final disposition by Neptune Society or the family.
I am already registered with the Neptune Society and need to update my information. What should I do?
Contact the location closest to where you registered. Our Neptune Society professionals will assist you in updating your information.
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CHS in action on Friday
Abel Carter takes a hand off during practice.
Jim Grant | Nevada Appeal
The three-time defending Sierra League champion Carson Senators kick off their 2016 season with a scrimmage against Fallon and Spanish Springs Friday night at the Jim Frank Track & Field Complex.
The varsity scrimmage is set to begin at 6 p.m. after the freshmen and JV squads get action under way at 4:30.
The scrimmage gives coach Blair Roman and his staff its first “real” look at the Senator squad.
Roman said the two biggest area he’s looking forward to seeing is how the offensive line, with four new starters, shapes up, along with the secondary which has new starters in all three positions.
Bryceton Schilling is the only holdover from last year’s starting offensive line, and he’s solid. Senior Zac Frewert is his running mate at the other guard with junior Dallon Shaffer, sophomore Chandler Tierney and senior Bernardo Lopez vying for playing time.
Sheldon Miller, a defensive stalwart in the middle last year, is being counted on to start at offensive tackle. Blaise Bonomo, a late-season defensive call-up as a sophomore last season, will also see some action on the offensive side of the ball. Junior Brandon Macias currently holds down the No. 1 spot at center.
“The biggest thing (on Friday) is to see the offensive line under fire against another team,” Roman said after Tuesday’s practice. “Running stuff in practice day after day (against your own team) isn’t the same.
“Defensively, I feel I know what to expect from our front seven. The No. 1 thing I want to see with our secondary is can you make a play when the ball is in the air. We are going to face some real good throwing teams this year (Desert Mountain, Reed, Galena and Damonte), and we have to see if we’re going in the right direction.”
Spencer Rogers started at corner last year, but he’s been moved to safety to take the spot of the graduated Asa Carter. Greg Wallace was expected to start at one cornerback spot, but a torn meniscus sidelined him for the season. Landon Truesdale, up from JV, inherited that spot. Brandon Gagnon, a reserve at cornerback last year, starts at the other corner.
Wallace’s injury has left a big hole in the offensive backfield.
Abel Carter is back and will see action at tailback and wingback. Tyler Huling starts at one wingback spot. which leaves Rogers and Jake Roman to battle for playing time and to see plenty of offensive action on Friday.
Jace Keema will start under center, but Roman said junior Daniel Morrison will get half the snaps. Morison missed all of last season with a knee injury, and the Senators need to get him up to speed.
NOTES: Since it is a three-way scrimmage, there isn’t expected to be any special teams … Kyle Rudy (shoulder) will be held out of Friday’s scrimmage. Jordan Aikin (elbow) also won’t play … The Senators’ first game is Aug. 27 at 6 p.m. at home against Desert Mountain of Scottsdale, Ariz.
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NewsGroove Uk > Wierd > Bermuda Triangle breakthrough: ‘Key clue’ to solve famous 75-year-old mystery revealed
Bermuda Triangle breakthrough: ‘Key clue’ to solve famous 75-year-old mystery revealed
WierdJuly 9, 2020
posted on Jul. 09, 2020 at 9:24 pm
The loosely defined region of the North Atlantic Ocean gets its nickname as the Bermuda Triangle, or Devil’s Triangle, due to the number of aircrafts and ships that have disappeared in its vicinity. One of its most famous incidents occurred on December 5, 1945, when five United States Navy Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bombers went missing after losing contact during a training exercise from Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale, Florida. All 14 airmen on the flight were lost, as were all 13 crew members of a Martin PBM Mariner flying boat that subsequently launched from Naval Air Station Banana River to search for Flight 19.
After a thorough investigation, the US Navy could not determine the exact cause of the loss of Flight 19, but decades later, aviation expert Peter Leffe claimed he cracked the case.
He revealed during Amazon Prime’s ‘Inside The Bermuda Triangle’ why he thinks flight leader, Lieutenant Charles Carroll Taylor, may be central to explaining the mystery.
He said in 2007: “At some point, either during the second leg or the third leg, Taylor became convinced that they somehow had made a wrong turn.
“Pilots are typically trained to rely on their instruments and not fly by the seat of their pants.
One of the most famous cases may have been solved (Image: GETTY)
The famous Flight 19 crew (Image: GETTY)
“Taylor was seeing land and he had been formally based in Miami and had been familiar with the keys, he said ‘I am over the Florida Keys, I don’t know how we got here’.
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“At this point in time, he’s so disoriented that he thinks he’s in the Gulf of Mexico.”
Mr Leffe went on to explain why he held this view, explaining that Mr Taylor’s confusion about his location was overheard by another pilot flying nearby.
He added: “It was flight number 74 – commanded by lieutenant Cox – and part of the conversation was that he, Taylor, thought he was over the Keys and he needed to find his way back to Fort Lauderdale.
“As Cox flew south, the transmissions between two aircrafts became weaker and weaker.
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The crew needed to get back to Fort Lauderdale (Image: GETTY)
“They were diverging, rather than converging and that is significant evidence that helps us to be sure that Taylor was never anywhere near the Florida Keys.”
The narrator of the series then revealed the “key clue” that was found by Mr Leffe.
He said: ”According to radio transmission transcripts, Taylor’s confusion about his location was overheard by another pilot flying above the mainland.
“But communication between the pilots is faded.
“Florida Keys radio operators on the mainland marked flight 19’s position far from the Gulf Coast, somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean.
“These reports indicate that Taylor was flying over the Bahama Islands and mistook them for the Florida Keys.
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The flightpath of Flight 19 (Image: GETTY)
The Bermuda Triangle has been blamed for countless mysteries (Image: WIKI)
“In radio logs, Peter Leffe has discovered a key clue that illustrates Taylor’s worsening confusion.”
Mr Leffe then detailed his theory on how the events played out.
He added: “When he started calling himself MT-28, instead of FT-28, that was a clear indication that his mental function was starting to diminish.
“He was under the belief that he was somewhere where he wasn’t.
“All of these things could be consistent with his mental status not being up to par and that relates back to him asking to be relieved of command on that particular day.”
A 500-page Navy board of investigation report claimed Mr Taylor was not at fault because his compass stopped working.
Compass problems are one of the most cited phrases in many Bermuda Triangle incidents.
While some have theorised that unusual local magnetic anomalies may exist in the area, no evidence of this has been found.
Compasses have natural magnetic variations in relation to the magnetic poles, a fact which navigators have known for centuries.
Magnetic north and geographic north are exactly the same only for a small number of places – for example, as of 2000, in the US, only those places on a line running from Wisconsin to the Gulf of Mexico.
However, the public may not be as informed and think there is something mysterious about a compass “changing” across an area as large as the Triangle, which it naturally will.
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Economist reveals how to make Kiwibuild homes cheaper
Simon Shepherd
Economist Shamubeel Eaqub has suggested a way to make Kiwibuild homes cheaper. Credits: Newshub.
An economist has come up with a way to slash hundreds of thousands of dollars off the price of a home built under the government's flagship KiwiBuild policy.
It comes after a Newshub Nation investigation revealed the government has been told the so-called affordable homes may be too pricey.
Doubts over KiwiBuild's affordability
But Shamubeel Eaqub says the answer could be leasing the land to the homeowner instead of selling it.
"Six hundred grand is not affordable," the economist says. "It is an extraordinarily large sum of money."
It's also the government's target price for one of its 50,000 KiwiBuild houses in Auckland. Yet Ministry advice released to Newshub Nation says it could be too pricey for first home buyers.
"Trying to force people into ownership with really stretched finances is not a good idea," says Mr Eaqub.
He has another idea. Half to two-thirds of the cost of building is the price of land, so he suggests the government keep the land and lease it very cheaply to the home owner in what's known as a 'peppercorn" rent.
"Leasehold in New Zealand has a really bad rap, because of the unexpected increases in cost and all the complexities that go with it.
"But if it's with the government, with a trusted partner and with a very well agreed, say a 99 year peppercorn lease, then there is absolutely no reason why a bank or a buyer should be afraid."
He says it could slash two to three hundred thousand dollars off the price.
Leasing the land is not a new concept - it happens in London and other major European cities. But is there enough government land to do it here?
That same Ministry advice on Kiwibuild says no.
The policy's "land requirements significantly exceed the amount of vacant and underutilised Crown-owned land that's available."
Housing Minister Phil Twyford has said the Government will acquire more land for Kiwibuild, but lack of land is only one road block to affordable housing,
There's also the chronic shortage of builders, cost of products, and the consent process.
KiwiBuild is not the only house building programme - Auckland Council has its own plans.
Housing expert Leonie Freeman says she's optimistic the Government will hit their targets.
"I believe if we do the disruptive changes that we need and the whole sector gets behind this, then both Kiwi Build and the council targets are achievable."
Freeman says it could take three years for the industry to scale up, and then only if everything goes perfectly.
So far it's not - despite years of talk, Auckland is still only building half the 14,000 new homes it needs every year.
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What’s in your baby formula? Research finds ‘potentially toxic nanoparticles’
July 2, 2017 11:23 am in National by Rachel Junge
Parents, already stressing over the bottle v breast debate, have now been informed two of the most trusted brands of baby formula are being questioned.
There are calls for the products to be recalled amid concerning findings by a world-leading team in nano-technology from Arizona State University.
The research was commissioned by environment group Friends of the Earth (FoE) and tested seven baby formula products.
The researchers found two contained needle-shaped hydroxyapatite nanoparticles.
Nestle NAN H.A. Gold 1 and Nature’s Way Kids Smart 1 contained the banned substance.
FoE wants Food Standards Australia New Zealand to pull the products from shelves and do further tests.
Man-made nanoparticles are increasingly being added to food to improve texture, flavour and shelf life.
But the process has been banned from use in oral care products, including toothpaste, in parts of Europe.
Baby Formula Concern: Potentially harmful nanoparticles found in some products https://t.co/lAHyT3203e #sun7 pic.twitter.com/Z65NuT42EP
— Sunrise (@sunriseon7) July 1, 2017
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Since graduating from University in 2003, Rachel has worked in radio in a variety of roles including announcer, journalist and copywriter. The crazy world of radio has taken her from her hometown of Toowoomba to Wollongong, Sydney, Brisbane and finally the Gold Coast when in 2009 she started writing and presenting news with Hot Tomato and myGC.com.au.
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myscience.org › news › science wire › Recreational Facilities Re-open - With Restrictions
Recreational Facilities Re-open - With Restrictions
As Carnegie Mellon University prepares to welcome faculty, staff and students to campus for the fall semester, indoor and outdoor recreational and athletic facilities will re-open with a staggered and phased approach.
As outlined in the Athletic Facilities/Recreation Reopening Plans , outdoor facilities opened on Aug. 24 and indoor facilities will open Aug. 31. Both indoor and outdoor facilities will have set hours and will be monitored by Athletics Department staff when open. All users must have a Carnegie Mellon ID that they’ll need to display at specified check-in points at each facility, and that information will be logged for contact tracing purposes. All facility users are expected to have completed the university’s daily self-assessment prior to arrival. University Police will monitor outdoor facilities when they are closed.
"We have spent the past few months working on our athletics facility reopening plans, and we are excited to welcome our community members back," said Josh Centor , associate vice president of Student Affairs and director of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation. "While there will be differences in how we are able to offer services, we believe our approach provides an infrastructure that will allow our community to pursue their fitness and wellness ambitions in an environment that prioritizes collective health and well-being."
Hand sanitizing stations have been installed throughout athletics facilities and everyone is expected to utilize them upon entry and exit of each facility. Physical distancing protocols and the wearing of facial coverings will be enforced.
Gesling Stadium
Close-contact activities (e.g. pick-up soccer or basketball, touch football, etc.) are not permitted in outdoor facilities such as Gesling Stadium and Track, the soccer field, the outdoor basketball court and the tennis courts. Facial coverings must be worn at all times, except during singles play on the tennis courts. Athletics department personnel will monitor and enforce rules.
Specific indoor facilities opening on Aug. 31, the first day of classes on the Pittsburgh campus, include the Cohon University Center’s Fitness Center and exercise studios, swimming pools and Wiegand Gymnasium. Limited Group Exercise classes will begin early in the semester, and will be offered both in-person and virtually.
A player returns a serve on one of CMU’s tennis courts.
The reopening plans contain specific protocols for each facility, including capacity limits, hours of operation and locker room usage; and other COVID-related protocols that include rules pertaining to facial coverings, personal distancing requirements and equipment usage.
All fitness centers will be cleaned and sanitized by Custodial Services in between each open session. Floor clings will be installed to indicate physical distancing protocols. All equipment, such as exercise mats, badminton rackets or basketballs must be brought in by users and will not be provided by any recreation or athletics facility.
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Posted on October 10, 2014 by MysticStamp
Our Customer Service Representatives talk to hundreds of collectors each day. Often, the callers have questions like these. So we’re sharing the answers to these common questions here, hoping you find them helpful.
Your offer mentions stamps “on approval.” What does “on approval” mean? Mystic sends stamps “on approval” that we think our collectors might enjoy. It’s a small selection of stamps for you to examine in your home without any obligation. After you receive the selection, think it over for 21 days, and decide if you want to purchase some, all or none. Return the stamps you do not want along with the reply form in the postage-paid envelope we’ve enclosed. Mystic’s approval service is customer friendly and risk free. If you have questions on this unique service, you can email us at info@MysticStamp.com.
What’s the difference between the Heritage and Heirloom supplements? Mystic’s Heritage collection pages illustrate U.S. commemorative stamps. The Heirloom collection pages illustrate both commemorative and definitive issues.
How do I remove the paper off self-adhesive stamps? Soak them in room temperature water for about 20-25 minutes. Gently slide the stamp off the backing paper. Stamps issued in 2008 to the present should not be soaked. Instead, cut them from the envelope.
How do I tell the difference between a coil stamp and a booklet stamp? A coil stamp has perforations on either the top and bottom or both sides. A booklet stamp has perforations on 3 or 4 sides.
What does “hingeless” mean? Hingeless pages have clear drop end mounts attached to them. They’re convenient, saving you the time of affixing mounts.
How do I know what size mounts to use for my stamps? Mounts are measured in millimeters. Just measure your stamps’ width and height. Add 5 millimeters to each measurement, then refer to our Mystic mount list to find a corresponding size. Or go to Mystic’s website and enter the stamp’s description or Scott number in the search box. Mount sizes are listed on each stamp’s page (see the lower right corner of this image.) What supplies would you recommend for someone just starting to get into stamp collecting? We recommend our free Stamp Collecting Guide, your choice of mounts (MM500) or hinges (LS120), round tip tongs (LS150), magnifying glass (LS161), perforation gauge (LS130) and our Heirloom Album (M8104) for U.S. stamps or Voyager Album (M270) for worldwide issues.
How do I know what the value of a certain stamp in my collection might be? We suggest you go to your local library and look it up in the Scott Catalogue which is usually located in the reference section. If you’re not able to find the stamp listing, contact the ASDA for information on a dealer in your area who might be able to examine the stamp for you.
What is the difference between an album and a binder? An album is a binder with the pages. A binder does not come with pages.
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89 Responses to "Most Frequently Asked Questions"
By Dianne March 7, 2015 - 1:20 am
What is the best way to store mint full sheets & plate blocks?
By MysticStampLive April 7, 2015 - 5:43 pm
Take a look at this album for mint U.S. sheets:
https://www.mysticstamp.com/Products/Supplies/DS910/USA/
And this is great for Plate Blocks:
https://www.mysticstamp.com/Products/Supplies/HK28/USA/
By Don Matejcek March 7, 2015 - 4:39 pm
I recently purchased your 2014 American Heirloom supplement and upon mounting the 2014 stamps, I noticed that the pages for the 2014 Korean War Medal of Honor, both the entire booklet and singles, are missing. Was this an error or other reason for not printing this item?
This was not a mistake. Scott considers the 2014 Medal of Honor stamps to be the same stamps as the 2013 Medal of Honor stamps. Because the 2013 stamps and 2014 stamps have the same Scott numbers, we did not list them twice in the Heirloom album. Here at Mystic we have mixed feelings about this decision, especially when the subject matter is so important. In the future, we may review this policy.
By Miss Michelle McNett February 5, 2019 - 11:21 am
Thank you for answering this question as I also thought it was an error! I hope you reconsider this because, the stamps are not the same and where should I put them in my album?
By Joseph Rivera March 28, 2015 - 5:30 pm
I want to send you pictures of my stamps but, I don’t have your email address. Yours Truly Joseph Rivera
May I recommend you tell us about your stamps here?
https://www.mysticstamp.com/Selling-Stamps/Tell-Us-About-Your-Stamps/
By Stephanie Langley March 12, 2020 - 11:30 am
Mystic@mysticstamp.com
By Sandra Winter March 31, 2015 - 5:37 pm
Who do you trust to appraise and sell a stamp collection?
I recommend America’s Leading Stamp Buyer… Mystic Stamp Company. 🙂
By Larry Fletcher March 31, 2015 - 7:00 pm
Dear sir/ma’am, former stamp collector. Seems to be a lost art. How could I increase the value of my collection? Perhaps a common theme such as an island country or air postal stamps? Was not encourage by a friend who tells me collecting stamps is not worth it. He didn’t help me as I still have an interest in collecting. Thanks, Larry
Mystic does not promote stamp collecting as an investment, but rather as a hobby. The value of certain stamps and covers is based mainly on the law of “supply and demand”. For example, just because a stamp is old does not mean it is valuable.
By Jordie April 2, 2015 - 4:21 pm
Please call 1-866-660-7147 and a Customer Service Representative will assist you.
By James July 3, 2015 - 11:17 am
how do you tell the difference between scott # 750 and 770 also 751 and 769
By MysticStamp July 15, 2015 - 2:53 pm
Check out this post on Farley’s Follies and the comments. I think you’ll find it useful:
http://www.mysticstamp.com/wordpress/what-are-farleys-follies/
By Patty Shelton August 4, 2015 - 3:26 pm
I am not a stamp collector, however, my father was. I am trying to identify and determine the value of the stamps he left me. There are some 300 from mostly the early 1900’s, some used some not and nearly 300 from Germany, same period as well as the British Empire and elsewhere around the world. I am having great difficulty with Germany. Since there were not many with pictures here I went online and found a site with pictures but not values so I denoted the catalog #’s and came here to see what you sell them for. Unfortunately, the catalog #’s do not match. I would appreciate suggestions. Do you think if I brought them to a local stamp/coin store that I would get an honest evaluation or opinion? My father passed some 30 years ago, my family needs some help now so I was hoping there is some value in this collection. Thank you very much for any help! Patty Shelton
Oops. The 1st 300 referred to are from the United States. There are also about 180 from the ‘British Empire’ and well, Europe, ‘Far East’ etc. These were entitled during a different era so it makes it extra difficult. Thanks again! Patty Shelton
By annamarie October 16, 2019 - 9:53 pm
i also have several different german stamps and german colonies stamps from 1940’s and i’m pulling my hair out trying to identify them!
Is this something you would look at and perhaps purchase if I sent them to you? Hoping for a response. Patty
By MysticStamp August 12, 2015 - 10:25 am
Thank you for submitting your recent inquiry regarding the value of your stamps. We are happy to recommend a very good resource that you can access at your local library that will help you with identifying and finding a current value for your stamps.
Scott Catalogue is a seven-volume set of reference catalogs filled with very detailed information. One of the volumes is called the Scott’s Specialized Catalogue. This catalog features extensive, in-depth coverage which makes it easy to identify and value most U.S stamps. Foreign stamps should be covered in Volumes 1-6 in alphabetical order by Country. Another source for worldwide stamps is the Kraus-Minkus Catalog. Both catalogs are great resources for stamp identification and value. Most local libraries contain at least one of these valuable resources.
If you are considering selling your stamp collection, please fill out our form on Mystic Stamp Company’s Website at https://www.mysticstamp.com/Selling-Stamps/Tell-Us-About-Your-Stamps/ or contact our buying department directly at 1-800-835-3609 email: stampbuyer@mysticstamp.com.
By Merle October 2, 2015 - 1:28 pm
How can I remove the musty smell from antique envelopes without hurting the value of the stamps or envelope? Thanks
By MysticStamp October 3, 2015 - 5:27 pm
Hi Merle,
Our first suggestion is to find some space in an well-ventilated, temperature controlled room. Lay the covers out on a flat surface to “air out.” The odor should dissipate or lessen in a few days, depending on the severity.
If that doesn’t work, there are a few old tricks which can work. We suggest you test these methods on some covers you can bear to part with, just in case the results are not ideal. There’s a small chance these methods could have an effect on paper. So be cautious before using these tricks on your most precious covers.
Wrap up a few pieces of charcoal in paper towels and put them with the covers in a paper bag. The goal is to make sure the charcoal doesn’t touch the cover. Close the bag. Check in a day or two and the odor should be gone. You can use cat litter and/or baking soda as odor eaters in similar fashion. Just remember to test first and don’t lay the covers directly on the litter, baking soda or charcoal.
By Karli Dye June 24, 2016 - 3:03 pm
Recently have acquired three notebooks with first day covers for the 1940’s -60’s. Many of the envelopes are discolored even through the envelope is in a plastic sleeve. Is there something that can be done ? I assume this will decrease the value of each.
By MysticStamp June 27, 2016 - 2:39 pm
Hi Karli,
You may be able to lighten the discoloring by putting the covers in an airtight container along with a ¼ cup of hydrogen peroxide and let the fumes interact. Check the covers every couple of hours, if no improvement in 6 hours, it probably isn’t going to work. We hope that helps.
Happy Collecting!
By CarriePine Daniel August 30, 2016 - 5:36 pm
Is there any collecting value given yet to the 20-stamp folders of the past 20 or so years?
I am old and am down-sizing— and can use any legal income!
By MysticStamp August 31, 2016 - 7:53 am
Yes, but we will need more info. You can use this form: https://www.mysticstamp.com/Selling-Stamps/Tell-Us-About-Your-Stamps/
Or please call 1-800-835-3609 to speak with America’s leading stamp buyers.
By margriet hecht September 12, 2016 - 1:43 pm
2006 lady Liberty & Flag (3966 and 3970) in your catalogue:
What does “micro USPS” mean?
How can I tell they are “Micro USPS”
By MysticStamp September 12, 2016 - 5:18 pm
Here’s an article you may find helpful…
https://www.mysticstamp.com/info/what-is-microprinting-2/
By Glen Goodrich November 30, 2016 - 9:18 pm
Do you offer gift cards ?
By MysticStamp December 1, 2016 - 9:03 am
Here are links to our gift certificates.
https://www.mysticstamp.com/Products/Supplies/GC25/USA/
https://www.mysticstamp.com/Products/Supplies/GC100/USA/
By Edgar Garcia January 12, 2017 - 3:01 pm
Hello I really like the Moonlanding coin.I got two more coins review “on approval. Im pretty new to this and had a few questions. Is this a monthly payment service ? Or pay for what you keep and send what you don’t like? I send the payment for these on approval coins and can I keep em?
By MysticStamp January 14, 2017 - 2:26 am
Hi Edgar – I’m so glad you like the Moon Landing coin! To answer your question – whenever you get two coins “on approval” you would either purchase both of them or return both. When you send us your payment, the coins are yours to keep and enjoy. In a few weeks we’ll send you more coins to look at. You can quit the club at any time. It’s easy and a lot of fun. Happy Collecting!
By Ken Graff July 2, 2017 - 7:17 pm
How can I use my frequent buyer points?
Ken Graff
By MysticStamp July 2, 2017 - 8:09 pm
Here’s some helpful info: https://www.mysticstamp.com/info/mysticrewards/
By Rick G November 6, 2017 - 10:55 pm
Can you tell me the difference between Item M8104 and DS111″
By MysticStamp November 7, 2017 - 12:50 pm
M8104 is the same album. However, it includes 100 mint U.S. stamps and 1,000 stamps hinges for free.
By Keith Carpenter February 24, 2018 - 6:18 pm
I have several stamps of Kenya,Uganda,& Tanzania Scott catalog 66-83 with odd perforations-I.e.13 1/4 x 13 1/4 instead of 13 x 13 1/2 which is in the catalog. Do I round up or down to match the catalog? Thanks.
By MysticStamp February 26, 2018 - 7:49 am
First, make sure you’re using a reliable perforation gauge. A metal or plastic one made by a reputable manufacturer is preferred, because paper perforation gauges can change over time. It’s also possible the stamp may have changed size over time. On thing to consider is a previous owner could have fraudulently changed the perforations to make the stamps look like the more valuable minor numbers. Here’s an idea: send in one of the stamps for a certificate of authenticity from the Philatelic Foundation. The results of sending one stamp in for a certificate will likely apply to all stamps you own. I hope this helps!
http://www.philatelicfoundation.org/
By Ron Surels July 14, 2018 - 12:39 pm
What is meant by “silk”?
By MysticStamp July 16, 2018 - 8:58 am
Most cachets are printed, painted or drawn on a FDC. Colorano created cachets made of silk that they adhered to the covers.
By Michael Rhodes August 7, 2018 - 11:20 pm
I’m trying to understand “plate position”. On some full pages of stamps there are plate numbers on the four corners, and on the back a diagram of squares with one square blackened in with the words plate position. What do these mean? Using the 2012 Purple Heart as an example. There are numbers on the outer border B11 111 – so would this full page have four plates, the four stamps in each corner, leaving four extra stamps down the vertical middle? On the back the diagram has two rows of blocks five high.with the center block right blackened in. What does this mean? The diagram doesn’t even match the stamps on the front which are four high and five wide, not two by five. Thanks. Mike
By MysticStamp August 8, 2018 - 12:42 pm
The back diagram of squares you’re referring to is the position of that sheet on an entire uncut press sheet. The 2012 Purple Heart stamp was printed in uncut press sheets of 21 panes of 20 stamps (7 panes across by 3 down or 420 stamps). The highlighted box on the back of the sheet shows where that pane of 20 fell on an uncut sheet. Uncut sheets are then cut down in large stacks and sheets from the same position on the uncut press sheet end up being packaged together.
Yes, the example of the 2012 Purple Heart stamp has 4 plate blocks of 4 per sheet of 20 stamps. Some specialized collectors might only collect UR or LL (upper right/lower left) plate blocks. Not all sheets will have a plate block in each corner but most have at least one.
Hope this helped clear up your question regarding plate positions! Happy Collecting!
By Ronald Witcher January 24, 2019 - 7:01 pm
how do you tell difference in regular printing press stamps , prior to 1940 ?? and the rotary press stamps. ? there are many presidential stamps with different numbers but look the same., so I am guess the difference is printing press type .
Rotary press stamps are slightly longer or wider than Flat due to the plate being stretched to fit around the rotary cylinder.
By Patrick February 19, 2019 - 7:41 am
What does the “v” mean with some of your stamp listings, i.e. 100v 500v 1000v ?
By MysticStamp February 19, 2019 - 1:23 pm
“V” is an abbreviation for variety. So 100v is 100 stamps. 500v is 500 stamps, etc.
By Howard Lasseigne July 25, 2019 - 1:32 pm
when was the us airmail printed. are they still printing them up to date,,,thanks
By MysticStamp July 26, 2019 - 10:27 am
The first U.S. airmail stamp was printed in 1918. https://www.mysticstamp.com/Listing/United-States/Custom/Airmails/
By David Baylor August 1, 2019 - 11:21 pm
My youngest son wants to start collecting using his older brothers American Heirloom Collection albums but they only went up to 2005. How can we purchase the pages from then until now?
By MysticStamp August 2, 2019 - 10:33 am
Please call 1-866-660-7147 (M-F 8 am – 6 pm Eastern Time) and a friendly customer service representative will help you out.
By Mohammad Imtiaz Baig September 21, 2019 - 12:37 am
Do you ship to Saudi Arabia and what mode of shipment do you use
By MysticStamp September 23, 2019 - 7:29 am
Yes, we ship to Saudi Arabia. We ship all foreign address orders thru the USPS. As long as its under 4lbs and under 400 dollars it will ship USPS international parcel. If it exceeds 4lbs or 400 dollars it ships USPS international priority. I hope this is helpful.
By Rick Jackson October 3, 2019 - 5:20 pm
what are EDU stamps?
By MysticStamp October 7, 2019 - 6:53 am
Earliest Documented Use, sometimes abbreviated as “EDU,” refers to the earliest date known a stamp was used to send mail. There was no official release date for all pre-1900 stamps. So collectors us the earliest known cancel to understand when stamps began circulating. Stamps and covers canceled on the date of the Earliest Documented Use are desirable to may collectors and specialist.
By Red Hawley October 22, 2019 - 4:54 pm
What is meant by ‘tagged’ stamps?
Do used stamps have less value if hinged? Even if it is Dennison hinges?
Thank you very much for the assistance
By MysticStamp October 23, 2019 - 7:54 am
Tagging of U.S. stamps was introduced in 1963 with airmail stamp #C64a. It helps the U.S. Post Office use automation to move the mail at a lower cost. A virtually invisible phosphorescent material is applied either to stamp ink or paper, or to stamps after printing. This “taggant” causes each one to glow in shades of green (red on older airmails) for a moment after exposure to short-wave ultraviolet (UV) light. The afterglow makes it possible for facing-canceling machines to locate the stamp on the mail piece, and properly position it for automated cancellation and sorting.
Hinging used stamps generally doesn’t impact value. Used water activated stamps don’t have gum so hinging isn’t removing any of it. If you hinge a used self-adhesive stamp, you’re placing the hinge on the paper it’s adhered to not impacting the paper. The only time hinging would impact value of the stamp is if it thins the paper when it’s removed.
By Raymond Gregory October 23, 2019 - 8:24 am
How do I get a payment uistory on my club purchases?
Club payment history is not available on the website. If you have questions please call toll free 1-866-660-7147 (M-F 8 am – 6 pm Eastern Time) and speak to a friendly customer service representative. They’ll be glad to help.
By Richard LaChance November 8, 2019 - 4:05 pm
I have in my collection, “Zip Code” Blocks and “Mail Early” Blocks cannot find in my latest HE Harris Stamp Catalog. Looking for two things, Pricing and missing blocks if any so I can fill the missing applications.
Through the years we used to collect, but now can not find any reference.
By MysticStamp November 13, 2019 - 3:44 pm
Consider contacting the American Philatelic Research Library for more information. Here’s a link: https://stamps.org/services/library I hope that helps.
By Ieleen Pharis December 26, 2019 - 4:44 pm
I noticed that in the frequently asked questions on soaking stamps you mentioned any stamps after 2008 are to be cut off the paper. Could you elaborate a little? Are we not suppose to soak anymore which is all right because they are not wanting to come off at all. But then what is the best way to mount them? Still using the hinges? or mounts?
By MysticStamp December 27, 2019 - 10:25 am
Self Adhesive stamps should be closely trimmed from the envelope they’re attached to. Soaking does not remove them from the paper as it does with Water Activated stamps. Either mounts or hinges are acceptable as the hinging does not impact gum.
By Dave Blue January 13, 2020 - 3:14 am
Hello I.D. of 1900 wash.frank. tuff. Do you know of any apps.that pic I.D. it would make a lot less stressfull and save alot of good time wasted getting nowhere.
Unfortunately, no, we’re not aware of any software to help you.
You’re best bet for more information is an out of print book, “The Exper’s Book” by Paul Schmid. It’s available on Amazon, but it’s expensive. https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Authentication-Washington-Franklin-1908-1923/dp/B000VZN1YG
You may also want to contact the American Philatelic Research Library, or APRL. https://stamps.org/services/library
By BOB NATION January 13, 2020 - 3:06 pm
What is Fleetwood relating to first day covers
Click here to learn more: https://www.mysticstamp.com/info/different-kinds-of-first-day-covers/
And click here to shop for Fleetwood First Day Covers: https://www.mysticstamp.com/Listing/First-Day-Covers/Custom/Fleetwood-First-Day/
By cecil January 27, 2020 - 4:11 am
Hello. Do you ship to the Philippines?
Yes, we do! If you have specific concerns about shipping, please send us a message:
https://www.mysticstamp.com/Contact/
By Darryl Gould March 3, 2020 - 8:51 pm
I am just getting started in stamp collecting and I wonder about the value of a used stamp versus a mint stamp. I know the mint is a more valuable stamp but is it okay to mix used and mint stamps in an album? Also do you still have a referral program? Thank you
By MysticStamp March 4, 2020 - 8:35 am
It is definitely o.k. to mix mint and used stamps together in an album. The great thing about stamp collecting is YOU can decide what you want to collect.
Mystic has many ways to help you collect, including sending stamps on approval and clubs. If you’re interested, call toll free 1-866-660-7147 M-F 8 am – 6 pm Eastern time. We’ll be glad to talk to you about collecting and the best way to get started.
What is your email? Thanks!
By MysticStamp March 10, 2020 - 2:28 pm
Here’s our contact form: https://www.mysticstamp.com/Contact/
By Edward Feigel April 19, 2020 - 6:14 pm
Over the years I have acquired a number of mint-condition stamps which came with selvage (?) attached, i.e., what you might find at the edge of a plate block — a plain white area perforated the same as if an adjoining stamp were attached, sometimes bearing a number. My question: should I mount these stamps with the selvage attached, or tear them off at the perf and mount the stamp by itself? Thanks to any and all who can help! Thanks.
By MysticStamp April 20, 2020 - 9:55 am
In most cases, single stamps are not collected with selvage. For example, stamps with plate numbers are usually collected in blocks or strips. However, it’s your collection. And if you enjoy the appearance of the selvage, then by all means keep it. Most collectors enjoy single stamps without selvage for a more tidy, consistent appearance. Collecting the single stamps this way will also make buying mounts easier. Whatever you choose, have fun!
OK. Thanks!
By tracy rose May 12, 2020 - 6:13 pm
Will the mystic supplements pages fit in a Harris Liberty album? I need 2001-2006, 2011-2016, 2018-2020.
By MysticStamp May 14, 2020 - 8:30 am
Most of those years are available here: https://www.mysticstamp.com/Listing/Supplies/Custom/H.E.Harris-Supplements/
By ERNESTO CASTRO July 14, 2020 - 7:30 am
cual es el valor de los despachos a COLOMBIA.
By Sue Cox August 2, 2020 - 4:45 pm
I am not collecting, but would like to buy and use 5420-23 Halloween stamps. Does the quantity “1” mean a single stamp or 1 strip of 4 stamps? Thanks in advance for your answer.
By MysticStamp August 3, 2020 - 7:04 am
The used stamps will be singles. The mint stamps will be an intact strip.
By Thomas B Gilbert August 30, 2020 - 12:42 am
Do you consider uncancelled; no gum stamps equal in value as a mint stamp
By MysticStamp September 1, 2020 - 7:19 am
The answer to the question depends on the year of issue. Mystic considers stamps issued through 1892 without gum as mint, assuming they have no flaws. Stamps issued through 1892 with original gum may sell for a premium. If issued with gum, stamps issued after 1892 must have gum to be considered mint. If stamps issued after 1892 are missing their gum, Mystic considers it a flaw and sell it as Unused (small flaws).
By Robert Long November 16, 2020 - 9:17 am
I received a large number of smaller denomination stamps on some packages from a recent purchase. I’m not really a collector of stamps, but, how would I go about removing the stamps without damaging them? Some of them are really cool and judging by a cursory glance at your downloadable start manual, they might be something I want to keep.
By MysticStamp November 17, 2020 - 8:39 am
Stamps are cool. And it sounds like you’re off to a great start. Here’s some info to help: https://www.mysticstamp.com/info/how-to-soak-stamps-off-paper/
By Fred Rydbom December 8, 2020 - 7:15 pm
I recently purchased a 1945 US MARINES IWO JIMA WWII 3 CENT MNH.
I am not a collector, but the stamp has special meaning for me because my father was with the Marines at IWO JIMA. Could please tell me what MNH stands for?
By MysticStamp December 10, 2020 - 9:32 am
The stamp is in mint condition (M) and never-hinged (nh), meaning a stamp hinge has not been used to place it in an album.
By Dennis DeMots December 11, 2020 - 4:02 pm
Most stamps now are self adhesive, how can these be saved as mint singles since the paper behind them is not perforated?
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WATCH: 'That's for you, b*tch!' Yankees' CC Sabathia sticks up for teammate during win, might cost $500K | Rapid reaction
Updated Jan 29, 2019; Posted Sep 27, 2018
New York Yankees' CC Sabathia points at the Tampa Bay Rays dugout after he was ejected for hitting Tampa Bay Rays' Jesus Sucre with a pitch during the sixth inning of a baseball game Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018, in St. Petersburg, Fla. (AP Photo | Chris O'Meara)
By Randy Miller | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Left-hander CC Sabathia knew the consequences Thursday when he opted to retaliate for a retaliation as the Yankees were cruising along in the middle innings of their 12-1 win over the Tampa Bay Rays.
He knew that plate umpire Vic Carapazza had warned both clubs after Rays pitcher Andrew Kittredge purposely buzzed a fastball behind the head of Yankees catcher Austin Romine in the top of the sixth in response to Sabathia accidentally hitting Tampa Bay first baseman Jake Bauers in the hand with a fifth-inning pitch.
Sabathia knew that sticking up for Romine would get him ejected from one of his best starts of the season.
He didn't care.
Tensions getting high as CC Sabathia is ejected after hitting a batter.
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— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) September 27, 2018
Because the Rays threw at the Yankees catcher, Sabathia did the same when Rays receiver Jesus Sucre led off the bottom of the sixth.
Sabathia drilled Sucre in the leg, then he looked toward the Tampa Bay dugout and yelled, "That's for you, bitch!"
That ended the day for Sabathia, who pitched a one-hit shutout over five innings in his final start of the season, one that improved his record to 9-7 and hiked his career win total to 246.
This decision to stick up for his teammate surely was greatly appreciated by every Yankee including manager Aaron Boone, who also was ejected.
It also might be very costly.
If Sabathia had pitched two more innings, he would have finished the season with 155 innings to earn a $500,000 performance bonus. And working two more innings on Thursday probably would have been a piece of cake for Sabathia, who was tossed with his pitch count at just 55.
Boone ought to let Sabathia work two innings of relief in Sunday's season finale to reach 155 innings and also get in some work before a possible start against Boston in Game 4 of an AL Division Series.
And if that isn't deemed possible, managing partner Hal Steinbrenner ought to just give the $500K to Sabathia, who has earned every penny of his $10 million contract this season pitching to a 3.65 ERA over 29 starts while being one of the best clubhouse leaders the Yankees have had in recent seasons.
The Yankees put on an offensive show before and after Sabathia was ejected.
Miguel Andujar hit a three-run homer in a four-run fourth, Giancarlo Stanton went deep twice and Luke Voit capped a three-run day with his 12th homer in 37 games since behind traded from St. Louis to the Yanks on July 29.
The Yanks' win reduced their magic number to one for home-field advantage in the Wild Card Game. They can clinch on Friday either with a win in Boston or an Oakland Athletics loss at the Los Angeles Angels.
-- Shortstop Didi Gregorius (torn cartilage in right wrist) and center fielder Aaron Hicks (tightness in left hamstring) took batting practice on the field before the game. Hicks is slated to start Friday night in Boston, but Gregorius hasn't yet been medically cleared to play even though he's been feeling better by the day all week.
-- Three Yankees pitchers combined on a two-hit shutout. Luis Cessa followed Sabathia and allowed one run and one hit over three innings, then Jonathan Loaisiga worked a hitless ninth.
-- The Yankees took three of four from the Rays this week to win the season series 10-9.
Friday: Yankees at Boston Red Sox, 7:10 p.m., WPIX/ESPN. LHP J.A. Happ (16-6, 3.57) vs. RHP Rick Porcello (17-7, 4.33).
Saturday: Yankees at Boston Red Sox, 1:10 p.m., FOX. RHP Lance Lynn (9-10, 4.80) vs. TBA.
Sunday: Yankees at Boston Red Sox, 3:05 p.m., YES. RHP Luis Severino (19-8, 3.39) vs. TBA.
Randy Miller may be reached at rmiller@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @RandyJMiller. Find NJ.com on Facebook.
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Home > Opera, Operetta and Zarzuela CDs > Italian & Spanish Opera > Il Trovatore (Milanov, Baum, Warren, Rankin, Tozzi) (2-Walhall 0207)
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OP1528. IL TROVATORE, Live Performance, 14 April (not March, as stated), 1956, w.Cleva Cond. Met Opera Ensemble; Zinka Milanov, Nell Rankin, Kurt Baum, Leonard Warren, Giorgio Tozzi, etc. (E.U.) 2-Walhall 0207. - 4035122652079
“I will say emphatically that Milanov's Leonora in TROVATORE, among other roles she sang splendidly, was the peer of any soprano's in my experience. (Yes, my own included.....Milanov's was an amazingly beautiful voice.…In the end, she earned a place in operatic history and it was an Olympian one.”
- Rosa Ponselle
“In the dramatic Italian roles, the greatest soprano I ever sang with was Zinka Milanov.…Milanov had one of the greatest voices of this century…she had such power, such dramatic drive in her voice — and she had such pure top tones, including a pianissimo even on the high C, if she wanted.”
- Alexander Kipnis
“Milanov came like a bolt out of heaven - the voice and the young woman, both so vibrant and exciting. We knew something great had come into [the Met’s] Italian wing. What was not obvious at the beginning was that she would have such a staying power, for she gave so much in her singing.…I was present years later on her great anniversaries and she sang at mine [the fiftieth anniversary of [my] Met début, 1963]. She was incomparable. She was like a vocal sorceress singing the OTELLO arias that night. Such a roar went up from the public, I can never forget it.”
- Giovanni Martinelli
“Zinka never paused to consider the effect her ‘Milanovisms’ might have on others. She once saw very religious Kurt Baum crossing himself before the third act of TROVATORE. Zinka just looked at him and said, ‘If you don’t know it Baum, Gott ain’t gonna help you.”
- Anna-Lisa Björling, JUSSI, p.261
“A dramatic tenor alternately gauche and exciting, Kurt Baum filled a crucial spot for the Metropolitan Opera and other houses without ever quite having attained star status. Long after his nominal retirement from the stage, he continued to make concert appearances. Noted throughout his career for stentorian top notes, he later wrote several treatises on preservation of the voice and singing well in old age. Whatever his deficiencies as an artist, he was an exemplar of longevity. Baum spent his high school and college years in Cologne, Germany, before entering medical school at Prague University in 1927. During this period, Baum engaged in a number of athletic activities, becoming the amateur boxing champion of Czechoslovakia. He also evinced a strong interest in music. Urged by friends to sing professionally, Baum left medical school and enrolled at Berlin's Music Academy in 1930. By 1933, Baum was sufficiently well prepared to win the Vienna International Singing Competition, taking first prize among 700 contestants. Heard by the Intendant of the Zurich Opera, Baum was engaged for that company and made his début there in 1933 singing in Alexander von Zemlinsky's DER KREIDEKREIS. After singing a variety of lyric roles at Zürich, Baum was engaged the following year by the Deutsches Theater for a succession of more dramatic roles. Feeling the need for further study, Baum traveled to Italy to work with Eduardo Garbin in Milan and with faculty at Rome's Accademia Santa Cecilia. Fortified with additional technical expertise, Baum sang in many of Europe's leading houses in Paris, Vienna, Budapest, Monte Carlo, and at Salzburg. Heard in Monte Carlo by the director of the Chicago Opera, Baum was engaged and made his American début in Chicago on 2 November, 1939, singing Radames to the Aïda of Rose Bampton. He was heard in subsequent seasons as Don José and Manrico. Meanwhile, Baum joined the Metropolitan Opera, making his début on 27 November, 1941, as the Italian Singer in DER ROSENKAVALIER. In this short but memorable part, his talents were well matched to the role's requirements. For the next quarter century, Baum sang the spinto repertory at the Metropolitan to reviews both complimentary and critical. When the company mounted WOZZECK for the first time in 1959, Baum found a highly congenial role in the preening Drum Major. After WWII, Baum returned to Europe and made his début at La Scala as Manrico and re-established relations with several other major companies.”
- Erik Eriksson, allmusic.com
"Leonard Warren emerged as the principal baritone of the Met’s Italian wing in the early 1940s and remained so until his untimely death on the Met’s stage, 4 March, 1960, at the peak of his career. His smooth, velvety, and beautiful voice was powerful and had an unusually large range in its high register. It was easily and evenly produced, whether he sang softly or roared like a lion….Warren acted his roles primarily by vocal coloring, expressivity, and his excellent diction….his singing was unusually consistent….Warren’s legacy should be of interest to all lovers of great singing."
- Kurt Moses, AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE, Nov./Dec., 2006
"[Warren's] remarkable voice had a dramatic intensity which did not come naturally to him. As with everything else in his life, he worked at that until he got it right. Fortunately, his incomparable voice and dramatic power are still available to us on recordings of some of his most famous roles....[He] became one of the most famous and beloved operatic baritones in the world....Warren's flawless technique, seamless flow of sound, and brilliant top voice were his vocal trademarks and these qualities became the standard by which others would be measured, including me."
- Sherrill Milnes, AMERICAN ARIA, pp.76-77
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Groove – Episode #28: Liam Wilson
by Mitch Joel Thursday, April 6th, 2017
It cannot be argued that The Dillinger Escape Plan is one of the heaviest bands our world has seen. From their early days in the late nineties, I would frequent their mathcore shows, and marvel at just how much the heavy music genre had progressed. When I was a young metalhead, I could never imagine music much heavier than Slayer’s 1986 album, Reign In Blood. Yet, Dillinger Escape Plan was this perfect merger of hardcore, punk, metal and something else.
Liam Wilson has been playing bass in the band since the autumn of 2000. Along with the band’s music, Liam is also a vegan and active environmentalist, yoga practitioner and traveler. He’s even written several columns for Bass Player Magazine on the virtues of Bikram Yoga and how it interplays with the instrument that we all love so much.
When we conducted this conversation, it was already announced that The Dillinger Escape Plan would be doing a final tour, and then go on an indefinite hiatus. Some say that the band is breaking up permanently. Not long after our conversation, the band was involved in a tour bus accident in Europe. Thirteen people were injured, but the band members were not seriously hurt. Since this conversation, Liam and I have chatted, as he works through the aftermath of the accident and begins work on his latest project, John Frum, which is being described as “darkly psychedelic and meticulously crafted death metal.”
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18 Dec, 2019 06:00 PM 6 minutes to read
Joey Field bowled sparingly at the national under-19 tourney last week but relished his role as a specialist No 7 batsman. Photo/ Paul Taylor
Nineteen years ago today Joey Field arrived on this earth to a lot of pomp and glory at Waikato Hospital in Hamilton — hands clenched in a fist and clearing his lungs just 10 minutes into December 19 — but, ironically, punctuating that personal milestone hasn't been a priority for him for the best part of this year.
Only this week has the Hawke's Bay cricketer started entertaining thoughts of his birthday after helping see through the Central Districts' campaign during the men's national under-19 tourney at Lincoln, near Christchurch, last week.
But Field certainly came of age, as it were, when New Zealand Under-19 men's coach, Paul Wiseman, ushered him into his final muster for the World Cup in South Africa early next year.
"It was pretty awesome to hear my name called out," says Field after the squad of 15 was announced at the prizegiving ceremony to mark the end of the tourney on Sunday.
His good mate, Jesse Tashkoff, of Wellington was named captain.
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"It was cool to have dad down there at the tournament to hear my name called out [because] it's been a goal of mine for a number of years," he says of parents Raewyn and Steve who will travel to South Africa to watch him play and to whom he's indebted to for coming this far.
"They've never been to South Africa and neither have I so it's going to be a new experience and one that I'll remember forever."
No doubt Field has grappled with his share of injury demons over that duration, testing his resolve in his quest to carve a career in the country's No 1 summer sport.
While the "Baby Caps" is often seen as a precursor to going on to higher the higher echelons of cricket-dom he echoes the sentiments selectors have drummed into the chosen ones — it isn't necessarily a ticket to first-class cricket although there's sufficient footprints to reinforce a succession path to becoming a New Zealand men's international representative.
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However, it isn't lost on Field it is a pivotal stepping stone on a demanding journey for someone who is becoming accustomed to pushing the speed gun to 138kmh at Lincoln.
The Sir Edmund Hillary scholarship recipient, who is pursuing a degree in human performance science and psychology at Waikato University, was on a limited workload as a strike bowler at his second nationals because he is returning from a side strain.
"I only ended up getting one wicket but it was quite nice for me to step back to kind of play a different role so I ended up being a specialist batter at No 7," he says with a chuckle after CD finished runners-up to Auckland who retained their bragging rights.
it isn't lost on Joey Field the World Cup is a pivotal stepping stone on a demanding journey for someone who is becoming accustomed to pushing the speed gun to 138kmh. Photo / Paul Taylor
He got CD out of trouble with a half century as well as another 30-odd in the week-long tourney, while having a two-day break from bowling in the limited-overs matches before rolling his arm in the twenty20 format.
"I think the key was to just get the overs under my belt before the World Cup comes up to prove to the coaches that I'm fit enough to go to South Africa."
Field, who is here to spend Christmas with his family, has been bowling at Nelson Park, Napier, "every second day" to maintain his fitness. He thanks his mates who catch and fetch balls.
"I'll spend Christmas here before my two brothers head off to the Boxing Day test match [in Melbourne]," he says of older brothers Sam and James who will watch the most anticipated second test after the Black Caps lost heavily in Perth.
Field made his last appearance for his Reynard Health Supplies Havelock North premier men's club side last weekend before jetting off with the Baby Caps on Monday, December 30.
Before that, he'll spend four days with a "very close friend" at northern Coromandel to enable him to switch off cricket before the intensity takes hold when they arrive at Durban, via Dubai, to eventually camp at Bloemfontein.
They'll play a quadrangular 50-over series against the hosts, Bangaldesh and India before two official warm-up matches starting on January 3.
The NZ U19s play Japan first up at the Northwest University Oval at Potchefstroom on January 18.
He'll be back comfortably in time to pursue his university studies.
The former Hastings Boys' High School first XI captain is indebted to private batting coach Dan Harper who used to coach him at HBHS as a teacher in the junior years before moving up to St Paul's College in Hamilton.
CD stalwart Scott Briasco is one of the two mentors in Hawke's Bay who helped Joey Field hone his skills in his earlier years. Photo / file
He also hails Central Districts stalwart Scott Briasco for honing his batting skills and Hawke's Bay Cricket administrator Craig Ross, also of Napier, in bowling.
It was heartache for Field club mate, Will Clark, who missed out after touring with the NZ U19s in Australia last winter.
"I told him that this doesn't define you as a cricketer so you can still go on to make that first-class cricket to go all the way so it's up to you, really," he says of the 17-year-old, final-year Hastings Christian High School pupil.
In a press statement, Wiseman is optimistic about his side's chances.
"These boys should be proud of their selection in the U19 side but they will know the hard work is ahead of them," says Wiseman. "We saw how strong the Bangladesh U19 side were that toured here recently and we're expecting a highly competitive World Cup."
The former Black Cap says global stars often emerge from the tournament.
Wiseman says culling the squad was an unenviable challenge for him and the selectors.
"Naturally there's going to be some disappointed players but that's just part of cricket. We'll have conversations with those who have missed out and, as has been proven in the past, this is by no means the end of their cricketing journey."
Joey Field (left) advised Havelock North club mate Will Clark to not let the disappointment of missing out on the World Cup define him as a cricketer but to keep pursuing his dreams. Photo / file
NZ Cricket general manager high performance Bryan Stronach said the side's part of a pathway, as opposed to an end goal in itself.
"Ultimately, from a high performance perspective, this is about growing future Black Caps and selection in this team is just one step on that journey," says Stronach, emphasising the tourney has the propensity to boost players' cricketing IQ.
"This is a chance for the group to learn more about themselves as cricketers."
NZ U19s: Jesse Tashkoff (c, Wellington), Adithya Ashok (Auckland), Kristian Clarke (ND), Hayden Dickson (ND), Joey Field (CD), David Hancock (ND), Simon Keene (Auckland), Fergus Lellman (ND), Nicholas Lidstone (Canterbury), Rhys Mariu (Canterbury), William O'Rourke (Auckland), Ben Pomare (ND), Quinn Sunde (Auckland), Beckham Wheeler-Greenall (Otago), Oliver White (ND).
Standby players: Angus Sidey (Canterbury), Ryan Jackson (Wellington), Devan Vishvaka (Wellington), Lucas Dasent (Auckland), Tom Dunlop (Canterbury).
Craig Ross, the high performance operations manager of Hawke's Bay Cricket and a "bowler of his time", also has helped Joey Field in his earlier years. Photo / file
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Kaimuki Jade 1139 9th Avenue Unit 1001 Honolulu HI 96816
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A fabulous opportunity to own this high floor, recently renovated unit on the cool side of the building with gorgeous, unobstructed mountain and sunrise views as well as distant Diamond Head, Koko Head, and ocean views. Located in the heart of Kaimuki, the building is a stones throw to all the new and established happening restaurants and shops that Kaimuki has to offer.
Public transportation access is just outside the front door and freeway access is just around the corner. Close to Chaminade, University of Hawaii, and Kapiolani Community College. Simple convenient living is the name of the game with this unit. New paint, kitchen, bathrooms, flooring, and fixtures.
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The Actor and The Engineer Podcast
This is a film podcast by two people that come at movies from different angles. Paul is a trained actor and Josh is a broadcast engineer. They have lively conversations about all aspects of old and new films: technical, emotional, acting, directing, writing, music, special effects, and more. Check out the website at www.actorandengineer.com and email actorandengineer@gmail.com.
A Go-To Movie Review Show
By joesmithrealname - Mar 16 2015
Respectable views with a leaning towards the artists points of view, and not the money.
By brown cow 40 - Jul 11 2014
really enjoying the banter. the show about her made me want to see the movie. keep it up!
Latest release on Jan 09, 2021
Rank #1: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
We profile the Mexican auteur by discussing all of his feature length films, including Amores Perros, 21 Grams, Babel, Biutiful and his most recent Academy Award winning effort, Birdman. For a more in-depth discussion on Birdman, check out episode 22 of our podcast. Subscribe on iTunes: https://itun.es/i6gB67Y Check out our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/actorandengineer and follow us on twitter @actorengineer.
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Rank #2: Interstellar
Paul and Josh discuss Christopher Nolan's foray into Sci-Fi. They talk about the science and the performances in this action-packed and lengthy movie. Subscribe on iTunes: https://itun.es/i6gB67Y Check out our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/actorandengineer and follow us on twitter @actorengineer.
True Bromance Film Podcast
The Greatest Moments in the History of Forever
Kult of Pop
Cover to Credits
Ya Shoulda Seen This by Now
movies imo.
Next Best Picture Podcast
InSession Film Podcast
The Film Stage Show
The Lost Drive-In
School of Movies
Yeah, It's That Bad - Complete Archive
Reel Spoilers
Director's Club
The Honest Actors' Podcast
Rank #3: Best Directors
Paul and Josh talk about their favorite directors and somehow fail to mention Clint Eastwood, Akira Kurosawa and many more. The episode is still packed with discussion of luminaries of filmmaking (Spielberg, Welles, Hitchcock, Scorcese, etc) and our personal creams of the crop (Fincher, PTA, Ang Lee, and the Coens). Subscribe on iTunes: https://itun.es/i6gB67Y Check out our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/actorandengineer and follow us on twitter @actorengineer.
Rank #4: Difficult Movies to Watch
This week we delve into a subject that we have been putting off for a while. We talk about movies that might challenge the viewer or put them in uncomfortable positions. Some of these movies we even swear that we will never see again. They are that good/disturbing. Subscribe on iTunes: https://itun.es/i6gB67Y Check out our Facebookpage: www.facebook.com/actorandengineer and follow us on twitter @actorengineer.
Rank #5: Uncut Gems
This week we talk about a frenetic film from the Safdie Brothers starring Adam Sandler who makes big bets on jewelry, basketball and his family's livelihood. What happens when you are addicted to the potential of winning? Subscribe on iTunes or Apple Podcasts: https://itun.es/i6gB67Y Check out our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/actorandengineer and follow us on twitter @actorengineer
Rank #6: Us
In this episode we argue about whether Jordan Peele's sophomore film is actually a horror movie. We also get in to the themes and iconography that he uses to tell a more layered story than just a basic slasher movie. Subscribe on iTunes or Apple Podcasts: https://itun.es/i6gB67Y Check out our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/actorandengineer and follow us on twitter @actorengineer.
Rank #7: Terence Malick
This week we dig into a auteur we haven't mentioned much in the past. Malick has had a unique career spanning 45 years. We look at three of his films and figure out what we like and don't like about his developed style. We talk about the following films at the specified timecode, if you want to jump to a particular film. Spoilers abound!
Badlands - 24:52
The Tree of Life - 51:29
Knight of Cups - 1:12:09
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Terence Malick
Rank #8: Sunset Boulevard
Paul has just watched Billy Wilder's Oscar-winning 1950 film for the first time and we talk about it. Is the Norma Desmond character too over-the-top, or just enough? How about that cool cigarette holder of hers? William Holden and Eric von Stroheim are along for the ride in this movie about movies and what they can do to the people who make them. Subscribe on iTunes: https://itun.es/i6gB67Y Check out our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/actorandengineer and follow us on twitter @actorengineer.
Rank #9: Midsommar
In his new film, Writer-Director Ari Aster confronts us with a collapsing relationship set against a 90-year ritual in a small Swedish commune. We go back and forth on the themes of this film and Aster's motivation for making it. We also get into Florence Pugh's (fingers crossed) Oscar-worthy performance. Subscribe on iTunes or Apple Podcasts: https://itun.es/i6gB67Y Check out our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/actorandengineer and follow us on twitter @actorengineer.
Rank #10: Booksmart
Olivia Wilde kicks off her feature film directing career with a high school buddy movie packed with great laughs, groans and a touch of raunchiness. We also get into the great performances of Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein. Subscribe on iTunes or Apple Podcasts: https://itun.es/i6gB67Y Check out our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/actorandengineer and follow us on twitter @actorengineer.
Rank #11: Wonder Woman Part 1
This week we talk about the most successful film in the new DC Extended Universe and what we think it did to resonate with us as the audience. We spend some time at the beginning of the episode checking up on other films and shows that we have been watching (Split, Black Mirror and more). That is why we broke this talk up into two episodes. Enjoy! Subscribe on iTunes: https://itun.es/i6gB67Y Check out our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/actorandengineer and follow us on twitter @actorengineer.
This week we finish up our discussion on one of the big blockbusters of the year, so far, what we loved about it and a couple of questions that we have about it. Subscribe on iTunes: https://itun.es/i6gB67Y Check out our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/actorandengineer and follow us on twitter @actorengineer.
Rank #13: The Girls with the Dragon Tattoo (Part 2)
This week we finish up our analysis of the two cinematicversions of the super popular novel. In this second part, wetalk about some big differences between the two movies includingFincher's inclusion of Blumquist's daughter and the difference inthe two endings. Subscribe on iTunes: https://itun.es/i6gB67Y Check out our Facebookpage: www.facebook.com/actorandengineer andfollow us on twitter @actorengineer.
Rank #14: It Follows
This week we talk about an independent horror movie from 2014 that has been fairly devisive among critics and horror fans. We discuss how the movie uses horror tropes to its advantage and where we may have some issues with the plot and the execution of the ending. Subscribe on iTunes: https://itun.es/i6gB67Y Check out our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/actorandengineer and follow us on twitter @actorengineer.
Rank #15: Best Use of Music in Film
Paul and Josh talk about the best uses of music in movies. Specifically, songs that were not created for movies, but used to great effect in them. Where can you hear a discussion that ranges from "Singin' in the Rain" to "99 Luftballoons"? From "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on my Head" to "Hard out here for a Pimp"? The Actor and The Engineer Film Podcast. That's where. Follow us on Twitter @actorengineer and check out facebook.com/actorandengineer. Subscribe to us on iTunes!
Rank #16: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Quentin Tarantino's 9th film sees him focus for the first time on the industry that he loves. But like any other Tarantino movie, it isn't a straight-forward story. It involves stuntmen, the Manson family, Bruce Lee and a very cute and obedient dog. Oh, and DiCaprio, Pitt and Robbie tag along. Subscribe on iTunes or Apple Podcasts: https://itun.es/i6gB67Y Check out our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/actorandengineer and follow us on twitter @actorengineer.
Rank #17: Top 10 of 2017 Part Two
We each count down our top 5 movies of 2017. While these may not have gotten all of the awards, these were the ones that "lit us up" this year. Subscribe on iTunes or Apple Podcasts: https://itun.es/i6gB67Y Check out our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/actorandengineer and follow us on twitter @actorengineer.
Rank #18: The Girls with the Dragon Tattoo
This week (and next week) we dig deep into the similarities and
differences between the Swedish and American adaptations of the
Stieg Larsson novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. We talk
about what we like about each and Paul offers up an interesting new
way to watch these films together. Make sure to listen next
week to hear the end of our discussion of this rare situation of
two films based on the same material made only 2 years apart.
Subscribe on iTunes: https://itun.es/i6gB67Y Check out our
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/actorandengineer and follow us
on twitter @actorengineer.
Rank #19: Get Out
Writer/Director Jordan Peele impresses with his debut film that you can't pigeon-hole into one genre. We talk about the "social thriller" moniker that it is getting, along with the strong performances from the cast. This movie tries harder than most movies nowadays, to frighten, challenge and amuse, and it succeeds. Subscribe on iTunes: https://itun.es/i6gB67Y Check out our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/actorandengineer and follow us on twitter @actorengineer.
Rank #20: Amy and Carol
This week we look at a documentary and a narrative film. Both nominated for Academy Awards. They each share a story of women and their relationships to society. Amy is about troubled British singer Amy Winehouse and Carol is about two women who are drawn together in an unforgiving early 1950's society. Subscribe on iTunes: https://itun.es/i6gB67Y Check out our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/actorandengineer and follow us on twitter @actorengineer.
© 2020 OwlTail All rights reserved. OwlTail only owns the podcast episode rankings. Copyright of underlying podcast content is owned by the publisher, not OwlTail. Audio is streamed directly from Paul James and Josh Knapp servers. Downloads goes directly to publisher.
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ADAC Formel Masters set for FIA F4 switch for 2015
by Peter Allen 16 July 2014
written by Peter Allen 16 July 2014
Photo: ADAC Motorsport
Germany has become the latest nation to adopt the FIA’s Formula 4 category, with the ADAC confirming that it plans to make the switch for 2014.
ADAC Formula 4 would replace ADAC Formel Masters, which has run successfully with a Dallara chassis and Volkswagen engine since 2008 and produced champions such as Daniel Abt, Richie Stanaway, Pascal Wehrlein and Marvin Kirchhofer. Grids have fallen from around 20 cars last year to as low as 14 during the current campaign.
The FIA’s vision for entry-level series was established in 2013 and first adopted in the form of Italian F4 for the 2014 season. Recently it was confirmed that in the UK, Formula Ford would adopt F4 rules for 2015. France is expected to follow suit and align its F4 series to the FIA concept.
ADAC Sports President Hermann Tomczyk explained that some details still need to be arranged with the FIA.
“We are providing a modern platform for junior open-wheel racing in Germany with the introduction of ADAC Formula 4,” he said. “Consequently, there will be a seamless path for trainees up from Formula 4 to Formula 1 via Formula 3, while complying with the most advanced safety standards throughout.
“There are still some organisational issues that need to be clarified with the FIA, but I am confident that ADAC Formula 4 will become a reality in Germany next year.”
Gerhard Berger, who developed the FIA’s F4 concept in his role as head of the Single-Seater Commission, commented: “Germany sets an example and is a key market for motor racing trainees throughout the world, so I am very pleased that the ADAC is planning to introduce the FIA F4 Championship in 2015. I am certain that this championship will provide a stepping stone for many future F1 drivers.”
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‘Lego Masters’: Portland-area team Mark and Boone compete in a ‘Star Wars’ challenge with a surprise climax
Updated Apr 09, 2020; Posted Apr 09, 2020
Boone and Mark at work on a "Star Wars" inspired challenge in "Lego Masters." (Photo: Ray Mickshaw/FOX)
By Kristi Turnquist | The Oregonian/OregonLive
Wednesday’s “Lego Masters” semifinal episode saw the remaining three teams, including the Portland area duo of Mark Cruickshank and Boone Langston, geek out over “Star Wars” themed challenges. But the general joy over creating builds inspired by the blockbuster science fiction franchise came with the pressure of knowing this competition would determine which teams would make it to next week’s finals, where the top team will win the $100,000 grand prize.
The “Star Wars” atmosphere was thick in the air, as the teams were asked to first build droids, and then to recreate memorable scenes from “Star Wars” movies. Adding to the “Star Wars” of it all were guest appearances by R2-D2, BB-8 and C-3PO.
As teams Mark and Boone, Sam and Jessica and Tyler and Amy set to work, Arnett checked in on how Mark, who’s from Oregon City, and Boone, who’s from Troutdale, were doing in their droid building. In what’s become a running theme, Arnett asked Boone if he had a droid song. Boone belted out a brief ditty that included the line, “These are not the droids you’re looking for.”
(How to watch: “Lego Masters” airs Wednesday nights at 9 p.m. on Fox. No cable or antenna? Live stream “Lego Masters” on Hulu + Live TV; you can also catch up with episodes you missed on Hulu)
Mark and Boone, who have done very well so far, seemed confident that their technical skills would serve them well, as they made motorized elements to give their droid motion. But the judges, Jamie Berard and Amy Corbett, were also looking for personality, and said they didn’t see much of that in Mark and Boone’s Imperial repair droid.
In the first challenge, Tyler and Amy won for their droid, who served blue milk and Wookiee cookies, and balanced a tray on its head. As winners of the challenge, Tyler and Amy got to have first choice from a selection of memorable scenes from “Star Wars” movies. The two chose the At-At Assault on Hoth, from “The Empire Strikes Back.”
Mark and Boone, who finished second in the first challenge, chose the Endor Imperial Bunker scene, from “Return of the Jedi.” Sam and Jessica decided on the Battle of Crait, from “The Last Jedi.”
With eight hours to make their builds, the teams went to work. Boone was nervous about their AT-ST Walker, and with good reason. As Boone was moving it, the AT-ST fell apart, and Boone and Mark scrambled at the last minute to re-assemble the AT-ST and complete their build.
All three teams did builds good enough to impress the judges. But when it was time to name the winner, Mark and Boone’s Endor Imperial Bunker was the top, as the judges praised its details, including the Ewoks’ simple weapons, and the “gorgeous” landscape work.
When it was time to name which two teams would move on to the finals, Arnett said that “Star Wars” fans have learned to love good surprises. This one? “Nobody is going home today!” he announced. Which wasn’t just a surprise, but good news for Tyler and Amy, who finished in the bottom, and would otherwise be out of there.
All three teams are moving on to next week’s final round, and the competition for the $100,000 grand prize and the title of Lego Masters.
More of our coverage:
‘Lego Masters’: Oregon’s Mark and Boone say fans are thanking them for the show’s escapist appeal
Oregon’s ‘Bearded Builders’ team on competing in TV’s ‘Lego Masters’: ‘The challenges were so intense’
-- Kristi Turnquist
kturnquist@oregonian.com 503-221-8227 @Kristiturnquist
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Vintage Oregon: When 'Route 66' gave the grooviest Oregon City history lesson, daddy-o (video)
Updated Jan 09, 2019; Posted Nov 02, 2015
'Route 66' in Oregon City 1962
Gallery: 'Route 66' in Oregon City 1962
By Joseph Rose | The Oregonian/OregonLive
It's no "Game of Thrones," but "Route 66" used to be the coolest thing on black-and-white TV.
In fact, it was 53 years ago Monday that the hour-long anthology drama about a pair of drifters traveling along its namesake highway in a Corvette got its kicks in Oregon City.
For four seasons, the classic series -- which was inspired in part by Kerouac's "On the Road" and often explored 1960s social issues -- was shot movie-like on location around the country. And on Nov. 2, 1962, Tod and Buz rolled into Oregon City to take jobs at a local paper mill.
Driving over the Oregon City-West Linn Arch Bridge, talking over the show's jazzy opening theme, Tod Stiles, played by Martin Milner, gives what might be the grooviest history lesson ever about Oregon's city of firsts. "More historic firsts than any western city," he says.
Fortunately, someone loved Oregon City enough to post that opening sequence on YouTube:
Of course, you had to be living under a log back then not to know Oregon City was going to have a starring role in one of America's most popular TV shows.
The Oregonian covered the filming extensively, including reporting on a softball game played between a local team and members of the cast and crew in July 1962.
Of course, once the episode aired, "Behind the Mike" columnist Phyllis Lauritz wasn't impressed, calling it "atrocious frosting on an unsavory cake." Of course, Lauritz, whose stuffy prose made her sound about as much fun as a school marm who took joy in confiscating students' comic books, made it clear she wasn't a fan of the series: "I am at most a 'Johnny come lately' in watching what is called 'Route 66.' However, the recent Oregon filmings prompted view this 'contribution to American culture.'"
-- Joseph Rose
jrose@oregonian.com
@josephjrose
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Election 2019 Pod-Guide
Episode 122 – We Are All Bob – Brexit Deal, Our Future Our Choice, Brexit Brexit Brexit Brexit
Released on Tuesday, November 27th, 2018.
Episode 122 – Brexit Brexit Brexit Brexit Brexit. There is nothing else but Brexit. Tiernan (@tiernandouieb) tries to not just scream into a bucket for another hour and instead looks at lots of things that may be irrelevant in about two weeks time. Plus an interview, yes about Brexit, with Lara Spirit, co-director at Our Future, Our Choice (@OFOCBrexit)
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Hello and welcome to the Partly Political Broadcast, the podcast that laughs in the face of politics only for politics to laugh with it, causing me to say no wait, we were definitely laughing at you. This is episode 122, I’m Tiernan Douieb and this week as Prime Minister and half woman half superglue accident Theresa May says she’ll campaign with heart for her Brexit deal, I want to know if she’ll keep it in the pickle jar its usually in or wear it round her neck like a squishy medallion?
May’s deal has been approved by all 27 EU member states, probably because they thought finally it’s payback time, we really want to see what happens in the UK if we kick start this shit storm. It only took them 38 minutes to sign off on because you know, there’s a lot of types of popcorn that you could choose to eat while watching and that takes some hefty discussion. It didn’t just take the possibility of heads of state laughing hysterically at us for years to get the deal agreed though, the past week has seen the Prime Minister bending over backwards or whatever her rigid equivalent is, I dunno, very slightly tilting to one side, to push it through. France and Germany demanded the EU reiterate that Brexit has consequences and stop the UK just claiming victory, which I mean have they met our Prime Minister? She’d blindly claim victory if this deal meant the UK give the EU all its money in return for a Belgian waffle for everyone. May would be at that podium in front of number 10 insisting Belgian Waffles and extreme poverty were what people voted for, before announcing some sort of waffle parade where thousands of people trudge down Whitehall in the rain while trying not to get chocolate sauce everywhere. Complaining that EU negotiator and man who always looks like he’s about to tell you he’s now fine after his accident all thanks to his insurance plan Michel Barnier, was too light on the UK seemed to work which must have baffled many of those British politicians who had spent the last two years being angry that Barnier was too harsh on us and trying to subvert whatever it was they believed in at the time. Could it be, gasp, that the UK was terrible at negotiating and that when you have experts like warm fart on a cold day David Davis or Barely Sentient Jerky Dominic Raab, then asking them questions such as how are they or what their name is probably does seem quite harsh. So, a draft agreement on the UK-EU relations was released, a full 26 pages to say that both parties had agreed to potentially agree on things that they may or may not agree on depending on if other people agree on them or agree to not agree after which everyone will agree to disagree rendering all this work useless.
This agreement mainly seemed to hammer down on May’s insistence that freedom of movement will be ending as though it’s more important than anything else to make sure that people can’t come here, when we all know that after Brexit they probably won’t want to anyway. Hey! You! don’t you even think about trying to find work in our country that won’t have any work after we’ve sabotaged it, because we’ve made sure you can’t do that thing we don’t have! Ha! Take that! It also referred to using technology that doesn’t exist to make sure the Northern Irish backstop isn’t used, because what better base to determine the future of a nation than the idea that if we keep shining torches into the sky maybe an alien race will pop down to give us special equipment so you can look into trucks with an invisible moon gun or something. The bit that has caused particular upset is a section about a new fishing agreement that would allow EU countries to still have access to our waters, which Brexiteers say is a surrender to France, something that could not only affect the British fishing industry which is a genuine concern for about 5 people who actually eat the fish that live there, but it would also stop a whole load of xenophobes from being able to use their outdated slurs about the French always losing. And so accusations that the EU were screwing over the UK started all over again as all those who’d previously claimed we had to leave as the EU don’t look after their member states, got angry that they were looking after their member states.
But the political agreement non-document wasn’t enough, probably because it wasn’t really anything and May also had to concede to Spain’s demands and give a written concession that Gibraltar won’t necessarily be covered by any of the agreement that may not happen anyway, leaving the island where 96% voted to Remain, very much the rock in a hard place. But Gibraltar isn’t the only sandbag that’s been thrown from the hot air balloon so that the government can survive their directionless journey. The Prime Minister was dishing out knighthoods last week like you might if New Year’s seems an unattainable goal, handing one to John Hayes a Eurosceptic Tory MP who looks like Tom Hanks in a brutal hall of mirrors and one who was ambiguous about whether he’d be backing May’s deal. Hayes said that the honour has no bearing on how he’ll vote in the Commons which no, it probably doesn’t. But that’s because honour doesn’t seem to have much bearing on how many MPs do anything anymore. Political party for Death Eaters the DUP played their kingmaker card by saying they may revisit their confidence and supply deal with the Conservatives on account of it currently being more a no confidence and sorry we’re out of stock deal at the moment. Revisit is a very polite way of saying you’re considering killing it off. It is amazing how an extremely religious protestant party like the DUP manage to make allying with them seem like a pact with the devil. Though that is assuming the Conservatives have a soul to bargain with in the first place. After the DUP refused to back some of the government’s amendments to the Finance Bill, the Conservatives then had to quietly dropped plans for a ban on high powered military rifles to stop the gun toting Christians from kicking off. Yes they had to stop a ban on guns to avoid being shot down.
The DUP conference took place at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Belfast and not, as I assumed on the steps of Giant’s Causeway as they all just shout things they don’t like at each other trying to be louder than crashing waves. As well as lots of talks from people who make smiling look painful, one of the lowlights was a speech by eroded beach ball Boris Johnson who insisted the UK have to ‘junk the backstop’. Which sounds a lot like a bad euphemism or a rock the kasbar parody track but instead its just his new phrase that no one cares about . Boris says the government has a ‘can’t do’ attitude to Brexit which must be why he really left the cabinet as finding out your specialty isn’t exclusive is tough.
So now May has to sell the deal to her MPs and the British public and so far her tactic is to say that rejecting her deal will lead to ‘division and uncertainty’. How’s that meant to win people over? That’s all we’ve had for two years and it’s almost just how things are so of course people will reject your plan, they all fear change. Many Conservatives say they’ll vote against it, as do the Lib Dems and SNP and Labour leader and Pauper Smurf Jeremy Corbyn says his party will not back May’s deal because it is the worst of all worlds. Which makes me really glad he doesn’t write any sci-fi because it’d be shit. Imagine a lead character going through a hell mouth or portal into….dan dan daaaaaannnnn …a really boring paragraph on fishing boundaries? Actually to be fair, right now all of this does make the Upside Down or the worst timeline or Bizzaro World seem like holiday retreat. One that you can’t go to without a visa due to the ending of Freedom Of Movement. May says she is considering a TV debate with Corbyn about Brexit because there’s obviously some sort of government drive to get people going outside more. If she was really keen to get the public backing her deal a promise of not being on telly between now and next March would go down an awful lot better.
In other news, British academic Matthew Hedges who was given a life sentence in the United Arab Emirates for spying has been pardoned and freed. Either this is a success down to the hard work of Foreign Secretary and startled paintbrush Jeremy Hunt or more likely the UAE realized if they didn’t free Hedges they’d have to see a lot of more of Hunt and really, it wasn’t worth it. Shadow Chancellor and haunted Joe Biden John McDonnell received lots of criticism for saying he could not be friends with a Conservative because he couldn’t forgive them for all the human suffering they’ve caused. That’s fair, I mean they’d be rubbish friends. They’d probably avoid doing anything to give you any benefits, they’d borrow far too much off you, they’d regularly goad you into doing very dangerous things you didn’t want to do and they’d keep trying to give you cuts. Sounds awful. I don’t want to be friends with a Conservative either. But I also don’t really want to be friends with anyone anymore. I’ve got enough friends thanks and not enough time. I’m so tired. So, so tired.
And lastly, political party for people who would join the EDL but there isn’t a branch nearby and its cold outside UKIP have signed up far right activist and clump of spam and hair Tommy Robinson as an advisor on rape gangs and prison reform. I’m guessing for the former he’ll be explaining how they can operate more effectively if he gets them freed by disrupting their court cases and on the latter how he said he was mentally tortured while in prison for contempt of court by not having access to a TV despite then talking about how he enjoyed watching Love Island while there. Though to be fair, watching Love Island is mental torture. On one hand this is UKIPs attempts to appeal to the far right, very racist online crowd but also could be a smart move to show they are promoting work for British people by giving a job to Tommy Robinson, his real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon and his alias Andrew McMaster all at once. Former UKIP leader and infected wound Nigel Farage has expressed anger at the party, calling Robinson a thug but hey, I guess it’s a bit like when you’re newly single and you check facebook and your ex has already moved on and got themselves a younger trash partner instead.
Former Presidential candidate and Garbage Pail Kid Hilary Clinton has possibly started her 2020 campaign by telling Europe to curb immigration to stop right wing populism. No! No one should take advice from her on how to stop right wing populism, she’s shit at it. It’s like General Custer handing out battle winning tips or safe driving lessons from Ant McPartlin.
And Former Prime Minister and number 4 rank classic villain of all time Margaret Thatcher is eligible as a scientist that could feature on the new £50. I think that’s fair as she is credited with discovering how to create a public services black hole.
Greeting ParPolBrods, how are you faring? If any of you have any solid suggestions for how humans could feasibly hibernate – I’m thinking it involves a stockpile of takeaway curry or something – then please do let someone important know. I’m not sure that Seasonal Affected Depression is a proper thing but only because I’m pretty sure everyone feels shit when you look outside and the sky has given up. Is that a specific condition or isn’t that just shitty winter? I’ve found that when my daughter wakes me up at 5.30am and its still pitch black outside that it doesn’t matter how many coffees I shoot into eyes, everything in my brain tells me I still need to in bed and probably not leave it till March. This morning it was so cold in our flat that there was a ladybird in the middle of our living room carpet, completely still. I assumed it was dead, picked it up and popped it by the warming radiator and it seemed to defrost and fly off. How is that possible? My home has become a potential location for a really boring Jurassic Park sequel where they only recreate aphids. Yes this is my chat this week. I have mostly been indoors trying to fill out an Arts Council Funding Application which is, without a doubt, the most boring thing I’ve ever done aside from watch Philip Hammond’s budget speeches. Though it was broken up with a very fun ‘How Does This Politics Thing Work Then?’ kids show in Colchester at the lovely arts centre there where the children voted for a Green party government, Lib Dem opposition and thought it best that no one got sweets instead of just a few people having them. That’s the future people. A sweetless weird Green Lib Dem future where presumably we’re in the EU and environmentally friendly, but either have two leaders or no one that wants to, a four day working week but possibly also an opposition with only 3 people in it. Good luck to them I say. Good luck. Oh, and I completely forgot it was Black Friday which is a shame as I like to watch people in shops tear at each other for shit deals as some sort of prep for the future when we’ll all be fighting for water.
But I’m sure the political outlook for the Colchester of the future isn’t why you’ve tuned in, so thank you for picking this show for your weekly pod devourings despite knowing it’s pretty much all going to be Brexit. All of it this week. Even the interview. And the bit at the end that no one listens to. Oh you’ve switched off already. Oh, oh dear. I am hoping you’re not all Bobs as Jeremy Hunt called them, bored of Brexit, which really dampens Bob the Builder for me. Can we fix it? Its unlikely. But really there’s not much else to mention this week apart from walking advert for erectile dysfunction Christopher Chope still being an arsehole and I used up all my descriptions of him last time he was still being an arsehole. So Brexit and still speaking of such things thank you to Eckhart for the ko-fi donation, which was very kind of you and I’ll get back to that donation in just a minute. I promise I don’t actually shoot coffee into my eyes, but hey, if it works for butts, amIright? What am I talking about? But if you would like to buy me a coffee and seriously I need a lot at the moment, then you can do that at ko-fi.com/parpolbro and if you want to do a more monthly donation then you can head to patreon.com/parpolbro which I notice is rapidly losing donations. Totally fair if you can’t afford to sponsor this weekly screaming session but please let me know if its also because of Patreon being stupidly in US dollars or any other reason. I am looking into other avenues so if it’s a pain then let me know. Thank you also to whoever reviewed the show on iTunes much appreciated and please do take 2 minutes to do the same if you can. Its boring but I’ve noticed that shows with 200+ reviews get a boost on the Apple Podcasts page which is very helpful and this show is currently on 125 so hey, why not write anything, I mean it, anything and give it five stars and help the show out. Really. You can totally write ‘Christopher Chope looks like if a sad brick was trying to wear a disfigured Bob Holness mask’ and leave it at that. I’d be really happy with that. Probably more happy than I should be.
But back to Eckhart’s very kind donation, his message on the ko-fi page simply said ‘thanks from Hamburg’ which made me go and check the old stats page and there are quite a lot of you out there listening all across Europe. Except in Moldova. Only one person has listened once in Moldova so unless you buck up your ideas I’ll be contributing to your record of being least visited European country and that’s that. But if you are a European listener, then firstly danke or dank u or merci and all that and also I’d love to know how you feel about Brexit from where you are. Do you give much of a shit? Is it hilarious and great to have someone else to laugh at? I’d love to know your thoughts even if its just one sentence or one word, please do email me at partlypoliticalbroadcast@gmail.com or via the contact form on partlypoliticalbroadcast.co.uk and I’ll collect them all, if I get any and read them out on a future episode.
On this week’s show I am speaking to Lara Spirit from Our Future Our Choice about, yes, Brexit and then there’s Brexit Fallout which is about Brexit and of course there’s not even any headlines because it’s all Brexit. Brexit Brexit Brexit Brexit Brexit Brexit Brexit Brexit oh god people this is where we are. Look, here’s the bloomin’ jingle:
BREXIT FALLOUT
It’s a bit like when I was at school and we got a class detention because a handful of shitty kids acted shitty then they bunked the detention anyway and we got penalized for it with a further detention and they still didn’t turn up to that either. Britain is in an eternal detention, with our Prime Minister writing meaningless lines that no one enjoys or wants or likes, and it won’t help but she’s insistent it’s for the best for all of us. It was announced today that the People’s Vote campaign have calculated that Theresa May’s Brexit Deal will cost the UK £100bn by 2030 and to show what a crappy deal it is, there’s not been even one ridiculous MP popping up to say ‘actually that’s only £100m per year so pretty good deal overall’. No, no one’s said that. Not even Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay and he’s so nothing looking that he could say it, leave and no one would really be sure anything had happened. May is insistent it’s the only deal we have, because it’s the only one she could come up with but when you spend two years and all you have to show for it is this lousy deal shit then maybe everything needs a bit of a rethink. But what else could be done?
Well this week I thought as well as me wanging on about it all, it’d be nice to speak to someone else about Brexit, someone who’s optimistic that there are options to change this so it’s not just, as David Davis predicted earlier this year, not as bad as Mad Max. So I interviewed Lara Spirit who has an excellent name and is also the co-President of Our Future, Our Choice, a campaign who believe remaining in the EU is the only good option for young people. 73% of young people voted to Remain, more who are now eligible to vote but weren’t at the time are against a Brexit and at some point, sadly for them, they’ll be older people that are going to have to deal with it like the worst present hand me down ever.
OFOC have been a very vocal anti-Brexit group, having a large presence at the People’s Vote march, the Conservative Conference, the Labour festival and across many news programs on radio and TV. They have recently launched a battle bus and a Northern Ireland team and this weekend were in Brussels taking blowtorches to May’s deal which probably kept them warm in the cold weather proving that maybe, it does have a use. So I asked Lara why Brexit is going to affect young people so much, if a people’s vote is actually feasible, what other options there are and how many copies of May’s deal would I need to blowtorch to keep my flat warm till March and saving my heating bills? Ok I didn’t ask the last one, but I reckon it’s about 650 and there should be that many copies spare in a couple of weeks.
Here is Lara:
INTERVIEW PART 1
And we’ll be back with Lara in a minute but first…
I was going to use this week’s Brexit Fallout to go through what’s in the political agreement between the UK and the EU and all that sort of jazz, and by jazz I mean series of disjointed sounds improvised together by someone who plays instruments like they’re clutching them as they’re falling down the stairs. And I say that as someone who likes jazz. But it looks like none of it will get through the Commons anyway, so what is the point? And look, I know you can’t predict anything in politics anymore. There’s a chance that before it gets to the meaningful vote in the Commons on December 11th that everyone will be so entranced by May’s chat, as she said in the commons that it’s a historic moment and it must be approached in the right way and everyone will turn up blindly walking backwards into it and be too injured to vote. Or maybe Labour will decide after 5 days of debate on it, that actually what the worst of all worlds needs are a series of policies that help those in the worst world make the best of it because even in a Children of Men scenario people still need a living wage. Or maybe everyone will have given up by then and gone home. Or maybe May will just vanish, the vote not go ahead, everything halts and then years later she’s discovered off her face on peyote in the desert wearing a terrified coyote as a hat. Who actually knows, but based on what we understand right now, its most likely that no one except Steve Barclay, will vote for May’s deal and it’ll be a resounding defeat. So, what happens then? Apart from us all laughing at the Prime Minister yet again having a terrible time with an idea she thought was good, before then crying as we realise there’s now less time to actually make this not awful?
To pass her deal through the commons May needs 320 votes and with at least 90 Conservatives likely to vote against it, and most of Labour apart from a few idiots, and the SNP and Lib Dems and Caroline Lucas then it’ll be pretty hard for her to win. She has summoned Labour MPs, you know in the way a sorcerer would, to a private briefing which will have happened by the time you’ve heard this. But I can’t imagine what she’ll say that will get that many on her side. Especially after an amendment to the finance bill passed last week means she has had to say how the current plan compares to staying in the EU with the answer being not very well, which is, of course, a shock to no one. In case you’ve missed them so far the selling points of May’s deal are: It upsets Brexiteers and Remainers, it’s not as good as still being in the EU, it’s that or a no deal or no Brexit, sorry to everyone in Gibraltar but hey learning Spanish isn’t that hard. De Acuerdo? Do you feel persuaded? It’s like the worst would you rather ever. Would you rather get hit in the face with my fist, an axe or not get hit in the face?
If May doesn’t get 320, then it means the government has 21 days to come back with a revised and hopefully better deal. 21 days after December 11th anyone? Anyone? Yes, you at the back with the hair and the jumper? That’s correct. New Year’s Day. Start as you mean to go on as they say! What better day for auld acquaintances to not be forgotten etc etc MPs will have to reconvene on New Year’s Day to vote on whatever May has hashed out over Christmas but before that she will have to get it past the EU again, even though European Commissioner and cartoon vole Jean Claude Juncker has said that this current deal is the best deal possible. Of course, he may be saying ‘possible’ as in ‘considering we’re dealing with idiots’ in which case, they might be up for some changes. But they won’t want changes to the backstop or any of the other important bits on the European Court of Justice or the UK’s alignment / possible staying in the customs union stuff. If May manages that, then it probably won’t have changed that much for parliament’s second vote so if that doesn’t go through, then hello No Deal as a default if no plan can be decided on, or maybe a People’s vote if May caves into that despite saying it won’t happen 1500 times but hey she may go on a walk over Christmas and change her mind because isn’t fresh air amazing. OR parliament could force the government to extend or revoke article 50 as has been admitted in the text of its failed application to appeal to the Supreme Court to not refer the article 50 law to the European Court. But May has also said that won’t happen because she’s the worst.
Or the government could come back with a Norway style option where we stay part of the European Free Trade Association and can therefore be part of the European Economic Area or a Canada Super plus minus divided equals option but the EU hasn’t agreed to those and some of the EEA countries have already specified they don’t want to hang out with us because we suck. Of course May could also just resign, the DUP pull out of the deal with the Conservatives and cause the government to collapse, various government ministers resign and cause the government to collapse causing a general election or Labour to try to pull together a minority emergency government. Or aliens could invade, or the sun could explode or more likely the ancient giant that sleeps under Westminster could wake up and use magic to turn everyone into llamas or something else equally as hopeful.
The other wild card in play is that because of the National Crime Agency investigation into Leave funder and face drawn onto an ulcer Arron Banks, and Vote Leave also losing their judicial review challenging the Electoral Commisions decision that they illegally overspent, a high court case on whether Brexit should be declared void in light of these allegations, is being fast tracked. In a case brought by Croft Solicitors representing UK citizens living in EU countries, the high court could decide, by Christmas, that because of Theresa May’s refusal to act on the growing evidence of illegality in the leave campaigns that her decision to trigger article 50 is void. And then if they do, er, who knows. Parliament haven’t responded to the case other than being expected to have Sir James Eadie QC as their defence, who was in charge of unsuccessfully fighting for the government to trigger article 50 without parliamentary approval. So hey, here’s to second time unlucky!
So that’s either a no deal Brexit, a no Brexit, a void Brexit, an extended Brexit, a totally new Brexit or aliens. I suppose May is right to an extent, in that a vote for her deal does mean less uncertainty, but when the certainty is the national anthem played on a stylophone by an asthmatic pig and the other possibilities could be jazz, then roll on Christmas because I can’t wait for the Queen’s speech to feature a nervous looking Lizzie tooting on a saxophone.
And now, back to Lara…
Thanks to Lara for chatting with me. Our Future Our Choice can be found at ofoc.co.uk, on Twitter @OFOCBrexit and on Facebook too. Lara is also on Twitter @lara_spirit. I should also say that on a lot of interviews by idiots, OFOC reps have been questioned on who funds them, usually because the person questioning them has links with somewhere like the Taxpayer’s Alliance who won’t reveal their donors and so think everyone else’s priorities and reasons for campaigning must be dodgy too. Well OFOC clearly state the three groups that power them on their website. Best For Britain, Open Britain and The European Movement and it’s pretty easy to look all of them up, find all their CEO and boards and see for yourself. It really does make me wonder how people get top journalist presenting jobs when they can’t even investigate the front page of a website. You can find out all about OFOC’s campaigns via their website and obviously right now, they’ve got a lot on that you can take part in if you so wish.
I am of course up for interviewing a pro-Leave person if you can find me one who might actually answer questions without getting defensive and wants to come on the show so if you have suggestions do let me know. Next week’s interview is also on Brexit lines, sort of and after that I am once again in need of guests. Who would you like me to interview and what about? Let me know by dropping me a line @parpolbro on Twitter, the Partly Political Broadcast facebook group, the contact page at partlypoliticalbroadcast.co.uk or by email at partlypoliticalbroadcast@gmail.com. Or you could write it on a sombrero, write my address on it and post it to me and then it’ll never reach me because the postman will get attacked by birds who think it’s an egg riding a bike. It’s probably best just to email.
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U.S.-China Conference Explores Cooperation Models, Promotes China’s Green Transformation
Paulson Institute Chairman Henry M. Paulson, Jr., delivered remarks at the conference.
The Paulson Institute and China Center for International Economic Exchanges (CCIEE) today held its annual conference on sustainability. Paulson Institute Chairman Henry M. Paulson, Jr., CCIEE Chairman Zeng Peiyan, Special Representative on Climate Change Affairs Xie Zhenhua, and top U.S. and Chinese experts and officials discussed opportunities and challenges China faces as it undertakes its transition to a green economy.
“China is urbanizing at an unprecedented rate: In just one decade, the country has used more concrete to build cities than the U.S. used in the entire 20th century,” Paulson said. “Given this speed and scale, which is happening even as the government is working to mitigate the impacts of climate change, there is tremendous opportunity for China to show leadership on sustainability.”
CCIEE Chairman Zeng Peiyan delivered remarks at the conference.
“China’s urbanization plans require innovative thinking on a range of areas critical to meeting our climate commitments, from scaling up energy efficiency to low-carbon regional planning and the preservation of nature as a guarantor of crucial eco-system services,” said CCIEE Chairman Zeng Peiyan. “With this conference, we hope to provide a platform for sharing best practices between business leaders, government officials, and climate and energy experts working in both countries on these important issues.”
The meeting focused on four themes: “U.S.-China business cooperation in the new era;” “promoting sustainable development through regional coordination;” “innovative market mechanisms and tools to encourage sustainable development;” and “nature’s role in urban climate resistance.”
Bloomberg Ltd. CEO Peter Grauer, State Grid Corporation of China Chairman Shu Yinbiao, and Vanke CEO Wang Shi joined a discussion about the importance of deepening U.S.-China business ties and business opportunities in promoting China’s green growth, through advanced technologies and innovative thinking. The panel was moderated by China Business News Deputy Editor Yang Yanqing.
A panel on innovation and regional development focused on how regional economies in the United States, such as the San Francisco Bay Area, have coordinated development to become leaders of innovation and collaboration. The panel featured experts on the San Francisco Bay Area, the Yangtze Economic Belt Ecosystem, the Guangzhou-Hong-Kong-Macau Bay region, and the Jing-Jin-Ji region.
Special Representative on Climate Change Affairs Xie Zhenhua delivered remarks at the conference.
U.S. experts David Sandalow, former Under Secretary of Energy, United States Department of Energy; Mike Carr, former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy; and Dai Fan, special advisor to the governor of California, joined Chinese energy, insurance, and financial experts for a discussion about innovative market mechanisms that can drive efficient resource allocation and environmental protection. Paulson Institute Managing Director Kevin Mo moderated the panel.
The final session addressed the concept of “natural capital”—attaching economic value to the services that nature provides—a concept that is increasingly viewed as key to achieving true urban sustainability. For China to achieve its ambitious climate commitments, it is crucial for cities to take action to both reduce carbon emissions and enhance their own climate resilience. As cities in China set up timetables for peaking emissions, many are largely focused on shifting to clean energy rather than also promoting climate resilience.
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Galaxy Nexus for Verizon: First Impressions
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If you’ve been holding out for the next great Android superphone, your time has come: The Galaxy Nexus has arrived on U.S. shores. We’re lucky enough to have one in the PCWorld offices, and so far the Galaxy Nexus looks to be worth the wait. We’ll be posting our full rated review of the Galaxy Nexus tomorrow morning, after we conduct performance tests in the PCWorld Labs.
This Samsung-built phone goes on sale today online, and at Verizon and Best Buy stores, for $300 with a new two-year contract. The big deal about the Galaxy Nexus, of course, is that it is the first device to ship with Google’s latest version of the Android operating system, Ice Cream Sandwich (also known as ICS, as well as Android 4.0).
Unboxing the Galaxy Nexus.
Taking a cue from Apple products, the Galaxy Nexus comes in attractive, minimalist packaging. Other than an embossed Verizon logo, the white box is completely plain. Opening the box reveals a red interior with a USB cable, a wall charger, headphones, and the Galaxy Nexus itself.
The Galaxy Nexus is a long phone.
When I picked up the Galaxy Nexus, my first thought was, "This looks like a Samsung phone, but it doesn’t feel like a Samsung phone." The glossy display, piano-black bezel, and textured back are all characteristic of Samsung design. But unlike other Galaxy phones I’ve reviewed, the Galaxy Nexus feels high quality. At 5.1 ounces, it has a nice substantial weight to it without being too heavy. As you can see from the photos, the Galaxy Nexus has a subtle curve, which nicely contours to the hand. If you have small hands like me, however, you might find the Galaxy Nexus a bit large (it measures 5.33 by 2.67 by 0.37 inches).
The Galaxy Nexus, side by side with the iPhone 4S.
The display is a roomy 4.65 inches, but really only 4 inches of that real estate is usable. The remaining 0.65-inch space is occupied by a customizable shortcut bar that appears at the bottom of the home screens as well as some other internal screens. Even so, the screen feels plenty spacious for all of your gaming, video, and other multimedia desires.
The Galaxy Nexus sports an HD Super AMOLED display. Colors pop from the display and blacks look deep, while fonts and details appear sharp. My only complaint is that whites aren’t as bright as they could be. One of my colleagues remarked that the screen had a slight yellowish tint. Still, I was pleased overall with the quality of the display.
Ice Cream Sandwich is everything I’ve wanted Android to be: intuitive and attractive, while maintaining a high level of customization and performance. Ice Cream Sandwich truly has mass appeal. Icons are sharper, menus are easier to navigate, and performing basic tasks is more efficient than in previous versions.
If you’re familiar with Android Honeycomb on tablets, you’ll find a few familiar features in Ice Cream Sandwich. As in Honeycomb, widgets in Ice Cream Sandwich are now resizable on the home screen. You'll also find a dedicated on-screen Recent Apps button for seeing all of your open apps; just as on Android tablets, it displays a scrollable list of running apps with thumbnail images. Flicking through and switching between apps is not as speedy as I would like it to be, however--I encountered a noticeable delay when going from one app to another.
The photos I shot with the Galaxy Nexus’s 5-megapixel camera looked a bit flat. Colors seemed a bit washed out, and details were a little fuzzy. But even if your photos don’t come out perfect, Ice Cream Sandwich has your back with its suite of photo-editing tools. You get an array of filters (like your very own Hipstamatic app), the capability to adjust the image angle, red-eye removal, cropping capabilities, and more.
You can make your photos look as if you took them with a very old camera.
The PCWorld Labs is still running benchmark tests on the Galaxy Nexus; but in my hands-on use, I was impressed with the snappy dual-core 1.2GHz TI OMAP 4460 processor. Apps launched promptly, and videos ran perfectly. As I mentioned before, multitasking takes a bit longer than expected. Scrolling through Web pages and menus, too, isn’t as fluid as I would like.
Verizon’s 4G LTE network, of course, plays a huge role in the speediness of the Galaxy Nexus. In my tests using the FCC-approved Ookla Speedtest app, the Galaxy Nexus achieved download speeds ranging from 6.69 to 12.11 megabits per second and upload speeds of 21.18 mbps. In other words, the Galaxy Nexus is blazingly fast.
Battery life is a big concern for the Galaxy Nexus, since Verizon LTE phones don’t exactly have the best track record when it comes to conserving battery power. We’ll be testing this in the next few days.
Stay tuned for our full rated review of the Galaxy Nexus for Verizon, as well as further coverage of Android Ice Cream Sandwich.
The best Android phone to date, the Galaxy Nexus dazzles with its curved display, sleek design, fast performance, and, of course, the Ice Cream Sandwich update.
Ice Cream Sandwich is a real treat
4G/LTE is very fast
Slim, curved design
No Google Wallet support
Camera is just okay
No expandable memory
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Ya-Na Assures EU Of Permanent Peace In Dagbon
Ya-Na Abukari II has given an assurance to the European Union (EU) delegation to Ghana that there will be permanent peace in Dagbon now and forever.
The King who was receiving the delegation in his Palace was grateful to EU and the Yendi peace centre for collaborating to ensure a peaceful election on December 7, 2020, adding that with peace in Dagbon they could encourage investors into the area.
Bishop Vincent sowah Boi-Nai , Catholic Bishop of Yendi Diocese who led the delegation indicated that the Yendi Peace Centre had also met some of the EU members on different assignments in Ghana all geared towards the December 2020 polls.
He said they briefed the members of the Union on their peace programmes towards the elections in the areas of workshops, seminars, town hall meetings, peacebuilding for women groups, youth groups, chiefs, political parties including peace work for them.
He appealed to the EU to support them to expand the Peace Centre Assembly Hall in Yendi, and the construction of a library, where Christian and Islamic books would be stocked for the youth to learn more about peace.
Mr. Krystian Spodaryk Governance Cooperation Officer of European Union, expressed gratitude to the people of Dagbon.
Mr Krystian said the free pillars of their programme included; tackling electoral violence, conflict prevention with National Peace Council, Regional House of Chiefs and Support to security actors, particularly the police.
He said the programme was signed by European Union and Government of Ghana (GOG) on 30th September, 2020 in Accra and they began working with National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) in the country.
Miss Justine Verdier, Responsible de Bureau Bruxelles, Gestionaire de Programme Senior, police reform and community safety, Non-Governmental Organization based in Switzerland working in Central Africa and West Africa in the areas of Security and Justice, social co-existence and peace building said they were working with EU and their programme would start early 2021.
They were accompanied by Mr. Mohammed Awall Inusah- COGINTA Governance, Peace and Security Expert, in Ghana.
Source: GNA
Ignore Social Media Accounts Soliciting Funds For Rawlings’ Funeral – Dr. Zanetor Rawlings
Akufo-Addo Has Shown Exemplary Leadership To Be Retained- Kwabena Agyepong
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On Its 10th Anniversary, Here’s 5 Ways My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Changed Music Forever
By David Adams
Ten years after its debut, Kanye West‘s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy remains one of the most audacious records of all time. More importantly, it makes good on its promises: in 2020, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy still sounds like a widescreen masterpiece. It’s a decadent celebration of Kanye West, by Kanye West, for us (and maybe a little bit for Kanye West himself).
Now some time has passed, we have a clearer view on all the ways My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy changed hip hop and the broader arc of pop culture. This isn’t an exhaustive or especially deep list – there’s something extravagant and prophetic to pull out of every moment on the record – but these are five of our favourite takeaways.
1. A new era of maximum everything
The first thing you notice about MBDTF is there fact there’s just so much of it. It’s dense with inspiration and collaboration, and it’s hard to see the maximalism of mega-projects like Travis Scott‘s ASTROWORLD or Drake‘s collab-heavy compilations working without Kanye first proving it’s possible.
It’s not just how much Kanye put in, but the proggy ostentatiousness of what’s in there. I’d also make the case that Tame Impala‘s gradual melding with the world of hip hop wouldn’t have been so easy if Kanye didn’t pop that King Crimson sample in Power. Big sounds. Everywhere.
2. It split Kanye’s career in two
There are arguments to be made that MBDTF‘s predecessor, 2008’s 808s & Heartbreak, was the record which really pivoted Kanye away from sounds he fostered earlier in his career. 808s saw Kanye processing the death of his mother, Donda West, along with the end of his engagement. But MBDTF still feels like a statement of intent, the kind of document which would inform the experimentation and scope of the noisy, chaotic, gospel-inflected works to come. It’s all in there.
Kanye West's 'Closed On Sunday' Vid Gave Me A Crisis Of Faith And I'm An Atheist
3. It helped Bon Iver get nutty
We all know Kanye’s talent for sampling eclectic sounds, but MBDTF also proved his ability to make others sound a little bit more Kanye. Do you think Justin Vernon, the gently experimental folk muso, would have crafted something as sprawling and glitchy as 2016’s 22, A Million if he didn’t first have that Lost In The World collab?
4. The lingering power of a Pitchfork 10
The record landed a perfect 10.0 from music blog/cultural arbiter Pitchfork. Since then, only one record has achieved the same feat: this year’s Fiona Apple record, Fetch The Bolt Cutters. Depending on how much stock you put in Pitchfork, this means MBDTF was the record to measure all others against for a solid decade. Here’s how we discussed the Pitchfork score at the time. And here we are, still talking about it.
5. Nicki Minaj’s Monster verse
The TikToker Who Started The Kanye & Jeffree Star Rumour Admits She Made It Up For Attention
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The TikToker Who Started The Kanye/Jeffree Star Dating Rumour Is The One Who Licked A Toot Seat
Everyone Sure Has A Lot Of ~Feelings~ About Kim & Kanye Reportedly Heading For Divorce
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Locomotive Portraits (Kindle)
Transport Trains and Railways
By Jonathan Clay
Imprint: Pen & Sword Transport
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Whilst ever there have been railways there have been artists keen to paint them. Many famous names have included aspects of the railways in their paintings, including most notably Claude Monet and J M W Turner. This enthusiasm has been kept alive by the formation in the UK of the Guild of Railway Artists, of which there are over two hundred members including the author of this work. In recent years Jonathan Clay has had many requests to produce his own book of pictures and Locomotive Portraits is the result.
Jonathan discovered his own unique style by happy accident - in order to save time for his first railway event in 1999, he painted a series of locomotive pictures without backgrounds, intending to add the scenery later. However, they sold so well that they became the norm and his well-known series of Locomotive Portraits was born.
Containing over a 170 pages of stunning artwork, this book is a treat for rail and art lovers alike.
It is both an enjoyment for the eyes as well as a visual documentation in which to be fixed when it comes to painting or investigating.
A miniature work of art.
Read the full Spnish review here.
José Manuél Rico Cortés (Mister JM) - Miniaturas JM
This is not just a railway-themed art book, it also contains a short autobiography, and a chapter detailing 'How to paint a locomotive portrait'.
Very good value and thoroughly recommended.
Ffestiniog Railway Magazine No. 233
Lancashire Life Magazine
This volume features an evocative selection of paintings from the respected transport artist Jonathan Clay. Each page features a single portrait with a story type caption.
Members should obtain a copy for the coffee table.
The Railway Correspondence & Travel Society
This book should appeal to railway enthusiasts and aficionados of railway art, as well as existing confirmed collectors of the artist's work. Warmly recommended.
This volume features an evocative selection of paintings from the respected transport artist Jonathan Clay.
The Railway Observer
Each locomotive portraits are accompanied by nice descriptions in the engaging, conversational tone. The captions say nothing about technique or the like but there is a fine opening chapter showing nine steps from first sketch to finished piece. The very first chapter offers an entertainingly written autobiography. Even the Acknowledgements are worth reading because there is nothing boilerplate about them
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Railway art has a long and impressive lineage, for instance Turner and Monet, included some aspects of railways in their art. The tradition continues to this day, with the formation in the UK of the Guild of Railway Artists, which has over 200 members, including Jonathan Clay. Jonathan has responded to requests to produce a book of his artwork, and the results are very impressive.
He stumbled upon the method of producing painting of locomotives without backgrounds due to the demands of time, and this method has proved very popular. He truly is a superb artist and the text for each painting is just right.
The large hardcover format and the high quality of the artwork reproductions is a credit to Jonathan and Pen & Sword. No digital format could ever do justice to this work in the same manner.
Destructive Music
Clitheroe Advertiser and Times
An outstanding record of this well known artists work.Over 150 images,steam, diesel, narrow gauge, standard gauge and miniature, all reproduced in a large format with informative and accurate captions.Highly recommended, but buy the BOOK not the KIndle you need to hold and study this beautiful book!
Nigel Bird Books
About Jonathan Clay
Jonathan Clay has become one of the best known transport artists in the UK. He has produced over 1100 paintings and drawings, of which over 730 are of his well-known and widely-acclaimed ‘Locomotive Portraits’. His pictures now hang on homes, railway buildings, and museums all over the world. In the 1950s and 1960s, he was an enthusiastic train- and bus-spotter, and began to draw and paint seriously. In the mid 1970s he held exhibitions of his work in Lancashire, and even had a display of motor racing paintings on show at the Donington Park Racing car museum, in 1979.
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Hardback 2020
Imprint: Harvill Secker
The snowy new thriller from the queen of the modern-day murder mystery
'Agatha Christie fans will love this ingenious thriller...the pace is fast and furious and the twists satisfying' Good Housekeeping
Snow is falling in the exclusive alpine ski resort of Saint Antoine
The shareholders and directors of Snoop, the hottest new music app, gather for a make or break corporate retreat to decide the future of the company. At stake is a billion-dollar dot com buyout that could make them all millionaires, or leave some of them out in the cold.
The clock is ticking on the offer, and with the group irrevocably split, tensions are running high. When an avalanche cuts the chalet off from help, and one board member goes missing in the snow, the group is forced to ask - would someone resort to murder, to get what they want?
**SELECTED BY TANA FRENCH AS AN OBSERVER BOOK OF 2020 AND BY LISA JEWELL AS A DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR**
PRAISE FOR ONE BY ONE:
'Perfect mash-up of Agatha Christie meets the staff of a tech start-up - in a secluded luxury mountain resort' Stylist
'Greed, ambition, manipulation, secrets, nifty plotting and a cracking denouement add up to a suspenseful and spine-tingling page-turner' Guardian
'A chilling, edge-of-your-seat thriller. Agatha Christie would have been up all night reading this one!' Shari Lapena, author of The Couple Next Door
'An engaging page-turner that will keep you guessing' Daily Express
'Books shouldn't really be gobbled down like cake but with Ware's there's no other way' Metro
'The queen of just-one-more-chapter has done it again' Clare Mackintosh, author of I Let You Go
'Impossible to put down and perfectly claustrophobic and gorgeously atmospheric' Gytha Lodge, author of She Lies in Wait
'So fast paced, action packed, twisty-turny, modern, clever, scary and ingenious!' Lisa Jewell, author of The People Upstairs
'A fab psychological thriller and I loved the snowy setting! Incredibly tense and kept me guessing to the end' Emily Koch, author of If I Die Before I Wake
'Blisteringly good' Observer
'Fiendishly delicious' Red
'Deliciously sly' Sunday Times
'The sense of dread deepens as the snow falls in Ruth Ware's tensely plotted...alpine thriller' Louise Candlish, bestselling author of Our House
A real spine-chiller that confirms Ruth Ware as the true heir to Christie's crown. Ingenious plotting sees the body count rise and multiple suspects eliminated until we're left with breathless game of cat-and-mouse.
Erin Kelly, author of He Said, She Said
The sense of dread deepens as the snow falls in Ruth Ware's tensely plotted and deliciously cast alpine thriller.
Louise Candlish, author of Our House
A chilling, edge-of-your-seat thriller. Agatha Christie would have been up all night reading this one!
Shari Lapena, author of The Couple Next Door
Chilling, claustrophobic and clever. This is Ruth Ware's best yet.
Jo Jakeman
What a read, oh my goodness, so fast paced, action packed, twisty-turny, modern, clever, scary and ingenious!
Lisa Jewell, author of The People Upstairs
The Turn of the Key
The Death of Mrs Westaway
The Woman in Cabin 10
Ruth Ware is an international number one bestseller. Her thrillers In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, The Death of Mrs Westaway and The Turn of the Key have appeared on bestseller lists around the world, including the Sunday Times and New York Times. Her books have been optioned for TV and film and she is published in more than 40 languages. Ruth lives near Brighton with her family. Visit ruthware.com to find out more.
So good it's criminal: Penguin authors pick their favourite crime novels
Ruth Ware, Abir Mukherjee, Lisa Jewell and more on the crime books that shaped them – and the genre itself.
A book for Christmas: Penguin authors remember the magic of receiving literary gifts
Ruth Ware, Dolly Alderton, Simon Mayo, Mary Portas and more recall the most special books they have received as gifts, from treasured hand-me-downs to original editions. For more recommendations, try the Penguin Christmas gift guide.
Ruth Ware talks about homicidal hen nights and the inspiration behind her novel, In A Dark Dark Wood
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Large costs award: claimants secretly recorded employer’s legal advice
By Stephen Simpson on 18 Jul 2016 in Tribunal Watch, Case law, Employment tribunals
An employment tribunal threw out four claimants’ cases and ordered them to pay a total of £69,484 in costs after an NHS trust’s chief executive and lawyers were sent a secret recording of a privileged conversation.
Costs order after NHS trust was sent covert recording of meeting with lawyers
In Zia and others v Brighton University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, an employment tribunal struck out four claimants’ cases and ordered them to pay £17,371 each in costs.
Legal professional privilege: the tribunal’s view
“It is an absolute right for legal professional privilege to be protected…”
“The claimants in this case violated the principle of legal professional privilege and that violation is incapable of remedy…If the tribunal were in some way to…water down the protection of legal privilege, it would undermine the basic common law and Convention rights which are at the heart of our legal system.”
“We conclude that the claimants secured an advantage by covertly recording privileged communications and then sought to use those recordings to gain an advantage in the legal proceedings.”
Brighton University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was facing race discrimination claims by four claimants.
During the case, the NHS trust’s chief executive and lawyers received an anonymous recording and transcript of a meeting with its lawyers before the case began.
The recording and transcript were of a discussion that took place between the trust and its lawyers directly after a without prejudice meeting with the claimants.
The claimants and their counsel had left the room, but it was clear from the recording that someone had started the recording shortly before the without prejudice meeting ended.
The NHS trust applied to the employment tribunal to have the four claimants’ cases struck out.
The employment tribunal accepted that the claimants were responsible for leaving the recording device in the room before they left the meeting, and that a fair hearing was no longer possible.
The tribunal also concluded that the claimants sent the recording to the NHS trust to “place pressure on the respondent to settle the case”.
The tribunal accepted that the information obtained through the recording was legally privileged and confidential information.
The employment tribunal struck out the four claimants’ cases.
The tribunal noted that it is very rare to see a case in which privileged material has been obtained covertly and is used to secure an advantage in litigation.
The employment tribunal awarded costs to the NHS trust. The claimants were ordered to pay £17,371 each. The tribunal made them jointly liable for the total costs of £69,484.
Read more details of the case and practical tips in the light of the judgment…
Other tribunal decisions in the headlines
Employment law glossary
Without prejudice defined
Met Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner loses towel tribunal
A senior Met Police officer has lost a sex discrimination case sparked after a male colleague was seen in a corridor wearing only a towel, reports the BBC.
Liver surgeon in line for five-figure payout
A liver surgeon could be in line for a five-figure payout after it was ruled he was unfairly dismissed, says the Lancashire Telegraph.
Social worker was unfairly dismissed
An employment tribunal found Norfolk County Council unfairly dismissed a senior social worker following an “entire process” that was flawed, according to EDP24.
Leeds United tribunal: “I’ll never get a job in football again”
A former Leeds United employee who successfully claimed unfair dismissal and sexual discrimination against the club has told a tribunal she fears she will never get a job in football again, reports the Yorkshire Post.
Taylor-Mills: “I went bust paying minimum wage on fringe”
Producer Paul Taylor-Mills has told The Stage that he was forced to wind up his production company after being financially crippled by a duty to pay actors properly on the fringe.
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Appeal Court Nullifies Dasuki’s Indictment
Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd)
The Court of Appeal in Abuja has set aside the indictments delivered against the former National Security Adviser, Col Sambo Dasuki, in a judgment of the Federal High Court in Abuja which convicted and sentenced a former spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh, for money laundering.
A three-person panel led by Justice Stephen Adah held in a unanimous judgment delivered, on Wednesday, that the Federal High Court made damaging comments against Dasuki without giving him a fair hearing.
SaharaReporters Media
Justice Adah held that Dasuki was not being charged as a co-defendant in the case or given any opportunity to defend himself and that the comments made against Dasuki were unwarranted.
The panel had in an earlier judgment on Wednesday set aside Metuh’s conviction on the grounds of bias shown by the trial judge Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court.
It, therefore, ordered that the trial be conducted afresh.
Justice Abang directed that the case file be sent back to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court for reassignment to another judge other than Justice Abang, Punch reports.
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Switzerland and Japan
Embassy of Switzerland in Japan
The Swiss embassy represents Switzerland's interests in the country and provides consular services and visa support for people resident in: Japon
Consulate General of Switzerland in Osaka
The Honorary Consulate General in Osaka allows Switzerland to strengthen its ties with the Kansai Region. It offers a very limited range of consular services.
Travel advice for Japan
Dossier: Vivre et travailler au Japon (PDF, Number of pages 34, 903.2 kB, French)
Dossier: Leben und Arbeiten in Japan
Dossier: Vivere e Lavorare in Giappone
Schools and universities in Switzerland
Information on schools and universities in Switzerland
Bilateral relations Switzerland–Japan
Research cooperation and collaboration
Switzerland and Japan have continued to enjoy a long cooperative relationship in research and development for many years
Doors to Switzerland – Japan 2020
Ahead of the Tokyo 2021 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Embassy of Switzerland in Japan wishes to celebrate the ties of friendship between our two countries in all their strength and diversity
Cultural projects strengthening ties between countries
This page has not been translated into English. Please select a language from the following list.
Grand Tour of Switzerland in Japan
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The Man Behind Digit
Zainab SaeedLast Updated: Feb 4, 2020
A decade ago, a young Pakistani had the dream of making digital products accessible to Pakistanis at an affordable price. When Mr. Abdul Rehman Mahmood established the company Swift Biz Solutions, the sector was undergoing transformational change globally. He realized that change in Pakistan will be imminent and therefore he decided to be an agent of this transformational change in Pakistan. Consequently, the company under his leadership introduced several new products in the country. These products include mobile broadband devices with telecom operators and first of its kind 4G tablet with PTCL in 2016 named GadgeIT CharJi Tab. According to Mr. Mahmood “his strategy has been three pronged: quality products with good after-sale service, affordable prices and ethical business practices. That is why his products were able to penetrate the local market with huge success. Thus he was able to create a win-win for all stakeholders.
With the launch of PAKISTAN KA SMARTPHONE, in collaboration with Jazz, Digit has sent 4G ripples across the Telecom Industry in Pakistan.
Mr. Abdul Rehman says that “I have a dream”. My dream is for Pakistan where a Pakistani residing in rural area will receive and make digital payments conducting transactions; a farmer will use technology to improve productivity and market access; a woman will be able to improve her livelihood and social welfare of herself and her family through better education and health services and the youth will have access to higher income generating activities and new sources of information. All of this is possible through technology with the touch of fingertips.
When Abdul Rehman studied the domestic market, it was clear that while technology is growing rapidly with investments from mobile network operators; most of the people in lower income groups, “women” and in particular rural population were lagging behind, due to lack of any affordable quality device to connect these population segments with 4G mobile network. Under such circumstances, digital divide would widen which is detrimental for government drive for documentation of economy and most importantly improving economic efficiencies. He realized that there is only way to overcome this challenge of connecting every Pakistani with digital space i.e. through an enabling device, smartphone at an affordable price and ensuring good quality.
In order to realize this dream, he built a local brand “Digit” under the umbrella of Swift Biz Solutions and initiated discussions with KaiOS which is an ideal operating system for smart feature phones. It is easy to use and customized for local usage and language as well as has all the necessary apps required for daily use and adding more apps constantly. Similarly discussions were held with Jazz to introduce a quality smart feature phone affordable for every Pakistan. Thus Jazz Digit4G was launched at the price of Rs. 1,799 only with monthly package offered by Jazz. A dream comes true in the form of ‘Pakistan ka Smartphone’.
Pakistan is at the brink of technological revolution particularly in the area of fintech and mobile services. Pakistanis living across the length and breadth of the country be it in villages or town or cities are eager to be part of this revolution. Jazz Digit 4G is a groundbreaking phone which will enable this digital revolution. It is the most affordable smart feature phone in the world. With the launching of this device by Digit, the country has taken a leap forward in fintech, digitalization of society, economy and financial inclusion at affordable price. This device is an enabler of future economic and social development in Pakistan through digitalization and access to information. The future is all about digitalization and launch of this smartphone will complete the ecosystem for all stakeholders in banking, microfinance, financial services, agriculture, industry, SMEs and social sectors. For example Microfinance institutions will be able to digitally lend to their customers and receive the installments digitally thus reducing operational cost. Similarly the beneficiaries of Benazir Income Support Program or other such programs of Government can benefit by receiving payments digitally on their phones.
While traditional smart phones are beyond the affordability of everyone the other challenge is its high cost of after sales, Digit has taken up this challenge and with the help of Jazz, Digit have achieved this milestone by bringing 4G Phone for every Pakistani. Digit‘s commitment is quality of the product and best after sales services for all of its customers.
This phone has all the technologies available such as WiFi, Bluetooth, Google Maps using GPS, Google Voice assistant and an APP store which has hundreds of apps. Digit phone will play a major role for financial inclusion of the unbanked through mobile wallet and inbuilt QR Code scanner so every Pakistani will be able to make use of digital financial services instead of visiting retail shops for transfer or receiving of money. Digit Health has also been launched in collaboration with webdoc, similarly Education and other such social services app are being developed. Going forward, banks mobile wallets will facilitate fintech. The phone will also open the world for Pakistani youth for entrepreneurship, complementing the “Kamyab Jawan” programs which is a remarkable initiative from Government. Life app in partnership of KaiOS is also being introduced which has free content for users in local language for Health, Education, Digital Skills, Agriculture and much more.
Digit has also partnered as the only aggregator with KaiOS in Pakistan to bring the local content and apps on KaiOS and for this we are imitating a drive to encourage local app developers to bring their apps in this operating system. KaiOS is considered to be for the next billion users and Pakistani app developers will have huge potential to monetize their ideas through KaiOS around the world. Digit will provide all technical assistance to the developers community.
The sky is the limit and Mr. Abdul Rehman’s dreams go on. For future, he is focused on making this smartphone accessible throughout the country. Digit is also planning to setup local assembly plant to produce KaiOS phones in Pakistan to generate employment opportunities for Pakistani people. Furthermore, he also has plans to introduce IOT products in Pakistan in the categories of Smart Homes and Smart Industries.
Technological revolution will be fast paced like a 20-20 Cricket match and this decade starting with 2020 will be decade of technology.
Digital Pakistan is knocking at every Pakistani’s door.
Dreams do come true!
Zainab Saeed
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For instant access to the printable sheet music of 5 Piano Pieces by Liszt and thousands of other classical piano pieces, sign up for a Piano Street Gold Membership!
Franz Liszt: 5 Piano Pieces
The five short pieces catalogued as S. 192 were not conceived as a set, but all were dedicated to Liszt's friend Olga von Meyendorff. They were composed at different times in the period 1865-1879, but only published long after Liszt's death, in 1928 (Nos.1 to 4), and in 1963 (No.5).
Sehr langsam No. 1 S. 192 E Major 1865 Piece 5
Lento assai No. 2 S. 192 A-flat Major 1865 Piece 5
Sehr langsam No. 3 S. 192 F-sharp Major 1873 Piece 4
Andantino No. 4 S. 192 F-sharp Major 1876 Piece 4
Sospiri No. 5 S. 192 N/A 1879 Piece 6
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News / Syria
Over dozen civilians killed as US-led coalition strikes northeastern Syria
Thursday, 27 July 2017 1:03 PM [ Last Update: Thursday, 27 July 2017 1:33 PM ]
In this file photo, thick smoke rises following an airstrike by the US-led coalition in Kobani, Syria, against purported positions of Daesh terrorists. (Photo by AP)
More than a dozen civilians have lost their lives and several others sustained injuries when the US-led coalition purportedly fighting the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group conducted an aerial assault on Syria’s northeastern province of Dayr al-Zawr.
Local sources told Syria’s official news agency, SANA, on Thursday that the airstrike targeted the village of Tayibe in the eastern part of the province, located 450 kilometers northeast of the capital Damascus, leaving at least 18 people dead and another 20 others wounded.
The sources added that the attack also inflicted heavy damage on public properties and residential buildings in the targeted area.
SANA also reported that scores of civilians were killed or wounded as US-led military aircraft struck al-Tayana village near the city of Mayadin, located about 44 kilometers southeast of Dayr al-Zawr, the water station in the village of Marrat and the village of al-Shumaitiyah.
On Wednesday, the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 29 people, including eight children, had been killed in a US-led strike against the Daesh-held northern Syrian city of Raqqah.
Fresh US-led air raid kills over dozen Syrians
Tens of civilians were also killed or injured on July 24, when US-led airstrikes targeted al-Fansh crossroads in the city of Mayadin.
The US-led coalition has been conducting airstrikes against what are said to be Daesh targets inside Syria since September 2014 without any authorization from the Damascus government or a UN mandate.
The military alliance has repeatedly been accused of targeting and killing civilians. It has also been largely incapable of fulfilling its declared aim of destroying Daesh.
The city of Raqqah, which lies on the northern bank of the Euphrates River, was overrun by Daesh terrorists in March 2013, and proclaimed the center for most of the Takfiris’ administrative and control tasks the next year.
Syria has been fighting different foreign-sponsored militant and terrorist groups since March 2011. UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura estimated last August that more than 400,000 people had been killed in the crisis until then.
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ProPublica Wins Five SABEW Awards for Business Journalism
Our work was honored in the health/science, investigative, technology, banking/finance and explanatory categories.
by ProPublica
March 8, 2018, 1:49 p.m. EST
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CHAMBERSBURG - Jimmy John's is now officially open in Chambersburg.
The sandwich shop at 580 Walker Road makes fresh sandwiches. Homemade bread is served freshly-baked, and locally-purchased veggies and all-natural meats are hand sliced daily.
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Western Desert Nganampa Walytja Palyantjaku Tjutaku Aboriginal Corporation (Purple House) is an Aboriginal Community Controlled organisation. We pride ourselves on our strong Indigenous leadership. We have a Board of Indigenous directors who represent communities across the Western Desert. Our directors meet four times each year in Alice Springs, with some directors travelling over 1000 kilometres to attend meetings.
These meetings provide our directors with the opportunity to:
Oversee and make decisions about the running of the organisation
Hear reports from staff about the organisations services and programs
Examine financial reports
Learn about renal disease and what can be done to reduce its impact in their communities
Patients and their families are also welcome at directors’ meetings so that they can share the issues that are affecting them.
Our all Indigenous board of directors is elected by the members of our corporation. They are Pintupi Luritja people from the communities of the Western Desert, and include dialysis patients and their family members. Our directors meet four times a year with an Annual General Meeting (AGM) held in November each year. In addition to the AGM, patients and members are also able to attend directors meetings to listen and contribute.
Irene has had a long involvement with Purple House and is the current Chairperson. She is a senior community leader and long-term community advocate. She has had extensive involvement in Education, been an ATSIC Regional Councillor, Central Land Council delegate, the Chairperson of Kintore Community Council and of Waltja Tjutangku Palyapayi. She started dialysis treatment in 2013 and spends her time in Kintore and Alice Springs. She is the Central Australian representative on Kidney Health Australia’s national consumer group.
Linda Anderson
Linda was a teacher in Papunya for over 20 years and has also held the position of vice-president of the Papunya community council. Linda currently sits on the Papunya Community’s Local Board and is a member of their Elders Group. Her father was senior Pintupi elder and leader Nosepeg Tjupurrula Tjungkata.
Marlene Spencer
Marlene has been a Director of WDNWPT for over 10 years. Until she retired she was an Aboriginal Health Worker at the Pintupi Homelands Health Service. She has served on a number of community boards and committees over the years as well as caring for her children and grandchildren. Marlene lives in Kintore, NT.
Bundi Rowe
Bundi Rowe is a senior Pintupi Luritja elder and was the first ever chairman of the Purple House. Bundi returned to the board as Treasurer in 2019.
Elizabeth Marks
Elizabeth is an artist and Papunya Tula shareholder. She worked at Papunya school and clinic for many years before moving to Kintore where she continued her clinic work.
Bobby West Tjupurrula
Bobby is a senior Pintupi man and community leader from Kiwirrkurra community. Bobby is a Papunya Tula artist and shareholder and was involved in the original collaborative Kiwirrkurra Men’s painting which was auctioned for $340,000 for the Western Desert Dialysis Appeal. In 2011 Bobby won the General Painting Prize in the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Bobby commenced dialysis treatment in 2014.
Pamela Tolson
Pamela’s father, prominent Papunya Tula artist Turkey Tolson, was involved with the Kintore Men’s Painting for the Western Desert Dialysis Art Appeal. Pamela has a background as a health worker for the Pintupi Homelands Health Service (PHHS) and wants to continue her father’s work advocating for dialysis out bush.
Audrey Turner
Audrey lives in Mt Liebig, NT, where she has traditional ties. Audrey has been a past Community Councillor and Chairperson. Currently she sits on the Local Board and works in the community office. She has been a director of Purple House for many years and is a strong advocate for remote dialysis.
Rita Turner
Rita currently works in the Watiyawanu School at Mt Liebig. She is a former chair of Animparrinpi Yututju Women’s Aboriginal Corporation. Rita is passionate about growing remote dialysis services so that more people can return home. She has one daughter, loves sitting by the fire and eating healthy food.
Douglas Multa
Douglas is a traditional owner and community leader from Haasts Bluff community. He has been a representative for his community with the Central Land Council and a local authority member for the MacDonnell Regional Council. He is the current chairperson for Ngurratjuta/Pmara Ntjarra Aboriginal Corporation. He lives on his country in Haasts Bluff and attends dialysis in Papunya.
Kaylene Collins
Kaylene is from Mt Liebig community. She currently lives in Alice Springs for dialysis, spending time in Mt Liebig when she can. She is a long-term Purple House director.
CEO Sarah Brown AM
Sarah Brown AM is the Chief Executive Officer of Purple House, working with its board of Indigenous directors to run the organisation since its inception two decades ago.
Sarah was recognised with an Order of Australia in the Queen’s Birthday 2020 Honours List “for significant service to community health, to remote area nursing, and to the Indigenous community”. In 2017 she was Hesta Australia’s Nurse of the Year and in 2018 made the AFR BOSS magazine’s ‘True Leaders’ list.
A fearless advocate for high quality, community-led healthcare for Indigenous Australians, Sarah has invested three decades of her life in this work across Australia. She holds a Master of Nursing, a Graduate Diploma in Aboriginal Education and a Graduate Diploma in Health Service Management. Prior to joining Purple House, Sarah worked as a remote area nurse in communities as diverse as Cape Barren Island (TAS), Balgo (WA), Yuelamu and Harts Range (NT). She has also been an Aboriginal health service manager in the Kimberley and a university lecturer.
Sarah paints, has exhibitions across Australia and overseas, has 3 grown up kids and drives a 1959 Morris Minor. She thinks ‘work/life balance’ is irrelevant if you love what you do!
Central Australian Renal Voice
Established in November 2013, the Central Australia Renal Voice (CARV) provides patients with a forum to advocate for change in the provision of dialysis treatment, accommodation and social support to drive better health outcomes.
CARV provides a structured linkage between patients and service providers, facilitating meaningful discussions for the provision of advice, direction, and advocacy for planning, delivery, design, measurement and evaluation of renal health care in Central Australia.
The purpose of CARV is to empower renal patients to advocate for change so that their concerns and objectives are valued and to work with health, accommodation and social support providers to improve service and health outcomes for dialysis patients.
CARV will help improve health outcomes for patients and their families through:
Working together to address cultural safety issues to ensure that the provision of services is respectful, appropriate and free of discrimination,
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Service providers understanding the problems these patients face while receiving dialysis treatment and living in Alice Springs.
Purple House currently support CARV by assisting with coordination and secretariat for meetings. CARV representatives meet on a quarterly basis.
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By Dan Avery March 13, 2013 at 5:03pm · 16 comments
According to the history books, the modern LGBT rights movement began at Stonewall. But one year prior, and some 60 blocks north, businessman Steve Ostrow started a quiet revolution by opening the Continental Baths, a gay bathhouse that, in its own way, had as much of an impact on gay life as those fateful days in June 1969.
Continental, a new documentary by gay filmmaker Malcolm Ingram (Small Town Gay Bar, Bear Nation), shares the largely untold story of the largest and most celebrated gay bathhouse in New York—heck, the world.
Opened in 1968 in the basement of the Ansonia, a famed residential hotel on Broadway and West 73rd, the sprawling sexual Xanadu offered unencumbered sexual contact in an era when that was hard for gay men to come by.
But it also offered a thumping disco, a tchotchke shop, library, juice bar, barber shop, café, gym, a health clinic (where you could get tested for STDs) and live entertainment.
And what entertainment: Bette Midler, Barry Manilow (her accompanist), Nell Carter, Melba Moore, and Patti LaBelle all got their start there.
Legendary DJ Frankie Knuckles, then just starting out, developed what became known as house music on the Continental’s multi-colored dance floor, which predated Saturday Night Fever by some years. (Ostrow also claims he came up with the idea of the standalone DJ booth.)
Before it shuttered in 1975, the Continental drew established stars like Cab Calloway, the Andrew Sisters, Lesley Gore, Peter Allen, Sarah Vaughn and opera diva Eleanor Steber, who recorded a live album there. It inspired Terrence McNally’s Broadway show The Ritz and was immortalized in the 1970 film Saturday Night at the Baths.
The Continental was the Studio 54 of its day—except that, next to Mick and Liza, were gay men in towels, either coming from or going to have sex.
It wasn’t the only bathhouse in town, certainly. But it was a much classier affair and, more importantly, it treated its gay clientele as equals, not perverts to be exploited. (Through the course of the documentary we learn about Ostrow’s own fascinating sexual evolution—and his pivotal role in getting laws against homosexuality repealed in New York.)
But perhaps the Continental’s greatest legacy was that it allowed gay men to express themselves sexually—around each other and around straight people—in a way that’s never happened before or since.
We chatted with Ingram before he jetted off to SXSW, where Continental screened on Sunday evening.
Malcolm Ingram
Why focus on the Continental Baths after doing Small Town Gay Bar and Bear Nation, which seem more, I don’t know, community-minded?
But the Continental was a community, too! Maybe not the same way as they did in Gay Bar and Bear Nation. But all my films are kind of contained narratives about misfit communities—people finding each other.
How did you finance the film?
It was crowd-funded, first through two Kickstarter campaigns and then an Indiegogo campaign. It was really amazing to be able to reach your audience directly and have them, not just give you money, but really say to you “this is something we want to see.”
There were people that knew my name from Small Town Gay Bar, people who knew me through Bear Nation, even people who knew of me through Kevin Smith. [Ed. note: Smith appeared with Ingram on the cover of A Bear’s Life in 2010.] Continental never would have been made without crowd-sourcing—or it certainly wouldn’t have been the film it is. I definitely wouldn’t have been able to film the intro in Australia with Steve Ostrow.
Steve Ostrow
Steve is really the heart of the documentary—in fact, it almost becomes a documentary about his incredible life. How did you meet him?
I wanted to do something about a slice of gay history and there wasnt a lot about Contintental, except that Bette Midler started there. And she had mentioned Steve’s name in interviews. We tracked him down three or four years ago and started talking. Through our conversations he realized he could trust me to tell the story. And he was so ready to tell his story.
But it was a very drawn-out process—I shot Bear Nation in the interim. So it was a thrill to sit down and talk with him: He’s such a dignified man, with a very classy demeanor. I think that’s why a place like the Continental could work. He comes with a lot of class and it rubbed off on the place.
It’s great hearing all the stories—about Mick Jagger’s appearance there, about how Steve would bail out guys if they got busted in a raid. Were there any stories that di dn’t make it into the film?
My favorite story that didnt make it into the film actually isn’t that shocking—it was just so indicative of the atmosphere there. There was a lot of casual drug use there, and this manager told me a great story about tripping balls while watching Bette Midler perform. The look of fear and awe on his face as he was describing it was priceless. [But it wasn’t very cinematic], so we didn’t end up using it.
I kind of wanted someone to talk about a specific sexual experience at the baths. But for all the sex going on there, no one really wanted to talk that much about the actual sex.
Most people who have heard of the Continental know it because that’s where Bette Midler got her first real break, and earned the name “Bathhouse Betty” We some resentment from people in the film because they think she downplays her start there. Did you try to interview Bette for the film?
We tried to visit her but she was busy. Ultimately, though, I’m thankful she didn’t get involved. If she had it would’ve overshadowed the whole project.
The question is asked in the film whether the Continental was all about the sex—or was there something more to it. What’s your take on it?
Well, yeah, for some people it was all about sex. But for some it was just a place to not feel ashamed, whether they got laid that night or went home frustrated. And for a lot of people the entertainment really was an incredible draw.
Could we see a rise of bathhouse culture again?
Not as long as the Internet is around. The baths were kind of a necessity, and now, if you can hit someone up on grindr, or Manhunt, or Adam4Adam, you don’t really need to schlep to a bathhouse—you can order in.
Provincetown is the closest thing we have to the Continental Baths: You’ve got this incredibly charged sexual atmosphere on the Dick Dock and other places, and then you’ve got great performers and entertainers right around the corner.
Continental is screening this weekend at SXSW, and will presumably hit the film-festival circuit and get a theatrical release. What do you hope people take away from the film?
I will have done my job if, when people think of the Continental, they don’t think of Bette Midler—they think of Steve Ostrow.
Below: A trailer from Continental , Bette Midler performing at the baths in 1971, and a trailer for Saturday Night at the Baths
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Sounds like this is a must-see film! Especially for those of us of “a certain age” who survived the plague. I had the privilege of being there sometime in the 70s (alternate day gas rationing was in force) when Bette made a surprise visit, swooping in with her entourage, gushing thanks to the patrons, and doing a set…then vanishing into the night just a quickly. Won’t ever forget that trip! Very classy lady for sure!
Wow, that’s cool OldgayVermonter! Wish I could have seen that… I hope to see this film and maybe someday someone will do one on the 1910s&20s.
Were women and trans allowed at the Continental?
How did that work?
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@oldgayvermonter: I never had the chance to go to the Continental Baths.
I graduated in 1971 and spent the ’70’s in Columbus OH. In the mid ’70’s Bette Midler came there (and other parts of the midwest)….she was a very rapidly rising star then…(1975-76)….What fun. And being the home of Ohio State the city was like a big party for gays back then….believe it or not, the Midwest was pretty liberal…
Indianapolis, Louisville, Pittsburgh, Cleveland……
Nice piece of gay history Queerty…thanks.
I’m guessing that Bette M. really really wishes that the footage of that one performance at the C.Baths did not exist. They contacted her but she was busy, yea right. No question that she is gay friendly/supportive but this is one aspect of her past that she really doesn’t want to come up over and over and over again.
I’m not a fan of the gay subculture.
March 14, 2013 at 12:03pm
@Spike: Uh…she named on of her more recent albums, “Bathhouse Betty” and still regularly discusses it. I’ve seen basically every interview that she’s ever done and her only comment that’s even remotely negative is that she’s pretty sure her tombstone will read, “Here Lies Bette Midler (She Began Her Career at the Continental Baths)”.
I’m so excited to see this film, not only because of Bette’s history, but because this filmmaker is one hell of a documentary film maker!!!
@tardis: If we do not document, record and celebrate our history, who will? There are hatemonger organizations like NOM and AFA that are doing their best to distort our past even as they try to erase us from the present. Ensuring that we have an accurate historical narrative will prevent them from succeeding in their quest to eradicate us.
@Teleny: I heard they didn’t so when I went to NYC I didn’t go there. They didn’t allow them @ the Houston baths either if you had tits. For some reason I felt that gay men believed that m to f trans belong in a league of their own and not around real gay men. And the question is “why would a trans thinking she was trying to be a woman want to be at a gay bathhouse?”
I would love to see this movie to see what I missed as an m to f trans.
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QWEERTY readers interested in the Continental Baths will enjoy listening to BETTE AND THE CONTINENTAL BATHS: a Lecture by Jeff Auer, presented at CUNY/CLAGS, streaming at my magazine, Acoustic Levitation : A Journal of Arts, Music & Culture. http://www.acousticlevitation.org/midler.html (free, no ads).
@ Tone I understand that, and I wholeheartedly agree. History is an important part of any minority group. Still, living in this day and age, what is there to like about the gay subculture? Personally speaking, I’m just not a fan of it.
@Chad: Yes I know of the album, I have it. Now which song in the album does to reference the continental baths or the origin of the the albums title? BTW, did you read my post before you replied? Probably not. It was in reference to the footage of her performance. Again, if she supported and/or wanted to have anything to do with this project she would not have been ‘busy’.
Celebrity ‘Busy’ = Not Interested.
What a pleasant surprise! I had moved to New York City in 1968 and was living on West 76 St; a few blocks North of the Continental Hotel, a residence for several actors and actreses of the day. I was at the Continental the night Bette Midler sang. Also,another Saturday night, one of the residents of the Continental (I cannot remember her name now, but She was one of the all time best female Opera Stars of the time) came down and gave us a concert. For the occasion, we all wore Black towels that night.
Hi Jerry, You saw Eleanor Steber, known for opera but also classical song, especially Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and Berlioz’ Nuits d’Eté.
From another website: “It was an affair to rank with the coming of Christ, the death of Garland, the birth of the blues, and the freezing of spinach.” — Arthur Bell, Village Voice.
“Miss Steber appears from the steam room in a chiffon gown, loaded with diamonds and a black towel draped around her waist. Mrs. Leonard Bernstein, Suzy, Patrice Munsel, a lot of Metropolitan Opera stars and half of New York society love it. Miss Steber is in good voice, singing everything from Tosca to Strauss waltzes while boys yell, ‘Brava!’” — Rex Reed, Daily News.
From October 4, 1973, Eleanor Steber‘s iconic recital at the Continental Baths.
@Jerry12: LOL well you were being formal you know!
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Protecting the acoustic laboratories present within Caimi's futuristic OPEN LAB project.
Sentryum delivers maximum reliability that guarantees continuity to some of the most advanced laboratories in the international arena.
Caimi, one of the main European design-oriented production companies in the field of furniture and furnishing accessories for the office, home and contract, has chosen Riello UPS to guarantee safety to its laboratories and in particular for its project OPEN LAB.
Maximum reliability for a complex project
OPEN LAB consists of seven futuristic laboratories specifically dedicated to theoretical and applied research in the fields of technology, acoustics, new materials and advanced prototyping related to the sound-absorbing products made with Snowsound technologies.
It was built within the Caimi headquarters, which today spans a total area of over 10,000 square meters and uses about 40 kilometers of electrical and data cables.
This element played a key role in Caimi's choice of a partner that could guarantee absolute protection to these critical systems.
For the functionality of these new acoustic laboratories, capable of expanding the type of sound field analysis to the surrounding environment thanks to real-time modifiable acoustics and a direct visualization system of sound waves, Caimi needed a reliable system that guaranteed electrical continuity.
Gianni Caimi - CEO of Caimi Spa - describes some of the selection criteria on which they chose Riello UPS as the perfect project partner: “After a careful evaluation, we decided to rely on the leading company in the sector, Riello UPS. An important factor in dictating the choice was certainly the competence of the technicians and the sales department who worked closely with us throughout the design and implementation phase of the solution".
The details of the project
The acoustic chambers in the laboratories have a total weight of 270 tons and float on several layers of special sands with different densities. Equipped with state-of-the-art instruments and equipment, largely designed and built specifically within the company, OPEN LAB allows multiple uses and allows the development of new technical solutions to be applied to the design, production and design of materials.
Riello UPS technicians have developed a customized solution which involved the installation of a system consisting of two units of the Sentryum series interconnected and capable of balancing the electrical load between the two machines and being able to move it entirely on one in case of failure / maintenance of the other.
The Riello UPS models of the Sentryum S3U range are perfect for "mission-critical" applications such as the OPEN LAB project: they are transformer-free UPS with three-phase input and output, they use ON LINE double conversion technology capable of providing levels of availability of unrivaled energy, are capable of achieving energy efficiency up to 95.5%, and have UL / CSA certification.
The Sentryum range, like all other Riello UPS solutions, fully reflects the corporate philosophy of “Reliable power for a sustainable world”: solid protection for critical loads that also puts the safeguarding and sustainability of the planet earth at the fore.
During the design phase, a “Green Technology” approach was maintained to reduce dissipation and energy losses, to generate electricity with lower carbon dioxide emissions, and to improve the overall efficiency performance of the system.
The UPS chosen for this installation uses state-of-the-art technologies and components, such as the DSP processor (Digital Signal Processor) to perform extremely efficient digital signal processing, a dual core microprocessor and a three-level IGBT inverterwhich ensures maximum protection for critical loads without impacting downstream systems, while maintaining optimized energy savings.
Both UPS units have NetMan network cards installed and are equipped with a touchscreen for direct management of the unit, which allows remote connection to the two machines and guarantees complete load management and communication between the UPSs.
The total power of the installed system is 30 kW and guarantees the data center and all connected electronic equipment an electrical continuity of up to 5 hours in the event of a blackout.
Caimi has decided to open the doors of its OPEN LAB laboratories free of charge by setting up a not-for-profit structure. Not only can Universities, Research Institutes, Foundations and other organisations use the facilities for studies and research mainly in the field of sound and acoustics, but also to identify new solutions for improving people's health and psycho-physical well-being.
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RMS Releases Version 17 of Its North America Earthquake Models for the U.S., Canada and Mexico
The updated model is a major step forward in managing earthquake risk, benefiting from an immense volume of new scientific research and data to provide the most comprehensive and granular view of seismic risk
NEWARK, Calif. - June 08, 2017 RMS, a global risk modeling and analytics firm, today announced the release of its version 17.0 RMS North America Earthquake Models, covering the United States, Canada, and Mexico. RMS invested over 100 person-years of research and development into its comprehensive release, which now offers the highest quality implementation of earthquake science and data available in the (re)insurance industry. The updated model will enable RMS clients to manage their risk accumulations with more confidence and underwrite a better book of business.
Mohsen Rahnama, chief risk modeling officer at RMS, said: “The quality of the updated model is extraordinary and we overcame significant technical and computational challenges to deliver one which is suitable for not only portfolio management and risk transfer, but individual, more granular risk selection – all on a consistent and coherent basis. The model affords clients the rigorous insights needed to use capacity more efficiently, and successfully compete in today’s market environment.”
The reference point for the updated RMS® United States Earthquake Model is the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) 2014 national seismic hazard model, which incorporates the most comprehensive representation of earthquake hazards to date. Not only did RMS actively collaborate with the USGS, its implementation preserved fidelity to the USGS model while maintaining practical run-times without taking short-cuts. The developers achieved this by using a rich, optimized selection of the potential events across the spectrum. It means, for example, that the modeled average annual loss (AAL) and return period hazard in the RMS model remain true to those predicted by the full USGS event set – as does the tail risk.
A key insight of the updated RMS model is that it captures what is now understood to be the potential for larger and more correlated seismic events in California, as well as new views of risk across all the regions of the U.S. The model now includes induced seismicity, making it the first available tool on the market for analyzing property risks from man-made earthquakes across Oklahoma, Kansas, Ohio, Arkansas, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico and Alabama. This functionality will allow clients of RMS to consider risks from earthquakes linked to oil and gas extraction.
The RMS® Canada Earthquake Model incorporates an updated historical earthquake catalog, spanning nearly 400 years, and other hazard data from the Geological Survey of Canada. The model includes all ten provinces as well as the three Canadian territories. It also features a new Vancouver Basin Model to better capture the complex shaking amplification caused by the deep layers of soft, sedimentary rock in the area, in addition to a new suite of tsunami accumulation footprints for the west coast of Canada. This feature is also included in the U.S. Model for the west coast of the U.S.
The RMS® Mexico Earthquake Model includes an updated, time-dependent view of the Mexico Subduction Zone that considers recent earthquakes and their impact on the likelihood of future events. In addition, there is increased definition of regional vulnerability in design and building practices, including seven micro-zones in Mexico City, with vulnerability regions at 100-meter resolution.
The framework for all three North America Earthquake Models is consistent, to offer firms greater ability to differentiate risk across the U.S., Canada and Mexico, using the new high resolution approach to characterizing local soil conditions and their impact on ground motion amplification. RMS has also invested huge resources in an improved liquefaction model for the U.S., Canada and Mexico, that leverages data from billions in claims made following the Canterbury Earthquake Sequences in New Zealand, the second most expensive insured earthquake loss ever, globally.
RiskLink Version 17.0 updates are concurrently available within Risk Modeler on the RMS(one)® platform.
Further details of how RMS implemented the latest USGS research and data in its version 17.0 North America Earthquake Models can be found here.
RMS Estimates that Total Insured Losses from the 2020 Western U.S. Wildfires Will Be Between US$7bn – US$13bn
Newark, CA – December 15, 2020 – RMS, the world’s leading catastrophe risk solutions company, estimates insured losses from the record-breaking western U.S. wildfires this season will be between US$7.0 and US$13.0 billion. These losses reflect estimates as of December 1, 2020 and represent an update from the previously estimated losses from fires up to September 20, 2020. The ignition of the highly damaging Glass Fire and additional spread of the CZU and LNU Complex Fires represent the most notable activity in California since September 20. RMS insured losses represent estimates from major wildfires in California, Oregon, Washington, and Colorado at December 1, 2020: Region Insured Losses (USD $ bn) as of 1 December, 2020 Northern California Oregon and Washington Colorado 5.0 - 9.0 1.0 - 3.0 Up to 1.0 The RMS estimate includes losses from property damage, including evacuation and smoke damage, business interruption (BI), and additional living expenses (ALE) across residential, commercial, and industrial lines. Smoke and evacuation are expected to be significant contributors to losses for the wildfires this season, contributing about 20 percent of losses in California and Colorado and about 35 percent in Oregon and Washington. The estimate also accounts for notable post-event loss amplification (PLA) from property damage (25 to 30 percent) and business interruption/ALE (up to 100 percent or greater). The RMS loss estimate is based on detailed modeling of fire spread, ember accumulations, and smoke dispersion of the fires utilizing the U.S. Wildfire High-Definition (HD) Model, part of the North America Wildfire HD Model suite, released in February, 2019. The model covers the entire contiguous U.S. and explicitly simulates ember and smoke to support detailed analysis of the impact of a wildfire beyond historical fire perimeters. The model’s findings were supported by Damage Inspection Specialist (DINS) damage surveys for California Fires, published damage reports from federal and respective state agencies for the Oregon, Washington, and Colorado fires, and the RMS U.S. Wildfire Industry Exposure Database. Michael Young, Vice President, Product Management said: “2020 represents the most destructive fire season on record, in terms of burn area in California. Since August, 69 major fires that exceeded 1,000 burned acres each, have burned so far. Five of the six largest ever California wildfires have occurred in 2020, with over 4.4 million acres burned in total to date. While fires earlier in the season were dominated by ignitions sparked by the intense lightning storm in August, extreme wind-driven fires dominated the last few months. A similar phenomenon resulted in record-breaking fires in Oregon as well this season, with over 20 major fires driven by extreme winds, burning more than 1.2 million acres so far. In October, Colorado experienced its three largest destructive fires with more than 24 major fires burning 850,000 acres in total. Rajkiran Vojjala, Vice President, Model Development said: “This wildfire season reaffirms the growing catastrophic nature of this peril. Wildfire risk is clearly evolving, not only in California, but also in other states, as we observed in Oregon and Colorado. While changing climate patterns have significantly influenced the record-breaking fires this season, several other factors also profoundly affected the ignition potential and expected losses from these events in different ways. Most notable amongst them are the Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) measures undertaken by utilities, preparedness and response of firefighters in Northern California despite COVID-19 challenges, and recent legislative actions governing wildfire claims settlement such as the California Senate Bill 872. RMS is currently engaged with various stakeholders in evaluating these factors and understanding their impact on the emerging risk profile of this peril as part of its wildfire modeling agenda.” END The technology and data used in providing this information is based on the scientific data, mathematical and empirical models, and encoded experience of scientists and specialists. As with any model of physical systems, particularly those with low frequencies of occurrence and potentially high severity outcomes, the actual losses from catastrophic events may differ from the results of simulation analyses. RMS SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL RESPONSIBILITIES, OBLIGATIONS AND LIABILITY WITH RESPECT TO ANY DECISIONS OR ADVICE MADE OR GIVEN AS A RESULT OF THE INFORMATION OR USE THEREOF, INCLUDING ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL RMS (OR ITS PARENT, SUBSIDIARY, OR OTHER AFFILIATED COMPANIES) BE LIABLE FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES WITH RESPECT TO ANY DECISIONS OR ADVICE MADE OR GIVEN AS A RESULT OF THE CONTENTS OF THIS INFORMATION OR USE THEREOF.
RMS Collaborates with Willis Re and Securian Financial on Launching the First Indemnity-Based Mortality Catastrophe Bond
London, UK – 23rd Nov, 2020 – RMS, the world’s leading catastrophe risk modeling company, collaborated with Willis Re Securities and Securian Financial to launch the new La Vie Re Limited (Series 2020-1) mortality catastrophe bond providing US$100m of reinsurance protection for Minnesota Life Insurance Company, a Securian Financial affiliate. RMS acted as the modeling agent on the cat bond transaction, providing a view of the risk covered by the bond to investors. RMS used its suite of excess mortality and morbidity models, covering infectious disease pandemics, terrorism, earthquakes, and other perils, including a contribution to the expected loss from the COVID-19 pandemic. Covering the U.S., this is the first indemnity 144A excess mortality bond that models the cedants’ portfolio on a loss ratio basis. The notes being issued by La Vie Re were launched to cat bond investors, and the full US$100m principal was achieved with a coupon price of 2.85%. Jin Shah, Client Director, RMS, said: “Investors have warmly welcomed Securian Financial as a new sponsor to the ILS market. Likewise, RMS is pleased to support another new issuer secure reinsurance protection from the ILS market with a novel structure and trigger. Using our life risk modeling capabilities, RMS developed an indemnity trigger on loss ratios and supported investors’ understanding of the risk, especially on the contribution from the current COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic outlooks reflect the latest research on vaccine availability, efficacy and distribution, and how this may mitigate the impact of a second, winter wave of COVID-19 infections threatening regions where strict social distancing measures have been relaxed. It was a pleasure to collaborate with Securian Financial and Willis Re Securities and it’s great to see the ILS market continue to support innovation in the market.”
RMS Appoints Pat McCarthy as Executive Vice President of Sales and Client Development
NEWARK, CA – October 27, 2020 – RMS, the world’s leading catastrophe risk modeling company, announces the appointment of Patrick (Pat) McCarthy as Executive Vice President of Sales and Client Development, with immediate effect. Pat will lead this global organization for RMS, and brings a successful track record of delivering meaningful innovations and high-value solutions to some of the world’s most revered enterprises. Pat joins RMS from SAP, where most recently he was Senior Vice President and General Manager of SAP’s Ariba and Fieldglass businesses, focused on enterprise supply chain optimization and risk reduction. He also supported customers as they moved from legacy solutions to SaaS, always with an eye on value creation. Pat had been at SAP for 15 years in various senior roles including as COO for a large part of the US business, the Midwest Market Unit. Prior to SAP, Pat spent seven years at Oracle in various leadership roles spanning sales, industry, and solution roles in its JD Edwards and PeopleSoft businesses. Pat started his career with ten years at Frito-Lay and Pepsi-Co, where he held several management roles. Pat will report directly to RMS CEO, Karen White. Karen White, Chief Executive Officer at RMS, said: “Pat is joining at an exciting and challenging time in our industry and at RMS. He is exceptionally strategic and has earned his stellar reputation for bringing mission-critical innovations and solutions to global customers. Pat’s impressive approach to deeply understanding the markets and enterprise customers he serves, with an eye on helping them to innovate and on their business outcomes, is aligned with RMS’s mission to be a strong strategic partner for our customers. Pat’s formidable experience supporting global customers as they leveraged leading-edge technology and solutions to advance their businesses will be a great asset to RMS and the customers we serve.” Pat McCarthy added: “I’m very excited to be joining RMS as it’s an honor to work for a company so focused on building resilience into businesses and economies. For 30 years, RMS’s science and models have been the most trusted view of risk in the industry. It’s more important now than ever before that clients have access to the best modeling science and platforms, helping them drive business results that exceed their expectation. I’m pleased to be leading a team that continues to leverage our core strengths and simultaneously maps out a future with our clients that leverages innovations and the latest science as we tackle the future of risk.”
About RMS
Risk Management Solutions, Inc. (RMS) helps insurers, financial markets, corporations, and public agencies evaluate and manage global risk from natural and man-made catastrophes, including hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, climate change, cyber, and pandemics.
RMS helped pioneer the catastrophe risk industry, and continues to lead in innovation by marrying data and advanced model science with leading-edge SaaS technology. Leaders across multiple industries can address the risks of tomorrow with RMS Risk Intelligence™ (RI), our open, unified cloud platform for global risk, enabling them to tap into RMS HD models, rich data layers, intuitive applications, and APIs.
Further supporting the industry's transition to modern risk management, RMS spearheaded the Risk Data Open Standard (RDOS), a new modern open standard data schema designed to be an extensible, flexible, and future-proof asset within modeling/analysis systems.
RMS is a trusted solutions partner enabling effective risk management for better business decision making across risk identification and selection, mitigation, underwriting, and portfolio management.
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This week: FDA accepts IND for gene-edited sickle cell therapy and severe hemophilia A patients targeted in phase I/II study.
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Novo Nordisk renews focus on stem cell therapies
FDA accepts IND for gene-edited cell therapy to treat sickle cell disease
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Novo Nordisk (Denmark) has announced that it will be increasing its interest into stem cell therapies and expanding the indications of interest from type 1 diabetes to other chronic diseases. Through a collaboration with the University of California San Francisco (CA, USA), researchers will work together to derive cell lines that they hope will become a new quality standard for the production of cell-based therapies.
“Finding a cure for diabetes is part of Novo Nordisk’s vision and recent progress in our stem cell research and the access to robust and high-quality cell lines raises hopes for people with type 1 diabetes. Our collaboration with UCSF is also expected to accelerate current and future partnerships to develop stem cell-based therapies for treatment of other serious chronic diseases”, said Mads Krogsgaard Thomsen, executive vice president and chief science officer of Novo Nordisk.
Collaborators Bioverativ Inc. (MA, USA) and Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc. (CA, USA) have had their Investigational New Drug application for BIVV003, a gene-edited cell therapy for the treatment of sickle cell disease, accept by the FDA. BIVV003 utilizes zinc finger nucleases to modify a section of the BCL11A gene, suppressing sickle hemoglobin production, and was developed as part of a collaboration to develop gene-edited cell therapies for both sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia.
“This acceptance marks the second IND for this gene-editing approach in less than a year, and the first for a gene-edited therapy in sickle cell disease,” said Ken Huttner, Vice President, Clinical Development at Bioverativ. “We look forward to advancing the program into clinical trials.”
“Sickle cell disease is a lifelong blood disorder with serious, painful and debilitating complications, and patients deserve new, more effective treatment options,” said Ed Conner,Chief Medical Officer at Sangamo. “We believe the precision, efficiency and specificity of zinc finger nuclease technology differentiate BIVV003 from other genomic therapies in development.”
Kite (CA, USA), a Gilead company, has leased a new 117,000 square-foot site in Hoofddorp (the Netherlands) to manufacture and deliver its cell therapies to patients in Europe, include Yescarta. In addition, Kite has also purchased a new building in Santa Monica (CA, USA) to be used for research and development, and has leased a facility in Gaithersburg (MD, USA)
“We are pleased to be leading a new frontier of cancer innovation that is bringing hope for people living with cancer,” commented John F. Milligan, Gilead’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “This new European manufacturing facility will enable personalized cell therapies to be manufactured in closer geographic proximity to the patients who will receive them, potentially shortening the turnaround time for people who urgently need care.”
BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. (CA, USA) is targeting patients with severe hemophilia A with pre-existing AAV5 antibodies in a phase I/II study evaluating an investigational gene therapy, valoctocogene roxaparvovec. The study, in which the first patient has been dosed, will treat two titer cohorts with a 6e13 vg/kg dose. Valoctocogene roxaparvovec is also being evaluated in patients without pre-existing AAV5 antibodies.
“Administration of valoctocogene roxaparvovec to this first patient seropositive for the AAV5 capsid is an important next step in our plan to expand the number and types of severe hemophilia A patients who may benefit from gene therapy and have antibodies to the vector,” said Hank Fuchs, President, Worldwide Research and Development at BioMarin.
“The goal with this study is to determine if patients that already have antibodies to AAV5 can be effectively treated with valoctocogene roxaparvovec. Our objective is to develop a therapy with the potential to eliminate the need for chronic treatment in severe hemophilia A across all patient sub-groups.”
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Dear Chairs Lawn and Finegold,
Thank you for conveying today’s virtual hearing to consider legislation to expand and protect the right to vote during this public health emergency. I am heartened many of the bills before the committee share common ground. I write in support of a final committee bill which promotes voter registration, universal vote by mail, and other policies to support equity and public health, which can be found in HD.5075, An Act ensuring safe and participatory 2020 state elections in response to COVID-19 filed by Representatives Lawn and Moran, HD5077, An Act to establish safe, accessible, and fair elections filed by Representative Gouveia, and S2654, An Act establishing vote by mail in 2020 filed by Senator Rausch.
First, we must make registering to vote safe, easy, and accessible through both election day registration and by easing requirements for online voter registration. Voter registration is one of the most important aspects of guaranteeing ballot access even before a vote is cast. The harder it is to register to vote, the less likely it is for potential voters to cast their ballot. During this time many college students may be particularly impacted – students who typically live close to their campuses may now be staying at home. Similarly, housing insecure and low-income residents may soon be living in a new precinct, city, or town in the hopes of lowering their housing costs while protecting their health and taking care of their families. Many residents who may be unable to register in-person at their clerk’s office may find additional barriers to register through our online system which requires a Massachusetts ID. For these reasons, I advocate a final committee bill include provisions relating to same day registration and greater accessibility of online registration.
We know participation is highest when processes are easy, efficient and accessible for all users. With that in mind I advocate for universal mail in voting, with an opt-out provision for those who wish to vote in person. For General Elections, every voter in the Commonwealth should simply be mailed a postage prepaid ballot before the election, instead of having to register for one. Likewise for Primaries voters registered with a party would receive the appropriate ballot automatically and Unenrolled voters would request the ballot of their choice, easily through an online portal or by mail. Steps should be taken so that those with disabilities such as vision impairment are able to participate as well. This process should be as manageable and intuitive as possible.
Our cities and towns also need additional resources. The Secretary should issue guidance to municipalities on best practices for keeping polling places safe during election day and in-person early voting. To account for people not able or willing to mail in their ballots we should expand access to early voting to include weekend and evening hours for the Primary and General elections. Municipalities should also provide at least one curbside voting option, an approach lauded by disability advocacy groups as a useful mechanism to improve ballot access, and one we are seeing in other states.
Given the circumstances of the COVID19 pandemic, now more than ever the Legislature must take swift action so that no resident would have to decide between their health or their participation in our democracy. I respectfully urge you to include all of the above policy strategies as you work to report a bill out favorably. Thank you for your consideration.
Yours in service,
Rep. Mike Connolly
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Trump administration programme to test expanded drone use
By David Shepardson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump launched a programme on Wednesday to expand testing of drones to include flights over people, nighttime operations and flights out of sight of the operator, the White House said.
U.S. President Donald Trump stands during a joint statement with Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the White House in Washington, DC, U.S. October 23, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
The pilot programme aims to speed up the integration of unmanned aerial vehicles into the national airspace system and test drone detection and tracking while waiving some limits on their use.
Under a memorandum signed by Trump on Wednesday, states and local governments would be able to seek Federal Aviation Administration approval for testing and expanded use. The White House stopped short of proposing new regulations that would allow broader nationwide use of drones or any timetable for new authority.
White House adviser Michael Kratsios told reporters the “programme will open the skies for delivery of life-saving medicines and commercial packages, inspections of critical infrastructure, support for emergency management operations.”
Kratsios said the programme would allow companies and governments to operate drones in ways that are currently restricted by the FAA “including beyond-visual-line-of-sight flights, nighttime operations, and flights over people.”
Alphabet Inc and Amazon.com Inc are among a growing number of companies hoping to make package delivery by drones a reality.
The memo said the Transportation Department could allow drone flights at up to 400 feet with the goal of approving at least five pilot projects. The programme would expire in three years.
In 2016, the Obama administration opened the skies to low-level small drones for education, research and routine commercial use, but left in place significant restrictions.
The FAA estimates by 2021 the fleet of small hobbyist drones will more than triple and commercial drones will grow tenfold to about 442,000.
In June, Trump told drone executives the administration wants “to create new companies and lots of jobs... We’re going to give you the competitive advantage that you need.”
In attendance were chief executives of drone companies including Kespry Inc, AirMap, Airspace Inc, Measure UAS Inc, Trumbull Unmanned, and Precision Hawk Inc.
Drone manufacturers have argued that the administration should move faster to approve broader commercial use of drones and noted that the Transportation Department does pre-approve self-driving vehicle technologies.
But security concerns remain.
In September, a civilian drone struck and damaged a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter near Staten Island, New York.
This month, a drone hit an airplane landing at a Quebec City airport, the first time an unmanned flying object collided with commercial aircraft in Canada.
The FAA has banned drone flights over 133 U.S. military facilities and over 10 U.S. landmarks, including the Statue of Liberty in New York and Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota, at the request of national security and law enforcement agencies.
The memo said that the Transportation Department would coordinate with the Defense Department, Homeland Security and Justice Department to consider public safety and national security risks in approving pilot projects.
The Commercial Drone Alliance said it was “optimistic that the programme will become a model for overcoming some of the hurdles keeping the full potential of commercial drones from being realized.”
Senator John Thune, a Republican, said the new policy “provides sensible direction that promotes drone safety, innovation, and local input.”
Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Howard Goller
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Kyle Sinckler reveals the effect that Covid-19 has had on his move to Bristol
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https://www.rugbypass.com/news/kyle-sinckler-frankly-reveals-the-effect-that-covid-19-has-has-on-his-move-to-bristol/
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England prop Kyle Sinckler has candidly revealed the full effect that the world pandemic has had on his high-profile move to Bristol Bears.
The 27-year-old prop revealed many of his thoughts and feelings from a truncated season of rugby in Maro Itoje’s brand new podcast, Maro Itoje: Pearl Conversations.
Sinckler was Itoje’s very first guest in this new series, with the Lions prop speaking in-depth about life outside of rugby, the 2019 Rugby World Cup and his future in the sport.
Introducing… Pearl Conversations, @maroitoje‘s podcast series ?.
Episode 1?? with Kyle Sinckler is out now so hit the link below.
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— Saracens Rugby Club (@Saracens) June 30, 2020
Bristol Bears announced the signing of the British & Irish Lion Sinckler in January on a two-year deal.
The 27-year-old– who joins from Harlequins in a matter of weeks – has 31 caps for England and represented his country at the 2019 Rugby World Cup.
The deal is reported to be worth in the region of £500,000 a year.
In the conversation with Itoje, Sinckler spoke about the logistical problems that Covid-19 had on his move to Bristol.
Maro Itoje asked Sinckler, “How has this affected your move to Bristol, if at all?”.
‘It’s been a bit tricky really because my contract ends at the end of June and on July 1, I’m a Bristol player. With the uncertainty about what is going to happen with the Premiership, the situation could arise where there is one week where I am playing for Harlequins and then the next week playing a game for Bristol. It would be difficult from a logistical point of view but life is about problem-solving and putting things in priority.’
The former Harlequins man appears to be well aware of the effect that the pandemic has had on the rugby world, especially on a domestic level.
The 26-year-old– who joins from Harlequins in the summer of 2020 – has 31 caps for England, representing his country at the 2019 Rugby World Cup. pic.twitter.com/XIphuyCHmd
— RugbyPass (@RugbyPass) January 27, 2020
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On behalf of Anthony M. Salerno, P.C. | May 15, 2017 | Drug Charges
On May 2, a 58-year-old Massachusetts pastor was taken into custody after authorities found drugs, stolen property and cash during a search of his home and church. He reportedly ran a 12-step substance abuse program at his church.
Authorities obtained a search warrant for the man’s home, the Mission Church and Victoria’s Kitchen Food Trailer. The church and food trailer were located in the 200 block of Quincy Street in Dorchester. During a search of the three locations, the officers alleged that they recovered 34 grams of coke, 11 grams of fentanyl and a variety of prescription pills. The authorities also reportedly recovered property that had been reported as stolen and about $10,400 in cash.
The pastor was charged with drug trafficking and possession with intent to distribute drugs, among other offenses. He was arraigned the following day and his bail was set to $50,000. Additionally, he was required to stay in the state and wear a GPS monitor once he is released on bail. His next court date was scheduled to be June 1.
People who are convicted on drug trafficking charges could suffer serious legal consequences, such as incarceration, expensive fines and a period of probation once they are released from prison. However, they also face losing their employment and may be required to forfeit some of their assets. In some cases, a criminal law attorney may challenge the search warrant the authorities obtained on the basis that the search went beyond its scope. Counsel may also look for other technicalities in the case that could result in a dismissal of the charges.
Source: Metro, “Boston pastor charged with drug trafficking“, Kristin Toussaint, May 3, 2017
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Hometown Happenings with George Hoehmann, Supervisor, Town of Clarkstown
Honoring Those Who Honor Us
Last year, the Town of Clarkstown became the first Town in New York to launch a banner program to honor our local veterans and those currently serving our nation in the United States Armed Forces. Residents or businesses can sponsor a veteran or active duty service member with a military tribute banner. The banners will be displayed on the light posts in downtown Central Nyack, Congers, Nanuet, New City, and West Nyack from Memorial Day to Veterans Day.
Every banner honors a different veteran or active duty service member by displaying their photo, branch of service, and military service information. Local families and businesses can sponsor a banner which are given to the family or sponsor after Veteran’s day.
For me, the best part about this program has been meeting the veterans themselves each humbled by the recognition as well as the proud children and spouses of veterans, and parents of the brave young men and women currently serving our nation today. Each family has heartfelt memories and stories of their loved one and their service. I have enjoyed meeting with all of them, putting together their banners, and learning about their loved ones. One resident, Mrs. Okerland honored both her husband, a WWII veteran and her father, a WWI veteran. Her remembrance of their sacrifices long ago was touching.
The banners are a small way we, as a community, can acknowledge the sacrifice many of our neighbors have made serving our Country. Our local veterans and active duty service members are our true heroes, and this program allows Clarkstown to proudly honor them all throughout the Town.
Susan Branam, Deputy Director of the Rockland County Veteran’s Service Agency, said the following about the program, “I think it’s wonderful to have this banner program because it’s so important and so powerful for the community to accept veterans and make us part of the community and I think the banners recognize our service.”
I have received numerous emails and pictures from family members who surprised their loved ones by taking them to Main Street to see their banner proudly displayed. It has been wonderful to see family and friends gathering in downtown to admire the banners and most importantly pay tribute to their heroes.
It gives me great pride to know that our veterans and service members feel appreciated in Clarkstown. Thank you to all the families and businesses who have participated in the program. Our partnership will continue to prove our commitment to veterans, service members, and their families.
We hope you will consider joining us in honoring those who have honored us. For more information about the program or to sponsor a banner, please call my office or visit www.clarkstown.org and click the military tribute banners logo.
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2020 · December 9, 2016
Review | Fire in You by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Fire in You by J. Lynn, Jennifer L. Armentrout
Series | Wait for You #6
Release Date | November 28, 2016
Genres | New Adult, Second Chance
Format | eBook
From the # 1 New York Times and International bestselling author, Jennifer L. Armentrout writing as J. Lynn, comes a richly moving story about heartbreak and guilt, second chances and hope. Full of familiar, fan-favorite characters and no two people more deserving of a happy ending, Fire In You will burn bright beyond the last page…
Jillian Lima’s whole world was destroyed in a span of a few hours. The same night her childhood love, Brock ‘the Beast’ Mitchell, broke her heart, her life was irrevocably altered by the hand of a stranger with a gun. It takes six years to slowly glue together the shattered pieces of her life, but Jillian is finally ready to stop existing in a past full of pain and regret. She takes a job at her father’s martial arts Academy and she’s going out on her first date since a failed relationship that was more yuck than yum. Jillian is determined to start living.
She just never expected Brock to be a part of her life again. But he’s firmly back in her life before she knows it, and not only is he older, he’s impossibly more handsome, more teasing and more everything. And when he sees Jillian, he’s no longer capable of thinking of her as the little girl who was his shadow growing up or the daughter of the man who gave him a second chance at life. He sees the woman who’d always been there for him, the one person who believed in him no matter what.
Brock knows she’s the one he should’ve made his, and what begins as a tentative friendship quickly turns to red-hot chemistry that sparks a flame that burns brighter than lust. Falling for Brock again risks more than her heart, because when the past sorrow-filled and guilt-ridden past resurfaces, and a web of lies threatens to rip them apart, the fallout could lay waste to everything they’ve fought to build together, and destroy the dreams of those they care most about.
I’m all about second chance romances and I knew I’d be in for a treat with this one. It’s been a while since I’ve read the Wait for You series, so I definitely need to do a re-read. However, this one was a much-needed read to delve back into the world of not only this series, but the works of JLA.
Oh, Jillian. Pretty sure I liked here from the very beginning and as you learn about her past, you can’t help but just admire her. But that one night that completely changed her life, pieces of her taken away from her, but most of all, she lost someone she deeply cared about, Brock.
And then years later, Brock is thrown back into her life and she can’t but wonder what the hell is going on? There’s obviously something more going on to this reunion than what’s being said; as the story goes on a little by little, things will be revealed. Past Jillian and Brock are completely different than present. Jillian has walls that she put up for the right reasons, she wants to make more of her live. She came back to work for her dad, and surprise, surprise, someone else does to.
Brock is back in Jillian’s life whether she likes it or not, and he’s quite persistent on being in her life. Man, is he ever! He really doesn’t give up. I totally side with Jillian, I don’t know how could ever forgive someone like Brock or just want him back in your life. There were times where I simply thought was just trying too hard, but Jillian, bless her heart, never gave in too quickly. And I would do the exact same! You gotta earn it, buddy.
However, I did love their story and just seeing them repair their lives together. It’s evident that the love between them is so deep. You definitely can’t change the past, even though I’m sure Brock would if he could. But then we’d probably have a very different story. In order for them to move on, they had to relive the moments that happened between them. As painful as it was, they made, emotionally so. It had me at tears!
I’m sad to see this series come to an end, which means that re-read is well overdue. Their story tucked on my heart so much, Brock may have not been my favorite, but I loved Jillian. She endured so much and came out the victor! It’s completely admirable.
Another well done, Armentrout!
About Jennifer L. Armentrout
#1 New York Times and #1 International Bestselling author Jennifer lives in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. All the rumors you’ve heard about her state aren’t true. When she’s not hard at work writing. she spends her time reading, watching really bad zombie movies, pretending to write, hanging out with her husband and her Border Jack Apollo, six judgemental alpacas, two rude goats, and five fluffy sheep. In early 2015, Jennifer was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a group of rare genetic disorders that involve a breakdown and death of cells in the retina, eventually resulting in loss of vision, among other complications. Due to this diagnosis, educating people on the varying degrees of blindness has become of passion of hers, right alongside writing, which she plans to do as long as she can.
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The Criminology of War
Ruth Jamieson
Published March 20, 2014 by Routledge
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The essays selected for this volume provide an overview of the range of issues confronting scholars interested in the complex and multiple relationships between war and criminality, and map the many connections between war, security, governmentality, punishment, gender and crime. The collection draws on the recent theoretical advances made by both criminologists and scholars from cognate disciplines such as law, politics, anthropology and gender studies, in order to open out criminological thinking about what war is, how it is related to crime and how these war/crime relationships reach into peace. The volume features contributions from key thinkers in the field and serves as a valuable resource for academics and students with an interest in the criminology of war.The essays selected for this volume provide an overview of the range of issues confronting scholars interested in the complex and multiple relationships between war and criminality, and map the many connections between war, security, governmentality, punishment, gender and crime. The collection draws on the recent theoretical advances made by both criminologists and scholars from cognate disciplines such as law, politics, anthropology and gender studies, in order to open out criminological thinking about what war is, how it is related to crime and how these war/crime relationships reach into peace. The volume features contributions from key thinkers in the field and serves as a valuable resource for academics and students with an interest in the criminology of war.
Contents: Introduction. Part I Criminologists on War: For criminology in international criminal justice, Paul Roberts and Nesam McMillan; Towards a criminology of crimes against humanity, Daniel Maier-Katkin, Daniel P. Mears and Thomas J. Bernard; Criminalizing war: criminology as ceasefire, Vincenzo Ruggiero; Criminology confronts genocide: whose side are you on?, John Hagan and Wenona Rymond-Richmond. Part II Transformations of War: Shadows and sovereigns, Carolyn Nordstrom; War as a network enterprise: the new security terrain and its implications, Mark Duffield; The transformation of violence in Iraq, Penny Green and Tony Ward. Part III Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: Violence without moral restraint: reflections on the dehumanization of victims and victimizers, Herbert C. Kelman; Sociology after the Holocaust, Zygmunt Bauman; Genocide, civilization and modernity, Michael Freeman; Genocide and the social production of immorality, Ruth Jamieson. Part IV Normative Transformations: Abu Ghraib: imprisonment and the war on terror, Avery F. Gordon; Neither honesty nor hypocrisy: the legal reconstruction of torture, Stanley Cohen; Representing war as punishment in the war on terror, Teresa Degenhardt. Part V Gender and War: War and rape: a preliminary analysis, Ruth Seifert; The body of the other man, Dubravka Zarkov; From sisterhood to non-recognition: instrumentalization of women’s suffering in the war in the former Yugoslavia, Vesna Nikoli-Ristanovi; A continuum of violence: gender, war and peace, Cynthia Cockburn; Recognising gender-based violence against civilian men and boys in conflict situations, R. Charli Carpenter. Part VI Militarized Masculinities: No more heroes: masculinity in the infantry, John Hockey; ’I didn’t want to die so I joined them’: structuration and the process of becoming boy soldiers in Sierra Leone, Richard Maclure and Myriam Denov; Bureaucratizing masculinities among Brazilian torturers and murderers, Martha K. Huggins and
Ruth Jamieson is an Honorary Lecturer in the School of Law at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Criminal Law & Practice
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An episode of Uncommon Sense∙Aired on 22 September 2020∙Presented by Amy Mullins
Uncommon Sense – 22 September 2020
Listen to Uncommon Sense – 22 September 202003:00:00∙22 September 2020
RMIT’s Dr Emma Shortis joined Amy to discuss the life of feminist icon and US Supreme Court Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg - who died on Friday. They also discuss the implications of her passing on the looming US Presidential Election, and the latest in US politics. Nic Maclellan, Pacific affairs correspondent for Inside Story magazine, talks about the upcoming independence referendum in New Caledonia, as well as news from Pacific island nations, including how they are managing in the COVID-19 pandemic. Plus Ben Eltham on the week in federal politics.
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Long-form conversations about politics and current events, international affairs, history, art, books, and the natural world, to illuminate the issues faced by society and explore them in new ways.
About the Presenter: Amy Mullins is a broadcaster, board member, historian, and speaker. Amy presents and produces the content of Uncommon Sense on Melbourne's Triple R FM. She was the Executive Director of the Women’s Leadership Institute Australia for over four years.
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2020 INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS
LISTEN: Matthew Sharpe, philosopher and academic, on philosophy and evil, and Martin Heidegger’s 'Black Notebooks' and his associations with anti-Semitic and Nazi ideology. Plus the ideas underpinning existentialism, stoicism, and the work of Albert Camus (February 4)
LISTEN: Alexandra Phelan, global health lawyer from Georgetown University, on what we need know about the deadly coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan that continues to spread within China, and across the world (February 4)
LISTEN: Elisabetta Ferrari, Italian studies academic, on Italian cinema great Vittorio De Sica and his iconic film, BICYCLE THIEVES (1948) (February 11)
LISTEN: Kevin Tolhurst, leading fire ecologist, on the science of bushfire behaviour, what we've learned from Australia's past 57 bushfire inquiries and royal commissions, and how we should manage the land (February 11)
LISTEN: Will Shank and Antonio Rava, international art conservators, on their restoration of the famous Keith Haring mural in Collingwood, as well as other Haring murals in Paris, Pisa, and Amsterdam (February 18)
LISTEN: Alison Pouliot, ecologist, natural historian and photographer, on The Allure of Fungi (February 25)
LISTEN: Gordon Hamilton, composer, on composing a symphony in Antarctica, Far South (March 3)
LISTEN: Jessica Whyte, philosopher and academic, on The Morals of the Market: Human Rights & the Rise of Neoliberalism (March 3)
LISTEN: Bill Bowtell, public health adviser from UNSW, examines Australia's response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic (March 17)
LISTEN: Nick Talley, neurogastroenterologist and Editor of The Medical Journal of Australia, on Australia's healthcare system and COVID-19 (March 31)
LISTEN: David G. Haskell, biologist and writer, on The Songs of Trees: Stories From Nature's Great Connectors (March 31)
LISTEN: Antony Dapiran, Hong Kong-based lawyer and writer, on his book, City on Fire: the Fight for Hong Kong (April 7)
LISTEN: David Quammen, American science writer, on his 2012 book, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, how dangerous viruses 'spillover' from animals into humans, and why they have been occurring more and more since the 1960s. Plus how we knew a pandemic like COVID-19 was coming (May 5)
LISTEN: Sy Montgomery, naturalist and writer, on her lifelong relationship with animals and her critically acclaimed books, The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness and How to Be a Good Creature (May 12)
LISTEN: Nicholas Dowse, founder of Honey Fingers, on the emergent intelligence of honey bees, his urban beekeeping practices in Melbourne, the unique bee ecosystem in Australia, "bee culture", and the significance of World Bee Day (May 19)
LISTEN: Rutger Bregman, historian, on his book Humankind: A Hopeful History (June 2)
LISTEN: Mary-Louise McLaws, epidemiologist and member of the World Health Organisation’s Advisory Panel for Infection, Prevention and Control Preparedness and Response to COVID-19, on the evidence for face masks and an elimination strategy to fight COVID-19 (July 14)
LISTEN: Katja Hogendoorn, entomologist and native bee expert, on saving the dazzling Metallic Green Carpenter Bee on Kangaroo Island (August 11)
LISTEN: Cordelia Fine, psychologist and author, on the real science of sex differences and the rise of neurosexism (August 18)
LISTEN: Robert Macfarlane, writer, on his book, Underland: A Deep Time Journey. Robert's previous works, including Mountains of the Mind, The Old Ways, and Landmarks, are also referenced (September 1)
LISTEN: Merlin Sheldrake, biologist and writer, on his book, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures (September 8)
LISTEN: Kate Kirkpatrick, philosopher at Oxford University, on her book, Becoming Beauvoir: A Life (September 15)
LISTEN: Guillaume Pitron, French journalist and author, on his book, The Rare Metals War: The Dark Side of Clean Energy and Digital Technologies (October 6)
LISTEN: Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek finance minister, economist and author, on his book, Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present (October 27)
LISTEN: Tim Flannery, palaeontologist, scientist and author, Europe: A Natural History (February 12)
LISTEN: Marilyn Waring, political economist and former New Zealand MP, on the limits of GDP and counting women's unpaid work (February 19)
LISTEN: Leta Hong Fincher, journalist and scholar, on China's "leftover women" and her book, Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China (March 12)
LISTEN: Christopher R. Browning, renowned Holocaust historian, on his landmark book Ordinary Men, and how civilian members of the Order Police joined with the Einsatzgruppen to commit mass murder in Eastern Europe (March 12)
LISTEN: Australia's first music thanatologist Peter Roberts and filmmaker Farshid Akhlagi, on their documentary From Music Into Silence and Peter's life-calling to play the harp for the sick and dying (April 30)
LISTEN: Philosopher Peter Singer on utilitarianism and his landmark book, Animal Liberation (May 7)
LISTEN: Philosopher and journalist Eleanor Gordon-Smith on her book, Stop Being Reasonable, and what really changes people's minds and perceptions (May 28)
LISTEN: Bill McKibben, author, climate activist and co-founder of 350.org, on his book, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? (June 4)
LISTEN: Antony Dapiran, Hong Kong-based lawyer and author, on the protests in Hong Kong and his book, City of Protest: A Recent History of Dissent in Hong Kong (June 18)
LISTEN: Owen Jones, Guardian UK columnist, activist and author, on the bungling of Brexit, Tory populism and the future of progressive politics (August 6)
LISTEN: John Burns, Emeritus Professor of politics at the University of Hong Kong, on what's really behind the escalating Hong Kong protests and the view from mainland China (August 13)
LISTEN: A.C. Grayling, British philosopher, on the history of (ancient) philosophy, and stopping Brexit (August 13)
LISTEN: Jess Hill, investigative journalist, on her book, See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Abuse, and the radical rethink we need to stop domestic abuse (August 27)
LISTEN: Deborah E. Lipstadt, the historian who famously defeated a Holocaust denier in the UK's High Court, on her new book, Antisemitism: Here and Now (September 3)
LISTEN: Dr Matt McCarthy, New York Infectious-Disease physician and researcher, discusses his book, Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic (September 10)
LISTEN: Bob Brown, Conservationist and former Leader of the Australian Greens, on climate denial in Australia, becoming a climate activist, and the most urgent conservation issues we face (September 17)
LISTEN: Gabrielle Jackson from the Guardian Australia, discusses her book, Pain and Prejudice, and how the medical system gaslights women (September 17)
LISTEN: Bob Gartland, President of the Geelong Football Club, and Jason Smith, Director of the Geelong Gallery, on 160 years of the Geelong Football Club – the second oldest professional sporting club in the world (October 1)
LISTEN: Dr Delia Lin from the University of Melbourne, on the 70 year anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the history of modern China and its political thought (October 1)
LISTEN: Judith Hoare, author and journalist, on the remarkable Australian doctor who changed the field of psychology forever, The Woman Who Cracked The Anxiety Code: The Extraordinary Life of Dr Claire Weekes (October 15)
LISTEN: Shaun Walker, the Guardian's foreign correspondent in Moscow for over a decade, on what he observed from his time in Putin's Russia (October 22)
LISTEN: Thomas Gurnett, Head Cider-Maker at Gurneys Cider in South Gippsland, on the fascinating history, art, and methodology of cider-making (December 17)
LISTEN: Jennifer Brea, US filmmaker of the Oscar-shortlisted documentary Unrest, which chronicles Brea's experience living with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (aka Chronic Fatigue Syndrome), plus a panel discussion with ME patient advocate Anna Kerr, Bio21 Researcher Dr Chris Armstrong and CEO of Emerge, Dr Heidi Nicholl (March 13)
LISTEN: Jim Robbins, New York Times Science Writer and author of The Wonder of Birds (March 13)
LISTEN: Pat Cunnane, Senior Writer and Deputy Director of Messaging for US President Barack Obama, on his new book, West Winging It: An Un-Presidential Memoir (March 20)
LISTEN: Gillian Triggs, Emeritus Professor and former President of the Australian Human Rights Commission on The Decline of Parliamentary Democracy in a Post-Truth Era (March 20)
LISTEN: Mark McKenna, historian and author of the Quarterly Essay, Moment of Truth: History and Australia's Future (March 27)
LISTEN: Daniel Halliday, political philosopher at The University of Melbourne on The Inheritance of Wealth: Justice, Equality and the Right to Bequeath (April 10)
LISTEN: Stuart Kells and Ian D. Gow on their book, The Big Four: The Curious Past and Perilous Future of the Global Accounting Monopoly (April 24)
LISTEN: Brendan Wintle, Director of the Threatened Species Recovery Hub on Australia’s major impending bird and mammal extinctions and what we must do about it (May 1)
LISTEN: Johann Hari, Writer, on his book Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions (May 8)
LISTEN: Nic Maclellan, Pacific journalist and author of Grappling With The Bomb: Britain’s Pacific H-Bomb Tests (May 15)
LISTEN: Hugh Mackay, Social researcher and author of Australia Reimagined: Towards A More Compassionate, Less Anxious Society (May 29)
LISTEN: Bri Lee, Author of Eggshell Skull: A memoir about standing up, speaking out and fighting back (May 29)
LISTEN: Daniel Chamovitz, Plant biologist and author of What A Plant Knows: A Field Guide To The Senses (June 5)
LISTEN: Academic Andrew Macgregor and ACMI programmer Roberta Ciabarra on French nouvelle vague auteur Jean-Luc Godard (June 5)
LISTEN: Don Watson, former speechwriter to Paul Keating, on neoliberalism, the Banking Royal Commission and the language of corporate greed (June 5)
LISTEN: David Christian, Historian and author of Origin Story: A Big History of Everything (June 19)
LISTEN: Kate Rossmanith, Author of Small Wrongs – examining the nature of remorse (June 26)
LISTEN: Karen Jones, philosopher in ethics at the University of Melbourne on the philosophy of trust (August 14)
LISTEN: Barry Jones, public intellectual and former Minister for Science in the Hawke government, spoke about what’s wrong with our political parties and system, plus his and Malcolm Fraser's big idea to solve it (August 28)
LISTEN: Fiona Patten MLC, Politician, Leader of Reason Party, and author of Sex, Drugs and the Electoral Roll (September 11)
LISTEN: Julian Burnside QC, on the threats to multiculturalism in Australia (September 11)
LISTEN: Don Rothwell, Professor of International Law at the ANU, on the international moratorium on commercial whaling and Japan's plans to restart commercial whaling (September 11)
LISTEN: Alex Edney-Browne, on the impact of drone warfare on civilian populations and drone operators (September 18)
LISTEN: Johann Hari, on his best-selling book, Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs (September 25)
LISTEN: Anne Manne, philosopher and feminist, on replacing the 'universal breadwinner' model with a 'universal caregiver' model (September 25)
LISTEN: Greg Champion from the Coodabeen Champions, sings from his published collection of songs, The Thing About Football (October 2)
LISTEN: Jürgen Tautz on his book co-authored with Diedrich Steen, The Honey Factory: Inside the Ingenious World of Bees (October 30)
LISTEN: Anne Summers, feminist and writer, on her new memoir, Unfettered and Alive (November 6)
LISTEN: Ed Hill, conservationist and campaigner on the destructive impact of native forest logging in Victoria (November 13)
LISTEN: Kerry O'Brien, journalist and ABC 7.30 Report legend, on his new political memoir (November 20)
LISTEN: Stuart Kells, author and professional bibliophile, on The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders (November 27)
LISTEN: Parisian author Agnès Poirier on her book, Left Bank: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50 (December 4)
LISTEN: Patrick Mullins, historian and author of Tiberius With A Telephone: The Life and Stories of William McMahon (December 4)
LISTEN: Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate (Jan 17)
LISTEN: Lesley Harding, curator of Making Modernism: O'Keeffe, Preston, Cossington Smith at the Heide Museum of Modern Art (Jan 24)
LISTEN: Lars Kraume, film director of The People vs Fritz Bauer - the true story behind the hunt for Adolf Eichmann (Jan 31)
LISTEN: Fiona Wright, Stella Prize Shortlistee on her Lifted Brow essay There's No Dirt In My Food, our societal obsession with "clean eating" and living with an eating disorder (Jan 31)
LISTEN: Hugh Mackay AO, social researcher, on the importance of community to our health and humanity (Feb 7)
LISTEN: Barry Dickins, author and playwright, on his book Last Words: The Hanging of Ronald Ryan: Unanswered Questions 50 Years On (Feb 7)
LISTEN: Cordelia Fine, psychologist and author, on her book Testosterone Rex: Unmaking The Myths of Our Gendered Minds (Feb 14) *Winner of the 2017 Royal Society Science Book Prize
LISTEN: John Pilger on his documentary The Coming War On China (Feb 14)
LISTEN: Bob Inglis, former US Republican Congressman, on his conversion to climate action and advocacy for a carbon tax (Feb 21)
LISTEN: Carus Thompson, Freo singer-songwriter on his poignant new album Island, his social and political commentary, and played a few songs for us in the studio (Feb 28)
LISTEN: Philosopher A.C. Grayling on the origins and future of humanism, the age of genius, and war (April 18)
LISTEN: UK conservationist Dame Fiona Reynolds on her book, The Fight For Beauty (May 9)
LISTEN: Dr Maryse Helbert on Emmanuel Macron's presidential election win and what's next for Macron and France (May 9)
LISTEN: Renowned political journalist Laura Tingle on her book, In Search of Good Government (May 16)
LISTEN: Professor Robert Jensen from the University of Texas at Austin on his book, The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men (May 30)
LISTEN: Philosopher Clive Hamilton from Charles Sturt University on his book, Defiant Earth: The Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene (July 11)
LISTEN: Professor John Keane from the University of Sydney on the new despotism of the 21st century (July 18)
LISTEN: Professor David Lindemayer AO on the critically endangered Mountain Ash forests of the Central Highlands, Victoria (August 1)
LISTEN: American science writer Jennifer Ackerman on her book, The Genius of Birds (August 29)
LISTEN: Dutch historian Rutger Bregman on his book, Utopia for Realists (September 5)
LISTEN: Associate Professor David Vine from American University, Washington D.C., on his book, Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World (September 12)
LISTEN: Author George Megalogenis on the history of Australian politics, the major parties and their shifting ideologies (October 10)
LISTEN: James Thornton, lawyer and Founding CEO of ClientEarth, a global not-for-profit law firm that represents the planet, on his new book Client Earth (October 17)
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Samuel Bosch
Starting 2020
MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), USA
Incoming Ph.D. Student
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), Switzerland
Master of Science: Physics & Data Science
Master thesis at Harvard University (02/2020 – 08/2020)
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences – Prof. Prineha Narang’s group
Thesis topic: Near Term Quantum Algorithms for Optimization Problems
EPFL Excellence Fellowship (best master’s students in the physics department)
GPA 5.5/6.0 (top ≈ 5%)
Specialization: Quantum Computing & Machine Learning
Associations and Societies:
Founder and President of the Quantum Computing Association
Member of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung)
University of Zagreb, Croatia
Undergraduate studies: Physics
Final GPA: 4.9/5.0
Elected as Student Representative in 2017
Founder of the Debate Society (politics, philosophy, economy, ...)
XV. High school (MIOC), Zagreb, Croatia
Focus on Physics, Math and CS
International Physics Olympiads (IPhO): Kazakhstan 2014, Denmark 2013 and Estonia 2012: 3x Bronze Medal
Award for the best high school graduate in Croatia in 2014 (out of ~40 000 students)
Assist-o, Switzerland & USA (Founder, Owner)
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Assist-o GmbH in Switzerland and Assist-o LLC in Massachusetts
National University of Singapore (Visiting Researcher)
Research in Quantum Optimization Algorithms
Work at the Centre for Quantum Technologies in the group of Dr. Patrick Rebentrost and Prof. Miklos Santha
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland (Research Assistant)
Implementation of optimization and logic synthesis algorithms for Qiskit-Terra (an open source Python library for Quantum Computers maintained by IBM)
Work in the group of Prof. Giovanni de Micheli and Dr. Mathias Soeken
University of California San Diego, USA (Visiting Researcher)
2 publications (ICCAD 2019, ISLPED 2019) & 4 further submitted papers
Machine learning research: Development of fast and energy efficient algorithms for specialized computer architecture
Optimization of algorithms for Natural Language and Human Activity Recognition
EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland + Technical University Vienna, Austria (Internship)
Solid State physics research: discovering and analyzing new materials
Work on Quantum Cryptography algorithms
D. E. Shaw & Co., London, UK & New York City, USA
Monte Carlo simulations of complex derivatives in Python
Modeling changes in the foreign exchange and bond market
Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Research Internship)
1 publication (Climate of the past) & 1 further publication in progress
Data analysis/data mining in Climate science
University of Zagreb, Croatia (Student assistant, Physics competitions)
Organization of the preparations for the International Physics Olympiad
2 of my students won bronze medals at the International Physics Olympiad and received full scholarships for their studies at University of Cambridge
Teaching Physics I & II: Classical Mechanics, Electromagnetism (~80 students)
Mully Children’s Family Orphanage, Kenya (Volunteer work)
Taught computer programming, mathematics and physics to 125 high school students
Organized programming courses for students to give them a chance to see what programming is and motivate them to pursue a career in it, as it requires few resources
Music performance and recording of CDs
Participated as a singer on 3 CD recordings for humanitarian purposes
Participated in 15 humanitarian musicals and concerts as an actor, singer and a technician
COMPETITIONS & AWARDS
1st place at the IBM Qiskit Camp Europe Hackathon 2019
Qiskit – PyTorch integration for Machine Learning
Project available on GitHub
EPFL Excellence fellowship
Awarded to the best master’s students of each department (less than 1%)
Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation)
Awarded to the best ~0.5% students in/from Germany
The selection is based on excellent academic records, social engagements, rhetorical and social skills, academic and sport competitions, and other personal accomplishments.
Selection was based on final exam results, science and sport competitions and social commitment
Bronze medal at the 45th International Physics Olympiad 2014 (Kazakhstan)
1st place at the Croatian National Physics Competition
Bronze medal at the 44th International Physics Olympiad 2013 (Denmark)
1st place at the Croatian Championship in Triathlon
City of Zagreb scholarship
Awarded to the top ≈ 1% students in Zagreb (the capital of Croatia)
Bronze medal at the 45th International Physics Olympiad 2012 (Estonia)
Good in Python and Matlab
Ok with C/C++, Linux, Pascal, scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Git, Qiskit, ...
Full professional proficiency
Bilingual proficiency
SELECTED MEDIA APPEARANCES
* The following articles are in Croatian, so You might need to use Google Translate to understand them.
Article in www.tportal.hr (2014)
Article in dnevnik.hr (2014)
Article in index.hr (2014)
Dnevnik nove TV (the most watched news program in Croatia)
Dobro jutro, Hrvatska (the most watched morning program in Croatia)
Article in www.100posto.hr (2017)
Award from the Croatian minister of education (2013)
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The People Finder is a spooky story about a man who has an uncanny knack for tracking down lost items and missing people.
The People Finder
Seymour Bellow had a strange knack for finding things that other people had lost. He became well-known around town for his unerring ability to track down anything that had been misplaced. Once, while on a picnic in the park, a wealthy woman dropped her gold brooch. Without asking a single question, Seymour walked into the park, groped around in the grass and produced the missing brooch.
Whenever anyone asked him how he did it, Seymour would just reply with a smile, “I’ve got a knack for this sort of thing.”
Often, when he recovered someone’s cherished or valuable possession, they would be so grateful that they would insist on giving him a small reward. Sometimes, his uncanny ability would lead him to find money that people had dropped in the street, which he would keep for himself. This was his only source of income, because for most of his life, he had never done an honest day’s work.
His wife, Marsha, was fed up his irresponsible behavior and grew tired of barely having enough money to put food on the table. She constantly nagged him, demanding to know when he was going to stop being lazy and find a real job. Whenever she criticized him, Seymour would fly into a rage and storm out of the house, slamming the front door behind him.
It wasn’t long before Seymour’s strange knack for finding things became the talk of the town and he found himself in great demand. now and then, the police even contacted him and asked if he would provide his services for a small fee. They called him The People Finder.
One day, a middle-aged woman went missing while out for a walk and, when the police couldn’t track her down, they turned to Seymour for help. Within a few hours, he made his way out to the lake and discovered the woman’s dead body floating face-down in the water. She had been crossing a bridge when she must have lost her footing and fallen in.
On another occasion, a twelve-year old boy ran away from home. Seymour found him hiding out in the woods, living in a makeshift hut and surviving on a diet of beans and stale bread. The boy had a nasty rash caused by poison oak, but at least he was alive. The police were happy to be able to reunite him with his parents.
While Seymour was basking in his new-found fame, his wife was telling him he was the worst husband any woman could wish for. He never repaired the house, never bought her new clothes and never made enough to buy her dinner at a restaurant. Seymour began to find it very difficult to control his temper in the face of his wife’s withering criticism.
As time went on, their arguments became worse and worse. Seymour longed to be rid of his wife and dreamed of spending the rest of his life as a single man. He couldn’t remember why he had married her in the first place and wished she would just drop dead. That way, he would collect a large amount of money from her life insurance and could live comfortably for the rest of his days, without ever having to work again.
It was on a humid Summer night, in the middle of June, that Seymour received another phonecall from the police. They told him that an 18-year old girl had gone out alone on the river with her father’s speedboat and hadn’t returned. The police managed to recover the speedboat, which was damaged, but the girl was nowhere to be found. They said she had been missing for three days.
“Why didn’t you call me sooner?” growled Seymour.
An hour later, he was walking up and down the banks of the river. Shaking his head, he led the police officers down to a marshy spot at a bend in the river. There, they found the missing girl’s body. She was floating in the muddy water, obscured by plants and weeds. Her corpse had been partially devoured by animals.
Apparently, the reckless girl had been going too fast in the speedboat. When the boat crashed, she was thrown out and hit hear head on a rock, knocking her unconcious. She drowned and her body was carried downriver by the currents until it got snagged in the reeds.
The chief of police thanked Seymour and shook his hand. “Without you, we never would have found her,” he said. “At least now, her parents can give her a decent burial.”
That night, when Seymour arrived home, he found his wife packing her bags.
“Where do you think you’re going?” he demanded angrily.
“I’m leaving you,” announced Marsha, her eyes wet with tears. “I can’t stay here a moment longer with a lazy, shiftless, good-for-nothing like you!”
“You’re not going anywhere,” Seymour screamed. His face turned bright red and his hands began to shake with rage. “You’re my wife and that means I own you! The only way you’ll leave me is in a pine box!”
“I rue the day the priest pronounced us man and wife,” she cried. “My father warned me you’d never amount to anything and he was right, God rest his soul!”
With that, Marsha wrenched the wedding ring from her finger and threw it at him. Something inside Seymour snapped. The years of seething anger and resentment finally boiled over. He flew into an insane rage and attacked his wife, his fists flailing wildly. She tried to fend off his blows, but the poor woman was no match for him. By the time Seymour’s anger was spent, his wife lay dead at his feet.
When he came to his senses and realized what he had done, Seymour was terrified. He didn’t want to go to jail. After a few panicked moments, he began to formulate a plan.
First, he unpacked his wife’s suitcase and placed her things back in her wardrobe. Then, he cleaned up the room, making sure that there were no signs of a struggle and nothing was out of place. He didn’t want to give the police any reason to suspect him.
A few hours later, under cover of darkness, he rolled his wife’s corpse up in an old piece of carpet, carried her out the back door and threw her into the boot of his car. Then, he drove out to the lake and parked by the water’s edge. Ensuring that there was nobody around, he dragged the dead body out of his car and rolled it into the murky waters.
He watched as his wife sank beneath the surface and, with a smile on his face, waved her goodbye. The currents would carry her out to the middle of the lake, he guessed. He bundled up her hat and coat and tossed them out as far as he could. They landed on the water and floated away. The police would find them and assume his wife had drowned.
His dark deed accomplished, Seymour drove home, humming a happy tune to himself. He poured himself a drink and waited for dawn to arrive. Then, he called the police and reported his wife missing. Although he had no training as an actor, he was able to convey the correct level of fear and concern.
When the police came out to interview him in person, he managed to act as if he was genuinely worried about his wife’s wellbeing. He told the police that the last time he had spoken to her, she had mentioned that she was planning to pay a surprise visit to her friend, who lived on the far side of the lake.
“When she didn’t come home last night, I thought the worst,” he said, holdinf his head in his hands.
“Don’t get yourself all worked up, Seymour,” advised one of the police officers. “I’m sure she’ll turn up safe and sound.”
The next day, Seymour received a phonecall from the chief of police. He sounded uncomfortable.
“I’m sorry to have to be the one to break it to you, Seymour,” he said, “but we think your wife may have drowned. We found her hat and coat floating on the surface of the lake.”
Seymour let out an anguished sigh, attempting to play the grieving husband. The chief of police paused for an appropriate time, then continued.
“Do you think, under the circumstances, you might be able to lend us a hand. I mean, I know it’s a difficult time for you, but…”
“I will, of course,” said Seymour, trying to sound as if he was holding back the tears. “It’ll be hard going, but I’ll find her… and this time, I’ll won’t charge you a fee.”
Late that afternoon, Seymour drove out to the lake once again, and met the police at the dock. They provided him with a boat and he rowed out to the middle of the lake. As the boat drifted to a standstill, he switched on his flashlight and moved it back and forth over the water.
He leaned out over the side and peered down into the murky depths. There, just visible below the surface, was a white and bloated hand. He could see it clearly and the fingers waved back and forth with the motion of the waves. It was a woman’s hand.
Seymour turned and yelled to the police waiting on the dock, “Over here! I’ve found her!”
Suddenly, the woman’s hand shot out of the water and grasped him by the hair. Before he had time to react, he was jerked out of the boat and tumbled head over heels into the lake. He began thrashing about in the water, his arms flailing wildly, but he couldn’t escape its clutches. The hand dragged him down and his head disappeared beneath the water, leaving just a ripple on the surface.
On the dock, the police officers saw Seymour fall into the water. They scrambled to another boat and quickly rowed out to help him. By the time they reached the spot, it was all over.
When they fished Seymour’s dead body out of the water, another corpse came with it. The white and bloated remains of a woman were clinging to him, her decomposing arms wrapped tightly around him, her nails digging into his flesh. The police officers were horrified at the sight.
The People Finder had finally found the dead body of his wife, or maybe she had finally found him.
Korw 9S わーい says:
WHY DO YOU HAVE PART OF MY USERNAME
9S the YoRHa Android (*ゝω・)ﾉ says:
even though you’re dead now icyblu4211, you got your ass handed to you… on a silver platter. still, I miss you bro, even though you were a huge jerk RIP ;-;
What the fuck guys, shut the hell up. Can’t you see that they’re both at fault? He was finally getting paid, but she was nagging him “nyeh nyeh buy me clothes nyeh nyeh make me dinner”. Though there was no damn reason for him to fucking murder her, she shouldn’t have been so needy. He deserved to die as well because taking a life means you get your own taken away (the way I view it). There is absolutely no goddamn reason for you to think all women are greedy and no reason for you to say men are the best. There are lots of other guys out there who are shit heads as well. Stop being sexist idiots and just enjoy the story, damn
ItzJJGaming says:
@Icyblu4211 I have the most perfect girl that any guy could ask for and by no means does she “belong” to me, by no means do I “own” her. Everyone disagrees with you because you are wrong. No women is as nearsighted as you are.
@Icyblu4211 What’s your problem with women? Women can be… no let me correct myself… are smart, courageous, kind-natured, and most of all, beautiful… 😏 chang your mind yet? After all these comments? Hopefully… and BTW, anyone living by your standard most likely… let me correct myself, WILL die alone… Thanks for considering this 😁
Horrorlover0666 says:
Man I hate when men say their wife belong to them ok I’m engaged my future wife definitely does not belong to me. Just had to say that it’s annoying but good story nice
DemonicQueenzilla says:
What does he mean he “owns” her? :/
Creepyloverx says:
@IcyBlu Just coz she was a woman does NOT meant that she was greedy thats sexist. -.-
tris22721 says:
@icyblu4211 (sorry if username isn’t exact.) I agree- some women are nearsighted like me. I can’t see very far. xD 😚
Chosen1 says:
@Icyblu4211 DISHONOR! DISHONOR ON YOU! DISHONOR ON YOUR COW! DISHONOR ON YOUR WHOLE FAMILY!
Chantelle Rose says:
@Icyblu4211 Guys, don’t waste your time talking about and to him and his comments. He isn’t worth it and you guys should know what you believe is right about women and marriage and justice. So if you don’t think his analogy of these things is right, don’t give your time away by replying, because he isn’t WORTH your time. not by a long shot.
hikerpiker64 says:
Reader ed X 9 eve sec and fly
kasaitatsukami says:
all i’m gonna say is both of them were terrible the woman at first had a valid argument but as soon as he started making a good amount of money she was like buy me dinner buy me new clothes. if she wanted that or she didn’t like her husbands work ethic its called get off your ass and get a job. the guy shouldn’t have killed her but i can understand his rage in fact it seemed like he didn’t want to kill her no one deserved to die but the wife should have been less critical and more understanding
nayancatcandy says:
Icyblue I take. afense of the comment cause I’m a female
Seymore did and I’m a female I take afence to that slenderman
Emmyroseii first means first comment
Slenderman says:
He was NOT lazy. If he had enough time to get off his butt and find all that, then he was not lazy. The wife deserved it and Seymour did not deserve to die.
nightwatcher says:
Ha ha owned and little tip, DO NOT FIGHT WITH A WOMAN! Why do you think most of the ghosts involve a woman like the white lady, or the lady in black, or how about ghost girls or even coarse brides! Well just don’t fight or kill becuz you don’t want to end up like Seymour believe me! :-)
iscareyoutodeath says:
Guess this is what happens for violence against woman…
emmyroseii says:
Hi what does first mean ps thi story was good but I wish it could of gone on
bet your so scared says:
yeah, Xandra totally!!
Demented Xandra819 says:
@Icyblu4211 I bet you are totally regreting posting those comments ehh?
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Wall Street's Highest Advanced Micro Devices Stock Price Target
Earlier this week, William O'Neil added AMD to its U.S. Focus list
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Specifically, Rosenblatt raised its AMD price target to $30 from $27, the highest on Wall Street. This represents expected upside of 43.5% to last night's close at $20.90, and sits in territory not charted in 12 years.
This just echoes a positive note from William O'Neil earlier this week, which added AMD stock to its U.S. Focus list, saying it believes the "shares are buyable again as they break into new highs on strong volume."
Today's price action is just more of the same from a stock that has already doubled in value year-to-date. What's more, Advanced Micro Devices shares just flashed a buy signal that's had a 75% win rate in the last 10 years.
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From 'A' To 'Blue' - Blending Of The Senses May Be More Common Than You Think
By Chris Rollins | November 26th 2008 06:07 AM | Print | E-mail
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What color is the number 7? How does a symphony taste? What temperature is a muted television? A synesthete could tell you, with great certainty and consistency, the answers to the above questions, and describe many more sensory associations that seem irrelevant to most people.
Approximately 1 in 1000 people experience synesthesia - the elicitation of a sensory response independent of the stimulus itself. For instance, viewing a number or hearing a phonetic sound may elicit a colored response in the visual field, or a certain visual stimulus may elicit an auditory response.
"I realized that to make an 'R', all I had to do was first write a 'P' and draw a line down from its loop. And I was so surprised I could turn a yellow letter into an orange letter just by adding a line," reports Patricia Duffy in her book Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens, which describes many such experiences. Duffy has the most common form of synesthesia, known as grapheme-color synesthesia -- where individual letters or numbers are shaded specific colors.
A word of a different color: Grapheme-color synesthetes see specific letters and numbers as specific colors. Some are even able to tell if a word is spelled correctly by its color. Photo Credit: Wikipedia
As is found in all synesthetes, the sensation produced by a specific stimulus is both vivid and constant. In the 1980's, researcher Simon Baron-Cohen (sibling to the infamous Sasha) produced results from a test he developed called the Test of Genuineness for Colored-Word Synesthesia -- a questionnaire that asked possible synesthetes to identify the color of a certain word and then take a retest a year and a half later. On average, real synesthetes responded with 93% accuracy to their original word-color associations despite the long amount of time between testing periods. Tests such as these prove the validity of synesthetes' experiences -- since memory would not be adequate over such a long time span.
Stroop Test: Try naming the colors of the words above instead of the word itself. Although tricky for everyone, synesthetes often score below average unless the color of the word matches their elicited response for that particular word -- in which case they do better than average. Photo Credit: University of Michigan
There are other, less common forms of synesthesia as well, including phenome-color, where certain sounds appear as colors, sound-taste, where sounds elicit taste sensations, and vision-sound, where a visual stimulus produces a sound. The abstract painter Wasilly Kandinsky had vision-sound synesthesia and often implored his fans to 'hear' his art - something that other vision-sound synesthetes find quite natural. In a study by Dr. Jamie Ward of University College, London, one vision-sound synesthete described Kandinsky's 'Composition VIII, 1923' in this way:
"The jumbled mass of lines gave various tones, which changed as my eyes traveled round the picture. When looking at the large multicolored powerful circle at upper left, I get a pure tone which can be too much, so to relieve my mind of this I travel back to the cacophony of jumbled lines and shapes. This painting therefore is a good balance of contrasting noise – pure tones and cacophony – which was a delight to see. The more I looked at it, the more I came to appreciate the image and to like the 'music'."
Loud Circles: Kandinsky's 'Composition VIII, 1923' inspires 'pure tones' in the upper-left and a 'cacophany' in the lower-right. Photo Credit: California State University, Long Beach.
Recently, Melissa Saenz and Christof Koch at Caltech identified a previously unobserved type of synesthesia where movement is translated into sound, such as pops or beeps. In a test where subjects were asked to identify sections of Morse code either visually or audibly, most participants scored higher on the auditory section, as auditory patterns are often much easier to detect. A few with movement-sound synesthesia, however, scored equally high on the visual section -- presumably because they heard sounds as the visual stimulus was presented. Saenz and Koch estimate that as much as 1% of the population has movement-sound synesthesia, but that it is often not detected because movement usually does accompany sound in normal life.
This type of overlap in experience has been the subject of much research in the last few years. Previous knowledge suggested that individuals' elicited responses were unique to that individual, but many research psychologists have recently found levels of consistency between different synesthetes, as well as between synesthetes and non-synesthetes. Julia Simner of the University of Edinburgh and Dr. Ward have found that grapheme-color synesthetes will often associate common letters or numbers with equally common color terms used in language. For instance, many synesthetes associate the letter 'a' with the color red. Additionally, Daniel Smilek of the University of Waterloo has found that the luminosity of a color associated with a letter is directly related to the frequency of use of that letter. Interestingly, both synesthetes and non-synesthetes associated individual letters this way, although the correlation is much stronger with synesthetes.
The similarities aren't limited to grapheme-color synesthetes. Dr. Ward conducted an experiment where he asked music-color synesthetes to paint or draw what they saw while listening to certain musical pieces. When non-synesthetes were asked to identify which painting went with the music, many of them were able to correctly identify the painting created by the synesthete over control paintings -- suggesting that all of us have some level of cross-talking between our senses.
Crossovers between sensory experiences, therefore, may be more intrinsic to our brain function than previously thought. Other research by Ben-Gurion University has created synesthesia-like experiences in non-synesthetes through post-hypnotic suggestion of synesthetic relationships. The participants in that study failed tests that actual synesthetes often fail -- for instance, being unable to identify a black seven on a red background if the researchers suggested that the number seven produce a red color response.
As usually happens with psychological research, delving deeper into the mysteries of the brain often creates more. How we process sensory information is still largely a mystery to psychologists -- but synesthetes offer a unique way to study the brain in general, even if their experiences are unique.
Think you might be a synesthete? Take the Synesthesia Battery to find out (and contribute to research!)
Also, take an interactive Stroop Test, if you dare.
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Grimsby Crown Court
Benefit cheat claimed more than £50,000 after failing to declare her husband had returned home
Amanda Russell, 47, was sentenced at Grimsby Crown Court
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Amanda Russell, 47, admitted fraud and failing to notify a change of circumstances affecting her entitlement to benefit at Grimsby Crown Court
A benefit cheat fiddled more than £50,000 in wrongful payments after keeping quiet about her husband returning home.
They had earlier separated and had an on-off relationship, a court heard.
Amanda Russell, 47, of Grammar School Road, Brigg, admitted fraud and failing to notify a change in her circumstances affecting her entitlement to benefit between July 2012 and August 2015.
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Recorder Anthony Hawks told Grimsby Crown Court that Russell's husband left her or they separated but he came back to live with her in an on-off relationship.
She was overpaid £50,699 in housing benefit and council tax benefit but had repaid £3,647 so far and was continuing to do so.
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She knew that, once he returned, the claim was no longer legitimate.
No mitigation was requested.
Russell was given a nine-month suspended custodial sentence but with no requirements.
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