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Nordic Design for Children, V&A Museum of Childhood
30 Mar 18 – 02 Sep 18, 10:00 AM – 5:45 PM
Get hygge with it: explore the Nordic designs that changed childhoods
By Hailey Wendling on 5/4/2018
Century of the Child: Nordic Design for Children, V&A Museum of Childhood. Vik Prjónsdottir, The baby seal, 2006. Photo Marino Thorlacius © Vik Prjónsdottir
Nordic Design for Children, V&A Museum of Childhood Nordic Design for Children, V&A Museum of Childhood Hailey Wendling
Hygge might have asserted its status as the most aspirational lifestyle of all time recently, but Scandinavian style has been majorly influencing childhoods for centuries now.
The most influential Nordic designs for children of the 20th century have been brought together for the first time ever in this exciting new exhibition. The V&A Museum of Childhood has amassed a collection of everything from the Moomins to LEGO for Century of the Child: Nordic Design for Children 1900 to Today.
As well as influential toys and characters, the exhibition will examine 'Nordic Icons', including IKEA, BabyBjörn and Arne Jacobsen. Celebrating the creative freedom of children, there will be a host of interactive, Nordic-inspired activities for families to explore.
Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900-2000, Museum of Modern Art.
Gerard van de Groenekan, Child's Wheelbarrow, 1923.
© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Beeldrecht, Amsterdam.
The exhibition was inspired by The Century of the Child, a groundbreaking book by Swedish social theorist, Ellen Key. Key hypothesized that children would become the centre of adults attention by the 20th century, and her ideas about how to foster creativity and education in children subsequently permeated the world of Nordic design.
The exhibition can trace its origins to the Museum of Modern Art in New York where it was featured in 2012. Titled Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900-2000, the original exhibition has since been adapted for the V&A Museum of Childhood.
Bringing Century of the Child: Nordic Design for Children 1900 to Today to London has been an international collaborative effort between the Museum Vandalorum in Sweden, the Designmuseum in Denmark, and the Design Museum in Helsinki. Don't miss out on this exciting new installation that is sure to capture the hearts, minds, and imaginations of your little ones.
Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900-2000, Museum of Modern Art. Hans Brockhage and Erwin Andrä. Schaukelwagon (Rocking car). 1950
What Nordic Design for Children, V&A Museum of Childhood
Where V&A Museum of Childhood, Cambridge Heath Rd, London, E2 9PA | MAP
Nearest tube Bethnal Green (underground)
When 30 Mar 18 – 02 Sep 18, 10:00 AM – 5:45 PM
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start, then, that the different kinds of forests in ques- tion will come together in one way or another to tell an overt or covert story of the post-Christian era, into whose horizon we now pass. The post-Christian era is broadly defined here in terms of his tori- cal detachment from the past. The first section of the chapter suggests that the era unfolds under the Cartesian auspices of Enlightenment. If Petrarch can be called the "father of humanism," then Descartes can be called the father of Enlightenment. In his Discourse on Method Des- cartes compares the
in Forests
[ CON,EN'S ] Preface ix Acknowledgments X1l1 1. FIRST THE FORESTS 1 Vico's Giants 3 The Demon of Gilgamesh 13 The Virgin Goddess 19 Dionysos 30 The Sorrows of Rhea Silvia 46 From Mythic Origins to Deforestation 52 2. S HAD 0 W S 0 F LAW 61 The Knight's Adventure 65 Forest Law 69 Outlaws 75 Dante's Line of Error 81 Shadows of Love 87 The Human Age 91 Macbeth's Conclusion 100 3. E N L I G H TEN MEN T 107 The Ways of Method 108 What is Enlightenment? A Question for Foresters 114 Rousseau 125 VII Conrad's Brooding Gloom 133 Roquentin
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, pattern, and natural history. In The Book of Snakes, I will introduce the reader to 600 species, almost one in six of all snakes known. For those who are unfamiliar with snakes, I aim to dispel myths and bring enlightenment and understanding about one of the most maligned groups of animals on the planet. For those who are already snake aficionados, I hope to introduce rare or elusive species that may have previously passed beneath their radar. In selecting which 600 species to feature in The Book of Snakes, I went for diversity, including many of the familiar
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Philosophy of Enlightenment. Translated by F. C. Koellin andJ. P. Pettegrove. Boston: Beacon Press, 1951. Caufield, Catherine. "The Ancient Forest." The New Yorker (14 May 1990): 46- 84. Cavell, Stanley. "Ending the Waiting Game: A Reading of Beckett's End- game." In Must We Mean What We Say?, II5-62. New York: Charles Scrib- ner's Sons, 1969. 268 W 0 R K SCI TED ---. The Senses of Walden. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1981. ---. "Thinking of Emerson." In The Senses of Walden, 121-38. Chretien de Troyes. Yvain. In Arthurian Romances, translated by W. W. Com
Thomas Sheehan, whose reading of an earlier draft of this section was very helpful. What Is Enlightenment? A Question for Foresters.My approach to Enlight- enment has obvious affinities with the critical views put forth by Horkeimer and Adorno in their book Dialectic of Enlightenment. However, the affinities are even greater with Italo Calvino, whose novel The Baron in the Trees (set in the eighteenth century) contains a poetic critique of Enlightenment's humanist ideology. Calvino's Baron, named Cosimo, spends his life in the trees. He attains notoriety among
Guest Essay: Making Better Sense of Wolves
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scientists as a source of enlightenment and dis- covery, to tell us about wolves and nature and about our place and responsibilities. Letters in newspapers give us a feel for different meanings of the wolf. Both the letters and the wolves have public uses, political and cultural. Is the wolf a majestic animal or a vile creature to be destroyed? The wolf, like nature, regardless how we construct it, is a self- originating, self- arising entity, as near as we can tell, and it seems independent of us. The wolf exists as a reality or kind of truth about the world that
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starting to slouch? Ah, stopped counting. One, two, three, four, five, six— I wonder what enlightenment feels like? Is it a completely recognizable moment or something that comes on gradually like the Doppler effect? Why is my stomach burbling? Oh, yeah, nachos. Dang it. Breathe. One, two— If nothing else, there is value to just sitting still. I run around too much. All these thoughts bouncing around inside my brain right now, where do they even come from? Am I in a dissociative state? Wait a minute: there is no “I”! But then who is on this cushion? Who is asking
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academy. The moment thinking takes refuge within these walls and leaves the provinces of the mind, the nation, or the empire, it can no longer remain radical. At most it can become a form of "metaphysics" that searches for cosmic foundations within the clearings of Enlightenment. The most fundamental kind of thinking is invariably provincial, in one form or another. Hence the famous anec- dote about Heraclitus, reported by Aristotle: "The story is told of something Heraclitus said to some strangers who wanted to come visit him. Having arrived, they saw him
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Mike Preston, co-owner of the Brentwood School of Music in Central Saanich, plans to listen to a song he cannot stand for 12 hours straight this Sunday to help raise money for the Mustard Seed Street Church. (Mike Preston/Submitted)
Vancouver Island music teacher endures 12 hours of sour notes for sweet cause
Mike Preston of Brentwood School of Music will endure a song he cannot stand for 12 hours
Likely each of us has a song or a singer whose very first note causes a contemptuous eye roll at best or a chilling sense of terror at worst. It is the type of song that we would avoid any cost, if somebody were to pay us to listen to it.
The Brentwood School of Music in Central Saanich is putting a twist on this familiar story as Mike Preston, who co-owns the school with his wife Sarah, is voluntarily exposing himself to one song he cannot stand for 12 hours inside his studio on Sunday, Dec. 20 to help the school raise money for the Mustard Seed Street Church.
“If you are far away and your community needs a donation, the school is happy for you to donate to that cause as well,” said, Preston, who teaches rock guitar and drums.
Preston said Tuesday that he not yet settled on a song. Candidates include the White Stripes’ Seven Nation Army, an ubiquitous song at sporting events. “Somebody suggested Stairway to Heaven,” he said. Other candidates include Rebecca Black’s Friday and AC/DC’s TNT. “Yellow Submarine (by The Beatles) would be fierce candidate,” he said. Game On, a song from the Adam Sandler movie Pixels, is another candidate with potential.
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Christmas songs are eligible for selection and while Preston loves Paul McCartney, his song Wonderful Christmas Time is a candidate, with residents able to track the eventual choice on the school’s Facebook page.
So what makes a song bad for Preston? “It’s a combination of uninteresting and over-repetitive,” he said. Songs are also bad when they are loud, jarring and lack content.
Preston is still working out some of the details, such as the conditions under which he will have to listen to the song, but plans to start at noon on Sunday.
“Whether you want to vote for a song, watch Mike suffer (safely from outside the school) or simply make a donation, the music school has started a gofundme for the event,” the school said.
Find the page at bit.ly/3gTg4Ro.
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Assassin's Creed Valhalla takes the same approach to DLC as Odyssey, but scaled down a bit
2020-10-20 15:30:00by Brett Makedonski
A split between paid and free DLC
Assassin's Creed Odyssey was absolutely herculean in its approach to post-launch content. On the paid side, it featured two very substantial add-ons, each made up of three episodes. The free support was substantial too, as every player got access to 11 free missions called The Lost Tales of Greece. All of that was alongside level cap increases, new skills, a story creation mode, a discovery walkabout mode, and more. When all was said and done, Assassin's Creed Odyssey was relevant for more than a year after it first released.
Assassin's Creed Valhalla seemingly has similar ambitions, albeit maybe not quite as grand. Ubisoft has announced its plans for Assassin's Creed Valhalla's DLC, and it takes the same two-pronged approach to free and paid-for content.
Both of the premium add-ons will have Eivor leaving England. The first, called Wrath of the Druids, takes place in Ireland. It prominently features Gaelic myths, haunted forests, and a druidic cult. Wrath of the Druids is scheduled to launch in Spring 2021.
The second paid DLC channels its inner Assassin's Creed Unity. It's titled The Siege of Paris, and it tackles one of the most famous battles in Viking history. Ubisoft details it by saying "players will infiltrate the fortified city of Paris and the River Seine under a prolonged siege, uncover enemy secrets, and form strategic alliances to safeguard their clan's future." This add-on is planned for Summer 2021.
Additionally, anyone who buys the $40 season pass (or who purchases the Gold or Ultimate edition of Valhalla) will have access to the "Legend of Beowulf" quest which is available at launch. We learned about the Beowulf quest around the time Valhalla was announced, but this is the first time Ubisoft has actually confirmed it.
As for free stuff, Ubisoft is breaking the cadence of content updates into seasons. Here's what's expected for the first season (which launches in December 2020):
A new settlement area, allowing players to continue to grow and evolve their settlement.
A traditional Viking Festival: the Yule Festival, for players to experience in their settlement.
A new game mode: the River Raids. Building on Valhalla's core raiding mechanic the mode will deliver a dynamic, challenging and highly replayable raid experience.
The addition of the Ranks for Jomsviking: in Assassin's Creed Valhalla players can not only create their lieutenant to be part of their raiding crew, but also recruit some from their friends and the community. In Season 1, players will see an update to the Jomsviking feature which will allow their Jomsviking to earn XP and rank up -- the higher will be the rank of the lieutenant, the more silver players will earn when recruited by other players.
Finally, as for each season, Season 1 will also come with new player skills and abilities, weapons and gear, and cosmetic items for the settlement, longship, horse and raven.
There are four seasons of free updates planned, extending all the way into Fall 2021. That would make Valhalla relevant for about exactly one year. It worked wonders with Odyssey. No sense reinventing the wheel when you've already found a successful formula.
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Pixii is here – the $3,000 camera with Leica mount, no LCD and no card slot
By James Artaius 06 July 2020
"The best screen is already in your pocket", so Pixii is an APS-C rangefinder that beams your shots directly to your phone
(Image credit: Pixii)
After almost two years of radio silence, the innovative Pixii camera has finally arrived: a rangefinder with an APS-C sensor and Leica M lens mount, which eschews a rear LCD screen and memory cards in favor of internal memory and beaming your images to be viewed on your phone.
"Who seriously needs a fixed function computer and a bad LCD at the back of a camera?" says Pixii, explaining the modus operandi of the company and its bold new camera system.
"Photographers just aren’t interested in old cameras anymore. This is the end of the line for the digital camera designed in the 80s: a sensor, a CPU and a screen. All of these components were necessary back then. Because computers were rare and hard to use. Except it's 2020 now."
Pixii believes that the only part of traditional cameras that can still beat the best camera phones are the lenses – the software and screen on most cameras are eclipsed by what you already have in your pocket, on your smartphone. Hence, Pixii has liberated its camera from those restrictions.
"The camera software now evolves at the speed of an app. The camera body is updated directly from the Cloud. And when you upgrade your phone, you get a better screen and a better processor for your photos. Keeping safe those hard earned lenses, and now your camera too."
So, the Pixii (or Pixii Camera A1112, to give its full name) is an APS-C rangefinder camera that uses an M-compatible lens mount (which also supports M39 / LTM lenses via an adapter). And yes, it is a true rangefinder, meaning that it's a manual focus system.
We don't know who makes the approximately 11.1MP sensor, though its specs include 5.5µm pixel pitch, electronic global shutter, 12-bit sampling, high dynamic range mode (60-90dB), native gain ISO320, and an optical stack with IR filter < 1.0mm and no low-pass filter.
With both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5, the Pixii sends JPEGs to your phone to check colors and exposure, and can also send the raw DNG files if you want a more detailed interrogation. Where file transfer on other cameras and apps is notoriously labored, Pixii insists that "the picture is on your phone before you take it out of your pocket".
It all sounds very intriguing, and we're very keen to get the camera into our lab for some proper testing to see how well it performs. The Pixii is on sale now via the official website with 8GB internal memory for €2,900 ($3,275 / £2,622 / AU$4,4695) and 4GB memory for €2,700 ($3,049 / £2,441 / AU$4,372). Both versions come in Space Gray or Black Matte.
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Aeronautics | 11. July 2018 | posted by Johann Dauer
Unmanned helicopter superARTIS delivered humanitarian goods
Preparation of the next flight
During the second week of the pilot operation in the Dominican Republic, the superARTIS team performed different humanitarian delivery missions together with Wings for Aid and the World Food Programme. The flights took place in an area called 'Bajo Yuna', which suffers from frequent flooding and related 'last mile' delivery problems. These flight tests are one of the founding stones to connect DLR's UAS projects with applications in humanitarian technology. read more
Aeronautics | 28. June 2018 | posted by Johann Dauer
Helicopter UAS superARTIS on a humanitarian mission in the Dominican Republic
Credit: © DLR
Discussions with local stakeholders such as the Red Cross and identifying possible missions for the simulation
Last weekend, a team from Wings for Aid and DLR travelled to the Dominican Republic (DR), to test Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) for humanitarian aid. They planned to deliver disposable boxes carrying 20 kilograms of emergency goods and drop them safely at their destination using DLR’s helicopter UAS, superARTIS. read more
Aeronautics | 01. September 2016 | posted by Fabian Locher | 3 Comments
A day in the tropical sky
The apron of the hangar – the Falcon is ready for more measurements
It is the middle of the night on the coast of West Africa. A team of sleepy aircraft technicians and atmospheric researchers exit the hotel lobby. The humidity hits them like a brick wall – it is already 25 degrees Celsius outside. Their departure for Gnassingbé Eyadéma Airport is scheduled at four AM sharp. The first motorcycles of the day thunder past the walls of the hotel complex. Today’s take-off is set for 09:30. But the chauffeurs are late – again.
At 04:30, two cars drive up along the beach promenade through the still quiet streets of Lomé, the capital city of Togo.
En route to the hangar via Boulevard Du Mono.
Twenty minutes later, the group reaches their destination – a small hangar next to the international airport. Waiting for them, ready for use, is the Falcon 20E , a very reliable member of DLR’s fleet of research aircraft. read more
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Aeronautics | 02. June 2015
ARCTIC15 - Airborne SAR acquisitions up and running
Credit: DLR / Martin Keller (CC-BY 3.0)
A first SAR data quicklook of the Kangerlussuaq calibration test site. The colours represent the intensity in different polarisations (Red: VV, Green: HV, Blue: HH). The airport is clearly visible in black. From the centre of the image, the fjord extents in a south-west direction, where skidoo-tracks to the next village can be seen.
Three calibration flights, 10 flights to test sites, and over 100 radar data sets resulting in 4.8 Terabyte of SAR data. These are the numbers behind the work our F-SAR team conducted within the last two weeks – including even the alteration from the X-C-S-L to the P-band antenna configuration and fortunately only one bad weather day.
DLR's Do-228 airplane, with the F-SAR system on board arrived on Friday, 24 May, in Kangerlussuaq. On the following Monday, the team consisting of two pilots, one flight engineer and two radar operators took off for the first calibration flight. In the first two weeks, the antenna configuration for the X-, C-, S- and L-band frequencies was installed on the plane. This range of different frequencies will allow us to compare radar acquisitions with different penetration depths into the snow and ice. The team acquired SAR data over all the test sites where we had installed corner reflectors. Additionally, the area around the airport and town of Kangerlussuaq is overflown for calibration purposes and is well equipped with seven reflectors. It seems like the locals got used to these strange metallic artefacts in their town pretty fast.
Credit: DLR / Ralf Horn (CC-BY 3.0)
DLR's Do-228 with the F-SAR radar system on board after refuelling at the airport of Ilulissat, Greenland. The X-C-S-L antenna mount is visible on the rear of the plane.
Eventually, during the first days after the calibration flight, we had to face exactly those smaller and bigger problems – those that one must always expect during a campaign, as mentioned in the previous post. But the F-SAR team proved their problem-solving skills and campaign experience. From non-matching connections of the local oxygen supply to unstable electronic parts, they were able to fix everything without causing any delay to the campaign plan. I have to admit that I was already worried about losing one test site due to the technical difficulties, but the team was able to acquire almost all the data we had planned for. For now, we can say that the X-C-S-L phase was successful, giving us plenty of scientific data.
Credit: DLR / Georg Fischer (CC-BY 3.0)
The F-SAR team preparing to remove the X-C-S-L antenna from the side of the Do-228 airplane.
The change to the P-band antenna configuration was completed successfully. The P-band wavelength is the longest we will use during this campaign and penetrates several tens of metres into the ice. We are already curious about what kind of subsurface features we will see in the data.
Today, while I'm writing, the F-SAR team is flying over the K-transect to conduct the first P-band acquisitions. Currently, we are all very optimistic about the upcoming part of the campaign.
Aeronautics | 29. May 2015
WindVal: Petta reddast
Falcon ready for the jet stream flight, in the background is the NASA DC-8
In Iceland you hear one phrase very often: 'petta reddast', which can be translated as "it will all work out okay". With that in mind, we started planning the flight to have a closer look at strong changes in the horizontal and vertical gradients of the wind speeds in the atmosphere, which is one of the key objectives of the ADM-Aeolus WindVal campaign.
When operating from Iceland, the ideal target region for such an endeavour is in or near a jet stream (fast flowing current in the atmosphere with a meandering shape) over the North Atlantic that is within range of the aircraft. The situation on Friday 15 May 2015 offered a great opportunity to address this aim and coordinate with the NASA DC-8 to observe strong jet stream winds. We have total of four wind lidar systems on the two aircraft, the DC-8 and DLR’s Falcon. read more
ARCTIC15 Field Campaign
Credit: Silvan Leinss
The other, more beautiful side of field work. -22 degrees Celsius without wind on a sunny day can feel quite warm and comfortable. Perfect working conditions!
ARCTIC15 is a campaign promoted by the Microwaves and Radar Institute of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), carried out in cooperation with ETH Zurich and with the support of the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI). It takes place in Greenland from mid-April to the end of May 2015 with the objective of collecting polarimetric-interferometric SAR data at different frequencies (X-, C-, S-, L- and P-band) over different facies of the ice sheet. The measurements are performed using DLR's airborne F-SAR sensor. In total, the activities involve five test sites and include the collection of ground measurements, like ground penetrating radar (GPR) profiles and snow and firn stratigraphy, as well as the installation of GPS stations and corner reflectors for the calibration of the SAR acquisitions. read more
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We perform normative and non-normative performance measurements on refrigerating and heating machines and components for manufacturers and operators and act as an independent testing laboratory for EUROVENT-CERTIFICATION, Paris, in a number of certification programmes. Testing is based on standards such as EN 14511, EN 13053, EN1216 and EN 1048.
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The field of air hygiene focuses on the identification and avoidance of air pollution and its causes. The DMT laboratory for air hygiene has many years of experience particularly in determining sources of air contamination in indoor areas as well as in planning measures to prevent and/or reduce such contamination. The tests on air hygiene and air conditioning hygiene examine household appliances for air purification and air conditioning, dust separation and reduction of allergens and germs.
The colleagues in the Technical Hygiene Department inspect air conditioning systems.
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We examine vacuum cleaners, room air cleaners, air humidifiers and laser printers for their separation efficiency with respect to fine dust, gases, germs (fungi and bacteria), allergens and the emissions of these pollutants.
These tests are conducted within the framework of the Air Hygiene Working Group, which includes TÜV NORD Systems GmbH & Co. KG and other competent partners within TÜV NORD GROUP. This framework for testing products regarding their suitability for people with allergies also encompasses tests on mattress covers and carpets.
Standard testing is carried out in accordance with IEC 60312 (for vacuum cleaners), VDI 6032 (for vehicle ventilation), VDI 6033 (for products designed for allergic persons) and ANSI/AHAM AC-1-2006 (for indoor air cleaners) as well as special tests according to methods developed in-house.
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Donna Ida on Fashion Foie Gras
Behind the scenes with Fashion Foie Gras and Donna Ida..Here's what one of our favourite fashion bloggers had to say after her denim clinic experience with Donna.
Last week I had the great pleasure in meeting one of the most amazing women in this industry that I have met to date! Her name's Donna Ida and yes, she's THE Donna Ida behind the stores. I was invited in to experience the process of buying jeans with the jean-ius (oh, I love what I did there) herself.
Now for those that know me you'll know that this body provides a great challenge when it comes to any clothing. I'm 6'2 and I've put on a good ten pounds since I started blogging two years ago. There, I said it out loud (man, who thought blogging would be admission therapy). It's the reason it's damn near impossible for me to call in anything from designers because nothing ever fits right. I like to think of myself as an outlier when it comes to body shapes. I rock it, but the fashion world doesn't always rock with me. So I was presenting Donna with a challenge. Jeans are impossible to find that fit a girl who requires a 34-36 inch inseam and 32 inch waist. It just doesn't happen. Apparently, anything is possible in Donna Ida.
I had honestly gone in with the idea that I was going to write about the shop and all the different options they have on display and then revisit again after I'd dropped the new tenner I was carrying! However, Donna took one look and knew exactly where to send me. She wasn't judging. She didn't scowl when I said I avoided jeans like the plague as I refused to be a part of the Muffin Top Posse. She just smiled and took on the role of my jean fairy godmother.
She then introduced me to a jean that has changed my life... I kid you not! I will rarely wear another. It's called the Misfit from Goldsign and it's heaven to your legs and bliss to your look! I'm now calling these the "non-jegging jegging" as they are so stretchy and soft that they could be a jegging but aren't. Ok, I know that doesn't make sense but when you touch and feel them you'll understand what I mean. The stretch is incredible but it's still denim! They also do everything that support tights would do for your bum and thighs! Lift and hug, darlings! I'll warn you that they don't look like much on the shelf or in flat images but these are magical! Now there's no point beating around the bush on this one. These guys are expensive, £280 expensive. But for a good pair of jeans I think you'll find most of us would be willing to spend up to £500! I know I would. This is a wardrobe staple and you know how I'm always preaching about investing in the staples and saving on the trends!
For those of you that don't know Donna and want to see her in action, here's a great clip in which she talks about finding the perfect jeans for a curvy gal!
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Market Data, Especially Export Sales, Should Come Back Into Focus Next Week
Light at End of Shutdown Tunnel
By Chris Clayton , DTN Ag Policy Editor
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President Donald Trump on Friday announced an end to the longest shutdown of federal departments in history with a short-term deal that will lead to congressional negotiators trying to hash out border security and, as the president demands, possibly a border wall. (DTN file photo)
OMAHA (DTN) -- Corn and soybean prices rallied Friday as news broke that the partial federal government shutdown would end with a three-week short-term funding agreement.
The reopening of the federal government might not take all the credit, but March soybeans were up 9 1/4 cents and November soybeans closed over $9.64, up 7 3/4 cents, the highest close in more than a month. March corn moved up 3 1/4 cents and December corn settled over $4.03 after a week of lower closing prices.
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue released a brief statement Friday following President Donald Trump's announcement, but no specifics on reopening procedures were spelled out for key market information.
At some point next week, possibly as early as Monday, USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service will start to shed light again on export sales for commodities. USDA has not released export data since the shutdown began, and that has largely left commodity prices relatively flat throughout the shutdown.
In an email to DTN Friday, USDA Chief Economist Robert Johansson said the agency plans to release the next World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report on schedule on Feb. 8. However, he said he wasn't sure when export data would be compiled and released.
"It may be that NASS moves some of their delayed reports more quickly than Feb. 8, but they will need to wait until folks return to work before they determine what the schedule will be for the delayed reports," Johansson said. "I expect many of the NASS reports will be released at Lockup, but NASS will be determining that schedule. The new release dates will be updated on NASS's website as soon as possible."
DTN Senior Analyst Dana Mantini said the government reopening will add some volatility back into what have been relatively flat markets. The trade will especially be watching to see the size of soybean buys by China in the month since the shutdown began. Before the shutdown, China had bought a little over 2 million metric tons of U.S. soybeans.
"Everyone assumes China has bought about 5 million (metric) tons of beans, and I think the trade would be disappointed if it comes in under that," Mantini said.
Soybean exports right now remain 39% below last year's sales at the same time, but the last estimate from USDA before the shutdown reduced soybean sales for the year by 11%. "So we have a lot of catching up to do," Mantini said.
There could also be more bullish sales of both corn and wheat to show. Wheat currently is coming in $10-$12 under the FOB for Russia, so there are market expectations that wheat sales have picked up in the past month, as well, Mantini said.
Ken Morrison, a trader and founder of the commodity newsletter Morrison on the Markets, said it would be good to get caught up on some data points. He said he wants to know from the Foreign Agricultural Service how export sales are collected and whether that would translate into a mad scramble to send out that information.
"I think how they collect the data is an important part in knowing how long it will take to get up to speed," Morrison said. "If exporters have the ability to go online and send it to them electronically without any person being there, that's one thing," Morrison said. But sales data could be more complicated if the USDA export desk walks back in on Monday and recollects sales activity since Dec. 13, the date of the last report.
"I can't think of a more critical period of time of having the knowledge of where we stand on export sales," Morrison said. "I have a sense, especially with soybeans, it's really going to be important for us to catch up to see what kind of activity has been done over the last five or six weeks."
The shutdown ended Friday with President Trump announcing he had reached an agreement with congressional Democrats. Congress later Friday afternoon began votes to pass a short-term Continuing Resolution to fund the federal government through Feb. 15. During that time, Congress and the president would continue negotiating funds for the Department of Homeland Security, border security and the southern border wall. The president said if a "fair deal" does not come out by Feb. 15, then there would be another shutdown or he would declare a national emergency to build a wall.
"I think we have a chance, yeah. I think we have a good chance," Trump said. "We'll work with the Democrats and negotiate, and if we can't do that, then we'll do a -- obviously we'll do the emergency because that's what it is. It's a national emergency."
In his remarks, Trump focused heavily on stopping illegal immigration and drugs, but acknowledged that farmers and other businesses also need immigrant workers.
"There are more people working today in the United States than have ever worked in our country," the president said. "We need people to come in to help us -- the farms, and with all of these great companies that are moving back. Finally, they're moving back. People said it couldn't happen. It's happening."
Roughly 800,000 federal workers, including USDA staff, were facing the prospect of missing their second paycheck Friday as the shutdown reached 35 days. Those not already working will return to work on Monday and will receive back pay based on legislation already signed by the president.
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue released a brief statement Friday, saying the president's announcement to reopen the federal government "is welcome news, as it will bring thousands of our employees back to work and return us to our mission of providing our customers with the services they rely upon."
"I extend my sincere thanks to the thousands of USDA workers who stayed on the job during the shutdown to offer as many of our normal activities as we could," Perdue said. "The President has already signed legislation that guarantees back pay for all employees, and we will move forward on that as soon as possible. Meanwhile, we will prepare for a smooth reestablishment of USDA functions."
USDA had announced earlier this week that it was recalling 9,700 Farm Service Agency employees who reopened offices full time starting Thursday. USDA had limited services available from FSA, but those services could be expanded under the Continuing Resolution, as well.
USDA also missed several annual and monthly crop reports on Jan. 11 with the understanding it would take roughly a week of full-time work by National Agricultural Statistics Service staff to get those reports released. USDA officials will have to provide some details on how they will handle those reports. USDA's next scheduled month Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates reports are set for release Feb. 8.
To ensure the 38.6 million or so people on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program aid got their benefits for February, USDA released the payments early. With USDA funding through Feb. 15, USDA will have to detail how it will handle the March payments, which average about $5 billion a month. There were already some concerns about recipients balancing out payments and stretching aid through February because the payments were released nearly two weeks early.
Chris Clayton can be reached at Chris.Clayton@dtn.com
Follow him on Twitter @ChrisClaytonDTN
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Earth Pearl Collective
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Sovereign Goes Virtual
Earth Pearl Collective’s “Sovereign” is taking a new approach to the 3 year old queer black woman solo festival due to COVID.
On November 13-15th Earth Pearl Collective presents a queer black women film festival. With a partnership with the Northwest Film Forum and support from The Hansberry Project , this year “Sovereign” focuses on queer black women film artist and directors. We will be showcasing films from Nairobi, Kenya, Mexico, South Africa, from all over the United States. Seattle based artists like poet/songstress Jessica Rycheal and dancer/visual artist, Takiyah Ward will be premiering new work.
Earth Pearl Collective supports the work of women living at the intersections of the African Diaspora who are dedicated to healing their communities through creative collaborations.
The festival has three programs "Life", "Love", and "Liberation."
"Life"- Witness the trials and triumphs of the everyday life events that build resilience in queer black women. Tune in for a panel discussion with Sex Therapist Dr. Katrina Sanford and Spiritual Therapeutic Counselor Chioma Petway along with director Patricia Geula and Jessica Rycheal.
#RECOGNIZEmyHUMANITY, Directed by DW McCraven- A 4 Part mini series that provides a glimpse into the complexities of cultural stigma, and the resistance occurring when individual healing takes place.
The Anxiety Project, Directed by Ineka Herring- A tale of a young queer black man battling the cycles of anxiety.
Don’t Tell Nobody, Directed by B. Danielle Watkins- A true story about a girl, who was a victim of family violence in response to her sexuality, is now at the crossroads on her 14th birthday; continue to live in pain or let it all go forever.
Some of These Bodies are Not Mine, Created by Jessica Rycheal- A mix of spoken word and visual storytelling about grief and rest in relation to black identity.
Litany Part 1 and 2, Created by Po’Chop- LITANY uses brown paper and imagination to create new worldA collage. LITANY is an exorcism expelling antiquated notions of Blackness, queer identity, spirituality, grace, rage, and healing.
Dismantling the Lie, Created by Porscha Shaw- Black women are innocent in the crime of self hate. We aren’t born not seeing our greatness we are taught it doesn’t exist. Then we are taught that we aren’t beautiful and the men from our own community will grow up to support this. This short is a collection of images in normal daily life to prove that our worth and fire. It’s always been there and It’s always been lit.
Healing Panel- A panel on grief, trauma, and the struggle for self care with Dr. Katrina Sanford and Chioma Petway
"Love"- From self love to first loves, this series of films will delve into sex, relationships, and intimacy. Featuring a special adult only curation by Washington D.C. based production company, Haux Hive.
Sex is a God Thing, Directed by Zarinah Ali- A drama that chronicles the lives of two Black Queer women from the south side of Chicago, as they grapple with the grief of their father’s recent passing, the unraveling of their romantic relationships, and their mounting existential questions on faith.
Simone Pin Presents, Directed by Shadae Simone and Annya Pin- In the world of COVID many erotic performers have had to move into the world of film. CHeck out the innovative turn this has made on the adult entertainment industry.
We Both Dream of Waves, Directed by Patricia Geula- An African woman’ short experimental documentary recounting memories of people navigating the world as a non-man and embracing the divine feminine.
Generation Y, Directed by Khamaree D. Owens and Chelsea Holmes-McKnight- Gen-Y follows the life of Elisha Danbrooke, an African American woman whose world is turned upside down when she discovers she’s contracted an incurable STD.
Haux Hive Presents, Curated by Brooke Jay- You must be 18+ to be admitted into this late night showing beginning at 8pm PST. This D.C. based adult entertainment company has gathered acts to make you blush and possibly introduce you to a kinkier side of yourself. Plus a deep dive sexy conversation with the performers and and curator.
"Liberation"- It is time to reimagine the future of queer black women. This series will venture into afro-futurism, social media trends, and hilarious friendships. Join the afternoon panel with some of the featured directors on how seeing black joy on screen increases black joy in life.
Carmen with a K (mini series), Directed by Lauren Du Pree and Marques Du Pree- This web series follows Carmen with a K, everyone's favorite Instagram model, as she navigates her newfound "fame" upon the release of her debut single, "The Butterscotch Goddess."
Jamaica & Tamarindo: Afro Tradition in the Heart of Mexico, Directed by Ebony Bailey- The jamaica flower and tamarind are iconic ingredients in Mexico, but their history comes from a place much further away. In this short documentary, we meet four people to explore African identity in Mexico City, an identity that goes beyond just the color of one's skin.
MINO: A Diaspora Myth, Directed by Ashunda Norris-It is 2079. In the utopic haven of Biamara, a Coven of Black womyn who can conceive without men must consider denouncing one of their own when she chooses to defy the all female code and self produce a male child.
Uma Fien, Directed by Adja Gildersleve, Ashembaga Jaafaru, A visual poem that centers a queer African couple as they navigate the triumphs and challenges of love, colonization, and freedom.
Toxic, Directed by Ineka Herring, Over the duration of three hours Avery's aggressively toxic friend convinces her to stalk her girlfriend.
Hi’s and Lo’s, Created by Takiyah Ward. An experimental dance film exploring the emotional rollercoaster of daily living as a queer black woman.
Directors Speak Out- Listen in on the featured directors take on black joy on film for queer black women.
Each day will feature music videos by Be Steadwell, LIVt, and Banzi Mavuso
© 2018 by Sadiqua Iman.
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Dubstep Is Fun! is an ambitious compilation by Bitlab Records. It’s a CC-licensed release, which means it’s free to download and distribute, so go right to their download page and check it out.
Started by Noise64 and András Hargitai a/k/a Banyek in 2009, originally a compilation for Hungarian dubstep, the series evolved and started to include tracks from other countries as well. The current installation, Vol. 5 also contains music by artists from Estonia, Czech Republic, UK and Holland.
Dubstep Is Fun! does what it says on the box: it shows you a wide range of new music, and it also manages to have some fun with it in the process. The release is divided into four ‘sides’ that represent four flavours: dancefloor oriented stuff, deep, chiptune, and spaced out. It’s a great collection of really varied stuff and sometimes it even makes you nod like a monkey.
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By Kim Ayling | December 17 2020
Three Bedroom Beach Pool Residence at Anantara Kihavah /©Anantara Kihavah
Going on vacation is typically a pursuit of relaxation and rejuvenation – a chance to detach from normal life and fully indulge. However, there is nothing less relaxing than having to share a tranquil swimming pool or sauna with anyone other than your loved ones – which is why the top wellness suites in the world all have one key feature: privacy.
Our roundup of the very best wellness suites, villas and residences in the world’s most luxurious locations is based on comprehensive data from our active database of top suites. Presented in a searchable format, this database acts as the ideal starting point for vacation planning – especially as the ongoing health crisis has ensured that both wellness and seclusion sit at the forefront of travelers’ minds.
Each of the wellness suites in this guide offers an elevated level of privacy with minimal interaction with other hotel guests, as well as a sense of complete relaxation. From remote villas with a spa in every room to in-suite Jacuzzi tubs with star ceilings, these suites are the pinnacle of indulgence.
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Maharajah’s Pavilion, The Raj Palace – India
On the rooftop, guests will find a private swimming pool and Jacuzzi, as well a large lounge and bar /©The Raj Palace
With 16,000 sq ft set over four floors, The Maharajah’s Pavilion is fit for royalty. The decor throughout the suite is equally regal, with ornate gold leaf adorning the walls, dripping chandeliers hanging from the ceilings and antique furniture in each room.
However, it is on the suite’s top floor that the impressive wellness facilities make themselves known. In the era of maharajas, the top floor acted as the pleasure pavilion for royal guests – now it offers a rooftop terrace with views across Jaipur. On the rooftop, guests will find a private swimming pool and Jacuzzi, as well a large lounge and bar. The top floor is also home to an exclusive spa room where guests can enjoy treatments in complete privacy.
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Three Bedroom Beach Pool Residence, Anantara Kihavah Maldives – Maldives
With a host of private facilities, the Three Bedroom Beach Pool Residence is the Maldivian resort’s crowning jewel / ©Anantara Kihavah
Any private residence in the idyllic setting of the Maldives is guaranteed to provide the ultimate level of relaxation but tucked away on an all but deserted island, Anantara Kihavah’s collection of villas promise (and deliver) a new level of luxury.
With a host of private facilities, the Three Bedroom Beach Pool Residence is the Maldivian resort’s crowning jewel. The villa’s infinity private pool is fringed by lush green foliage, guaranteeing a relaxing and secluded swim. On the other side of this greenery, guests will find their very own portion of pristine beach, with the warm waves of the Indian Ocean acting as the earth’s natural spa.
For further indulgence, guests are invited to the resort’s main spa, housed in a collection of over-water suites. Offering signature massages, facials and hair and beauty treatments in pristine settings, the award-winning Anantara Spa is considered one of the best in the Maldives.
Rahimoana, Eagle’s Nest – New Zealand
Floor-to-ceiling glass creates an unrivaled sense of indoor-outdoor living / ©Eagle’s Nest
Overlooking the Bay of Islands, Rahimoana villa sits in one of the most stunning natural landscapes that New Zealand has to offer – which is no mean feat, considering the competition. As Rahimoana is the premium accommodation the Eagle’s Nest retreat has to offer, not a single detail has gone unconsidered. Designed to blend seamlessly with the surrounding landscape, the villa is the pinnacle of modern minimalism.
Intriguing futuristic elements are seen in both the architecture and interior, with floor-to-ceiling glass creating an unrivaled sense of indoor-outdoor living. Outside there is an 82-ft infinity pool and heated Jacuzzi with views across the bay, while the inside holds a well-appointed gym and sauna. Rahimoana guests can also arrange in-suite treatments for complete seclusion from the outside world.
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John Jacob Astor Estate, The St. Regis Maldives Vommuli Resort – Maldives
In addition to the individual spa suites, the three-bedroom estate features an expansive swimming pool leading to secluded access to the seafront / ©St Regis Maldives
A Maldivian villa with a private spa is luxurious; a Maldivian villa with a private spa per room, on the other hand, is an unrivaled level of decadence. For travelers seeking this degree of privacy and seclusion, only the John Jacob Astor Estate at The St. Regis Maldives Vommuli Resort will do.
Covering 16,000 sq ft, in addition to the individual spa suites, the three-bedroom estate features an expansive swimming pool leading to secluded access to the seafront. The decking space also includes a whirlpool and plunge pool, both of which have uninterrupted views across the ocean.
The ultra-luxe accommodation also offers a dedicated exercise room, complete with cardio and weight machines to help guests achieve an overall sense of well-being in both body and mind.
Grand Reserve Villa, Zadún, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve – Mexico
Water takes center stage in the approach to health and well-being at Zadún / ©Ritz-Carlton
Water takes center stage in the approach to well-being at Zadún, with the resort’s spa drawing upon its healing elements to promote circulation and improve the immune system. This approach to health and wellness is continued into the resort’s premium accommodation, the Grand Reserve Villa, which is described as an outdoor paradise.
As with the main spa, the villa allows natural healing powers to shine through, with an inviting plunge pool on the villa’s terrace reflecting the sparkling sea it overlooks. The provision of luxury amenities provided, which includes botanical products from Spa Alkemia, natural fiber slippers and personal wellness essentials, ensure a stress-free vacation, while immersive outdoor rainforest showers allow guests to truly feel at one with the stunning natural surroundings.
Ty Warner Mansion, Las Ventanas Al Paraíso, a Rosewood Resort – Mexico
The Mansion showcases authentic Mexican artistry / ©Rosewood
When it comes to wellness, the Ty Warner Mansion’s rooftop terrace is the star of the show at this exclusive Mexican sanctuary. Accessed via a private elevator, the 9,000-sq-ft terrace features a glass-bottomed swimming pool, a whirlpool spa and a massage pavilion (where each guest can enjoy a complimentary signature massage), all with a view across the Sea of Cortez.
Below the terrace is another highlight of the Ty Warner Mansion: the 328-ft beachfront infinity pool, complete with sunken, in-pool living room. From this vantage point, the pool seamlessly blends with the ocean, making it one of the best spots from which to witness the blazing sun sink below the horizon. When the night sets in, the mansion experience isn’t complete without a fireworks display, which is available on request.
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Presidential Suite, Bürgenstock Hotel and Alpine Spa – Switzerland
The Presidential Suite boasts an adjoining massage therapy room, cementing its status as one of the top wellness suites in the world / ©Bürgenstock Hotel and Alpine Spa
Overlooking the picturesque Lake Lucerne, Bürgenstock Hotel and Alpine Spa is known as being one of the most indulgent spa hotels in Switzerland, with extensive facilities including an infinity pool and an alpine spa garden. In a hotel regarded so highly for its wellness facilities, it should come as no surprise that the top suite is equally as committed to guest well-being. Although the suite doesn’t meet all the criteria within our data, the exclusive spa facilities on offer made it prime for an honorable mention in this roundup.
In the ultra-luxe Presidential Suite at Bürgenstock Hotel and Alpine Spa, you will find a private spa room complete with Jacuzzi, panorama sauna and a star-ceilinged rain shower, all of which have sublime panoramic views across the lake. The Presidential Suite also boasts an adjoining massage therapy room, cementing its status as one of the top wellness suites in the world.
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Panorama Suite, The Alpina Gstaad – Switzerland
The Panorama Suite has been imagined with health and well-being at the core of its design / ©The Alpina Gstaad
As a country renowned for its authentic and pioneering spa techniques and facilities, two Swiss hotels appearing on our roundup of the top wellness suites should come as no surprise. The second on our list is the Panorama Suite at The Alpina Gstaad, which has been imagined with health and well-being at the core of its design. As with Bürgenstock Hotel and Alpine Spa’s Presidential Suite, the Panorama Suite doesn’t fully fit our data-led criteria – but again, the amenities on offer made it hard to leave out.
In addition to the three bedrooms and expansive living space, the Panorama Suite also includes a fully private, ultra-luxurious spa area, complete with a sauna, steam room, fitness equipment and massage corner, preventing the need to cross paths with other hotel guests.
Completing the luxurious offering is an outdoor Jacuzzi with views out across the Bernese Alps. Each of the bedrooms is spacious and comfortable, but the master offers an added level of indulgence with the presence of an underlit, oversized freestanding bathtub and a rainfall shower.
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At a press conference Monday, Ellison derided Microsoft's Exchange e-mail servers as unreliable and insecure. He said Oracle is offering an e-mail server option for its 9i database management software along with a migration program to move companies from Exchange to Oracle's database.
Separately, Ellison warned that a continued slump in enterprise software sales will likely result in Oracle missing analyst estimates for a second-quarter profit of 11 cents per share. Ellison said he now expects profits of 9 cents to 10 cents per share.
"We're saying earnings could be down 10 percent, maybe 15 percent. The fact is, I don't know," Ellison said. "We will still be enormously profitable. Last quarter we went through it with record profitability in difficult times. In light of Sept. 11, it's difficult to do that again this quarter. Next year, it will start picking up again."
With the new e-mail software, Oracle executives say they are not interested in competing with Microsoft's Outlook e-mail client software. Instead, the company is targeting Microsoft's Exchange server software that manages e-mail messages.
"We don't want people to migrate from Microsoft e-mail. We want people to throw out Microsoft Exchange for a server that works," Ellison said.
Oracle said the new software will allow corporations to use Oracle's 9i application server and database together as an e-mail server. Application-server software is technology that runs e-business and Web site transactions and sits in front of databases.
With the move, Oracle will compete not only against Microsoft, but also against Sun Microsystems and IBM, which sell their own e-mail server software.
Jeremy Burton, Oracle's senior vice president of marketing, claimed Oracle's e-mail software is more secure and more reliable than Microsoft Exchange, because it rides atop Oracle's database software, which contains technology to make it more fault-tolerant. Oracle executives said a single Oracle e-mail server can support 10,000 users, allowing companies to replace multiple Exchange servers with a single Oracle server. The company can use one Oracle database server--equipped with the application-server software--to store all of its e-mail.
Oracle executives said the company's clustering technology, called Real Application Clusters, lets businesses harness multiple high-end computers to run large databases and to ensure reliability in the event of a failure. Oracle executives have touted the clustering technology as a way to reduce costs because companies can buy smaller and cheaper computers and cluster them together to run their databases, rather than having to buy one huge, expensive computer.
Oracle also alluded to recent e-mail viruses that have affected Microsoft Exchange. Burton said because Oracle can house a large volume of e-mail in one database--as opposed to multiple copies of Exchange--it is easier to contain viruses.
A more pressing issue for Oracle is convincing customers to buy its software. Ellison said a lot of large customers are delaying software purchases, but he expects many will have to start buying soon.
"Our large customers can delay buying our software a quarter. They can delay two quarters, but eventually they have to buy," he said. "They're waiting for the last possible moment to buy. (But) they have projects going live and have to buy."
Commenting on recent events, Ellison called the proposed settlement in the Microsoft antitrust trial "a complete victory for Microsoft and a complete defeat for the government."
He said the Justice Department's deal was akin to having a videotape of a bank robbery but letting the culprits go.
Ellison also clarified his role in the debate over a national standard for identification cards.
"I'm not for mandatory national ID cards; (I want to) make existing IDs more difficult to forge. All IDs should adhere to the same standards," he said.
In the brewing war for authentication services over the Web, which gives one-click access to credit card information and passwords, Ellison believes no one company will win out. Microsoft's Passport, Sun's Liberty Alliance project and AOL Time Warner's efforts will all find a home, he said.
"It's not one winner takes all," Ellison said. "Why would that be the case? There's no winner-take-all scenario with e-mail."
Oracle representatives said attendees of Ellison's keynote speech were given free coffee mugs emblazoned with Oracle's new marketing campaign, "Unbreakable." To poke fun at Microsoft, the company is also giving away cheaper, clear plastic cups that read, "Microsoft: Software for the fragile business. Caution: Does not work with Java."
The giveaway is in reply to Microsoft, which at last year's Comdex keynote speech by Ellison distributed free mugs touting Microsoft's databases as having record-breaking speed and performance. Ellison scoffed at the mug during the keynote address and showed a demonstration of Oracle's products running faster than Microsoft's technology.
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Several telecom stocks are making gains after news that the US House of Representatives has voted to freeze taxes on wireless broadband access. The new bill, passed on Tuesday, bans state and local governments from levying taxes on mobile service for five years. This helped a sector where the cost of offering new smart phones has hurt many balance sheets in the short term. The offices of Rep. Zoe Lofgren D-California, who sponsored the bill, told the AP that wireless customers are currently shelling out an average of 16.3 percent in taxes and fees, more than double the 7.4 percent averaged by other goods and services.
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MetroPCS Communications, Inc. (PCS), the sixth largest prepaid wireless provider, posted strong gains, shooting up almost 11 percent just a day after tumbling nearly 10 percent. Their Q3 earnings report released yesterday was weaker than expected, revealing an EPS of $0.19, beneath analyst expectations of $0.23. Total revenue, meanwhile, grew 18 percent year-over-year to $1.205 million, but also fell short of projections of $1.224 million. Any increases in revenue were negated by a 26.5 percent jump in operating expenses related to the introduction of new smart phones. A rise in the churn rate to 4.5 percent also concerned investors and prompted a major sell-off that pushed the stock down to its 52-week-low of $7.58 a share, before rallying to $7.66 per share by market close.
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Contrasting the more negative news, the report also indicated a bump in new subscribers. The new subscriber growth, alongside the latest bill, helped brighten the outlook for the company. Investors led shares to rebound, acting on the depressed share prices and potential in the success of Android smart phones. This is good news for battered PCS shareholders who have seen the stock lose nearly 80 percent of its value since 2007.
Telecom Makes Gains Across the Board
Sprint Nextel Corporation (S) also showed strong gains today, jumping over 7 percent on the news from congress. Sprint is coming off of news that it has renewed its deal with Clearwire Corporation (CLWR) last week, expanding their coverage to offer customers Long Term Evolution, or LTE, service. Today, Sprint announced a new partnership with Sierra Wireless (SWIR) to co-market the new Sierra Wireless AirVantage M2M Cloud Platform that will use Sprint's network. Clearwire also had a good day, with its stock posting over a 7 percent gain. Leap Wireless (LEAP) posted gains of more than 3 percent, after a strong quarterly report and outlook led it to a nearly 11 percent rise yesterday.
Unfortunately, Vonage Holding Corporation (VG) couldn't join in the party, as its earnings report featured a dreary outlook that drove stocks down nearly 14 percent. The Q3 report showed positive news on the earnings report, with an EPS of $0.11 actually outpacing analyst estimations of $0.08 per share. However, they saw its churn rate jump to 2.7 percent and failed to change their EBITDA of $165 million for the year 2011. Investors repsonded to the weak guidance rather than the strong earnings and fled the stock in droves despite the gains elsewhere in the sector.
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Berlin, August 9, 2005. Eckert & Ziegler AG (ISIN DE0005659700), a Berlin-based specialist for radiation related products for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, posted its best second-quarter result since being listed on the stock exchange with sales of 10.2 million EUR. This represents an increase of around 17% over what was also a strong second quarter in 2004, but unlike last year, it has not been affected by the accounts for production systems.
On the profit side, the result before income tax and minority interest rose by about 73% over the first half of 2004, from 0.9 to 1.5 million EUR. Earnings per share from continuing operations amounted to 0.25 EUR. The EPS of the last years period contained a special effect of TEUR 1,191 net from the deconsolidation of NEMOD. Without taking into account this special effect the EPS showed an increase of 94%. Net income from continuing operations after taxes nearly doubled from 0.4 million EUR to 0.8 million EUR.
The Therapy segment showed the greatest growth in sales, from 6.9 million EUR last year to 8.2 million EUR this year, representing an increase of 18%. The Nuclear Medicine and Industry segment posted a somewhat more modest increase of 8% (10.6 million EUR compared to last year's 9.8 million), due in part to the need to compensate in that segment for the dollar exchange rate, which was about 4% less favourable than last year.
For the financial year 2005 the Board continues to expects sales of approximately 40 million EUR and an earning per share between 0,50 and 0,80 EUR. The complete quarterly report II/2005 can be viewed at www.ezag.de.
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Green Dot Revenue Up on Card Use, Spending Growth (Feb. 4, 2013)
Prepaid issuer and program manager Green Dot Corp. said its revenue jumped 15 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012 compared to the previous year, with the growth largely due to upswings in card activation and consumer spending. The Pasadena, Calif.-based company took in $137.3 million in last year’s final three months, compared to $119.1 million in the final quarter of 2011. Green Dot’s profit, however, declined by nearly a quarter, to $10.4 million from $13.6 million the previous year, with the company citing increased operating expenses for the decline. Green Dot said it activated 1.85 million new cards in the fourth quarter of 2012, a 7 percent increase from a year earlier. The amount of money loaded onto the company’s cards, meanwhile, reached $4.3 billion, up 13 percent over Q4 2011.
Green Dot recently has been making strides to expand its customer base beyond the traditional target market for its retail-based prepaid cards. Last month, the firm unveiled GoBank, a mobile banking product targeting smartphone users who are dissatisfied with their banks. The program features an FDIC-insured deposit account that enables users to make payments, transfer funds via email or text and accept deposits via remote capture. And last summer, Green Dot teamed with Sallie Mae to launch a prepaid debit card onto which college students can opt to load their financial aid disbursement funds. Many industry observers say Green Dot’s efforts to diversify are increasingly vital in the face of new competition in the prepaid card market from major banks and financial institutions.
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Bees: A Natural History
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The vital role of bees in human ecology is underlined by the estimate that every third mouthful of human food is dependent on the pollinating services of bees.
Only recently have biologists discovered that human survival is inextricably linked to the survival of insects, specifically, bees. Today the 16-20,000 species of bee continue to play vital roles in human ecology. We survive only by grace of the life-sustaining network of bee-plant relationships.
Bees immerses readers in the world of a group of insects whose diversity of form and behavior is eloquent testimony to the fine-tuning of natural selection. Written by a world-leading entomologist and specialist in bees, the book's topics include:
What are bees? (The Wasp Inheritance) - Bees as foragers, their nesting instinct, on-board computing facility, sun-compass orientation and sense of time
The many ways of being a bee -- Solitary versus social, Miners and masons, Leafcutters and carpenters
Bees and flowering plants
The male of the species -- Mating strategies, patrols, competition, territoriality, the role of scent
The enemies of bees -- Cleptoparasites, cuckoo bees
Bees and People -- historic and contemporary
Bees in Folk and Modern Medicine
The Conservation of Bees -- the decline of bees and honeybees, bees in human ecology, bee conservation, urban bees
Bee projects -- the backyard bee scientist.
Bees can be found throughout history in roles poetic and military, in medicine and agriculture, in the kitchen and in the kit of a traditional healer. They have played a bigger role in human existence than is often recognized. This beautifully illustrated, appreciative tribute will be welcomed by entomologists, students and all naturalist readers.
Christopher O'Toole is an entomologist, author and speaker. He has been scientific consultant to many television projects, including The Birth of the Bees for the BBC and on the David Attenborough series Life on Earth and was scientific consultant on the feature film Angels and Insects. His books include Bees of the World and for children, Discovering Bees and Wasps.
There are more species of bee than birds and mammals combined. With at least 20,000 described species and with many new species being described annually, bees comprise a major component of our planet's biodiversity. They play a vital role in human ecology, a fact underlined by the estimate that every third mouthful of our food is dependent on the pollination services of bees.
Honeybees are the most intensively studied of all insects. Together with bumblebees and stingless bees, they are highly social. Such bees, though, account for only a very small proportion of the world's bee fauna. The vast majority of species, more than 90 percent, are solitary or non-social. Here, each nest is the work of a single female working alone; there is no caste of workers as in the highly social bees.
Nevertheless, most people are familiar with the social honeybees and bumblebees...but are they really? In television news items stock footage of bumblebees at flowers is used to illustrate pieces on colony collapse disorder in honeybees and, to even things up, footage of honeybees illustrates pieces on concern about declining populations of bumblebees. To add to the confusion, the iconography of labels on jars of honey often includes caricatures of bumblebees flying around a rustic-looking beehive!
Being social and making honey are in reality eccentric things for bees to be engaged in; the focus on social bees means that the vast majority of bees barely appear on the radar of public consciousness. One of the aims of this book, therefore, is to give due attention to the highly social bees and their importance in human affairs, but also to reset the balance and open up the solitary bees to a wider audience. These bees are highly diverse in terms of their nesting and mating behavior and their relationships with flowering plants.
In its broadest sense, biodiversity and its maintenance are now well and truly on the public agenda and, thanks to high quality natural history television documentaries, most of us are broadly familiar with the ecology of big game species in Africa. Only now, though, are we beginning to unravel the ecology of the little game, the insects, whose ecological services support and maintain habitats and ecosystems.
They do this via complex webs of interactions between themselves, plants and other organisms. These webs form a dynamic, self-sustaining safety net on which we depend and bees occupy keystone positions here. There is no doubt that visiting aliens from another galaxy would quickly realize that insects are the dominant terrestrial life forms on our planet rather than our own species.
This is important: our antecedents evolved in response to the opportunities and challenges presented by the savannahs of East Africa and they did so by courtesy of the ecological services provided by insects, including the bees, which continue to play vital roles in human ecology.
When early man migrated out of Africa, the habitats he encountered may have been different from those in Africa and the bees and plants were certainly different; nevertheless, the habitats he colonized were created and maintained by the same co-evolved, life-sustaining webs of bee-plant relationships.
It was only as late as the 18th century that people began to understand and value the pollination services of bees. This knowledge grew and developed in Britain and Europe and led to beehives being placed in fruit orchards specifically for pollination purposes and growers began to enjoy higher fruit yields.
Today, in the United States, bees pollinate 130 crop species and worldwide more than 400 crops. Most of this managed pollination is by honeybees and the value of these crops greatly exceeds the value of honey produced.
Honeybees, however, are now under increasing pressure from disease, parasites and the sinister colony collapse disorder. In the period 2009-2010, beekeepers in the United States lost on average 42.2 percent of their colonies and in the last 10-15 years, both the United States and Britain have lost nearly 50 percent of beekeepers, who have given up the craft. For too long we have relied on this single species as a managed pollinator.
If we are to recruit additional species, then we need to know more about the world's bees. Leafcutter bees (Megachile spp.) and mason bees (Osmia spp.) are some of the main contenders as alternative pollinators. The Alfalfa Leafcutter bee (Megachile rotundata) is managed on a large scale in Canada and the United States for pollination of alfalfa, an important forage crop for cattle. Bumblebees are now widely used in Britain, Europe and increasingly in the United States as pollinators of glasshouse crops, especially tomatoes and I have been involved in developing the management of the Eurasian Red Mason bee, Osmia rufa as an orchard pollinator and the Blue Orchard bee, O. lignaria, as a farmed pollinator of almonds in California and both species show great potential.
Many of our wild bee faunas, however, are already under threat from a variety of human activities, including increasing urbanization and the over-fragmentation of natural habitats, not to mention the reduced floral diversity associated with intensive agriculture. In the tropics, vast tracts of rain forest are being lost by logging and the ever-expanding palm oil industry. As E. O. Wilson, the great ant specialist and naturalist has put it, we run the risk of losing the book of life before we have finished reading the introduction.
Even where these bees are not actively managed, they still, in their "wild" state, make a valuable contribution to crop pollination. The vital role of bees in human ecology is underlined by the fact that much of the estimated third of human food dependent on bee pollination can be attributed to solitary bees.
The association of bees and man has thus been long and close. For me, it began as a 12 year-old, in the coastal sand dunes 24km (15 miles) north of Liverpool. It was here that I made my first discoveries about bees. Even now, as a full-grown man, give me a flower-rich meadow and a variety of pollen-plundering bees and I am as happy and excited as that boy in the Lancashire dunes. And there is much to be excited about.
Bees have an impressive diversity of size, form and nesting behavior. They can be found in high, alpine and sub-arctic regions, rainforest, savannahs, steppes and deserts. The greatest diversity of species occurs in shrub communities in regions with a Mediterranean type climate: short, mild winters, warm springs and hot, dry summers.
Many species excavate nests in the ground, others construct exposed nests on rocks or vegetation while others nest in pre-existing cavities such as hollow plant stems, beetle borings in dead wood; some specialists use snail shells. Specialization is a theme running through this book--specialization in the nesting and foraging behavior of females and in the mate seeking behavior of males: all of the classic behaviors recorded in birds and mammals--scramble competition, lek displays and aggressive territoriality are also found among male bees.
We need bees, not only for the pollination of food crops, but also for the keystone roles they play in maintaining ecosystems and habitats, including many to which we accord aesthetic and recreational value.
Understanding the diversity of bees and their network of relationships with flowering plants is basic to any attempts to conserve many major habitats. Central to these challenges are considerations such as the size of, and distance between, fragmented reserves of natural habitat relative to the foraging distances of the bees that pollinate their floral components.
Do we know enough about this when designating tracts of land for reserves?
This book will illustrate this diversity with potent examples, together with case studies of some bizarre networks of bee-plant relationships. These will include the vital roles bees play in maintaining tropical rainforests, with all that this implies for these centers of biodiversity which are also vital carbon sinks. In dealing with these topics, I will outline questions, some which have yet to be asked:
Do some bees, those denizens of sunshine, actually nest in dark, caves, beyond the twilight zone?
How can it be that the pollination success of some desert plants depends on the nesting success of bees which never visit them?
Is it really true that there are nocturnal bees and some that spend some time under water?
How can it be that the pollination success of Brazil nut trees is partially dependent on the strange sex lives of male bees which never visit them and partially dependent on the presence of oil producing flowers of other tropical canopy trees?
And why should watch and clock makers be concerned that the complex sex lives of these bees and Brazil nut trees be sustained?
How is it that the introduction of four British species of bumblebee to New Zealand in the 1880's contributed in 1967 to President de Gaulle vetoing Britain's attempt to join the European Common Market?
And do honeybees actually have something to tell us about the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence (SETI)?
If this book draws attention to the challenges which face the world's bee faunas, it is also a celebration: I want to share the pleasures I have enjoyed over the years while immersed in the world of bees, those appealing, intriguing animals, whose diversity of form and behavior is such eloquent testimony to the fine-tuning of natural selection.
Christopher O'Toole
Leicestershire, England
What are Bees?
1 The Wasp Inheritance
2 The Business of Being a Bee
The Many Ways of Being a Bee
3 Solitary Bees
4 Social Bees
5 The Male of the Species
6 The Pollination Market
7 Squash Bees and Other Pollen Specialists
8 Bees and Orchids
Bees and Other Animals
9 The Enemies of Bees
10 The Conservation and Management of Bees
11 Bees and People
12 Bees in Folklore
13 Bees in Folk and Modern Medicine
14 Bee Projects: Becoming a Backyard Bee Scientist
Appendix 1: Suppliers of products for bee projects
Appendix 2: Bee-related web sites
Further reading and selected references by chapter
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FIS Earns Top Spot in Chartis RiskTech100® for Fifth Consecutive Year
FIS ranked number one in the Chartis RiskTech100® for the fifth year in a row.
FIS also placed first in seven categories: Market Presence, Functionality, Insurance, IFRS 17, Energy Trading (Applications), Front Office Risk Management, and Sell-Side.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, NOVEMBER 6, 2019 – For the fifth consecutive year, financial technology leader FIS™ (NYSE: FIS) has received the number one ranking in the Chartis RiskTech100®.
Compiled by leading industry research group Chartis Research, the RiskTech100® ranks the world’s top 100 providers of risk management and compliance technology solutions. In addition to receiving the top spot in the 2020 rankings, FIS ranked first in the categories of Market Presence, Functionality, Insurance, IFRS 17, Energy Trading (Applications), Front Office Risk Management and Sell-Side.
“FIS has a strong history of being at the forefront of risk technology that delivers solutions to risk, compliance and finance professionals,” said Rob Stubbs, Head of Research, Chartis Research. “Five years at the top of the RiskTech100® demonstrates how FIS is becoming a leader among its peers.”
“Today’s firms are contending with sophisticated risks along with a labyrinth of increasingly complex regulatory and compliance requirements,” said Martin Boyd, president of Capital Markets Solutions at FIS. “We are thrilled that FIS has been recognized once again by Chartis for the investments we continue to make in leading-edge risk management and compliance solutions.”
FIS recently ranked first for its energy risk management solutions in the Chartis Research Energy25 report, and was named a category leader in two Chartis reports that rank solution providers of sell-side risk management technology and IFRS 17 insurance accounting reporting solutions.
To read the full Chartis RiskTech100® report, visit https://www.chartis-research.com/chartis-insights/risktech100r-2020-10996.
FIS is a leading provider of technology solutions for merchants, banks and capital markets firms globally. Our 55,000 people are dedicated to advancing the way the world pays, banks and invests by applying our scale, deep expertise and data-driven insights. We help our clients use technology in innovative ways to solve business-critical challenges and deliver superior experiences for their customers. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, FIS is a Fortune 500® company and is a member of Standard & Poor’s 500® Index.
To learn more, visit www.fisglobal.com. Follow FIS on Facebook (facebook.com/FIStoday), LinkedIn (linkedin.com/company/fis) and Twitter (@FISGlobal).
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Shamrock FC 316's Evan Elder Inspired By Teammate Kamaru Usman
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When Dana White wrapped the belt around Kamaru Usman’s waist at UFC 235, the victory extended beyond an individual accomplishment. After years of being one of the best coaches in the world, Henri Hooft finally had a UFC champion, and his team, Hard Knocks 365, could finally claim they won gold at the highest level.
The moment was a powerful one—not only for “The Nigerian Nightmare”—but his training partners as well, including Missouri’s Evan Elder.
A relatively new member of Hard Knocks 365, the 21-year-old lightweight was deeply inspired to see the ultimate success of a friend who he battles inside the gym.
“For one, it was awesome knowing I train at the same gym as that guy,” Elder told FloCombat. “Number two, that guy is an awesome guy anyways. It even made me a little emotional seeing how emotional he got after the fight. Just like all of us, we put so much time and effort into all of this. It’s awesome to see that pay off.
“To be completely honest, it was really inspirational. I know that I can do that. Especially training at the same gym as the guy. Coming from what he’s coming from. We train with the same guys and the same coaches. I know that one day, I can aspire to be there.”
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For over a decade, Elder has dreamed of earning a UFC title of his own. Introduced to mixed martial arts by his father at a young age, Elder began wrestling in seventh grade. The plan was always to transition into MMA, but he wanted to have a strong base to lay the foundation.
Fast forward a few years, and Elder’s pursuit of MMA greatness found him in Stockton, California, training alongside the likes of the Diaz Brothers at Nick Diaz Academy.
“My jiu-jitsu in general has gotten much better since training at Nick Diaz Academy,” Elder said. “Almost all of my jiu-jitsu is learned from the Nick Diaz Academy—their jiu jitsu is just off the chains.”
Eventually, the Missourian returned home and began training at Finney’s MMA—a gym owned by Shamrock FC President Jesse Finney. It should come as no surprise Elder was quickly picked up by the Missouri-based promotion.
Winning six-out-of-seven on the amateur scene, Elder’s lone loss came to now-UFC fan-favorite Luis Pena. Elder has a tremendous amount of respect for his fellow FloCombat veteran, and views the loss to "Violent Bob Ross" as a phenomenal learning experience.
“I’m a firm believer everything happens for a reason,” Elder said. “That loss to Luis Pena was super good for me. Fortunately enough, it was to a good guy. I’m happy he went on to do big things. I think it’s freaking awesome. I like to see anyone doing anything good in life, because you know they’re putting in the time and the work for it.”
Friday night at Shamrock FC 316, Elder will return to the cage when he takes on Derek Clardy. “The Phenom” will look to top his freshman pro appearance, which ended via first round knockout. The entire card will air live and exclusively on FloCombat beginning at 8 PM ET.
“I know if I get in there and do what I do, there’s no reason I should lose to anybody,” Elder said. “I’m super confident being down here now and getting looks from all of these super-high-level guys. All I have to do is stick to what I do. This is more for me than anything else. I want to get in there and make sure I have all of my bases super solid.”
Expecting to fight three to four more times this year, Elder expects 2019 to be his breakthrough year.
“I’m going to try to stay active,” Elder said. “I’m praying that I don’t run into any injuries from fights or training. I want to stay as active as possible. I’m not overlooking my opponent by any means, but I think the projected next fight will be in July. Then, I’ll try to get in at least one or two more.
“I’m hoping to at least be 4-0 or 5-0 by the end of the year. I’ll just see where it goes from there. If something awesome pops up, I’m definitely going to take it. If not, I’m going to keep fighting whoever they put in front of me wherever that’s at. Whether it be Shamrock or another organization, I’m going to conquer whoever they put in front of me until I get seen.”
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Top Turtle MMA Podcast (Episode 254)
Dec 30, 2020Daniel Vreeland
The year 2020 is coming to an end, which is likely for the best, but Shockwave and Gumby wanted to remind you of the very best that took place in 2020.
So the UFC action may have taken a temporary hiatus, but Gumby and Shockwave have not.
One last UFC event this year and the guys from Top Turtle have all you’ll need to get you hyped.
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tudents at Georgia Southern University take their meals in the temporary “Nest” dining hall put up by Kitchens 2 Go in a parking lot while the school rebuilds/renovates two of its dining hallls.
Georgia Southern Bridges Reconstruction Gap with Temp Facility
Georgia Southern uses a temporary facility while both permanent dining halls are closed for renovation/reconstruction.
The campus dining services at Georgia Southern University were getting a bit long in the tooth. One facility, Landrum, was of 60s vintage and very much looked its age while the other, Lakeside, while only about 20 years old, was in desperate need of a makeover.
“We could have undertaken the projects separately, but that would have meant disruptions for an extended period,” says Dining Services Director Jeff Yawn. “We decided we would be better served if we took on both at the same time.”
Of course, since Landrum and Lakeside are Georgia Southern’s only two board dining centers, that posed a bit of a problem, even though the meal plan does offer equivalency options at the various retail outlets on campus.
Instead, the school hired a third party to put up a temporary dining facility on a parking lot. Called the Nest (Georgia Southern sports teams are the Eagles), it’s designed to provide all-you-care-to-eat dining from seven food stations throughout the 2012-13 school year. Both Landrum, which is being demolished and totally rebuilt, and Lakeside, which is receiving a major renovation, are slated to reopen in time for the fall 2013 semester.
The menu at the Nest is not only varied—stations include the Tilted Skillet entrée concept, La Bistro, All Day breakfast, Smokey’s Barbecue & Grill, HomeStyle Pizza & Pasta, Think’n Green salads and Sweet Spot desserts and pastries—but also will preview new menu items intended for the new permanent dining hall menus when they reopen.
The temporary facility has enough seating to accommodate the combined customer counts of the two closed facilities, which saw an average of about 5,000 students a day between them, Yawn says.
With an enrollment of around 20,000, Georgia Southern has a meal plan base of about 7,200 students, half of them freshman who are required to purchase plans. The prospect of having to eat at a temporary facility doesn’t seem to have affected voluntary meal plan sales: counts remain at traditional levels so far, Yawn says.
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Couche-Tard and Circle K enact emergency measures
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April 1, 2020, Laval, Que. – As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to escalate across the globe, Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Circle K, have implemented critical emergency measures for the protection and support of the health and safety of its customers and employees.
Company president and CEO Brian Hannasch said, “I know these are stressful, difficult days as we see the effects of this global pandemic on our lives, workplaces, and neighbourhoods. As a company, we are deeply committed to being part of the solution for our customers and our employees. Our team members are working hard to create impactful measures to serve our communities, and I have never been prouder to be the leader of this company.”
Keeping its focus on its key priority of the health and safety of its employees and customers, the company has put in place significant measures at its stores including:
Enacting stringent cleaning measures several times daily anywhere hands touch from surfaces, screens, pumps, restrooms and more.
Increasing safety, hygiene, and packaging around food and beverages.
Installing clear barriers at cash registers to protect customers and employees from coughs, sneezes or other possible exposure.
Reinforcing best-hygiene practices through digital media and display screens at registers.
Marking stores for social distancing at the checkout line.
Putting frequently asked questions and answers on its website concerning how stores are operating and what customers can expect in terms of store closing and sanitizing procedures if an employee is diagnosed with COVID-19.
The company is also doing its part to say thank you to those working day and night to combat the virus. Free coffee, tea, and Polar pop is being offered to first responders and healthcare workers, as well as to store employees.
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Emergency appreciation pay premium for store employees in North America of an additional $2.50 to base hourly rate of pay for all hours worked.
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The Ugly Truth: Everyone Wants An Anti-Racist Workplace, But No One Wants To Speak Up
Dana BrownleeSenior Contributor
I help professionals navigate workplace challenges
In the aftermath of the racial justice protests after the brutal killing of George Floyd, many professionals have mustered a once in a lifetime commitment to building an antiracist workplace – in much the same way that we often wake up on New Year’s Day with a renewed commitment to losing 20 pounds. It’s a noble goal – we know it’s the right move, but once we shift from grandiose idea to practical execution an inconvenient barrier rears its ugly head – sacrifice. In the workplace that sacrifice often shows up as the need to question the status quo, go against the grain, challenge policies and processes or maybe even strain some long-standing relationships. It requires speaking up, and the dirty little secret is that most of us want the organizational sea change, but we don't want to "get dirty" in the process. Whether it's fear of not making partner, missing out on client opportunities or just not getting invited to the cool kids table in the company cafeteria - we'd prefer that someone else say the thing that we're thinking.
The Inertia to Stay Silent
While the reasons may differ, virtually everyone feels the inertia to remain silent. For many whites speaking up essentially means working to dismantle a system that advantages them. For some this can create an almost reflexive defensiveness when structural changes are proposed. As the saying goes, “When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.” For people of color on the other hand one would assume there’s an automatic inclination to speak up, but in fact, there’s a strong inertia encouraging our silence as well. Some may conveniently wait until they’re on their way out the door to voice long standing concerns while others prefer to live a virtual double life (privately vocal while publicly silent). Some even refuse to support others who dare challenge leadership with the hard questions using tired refrains year after year like “Well, we have to say things in a way that they can hear it,” deathly afraid of creating any level of discomfort for those in power when the reality is that discomfort might be the beginning of actual progress. Indeed, the reality is that Newton’s first law – an object will not change its motion unless a force acts on it – applies to organizations as well, and for some organizations what may be required is saying things in a way that they can’t help but hear it.
In my experience too many (of all ethnic backgrounds) have become expert rationalizers allowing negative fantasies of worst case individual retaliatory consequences to completely detract them from the very real, ongoing negative consequences for not just underrepresented minorities but arguably for the organization as a whole. And the truth is that while those potential consequences could certainly come to fruition, there’s such satisfaction in actually living one’s values, and as crazy as it sounds, experiencing retaliatory action or other negative consequences provides valuable insight into who the organization always was and where they’re headed. For those truly committed to living, working and engaging with antiracist organizations, that knowledge can be a gift in many ways. In short, speaking up requires true selflessness and integrity – qualities too often in short supply.
There Are So Many Ways To Speak Up – Pick One
Fortunately, there are many ways to speak up and certainly each person should customize their approach to their specific personality, style and circumstance. Be thoughtful, even strategic but do so to maximize effectiveness not just to try to avoid discomfort (theirs or yours). Remember that discomfort just may be the necessary first step for real progress.
While building antiracist environments often requires a range of advances from policy and process changes to enhanced hiring and career development practices, it also requires small interpersonal changes day in and day out that challenge biases, check microaggressions and shift individual paradigms. In that vein, let’s examine a real workplace scenario where you may want to speak up (but feel hesitant to do so).
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The Situation: You’re a well-respected white male member of a team that has operated as a good old boy network for years. There’s only one Black team member (Kim). While she’s quite experienced and knows her stuff, she’s often not included in casual discussions, and her opinion certainly doesn’t carry the same weight as others’. Unfortunately, you’ve noticed these types of microaggressions directed towards employees of color throughout the company over the years. During a recent team meeting, Kim’s idea was quickly discounted in an almost condescending way by a more senior team member. How do you speak up?
Option 1: Ask for clarification on her point and add your support. “Jim, before we move on, I’d like to ask Kim a few questions about her idea. It sounds intriguing.”
Option 2: Acknowledge the disparate treatment with the group. “Guys, we completely moved on without pausing to consider Kim’s idea, and I feel like that’s not the first time it’s happened. We have to be more inclusive.”
Option 3: After the meeting, chat with her to get her view of the team’s behavior and offer your support. “Kim, if you have a minute, I’d like to debrief the meeting with you. To be completely honest, I feel sometimes that your points aren’t considered or discussed as much as some others’. What are your impressions?”
Option 4: Meet with your boss privately and express your concern. “I feel like one of my responsibilities is to tell you what others won’t. I think Kim’s comments are often discounted and overlooked and while it may not be intentional, it might be viewed as racially motivated, and that makes me uncomfortable.”
Option 5: Do nothing
The simple fact is that small steps like these to block or otherwise address microaggressions or other problematic behaviors can play a huge role in shifting the organizational culture. For those inclined to graduate from spectator to participant in their organization’s journey towards antiracism, there are a range of options for addressing these types of day to day situations. Clearly, there are pros and cons to be considered for each option. There are also a variety of factors that might make one approach advantageous over another in a given situation, but the only option that essentially ensures zero progress is the Do-Nothing option – the door selected all too often.
Are there times when it may be better to sit this one out because it’s just not a significant enough issue? Certainly. Are there days when it might be smarter to take a pass because you’re not in a good mood or feel particularly fatigued and/or triggered? Absolutely. Is it smart to strategically select your environment and approach? Of course. Is it important to modulate one’s level of assertiveness considering factors like the organizational culture, the severity of the inequity, the organizational power structure, whether the offenses are one off or repeated, etc.? Absolutely. It’s always advisable to be strategic and carefully select one’s approach or word choice. The problem is that too many will modulate themselves to zero virtually all the time simply because they care more about taking the easy route and staying in the good graces of those with power than they do about building antiracist workplaces.
Of course, they won’t acknowledge that as the reason for their silence. Instead, they’ll over intellectualize, mentally rationalize that speaking up wouldn’t help anyway, passively assume it's someone else's job to be bold or naively expect dramatic change to somehow happen without dramatic action, but the truth is that many environments often require a jolt to the system (more often several, repeated jolts) in order to slowly turn the ship around. If your organization/leaders are open minded, value equity and are teachable, that's great. Your job may be fairly easy. However, if the organization is more closed minded and doesn't have a great track record for equity, it shouldn't come as a shock to be met with defensiveness and push back. This doesn't mean you shouldn't say what needs to be said. Instead, it's more likely an indication of just how much you need to say it.
It's a shame that the country watched the George Floyd video nearly three decades after the similarly abhorrent Rodney King video. I would submit that we find ourselves in essentially the same place almost three decades later not because of what we did over those decades but because of what we didn't do. Arguably, this moment requires boldness. It requires not only saying what you think will be well received but instead saying what needs to be said even though it won't be well received. Indeed, racism is a human rights issue, and human rights advances don’t happen without conflict, discomfort or people demanding respect and equity in the face of financial risk, danger or consequence. Arguably, if you're only willing to say what's safe or do what makes others feel comfortable, then your values are malleable at best.
I can't imagine where we would be as a people if previous generations had only been willing to say or do what was safe or personally advantageous. Martin, Malcolm, Rosa, Ida, Harriet, Medgar, Fannie - Where would we be as a society if they just said what was easy and would make everyone comfortable? Certainly, playing it safe can yield short term individual benefits - yes, you may stay in Jack’s good graces and finally make partner in an organization that you don’t even respect. The risk though - 30 years from now, we may just end up watching the next George Floyd video infuriated at our racist culture. We'll probably just scratch our heads and wonder how we didn't make more progress over the past 30 years. Alas, the answer may be staring us in the mirror.
Stay tuned for my next piece “8 Tactics For Conducting Courageous Workplace Conversations On Race.”
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Dana Brownlee
I’m a keynote speaker/trainer, author and workplace antiracism thought leader. I’m a firm believer in encouraging truly collaborative workplace cultures, helping
I’m a keynote speaker/trainer, author and workplace antiracism thought leader. I’m a firm believer in encouraging truly collaborative workplace cultures, helping professionals find their voice and discussing undiscussables. Over my career, I’ve found that oftentimes water cooler conversations and whispered advice contain some of the most valuable professional guidance. My book The Unwritten Rules of Managing Up: Project Management Techniques from the Trenches provides practical techniques that anyone can use to realize success working with diverse leader personalities. I’m a graduate of Spelman College, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University. Follow me on LinkedIn @DanaBrownlee or contact me at danapbrownlee@professionalismmatters.com.
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Yang, a Democrat who made an unsuccessful run at the presidency in 2020, released a campaign video to announce his entry into an already crowded field, The Wall Street Journal reported.
“I moved to New York City 25 years ago. I came of age, fell in love, and became a father here. Seeing our City in so much pain breaks my heart,” Yang tweeted on Wednesday night, along with a nearly two-and-a-half-minute video.
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Captain of the Ocean Liner
The Captain of the Ocean Liner - 1908
"A few days later we may see him clad in rough allskins from the crown of this head to his feet, streaming with spray and pelting rain, his beard glistening with salt, and his eyes bloodshot from the smart of the hissing wind, but as calm and as self-possessed then and always as he was in the smooth waters of the bay."
THERE the ship is—a leviathan; and on the bridge stands the captain—a pigmy by comparison. He may be, and probably is, a man 0f robust physique, with burly shoulders and a face stained by exposure to sun, wind, and salty spray; thick-set, alert, but calm in manner, and with eyes that are comprehensive yet pinched by constant searching and the effort to see farther and sooner than other eyes.
The ship measures perhaps forty-five thousand tons, and, like the new Cunarders, has cost about a million and a quarter to build. Her cargo is worth many thousands, and in her strong-room are several millions in specie passing between the banks in settlement of international balances.
These are ascertainable values; but how can we compute the value of the lives of the three thousand passengers of all degrees who are dependent for their existence on that one man on the bridge while the voyage lasts ?
There are few positions in the world where the responsibility is so heavy as that of the captain of such a ship. He must be prepared for every emergency—for the thing that often happens and the thing that never happened before—and he must take on his shoulders not only the consequences of any blunder of his own, but also the blunders of his subordinates.
Theoretically, he is supposed to be always on the bridge, and, if an accident befalls while he is below, the fact that he could no longer do without sleep, and had given the officers of the watch the proper orders before going down, does not exculPâté him in the eyes of the law, or of the passengers.
Although he is held accountable for all mishaps, his authority is not less comprehensive than his responsibility. He is an autocrat, and his orders must be obeyed without question in al/ the many departments of the immense ship—in the galley and in the engine-room, as well as in the forecastle and in the saloon.
His powers are absolute over the crew, and over the passengers too, though of course they are not made aware of it, except in cases of misconduct or in disaster. In the smaller ships of earlier days there was a chance of his knowing all his passengers and being sociable with them, but that is impossible with such numbers as travel now. Nevertheless, he has a way of hearing of every thing that is going on, and especially of any infringement of discipline, whether it is in the cabin, in the steerage, or among the crew.
A lady's gown is smirched with wet paint, a man is profane in the smoking-room, somebody has seen a rat, somebody else does not like the tunes the band plays, or one flea has been caught in a state-room, the occupant of which declares that the ship is alive with them —what is petty and what is serious comes to the captain's ears through a kind of secret service on the part of his subordinates, especially in the German lines, where nothing is thought to he unworthy of his interest and attention.
In the German lines some details are referred to him which in the American line and the English lines are left to the purser or the chief steward. The German captains are encouraged to " nurse " their passengers, and are allowed a bonus for every passenger carried. They are paid according to the popularity of their respective ships—a usage which does not accord with British tradition and prejudices.
German or English, as the leviathan slowly, and with the utmost caution, clears the wharf in New York a whole fleet of powerful tug-boats– as many as sixteen sometimes—puff and haul and press around her bow and stern to supplement her own engines in getting her headed down stream, and when that is done she proceeds at reduced speed in picking her way through the various craft which harass her until she is well out into the open sea.
A ferry-boat crosses her bows, or a schooner tacks unexpectedly in a sudden gust of wind, another steamer coming in changes its course contrary to the "rules of the road," and a collision seems unavoidable. Whistles are blown, and the helm is thrown over, when possibly the narrowness of the channel will not allow that change without incurring the risk of grounding. A quartermaster heaves the lead for soundings from a platform in the bow, and sings out what he finds-"
By the deep " this, and "By the deep " that. If she grounds she may never come off, or if she comes off it is only after delay and enormous expense. Though the fault may be entirely that of the other steamer, our captain is not likely to escape scot-free of blame. The mishap is bad for the reputation of the line, and for his reputation too. He is held answerable for it.
"The merry passengers ... are saying 'Good Bye !' to the pilot as he drops from the swinging rope-ladder into the cockle-shell which is waiting for him."
As we stand under the bridge, watching and listening, all these incidents are exciting to us; but on the bridge itself all is quiet, and the voice of the. captain as he gives his orders is not raised above the pitch of the politest conversation. In his kid gloves and gold lace he looks rather dandified, and not the man of resource, of swift decision, of long experience, of sound judgment, and of indisputable courage that he really is.
A few days later we may see him clad in rough oilskins from the crown of his head to his feet, streaming with spray and pelting rain, his beard glistening with salt, and his eyes bloodshot from the smart of the hissing wind, but as calm and as self-possessed then and always as he was in the smooth waters of the bay. Excitable he must not be under any circumstances.
As far as the bar he has a pilot with him, and to that point the pilot, with his local knowledge of tides, shoals, shifting sand-banks, and temporary obstructions, like submerged wrecks, is nominally in charge of the ship; hut, if the pilot makes any mistake, the captain has to share the censure which inevitably follows.
Though compelled by law to employ a pilot when entering or leaving port, the captain may at any time he disapproves of that guide's course take the ship out of his hands and do what he himself thinks is wiser and safer. Should the result vindicate his judgment, all is well with him; but if, instead, the result is a mishap, it goes very hard with him when he reports to his owners at the end of the voyage.
Let us suppose, however, that we reach and cross the bar without a hitch, from the moment we drew into the stream front the wharf. The sun is shining and fairy feet are twinkling all over the placid sea. The merry passengers, full of hope and good spirits, are saying "Good-bye to the pilot as he drops from the swinging rope-ladder into the cockle-shell which is waiting for him.
Then the three. thousand-mile voyage begins. We hear the captain give the order, "Ahead, full speed ! " and the engines respond with the murmur and the throb of power that till now has been in abeyance. There he is—the monarch of this splendid ship, the custodian of vaster treasure than the galleons of old ever bore from the Indies, and the guardian of as many or more human beings than the combined crews of an entire fleet of former days.
He descends from the bridge into the superb suite of rooms just below it which are provided for his exclusive use; and when the land has vanished we may see him, if the weather is fine, join the ladies in games of shovel-board or sea quoits.
If there is an ambitious boy on board who before this has been uncertain as to the vocation he will choose, he resolves at once that the command of an ocean liner is the very thing for him, and that this is what he will he—a captain, whose berth, as he sees it, is an enviable combination of handsomely uniformed ease, boundless authority,. and spectacular prominence.
Should he have a talk with one of the junior officers later in the voyage it would disillusion him and turn his ambition into other directions.
The captain is on the top rung of the ladder of his profession, and has got there by climbing, nut by vaulting; not in a day, but by years of service; not easily, but with difficulty and delay; not as soon as qualified, but by slow promotion from one grade to another during the greater part of a lifetime.
Promotion in 1he transatlantic lines is slow, and there are more deserving candidates than positions for them.
Probably the captain has been in the same line since he began as a fourth officer when he was a very young man. Before that he must have had some experience in sailing-ships, and acquired at least a mate's certificate.
On many of the great transatlantic liners all the officers are holders of masters' certificates, and thus some of them, although at the bottom so far as actual position goes, are certified by competent examiners in seamanship and navigation to be qualified for the top.
There are seven or eight navigating officers under the captain, and each aspires to he a captain himself in time. Progress is labyrinthine in this profession, however. The ships themselves are graded as well as the men.
Suppose that you have risen to be chief officer in one of the inferior vessels of the fleet; the captain dies or retires : his place is not given to you, but to the chief officer of the commodore ship of the line, and you are merely transferred, without change of rank, to a better ship; from that ship you pass to a better and to a better until the slow and wearying progress leads you after scores of voyages and anxious experiences of the fitful Atlantic, in the fogs of summer and the hurricanes of winter, to a commodore ship.
The command of her becomes vacant, but it is not yet for you. You are promoted to a captaincy—to the captaincy of the least important ship of the line. But, though you are sent down from the top of one ladder, it is to climb another, and you are little inclined to complain.
Then, if there is nothing against you, if you avoid accidents, and if the owners approve of you in all ways, you will in another ten years or so have command of all the intermediate ships in succession, and at last have risen to the newest, finest, and fastest. By this time you are likely to be verging on middle age, or beyond it, and the next step will be towards the limit at which you must retire, leaving the climbing to others, some of whom may never reach the top, near though it seems.
Favor plays no part in advancement at sea. All the lines keep to those of their own officers whose ability and fidelity are proved, and promote them, with few exceptions, in the rotation I have described. The captains are all men who have risen from the bottom, or from junior posts of the line in which they serve, and happily no usurpation by outsiders is ever heard of.
It is not a well-paid profession. The junior officers seldom receive more than from eight to twenty pounds a month, and there are very few ships in which the captain's salary is more than a thousand pounds a year.
At the same time, it is the most exacting of all professions, and the only profession in which mistakes are irretrievable. A doctor or a lawyer may lose a case through error, and any businessman may come to bankruptcy through lack of judgment, without more than passing disparagement.
Their reputations may suffer for a time, but unless they are incompetent or of bad habits they can recover their position.
Not so with the captain of a great ship. His own line will have nothing more to do with him if he has a collision or an accident of any kind—even a comparatively trifling one—if it is clearly due to his carelessness or his want of skill. Nor will the other lines give him a chance to redeem himself; they have their own people to look after, people who have not had accidents.
He may have had a clean record and worked his way up, coming scathless and blameless through years of trial. One blunder—and he is done for. He is at once deposed from his high command, and must retire altogether from the sea, or accept some humble job in a " tramp," without any further opportunity for advancement.
I recall a man who slowly rose in the usual way from the position of fourth officer to that of chief officer, and then to a captaincy in one of the Liverpool lines. He had, of course, established a reputation for carefulness and sobriety before his promotion, but, as it proved, he was one of those who need control, and are born to follow and not to command.
His responsibilities as captain were too much for him, and "got on his nerves" before he finished his first voyage. He was up at all hours, and constantly on the bridge; he was as diligent as he had ever been, but he entirely lost his self-possession, and brought his ship to grief before he returned to Liverpool.
I asked a Liverpool friend about him recently.
" How strange you should ask !" was the reply. " I was in Southampton not long ago, and the queerest, dingiest little man you ever saw came and spoke to me." It was M—, the man who had been captain for so brief a time, and now was serving at four pounds a month as lamplighter on a small, rusty, battered, and ignominious ocean tramp—an effulgence of majesty in gold lace reduced to a crumpled barnacle. But the managers of the great lines seldom err in choosing commanders.
There is custom, but no hard-and-fast rules applying to promotion. Some who stem entitled to it are occasionally left behind, and, though their fidelity is not doubted, it is 1hought prudent to keep them where their capacities cannot encounter any perilous strain.
The strain on the captain, beginning when 1he hawsers are slipped at the wharf, continues with few intermissions while the ship is at sea.
No hurricane or cyclone that ever blew has power in itself alone to sink the modern ships of the great lines, so large are they, and so conscientiously equipped and maintained, without regard to cost, and with a prevision not alone for visible defects, but also for flaws that are merely suspected.
The dangers arise from ice and fog, the careless and incompetent navigation of other ships, and those dreaded derelicts, the abandoned wrecks which do not sink, but, half-submerged, drift blindly with the ocean currents, a constant menace to all moving things that cross their path.
The wind may spin on its pivot and heap the sea into dark ridges that appear the unfamiliar eye as they burst over the bow and sweep with a roar under the counter; the propellers plunge into them and throw up domed and writhing columns of spray higher than a steeple. As long as the weather is clear and the sun and stars can be read in his observations, and he is in deep water, the captain has little to fear. But few voyages are made without fog, and when fog comes all his faculties are taxed at once.
Every 1hirty or forty seconds the hoarse, penetrating, ear-splitting whistle sends its warning through the enveloping gray; 1he order "Stand by !" is telegraphed to the engine-room; the watch in the bow and in the crow's nest is doubled.
His officers and men come and go as usual—four hours on and four hours off—but he has no relief till the veil lifts, which may be soon and may not be for days. Always there is the possibility of collision with other ships; little in the case of steamers as well-manned and well-found as his own; much from sailing-vessels that do not make their proximity known, and are negligent and without sufficient and disciplined crews.
At some seasons icebergs drifting southward in the polar current add to the perils of the fog; they and the derelicts are, of all perils, the greatest, for they never give warning.
The dreaded derelicts that float on the surface, long abandoned and always an obstacle to avoid.
A captain in the Liverpool and Boston service told me that once when he was crossing the Banks of Newfoundland he slowed down for fog, and presently suspected that he was not far from ice. He was blowing his whistle at regular intervals, and the nearest land was hundreds of miles away. He could not see as far as the bow of his own ship.
He stared and listened as the paced he bridge, as all captains do under such circumstances. Hearing what he supposed to be the whistle of another ship close aboard on the port side, he reversed his engines and put the helm ever to avoid her.
Hardly had he done this than still another whistle sounded over the starboard bow. He thought then that he was between two other steamers. His own was at a standstill, but as often as he blew his whistle theirs responded without going ahead or astern. Were they also hove-to ?
It was unaccountable till the fog lifted, when, instead of ships on both sides of him, he found two towering icebergs, blue and white and glistening, the flanks of which had but echoed 1he sound of his own whistle.
Sometimes the fog holds from one end of the voyage to the other, and the ship is navigated by "dead reckoning." The sun and stars, which in clear weather are infallible guides to her position, cannot be seen.
The captain has to depend on courses and the log—on his compasses and the ascertained speed. The difficulty and the suspense increase as he approaches land under these adverse conditions; an error of a very few miles out of three thousand may be fatal.
We never look up to the bridge that we do not find him there. We hear his voice in the darkness and solitude of the masked sea. Every object is distorted and obscured, visible for a while, and then enmeshed in the obliterating folds of drifting gray vapor. If he sleeps at all it is by cat-naps, with his clothes on; he has a speaking tube to the bridge over his head, and a telephone at arm's-length.
The contingencies are appalling, but the results entirely reassuring. A disaster is rare indeed, and in all the voyages I have made, at all seasons of the year, in ships of thirteen hundred tons, like those of the late sixties, and ships of forty-five thousand tons, like those of the present, 1 have never seen a life lost, and only once a bone broken.
And when we see the captain going ashore in plain civilian clothes, after he has moored his ship, we recognize modesty among his other admirable qualities, and acknowledge that he has earned a few days of rest before his next departure. He averages about eleven voyages or twenty-two trips a year—sixty-six thousand miles in all. So he comes and goes through sunshine, tempest, and fog, until the age limit is reached, and he is retired with honor, and—let us hope—a moderate competence.
Rideing, William H., "The Captain of the Liner", Illustrated by Norman Wilkinson and S. H. Vedder, The Pall Mall Magazine, Volume XLL, Number 181, May 1908
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Sea Squid Swing Both Ways
(OCEANS/ANIMAL SCIENCE) Animal reproductive strategies have baffled scientists for generations. From the male bottlenose dolphin to sheep, many species in the animal world exhibit same-sex relationships.
With remote operating vehicles, researchers are documenting the mating habits of male deep sea squid, who not only show same-sex behavior, but mate with males as often as with females. Read more about what scientists think is the reason behind the sea squid’s “swinging” ways. — Global Animal
Squid Histioteuthis is a genus of squid that goes by the common name cock-eyed squid, because their right eye is normal-sized, round, blue, and sunken. Photo Credit: L. Madin/Census of Marine Zooplankton
Discovery News, Abbie Thomas
Male deep sea squid are mating as often with other males as with females, according to a new underwater survey off the coast of California.
Hendrik-Jan Hoving and colleagues from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute report the unusual sexual behavior of Octopoteuthis deletron today in Biology Letters.
Although instances of male-male mating are known from other squid and octopus species, this is the first time it has been found to be as frequent as male-female mating, says Hoving.
The same-sex squid behavior was caught on film by a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) at depths of 400 to 800 meters (1,300 feet to a half mile) in the Monterey Submarine Canyon, a vast underwater valley of similar depth to the Grand Canyon.
Remotely operated vehicles are now able to travel deep enough to record the sea squids reproductive behavior. Photo Credit: Monteray Bay Aquarium Research Institute
The ruby-and-white squid grow to a total length of about 16 inches and have large eyes and long arms tipped with glow-in-the-dark cells. If threatened by a predator, the squid can shed an arm to create a glowing, wriggling decoy. During mating, the male squid uses a modified arm to glue packets of his sperm to the female. These sperm packets release small sperm sacs called spermatangia, which are visible on the female’s body.
The presence of spermatangia on the skin is tangible evidence that a squid has mated.
Of the 19 squid who had mated and whose sex could be determined, the researchers found that nine were males and 10 were females (embedded with between 15 and 150 spermatangia each). This proved that roughly equal numbers of females and males had mated with a male squid.
Hoving says squid can see well in deep water, thanks to their large eyes and light-producing organs in the skin, so it is unlikely that males are mistaking other males for females. So why waste all that sperm on another male?
Hoving suggests that most squid are solitary and because mates are hard to find, a quick sexual encounter gives males the best chance of reproducing, even if it means sometimes accidentally mating with another bloke.
“This behavior further exemplifies the ‘live fast and die young’ life strategy of many cephalopods,” he said.
But Australian expert Mark Norman from Museum Victoria offers an alternative explanation for why the squid accidentally mate with males.
“You may not be sure who’s arm you’re planting sperm packets on, when there are so many arms in a squid’s amorous embrace — 20 limbs total when one male and female meet,” said Norman. “Cannibalism is [also] a high risk in these animals, so a quick deposit of sperm packets, then escape, is probably the main strategy.”
“The most exciting aspect of this discovery is the use of remote vehicles to observe and film these amazing creatures in their natural environment in a non-destructive way,” he said. “We know more about what’s under moon rocks than environments so close to where we live — myriads of these aliens live their strange lives every day and most people have no idea [about them].”
More Discovery News: http://news.discovery.com/animals/squid-same-sex-swingers
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In 1918, the Pittman Act became law, requiring the US government to buy and melt down Morgan Silver Dollars for the production of new silver dollars and for sales to Great Britain. Some estimates suggest that fewer than 15% of the Morgans ever struck survived the massive melt. Some issues were particularly affected, making them extremely difficult to find today. We sometimes have these rare Morgans, as individual or in sets, on this page.
Zerbe Morgan Silver Dollars
Farran Zerbe was a giant in the numismatic world in the early 20th century. Among other roles, he headed the department in charge of official coins and medals for the Panama Pacific Expositions. Zerbe advocated to produce a Peace Dollar in 1921, but the US Mint was late on releasing it. The Mint then produced Special Strike Morgans specifically for Zerbe to make it up to him. We sometimes offer these rare pieces here.
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Guardicore Recognized with 5-Star Rating in 2020 CRN® Partner Program Guide
March 30, 2020 /in News & Press Releases, Press Releases /by Dave Burton
Cloud and Data Center Security Innovator Receives Honor Third Year in a Row
Boston, Mass. and Tel Aviv, Israel – March 30, 2020 – Guardicore, a leader in internal data center and cloud security, has received a 5-Star Rating from CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, in its 2020 Partner Program Guide. The 5-Star rating from CRN denotes Guardicore among elite technology suppliers in the IT channel, providing maximum value and support for solution providers. Guardicore was also recently recognized by CRN as one of the 100 Coolest Cloud Companies for 2020, acknowledging the executive leadership team and the innovative Guardicore Centra Security Platform.
The Channel Company’s research team analyzed each vendor’s partner program to determine the 2020 5-Star ratings. Each was scored based on several factors, including investments in program offerings, partner profitability, partner training, education and support, marketing programs and resources, sales support, and communication. John Ryan Head of Channels for North America at Guardicore commented, “We selectively partner with top notch organizations, who share our mission to provide technical expertise, streamlining our efforts to provide the best results for our partners. The partner program has been designed to focus on what enriches our partners the most; we enable them technically, we feed them qualified opportunities and we consistently support all of their needs.”
The award-winning Guardicore Partner Program was created to meet the unique needs of different partner types, including resellers, consultants, systems integrators, and managed security service providers interested in deploying the Guardicore Centra Security Platform. The program delivers significant benefits to its partners relative to cloud services. Guardicore provides a SaaS-based (cloud) delivery model that enables a cost-effective and highly scalable deployment model. Partners leverage this model to deliver an infrastructure-agnostic approach to security that extends across legacy, bare metal, private virtualized, public cloud and containers. Additionally, partners are able to leverage Guardicore’s cloud capabilities to deliver a wide range of cloud-based managed security services and cloud-centric professional services.
Guardicore’s Centra Security Platform is a comprehensive data center and cloud security solution that delivers the simplest and most intuitive way to apply micro-segmentation controls to reduce attack surface and detect and control breaches within east-west traffic. It provides deep visibility into application dependencies and flows and enforcement of network and individual process level policies to isolate and segment critical applications and infrastructure. Guardicore Centra’s AI-powered segmentation makes asset classification even easier and reduces the time and effort needed to apply a segmentation policy to new or existing applications.
About The Channel Company
The Channel Company enables breakthrough IT channel performance with our dominant media, engaging events, expert consulting and education and innovative marketing services and platforms. As the channel catalyst, we connect and empower technology suppliers, solution providers and end users. Backed by more than 30 years of unequalled channel experience, we draw from our deep knowledge to envision innovative new solutions for ever-evolving challenges in the technology marketplace. www.thechannelco.com
About Guardicore
Guardicore is a data center and cloud security company that protects your organization’s core assets using flexible, quickly deployed, and easy to understand micro-segmentation controls. Our solutions provide a simpler, faster way to guarantee persistent and consistent security — for any application, in any IT environment. For more information, visit optimizeme.online.
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How to Stop Human and Computer Viruses In Their Tracks
March 19, 2020 /in Blog /by Ariel Zeitlin
Viruses of any type can spread frighteningly quickly. As we are seeing today with COVID-19, the impact that can have is both widespread and frightening. It’s especially difficult to stop the spread of viruses if you don’t already have the right structures and protocols in place.
While computer viruses don’t have life-changing effects, they can certainly have business-altering ones. Not only do they spread in similar ways to human viruses, but they also can be stopped by implementing similar measures to those we are using to halt the spread of coronavirus.
Test To Gain Visibility
Testing those people who evidence symptoms of a virus like COVID-19 gives you insight into the breadth, location, and volume of an outbreak. Similarly, gaining visibility into what is happening in your network environment enables you to manage your assets in general and to understand the what, where, and extent of issues when they occur.
Getting a clear view into what is happening on your network also empowers you to develop a fast and informed response. For instance, with NotPetya (targeted ransomware), those businesses that mapped all their SMB connections before they were compromised had a better chance of responding intelligently once they were under attack.
Quarantine / Segment
The more you can isolate infected people or applications, the faster you will be able to to limit the spread of any virus, including COVID-19. In cybersecurity, the equivalent of quarantine is segmentation.
Without a tool like Guardicore Centra, segmentation can be quite complex. Moreover, it’s difficult to implement once your systems are already infected. That’s where people who have already implemented Centra have the advantage: the better prepared a business is ahead of time, the faster a compromise can be halted.
Protect Vulnerable and Critical Resources
There is no doubt that some resources/people are more vulnerable to viruses’ effects than others. Those who have compromised immunity and the elderly in particular need to be careful.
In the cybersecurity world, the parallel is legacy systems, which can hold unknown vulnerabilities. They therefore need to be carefully protected (for instance, by ringfencing them), and, if possible, removed from any virus exposure.
Moreover, it makes sense to secure your critical resources with better protections as well. In the case of humans, this may include those running a company, medical personnel, or government officials. In the cybersecurity world there are also critical resources protecting your most sensitive data. With the right protocols in place, you can ensure their survival even under the most aggressive attack.
Using Guardicore Centra, you can quickly enforce policies when you need them, for swift protection of vulnerable and critical resources.
Implement Controls
Biological and computer viruses both often use known propagation methods. For example, viruses that attack humans often propagate through person-to-person contact. Therefore, sanitizers, hand washing, and no handshake policies are effective at slowing the spread.
Similarly, for NotPetya attacks, for instance, SMBs were the propagation paths and restricting SMB access to a bare minimum helped a lot. That’s why it’s key to be able to speedily apply the right type of policy at the right time, anywhere it’s needed. This will provide strong protections against current vulnerabilities as well as future attacks.
Use Common Sense
There really is nothing shocking about any of this advice. Most of it is common sense. Yet not every business (or person) follows these steps, and that’s when we all pay a price.
That said, if you apply these basic steps even when a virus isn’t active, you will be prepared to handle issues when they arise. Even during critical events, you will be prepared to swiftly deploy policies anywhere and keep your business – and communities – safe and running smoothly.
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How To Protect Your Systems Against Critical SMB Vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-0796)
March 17, 2020 /in Blog /by Igor Livshitz
Microsoft has issued its latest set of cumulative updates for Windows for the month of March. There are a total of 117 vulnerabilities, 25 of which are rated critical.
One particular vulnerability stands out from the crowd: CVE-2020-0796. This is a critical vulnerability in the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol in new versions of Windows operating systems. This SMB vulnerability could cause a wide range of wormable attacks and potentially a new Eternal Blue. Without going into the gory details, a flaw in the new SMBv3 compression mechanism potentially allows an attacker to take down or take over a Windows system.
Potentially affected operating systems include:
Windows 10 Version 1903 for 32-bit Systems
Windows 10 Version 1903 for ARM64-based Systems
Windows 10 Version 1903 for x64-based Systems
Windows Server, version 1903 (Server Core installation)
Advisories on this CVE suggest patching your systems (which you should be doing regardless) as well as “Block TCP port 445 at the enterprise perimeter firewall,” which should be the case in any network. If you can’t patch your Windows system, you can manually disable the SMBv3 compression feature. That is the root of all evil in this case.
A powershell command to disable SMBv3 compression is:
Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters" DisableCompression -Type DWORD -Value 1 -Force
Why Are SMB Vulnerabilities Problematic?
SMB vulnerabilities are not more common than any other Windows vulnerability. The SMB protocol is amazingly useful, but also one of the easiest ways to move laterally in an organization’s data center. All an attacker needs to do is gain access to one system in order to spread across the whole data center. In fact, the WannaCry campaign and EternalBlue vulnerability are great examples of how an SMB vulnerability can have a wide and crippling impact on organizations worldwide.
The question that many ask is, “How do SMB vulnerabilities still happen if we patch and deny all the SMB traffic from external networks?” Moving from theory to reality, we know that not 100% of hosts get patches. In fact, most companies are still struggling with this basic task today. In addition, networks are complex animals that can’t simply be wrangled by placing a box in an arbitrary location.
Moreover, the main reason for widespread damage in most SMB-related incidents we’ve encountered is the fact that hosts within the network can freely move laterally on any port (and specifically on 445 AKA SMB). There is no real justification for allowing this type of behavior inside the network. SMB inside the network should usually only be allowed to communicate with the DC and, in some cases, dedicated file share and backup services. In most cases, servers shouldn’t be communicating with one another over SMB.
So why not just deny the SMB traffic? The answer is that it’s hard for organizations that rely on legacy technologies like gateway firewalls. These tools only enforce traffic going between network zones, not what’s inside.
How Can SMB Vulnerabilities Be Stopped?
One of the first things we recommend to our customers is to improve their network hygiene by implementing basic best practices policies. For example, you can allow only DC, backup, and files SMB traffic. The rest of the traffic should be blocked, regardless of VLANS or network topology. More explicitly, you should deny lateral SMB traffic.
Guardicore Centra helps prevent SMB vulnerabilities by providing a simple and fast way to create and apply policies across the network. These policies allow only legitimate SMB traffic, while blocking the rest of the lateral movement between the hosts.
For example, see how this screenshot demonstrates how only legitimate SMB traffic is allowed within the network:
And here, Centra blocks the rest of the 445 traffic:
A simple common protocol like SMB can pose a great risk to the datacenter. However the risk of SMB vulnerabilities can be easily mitigated with three rules. Simply apply segmentation policies using a tool like Guardicore Centra to prevent lateral SMB traffic inside the datacenter.
Contact us to learn how to reduce your attack surface and prevent lateral movement with fast and simple segmentation that works everywhere.
Preventing SMB traffic from lateral connections and entering or leaving the network
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Secure and Cost-Efficient Work-From-Home at Scale
March 12, 2020 /in Blog /by Ravit Greitser
The outbreak of the coronavirus has created a new reality of work-from-home at scale. To cope with this, companies are required to quickly provide open access to a sizeable number of people holding varying roles and different access requirements.
Learn More About User Identity Access Management
The result is an increased attack surface for the companies and greater risk to their business-critical applications. Protecting access to these applications can help reduce attack surface, prevent potential breaches from escalating and stop lateral movement early on. And user identity access management can provide a fine-grained policy, identifying and enforcing exactly which users can access which applications.
Remote Work – Security and Economic Challenges
Remote work introduces new identity assurance challenges. Companies need to make sure employees access only what they’re authorized to access.
Aligned with the zero trust least privilege access principle, employees should only be able to access applications they need for their daily activities based on their role. This means, for example, ensuring that the SPLUNK teams connect to the SPLUNK servers only, while the Accounting teams connect only to their respective Accounting servers.
Cost is another key consideration. To handle the increased volume of remote workers, companies need to deploy more resources and increase the amount of servers used for VDI and Terminal Servers environments.
Strong User Identity Access Solution Leads to Cost Savings
To provide secure, least privilege access to users, security and network policies should be adapted to match user role and access permissions.
Application segmentation is commonly used to make sure that users access only the applications they’re authorized to access and no more. Coupled with user identity access management, a solutions of the type Guardicore offers, it allows setting user-specific segmentation policies for each user connecting through VDI, terminal server or jumpbox. This way, each user on these shared resources is only able to access applications specific to his/her role.
This allows organizations to consolidate the use of their VDI or terminal servers while gaining significant savings, requiring no change to the infrastructure or downtime.
To allow each group of users (HR team, Billing team, etc.) access to their own application, Guardicore enforces a different network policy for each user based on their Active Directory group memberships. For example, when connecting remotely, HR team members will only be able to access HR servers and Billing team members will only be able to access their Billing servers.
Cost reduction is another key benefit of using this user-based segmentation.
Instead of a dedicated terminal server or VDI cluster per each user group, often required with traditional segmentation solutions, companies can consolidate the use of these servers for several groups of users, each with their own access policy. This way HR teams can only access HR servers, Billing teams can only access Billing servers etc’, while sharing the same infrastructure.
“One of our Advisory Board customers told us that last year, they were able to cut costs on terminal servers by nearly 60 percent using Guardicore’s solution” said Lior Neudorfer, VP Product for Guardicore. “There was no longer a need for separate terminal servers for each client or contractor, which resulted in significant savings.”
Protect Your Critical Applications In Your Remote Workforce
If you would like to speak with one of our security experts about how to manage your application protection during times of change in your organization’s remote workforce, please contact us.
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Guardicore Expands International Presence
March 9, 2020 /in News & Press Releases, Press Releases /by Dave Burton
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Leader in Data Center and Cloud Security Extends Global Reach with Operations in India; Cybersecurity Industry Veteran Pratik Sharma to Lead Guardicore India
Tel Aviv, Israel – March 9, 2020 – Guardicore, a leader in internal data center and cloud security, today announced the expansion of global operations, with the establishment of Guardicore Pvt. Ltd. in Mumbai, India. Guardicore India will be headed by Regional Director Pratik Raj Sharma, a cybersecurity industry veteran and former Regional Sales Director, Check Point, West India.
“With a growing global customer base which includes some of the largest companies in North America, Europe and Latin America, and a significant portion of top financial institutions around the world, including Banco Santander, we see India as a major focus market,”said Dror Salee, Co-Founder and Vice President, Asia Pacific at Guardicore. “We have evidence there is a great need for easy to use, flexible and scalable micro-segmentation solutions in data centers across India’s large and fast-growing economy. We are already engaged with some of India’s largest companies and will be hiring local pre-sales, customer success and professional services engineers to support rapid growth in the country.”
Establishing a market presence in India, Guardicore further expands its global footprint to address increased market demand for its comprehensive data center and cloud security solution Guardicore Centra, delivering the simplest way to apply micro-segmentation controls that reduce attack surface and detect and control breaches within complex internal corporate networks. Guardicore will support this expanded international presence with a dedicated team based in Mumbai, addressing customer demand through a high-value global channel partner program aimed at delivering award-winning cloud security to customers throughout Asia Pacific.
Pratik Sharma Heads up Guardicore India Pvt. Ltd.
Based in Mumbai, Guardicore India Pvt. Ltd. Regional Director Pratik Raj Sharma will lead Guardicore India, providing strategic direction, and leading the development and expansion of new business opportunities. Pratik is a security industry veteran with more than 18 years of experience. Pratik had been with Check Point Software for over 11 years, holding positions of Security Consultant, System Engineering Director India and SAARC, and most recently Regional Sales Director for Check Point, West India. Pratik has a proven record of facilitating long term business relationships with both customers and industry luminaries. His market and technology experience and expertise are assets that will complement and enhance Guardicore’s ability to meet the data center and cloud security needs of large companies in India’s growing economy.
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Texas A&M TE pledge drops commitment, looking at other schools
By Jason Fraychineaud | FoxSports
"Unpredictability and the recruiting season" are truly synonymous with one another.
2016 tight end prospect Irvin Smith out of New Orleans has been a longtime commitment to Texas A&M...until Thursday afternoon.
Taking to Twitter, Smith reneged on his pledge to Kevin Sumlin and the Aggies. The 6'4", 230-pound pass-catcher will take an official visit to Alabama on Jan. 22, and potentially one to hometown LSU on the final weekend before signing day. Aside from the aforementioned duo, Texas and Charlie Strong appear to be heavily involved.
Smith is an smooth, athletic player with good hands. Although he's more of a receiver at this point, his blocking skills are more than adequate.
It will be a fascinating last push for Smith and his recruitment. Alabama currently has commitments from two tight ends (Miller Forristall, Brendan Scales) and is also pursuing the likes of Devin Asiasi and Nick Eubanks.
LSU -- in desperate need of tight ends on its roster -- has one pledge from Jamal Pettigrew. Texas -- ironically enough -- has a commitment from Smith's high school teammate (and fellow tight end) Peyton Aucoin.
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Police Say Georgia Man Killed Own Daughter to Protect Family Honor
A Georgia man was appearing in court Tuesday on charges he killed his own daughter for disgracing his family.
Chaudhry Rashid, wearing a red jumpsuit and shackles around his ankles, went before Chief Judge Daphne Walker at the Clayton County Magistrate Court Monday where he was to be arraigned on a murder charge.
But, she delayed the case because she did not feel comfortable holding the proceedings without an interpreter for him, the Chicago Tribune reported.
The 54-year-old, who is of Pakistani descent and speaks very little English, kept his head down as charges were read, and appeared to have difficulty understanding instructions from the judge, possibly the result of a language barrier.
His two sons were also in attendance, watching their father from seats in the rear of the courtroom, joined by two others. Rashid waved to their corner as he shuffled slowly out, impeded by the shackles.
Rashid was brought back to jail and was being held without bond until his hearing Tuesday.
The 25-year-old victim, Sandeela Kanwal, was wed in Pakistan in an arranged marriage. Police said Kanwal hadn't seen her husband, who lives in Chicago, for months.
According to police, there was "friction between father and victim" in the weeks leading up to the killing. Rashid had not spoken to his daughter in more than two months.
Police said Rashid was so angered that his daughter planned to divorce her husband that he killed her after a heated argument at the family's home, FOX News affiliate MyFoxAtlanta reported.
Police who arrived at the scene said they found Rashid's two sons at the end of the driveway and their father sitting behind a car smoking a cigarette. Officers said that Rashid appeared "distraught and possibly mournful" and told police "my daughter is dead" when they arrived.
After entering the home, Kanwal's body was discovered in the doorway of a bedroom, cold to the touch, officials said.
A police report said that there were possible "ligature marks" indicating strangulation on the victim and noted that an iron and cord had been found near her body. A necklace was also found on a table downstairs, according to the report.
Rashid was taken to the Clayton County jail where he reportedly confessed to strangling Kanwal.
The news shocked neighbors and friends.
"The family is very upset and stressed," said Shahid Malik of the Pakistani American Community of Atlanta. Malik told MyFoxAtlanta that he met with the family Sunday and said they were all traumatized.
Rashid will be back in court Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. EDT. His bond hearing is scheduled for July 25 at 8 a.m., with a preliminary hearing July 24.
Click here to read more from FOX affiliate MyFoxAtlanta.com
Click here to read more on this story from the Chicago Tribune.
FOX News' Marianne Silber and David Lewkowict contributed to this report.
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How Can I Build Confidence in Myself?
Confidence is so vital in all areas of your life and without it, you will not be able to achieve as much as you would have otherwise. Sadly, not all of us are blessed with confidence for one reason or another but there are ways that you can build this up. Carry on reading to discover the keys to building self-confidence
Look for the good in situations
If you are negative about everything, this is also going to make you negative about yourself as a person, which is going to do nothing positive for your self-confidence. It’s really important that you try and push any negative thoughts to one side and look for the good in every situation that comes your way.
Identify your good attributes
We all have good attributes but sadly those with low self-confidence struggle to see what they are. This could be a particular skill you have, your caring nature, your good sense of humor or something else entirely. If you are struggling with this, ask somebody you are close to what you are good at and hopefully, you should hear lots of positive things.
Practice affirmations
Affirming yourself basically means making yourself believe in the good attributes that you identified previously. Every morning, you should say affirmations to yourself out loud and/or write them down. These could be things like “I am a good friend, “I am good at making people happy,” and even more important, “I am confident.” If you are new to affirmations, this might be a little uncomfortable, but it really works. Why you might be wondering? If you tell yourself something enough times, it will come true.
Surround yourself with supportive people
Some people with low self-confidence are this way because of the people around them. Take a look at the people around you including your closest friends and family. Do they build you up or bring you down? It’s vital that you have good people in your life and don’t be afraid to remove toxic people if they are affecting your confidence.
Do something new every day
Some people struggle with being confident because they never put themselves out of their comfort zone. It’s so important that you do something new and something that scares you as often as possible. This doesn’t have to be anything major like doing a bungee jump (although you could work up to that).
It could be something like making a phone-call that you have been putting off or wearing that outfit that’s a brand- new style to what you usually would wear. These new things will show you that you are capable of so much, which in turn is vital in building self- confidence.
No matter what kind of life you’ve had, it’s never too late to build up your confidence. Putting the mentioned steps into action and just putting yourself out there, in general, is going to be really beneficial in how you see yourself and therefore, how others see you.
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Rotala on the road to success with new environmentally friendly bus fleet
Rotala Plc, the bus, coach and transport firm operating in Birmingham and Manchester, has purchased a new suite of buses as it looks to enhance its operations with an environmentally friendlier fleet.
The £3.2 million purchase of 19 fuel efficient and low emission vehicles will replace a fleet of older units as well as remove those currently on hire, reducing the average age of its assets and associated maintenance costs.
The new fleet has been purchased for its Diamond Bus (North West) Ltd and Hallmark Connections Ltd businesses, part of the wider Rotala Group which services 40 million passenger journeys per year.
The new buses will provide Rotala with greater efficiencies including fuel improvements and lower emissions as well as additional operational cost savings. The investment will also allow the firm to maintain reliability of its services and comply with the latest government regulations.
In addition to improving reliability and performance, the new fleet enhances passenger experience through additional features such as e-leather seating, USB charging points and WiFi.
Simon Dunn, chief executive at Rotala, which financed the purchase through a hire purchase asset ownership facility from Shawbrook Bank, said: ‘This investment will enable Rotala to improve its business operations in both Birmingham and Manchester through the replacement of several legacy vehicles.
‘The new state of the art, fuel efficient and environmentally friendlier fleet will not only reduce our carbon footprint but provide our customers with a reliable and comfortable service while strengthening the Rotala brand across two of the UK’s largest cities.’
Rotala owns and operates a number of companies in the business of bus, coach and transport management services. The operations are undertaken by various depots throughout the United Kingdom but focused on two key areas for local passenger transport – Manchester and Birmingham.
Simon added, ‘We required lending partners with deep sector expertise that really knew our industry inside out. The team at Midlands Asset Finance is incredibly knowledgeable and did a great job in helping us secure the funding we needed with Shawbrook. Despite all the current challenges brought on by the impact of Covid-19, both Midlands Asset Finance and the specialist team at Shawbrook were able to see the potential and benefits of this investment and worked hard to get the funding in place for us.’
Andy Bullock, business development manager at Shawbrook, said: ‘As a specialist lender, this was a great opportunity to support a strategically important business which is embedded in the transport infrastructure within Birmingham and Manchester. It is well established with a strong management team which has managed the Covid-19 crisis well.
‘It has been a pleasure working with the team and it will be great to see the continuing upgrade of the fleet to a modern, super efficient and environmentally friendlier one that is providing a crucial service across Birmingham and Manchester to many, many people in both cities.’
James Dutton, sales director at Midlands Asset Finance, who introduced the deal to Shawbrook, said: ‘We are delighted to have been given the opportunity to work with both the team at Rotala and with Shawbrook.
‘Our honest and open dialogue with Rotala management provided us with clarity and a good understanding of their needs. This allowed us to present the opportunity to Shawbrook who we knew would deliver in a quick and efficient way.
‘Understandably, we have seen many lenders reduce their credit appetite this year. However, by demonstrating a clear picture of the client, showing its experience in the sector and articulating its rationale for purchase we have been able to secure the funding Rotala requires.’
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What does the new budget mean for motorists?
There are some unexpected giveaways for road users, and also a tax rise
Jamie WallerLive News Reporter
It may have been hailed as an "end to austerity", but what does the budget hold for motorists?
Chancellor Philip Hammond presented the final pre-Brexit budget earlier this week, and announced several spending increases. He promised extra cash for schools, universal credit and the NHS, as well as more money to repair and maintain roads.
However, there will be a small tax increase to pay for some of the spending increases.
Pothole repairs
One of the biggest winners of the budget were the country's roads and motorways. As the Chancellor said, every MP "will testify potholes are high on the public's list of concerns", and the government appears to be making a big push to get them patched up.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond making his Budget statement to MPs in the House of Commons (Image: PA Wire)
A huge £30bn was given to maintain roads, and upgrade them where possible. £25.5bn of that will go to Highways England, giving them a 40 per cent budget increase from 2020 to 2025 compared to the five years before. This could benefit the planned resurfacing of the A180 over the next few years.
Another £3.5bn is also being allocated to major local routes to improve them.
£420m was allocated to councils for the next financial year to fix potholes, repair bridges and carry out other minor works on the road. This will more than double the existing fund, which will hopefully mean a smoother and less dangerous journey on our roads.
£420m has been allocated for pothole and bridge repair in the Budget (Image: Jamie Waller)
However, some people don't think this is enough. AA President Edmund King said it would cost £9bn to fix all the existing potholes in our roads, meaning the budget treat was more of a "trick."
VED rise
The Chancellor was less forthcoming on how the maintenance for roads would be paid for - a VED rise.
Vehicle and Excise Duty will increase for all cars - not just new ones - starting on April 1, 2019.
It is expected to increase in line with inflation for all cars, vans and motorcycles, although the announcement was buried in the budget documents rather than announced in Parliament.
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Most drivers will face additional car tax costs of £5 - but owners of very old and very new vehicles could be in for a shock. Those with older, less environmentally friendly will be hit by an extra £15 charge, and brand new cars could be charged £65 for their first year.
Fuel duty frozen
The Chancellor continued a nine year tradition of freezing fuel duty, meaning motorists won't be charged extra by the government at the pumps.
There were rumours it would rise 2p a litre as the Chancellor had hinted the freeze was costing the Treasury around £800m each year. However, with rapid fuel rises already squeezing drivers' wallets, this plan was scrapped.
Fuel duty will be frozen for a ninth consecutive year (Image: Getty Images)
The tax will stay steady at 57.96p per litre of petrol, diesel or biodiesel. Alternative fuels will be taxed less - liquefied petroleum gas will only cost 31.61p per litre and biogas will be charged 24.7 per litre.
He claimed the freeze has saved car drivers an average of £1,000 since it was introduced in 2009, and van drivers up to £2,500.
Car insurance tax
There were also fears that the Budget would see the Insurance Premium Tax rise. In the last two years, it has doubled from six per cent to 12 per cent, which has particularly affected drivers who pay most for insurance like younger people.
It remained frozen this year however.
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Where To Find 19 Ptolemy Statue Locations – Assassin’s Creed Origins
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Assassin’s Creed Origins has got 19 Ptolemy Statue that you can destroy. Destroying this Ptolemy Statue will give XP points. As you all know characters XP in Assassin’s Creed Origins plays a vital role – the more XP you have the higher level quests you can play. Finding all the Ptolemy Statues in Assassin’s Creed Origins can be a tough job and on this note we bring you an Assassin’s Creed Origins Guide On All 19 Ptolemy Statue And Their Exact Location i.e. Where To Find Them so that you can easily find and destroy them to earn 150, 300 or 450 XP per Ptolemy Statue. So let’s start with our guide on Ptolemy Statue Location.
Ptolemy Statue and Where to Find Them (Location)
Ptolemy Statue 1 – Siwa
Destination: Siwa
Where to Find (Location): You will get this Statue at towards the North of the Siwa Nomad Bazaar. You will see a triangle that forms a three-way intersection, leaving the center area open for the Statue
Ptolemy Statue 2 – Hippodrome
Destination: Kanopos Nome
Where to Find (Location): For this, you will have to make your way to the northern side of Lageion Hippodrome and just 100 meters to the north you will see an indoor market. you will get the statute in-between of two structures.
Ptolemy Statue 3 – West of Alexandria
Destination: Lake Mareotis
Where to Find (Location): For this, you will have to get to the northwest edge of Lake Mareotis and then west of Alexandria, there you will get the statue on an open road which is southwest of a narrow bay.
Ptolemy Statue 4 – South of Apollodorus’ Estate
Where to Find (Location): For this, you will have to take the exit on the south of Apollodorus’ Estate and then take a left from the Fork. One can see the statute a bit ahead sitting right next to the stable farther south.
Ptolemy Statue 5 – South of Sais
Destination: Sapi-Res Nome,
Where to Find (Location): This one is easy to spot, follow the main path on the south of Sais and you will see the Statue to Destroy.
Ptolemy Statue 6 – Temple of Hapi
Destination: Ineb-Hedjet Nome,
Where to Find (Location): Get to the ruins at Castoff Temple of Hapi, which is to the south of Kerkasoros. There you will find the Statue on the main path.
Ptolemy Statue 7 – Mefkat
Destination: Mefkat
Where to Find (Location): You can find this one in a burnt village, on the west of the Mefkat area.
Ptolemy Statue 8 – Per Ousir
Where to Find (Location): For this, you will have to get to the Northeast Per Ousir and you will see the statue on the east side of the main road.
Ptolemy Statue 9 – Hugros Crossing Watchtower
Where to Find (Location): Get to the Northern side of the region and you will see the statue next to the Hugros Crossing Watchtower, sitting at another fork in the road.
Ptolemy Statue 10 – Philoteris
Destination: Faiyum
Where to Find (Location): For this, you will have to get to the western side of Euhemeria on the southern edge of Faiyum, you will easily spot the Statue at the property.
Ptolemy Statue 11 – Kerkasoros
Destination: Ineb-Hedjet Nome
Where to Find (Location): You will get this one next to a small construction site and waterway in Kerkasoros.
Ptolemy Statue 12 – Northwest Faiyum Oasis
Destination: Faiyum Oasis,
Where to Find (Location): This statute is right next to the south of Greek piazza, in the northwestern part of Faiyum Oasis.
Ptolemy Statue 13 – North of Krokodilopolis
Where to Find (Location): Get to the north of krokodilpolis, you will get the statue on the south of the second Greek piazza under construction.
Ptolemy Statue 14 – Central Libue
Destination: Libue,
Where to Find (Location): Make your way to the North from Siwa and you will see the statue at the intersection.
Ptolemy Statue 15 – Udjat Apiary Viewpoint
Destination: Im-Khent Nome, Udjat Apiary Viewpoint
Where to Find (Location): Get to the Southwest of Udjat Apiary, you will see the statue on the main path.
Ptolemy Statue 16 – Ouahe
Destination: Isolated Desert
Where to Find (Location): This one is in the Isolated Desert, on the way to Ouahe. you will see the Statue sitting next to it.
Ptolemy Statue 17 – Temple of Khonsou
Destination: Herakleion Nome,
Where to Find (Location): Make your way to the Herakleion village on the north and then towards the Temple of Khonsou. you will get the statue at the outer area of the building.
Ptolemy Statue 18 – Pissa Oros Citadel
Destination: Isolated Desert,
Where to Find (Location): You will have to head to the east for 250 meters, at the far western portion of the Isolated Desert. To find the statue.
Ptolemy Statue 19 – South of Memphis
Destination: Atef-Pehu Nome,
Where to Find (Location): For this, you will have to get to the main road on the south from Memphis, you will see the statue on the northern side of the path.
That’s all for this guide on Where to Find (Location) of the Ptolemy Statue in Assassin’s Creed Origins. Do read our Assassin’s Creed Origins Wiki page for other collectibles location, tips and tricks, all Quests Walkthrough.
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Guerrilla Games: The Frozen Wilds Is The Final DLC For Horizon: Zero Dawn
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Horizon Zero Dawn News
Horizon: Zero Dawn was a big hit and was awarded the crown of the best-selling launch of an original IP on PlayStation 4. The game managed to sell 3.4 million copies worldwide as of June 2017, an amazing figure for a new IP and also considering the fact that it launches on March 1 (in Europe, and February 28). Guerrilla Games is taking the story of Aloy forward with the upcoming DLC “The Frozen Wilds”. It is scheduled to launch on November 7. Guerrilla Games today announced via Twitter that the full development work on Horizon: Zero Dawn will end with The Frozen Wilds i.e. it is going to be the last and the final DLC content for the game.
When asked by a fan on Twitter: Is Frozen Wilds the last DLC? Guerrilla Games replied: “The Frozen Wilds will be the only expansion for Horizon Zero Dawn.”
The Frozen Wilds will be the only expansion for Horizon Zero Dawn.
— Guerrilla Games (@Guerrilla) October 12, 2017
The events in The Frozen Wilds DLC of Horizon: Zero Dawn takes place in the CUT. It is a Boreal Wasteland situated at the North end and acts as a separator between Banuk homelands and the rest of the world. It would be difficult for players to survive so venture only if you are skilled properly your fight for survival will not be only against new dangerous machines but also against the freezing temperatures.
Sony recently released a new trailer for Horizon: Zero Dawn The Frozen Wilds which shows a glimpse at the environments that you as Aloy will explore including Banuk camps, frozen lakes, icy caves and more. You can enjoy the trailer below.
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Vaping tourists in Thailand warned they could be arrested
Published: 17th Aug 2017
Thailand is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, but British visitors are being warned not to use e-cigarettes in the country due to risk of arrest and imprisonment.
The advice comes from the Foreign Office after several British tourists were arrested and fined for vaping in public.
Back in 2014, the Bangkok Post reported that e-cigarettes and similar devices – including refills – were being banned as many of those manufactured in the country were poorly made, alongside false advertising about nicotine content leading officials to consider vaping a gateway to real tobacco products.
It seems the ban is now being sporadically enforced. Pat Waterton, a manager at travel agency Langley Travel, told Travel Weekly how her nephew was threatened with arrest and ten years’ imprisonment in Bangkok.
“I got a message from my sister saying James had been arrested in Thailand because he had an e-cigarette,” she said. “He managed to pay the policeman, who had told him he could go to jail. Ten years seems a long time to go to prison for smoking an e-cigarette.”
James was eventually let off after paying a £125 fine.
Foreign Office official guidance now tells British tourists to never take e-cigarettes or refills into Thailand. “These items are likely to be confiscated and you could be fined or sent to prison for up to 10 years if convicted.”
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Seavers in the News - Train Engineer Horace L. Seaver Saves Lives
It's time for another edition of "Seavers in the News" - a weekly feature from the historical newspapers about persons with the surname Seaver that are interesting, useful, mysterious, fun, macabre, or add information to my family tree database.
This week's entry is from The World [New York City] newspaper dated 3 February 1898:
The transcription of the article is:
"PREMONITIONS SAVED SEAVER FROM WRECKS
"CHICAGO, Ill. Feb. 2 -- Horace L Seaver of No. 67 Twenty-third street, for over thirty-two years an Illinois Central Railroad engineer, has traveled at least 1,000,000 miles as an engineer and has never been in a train wreck. Stranger still, he has been saved from wrecks time and again by premonitions.
"In 1890, late on Fourth of July eve, Mr. Seaver started from Springfield to Chicago with a passenger train on which there were 300 persons. An hour or more after midnight he dropped into a state of semi-consciousness as he sat straight up in his cab. Suddenly something resembling the voice of a person whispered to him: "Stop. The bridge is burned - the bridge is burned."
"In an instant the engineer was wide awake and leaning out of his cab window. In less than twenty minutes he saw far ahead at the side of the track a glow such as is ordinarily cast by the dying fires which tramps leave at the side of the roadbed. Two or three hundred yards from the fire Engineer Seaver stopped the train, and, running forward, discovered that a bridge which had spanned a thirty-five foot stream had been burned, having been set on fire by an engine which had passed over it five hours before.
The Bridge Was Wrecked.
"About eight years ago, Mr. Seaver started from his home in Chicago down to the depot to take out his train to Springfield. Even before he climbed in his cab he felt a premonition that a certain bridge a few miles from the town of Bulkley was down. There had been heavy rains and ice was coming down many streams in the country in great quantities and his vision showed that ice had carried away the supports of the bridge. The engineer said nothing about it to any one, lest it should turn out that the bridge was all right. So, pulling his train out into the dark, rainy night, without mentioning his fears, he began the run to Springfield.
"About midnight the train neared the bridge. A quarter of a mile this side of it the engineer stopped the train. The conductor ran forward to see what was the matter. Seaver told the conductor that he was sure there was something wrong ahead at the bridge. The conductor laughed at him and told him to pull ahead. Seaver insisted that they should go ahead together and examine it. The two men went forward through the rain and found the bridge almost ready to drop into the stream. The ice had carried away the pillars and the bridge was sunken, broken and twisted until it would have been unsafe for a dog to cross.
"An even more startling instance occurred once when the engineer was taking a train out of Cairo. Near Cairo is a great bridge nearly half a mile in length. Just as Mr. Seaver was starting from town with the train it seemed to him that he could see cross ties sticking up between the ties a few feet from the far end of the bridge. The night was dark and the engineer could only see ahead as far as the light was thrown by the headlight of the locomotive.
"As he drew near the end of the bridge he slowed down until the headlight threw its glare within a few yards of the end of the bridge. Half a dozen cross ties protruded above the bridge a foot and a half or two feet. Train wreckers had placed the ends of the vertical ties between those of the bridge so that their ends rested on the ground. As soon as the ties came into view Seaver stopped the train and the crew went forward and removed the obstruction.
Saved a Babe.
"Some years ago Mr. Seaver was taking a train out of St. Louis on an important run. Two roads had been told that a big freight consignment would be made to the one which made the best time on a given run out of the city. Mr. Seaver took out the trial run train. He took enough water at St. Louis to last the time which was ordinarily expended at the little town of Manteno making a stop for water. The engineer felt when he started out that danger was impending.
"When he arrived at the water tank station in Manteno something impelled him to stop for water. He did so and while water was running into the tender he walked ahead on the track and 200 yards in front of the engine he found a baby about a year old asleep between the rails. The engineer picked up the child and carried it into the first house and went ahead on his run. He made up all the time lost and won the freight contract for his road."
The source citation for the article is:
"Premonitions Saved Seaver From Wrecks" The World [New York, N.Y.] newspaper, story, Thursday, 3 February 1898, page 15, column 7, Horace L. Seaver story; Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 19 September 2019).
So Horace L. Seaver was either lucky or prescient - at least four times in his work life.
Horace Leonard Seaver (1846-1916) was the son of Nathaniel Leonard Seaver (1809-1880) and Abby Carver (1816-1880). Horace married Luella Robertson (1860-1922) in 1878 in Centralia, Illinois. They had one son, Charles Leonard Seaver (1891-1931), who married Josephine R. G'Sell (1896-1935) in 1928.
Horace Leonard Seaver is my 6th cousin one time removed.
There are over 8,000 Seaver "stories" in my family tree - this was one of them. Horace Leonard Seaver had a career that helped people and in the process saved some lives. Life happens, accidentally and intentionally, and sometimes it is lucky and/or heroic.
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The old legends say that the Teutons who invaded Britain were opposed most valiantly by Ar'thur, a British king. Tales of his valiant deeds were told over and over again and new ones were often added. By and by they were put into book form by one Thomas Mal'o-ry, and it is from this that Ten'ny-son took the stories that he made into the splendid verse of his Idylls of the King.
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Arthur and the enchanter Mer'lin rode one day by a broad lake, and afar out in the midst of the lake an arm clad in white samite—a rich cloth like satin—rose from out the water and held up a fair sword. Then came the Lady of the Lake moving upon the water. "Enter into yonder barge," she said, "and row to the sword and take it and the scabbard." So it was that King Arthur found his magic sword Ex-cal'i-bur, which so often helped him to overcome his enemies in battle.
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The House Rules Committee was meeting Tuesday in what was expected to be a marathon session to set the parameters for Wednesday’s debate.
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Trump faces two articles of impeachment brought by Democrats. They say he abused the power of his office by pressuring Ukraine to investigate Democratic rival Joe Biden ahead of the 2020 election and obstructed Congress by aggressively trying to block the House investigation from its oversight duties as part of the nation’s system of checks and balances.
The president “betrayed the Nation by abusing his high office to enlist a foreign power in corrupting democratic elections,” says the 650-page report from the House Judiciary Committee. He withheld military aid from the ally as leverage, the report says, and ”Trump, by such conduct, has demonstrated that he will remain a threat to national security and the Constitution if allowed to remain in office.”
The report says the president then engaged in an unprecedented attempt to block the investigation and “cover up” his misconduct. The report also includes Republican rebuttals.
A raucous town hall Monday in the Detroit suburbs put on display the nation’s wrenching debate over the unconventional president and the prospect of removing him from office. Freshman Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin was both heckled and celebrated as she announced her support for impeachmént, one of a cascade of centrists from areas where Trump is popular now saying they will vote to impeach.
“There’s certainly a lot of controversy about this,” Slotkin acknowledged to the crowd of 400. “But there just has to be a moment where you use the letter of the law for what it’s intended.”
Trump, tweeting from the sidelines after instructing the White House not to participate in the House inquiry, insisted anew he had done nothing wrong. He has promoted lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s investigation of Biden and a widely debunked theory that it was actually Ukraine not Russia that interfered in the 2016 election, a conspiracy-laden idea that other most other Republicans have actively avoided. “He knows what he’s doing,” Trump said of Giuliani at the White House.
Americans are not fooled, Trump tweeted on Tuesday, by the “Scams and Witch Hunts, as phone as they are.
As the House prepared for Wednesday’s vote, many Democrats announced they would be voting for impeachment. A handful or even fewer are expected to break ranks as Speaker Nancy Pelosi marches her majority toward a vote she hoped to avoid having Democrats take on their own.
One freshman Democrat, Rep. Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey, saw several staff members resign Monday after he said he would vote against impeachment and indicated he was switching parties to become a Republican. Another Democrat, Rep. Collin Peterson, a Minnesota centrist, had not decided how he will vote, his spokeswoman said
As the House was detailing its case against the nation’s 45th president, attention was turning to the Senate where the top Democrat, Schumer of New York, called anew for fresh evidence and testimony from key White House officials for the Senate impeachment trial.
In a letter to McConnell, Schumer proposed hearing testimony from former national security adviser Bolton, acting White House chief of staff Mulvaney and two others as part of a detailed offer he made to Republicans as an opening offer for negotiations.
Several Senate Republicans rejected that idea late Monday, saying the House should have gone to court to force those witnesses to testify over the White House’s objections if Democrats wanted to hear from them.
Bolton, who left the White House in September, once labeled the alternative foreign policy orchestrated by Trump lawyer Giuliani a “drug deal’’ he wanted no part of. Mulvaney has acknowledged the military aid to Ukraine was being held up. The aid was later released as Congress raised questions about the holdup.
McConnell is facing criticism for saying he’s taking his “cues” from the White House for the expected trial. Republicans say Schumer acted much the same two decades ago when the Senate prepared to vote on convicted President Bill Clinton.
Associated Press writers Laurie Kellman, Matthew Daly, Alan Fram and Darlene Superville in Washington, David Eggert in Rochester, Michigan, and Steve Karnowski in Minnesota contributed to this report.
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Melilla's antique core offers many reasons to visit as a site of national "heritage of cultural interest."
An evocative trip back in time.
The city's oldest area is a fortified precinct with its origins in the 16th and 17th centuries. For a real sense of that era, wander its narrow lanes, and for example, pass through the Hornabeque Tunnel into the Plaza de Armas. This spot was an old presidio which still preserves a number of cannons as well as a monument dedicated to onetime governor Carlos Ramírez de Arellano. From the plaza, steps lead to a terrace from which you can get a spectacular view of the Ensenada de los Galápagos (Terrapin Cove). Within this walled quarter you'll also find the Baroque-style Church of the Most Pure Conception, the Santiago Gate, and behind it, the Santiago Chapel, the only Gothic religious building in North Africa. For these reasons and more, Old Melilla is officially classified as Spanish national "heritage of cultural interest."
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Wilson spending bye week on recruiting trail
September 15, 2016 Mike Miller Football 30 comments
This is Kevin Wilson’s week to see the troops.
Not the ones in Bloomington, but the ones that are on the way.
The Indiana coach gave his players a few days off to start the Hoosiers’ lone bye week of the fall, while he and his staff left town to visit recruits around the country. That means visits with players who have already given verbal commitments to IU and some who have not.
Wilson said the downtime allows his staff to spread out to some of the regions where they don’t always have time to visit during the season.
“When it is a home game you can get to Indianapolis or Cincinnati or Chicago for games,” Wilson said. “So maybe a little bit more Southern recruiting this week.”
Indiana has 14 verbal commitments lined up for 2017, including at least six who project to play along the defensive line. The Hoosiers have three offensive linemen committed to the class, along with two defensive backs, two potential linebackers and a tight end.
As the early numbers indicate, recruiting along the line of scrimmage is Indiana’s focus for 2017.
“D-line has been a priority, getting dynamic guys off the edge and big D-linemen,” Wilson said. “We’re still looking to see if we can do anything at quarterback. If not we’ll sit tight. We’re looking at a couple of receivers. I think the tight (end) position is critical in what we do. Greg Frey is going to need a couple O-linemen.”
In recent months, Wilson has projected a smaller class — perhaps one that does not exceed 20 signees by the time recruiting wraps in February.
So in addition to the players already in the fold, it could be time for Indiana coaches to become more selective in their approach.
“I think our class will be balanced with numbers,” Wilson said. “We’ll see what the numbers get to. Not maybe as many back-end defensive back-type players. We don’t have a senior in the defensive backfield. It is a bunch of sophomores and juniors and a couple freshmen that are playing back there. It will probably be a defensive-front oriented class and some O-line guys. We don’t have a senior at running back. We don’t have a senior quarterback. So it will probably be D-line and O-line with some tight end- and receiver-type guys and a couple linebackers.”
According to 247 Sports, Wilson has been in Florida this week and checked in on three-star athlete Whop Philyor on Wednesday. Philyor attends Plant High School, playing on the same team as linebacker commit Thomas Allen — the son of Indiana defensive coordinator Tom Allen.
Coaches are not permitted to have direct, in-person contact with recruits at the moment, but they are allowed to watch high school teams practice.
With a week off from practice and preparation, Wilson and his staff are trying to make the most of the downtime down South.
“We’re in the day and age where so many guys commit early but you’ve still got to keep recruiting because who knows what those commitments mean anymore,” Wilson said. “So you’re seeing guys that have committed and seeing them play and seeing them practice. You are not really allowed to talk with the guys but you can do so much with text messaging and direct messaging and phone calls with the kid so you’re able to have contact. But just seeing some guys.
“We thought it would be better to go early this week and give our guys a few days off. We’re scouring these first couple, three days probably in some of these Southern regions where we can’t come to as much.”
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IU fb record for 2015 was 6 wins and 7 losses including bowl game. The coaching staff received bonuses I assume for a job well done. I know this is not the exception in today’s sports and entertainment world. It is more of the norm and in many places it is even more the extreme in my opinion. For IU staff bonuses were not millions but rather a few thousand here and there which to some is equal to a full years pay or a significant portion of a full year’s pay all for a losing record. Yes, I think KW and staff are doing a solid job at IU for IU fb standards. I know this is the way it is not just in the sports world but in politics, hierarchy business world, (not so for the little guy so to speak), entertainment world etc….AND IT IS WRONG. The reward should be the staff who get to keep their jobs. This is not a slam on IU fb or KW and staff because they are just a very small example. Rather it is a criticism of how situation is in our society. I did not include T.C. and bb program. That would be listed in the more extreme catagory.
Harvard for Hillbillies says:
t- Couldn’t agree more.
Wonder if the creators of ‘Hoosier Sports Report’ got a bonus for obliterating my total Google history….? When I now search Google for images under the heading ‘Hoosier Scoop Harvard for Hillbillies,’ nearly all of my old doctored photos(mostly of Crean) are gone. Hours upon hours upon hours of hits by those who would link to these masterful Harvard works suddenly purged from all history. Great work, HT. Bonuses for all.
Gotta love it…
Iowa City: North Dakota St. defeats #13 Iowa on last second field goal…in front of a packed Kinnick/Iowa stadium without an empty seat in the house.
Mo Valley teams are capable of playing fairly good football as well as basketball sometimes. Another example of imbalance between big ten east and west teams that make it more challenging for IU year in and year out.
How does IU lose to Duke?
Hoosier Clarion says:
t, I now do not recall the spread/line but I personally viewed the Pinstripe Bowl as even $. In other words I felt the W would be by a couple of points. If Tom Allen had been on the side line last year for IU the result would have been in the Hoosiers favor. As far as bonuses for coaches after a 7-6 season, no bonus was awarded to Brian Knorr. He was instead fired for results he was responsible for producing. So to my way of thinking the system you speak of worked precisely as I would expect it to.
The system that works this way in this country is the problem. I was using IU as a small example as talking about how the whole system works in this country regarding all areas in a macro sense.
t, ?
t- No worries. After taking down FIU and Ball St., it’s pretty damn evident that we now have complete confirmation on a “solid defense.”
I perfectly understood what you were communicating. Football programs used to be measured by getting to a dozen to twenty or so bowl games(actually it used to be four or five but the dollars fueled the growth).
Currently, getting a program to squeak into one of the 45 bowl games(stumbled into with a mere .500 record easily achievable with the scheduling of patsies in the non-conference games) is the new standard of “solid” improvement and excellence.
Many IU fans are content with this level of excellence…..as they are with perpetual ceilings of never getting beyond two wins in March Madness.(Translated: never playing in front of the largest viewing audiences in the second Saturday or Sunday of the tournament). Those in power protect their power by chasing villains, casting excuses, or blaming assistants. The buck never stops at the top because the bonuses would stop for all. The only thing “solid’ is the guarantee of multi-million dollar salaries for basketball postseasons storied in mediocrity and getting into low tier bowl games on the heals of .500 records. Hard to imagine why there is such fear to discharge middle age coaches who board a bus as set for life as the corrupt robber barons of Wall Street. Then again, when the AD was hired by one of the coaches allowed to exist in his bubble of mediocrity, it sorta stinks the whole pot.
As of 2014, there are ten conferences and 128 schools in the FBS
The 2016–17 NCAA football bowl games are a series of college football bowl games (Number of bowls: 41) which will complete the 2016 NCAA Division I FBS football season
Even more hilarious….
Note: Being bowl-ineligible does not, in itself, exclude a team from the chance to play in a bowl game. Tiebreaker procedures based on a school’s Academic Progress Rate (APR) allowed for the possibility of 5–7 teams to play in bowl games since not enough teams qualified to fill all 80 spots with at least a 6–6 record.
80 teams selected to participate in bowls…out of 128 FBS schools.
80/128 = nearly 2/3 (.625) the entire FBS population going to a bowl.
We should just fix this flawed system permanently by allowing the rest of the 1/3 of FBS teams to go to bowls. All teams….all going to bowls. This would also dispense of the foolish argument that a “bowl” team makes for a “good/solid” team. When a precedent for mediocrity is allowed invitation/participation(some teams even below .500), there is a valid argument that the 40 or so teams left are unjustly having their equal mediocrity discriminated against.
*All above blockquotes courtesy: Wikipedia
Good specific commentary relative to IU. 45 bowl games vs. 15 when IU won Holiday Bowl against an undefeated BYU team and I thought bowl games were watered down then from the original high standard big 4 on New Years Day. Yes, it seems everyone who has the undeserved or deservedly (no one is deservedly of the outrageous out of balance perks regarding what has been going on for many years now) opportunity wants his or her cut of the action as a participant corrupt baron like those on Wall Street. It is a great gig for those who are able to get it (with an attitude) that the rest of society can go to hell in a hand basket.
A Bowl lottery night would be sorta fun…..This could be hyped in the summer months similar to the NBA draft night.
Two-tier Bowl System:
1st Round Mini Bowls in October
2nd Round Maxi Bowls in December & January
1st Round(Mini): Throw all of the 128 FBS teams into the pool with a chance to be drawn for one of the 60+ random bowl games. These bowl games are only a first round of bowl games played in October(maybe in the middle of the conference schedule)…
2nd Round(Maxi): The winners of the 60+ bowl games will then be paired in the 30 remaining bowl games in the month of December and early January.
You could even throw a bit of a fun wrench into the system by having five or so extra “Maxi” bowls set aside for teams that lost in their October “Mini” bowls but went undefeated(or maybe .750 win %) in the second half of their conference schedules. This gives teams even losing in their Mini Bowls and incentive to play their asses off in the second half of their conference schedule.
Maybe the four or five set aside “Maxi” Bowls for teams with great back halves of their seasons(even if they lost in their October “Mini” Bowl) could be called “Wildcard Bowls.” One of these Wildcard Bowl winners would then be voted in to be one of the four teams selected for the Championship Series.
64 “Mini” Bowls in Mid/Late October
30 “Maxi” Bowls in Dec/Early January
5 “Wildcard” Bowls(the “hot” teams that kicked conference butt in the back half their seasons)
Championship Series contains 3 teams from Maxi Series and one Wildcard team.
I just fixed college football…
Though coach(a)…and the Hoosiers lost in the October Mini Bowl against Ole Miss, the Hoosiers have newfound hope by winning 3 of the 4 remaining conference games and earning an invite to a Wildcard Maxi Bowl. A victory in the Wildcard Bowl opens the possibility for an invite to the Championship Series….
Bowldacious Bowl Madness!
Lots of opportunities to have incentives negotiated into coaching contracts when hiring coaches. Good for trophy companies. Sounds like many trophies needed. Many reasons to go to the local pub for bowl stupors… Like invention of a new fall drug to get through winter doldrums with March Madness over the horizon to peak at weekend number one.
Eliminate the whole controversy about bowls (eligible? ineligible? too many? not enough? meaningless? meaningful?) by doing away with the outdated concept of football “season” so there are no “post-season bowls.” Endless college football. 52 games a year, what’s not to like? That’s even enough games for a team to play all the teams in its conference every year!
College football took the “owl” out of bowl. So many teams participating, you really don’t give a hoot.
a) Bowl lottery in July
b) Mini Bowls: Results of lottery place all 128 FBS teams into 64 “Mini” Bowls played during midpoint of conference schedule during the last 7 days in October(8-9 mini bowl games per day across the nation…Most intriguing match-ups played on Halloween night).
c) Maxi Bowls: Winners of “Mini” Bowls get automatic invite to “Maxi” Bowls played in December/early January
d) Wildcard Bowls: 4 to 5 bowl games designated as “Wildcard” for those teams that lost in their October Mini Bowl but won 3/4 of their remaining conference games….or qualified by winning their conference though losing in a Mini Bowl.
e) Championship Series must include one Wildcard Bowl winner.
Total number of December bowl games would range around 36 total bowls(32 Maxi
Bowls and 4 Wildcard Bowls). This is a number still five to six less than the current and ever-expanding December bowl offerings. Getting to these Maxi bowls would involve far more intrigue while hinging on chance match-ups in Mini Bowls and the potential to earn your way back into a Maxi bowl with outstanding performance in the latter half of a conference schedule.
vesuvius13 says:
There are too many bowl games but money drives the system. It would be much better to limit the number of bowl games but communities and companies that want to waste their money have the freedom to do that.
I sincerely hope IUFB has a great season this year and not just a small improvement. I hope the offense opens up so that IU can score more points and trust the defense to keep improving. IUFB will be much better when we get the three players not cleared to play yet not to mention getting Feeney back soon. Patrick will really help improve the offense, McCray and Thompson will improve the defense. Adding those three will strengthen the team and give them a great chance to win more B1G games this year.
It would be great if IU does what the players are shooting for but coming up short to being in the play-offs by a game or two wouldn’t be bad. The future of IUFB is looking upwards.
v13- All of that may be true, but it doesn’t dispel the claims above presented: Getting to a bowl game should no be considered the panacea for anyone(specifically, rhetoric from insiders, administrators, head/assistant coaches) to present arguments for automatic bonuses, “expected” extensions, or claims of a “solid” or vastly improved football team.
When nearly 2/3 of FBS teams get into bowls games(sometimes even being forced into filling these bowls with teams having below .500 records), there is a ton of mediocrity in these contests. There needs to be a different system or some minimal .500 conference W/L record requirement to earn spots.
Coaches and administrators should no longer be evaluated by simply getting into bowls or postseason play. If we are going to measure are programs as “solid” based on these minimal standards(Sweet 16’s or an appearance in one of the 40+ bowl games), we are a “community” of Indiana University “throwing our money away.”
With the skyrocketing costs of college attendance, it’s beyond insult to hard-working Americans strapped with decades of debt to witness coaches earning millions upon millions for “participation” or “C” average performances.
If we are to strive in maintaining a posture of an elite academic institution requiring standards of excellence in the classroom, the same should be expected of those in charge of the athletic arms of our school. Getting to a lower tier bowl game…or even winning in one while struggling to win 1/3 of a conference schedule is not a mark of excellence.
….should [not] be considered the panacea
And fans grow very weary of the injury excuses….or the excuses of youth on the roster(I thought sports were for the young?), or the pass given to “new” coordinators requiring the one or two-year mulligan to get up to speed.
Meanwhile, the years pass…Meanwhile, a coach begins to enter his/her 7th…8th…9th….10th year at IU as more of a spin artist than anything else. Assistants come and go….”everything hinges” moments come and go…..early exits from tournaments(never to play in the second weekend of March Madness) come and go….and a couple uninspiring cupcake bowls played on one of those added tier sports channels of an already grossly overpriced cable TV subscription package come and go.
At the end of the tenth year, we will have dumped 100 million dollars on the salaries of a football and basketball coach for a few Sweet 16 appearances and a handful of Pinstripe Bowls. We will conclude that’s plenty of whip cream on the fool’s pie before we throw it into their faces with more excuses and marketing slogans….and offer 10 more years of contract extensions.
As t correctly concluded…..It’s a fabulous “gig” for those inside. No measures of true excellence and job security built by carnival salesman AD’s schooled in sales pitches and marketing. It’s using our institutions for protectionism of an elite class more than anything else.
Bottom Line: This is Indiana.
It shouldn’t take eight years to get a basketball program to do more than “appear” in a Sweet 16 round. Translated: We’ve merely won a few Round of 32 games in 10 years(equivalent to Pinstripe Bowls in football).
And a football coach requiring 6 years and 3 defensive coordinators to take a football program to a Pinstripe Bowl is not excellence(nor has it earned the use of the adjective “solid” in a manner whatsoever) …..And providing any form of bonuses or lengthy contract extensions for a 2-6 conference record is just rather sad.
I have never seen our sports programs in such apologist mode. You earn five to seven years of contracts in apology by hanging three banners(or making a few trips to Elite 8s and Final Fours …not by selling those banners on your own sleeves because you coach underneath them.
And no designation of a solid football team should be given for 2-6 conference records or mere bowl appearance(primarily secured by scheduling patsy non-conference opponents).
Such mindless, incessant blarney.
Such mindful, omniscient, blindness.
4 solid BIG wins before calling anything solid enough to deserve bonuses or contract extensions…or the absolute of “solid” descriptors for our new defense. The vast majority of bowls are merely fundraisers designed as charitable blue ribbons for football participation. Beat some solid blue ribbon teams of our conference and it’s all aboard the “solid” train. Meanwhile, take 2 more apologist doses of protectionism and call Dr. Tom Naismith Crean in the morning.
Such continued mindless, incessant blarney.
Such continued mindful, omniscient blindness.
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“This is the one that made me fall in love with American cars,” says Brian Scotto. “The sound, the big sheet metal – there’s just something special about cruising around in these things. I own a lot of cars at this point, but I don’t see myself ever selling the Nova.”
Scotto isn’t your typical LA car collector, though. His garage is a menagerie of esoteric high performance – a big block muscle car over here, a widebody 911 and a high riding Land Rover over there. But he’s quick to note that his tastes weren’t always so eclectic.
“I started working on cars back in New York, when I was about 17,” he recalls. “I had a Volkswagen Golf that I’d done a VR6 swap on, and I was really into the European stuff. I was not the kid who was into ’69 Camaros and cars like that. It was Porsches, Lamborghinis – that’s what I wanted. But moving to California kind of changed things. It’s hard not to notice all the cool old cars out on the road – the weather out here kind of allows for that – and was what really got me wanting an American car. And that was about a year or so after we started Hoonigan.”
The "Napalm Nova" was never intended as a pro-touring car and Scotto stuck with the flat-black paint and 15" wheels to curb the trend of low-profile tires and large diameter wheels.
As one of the co-founders of the company behind Ken Block’s famed Gymkhana video series, Scotto says the main idea behind Hoonigan was to connect the disparate factions of auto enthusiasts behind a common cause: celebrating the inherent radness of cars.
“I think one of the big things for me at the time was that I noticed how split up all the different automotive scenes were,” he says. “The VW crowd could care less about the Honda crowd, and neither cared about the BMW crowd. People just weren’t into anything that didn’t fit into their own scene, and it seemed like there wasn’t any kind of unifier in the space. If you were into drifting you were in a small circle, if you were into off-road racing, you lived in that circle. We wanted to bridge that gap. And what Ken and I really saw with the early Gymkhana videos was that you didn’t have to like Subarus in order to like those films. It was more about the attitude and the approach.”
They also identified some common ground. “We all enjoy beating on cars and seeing them get driven hard,” he points out. “And we saw that every group had an element of that. Everybody loves a burnout. If you’re not smiling while someone’s doing a burnout, you’ve got problems.”
An Art-Morrison chassis was fitted under the stock Nova body, however custom brakes were needed to clear the 15" wheels.
With that in mind, he wanted to take on a project that was outside of his comfort zone. “I saw a trailer for this indie movie called Bellflower,” Scotto says. “And there was this badass Buick Skylark in it. There was something really visceral about it – it was the first time I’d seen a muscle car used in the way that we filmed the Gymkhana stuff. Up until that point, most of the muscle cars I’d seen were more like, perfect paint, matching numbers, rolling over the block at Barrett Jackson, and that just didn’t interest me. But this car was just… raw. After that, I was walking down Venice Beach and a saw a Nova with no hood and a 6-71 blower on it. I loved that angry look and the Mad Max vibe.”
That led him on a search for a build candidate of his own. “I was looking at a lot of different muscle cars, but the Nova just kept coming back to me,” he says. “I liked that it was smaller than a Chevelle, and I feel like the Novas were a little more under the radar back in 2011 than they are now. Then, as I started researching it, I discovered that it’s basically a Camaro underneath, so I knew there was going to be a ton of parts out there for it.”
After some hunting online, he found a ’72 on eBay in Arizona and drove out there with a buddy to buy it, ostensibly sight-unseen. “I drove it home from Arizona, and it was my first time really driving an old car,” he notes. “The steering was wobbly, we had to adjust the carb as the elevation changed because the car started running like crap, and the brakes were horrible. So for the first hour of the drive home, I was actually kind of terrified by it.”
Under the hood was a 454 big-block out of a pickup mated to a Tremec T5. While it wasn’t most potent combination out there, it still had enough character and grunt to keep things interesting. “I pretty much drove it as was for about two years, then I started putting together a plan for it,” he says. “I definitely wanted to keep it a big block – I loved how it sounded, and it just looks right in the engine bay. But I also started to realize that I wanted a car that could brake well and handle better – something that would drive a bit more like my Euro cars. And that’s when I met up with Craig Morrison from Art Morrison Enterprises, who had already helped out with Vaughn Gittin Jr.’s RTR build. They told me they could make the car do 1G on the skid pad, and I was stunned. I was like, alright, let’s get after this.” But while he knew that putting a modern chassis under the Nova would transform its capability, he faced a big challenge early on with the build.
“So we put an MSD Atomic EFI system on it, it was like night and day for me versus having it carb’d previously, and it definitely woke the 454 up a bit.” - Brian Scotto.
“I didn’t want the car to have a pro touring look to it,” he tells us. “For me, part of what makes a muscle car a muscle car is the small wheel, big, meaty tire aesthetic. So I didn’t want to run an 18 or 19-inch wheel with rubber band tires – it just wasn’t what I was going for. But Morrison had been building pro touring frames, so they actually had to redesign their frame to run a smaller brake that would fit behind 15-inch wheels. They had been pushing for me to run bigger wheels, but I really wanted people to look at this car and not realize what was underneath it.”
The first iteration of the Napalm Nova was built under a tight schedule so Scotto could run the Hot Rod Power Tour with it. “That was kind of the carrot on the stick to get me to finish it,” he says. We put it together from a bare shell in 65 days. Every night after work my buddy Colin Wolf, who is a great welder and fabricator, would meet me at Hoonigan and we would work on the car from 9 o’clock at night until 2:30 in the morning. And we did that for 65 days straight.”
He decided to put the 454 back in, albeit with a bit of modernization to ensure it could keep up with the rest of the car. “So we put an MSD Atomic EFI system on it,” he says. “It was like night and day for me versus having it carb’d previously, and it definitely woke the 454 up a bit.”
Inside you'll find two bucket seats, gauges and a shifter. The plain, simple interior continues to blend styles with its Takata harnesses and Grant steering wheel.
Still, it was long before he was ready to put something a bit more potent under the hood. “At the end of the day, it was still a truck motor – it didn’t really rev, and eventually it just started to get pretty tired. That’s when we decided to go with the Edelbrock 555 crate motor. The thing’s just a beast now.”
The 650hp Pat Musi big-block is mated to a Magnum T-56 six-speed gearbox with a Quick Time bellhousing, which sends the power to the rear wheels through a Currie 9-inch. “It’s just a monster through first and second gear, and then it just tears on the highway up through fifth,” he says. “But then in sixth gear I can still cruise.”
Art Morrison also custom designed a quick-change rear end for the Nova as well – a three link with a Watts link and coilover setup for the road course, and a four-link for the drag strip. Strange suspension components are equipped at all four corners and Wilwood brakes provide the necessary stopping power, while American Racing wheels wrapped in Hankook tires keep the Nova looking murderous and period-correct.
Though he admits that the Napalm Nova has been on the backburner recently, the craziness of 2020 has provided Scotto the opportunity to give the car a bit more attention these days. “It was running a little warm and that was annoying me, so I took it apart. And you know how that works,” he explains. “But I knew that the cooling system was trash – I mean I was still using the original radiator that I bought the car with. So I’m actually in the process of bringing it back to my house, because I never get to it when I’m at Hoonigan, and it’s all just small stuff.”
And in classic Hoonigan tradition, he figures he should probably add a few more ponies while he’s at it. “I don’t personally think the car really needs more power, but… I feel like the car needs more power,” he says with a laugh. “And what I mean is that I don’t mind the power it has right now – when I built that car, 650hp was a pretty impressive number. Now, I think a thousand is kind of where the car needs to be at.”
What form that additional horsepower will take remains up in the air, however. “I’m not sure I want to lose the naturally aspirated vibe, so I might just do a big nitrous double kit, or something like that,” he adds. “With modern tuning, there’s just so much stuff you can do with it. Or, the original thought was always to throw a big Weiand 6-71 blower on top.”
He pauses for a second to contemplate this. “Or maybe we should just do both!”
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This focus includes the critical role played by positive patient identification in breaking down barriers to nationwide data exchange. The barriers that exist between different providers and hospitals contribute to the challenges of interoperability. Imprivata believes that interoperability is the key to improving health care through the enormous power of technology. True interoperability can only be achieved when we can ensure the positive identification of patients and have the ability to unequivocally match patients to their health records.
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Indonesia Inflation Update: Deflation of 0.02% Recorded in April 2014
On Friday (02/05), Statistics Indonesia announced that Indonesia recorded deflation of 0.02 percent in April 2014. This outcome is in line with analysts' previous forecasts. The months April and May usually bring deflation or low inflation to Indonesia due to the traditional peak of the harvest season. The annual inflation rate of Indonesia has now eased to 7.25 percent (year-on-year) in April 2014, while calender year inflation declined slightly to 1.39 percent. Of the 82 Indonesian cities, 39 experienced deflation.
Indonesia Investments' Newsletter of 6 April 2014 Released
On 06 April 2014, Indonesia Investments released the latest edition of its newsletter. This free newsletter, which is sent to our subscribers once per week, contains the most important news stories from Indonesia that have been reported on our website in the last seven days. Most of the topics involve economic matters such as an analysis of March inflation and the February trade balance, the 2014 legislative election, a toll road construction tender, a possible dispute between Japan and Indonesia, Jakarta´s Giant Sea Wall, and more.
Inflation Update: Indonesia Records 0.08% of Inflation in March 2014
On Tuesday (01/04), Statistics Indonesia announced that Indonesia's March 2014 inflation rate was recorded at 0.08 percent, considerably lower than February 2014 inflation (0.26 percent) and March inflation in 2013 (0.63 percent). Factors that contributed to lower than expected March inflation were a decline in prices of food commodities due to the start of the harvest season, and the appreciating rupiah, which neutralized imported inflation. On a year-on-year basis, Indonesian inflation eased to 7.32 percent from 7.75 percent in February 2014.
Indonesia Investments' Newsletter of 30 March 2014 Released
On 30 March 2014, Indonesia Investments released the latest edition of its newsletter. This free newsletter, which is sent to our subscribers once per week, contains the most important news stories from Indonesia that have been reported on our website in the last seven days. Most of the topics involve economic matters such as the rupiah exchange rate, a prognosis of March inflation, the legislative election, the introduction of a new stock portfolio, an oil refinery tender, infrastructure, and more.
Inflation Update Indonesia: Low Inflation or Deflation Expected in March 2014
Statistics Indonesia (BPS) expects inflation in March 2014 to be kept below the one percent mark due to the arrival of the harvest season. Prices of several commodities, including rice, beef, chicken meet and chili, are expected to ease. In fact, BPS official Sasmito Hadi Wibowo stated that there is a chance on deflation in March 2014. Historically, Indonesia's inflation in March and April tends to be low, particularly in the latter as the harvest season reaches its peak. In 2013, Indonesia recorded inflation at 0.63 percent in March.
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The rate of inflation in March 2014 demonstrated that the ongoing downward trend persists. In the reporting month of March 2014, inflation was recorded at 0.08 percent (month-to-month) or 7.32 percent (year-on-year), down from the rates recorded in the previous two months at 1.07 percent (mtm) or 8.22 percent (yoy) in January and 0.26 percent (mtm) or 7.75 percent (yoy) in February. The declining inflation trend is further evidenced by a lower rate recorded in March 2014 than the historical average over the past six years at 0.24 percent (mtm).
Positive Domestic Data Support Indonesia's Jakarta Composite Index
Previously we advised investors to be careful because various economic data that was to be released - both international and domestic - could reveal negative results and thus put great pressure on the benchmark stock index of Indonesia (IHSG or Jakarta Composite Index) on Tuesday (01/04). However, the data, particularly domestic data, were positive and made the IHSG jump 2.22 percent one day after the holiday on Monday (Nyepi or Hindu New Year). Investors used this context to purchase stocks, especially Indonesia's big cap stocks.
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Like many Vineyarders, Michael Jampel owns an old house built over a crawl space. Crawl spaces under old houses, especially old summer houses, are nasty places. They often have only a few inches of clearance between the floor joists and raw earth. Over the years they collect spiders, skunks, mice, and other critters (and their droppings). Crawling under the house to repair wiring or pipes is dirty, uncomfortable, and dangerous.
Mr. Jampel, a building contractor and developer, owns a home on the west shore of Lake Tashmoo in Vineyard Haven. Parts of the home were moved to the site around 1900, and a newer part was constructed in the 1970s. Rotting wooden pilings have thrown the older sections out of level and plumb. He wants to replace the failing supports under the older parts of the house and deepen the crawl space from just a few inches to about five feet.
On the Vineyard, the conventional way to replace a crawl space is to jack up the house, excavate a new crawl space (or a full cellar), build a new foundation, and lower the house onto it. The excavation used to be done with shovels and wheelbarrows, but today contractors more commonly use a small diesel tractor such as a Bobcat. Either way, it's dangerous work.
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Mr. Jampel thinks he has found a better way. He has leased a machine called a vacuum excavator from a company in Wisconsin. The Hurricane 500E looks like a 20-foot-tall funnel-cake machine poised over the dump truck which will haul away the material sucked from under the house. A 170-horsepower motor pumps sand and dirt and air at 500 cubic feet per minute through a flexible four-inch hose into a six-foot tank that whirls and screens the spoil, much like a bagless (cyclonic) home vacuum cleaner. Every five minutes, the Hurricane stops and drops the contents of the tank into the waiting truck.
The vacuum hose will dig all by itself, Mr. Jampel says. When used that way, he laughs, the hose looks like a big black snake crawling to its hole. But after a week or so of experimenting, Mr. Jampel and his foreman, Farley Pedler, have discovered that the most efficient method is for workmen to shovel the sand onto a screen and let the hose carry it away. The vacuum hose has replaced the wheelbarrow. Screening allows the workers to easily remove rocks or other debris that would clog the vacuum. After the earth is removed, workers install new wooden pilings every few feet, and the low workspace under Mr. Jampel's house looks like a primitive gold mining operation. The sand rushing through the pipe sounds like a child's marble game.
Mr. Jampel says that the vacuum excavator has several advantages over a Bobcat. For one, the soil is disturbed only under the house, and the dump truck can be as far as 800 feet from the job site, sparing lawns and landscaping. The Tisbury conservation commission, Mr. Jampel reports, ruled that his Tashmoo excavation will have no environmental impact at all, and did not require any hay bales or other devices to protect the lake, which is only about 50 feet from the house.
Another advantage is that the job site is almost dust free. Especially at the top of the excavation, where years of dust and animal feces have accumulated, it is a big advantage to have the vacuum pull the material away from the workmen and send it through the machine's HEPA (high efficiency particulate air) filter. Also, there is no diesel exhaust, as from a Bobcat or other excavator.
Mr. Jampel says the most important advantage is that the vacuum excavation system is easier and safer than jacking up the house and/or digging under the house with a Bobcat. The work proceeds carefully, and new support posts can be placed close together as the excavation moves under the building.
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No easy solution for coyote influx
by Ryan Paice | 8 comments
A coyote makes its way onto Gulf Drive from 71st Street in Holmes Beach in September. Islander File Photo: Toni Lyon
Inaction might be the only action when it comes to coyotes on Anna Maria Island.
At least, that’s the conclusion of officials in Holmes Beach and Longboat Key for now.
Holmes Beach Police Chief Bill Tokajer said in an interview Nov. 15 that as long as the coyotes do not become aggressive, no action will be taken to remove them.
For now, the department will monitor reports of coyotes.
Longboat Key officials met with a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission representative about removing coyotes from the town and then decided not to act because any coyotes trapped there would be killed.
However, in Anna Maria, public works manager Dean Jones continued to research coyote removal, saying he has spoken with two trappers.
Also, the FWC reached out to Anna Maria officials to offer technical assistance and regulations regarding the relocation of coyotes, according to the commission’s Southwest region public information coordinator, Melody Kilborn.
Anna Maria Mayor Dan Murphy planned to address coyotes at the Coalition of Barrier Island Elected Officials meeting set for Nov. 13, but the meeting was canceled. The next BIEO meeting will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019.
Murphy said in an interview Nov. 15 there would be “some kind of a concerted effort” with Holmes Beach and possibly Longboat Key. He added he had not discussed the issue with Bradenton Beach Mayor John Chappie, but he planned to do so.
Murphy said the efforts are in the fact-finding stage.
According to Kilborn, removal of coyotes from an area is ineffective because coyotes quickly move in where others were removed and their litters compensate for those lost from a pack.
Also, removing coyotes is a difficult task.
Tranquilizers are ineffective because they do not take immediate effect. So coyotes might evade their captors before going down.
According to Tokajer, snare traps are effective but inhumane and, he said, capturing coyotes in cages only works about 10 percent of the time.
Captured coyotes must be euthanized or relocated, but neither action is simple.
A coyote only can be relocated to 40 contiguous acres within the same county where it was captured, and there must be written permission from the landowner accepting the animal.
Tokajer said killing coyotes is not viable — since the animals have done no harm.
“This is their environment just as much as ours,” the chief said. “So as long as they’re not a danger to people, I don’t know that there’s any action to take at this time and, speaking to FWC, they have the same feeling.”
While Holmes Beach and Longboat Key officials have made their decision on the matter and shared their information with Anna Maria officials, Murphy said he wants more research.
“That was their decision,” he said. “I don’t know where we are yet because we’re not finished studying it. It’s kind of premature at this point to say where we’re going to go until I can get all the facts in and have a discussion with the commission.”
Murphy said he is still exploring the city’s options.
People can reduce the potential for problems with wildlife by removing food sources, such as garbage and pet food, from around their homes.
People who encounter a coyote should wave their arms and make loud noises to scare off the animals if they come close, according to the FWC.
Cats should be kept indoors and owners should walk dogs on a short leash and avoid areas with heavy ground foliage.
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8 thoughts on “No easy solution for coyote influx”
Lisa Neff's coyote article was properly researched and presented. This year we have already seen the county destroy a viable osprey nest with young at the Holmes Beach tennis courts. Why? Because some people would rather exterminate a once endangered bird and its young, enjoyed by many, because they don't like bird poop on the outdoor tennis courts and are too lazy to toss a bucket of water out there or hose it.The county claimed they had an "expert" pronounce the nest uninhabited - a claim I and the others who enjoyed that nest daily called b.s. on in this very publication. We had dated photos. Within days, the county scurried out and put up a platform for the birds. I was somewhat encouraged, however, months later, I see the osprey are back but they are not using the platform. They should have been left alone. Somebody killed everything alive in Spring Lake including the water - pretty sure it was the county. It goes on and on. What is wrong with people? The island authorities are responsibly managing things as though this is an environment where we take special care of wildlife. This is not Kentucky and they are not going to let wild packs of coyotes eat all the sheep, cows, dogs and cats on the island. Get a grip. I say they stay. Anyone who wants to shoot them needs to know we don't have hunting season here on the island no matter what they think. And if we ever do, I hope I get a say on what we have open season on first. The county may want to lay low for a while. The state too. Anyone with half a brain and an education past the third grade can see monitoring the coyotes for now is easily the best and only answer.
Ramona November 26, 2018 at 1:39 am
How did the cyotes come to live on Anna Maria Island? This island is half a mile wide and 7 miles long. Coyotes are native to desert and prairie and not beaches. Raccoons, opossums and squirrels are not a threat to humans and animals. So the sarcasm is unwarranted. Many people are afraid of the howling and packs of coyotes. I thought trapping was a very humane way to rid the animals.
Miquel November 23, 2018 at 4:38 pm
With over development occurring further into the wild causing the loss of habitat and food source, all animals are forced to seek refuge elsewhere. The Island needs to realize that and be proactive in minimizing the increased sightings of coyotes. With proactive wildlife management humans and wildlife can find a balance. Perhaps a solution for both sides of the isle if at all possible would be to somehow sterilize them to control their population. Whichever solution is implemented try not to be reactive instead of proactive. Don't wait for a rabid animal to wreak havoc on an unfortunate child, pet or adult.
Joe November 21, 2018 at 5:19 pm
Killing coyotes is the only way to "manage" them. Florida law considers them a nuisance animal that may be hunted day or night all year long with no bag limit. They are also an excellent vector for rabies.
Fred Gosney November 20, 2018 at 11:16 pm
They’re the most cunning animal and will breed into large packs I’m from Kentucky living on a large farm We have large packs And their main diet is white tail deer and small animals. Our rabbits and game birds are getting Very scarase. And we don’t go out on farm without a rifle they will also go after our calves so what is more humane getting rid of the coyotes or letting them kill and eat people’s pets They are wild animals and if you see one in the daytime there hungry I have lived on our farm for 52 years and only hear the packs when there on the hunt and kill to eat problem will only get bigger as food deminishes
Cash Banister November 20, 2018 at 11:31 am
So, there is no solution...just let the coyote population continue to proliferate unchecked until they take over completely. That is so typical of the Insanity that flourishes in Florida. The wackiest place ever.
bonnerj November 21, 2018 at 2:07 pm
Should we also remove raccoons? Opossums? Squirrels (darn them for messing in my potted plants to bury nuts) and the pet cats that people allow outdoors to kill birds? Wildlife is .... WILD. No one has reported any sort of threatening or dangerous incident involving a coyote, so why not let them be? -- Bonner
David Julian November 27, 2018 at 5:20 pm
Here’s why. Do more research. Acknowledge that coyotes are relatively large, carnivorous preditor canines. They are not the same category as your examples. Why wait until someone is bitten or a pet killed? Coyotes can carry rabies, distemper, and other diseases. Check the statistics. Be proactive with human health and safety as the priority. Humanely relocate them from AMI, back to their natural habitat before they reproduce and run in packs while in survival mode within the confines of this small island. Uncomfortable yet?
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As the storytelling species, human beings transmit knowledge to succeeding generations through stories. A familiar example of this is through the sharing of traditional recipes handed down from generation to generation. These recipes are often accompanied by mythical stories that in many cultures served to preserve important knowledge about the cultivation, harvest and preparation of traditional and indigenous ingredients. By using the key elements (ingredients, method, story) we built the foundations of an Indigenous Knowledge Graph (IKG) using food wisdom from Timor-Leste and Native American culture, personally shared by the IKG team. Our aim was to show how creating structure around our stories can foster reasoning and cultural intelligence in machines and conversational AIs.
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An Australian medical student has died in Tanzania where it is believed he was doing voluntary work related to his training.
James Kelly, 23, was studying at the New South Wales University's Rural Clinical School in Port Macquarie.
The circumstances of his death are unclear but there have been unconfirmed reports he was involved in a car accident.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade says it is providing assistance.
"The department can confirm a 23-year-old man from New South Wales has died in Tanzania," a spokesman said in a statement.
"Consular officials are providing consular assistance to the man's family."
The university has expressed its condolences and sympathies to his family and says counselling is being provided to students and staff affected by the tragedy.
Mr Kelly was to have started the final year of his medical degree next year.
His Port Macquarie campus co-ordinator, Doctor Alexander McColl, says he was a wonderful, talented young man with an enthusiastic personality who was well loved and will be greatly missed.
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With many drivers on the roads during the day at the busiest times, it is essential for motorists to understand the risks of a car accident and to do everything possible to protect themselves. If another driver does something careless or unreasonably dangerous, then accident victims should contact an experienced Boca Raton accident lawyer for help when serious or fatal injuries result.
The Dangers of Accidents in Boca Raton
Auto, truck and motor vehicle accidents are far too common in the city of Boca Raton, with a total of 1,059 collisions reported in 2011. In Palm Beach County, where Boca Raton is located, there were a total of 11,548 accidents over the course of the same year. The accidents in Palm Beach account for a substantial number of the total 227,998 statewide accidents reported in Florida’s transportation statistics.
Accidents in Palm Beach also caused great loss, not just to motorists in cars but also to everyone else on the road. For example, in 2011, there were 19 pedestrian deaths in car accidents; the same number of motorcyclist deaths and there were nine where a bicyclist was hurt or killed. A total of 11 of the crashes happened in accidents involving commercial vehicles.
If a motorist suffers a serious injury or if someone is killed in an auto accident, the victims can pursue a claim for compensation, including pain and suffering. However, it is important to prove that another driver was to blame for causing the wreck in order to recover monetary damages.
In Boca Raton, there are many kinds of dangerous behaviors that lead to motor-vehicle collisions. Some drivers, for example, will run red lights or won’t wait their turn at an intersection and will fail to yield. Other dangerous behaviors can include driving while drowsy or driving while distracted. Drunk driving, of course, is also very likely to result in a driver being unfit to operate a vehicle.
Unfortunately, people drive drunk every day despite warnings and laws preventing this behavior. In 2011, for example, 76 of the accidents that happened in Boca Raton were believed to have been alcohol-related. In Palm Beach County, it is estimated that 47 of the fatalities were alcohol-related deaths.
If you or a loved one was harmed in an auto accident, it is important to consult with an experienced personal injury or wrongful death law firm. A Boca Raton car accident lawyer at Gerson & Schwartz, P.A. can assist you with understanding your rights and pursuing a monetary claim for compensation.
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Finance Tours - City of London & Canary Wharf
Financial services are at the heart of the London economy. Come and explore the UK capital as an international finance centre in: The City and Canary Wharf
City Finance Tour
This tour is now also available as an online education package. Click here to find out more
Join us on our award-winning walking tour of The City as we take you on a fascinating journey to discover the origins of London’s financial centre - from its humble beginnings in 17th century coffee houses to its ancient and unusual governance and voting system that’s still in use today.
Our expert guide will show you how the City of London developed into a global financial centre, taking in key buildings such as: the London Stock Exchange, Guildhall, the Bank of England, Lloyds of London and Rothschild’s.
Meeting Point: Panyer Alley, exit 2 of St Paul’s Station
Finishing Point: The Cheesegrater (Leadenhall Building), near Liverpool Street Station.
On this finance walking tour you will discover:
The origins of London Stock Exchange, one of the world’s oldest stock exchanges and currently the largest stock exchange in Europe. Discover it’s similarities with ‘flat white coffee’, how the stock exchange works in the modern day with the development of new technology
Guildhall, home to the City of London Corporation. Discover the City of London’s unique governance structure, including why the Queen must seek permission to enter the City
Why it’s the only area in the UK to elect its own Sherriff. Uncover the ancient traditions and roles established 800 years ago which are still upheld in London’s Square Mile today
The myriad of Livery Companies and Freemen that occupy the City, hear about their role and purpose, both then and now
How the Bank of England pioneered the modern banking system and why it’s worth its weight in gold and its role in the global financial crisis
The world of banking and all its forms from the nation’s central bank to a retail bank where you can pop in and deposit a cheque
How the UK’s Insurance sector grew and who is big enough to insure the insurance companies
Why a one meter long gold grasshopper sits above Lombard Street and other cryptic London City signs
To book your City Finance Tour or to find out more then get in touch via contact@insiderlondon.com.
Canary Wharf Walking Tour
This walking tour explores the economic powerhouse: CANARY WHARF - the new finance centre of London. Come and explore the amazing development which boasts more bankers than the City of London and some of the most expensive real estate in the world.
After the traditional City of London, this is the second main financial centre within the United Kingdom but thirty years ago it was little more than derelict dockland. Once a booming port, by 1980 the docks were completely closed – then rising from the marshes came Canary Wharf with some of Europe’s tallest and most imposing skyscrapers.
One of the greatest ever feats of civil engineering, come and experience the impressive grandeur of some of the world’s most powerful financial giants which are embodied by the amazing skyline. Follow the towering pinnacles of JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, HSBC, KPMG, Credit Suisse, EY, Thomson Reuters and many more.
The Estate now comprises around 16,000,000 square feet (1,500,000 m2) of office and retail space where around 105,000 people work. Complete with extravagant residences, beautiful parks, public artwork and five different shopping malls, Canary Wharf has become a luxurious destination with world-class economic status.
Meeting Point: Outside Carluccio’s, Reuter’s Plaza
Finishing Point: Near Canary Wharf Station (this is a loop tour)
On this canary wharf tour you will discover:
The twists and turns of the enormous regeneration project
How Canary Wharf compares to the City of London
How an industrial area moved into the post-industrial world
The breath-taking architecture of new finance.
The amazing and ongoing developments in transport infrastructure, including the Crossrail, which service the business eco-system
The masterplan of Wood Wharf, a brand new 23 acre site which is set to take Canary Wharf to the next level
What the future holds for this critical piece of the UK economy
To book your Canary Wharf Tour or to find out more then get in touch via contact@insiderlondon.com.
Our packages can be arranged for any date or time. Furthermore, we are happy to create a bespoke programme to reflect your specific needs.
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Politically Turbulent Times in Pakistan
As expected, Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharaf was re-elected by national and local parliaments this weekend, even though he’s still the Army’s Chief of Staff.
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Increased cerebral blood volume in HIV-positive patients detected by functional MRI.
Tracey I., Hamberg LM., Guimaraes AR., Hunter G., Chang I., Navia BA., González RG.
OBJECTIVE: To study changes in cerebral hemodynamics related to HIV infection. BACKGROUND: Cerebral injury is a well-known manifestation of HIV infection. Physiologic changes in the HIV brain may precede structural changes and may be detected by functional MRI (fMRI). METHODS: Dynamic contrast fMRI was used to measure the cerebral blood volume (CBV) in 13 patients infected with HIV and in 7 healthy control subjects. RESULTS: Significant increases in dynamic CBV were found in the deep (p < 0.001) and cortical gray matter (p < 0.05) of HIV-positive (HIV+) patients. Patients with definite cognitive impairment showed significantly greater increases in CBV in the deep gray matter (DGM) compared with those without impairment. In one patient with rapidly progressive cognitive impairment, these abnormalities reversed and paralleled clinical improvement after initiation of zidovudine monotherapy. CONCLUSIONS: This study supports the hypothesis that HIV infection is associated with significant cerebral hemodynamic changes, particularly in the DGM, that may contribute to cognitive dysfunction in AIDS. Functional MRI may be useful for early detection of cerebral injury and for the assessment of novel therapies.
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Adult, Anti-HIV Agents, Blood Volume, Cerebrovascular Circulation, Cognition Disorders, HIV Seropositivity, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Middle Aged, Periaqueductal Gray, Reference Values, Zidovudine
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Every year, we work with students to design a fresh and exciting calendar of events that includes concerts, comedians, movie nights, skiing and snowboarding trips, whitewater rafting excursions, fitness classes, and much more. Here's some of our favorite things to do:
The Adventure Program's weekend trips are sure to give you an adrenaline rush. You can go camping, white water rafing, rock climbing, rappelling, hiking, snowboarding, and much more. And if you find you're short on gear, no worries! Check out the KC Gear Garage!
Play for the Wolves, or become our #1 fan. Chill with Kacey (our fine-looking mascot), paint your face, and cheer on the Green & Gold as they face off in the athletics center or the Jephson Community Athletic Complex. And you definitely don't want to miss the Attack of the Pack rallies!
We love live music at Keuka College, and it's on campus year-round. But every spring, we bring big acts—like Gym Class Heroes, American Authors, Hello Goodbye, We the Kings, and T-Pain—to campus.
Win amazing prizes like big-screen TVs, PlayStations, and Bluetooth speaker systems during game nights. The games change all the time, and range from bingo to trivia to The Price is Right. So come on down!
Keuka Lake
We're on the shores of one of the cleanest freshwater lakes in the world. Swim, kayak, canoe, paddle board, fish, or just relax with friends in front of a bonfire. There's always something fun to do on the lake.
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Get serious or get silly at the JMW Recreation & Athletics Center. Join an intramural league, take a Zumba class, or put on a big plastic bubble and crash into your pals and professors.
There’s almost always a cool performance at Keuka College. We bring great acts like comedians, magicians, hypnotists, and spoken word artists to campus throughout the year, and during open-mic nights, you and your friends get to be the stars of the show.
We have more than 40 clubs and organizations. And if you don’t find one that interests you, it’s easy to start your own! Clubs and organizations sponsor social and academic events ranging from guest speakers to Pinterest parties. They’re also a great way to meet new people and get involved.
We use our ropes course for fun, adventure, and education. We have low and high elements, sometimes light it up with glowsticks and climb at night, and business professors even teach classes on it. (And yes, mom and dad, it's completely safe!)
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If you like hiking, jogging, nature photography, or just walking through beautiful space, there's no better place than Sunset Woods. It's like a storybook enchanted forest, except with better trails and fewer (i.e., none that we know of) witches.
Clubs, classes, and professors are always sponsoring trips to new and exciting places like New York City, Paris, Costa Rica, Transylvania, you-name-it. There are trips for fun, trips for service, and even Field Period™ trips that give you credit toward your degree.
The Finger Lakes is one of the country's top vacation spots. From incredible fall foliage and farm markets to breathtaking waterfalls, there's something for everyone. And don't worry about getting to the hot spots—we have plenty of shuttle runs.
From spur-of-the-moment karaoke nights to organized groups like QKApella, ConChords, Chorale, and Band, there are plenty of chances to play, sing, or just hang out and listen. You can also take private voice, guitar, or piano lessons here.
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Ever want to put on a velcro suit and jump onto a velcro wall? You can do it here! You can also zipline by the lake, scale a climbing wall, and practice your backflip action in a mega-size bounce house.
Win amazing prizes during tournament nights, or game in your room or residence hall lounge (they have gigantic TVs). If being a spectator is more your thing, you can hang out and watch our varsity esports team compete in League of Legends.
There are dances for all kinds of occasions throughout the year, and students themselves plan the annual semi-formal. Enjoy a wonderful night stepping out on the town: mix, mingle, and show off your moves.
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Limited Release Montauk Brewing Company IPA To Support Sierra Nevada's Camp Fire Relief Fund
Nicole Barylski
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Eric Moss, Montauk Brewing Company Co-Founder/Brewmaster, works on the Resilience IPA. (Courtesy Photo)
Montauk Brewing Company (MBC) is among the over 1,000 breweries that have joined Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, a Chico, California-based brewery, in brewing Resilience Butte County Proud IPA, a collaborative project that benefits the Sierra Nevada Camp Fire Relief Fund.
100 percent of the Resilience IPA sales will go towards the Fund, which Sierra Nevada, who actually had to temporarily shutdown for a short period of time because of the wildfire, will donate to partner organizations committed to rebuilding and backing the communities that have been impacted by California's deadliest wildfire.
MBC's iteration will be exclusively available at the Montauk Brewing Company Brew Barn. The Resilience IPA (6.8% ABV) features centennial and cascade hop varieties.
"Sierra Nevada had been planning on doing it for a little while and was going to do it themselves and then realized there's 7,000 plus breweries in the U.S. that could really band together. So they reached out to everybody," Vaughan Cutillo, Montauk Brewing Company, Inc. Co-Founder, told us. "Everybody's been through - whether it's out here with the hurricanes or people going through issues, you can always use some help from others. We just thought that the nice thing about the beer industry is it's very collaborative and supportive so it was a no-brainer. They're a West Coast brewery and we're almost as far away as you can get and the few kegs that we're going to brew can make an impact for them."
The breweries weren't the only ones to pitch in. "It was great that some of the grain, malt, and hop companies for the raw materials, they are actually footing a lot of the bill," Cutillo noted. "We were able to get really good raw materials but cut some of the costs. So we'll sell all the beer, the beer will be exclusive to the Taproom in Montauk with growlers and pints and then 100 percent of the proceeds will go directly to the Camp Fire Fund."
MBC's iteration will be exclusively available at the Montauk Brewing Company Brew Barn. (Courtesy Photo)
The collaborative brewing effort quickly caught on with the tight-knit beer industry. "It was kind of cool, actually. They reached out to all the breweries and got a list of everybody - I think it ended up being 1,200 to 1,500 signed on across the country," Cutillo said. "Sierra Nevada's huge, they're brewing like 2,400 barrels of it to start. We're going to do a small, limited - we wanted to make it a special limited release beer, so it's 7 barrels. It's about 14 or 15 kegs worth."
To brew the Resilience IPA, Montauk Brewing Company is actually using Sierra Nevada's Resilience Butte County Proud IPA recipe. "Once they got the go ahead that we were interested they sent out a really cool recipe that Eric Moss, my business partner, our brewmaster, used. They actually sent out their own formula where we type in the size volume output that we're going to have and then it populates how many pounds of grain and what types of grain and what type of hops and the hop process that goes into it," Cutillo explained. "It wasn't exactly turnkey, but it was as close as you could come because Eric obviously knows our system and Montauk better than anyone so he took that recipe and tweaked a little bit based on our equipment and we brewed it last week."
Cutillo doesn't expect the limited edition brew to be at the Taproom long. "Especially with the holidays and people in town I'm sure the beer will go pretty quick," he relayed.
In addition to the Resilience IPA, MBC is releasing another exciting beer soon. "We just finished brewing, it'll be on tap in about a week, we do a seasonal batch of our Montauk Bay Scallop Stout. We do one batch, about seven barrels, every year and Riley Sullivan, our brewer, goes and harvests about ten pounds of bay scallops right when the season opens," Cutillo shared. "We add that to one of the phases of brewing. It gives a really nice kind of salty, briney finish - not a seafood characteristic - to our stout, which is a nice dark, chocolatey, coffee beer. People are always excited for that one."
Montauk Brewing Company's Resilience IPA will be on tap exclusively at the Montauk Brewing Company Brew Barn starting at 12 p.m. on Friday, December 21.
The Montauk Brewing Company Brew Barn is located at 62 South Erie Avenue in Montauk. For more information about the Resilience IPA or Montauk Brewing Company, call 631-668-8471 or visit montaukbrewingco.com. For more information about the Sierra Nevada Camp Fire Relief Fund, visit sierranevada.com.
Nicole is the Editor-in-Chief of Hamptons.com where she focuses on lifestyle, nightlife, and mixology. She grew up in the Hamptons and currently resides in Water Mill. www.hamptons.com NicoleBarylski NicoleBarylski
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Ligelizumab Improves Chronic Urticaria Symptom Control Versus Omalizumab
Kevin Kunzmann
A new phase 2b trial shows the investigative therapy significantly improves the rate of patients with hives control over 12 weeks versus its competitor.
Marcus Maurer, MD
Higher-dose ligelizumab was associated with a greater rate of complete symptom control among patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria, in a phase 2b trial comparing the monoclonal antibody to a competitor and placebo.
The investigative IGHE-binding immunomodulator developed by Novartis was shown to benefit patient control of hives when compared to treatment with omalizumab or placebo.
A team of investigators led by Marcus Maurer, MD—of the Department of Dermatology and Allergy at Charite — Berlin University of Medicine—conducted the dose-finding trial at a time when the pathology of the fairly common chronic skin disorder is still being interpreted.
Though chronic spontaneous urticaria is known to involve autoimmune mechanisms via IgG autoantibodies against the high-affinity receptor for the Fc region of IgE in a majority of its patients, current treatment is not a treat-all standard.
“Standard first-line treatment of chronic spontaneous urticaria consists of non-sedating (second-generation) H1-antihistamines at locally approved doses, with escalation up to 4 times the approved dose used off-label as second-line treatment,” investigators wrote. “Even so, the disease is still uncontrolled in some patients.”
Ligelizumab was shown in previous trials to suppress IgE in dose- and time-dependent instances, and to provide a superior response to allergen in skin-prick tests compared to omalizumab.
Its efficacy and safety was compared with the competitor drug, as well as placebo, in this phase 2b trial assessing patients with standard-of-care inadequately-controlled chronic spontaneous urticaria.
Maurer and colleagues randomly assigned 382 patients to 24-mg, 72-mg, or 240-mg ligelizumab, 300 mg omalizumab, or placebo. Treatment was administered subcutaneously every 4 weeks over 20 weeks, or via a 120-mg single dose of ligelizumab. They monitored disease symptoms of hives, itch, and angioedema by weekly activity scores, with a main objective of determining a dose-response relationship for complete patient control of hives.
Complete hives control was indicated by a weekly hives-severity score of 0, on a severity scale of 0-21. The primary endpoint was assessed at week 12 of treatment. Complete symptom control was indicated by a weekly urticaria activity score of 0, on a severity scale of 0-42.
At week 12, a total of 30%, 51%, 42% of patients treated with 24 mg, 72 mg, 240 mg of ligelizumab, respectively, reported complete hives control. Just 26% of patients on omalizumab achieved this mark, and none on placebo. Investigators establish a dose-response relationship.
Another 30%, 44%, and 40% of the ligelizumab-treated patients in their respective dosing groups reported complete symptom control at week 12—again improving on the 26% of patients in the omalizumab arm, and none in the placebo arm.
No safety concerns in ligelizumab- nor omalizumab-treated patients were observed, though investigators noted the trial was small in scale and short in duration. The team concluded rates of complete symptom control in patients treated with 72-mg and 240-mg ligelizumab was statistically significant than the rates of patients on omalizumab or placebo.
In an editorial addressing the findings, David M. Center, MD, of the Boston University Clinical and Translational Science Institute at Boston Medical Center, noted chronic spontaneous urticaria can harm patient sleep, drive skin irritation, and burden them with “unsightly wheals”—all without identifiable, predictable triggers.
“As a result, the therapeutic goal is complete remission,” Center wrote.
The current rate of complete remission in omalizumab patients is 35% to 53%, he noted, while up to 70% of patients experience partial remission—all with limited adverse effects. Though it’s worth the increased biologic asking-price cost among patients being “made miserable” by the disease, patients need better agents and options in case of remission resistance associated with omalizumab.
The positive findings for ligelizumab’s benefit in complete symptom control are hopeful, yet they also raise questions which much be addressed in larger, longer trials involving the investigative therapy in the patient population.
“However, an anti-IgE therapy that induces remission in more patients with a longer interval between administration of the drug is much appreciated and should gain clinical popularity,” Center concluded. “We all await better understanding about the causes of chronic spontaneous urticaria as we search for good predictive markers for responses to therapy.”
The study, "Ligelizumab for Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria," was published online in The New England Journal of Medicine.
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VERIFY: Will smokers get COVID-19 vaccine before non-smokers?
Costco eases restrictions on number of customers that can enter
The retailer's website no longer limits how many people can enter per membership card.
Costco is again allowing more than two customers per membership card into its stores, with a handful of exceptions. That's according to the updated coronavirus page on its website.
The warehouse shopping club has updated its policies almost daily. The company initiated a rule on April 3 that said only two customers per membership card could enter their stores. As of Tuesday, that rule no longer appears on the website.
TEGNA reached out to Costco for confirmation. A representative responded by saying "please visit the Coronavirus Updates page for current information."
Costco's website says its stores in Puerto Rico will still only allow one customer per membership card. It did not elaborate as to why.
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The retailer is still requiring all customers to wear a face covering in the store which covers their mouth and nose. It does not apply to children under age 2 or people with conditions that prevent them from wearing a mask.
Costco has been proactive in measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus, including sanitizing carts, limiting the number of customers in the store at any given time, and limiting its food court menu and seating. The company has also limited sales of some items which were quickly bought up at the start of the pandemic as well as meat purchases amid concerns about a shortage.
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For most people, the coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. But for others, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, the highly contagious virus can cause severe symptoms and be fatal.
Customers wearing protective masks from the coronavirus and keeping social distancing space line up to enter a Costco Wholesale store in the Van Nuys section of Los Angeles, Saturday, May 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
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NAVIGATING THE MINEFIELD BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE AMERICANS
by Bruce A. Jacobs ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 1, 1999
A guidebook for those uncomfortable with the status quo in race relations and unwilling to exploit white or black hatred. Jacobs, a poet and writer who is African-American, confronts a rarely admitted truth: there is much weirdness regarding race in the US. Often what is unquestioningly assumed would be considered ludicrous by any objective observer, e.g., “the myths of what ‘black’ and ‘white’ are supposed to mean; the casual acceptance of public racial mistrust,” making conventional patterns of racial belief and behavior difficult to take seriously if they were not so serious. Consider the well-dressed, educated black man who notices, day after day, that the seat next to him on the subway remains empty as the car fills up. As a black man, he inspires such distrust that any other seat, or even standing, is preferable for whites to sitting next to him. Or consider the white woman whose idol, Elvis Presley, is scorned by blacks as a white who got rich and famous by appropriating black music. Is Elvis the King or the ultimate symbol of plantation exploitation, of living high off the work of others? The real question, of course, is why people actually care so passionately, about either Elvis or where they sit on the train. Jacobs observes a society in which the flashpoint of racial animosity resides at the level of daily life; no lynchings or O.J. Simpson trials are required for mistrust to bar the possibility of common sense. To navigate this strange world, he offers a primer to “lay bare everyday racial behavior and help make sense of it,” and it works. He takes us through typical situations, pointing out assumptions and then challenging them. Overall, the effect is shocking: self-justifying pablum and inflated rhetoric so dominate discussions of race that arguments which are both strong and reasonable, that are in-your-face without offending, stand out. An impressive contribution that exposes the underlying silliness as well as noxiousness of American racial attitudes.
Pub Date: Feb. 1, 1999
Publisher: Arcade
Categories: GENERAL CURRENT EVENTS & SOCIAL ISSUES | CURRENT EVENTS & SOCIAL ISSUES | SELF-HELP | ETHNICITY & RACE
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‘An incredible display of wealth’: Massive yachts hard to miss in Miami
by: Kalyn McMackin, Nexstar
MIAMI (NEXSTAR) — Something in the water is catching the attention of thousands in Miami for the Super Bowl.
Most will say Miami is known for its good food, good music, and prime beachfront property. But its also known as a showcase for money – lots of it – which is hard to miss. It’s why the beaches are packed, the roads are jammed and the docks are full ahead of Sunday’s kickoff for Super Bowl 54.
“All this stuff on the beach is definitely one of the coolest things I’ve ever done and Miami is an awesome place,” one person said.
The sights and sounds of the South Beath are living up to the Miami reputation for many visitors. Docked beneath the city skyline sit perhaps the most eye-catching attraction of them all: megayachts.
It’s a reminder to Kansas City Chiefs fan, Kelly Yarborough, that he is far away from home.
“Oh my gosh, what an incredible display of wealth and something you would just never see in Kansas City,” Yarborough said. “Obviously we’re as far away from an ocean as you can get so the size of these boats are phenomenal.”
Three-story super yachts stretched along Port Miami are soaking up the sun and attention, offering a glimpse of life in the Magic City.
“You want to see the ocean, the sun, the boats, definitely brings the whole yachting feel, South Beach Miami vibe,” Yarborough said.
For others, the yachts docked at Port Miami offers a glimpse of what-if.
“It’s nice to see how the other half lives,” Yarborough said. “It’s good to be king.”
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Reading Library
The Old Santa Fe Trail
The Prairie
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The Price of the Prairie
Kansas Facts: Information about The Counties of the State
The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War
Expansion and Conflict, by William E. Dodd
Governors of the State of Kansas
The Ranche On The Oxhide
Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty
The Life of Hon. William F. Cody
The Border and the Buffalo
The University Of Hesperus (aka University of Kansas)
Chapter IX: Passing of the Pony Express
Chapter VIII: Early Overland Mail Routes
Chapter VII:Anecdotes of the Trail and Honor Roll
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The Prairie: Chapter 8
Written by J. Fenimore Cooper
Category: The Prairie, by J. Fenimore Cooper
Now they are clapper-clawing one another; I'll go look on. That dissembling abominable varlet, Diomed, has got that same scurvy, doting, foolish young knave in his helm. --Troilus and Cressida.
It is necessary, in order that the thread of the narrative should not be spun to a length which might fatigue the reader, that he should imagine a week to have intervened between the scene with which the preceding chapter closed and the events with which it is our intention to resume its relation in this. The season was on the point of changing its character; the verdure of summer giving place more rapidly to the brown and party-coloured livery of the fall.[*]
The heavens were clothed in driving clouds, piled in vast masses one above the other, which whirled violently in the gusts; opening, occasionally, to admit transient glimpses of the bright and glorious sight of the heavens, dwelling in a magnificence by far too grand and durable to be disturbed by the fitful efforts of the lower world. Beneath, the wind swept across the wild and naked prairies, with a violence that is seldom witnessed in any section of the continent less open. It would have been easy to have imagined, in the ages of fable, that the god of the winds had permitted his subordinate agents to escape from their den, and that they now rioted, in wantonness, across wastes, where neither tree, nor work of man, nor mountain, nor obstacle of any sort, opposed itself to their gambols.
[*] The Americans call the autumn the "fall," from the fall of the leaf.
Though nakedness might, as usual, be given as the pervading character of the spot, whither it is now necessary to transfer the scene of the tale, it was not entirely without the signs of human life. Amid the monotonous rolling of the prairie, a single naked and ragged rock arose on the margin of a little watercourse, which found its way, after winding a vast distance through the plains, into one of the numerous tributaries of the Father of Rivers. A swale of low land lay near the base of the eminence; and as it was still fringed with a thicket of alders and sumack, it bore the signs of having once nurtured a feeble growth of wood. The trees themselves had been transferred, however, to the summit and crags of the neighbouring rocks. On this elevation the signs of man, to which the allusion just made applies, were to be found.
Seen from beneath, there were visible a breast-work of logs and stones, intermingled in such a manner as to save all unnecessary labour, a few low roofs made of bark and boughs of trees, an occasional barrier, constructed like the defences on the summit, and placed on such points of the acclivity as were easier of approach than the general face of the eminence; and a little dwelling of cloth, perched on the apex of a small pyramid, that shot up on one angle of the rock, the white covering of which glimmered from a distance like a spot of snow, or, to make the simile more suitable to the rest of the subject, like a spotless and carefully guarded standard, which was to be protected by the dearest blood of those who defended the citadel beneath. It is hardly necessary to add, that this rude and characteristic fortress was the place where Ishmael Bush had taken refuge, after the robbery of his flocks and herds.
On the day to which the narrative is advanced, the squatter was standing near the base of the rocks, leaning on his rifle, and regarding the sterile soil that supported him with a look in which contempt and disappointment were strongly blended.
"'Tis time to change our natur's," he observed to the brother of his wife, who was rarely far from his elbow; "and to become ruminators, instead of people used to the fare of Christians and free men. I reckon, Abiram, you could glean a living among the grasshoppers: you ar' an active man, and might outrun the nimblest skipper of them all."
"The country will never do," returned the other, who relished but little the forced humour of his kinsman; "and it is well to remember that a lazy traveller makes a long journey."
"Would you have me draw a cart at my heels, across this desert for weeks,--ay, months?" retorted Ishmael, who, like all of his class, could labour with incredible efforts on emergencies, but who too seldom exerted continued industry, on any occasion, to brook a proposal that offered so little repose. "It may do for your people, who live in settlements, to hasten on to their houses; but, thank Heaven! my farm is too big for its owner ever to want a resting-place."
"Since you like the plantation, then, you have only to make your crop."
"That is easier said than done, on this corner of the estate. I tell you, Abiram, there is need of moving, for more reasons than one. You know I'm a man that very seldom enters into a bargain, but who always fulfils his agreements better than your dealers in wordy contracts written on rags of paper. If there's one mile, there ar' a hundred still needed to make up the distance for which you have my honour."
As he spoke, the squatter glanced his eye upward at the little tenement of cloth which crowned the summit of his ragged fortress. The look was understood and answered by the other; and by some secret influence, which operated either through their interests or feelings, it served to re-establish that harmony between them, which had just been threatened with something like a momentary breach.
"I know it, and feel it in every bone of my body. But I remember the reason, why I have set myself on this accursed journey too well to forget the distance between me and the end. Neither you nor I will ever be the better for what we have done, unless we thoroughly finish what is so well begun. Ay, that is the doctrine of the whole world, I judge: I heard a travelling preacher, who was skirting it down the Ohio, a time since, say, if a man should live up to the faith for a hundred years, and then fall from his work a single day, he would find the settlement was to be made for the finishing blow that he had put to his job, and that all the bad, and none of the good, would come into the final account."
"And you believed the hungry hypocrite!"
"Who said that I believed it?" retorted Abiram with a bullying look, that betrayed how much his fears had dwelt on the subject he affected to despise. "Is it believing to tell what a roguish--And yet, Ishmael, the man might have been honest after all! He told us that the world was, in truth, no better than a desert, and that there was but one hand that could lead the most learned man through all its crooked windings. Now, if this be true of the whole, it may be true of a part."
"Abiram, out with your grievances like a man," interrupted the squatter, with a hoarse laugh. "You want to pray! But of what use will it be, according to your own doctrine, to serve God five minutes and the devil an hour? Harkee, friend; I'm not much of a husband-man, but this I know to my cost; that to make a right good crop, even on the richest bottom, there must be hard labour; and your snufflers liken the 'arth to a field of corn, and the men, who live on it, to its yield. Now I tell you, Abiram, that you are no better than a thistle or a mullin; yea, ye ar' wood of too open a pore to be good even to burn!"
The malign glance, which shot from the scowling eye of Abiram, announced the angry character of his feelings, but as the furtive look quailed, immediately, before the unmoved, steady, countenance of the squatter, it also betrayed how much the bolder spirit of the latter had obtained the mastery over his craven nature.
Content with his ascendency, which was too apparent, and had been too often exerted on similar occasions, to leave him in any doubt of its extent, Ishmael coolly continued the discourse, by adverting more directly to his future plans.
"You will own the justice of paying every one in kind," he said; "I have been robbed of my stock, and I have a scheme to make myself as good as before, by taking hoof for hoof; or for that matter, when a man is put to the trouble of bargaining for both sides, he is a fool if he don't pay himself something in the way of commission."
As the squatter made this declaration in a tone which was a little excited by the humour of the moment, four or five of his lounging sons, who had been leaning against the foot of the rock, came forward with the indolent step so common to the family.
"I have been calling Ellen Wade, who is on the rock keeping the look-out, to know if there is any thing to be seen," observed the eldest of the young men; "and she shakes her head, for an answer. Ellen is sparing of her words for a woman; and might be taught manners at least, without spoiling her good looks."
Ishmael cast his eye upward to the place, where the offending, but unconscious girl was holding her anxious watch. She was seated at the edge of the uppermost crag, by the side of the little tent, and at least two hundred feet above the level of the plain. Little else was to be distinguished, at that distance, but the outline of her form, her fair hair streaming in the gusts beyond her shoulders, and the steady and seemingly unchangeable look that she had riveted on some remote point of the prairie.
"What is it, Nell?" cried Ishmael, lifting his powerful voice a little above the rushing of the element. "Have you got a glimpse of any thing bigger than a burrowing barker?"
The lips of the attentive Ellen parted; she rose to the utmost height her small stature admitted, seeming still to regard the unknown object; but her voice, if she spoke at all, was not sufficiently loud to be heard amid the wind.
"It ar' a fact that the child sees something more uncommon than a buffaloe or a prairie dog!" continued Ishmael. "Why, Nell, girl, ar' ye deaf? Nell, I say;--I hope it is an army of red-skins she has in her eye; for I should relish the chance to pay them for their kindness, under the favour of these logs and rocks!"
As the squatter accompanied his vaunt with corresponding gestures, and directed his eyes to the circle of his equally confident sons while speaking, he drew their gaze from Ellen to himself; but now, when they turned together to note the succeeding movements of their female sentinel, the place which had so lately been occupied by her form was vacant.
"As I am a sinner," exclaimed Asa, usually one of the most phlegmatic of the youths, "the girl is blown away by the wind!"
Something like a sensation was exhibited among them, which might have denoted that the influence of the laughing blue eyes, flaxen hair, and glowing cheeks of Ellen, had not been lost on the dull natures of the young men; and looks of amazement, mingled slightly with concern, passed from one to the other as they gazed, in dull wonder, at the point of the naked rock.
"It might well be!" added another; "she sat on a slivered stone, and I have been thinking of telling her she was in danger for more than an hour."
"Is that a riband of the child, dangling from the corner of the hill below?" cried Ishmael; "ha! who is moving about the tent? have I not told you all--"
"Ellen! 'tis Ellen!" interrupted the whole body of his sons in a breath; and at that instant she re-appeared to put an end to their different surmises, and to relieve more than one sluggish nature from its unwonted excitement. As Ellen issued from beneath the folds of the tent, she advanced with a light and fearless step to her former giddy stand, and pointed toward the prairie, appearing to speak in an eager and rapid voice to some invisible auditor.
"Nell is mad!" said Asa, half in contempt and yet not a little in concern. "The girl is dreaming with her eyes open; and thinks she sees some of them fierce creatur's, with hard names, with which the Doctor fills her ears."
"Can it be, the child has found a scout of the Siouxes?" said Ishmael, bending his look toward the plain; but a low, significant whisper from Abiram drew his eyes quickly upward again, where they were turned just in time to perceive that the cloth of the tent was agitated by a motion very evidently different from the quivering occasioned by the wind. "Let her, if she dare!" the squatter muttered in his teeth. "Abiram; they know my temper too well to play the prank with me!"
"Look for yourself! if the curtain is not lifted, I can see no better than the owl by daylight."
Ishmael struck the breach of his rifle violently on the earth, and shouted in a voice that might easily have been heard by Ellen, had not her attention still continued rapt on the object which so unaccountably attracted her eyes in the distance.
"Nell!" continued the squatter, "away with you, fool! will you bring down punishment on your own head? Why, Nell!--she has forgotten her native speech; let us see if she can understand another language."
Ishmael threw his rifle to his shoulder, and at the next moment it was pointed upward at the summit of the rock. Before time was given for a word of remonstrance, it had sent forth its contents, in its usual streak of bright flame. Ellen started like the frightened chamois, and uttering a piercing scream, she darted into the tent, with a swiftness that left it uncertain whether terror or actual injury had been the penalty of her offence.
The action of the squatter was too sudden and unexpected to admit of prevention, but the instant it was done, his sons manifested, in an unequivocal manner, the temper with which they witnessed the desperate measure. Angry and fierce glances were interchanged, and a murmur of disapprobation was uttered by the whole, in common.
"What has Ellen done, father," said Asa, with a degree of spirit, which was the more striking from being unusual, "that she should be shot at like a straggling deer, or a hungry wolf?"
"Mischief," deliberately returned the squatter; but with a cool expression of defiance in his eye that showed how little he was moved by the ill-concealed humour of his children. "Mischief, boy; mischief! take you heed that the disorder don't spread."
"It would need a different treatment in a man, than in yon screaming girl!"
"Asa, you ar' a man, as you have often boasted; but remember I am your father, and your better."
"I know it well; and what sort of a father?"
"Harkee, boy: I more than half believe that your drowsy head let in the Siouxes. Be modest in speech, my watchful son, or you may have to answer yet for the mischief your own bad conduct has brought upon us."
"I'll stay no longer to be hectored like a child in petticoats. You talk of law, as if you knew of none, and yet you keep me down, as though I had not life and wants of my own. I'll stay no longer to be treated like one of your meanest cattle!"
"The world is wide, my gallant boy, and there's many a noble plantation on it, without a tenant. Go; you have title deeds signed and sealed to your hand. Few fathers portion their children better than Ishmael Bush; you will say that for me, at least, when you get to be a wealthy landholder."
"Look! father, look!" exclaimed several voices at once, seizing with avidity, an opportunity to interrupt a dialogue which threatened to become more violent.
"Look!" repeated Abiram, in a voice which sounded hollow and warning; "if you have time for any thing but quarrels, Ishmael, look!"
The squatter turned slowly from his offending son, and cast an eye, that still lowered with deep resentment upward; but which, the instant it caught a view of the object that now attracted the attention of all around him, changed its expression to one of astonishment and dismay.
A female stood on the spot, from which Ellen had been so fearfully expelled. Her person was of the smallest size that is believed to comport with beauty, and which poets and artists have chosen as the beau ideal of feminine loveliness. Her dress was of a dark and glossy silk, and fluttered like gossamer around her form. Long, flowing, and curling tresses of hair, still blacker and more shining than her robe, fell at times about her shoulders, completely enveloping the whole of her delicate bust in their ringlets; or at others streaming in the wind. The elevation at which she stood prevented a close examination of the lineaments of a countenance which, however, it might be seen was youthful, and, at the moment of her unlooked-for appearance, eloquent with feeling. So young, indeed, did this fair and fragile being appear, that it might be doubted whether the age of childhood was entirely passed. One small and exquisitely moulded hand was pressed on her heart, while with the other she made an impressive gesture, which seemed to invite Ishmael, if further violence was meditated, to direct it against her bosom.
The silent wonder, with which the group of borderers gazed upward at so extraordinary a spectacle, was only interrupted as the person of Ellen was seen emerging with timidity from the tent, as if equally urged, by apprehensions in behalf of herself and the fears which she felt on account of her companion, to remain concealed and to advance. She spoke, but her words were unheard by those below, and unheeded by her to whom they were addressed. The latter, however, as if content with the offer she had made of herself as a victim to the resentment of Ishmael, now calmly retired, and the spot she had so lately occupied became vacant, leaving a sort of stupid impression on the spectators beneath, not unlike that which it might be supposed would have been created had they just been gazing at some supernatural vision.
More than a minute of profound silence succeeded, during which the sons of Ishmael still continued gazing at the naked rock in stupid wonder. Then, as eye met eye, an expression of novel intelligence passed from one to the other, indicating that to them, at least, the appearance of this extraordinary tenant of the pavilion was as unexpected as it was incomprehensible. At length Asa, in right of his years, and moved by the rankling impulse of the recent quarrel, took on himself the office of interrogator. Instead, however, of braving the resentment of his father, of whose fierce nature, when aroused, he had had too frequent evidence to excite it wantonly, he turned upon the cowering person of Abiram, observing with a sneer--
"This then is the beast you were bringing into the prairies for a decoy! I know you to be a man who seldom troubles truth, when any thing worse may answer, but I never knew you to outdo yourself so thoroughly before. The newspapers of Kentuck have called you a dealer in black flesh a hundred times, but little did they reckon that you drove the trade into white families."
"Who is a kidnapper?" demanded Abiram, with a blustering show of resentment. "Am I to be called to account for every lie they put in print throughout the States? Look to your own family, boy; look to yourselves. The very stumps of Kentucky and Tennessee cry out ag'in ye! Ay, my tonguey gentleman, I have seen father and mother and three children, yourself for one, published on the logs and stubs of the settlements, with dollars enough for reward to have made an honest man rich, for--"
He was interrupted by a back-handed but violent blow on the mouth, that caused him to totter, and which left the impression of its weight in the starting blood and swelling lips.
"Asa," said the father, advancing with a portion of that dignity with which the hand of Nature seems to have invested the parental character, "you have struck the brother of your mother!"
"I have struck the abuser of the whole family," returned the angry youth; "and, unless he teaches his tongue a wiser language, he had better part with it altogether, as the unruly member. I'm no great performer with the knife, but, on an occasion, could make out, myself, to cut off a slande--"
"Boy, twice have you forgotten yourself to-day. Be careful that it does not happen the third time. When the law of the land is weak, it is right the law of nature should be strong. You understand me, Asa; and you know me. As for you, Abiram, the child has done you wrong, and it is my place to see you righted. Remember; I tell you justice shall be done; it is enough. But you have said hard things ag'in me and my family. If the hounds of the law have put their bills on the trees and stumps of the clearings, it was for no act of dishonesty as you know, but because we maintain the rule that 'arth is common property. No, Abiram; could I wash my hands of things done by your advice, as easily as I can of the things done by the whisperings of the devil, my sleep would be quieter at night, and none who bear my name need blush to hear it mentioned. Peace, Asa, and you too, man; enough has been said. Let us all think well before any thing is added, that may make what is already so bad still more bitter."
Ishmael waved his hand with authority, as he ended, and turned away with the air of one who felt assured, that those he had addressed would not have the temerity to dispute his commands. Asa evidently struggled with himself to compel the required obedience, but his heavy nature quietly sunk into its ordinary repose, and he soon appeared again the being he really was; dangerous, only, at moments, and one whose passions were too sluggish to be long maintained at the point of ferocity. Not so with Abiram. While there was an appearance of a personal conflict, between him and his colossal nephew, his mien had expressed the infallible evidences of engrossing apprehension, but now, that the authority as well as gigantic strength of the father were interposed between him and his assailant, his countenance changed from paleness to a livid hue, that bespoke how deeply the injury he had received rankled in his breast. Like Asa, however, he acquiesced in the decision of the squatter; and the appearance, at least, of harmony was restored again among a set of beings, who were restrained by no obligations more powerful than the frail web of authority with which Ishmael had been able to envelope his children.
One effect of the quarrel had been to divert the thoughts of the young men from their recent visitor. With the dispute, that succeeded the disappearance of the fair stranger, all recollection of her existence appeared to have vanished. A few ominous and secret conferences, it is true, were held apart, during which the direction of the eyes of the different speakers betrayed their subject; but these threatening symptoms soon disappeared, and the whole party was again seen broken into its usual, listless, silent, and lounging groups.
"I will go upon the rock, boys, and look abroad for the savages," said Ishmael shortly after, advancing towards them with a mien which he intended should be conciliating, at the same time that it was authoritative.
"If there is nothing to fear, we will go out on the plain; the day is too good to be lost in words, like women in the towns wrangling over their tea and sugared cakes."
Without waiting for approbation or dissent, the squatter advanced to the base of the rock, which formed a sort of perpendicular wall, nearly twenty feet high around the whole acclivity. Ishmael, however, directed his footsteps to a point where an ascent might be made through a narrow cleft, which he had taken the precaution to fortify with a breast-work of cottonwood logs, and which, in its turn, was defended by a chevaux-de-frise of the branches of the same tree. Here an armed man was usually kept, as at the key of the whole position, and here one of the young men now stood, indolently leaning against the rock, ready to protect the pass, if it should prove necessary, until the whole party could be mustered at the several points of defence.
From this place the squatter found the ascent still difficult, partly by nature and partly by artificial impediments, until he reached a sort of terrace, or, to speak more properly, the plain of the elevation, where he had established the huts in which the whole family dwelt. These tenements were, as already mentioned, of that class which are so often seen on the borders, and such as belonged to the infancy of architecture; being simply formed of logs, bark, and poles. The area on which they stood contained several hundred square feet, and was sufficiently elevated above the plain greatly to lessen if not to remove all danger from Indian missiles. Here Ishmael believed he might leave his infants in comparative security, under the protection of their spirited mother, and here he now found Esther engaged at her ordinary domestic employments, surrounded by her daughters, and lifting her voice, in declamatory censure, as one or another of the idle fry incurred her displeasure, and far too much engrossed with the tempest of her own conversation to know any thing of the violent scene which had been passing below.
"A fine windy place you have chosen for the camp, Ishmael!" she commenced, or rather continued, by merely diverting the attack from a sobbing girl of ten, at her elbow, to her husband. "My word! if I haven't to count the young ones every ten minutes, to see they are not flying away among the buzzards, or the ducks. Why do ye all keep hovering round the rock, like lolloping reptiles in the spring, when the heavens are beginning to be alive with birds, man. D'ye think mouths can be filled, and hunger satisfied, by laziness and sleep!"
"You'll have your say, Eester," said the husband, using the provincial pronunciation of America for the name, and regarding his noisy companions, with a look of habitual tolerance rather than of affection. "But the birds you shall have, if your own tongue don't frighten them to take too high a flight. Ay, woman," he continued, standing on the very spot whence he had so rudely banished Ellen, which he had by this time gained, "and buffaloe too, if my eye can tell the animal at the distance of a Spanish league."
"Come down; come down, and be doing, instead of talking. A talking man is no better than a barking dog. I shall hang out the cloth, if any of the red-skins show themselves, in time to give you notice. But, Ishmael, what have you been killing, my man; for it was your rifle I heard a few minutes agone, unless I have lost my skill in sounds."
"Poh! 'twas to frighten the hawk you see sailing above the rock."
"Hawk, indeed! at your time of day to be shooting at hawks and buzzards, with eighteen open mouths to feed. Look at the bee, and at the beaver, my good man, and learn to be a provider. Why, Ishmael! I believe my soul," she continued, dropping the tow she was twisting on a distaff, "the man is in that tent ag'in! More than half his time is spent about the worthless, good-for-nothing--"
The sudden re-appearance of her husband closed the mouth of the wife; and, as the former descended to the place where Esther had resumed her employment, she was content to grumble forth her dissatisfaction, instead of expressing it in more audible terms.
The dialogue that now took place between the affectionate pair was sufficiently succinct and expressive. The woman was at first a little brief and sullen in her answers, but care for her family soon rendered her more complaisant. As the purport of the conversation was merely an engagement to hunt during the remainder of the day, in order to provide the chief necessary of life, we shall not stop to record it.
With this resolution, then, the squatter descended to the plain and divided his forces into two parts, one of which was to remain as a guard with the fortress, and the other to accompany him to the field. He warily included Asa and Abiram in his own party, well knowing that no authority short of his own was competent to repress the fierce disposition of his headlong son, if fairly awakened. When these arrangements were completed, the hunters sallied forth, separating at no great distance from the rock, in order to form a circle about the distant herd of buffaloes.
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JAYARATNE v. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
011-SLLR-SLLR-1992-2-JAYARATNE-v.-ATTORNEY-GENERAL.pdf
JAYARATNE
ATTORNEY-GENERAL
COURT OF APPEALISMAIL, J.
CA 223/81
12TH OCTOBER, 1992.
Criminal Law – Provision of gun – Firearms Ordinance Ss 2(a), 2(b), 22(1),22(3) (a).
During a search of his residence the appellant showed a gun to the Police andclaimed it was a toy gun. The Government Analyst reported that the mechanismof the gun was defective, that a part of it was made of a kitul wood and in itspresent state could not be used to discharge pellets. It was a component of agun within the meaning of section 2(b) of the Firearms Ordinance.
The charge was that the appellant did possess, without licence, a gun within' thedefinition in section 2(a). The charge not having been amended the convictioncould not stand.
APPEAL from conviction by the Magistrate of Galle.
Eardley Perera, PC. with Mahinda Pinnediya for accused-appellant.
A Marikkar for Attorney-General
23rd October, 1992.
ISMAIL, J.
The charge against the accused-appellant was that on or about20.10.79 at No. 11, Bope Road, Gintota, he did possess a gun withinthe meaning of Section 2(a) of the Firearms Ordinance, and that hedid thereby commit an offence punishable under Section 22(3) (a),read with Section 22(1) of the said Ordinance. He was found guiltyafter trial and was sentenced to a term of 4 months rigorousimprisonment suspended for a period of 5 years.
Jayaratne v. Attorney-General (Ismail, J.)
On the night of 19.10.79, S.l. Seneviratne with a police partysearched the residence of the appellant on receiving information thatthe appellant possessed a gun without a licence. The appellantshowed the gun which he possessed saying that it was a toy gun andthat it could not be used. The appellant was then taken into custodyand proceedings were instituted against him. On 30.10.79 an orderwas made that the gun be forwarded to the Government Analyst forreport as to whether it was a gun within the meaning of Section 2(a)or 2(b) of the Firearms Ordinance.
The Asst. Government Analyst Mr. Mendis, gave evidence at thetrial having forwarded his report earlier dated 09.11.79. He statedthat the mechanism of this gun was defective, that a part of it wasmade of “kitul” wood and that in its present state it could not be usedto discharge pellets. His view was that it was a component of a gunwithin the meaning of Section 2(b) of the Firearms Ordinance.
'Gun' for the purposes of the Firearms Ordinance is defined toinclude:
(2) "(a) any barrelled weapon of any description from which anyshot, pellet or other missile can be discharged with sufficient force topenetrate not less than eight strawboards, each of three-sixty-fourthof an inch thickness placed one-half of an inch apart, the first suchstrawboard being at a distance of fifty feet from the muzzle of theweapon, the plane of the strawboards being perpendicular to the lineof fire or
(b) any component part of any such weapon …”
It. was the submission of learned President’s Counse) that thelearned Magistrate should not have accepted the interpretation of theAssistant Government Analyst, as the Ordinance does not requireany component of a gun to be licensed, but only a component of agun which satisfies the requirement of section 2(a). Having defined agun as noted above in section 2(A), it proceeds to refer in section2(b) to a component “of any such weapon." There is merit in thissubmission. However, it is not necessary for me to express a findingon this matter as the case for the prosecution was specifically that theappellant did possess, without licence, a gun within the definition in
section 2(a). The charge had not been amended even after theevidence of the Assistant Government Analyst. In the circumstancesthe prosecution had failed to prove the charge against the accusedappellant and the conviction cannot therefore stand. The conviction isquashed and the sentence is set aside.
Appeal allowed.
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| ERROR: type should be string, got "https://www.lmtonline.com/business/article/Samsung-promises-new-phones-will-deliver-more-for-15870023.php\nSamsung promises new phones will deliver more for less money\nMichael Liedtke, Ap Technology Writer\nSamsung Galaxy S21 smartphones in Phantom Black, Phantom White, Phantom Violet, and Phantom Pink at the Samsung Unpacked product launch event in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. Samsung Electronics Co. Thursday debuted three Galaxy S21 smartphones, upgraded earbuds, and a gadget to track physical items, rivaling Apple Inc.'s 5G iPhone 12 line as well as its own future AirPods and item tracker. Photographer: Nina Westervelt/Bloomberg less\nSamsung Galaxy S21 smartphones in Phantom Black, Phantom White, Phantom Violet, and Phantom Pink at the Samsung Unpacked product launch event in New York, U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. Samsung Electronics ... more\nPhoto: Nina Westervelt, Bloomberg\nSAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Samsung’s next crop of smartphones will boast bigger screens, better cameras, and longer-lasting batteries at lower prices than last year's lineup that came out just before the pandemic toppled the economy.\nThe three Galaxy S21 phones unveiled Thursday at a virtual event will face some of the same challenges in an economy still hobbled by a crisis that has left millions of people unemployed and forced millions of others to do their jobs or attend school from their homes.\nBut this time Samsung has made some pricing adjustments that reflect the hard times.\nAll three phones will be less expensive than last year’s comparable models, with the reductions ranging from 7% to 20%. Part of the price drops stems from the falling cost for making devices compatible with faster 5G wireless networks, but Samsung also is trying to make its devices more affordable to consumers struggling to make ends meet, said Drew Blackard, the South Korean company’s vice president of product management.\n“We are always looking at what is happening in the market and try to be responsive of that,” Blackard said.\nApple also has been offering cheaper versions of the iPhones in recent years, a trend that was amplified last year with the April release of a model selling for $400 and another scaled-down device released last fall that sells for $700 compared to $1,100 for its latest top-of-the-line model\nSamsung quickly learned about how the pandemic might reshape the smartphone market when last year’s Galaxy S20 models hit the stores in the U.S. last March just as lockdowns were shutting down wide swaths of the economy and unemployment rates were soaring to their highest levels since the Great Depression nearly a century ago.\nThe downturn curtailed demand for the Galaxy S20 lineup, contributing to a 29% drop from the previous year in Samsung’s smartphone shipments for the April-June period, according to the research firm International Data Corp. The plunge temporarily knocked Samsung from its perch as the world’s leading seller of smartphones, but the company reclaimed the mantle from China’s Huawei after its shipments rebounded during the July-September period.\nBut the slump prompted Samsung to release a lower cost phone, called the Galaxy S20 FE, in October that wasn’t in the company’s original plans last year, Blackard said. That model sold for $700, down from the $1,000 price that Samsung had set for its lower-priced standard Galaxy S20.\nIn this year’s lineup, the standard Galaxy S21 phone will start at $800, a 20% markdown from last year’s comparable model. The latest Galaxy fine will feature a new design for the camera modules, with more photography options, increased privacy controls and a battery that Samsung promises will last at least a day before it needs to be recharged.\nThe two other phones have slightly bigger screens in addition to a few other bells and whistles not offered on the basic model. The Galaxy S21 Plus will sell for $1,000, a 17% reduction from last year’s comparable model while the Galaxy S21 Ultra will sell for $1,300, down by $100 from last year’s comparable model.\nAnd the Ultra model will become the first Galaxy S phone capable of working with a Samsung pen that will be sold separately to allow users to digitally draw on the display the screen. Previously, Samsung has only designed the pen for its Galaxy Note models that are aimed for buyers who use those devices primarily for getting work done rather than for entertainment and leisure. The standard S Pen costs $40.\nSamsung also announced it is teaming up with Audi, BMW, Ford and Genesis to enable the Galaxy S 21 phones to be used as digital keys that can unlock vehicles made by those automakers. That is something Apple already started to do last with on a more limited basis with BMW. Samsung didn't specify when the the digital car key feature on its new phones will be enabled.\nAll three phones will be available in stores Jan. 29, although they can be preordered beginning Thursday."
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A week on the high street
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced new funding which is being made available to support non-essential retail businesses after Boris Johnson announced that England would be placed back into lockdown for the third time on Monday. Sunak has pledged £4.9bn to the fund, which will see businesses receive up to £9k per store that has been forced to close due to the new restrictions which have been put in place to stem the spread of the new, more infectious variant of Coronavirus.
Discounter Aldi has announced plans to spend £3.5bn on British products over the next five years. It currently prides itself on UK-made products including meat, eggs, milk, butter and cream and hopes to extend this to provide opportunities for hundreds of F&B businesses across the country. UK boss Giles Hurley said in a statement: “We are expecting significant sales growth in 2021 as we open new stores and bring Aldi to more locations across the UK. With the vast majority of our grocery products now coming from British suppliers, our growth will lead to additional jobs and investment in our UK supply chain.”
The Centre for Retail Research has released a report which shows that 177k jobs were lost in the retail sector in 2020 - equating to 3,400 jobs each week. The grim news forecasts another 200k to be lost in the coming year as the impact of the pandemic continues to be felt.
Stationery retailer Paperchase is reported to be close to falling into administration after it suffered huge losses over the Christmas period due to the November lockdown. During the festive period the retailer normally takes 40% of its annual sales. The collapse of the chain would see 145 stores at risk of closure.
Sales across supermarkets surged during the festive season, as non-essential retailers were forced to close stores and consumers headed into supermarkets instead. £11.7bn was spent on food and drink in December according to Kantar – the highest ever figure recorded.
Morrisons has announced that it will be using three of its car parks as drive-thru vaccination hubs in a bid to do its bit to support the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine. Boss David Potts said: “We’ll have three stores operating from Monday January 11 and we have offered up another 47 subject to requirements of the country and the availability of the vaccine.” Alongside this, Tesco and Boots have also confirmed they will support the vaccine rollout, Boots offering up vaccine sites and Tesco the use of its distribution arm Best Food Logistics.
Craft brewer BrewDog is in talks with the government about providing space for vaccination centres across its closed estate of bars and pubs. It has gone further saying that anyone vaccinated in one of its bars would get a special ‘commemorative’ can of beer to take home. Co-founder James Watt tweeted the health secretary and Scottish First Minister to say “We have waiting areas, huge refrigerators, separate rooms for vaccinations and an ace team who can help organise. We want to help.”
Competitive darts venue Flight Club has announced that it will open another venue next year in Bristol to join 4 in London and one in Birmingham and Manchester. The brand also had plans to open a venue in Leeds last year, which was paused due to the pandemic which is expected to take place this year also.
Malmaison will open a new 150 room hotel in York in the spring which will feature a SkyBar alongside a Chez Mal Brasserie & Bar. The hotel will also include an event space and Work+Play meetings rooms, a Starbucks and a gym/spa.
London’s Pidgin restaurant has raised over £60,000 via a crowdfunding campaign led by founders James Ramsden and Sam Herlihy which will help it to survive into 2021 after an incredibly challenging period for the hospitality sector. The independently run restaurant in Hackney which serves a weekly changing menu has been closed since 16th December and missed a critically important festive trading period.
The British Property Federation has called for urgent government action to stop what they call the ‘abuse’ of the CVA process. Chief Executive Melanie Leech claims the process is “cynically used as an excuse by wealthy individuals and private equity backers to shift onto property owners the cost of years of failings and underinvestment”. The BFP has urged the government to put guidelines in place to ensure fairer voting procedures.
Clearbell Property Partners has sold three retail warehouses for £19.4m, located in Christchurch, Bolton and Ellesmere. The warehouses have been sold to M7 Real Estate.
Openings and closures
Health, beauty and lifestyle concept store Linnaean has opened in Battersea to promote health and happiness; Coffee retailer Nespresso is expanding on its boutique concept with a new store at London Bridge station; Fujifilm has launched the House of Photography in Covent Garden, which is designed to be a celebration of picture taking.
A week on the high street - 7th October 2020
retail US giant Walmart has completed the sale of supermarket chain Asda to the Issa brothers for £6.8bn. Co-founders of EG Group Mohsin and Zuber ...
A week on the high street - 15th October 2020
retail Edinburgh Woollen Mill which owns brands including Peacocks, Jaeger, Austin Reed and Jacques Vert among others is on the brink of collapse ...
A week on the high street - 21st October 2020
retail Another 400 jobs are to be axed at food to go brand, Pret as it continues to struggle in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Six shops will ...
A week on the high street - 18th November 2020
retail Supermarket chain Asda posted a like-for-like increase in sales in Q3 as demand for Christmas items spiked early this year. Online sales at ...
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Established for over 30 years, Promed is at the forefront of innovative change in Patient Centred Care in Ireland. Lockside began working with Promed in 2007 and have worked with their marketing team to help them produce their catalogs as quickly an efficiently as possible. Catalogs are never easy but in the medical world attention to detail is critical and data accuracy is essential.
Despite a new e-commerce site where practitioners can search and browse for products, Promed recognises the importance of catalogs. For many years Promed successfully used a system written in-house but needed to shorten the production cycle and reduce the work involved. Their search for a new system narrowed to two companies that matched the required features and budget. Lockside’s Catalog’nTime was selected because it delivers flexibility and a high level of automation. They were particularly impressed both by the support for high level typography and design and the sophisticated table building and styling.
Most forward-looking companies want to be able to use the same content for web and catalogue. Promed wanted this and more. They already had a studio and were used to a digital workflow. For that reason the implementation was particularly fast with the first catalogue starting within days of the contract being signed. The software was installed and populated inside two days, ready for training to start.
The productivity has exceeded expectations and is in line with Lockside’s claim to do the job in half the time. Lockside kept their pledge of providing total support ensuring that everything was on track and that catalogs went out on time.
Lockside Software
Lockside Software is a private limited company registered in the United Kingdom under company number 3035590. Lockside is registered for VAT under GB 641 8262 42. Lockside is a software developer established in 1995.
info@locksidesoftware.com
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Sanalla discusses Investment Opportunities with leading IOCs
By editor2 on 5th July 2018 in Oil & Gas
As part of the inaugural Libyan-European oil and gas summit held in Vienna last week, Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) chairman Mustafa Sanalla met with representatives from leading oil and gas companies.
He was accompanied by NOC Board member Abulgasem Shengheer, and the heads and specialists of a number of NOC affiliated companies. Individual meetings were conducted with OMV, Schlumberger, BP, Repsol, Metka, Medco and Gazprom.
Mr. Sanalla spoke of the exceptional investment opportunities currently in the Libyan oil and gas sector, and received service offering presentations from assembled IOCs. Each company explained their portfolio of operations and ideal future partnership cooperation.
The NOC chairman confirmed that international companies are welcome to contribute to the restoration of oil field and port infrastructure, and to establish development projects in accordance with existing legal frameworks and fair competition practice. He emphasised the importance of knowledge exchange and best practice to enable NOC to realise its stated ambition of increasing production to more than 2 million bpd by 2022.
Mr. Sanalla underlined international community recognition of NOC as the sole legitimate Libyan NOC, and the importance of the respect for both international and Libyan law. Any illegitimate parallel institution that seeks to divide the Libyan oil and gas sector must be condemned.
He expressed his hope for a swift resolution of the current standoff in the Gulf of Sirte, and for NOC to be allowed, unconstrained, to continue its role supporting the livelihoods of the Libyan people. The assembled IOCs expressed their commitment and support to NOC as the only legitimate Libyan institution responsible for the exploration, development and sale of Libyan oil.
Statement by African Union Commission on Libya
Sirte Rapid City Profiling and Monitoring System
Tags: Austria, BP, featured, Gazprom, Investment opportunities, Medco, METKA, OMV, Repsol, Schlumberger
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Archive -Mar 2014
Zap your zits
By Deepak Acharya
Pulverise your pimples into extinction with a panoply of herbal easy to source ingredients, says Dr Deepak Acharya
Acne may not rank as a life-threatening disease, but for almost all teenagers, it constitutes a major tragedy. At a time when self-esteem is most intimately tied with one’s appearance, along comes the acne to rain upon our parade. But there is hope. There exist a plethora of herbal options which safely, naturally and effectively eliminate that spoilsport, and restore our complexion.
Acne starts with the over-production of sebum from the sebaceous glands which results in the blockage of the pores with a sticky mass of dead cells and oil. It results in infection that occurs due to bacteria normally present in the skin. These convert the mass into compounds that cause inflammation and unattractive raised surfaces. Skin irritation may also result from the use of synthetic cosmetics. The problem worsens by pinching, squeezing, scratching or rubbing the affected skin area.
Common triggers
One of the most common causes is hormonal imbalance that occurs during adolescence. Other factors are emotional stress and surging sex hormones. During puberty, androgen (a sex hormone), stimulates the oil glands typically seen on the face, chest, back and shoulders. Many girls are prone to acne during the week before menstruation.
The prime suspects are sugars, saturated fat and iodised salt (liberally used on crisps, chips, and other fast food). A diet based on junk food, snacks, chocolates, soft drinks, and alcohol is low in several vital nutrients. Deficiency of these nutrients may result in eruption of acne.
Eat well to beat acne
A nutritious diet eaten at regular meal times is essential as this plays a big role in preventing and treating acne. It is not just a matter of what you eat, but more about what you do not eat.
Many acne sufferers are deficient in zinc. Nuts, yoghurt, skimmed milk and skinless poultry can supplement this mineral in the diet.
A diet rich in polyunsaturated fats has been known to counteract the problem in people suffering from acne.
People with acne should eat plenty of green and orange vegetables and fruits (carrots, spinach, apricots, and mangoes), and eggs. These are a good source of Vitamin A which helps to maintain healthy skin.
Several of the B complex group of vitamins is believed to prevent blackheads and acne. It also helps in oil control. A diet rich in Vitamin C helps to combat infections. Vitamin E has a healing effect on the skin. It is found in wheat germ, eggs and cold-pressed vegetable oils.
There are several herbal remedies available for curing acne. Take your pick:
Rub your acne with raw garlic several times a day.
The pulp of aloe vera is an exceptional skin cleanser. The juice of the plant counteracts infections and promotes healing. Tear off a portion of the aloe vera leaf and rub the fleshy portion directly on the skin.
Make a tea infusion from amaranth seeds, and use as a face wash. To make the tea bring three cups of water to boil, add two teaspoons of seeds. Cover and boil for five minutes; remove from heat and add one teaspoon of leaves and steep for
30 minutes.
Neem is valued in ayurvedic medicine for its varied healing properties due to its anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, and anti-viral capabilities. Five fresh leaves chewed everyday in the morning helps in removing stubborn acne.
Clean your skin, and apply lemon juice with a cotton ball. The acid in lemon helps flush out the pores and keeps the skin glowing. Another method using lemon juice is to steam your face over boiling water infused with lemon to loosen the dirt and oil from the pores. Wipe the face with a cotton ball. Make this a weekly ritual.
Drink tea made by combining 0.5 teaspoons of coriander, cumin and fennel, and steeping it in boiling water for 10 minutes. Strain and drink the tea after breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Make an infusion of basil leaves. Put two to four teaspoons of dried basil leaves in a cup of boiling water, steep for 10 to 20 minutes, cool, and apply to the acne.
Liquidise a peeled cucumber in a blender and apply the juice to the acne. Another variation of this remedy is to drink four or five cups of cucumber juice daily for a week. This is said to purify the blood and lymphatic system, resulting in a clear skin.
Grape seed extract is a powerful all-around antimicrobial agent, and is an excellent disinfectant. Make a solution of 4-40 drops in four ounces of water and apply to the affected areas with a cotton ball two or three times a day.
Wash your face with chickpea paste (mix one teaspoon of chick-pea flour with a little water). Dry with a clean towel. This is also a good remedy to cure acne.
Make a blend of one part beetroot juice, three parts carrot juice and two parts water to stimulate the liver and to cleanse the system.
First of all, get rid of associated infections such as skin irritants and dandruff. Keep your hands off your face as squeezing the acne will worsen it, and spread to the other areas of skin. It also leaves ugly marks even after it is healed. Minimise consumption of coffee, tea and soft drinks as the caffeine content is harmful to the skin. Cut down consumption of chocolates, fried food, salted snacks and added sugar. Yoga, meditation and exercise are great for a healthy body and healthy mind.
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Serving voters in Virginia's Historic Triangle
Empowering Voters. Defending Democracy.
Facts for Voters
State League Issues Groups
December 2, 2020 December 2, 2020 Mary
Do you know how the League of Women Voters works to shape and direct state law and policy? Issues Groups are the basis for League lobbying. Groups lobby from a position on an issue and stay on top of changes in the issue of interest.
Are you interested in any of these issues? Join the group if you are committed to learning deeply and applying that knowledge to the 2021 General Assembly. Learn to contact state representatives with experienced League members.
All meetings are virtual as these are state-wide groups.
Contact Joan Porte to get involved: FirstVP@lwv-va.org
Affordable Housing, chaired by Alice Tousignant, meets third Wednesday of the month at noon.
Behavioral Health meets third Tuesday of the month at 6:30pm.
Campaign Finance, chaired by Janet Boyd, meets second Wednesday at 2pm.
Child Care, just forming, will meet monthly on third Wednesday at 1pm.
DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion), chaired by Doris Bey, meets the second Tuesday of the month at 2pm.
Domestic Violence, still forming, contact Joan Porte for more information.
Education, meets second Friday at 1pm.
Election Security, chaired by Lisa Koteen Gerchick, meets third Thursday at 1pm.
Environment, chaired by Monica Florio and Carolyn Caywood, meets fourth Monday at 7pm.
GVP (Gun Violence Prevention), chaired by Christine Payne and Ruth Huffman, meets the second Monday of the month at 7:30pm.
Justice, chaired by Kit Murphy McNally, meets third Friday of the month at 11am.
Redistricting, chaired by Chris De Rosa, meets every Thursday at 2:45pm beginning December 3.
Transportation, meets third Wednesday of the month at 5pm.
Voter Access, chaired by Pam Berg and Don Craig, meets third Friday of the month at 1pm.
Advocacy Challenge 2021!
November 30, 2020 November 30, 2020 Mary
The new Advocacy Challenge is out, and your Local League could win! The challenge starts now. This friendly competition measures advocacy, proportionate to the size of your Local League. Winners will be notified at Convention in 2021.
The Virginia General Assembly is already filing bills for the Jan 13, 2021 General Session. Here is how you can prepare:
1. Find your state legislators. Click here: whosmy.virginiageneralassembly.gov and enter your address in the box. Contact info for your state (not U.S.) senator and delegate will appear at the end of the page. Save it or write it down.
2. Attend a town hall and ask your legislator if they will support priority issues. Visit the Virginia Town Halls tracker here: bit.ly/VATownHalls
If your legislator is not holding a Town Hall, call or write to them.
Reminder: when advocating, we speak as individuals. Only the president speaks on behalf of the League.
3. Look at our current top priorities and talking points; click here. Summary:
Help people access voting: make permanent the temporary legislation that allowed:
-> Convenient drop off of absentee ballots
-> Removing witness requirement for absentee ballots
-> Letting absentee voters correct procedural errors
State level pre-clearance of practices restricted under the federal Voting Rights Act
100% Right to Vote Constitutional Amendment — protecting the right to vote so it is not taken away upon incarceration
National Popular Vote
More Broadband Coverage
4. Log your action! Each time you contact your state delegate and senator, go here to log your action. Bookmark the new link, bit.ly/LWVVAChallenge
It’s time to contact your elected representatives! Start with Step 1 above.
Learn about the upcoming General Assembly session
LWV-VA Women’s Legislative Pre-Session
Virtual & FREE in 2020
Every year in December, the League of Women Voters of Virginia sponsors a Pre-Session Women’s Legislative Roundtable before the next Virginia General Assembly Session. Directors and policy and advocacy experts from many nonprofit organizations speak about their priority issues and legislation, and give their predictions on what may or may not happen during the next Session–generally 15 to 20 speakers who each speak for 5 to 7 minutes.
This year, the LWV-VA Pre-Session will be held virtually on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., with a lunch break scheduled around noon. Even if you cannot attend the entire session, please register. There is NO COST.
This year’s keynote speaker is Brian Koziol, Director of the Virginia Housing Alliance, who will speak at 11:30 a.m. VERY timely since local Leagues just held our affordable housing consensus meetings!
In addition to the keynote presentation, the morning program will include:
LWV-VA President Deb Wake and LWV-VA Advocacy Chair Julie Turner discussing the League’s upcoming legislative priorities.
Commissioner of Elections Chris Piper sharing his observations on the 2020 election.
Virginia Secretary of Finance Aubrey Lane presenting his insights on the the challenges Governor Northam’s administration faces.
Click here to register for Pre-Session.
What does Virginia’s redistricting amendment change?
August 14, 2020 August 14, 2020 Mary
The Status Quo:
Districts drawn by the General Assembly
Zero requirements for transparency or public engagement
Redistricting occurs the year following the Census, but the General Assembly can also choose to redistrict mid-decade
Map drawing criteria
SB717 & the current constitution: contiguous, compactness, equal population requirement, preservation of communities of interest, prohibits partisan and racial gerrymandering
Fallback mechanism
The Supreme Court of Virginia would adjudicate maps if a case is filed claiming districts are gerrymandered. If the court rules new districts must be drawn, the General Assembly continues to be in charge of redistricting
Result: gerrymandering
Commission Amendment:
Districts drawn by a bipartisan-balanced commission with 8 citizens and 8 legislators who must agree on maps by a super majority vote
Transparency mandated through public meetings, hearings, and data
Redistricting occurs the year following the Census and mid-decade redistricting is functionally impossible
Same criteria as the Status Quo + amended constitution: adding historic civil rights protections for racial and ethnic minorities in the Virginia Constitution
If the commission can’t agree, the Virginia Supreme Court intervenes and will appoint a “Special Master” to redraw districts according to criteria above
Result: a historic improvement
Enabling Legislation:
Districts drawn by amendment’s commission with added requirements from SB203 mandating diversity and restricting previous or active Party employees
Additional transparency through the Freedom of Information Act, open commission application process and public participation in the Court’s redistricting deliberations
Same timing of redistricting as the Amendment
Same criteria as the Amendment
If the commission can’t agree, the Court must appoint two Special Masters, allow public participation, and justices who are related to members of the General Assembly must recuse themselves
Result: additional safeguards
What’s on the Virginia ballot about redistricting
August 13, 2020 November 30, 2020 Mary
We believe that amending the constitution is the only way to clarify a partisan legislature’s role in redistricting. The current method for drawing new districts (which happens every ten years after a census) is outlined inArticle II, Section 6 of the current Virginia Constitution: “electoral districts (are) established by the General Assembly.” However, there are many limitations of the current system.
Read about the
Virginia Redistricting Amendment
on Ballotpedia
This ballot initiative on the November 2020 ballot would amend this Article of the Constitution of Virginia to take the sole power away from the legislature, which usually (because of political party majorities) has an incentive to redraw the lines in favor of one political party or the other. Here’s what the ballot measure says:
Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to establish a redistricting commission, consisting of eight members of the General Assembly and eight citizens of the Commonwealth, that is responsible for drawing the congressional and state legislative districts that will be subsequently voted on, but not changed by, the General Assembly and enacted without the Governor’s involvement and to give the responsibility of drawing districts to the Supreme Court of Virginia if the redistricting commission fails to draw districts or the General Assembly fails to enact districts by certain deadlines?
The Senate of Virginia unanimously approved a simplified explanation for voters that need extra guidance. It reads:
A “yes” vote supports transferring the power to draw the state’s congressional and legislative districts from the state legislature to a redistricting commission composed of state legislators and citizens.
A “no” vote opposes transferring the power to draw the state’s congressional and legislative districts to a redistricting commission, thus keeping the state legislature responsible for redistricting.
In other words, if the amendment fails, Virginia’s unfair redistricting laws remain in place. Politicians will continue to have free rein to pick their voters behind closed doors, regardless of which party is in charge. Nothing will be in place to legally require them to change the status quo in 2021.
Print off this postcard and mail it to everyone you know in Virginia!
Get excited! There’s a Redistricting Amendment on the Virginia ballot November 3
August 13, 2020 January 4, 2021 Mary
Reporting from the Virginia Pilot
Get excited – there’s a big change coming to Virginia politics, and you can be a part of it when you vote this fall. Along with all the famous people on the ballot this fall, there is a new Virginia constitutional amendment for the state’s voters to consider. Two consecutive General Assemblies (first with a Republican majority, second with a Democrat majority) voted to approve this Virginia amendment, and final step to ratify is approval by a majority of voters.
Study the wording of the amendment before you start to vote your ballot this fall – like all constitutional amendments, the language isn’t necessarily easy to read, but you can spend some time with it beforehand so you’re prepared.
Based on how both parties in Virginia have reacted to this amendment, at different times, it doesn’t favor either Democrats or Republicans – it is designed to be a brake on the runaway power of either party. It’s an opportunity for voters to cast a vote not for either party but for a system that prevents either party from making all the rules about who gets to be a representative in Richmond.
What the ballot will say:
Our state has a history of highly partisan districts where legislators run unopposed for years or win over and over in non-competitive races. These districts happen because they are drawn when one party or the other is in power in the state legislature, and they want to preserve their power to keep getting more easy seats for their party. The redistricting amendment is a good faith effort by legislators to limit partisan gerrymandering. It means that future General Assemblies in Richmond will have less power to create voting districts that overwhelmingly favor one party or another; instead, it promotes creating more competitive election districts which limit extreme partisanship.
A “no” vote opposes transferring the power to draw the state’s congressional and legislative districts to a redistricting commission, thus keeping the state legislature responsible for redistricting
For more information, check out the advocacy of One Virginia 2021 and Fair Maps VA. You can print off this postcard in support of this amendment and send it to your friends anywhere in Virginia. Look at interactive maps of the current districts to get an idea of what is there now. Study the wording of the amendment before you start to vote your ballot this fall – like all constitutional amendments, the language isn’t necessarily easy to read, but you can spend some time with it beforehand so you’re prepared.
Civics 101: The FIGHT for VOTING RIGHTS IN AMERICA: Past, Present & Future
July 9, 2020 August 10, 2020 Mary
CIVICS 101 webinar #2
Tuesday, July 21 at 4 p.m.
A good way to catch up on the context for Virginia’s changes to election laws and rules coming for the November election.
For LWV members & the public; please pass this on to friends or organizations that may be interested
How did voting rights in our Constitution evolve since 1787?
What did our Founding Fathers envision about voting?
What is the history of the power of voting in America?
This second Civics 101 webinar from the Williamsburg Area League of Women Voters, co-sponsored with the Williamsburg Regional Library, will answer these questions, review the effects of Jim Crow laws and prepare voters for the recent changes in election laws in Virginia.
Save this LINK to join the webinar at 4 pm on Tuesday, July 21.
The Williamsburg Area League of Women Voters is developing these CIVICS 101 webinars to fill the void as the pandemic has upended learning in schools across the United States and prevented the League from holding meetings. Thank you, Williamsburg Regional Library, for suggesting the concept!
Voting in Virginia
June 9, 2020 September 19, 2020 Mary
If everything goes right, voting is quick and easy – but there are laws, regulations, and election quirks that can mess you up. This includes some COVID-19 specific information, like what to put as your absentee vote by mail reason on the paperwork to request an absentee ballot.
You can check your personal voter status at elections.virginia.gov, and request an absentee ballot to be mailed to you.
Pocket Guide for Voters: Page 1
League Advocacy Challenge
January 4, 2020 July 9, 2020 Mary
Try for the prize! In the right sidebar on our website, you will see the Advocacy Challenge link. This advocacy challenge is active during 2020 Virginia General Assembly session, which ends in April 2020.
League members use this form to “log their advocacy” every time they’ve had a meeting, called a state legislator, tabled for their issue, or written a letter to the editor. The Local League that logs the most contacts with their lawmakers on the Advocacy Challenge form will win a $650 cash prize at Council in 2020. There are lesser prizes for second and third place, too. Every Local League president I’ve spoken with is hoping their League will win.
Friendly competition makes it fun.
Click the link to report in and get counted for the Challenge.
Every League has the ability to win, because we weight the results by the membership size of the League. A big League won’t automatically beat a small League.
When we send emailed Action Alerts, the software we use automatically counts your emails to lawmakers, so you won’t need to log your action for those.
After League Day, we will also want people to submit “after action reports” on their League Day meetings. Those are at the link Submit Meeting Notes.
Redistricting Update: We’re Not There Yet
January 1, 2020 January 1, 2020 Mary
by Phoebe Kent, Voter editor
Quoted material below from Jackie Rivas, LWV Arlington (from October 2019 Virginia Voter)
“Virginia has an historic opportunity that we can’t let slip away. In the 2019 General Assembly, our legislators passed House Joint Resolution No. 615. HJR 615 is a constitutional amendment to create a citizen-led redistricting commission to draw the voting districts for the U.S. House of Representatives, and the Senate and the House of Delegates of the Virginia General Assembly in 2021, after the 2020 Census. This citizen-led redistricting commission would drag the map-drawing out of the smoke-filled back rooms of Richmond and expose it to the cleansing rays of the sun.”
Eight commissioners will be citizen members appointed by retired circuit court judges; two Delegates and two Senators from each party constitute the other eight. Meetings of the commission will be open to the public. It will hold public hearings across the Commonwealth to receive and consider citizen comments. Its records and documents will be considered public information.
The General Assembly passed the amendment to establish the commission 2019; we had an election on November 5, and now the amendment must be passed – verbatim, with nary a comma change – a second time by the General Assembly in 2020. The League and OneVirginia2021 hope to ensure that that happens. The amendment would be on the ballot on November 3, 2020. A separate enabling bill must also pass that determines how district lines will be drawn that specifically prohibits favoring or disfavoring a party or individual; that keeps intact communities of interest; compactness; other implementation requirements.
After census data is collected in 2020, it will be released in 2021 and redistricting will occur. We are hopeful that a fairer process – a redistricting commission – will be in place by then for drawing legislative districts. Make sure your representatives know that you want this to happen.
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Apple Redesigns Mac App Store with iOS-like Editorial Focus, New Product Pages, and More
During the WWDC keynote today, Apple announced a redesigned Mac App Store, elements of which leaked this past Saturday in a 30-second Mac App Store preview video for Xcode 10.1 The video was discovered by Steve Troughton-Smith:
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Xcode 10 on macOS 10.14. Dark Appearance, Apple News, App Store w/ video previews pic.twitter.com/rJlDy81W4W
— Steve Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith) June 2, 2018
Unlike the iOS App Store, the Mac App Store has never included preview videos, which indicated additional Mac App Store improvements were likely.
Those suspicions were confirmed during the keynote this morning when Apple revealed an ambitious redesign of the Mac App Store. The update takes several cues from the iOS App Store, implementing lessons learned from that store’s successful update in iOS 11.
The redesign of the upcoming Mac App Store includes functionality similar in many respects to the iOS App Store. The app is divided into several new sections in a panel along the left side of the window including:
The Discover section is where most of the new editorial content will be found along with top charts. The Create, Work, Play, and Develop sections will feature collections, tips, and app recommendations themed to correspond with each section.
The video previews are part of new product pages that focus on screenshots and videos to showcase each app. Like the iOS App Store, the new Mac App Store will include information about whether an app is charting, whether it’s been picked by Apple as an Editor’s Choice, and more prominent ratings.
As the changes announced implicitly acknowledge though, the problems with the Mac App Store run deeper than its design. The Mac App Store has suffered since its inception from editorial neglect, a lack of feature parity with its iOS counterpart, the lack of access to TestFlight beta testing, and restrictive sandboxing that has made selling outside the store more attractive to many developers.
With the update to the Mac App Store in the fall, Apple is addressing some of those issues including sandboxing restrictions. According to Panic, which is bringing Transmit back to the Mac App Store and is sponsoring MacStories’ WWDC coverage this week:
🧞♂️ So! Transmit 5 in the Mac App Store, coming later this year. Why?
• Coming improvements to sandboxing finally let us offer _all_ Transmit 5 features in the App Store version.
• The new, redesigned Mac App Store is a store we’d like to be in.
But there’s a little twist!
— Panic Inc (@panic) June 4, 2018
Those sandboxing changes, along with the redesigned store and other changes have attracted several apps that have never been on the Mac App Store or previously left the Mac App Store including:
Microsoft’s Office 365
Adobe’s Lightroom CC
Panic’s Transmit
Bare Bones’ BBEdit
Snap’s Live Studio
The changes to the Mac App Store previewed by Apple today are encouraging, especially given the success the iOS App Store has enjoyed since iOS 11’s release. Still, the update needs to be successfully executed by Apple and accepted by Mac developers, many of whom have lost faith in its viability. Apple seems to understand the success of the Mac App Store is dependent on both, which is why today’s presentation included the announcement that well-known apps from big corporations and independent developers are participating in the redesigned store this fall. Only time will tell whether the changes announced today will be enough to revitalize the Mac App Store.
You can also follow all of our WWDC coverage through our WWDC 2018 hub, or subscribe to the dedicated WWDC 2018 RSS feed.
The short video, which leaked via the iTunes Search API, also revealed a system-wide macOS dark mode and an Apple News app, which are discussed in detail elsewhere in our WWDC coverage. ↩︎
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What The Papers Say, Newcastle United Transfer Rumours
January 23 05:59 2008 by shearyadi Print This Article
Spanish radio said today, Newcastle United is the latest club who is linked with Baptista, while Sven Goran Eriksson and Martin O’ Neill are also interested to bring the Brazilian powerhouse back to the Premiership.
Dubbed as ‘The Beast’ by the Sevilla supporters, the 26-year-old Julio Baptista is known for his bewildered style with deft ball skills, muscular and more direct approach to the game.
Began his professional career in 2000 as a defensive midfielder with São Paulo F.C. Julio Cesar Baptista being transfered on August 6, 2003 to Sevilla FC in a fee of just £1.75 million, now he is rated at £8m and currently playing with the Spanish giant Real Madrid.
Julio was first being linked to have reunion with his former Sevilla manager, now in Tottenham Juande Ramos, with a £5m swoop last November. Meanwhile, Real Madrid coach Bernd Schuster, is likely to hold the Brazilian international and Julio has told the Spanish media last week that he wants to stay because he feels appreciated in Madrid.
Other speculation come from the Daily Mirror who says Keegan is ready to bid £7m for West Ham’s Dean Ashton, Liverpool defender John Arne Riise with a £6.5m offer and also Chelsea’s left-back Wayne Bridge.
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Mammoth Real Estate Q & A “Legal Non-Conforming” and The Rules of Engagement
Home/ Blog / Question and Answer/ Mammoth Real Estate Q & A “Legal Non-Conforming” and The Rules of Engagement
This Q & A was written for the Memorial Day Weekend 2016 issue of The Sheet.
Q: Our Mammoth real estate agent told us that a Town building official recently stated that “grandfathered” condos from the 1960’s and 70’s may soon be challenged, especially for their capacity on nightly rental programs. That is unnerving to us because we own such a unit and depend on the rental income. What is your take?
A: I was at that well attended meeting and was taking notes. A couple of the public officials were less than tactful (my opinion) in their presentations. But in this era of election absurdity this may be the new expectation. The meeting topic was centered around the new inspections derived from the Quality of Life ordinance (QOL) that was passed last fall. And more specifically the numerous compromised lofts that are so prolific in Mammoth.
The QOL requires transient rental properties (mostly condos) to be inspected prior to the issuance of business license. The official form is basically a punch list of health and safety items; from informational postings to fire extinguishers to leaky faucets, etc.. Item 12.M. pertaining to lofts is the big concern for the local real estate community. That item distinctly addresses “code compliant” head clearance, stairs and emergency escape routes or “rescue windows.” Lofts without this compliance are deemed “not intended for sleeping purposes.”
The problem is that there are hundreds of Mammoth condos that don’t (and can’t) meet this compliance. Most of these properties were built in the 1970’s and include many of the lofted units in the early phases of Snowcreek. The primary problem for many of these properties is the lack of a rescue window. It just wasn’t part of the original design. And there really is no way to add the required window to the property.
But this meeting left some real uncertainty for the real estate community and potentially affected owners here in Mammoth. But first we need a little history lesson. Mammoth Lakes voted for and was officially incorporated in 1984. The Mono County building records prior to that time are effectively non-existent.
I know it is hard for some to believe, but that is fact. Mono County in the 1960’s and 70’s was a sparsely populated county lacking funding and sophistication and could easily be described as “good ‘ol boy” in the way it operated. When I started in real estate 30 years ago the property deeds were hand-recorded in giant books in the main vault of the Bridgeport courthouse.
Because there are no building records (plans, engineering, permits, minutes of meetings, etc.) these properties have always been considered to be legal non-conforming or “grandfathered.” The approvals by the lead agencies all the way to the finale building permits and certificates of occupancy are basically implied. These properties have been used, appraised, financed, taxed, rented, etc. for decades. Yes, if the properties undergo substantial remodels then many of the non-compliant issues will need to be addressed. But some items simply can’t be.
So the uncertainty left at this recent meeting was what the future will hold for these affected properties. The current “exception” to the rescue window is a “common wall open to the room below.” Many of legal non-conforming condos have this common wall or opening (basically somebody could jump out of the loft and land on the lower floor). But the officials indicated that this exception could go away or have future requirements like an additional fire ladder from the loft. One local Realtor asked “What do we tell our buyers?”
What struck me was when the fire chief called the new inspection requirements “The Rules of Engagement.” Wow. Isn’t that a military term for determining actions against the enemy? So the owners of Mammoth condos with non-conforming lofts have become the enemy? That will give them a special feeling when they pay their property taxes.
Even worse was the new building official’s comment “Grandfathered items don’t have immunity if they didn’t conform (back) then.” He even went on to say he “may be throwing the county under the bus.” Wow times two. None of this makes any sense to me. He even used to work for the County and knows there are no records. How can anything be proved or dis-proved? Don’t we still live in a country where we are innocent until proven guilty? And almost all of the players from that era are deceased. Or are so old they aren’t credible witnesses.
But this threat to the legal non-conforming status of properties in Mammoth Lakes is unquestionably “unnerving” to any thinking real estate owner or broker. There would be litigation all around. There would be provable damages in this era of lucrative vacation rentals. And the Town has had such great success with lawsuits that some aspiring attorney would assuredly summon a class action suit. This grandfathered properties are just part of the Mammoth legacy.
There is some legal precedent for overturning these non-conforming uses. The driver would be true “health and safety” concerns. And this local issue is clearly a health and safety concern. But where is the evidence that these non-conforming lofts have been a problem in the past?
More history; Mammoth had a series of fires originating from the fireplace insert retrofits required in the 1990 ordinance. So now we have a new ordinance that requires safer installations and retrofits. This is costing many property owners thousands of dollars. But the end result should be fewer fires and less chance of human disaster. And Mammoth went through this process with propane meters and supply lines after lives were actually lost.
The public safety officials will argue that closing these lofts to sleeping areas reduces the risk of human disaster. That is their job. But how far do we go? It all becomes part of the “nanny state” argument. Let’s face it, far more people have been seriously injured or died on the ski runs than in any non-conforming lofts. Are we going to outlaw skiing now?
There are more unanswered questions with these older lofts. Some have limited headroom or main beams that don’t clear seven feet of clearance (I’ve bumped my head on a many of these over the years, maybe that is my problem). Today, these types of lofts are often utilized just by kids. But the “Rules of Engagement” say no. So are we going to allow variances? Will we require signs that state “Only people under 5’6” can occupy the loft.” Again, these lofts have been occupied for decades by transient renters.
The “Rules of Engagement” also state “Lofts that don’t meet these code standards shall be posted with a sign that the space is not intended for sleeping purposes.” So does that mean that the sign can be posted but the beds can be made and ready? And it is at the discretion of the renter to violate the ordinance? After all, Mammoth has become infamous for having ordinances that aren’t enforced.
So meanwhile we’ll just have to live with the uncertainty of what the bureaucrats may decide. Sounds like the “Affordable” Care Act.
But this subject gets me thinking. What if an owner’s loft is now redlined as a legal sleeping area? Maybe a little redesign could preserve the full rentability of the property. Traditional living rooms in these rental condos have increasingly moved away from being a “sleeping area.” Yes, for decades there was the classic sleeper sofa with linens in the living room. But over time many Mammoth owners and renters have come to reject this as a viable sleeping alternative. That may change again.
Maybe these “illegal” lofts need to become entertainment areas with large screen TVs and game consoles and comfy chairs. People are still likely to pass out in the loft, but it won’t be a designated sleeping area. Alternatively, there has been an evolution in quality of sleeper sofas and other well designed living room furniture that truly accommodates a good night sleep. Yes, there is a privacy issue, but these lofts aren’t that private to begin with. And isn’t this the new sharing economy? If these lofts are somehow restricted then owners will just have to get creative. I see plenty of creativity coming…
And if the Town begins to arbitrarily claim some of the long standing legal non-conforming items in town as illegal then there will be chaos (and the attorneys will be the true beneficiaries). This is the first time I have ever heard a Town official want to head in this direction. Are owners of legal non-conforming properties now being considered guilty of something? It sounds like that is the intent. But there is no evidence of what happened. And the military/enemy connotation doesn’t help.
But if the Town wants to go in this direction I have a few legal non-conforming things I would like to see rectified. The streets in the Sierra Valley Sites (aka Ghetto) are a serious public safety concern (and potential disaster). They are far too narrow without clear sight lines. They are grossly substandard. They certainly aren’t adequate for fire trucks.
These streets are frequented by pedestrians and kids on bikes. Even with slow drivers it is dangerous. And the Town itself built high-density deed-restricted housing on these streets without any serious consideration to this public safety issue.
The Town will be compelled to go in there with eminent domain and bring these streets to modern standards; wide, straight, bury the utilities, etc. And sidewalks would be nice (better start applying for those grant dollars).
And there are plenty of streets in Old Mammoth that fall into the same category. And what are we going to do with all of the cul-de-sacs in town? They are a public works nightmare and don’t conform to the newer code.
The building that the Town offices occupy was built pre-incorporation. I walked through it recently and it doesn’t appear to be ADA compliant. And I’m sure there are host of other legal non-conforming issues that could be considered serious public safety concerns.
And what about Mammoth High School?….
If all of the legal non-conforming issues in Mammoth are somehow now going to be considered illegal, then there will be upheaval in so many directions. The private sector can’t just go and build new structures like the Main St. fire station. The Town and school district will certainly be seeking new taxes and bonds. The attorneys will salivate. And on and on.
Sounds like we’re headed in a wonderful new direction.
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Director, Cardiology Urgent Care; Medical Director, Paul Dudley White Associates; Associate CV Fellowship Program Director
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About Danita Sanborn, MD
Dr. Danita Sanborn is a clinical cardiologist and a specialist in Echocardiography. She also serves as the Medical Director of the Paul Dudley White Associates Cardiology Fellows' Practice.
Dr. Sanborn received her MD degree from the University of Iowa College of Medicine. She completed residency training in Internal Medicine and fellowship training in Cardiovascular Disease with an advanced fellowship in Echocardiography at Massachusetts General Hospital. She then joined the faculty in the Cardiology Division at MGH and Harvard Medical School. During her fellowship, she also completed Harvard Medical School's Scholars in Clinical Science Program and earned a Masters of Medical Science Degree from HMS. She holds board certifications in Cardiovascular Disease from the ABIM as well as Comprehensive Certification in Echocardiography from the NBE. She is a fellow of both the American College of Cardiology and the American Society of Echocardiography.
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Dr. Sanborn's research interests include defining and refining the role of echocardiography as a tool to better understand uncommon cardiomyopathies including Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy (ARVC) and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. She managed the Echo Core Lab for the North American Multidisciplinary Study of ARVC and participated with a group of experts who proposed Modifications of the original Task Force Criteria for the diagnosis of ARVC, published in 2010. She has also used her expertise in echocardiography to collaborate with colleagues at MGH to study echocardiographic predictors of atrial fibrillation in cryptogenic stroke and the genetic basis of cardiovascular diseases including atrial fibrillation and cardiomyopathy.
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New developments in release agent technologies
11 November 2006 | Ian Snowdon and Mike Rigby
Figure 1. Sprayable SPMRAs can be applied faster than a paste wax, give an instant high gloss (even on black gel-coat) without the need for polishing, and give multiple releases.
Release agent being wipe-applied to a carbon/epoxy composite mould. The release agent in this case is Marbocote TRE 45ECO, an aerospace-approved solvent-based SPMRA.
Carbon/epoxy composite mould with release agent (Marbocote Spraycote) being spray applied.
Figure 2. Illustration of the wetting of Marbocote W1151B release agent onto a carbon/epoxy tool.
To a composite moulder, the choice of release agent is simple; they want one ‘that works, cheaply.’ However, there are many release agent properties that are either inherently expected or desired when making this choice.
For a composite moulder, the ideal release agent should:
be non-toxic and safe to use – ideally a water-based system;
be quick and easy to apply to any mould configuration – i.e. a one-component system with a low viscosity;
form a complete and uniform film on the mould surface;
dry or solidify quickly to minimise production down time;
produce a film thin enough to preserve all mould detail, prevent rapid release agent build-up on the mould and maintain part geometry;
be insoluble in the polymer being moulded and withstand polymer processing conditions (eg. temperature, pressure, shear and other abrasive forces), i.e. remain at the polymer/mould interface;
be chemically inert and possess a surface energy lower than the resin or polymer being moulded i.e. give easy release to a wide range of polymeric materials (generally, the lower the surface energy of the release film, the easier the release);
have a low coefficient of friction to facilitate easy release from deep or complex moulds;
keep the mould clean for as long as possible, i.e. prevent resin build-up on the mould;
give a controlled release, i.e. prevent pre-release and ‘fish-eyes’;
give no transfer to the moulded surface;
have a long shelf life (>6 months) and not require mixing before use; and
be low cost, i.e. give the lowest cost per part.
Unfortunately, many of the above properties are only found at the expense of another, eg. a fast drying product is difficult to achieve in a water-based system. This paper discusses many of the issues that face composite moulders and how the release agent manufacturer has tried to solve them.
Historically, the most common types of release agents have been naturally occurring waxes and greases. Even today, wax remains the most common form of release agent and one that everyone is familiar with.
The majority of these products are based on either carnauba or bees wax. Sold in either paste or liquid form, they are relatively safe and easy to use. Their main disadvantage, as anyone who has used them will testify, is that they are very slow and laborious to apply. In addition, they typically only last for one or two releases before they have to be re-applied, and being wax based means they are not suitable for warm or hot moulding processes.
This type of release agent is often described as a sacrificial release agent; these are products that have to be applied every moulding cycle and release by cohesive failure, i.e. act sacrificially. However advances in various branches of chemistry over the last 30 years have led to the development of a different technology, often referred to as semi-permanent mould release agents (SPMRAs).
SPMRAs
As the name implies, SPMRAs are designed to enable more than one release to be obtained per release agent application. This greatly reduces cost and cycle times when compared to traditional sacrificial release agents. It also has the major added benefit of providing minimal transfer of the coating to the moulded component. A SPMRA achieves these properties by forming a hard or rubbery film (i.e. non-greasy), while maintaining the other requirements of a release agent.
SPMRAs are typically reactive, cross-linkable resins formulated or dissolved in various inert solvents. They are applied directly to the mould surface and, by a process of solvent evaporation and solute cure, form a complete, uniform thin film over the entire mould surface. Although the production of a crosslinked film tends to slightly increase the force required for release (compared to a wax or silicone SMRA), it also increases the durability of the film and thus enables many releases to be obtained from one application.
As mentioned above, the increased durability of the SPMRA also results in a significant decrease in the amount of transfer from the coated mould to the released polymer, often to such an extent that secondary processing, eg. painting or bonding, can be performed without a separate surface preparation stage. This property can be of vital importance in composite manufacture where bond failure can be extremely costly. The only release agent capable of this is a SPMRA.
When applied to a mould surface, the resin used in the SPMRA is in its reactive state. Depending on the reactivity of the SPMRA resin (and there are several types), a chemical reaction occurs with the mould surface. This ensures the release agent remains on the surface of the mould and is not removed with the part when release occurs. The crosslinking of the resin then produces an inert coating of low surface energy capable of releasing most polymers.
The two main crosslinking mechanisms used are moisture cure and heat cure. The former is used to cure solvent-based systems; the latter is used to cure water-based systems. This has an obvious consequence of solvent-based systems having to be stored in sealed containers and of water-based systems being used in hot moulding processes (>60°C).
SPMRAs are highly effective release agents generally having solids contents of 0.25-3%, much lower than sacrificial release agents (a typical paste wax is approximately 30% solids), but as they are reactive and bond to the mould surface they tend to give a much dryer and harder film with relatively low slip and are therefore not suitable for all applications. They also tend to be less user-friendly than waxes, and require a cure time after application (although waxes do need to be left to harden before polishing).
The following discussion of composite moulding processes omits the more common forms of processing used to produce non-structural components, such as sheet moulding compound (SMC), bulk moulding compound (BMC) and various forms of injection moulding.
Glass reinforced polyester
Relative to the composite moulding techniques for non-structural components, the moulding of structural components is a slow, labour intensive process. The simplest, but by no means simple, is that of open face glass reinforced polyester (GRP) moulding. This process is responsible for the manufacture of large consumer structures such as boats, bath tubs and showers, swimming pools and recycling bins.
Open face GRP moulding relies on the painstaking process of polyester resin and glass fibre lay-up using spray, brush or roller techniques. Both mould and part are made using the same fabrication process.
The traditional release agent for this industry is a paste wax, usually carnauba based. As mentioned earlier, paste waxes are extremely slow and laborious to apply; the wax being wiped on, allowed to dry and harden, and then polished. Due to the large surface areas often found in the industry, wax application may take several days and has to be repeated every cycle.
However over the last 10-15 years we have seen the SPMRAs replace these wax applications due to their ability to reduce the application time drastically and significantly increase production rates, especially seen in the larger moulds where application with waxes can take several days.
The answer to this was to spray the SPMRA. Although virtually all SPMRAs can be sprayed, the surface finish produced when spraying a standard SPMRA is poor, with various other problems, such as pre-release and fish-eyes also being common. This led to the development of products specifically designed for spray application. These products (such as Marbocote Spraycote) can be applied 20x faster than a paste wax; give an instant high gloss (even on black gel-coat; see Figure 1) without the need for polishing (a high gloss finish is only obtained from a high gloss mould; these products do not enhance gloss) and give multiple release.
Table 1: Typical time release application times.
Product Number of coats Coverage(1) (g/m2) Application time(2)/20 m2 (hr) Touch-up coat: total time(3) (hr)
Paste wax 9(4) 12 24 2.67
Standard wipe applied SPMRA 7(4,5) 20 11.5 1.5
Spraycote 5 25 1.5 0.75
(1) Coverage for total number of coats.
(2) Application times are quoted for one person.
(3) Total time includes final cure time which is invariably longer for SPMRAs than the cure time between coats.
(4) Manufacturer's recommended application.
(5) Two coats of sealer, five coats of topcoat.
Clearly, the time saving is dramatic. Even though the unit cost of the spray-applied SPRMA is typically much higher than a paste wax, or even other types of wipe applied SPMRA, the time saving alone more than justifies its use. This is especially true for coating large moulds or when a fast cycle time is required and it is in these processes where spray-applied SPMRAs are becoming generally accepted.
As mentioned earlier, one desirable property is generally offset by an undesirable one. With spray applied products the main disadvantage is that there is no physical contact with the mould. Consequently, the mould must be in good condition (i.e. clean and possessing the desired gloss finish) before the product is applied; the spray-applied product will not fill scratches on the mould surface as a paste wax will. Basically, with spray-applied products, what you see is what you get.
Additionally, this ‘no contact’ application means that dust or resin/polymer build-up on the mould is simply coated with release agent. This tends to exacerbate any build-up problem; hence, in processes where build-up is prevalent, a spray-applied product may not be the best solution. Resin transfer moulding (RTM) and other closed mould processes tend to suffer from build-up issues, mainly on the ‘B’ (non-gelcoated) face.
RTM/closed mould processes (including infusion)
Over recent years we have seen a significant increase in closed mould processes as a way to increase productivity and the quality of components. The process is used extensively for companies producing many parts per week for the transportation, automotive and other markets. Because of the nature of producing parts by injecting/infusing parts, normal sacrificial releases were found to be unsuitable due to the flow of the resins and the ‘mobility’ of the release agent which moves over the mould with the resin.
In these processes, mould turn-around becomes crucial and mould maintenance needs to be minimised, therefore SPMRAs are ideally suited for this process. While conventional SPRMAs solved the initial release problems they did not achieve the high level of releases seen in the hand lay-up market and the mould preparation and cleaning/re-application cycles were seen as too long and created bottlenecks in production.
Furthermore, polyester or vinyl ester closed mould processes suffer from polystyrene build-up on the B face surface, dulling the surface and further reducing the number of cycles between reapplication of the release agent and mould cleaning.
Over recent years new product develop-ments in SPMRAs have been focused to solving the above issues. These developments have focused on several areas:
capability of giving an instant gloss without the need of a separate wipe/polish process;
increase application time by removing the need to seal moulds;
ability to drastically reduce the mould preparation time;
reducing the frequency of release agent re-application;
significantly extended mould cleaning cycles; and
address issue of styrene build up on non-gel coated surfaces.
By addressing these areas we can bring significant benefits to the manufacturers of RTM/closed mould components, dramatically lowering production costs and increasing production rates.
However, as mentioned above, build-up on the mould surface, particularly on the B face (non-gel-coated face) is a problem commonly experienced in closed mould processes. This build-up leads to progressively poorer release which can cause defects in the components, reduced production and increased mould maintenance. Again, recent developments in SPMRA technology have helped solve this problem. Products (such as Marbocote 516FC) have been specifically formulated for the non-gel-coated surface by removing resin build-up during their re-application. This helps keep the mould cleaner for longer without the need for a separate cleaning process.
The build-up is particularly prevalent with more aggressive polymers (such as dicylcopentadiene/DCPD resins) or as a result of the abrasive nature of a particular moulding process. For these processes, it has been found that a combination of an internal mould release agent (IMR) (such as Wurtz PAT 651/DCL and Marbocote 516FC) is particularly effective in not only releasing DCPD resins but also keeping the mould clean. If either product is used independently, the results are not as good as when used in combination.
Advanced composites (prepreg/epoxy)
The traditional process for the manufacture of ‘advanced’ composites uses the prepreg/vacuum bag/autoclave process to produce lower numbers or higher specification components. This is typically used in aerospace and other ‘high tech’ applications. In the majority of these processes the cost of the parts produced are normally of a high value but low on quantities therefore the needs of this industry are very different from say the RTM or GRP markets.
The main criteria for a release agent is a non-transferring/contaminating release agent that will give a high quality surface finish and have the ability to produce one-off parts in a relatively quick time eg. motorsport components. Most of the parts produced require painting or bonding after their release and they are used in very critical applications (aerospace) where contamination of the components surface becomes a real issue.
The SPMRAs are ideally suited for these applications because of their non-contaminating release and the ability to give a very high gloss finish with a fast application and moulding time, especially with the use of autoclave (heat) in most of the applications. By having a non-contaminated release the producer can reduce the amount of cleaning and preparation time required before painting and/or bonding.
Because of the high demands in these markets, especially aerospace, the main original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) will become heavily involved in the selection process of a release agent and will give their own material approvals/specifications for individual components (eg. Boeing).
Because of the above issues and the prohibition of the use of silicones, SPMRAs are almost exclusively used in this market.
The key area of development in this arena has occurred as a result of environmental issues with the desire to move away from solvent-based products to water-based. The question is, however, whether the advanced composite moulder is willing to compromise on either the release agent application technique or release agent performance in order to achieve the environmental goal.
Environmentally friendly technology
The majority of SPMRAS are solvent-based products based on moisture cure resins in a non-polar solvent carrier. The grade of solvent, usually aliphatic hydrocarbon, can be easily changed to account for application temperature; a fast drying solvent used for room temperature application, a slow drying grade for high temperature application. The simple intent is to wet the mould surface in order to give a thin uniform film of release agent.
However, concern for environmental safety, as well as increasing regulation, have spurred on the development of water-based release agents. Water-based releases operate on the same technology principle as solvent-based products, with a carrier evaporating to leave the resin chemically bonded to the mould surface. However, while solvents evaporate quickly at room temperature, water evaporates slowly, which lengthens the drying and curing time and also affects the performance of the release agent. Therefore to maximise the performance of these water based products, heat is often required in the production process.
Several water-based products are already available that claim to be water-based, room temperature curing semi-permanent release agents. Care should be exercised when evaluating these products as they tend to be simple silicone emulsions with no curing mechanism. These products are often emulsions of so called ‘paintable’ silicones – polydimethylsiloxanes with a partial methyl substitution with a more polar entity such as an aminopropyl or aryl group. The fact that more than one release can be obtained per application is no indication of their being ‘semi-permanent’ in nature; non-curing silicones can give up to 20 releases from one application. Transfer to the release surface (and to anything else they come into contact with) will always accompany this type of release agent.
True water-based SPMRAs have been used successfully in rubber/elastomer industries for many years where heat is a common factor in the production process. In the composite market the manufacturer will need to look at changing the way the release agent is applied by utilising heat in the process, whether it be an autoclave, infrared heaters or water heated moulds etc. Consequently, although application can be at room temperature, a heat cure (to a least 60°C) is required for the product to exhibit true ‘semi-permanent’ properties.
In addition, the wetting of a water based release agent is also difficult; due to its high surface tension, water will not naturally wet a polymeric surface. Consequently, surfactants have to be used to aid wetting (see Figure 2).
The choice of surfactant and the amount used is critical; large amounts of surfactant can not only help the release agent to wet the surface but will also help the resin wet the release agent. The consequence may prevent any release at all. A further difficulty is the ability of the liquid release agent to wet itself, i.e. to wet its own cured film. If this is not achieved, then a poor film results giving poor cosmetics on the released surface.
To date, the processing and performance compromises that the moulder has to make to use the water-based SPMRA has slowed its introduction – many want the water-based option but are unwilling to accept any compromise. The old adage, “I want it all, and I want it now”, springs to mind.
There is now a greater choice of release agents available to the market, which in turn has created problems in how to decide which release agent is the right one for you. Due to their widely different properties and the large number of composite moulding processes in which they are used, choosing the appropriate release agent for a particular application is often a compromise. It is clear from our experience of many years of service and supply to the market that the main requirements for a release agent are as follows:
guaranteed release;
quick and easy to apply;
low cost per part;
high quality finish;
low defect rate; and
no processing problems.
Over the last decade we have seen major developments in the field of semi-permanent mould release agents that have positioned these products at the forefront of the composites market as the solution to its moulding issues. They have begun to deliver an all-round performance that can meet the demands of almost all moulding processes using a wide variety of materials. This process simplification along with the additional benefits of reduced application time, greater production through-put, reduced mould maintenance, and the resulting lowest cost per part, make these release agents the products of choice for composite processors in the 21st century.
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With COVID-19 causing a massive shake-up across all industries, the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) has partnered with Workplace Safety & Prevention Services (WSPS) to create the Agri-Food Workplace Protection Program.
The Agri-Food Workplace Protection Program is addressing the new and immediate safety issues related to COVID-19 within the agri-food industry.
The program has two funding categories with the first being called “Occupational Health and Safety Measures” which provides up to 70% of project costs to a max of $7,500 per project. These projects can include cleaning/disinfectant supplies, PPE, and modifications within an agricultural operation to safely social distance (ex. installing physical barriers).
The second category of funding is called “Enhancing Healthy Workforce Access and Accommodation” which allocates up to $80.00 per day per employee towards short-term accommodations (ex. hotels, room rentals, cleaning supplies) to ensure employees follow social distance best practices. This funding will also cover up to $60.00 per day per employee for transportation and work-site mobility to ensure employees can still access the work site while social distancing. Please note that this second category of funding is for businesses that are currently addressing a COVID-19 outbreak or an employee that tested positive.
Who is Eligible to Apply ?
Project Category One: Occupational Health and Safety Measures
Be an established farm business that produces agricultural commodities in Ontario under a valid Farm Business Registration Number (FBRN), or an allowable exemption
The farm business must involve intensive use of labour where employees may operate within close proximity of one another, or where the operator is responsible for accommodating workers on- or off-site
Comply with all requirements of the law and remain in compliance for the duration of the project
Read, understand, and agree to the program’s Terms and Conditions
Project Category Two: Enhancing Healthy Workforce Access and Accommodation
Be an established farm business that produces agricultural commodities in Ontario under a valid Farm Business Registration Number (FBRN), or an allowable exemption. The farm business must:
involve intensive use of labour where employees may operate within close proximity of one another, or where the operator is responsible for accommodating workers on- or off-site; and
be addressing an on-farm outbreak of COVID-19 based on having had one or more persons at the operation test positive for COVID-19
What Expenses are Eligible?
All eligible activities from both project categories must have been incurred on or after May 14, 2020.
Temporary or permanent modifications (ex. reconfigurations, shielding, barriers) and minor capital for infrastructure changes
Personal protective equipment for staff (ex. masks, gloves, and other protective gear)
Medical equipment (ex. COVID-related testing equipment, thermometers, etc.)
Safety-related services (ex. services to perform medical checks)
Cleaning/disinfection for cleaning (ex. cleaning supplies, third-party cleaning services)
Short-term accommodations like hotels, dorm rentals, and cleaning and sanitation supplies for employees to follow social distancing best practices to a max of $80.00 per day per employee
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Sultanate of Oman to introduce VAT from April 2021: Muscat-based MGI Vision Chartered Accountants provides details in NEW white paper
Issued by Royal Decree in October 2020, the Sultanate of Oman has announced the introduction of VAT, expected to be effective as of April 2021. Oman will be the fourth GCC country to introduce VAT following implementation in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and UAE.
MGI Middle East & North Africa member firm MGI Vision Chartered Accountants of Oman, has produced a white paper to help fellow members understand the new VAT laws and the implications they may have on doing business in the Sultanate.
Why VAT?
MGI Vision explains: Oman has faced a 2.8 percent economic contraction this year and a government deficit of 16.9 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), according to the International Monetary Fund. The Sultanate has, therefore, cut public spending to contain the financial leakage caused by lower oil prices and the downturn caused by corona virus lockdowns. The long-term strategic vision of Oman is to diversify its economy and reduce dependency on oil revenues. Introduction of VAT is one of the measures taken by the Government to increase non-oil revenues and strengthen the economy on a long-term basis.
What changes?
As well as giving a clear overview of the essentials of VAT the white paper takes a comprehensive look at key areas of change such as: taxable and non-taxable goods; VAT registration and de-registration; VAT groups; how the new VAT tax should be included in tax returns; dealing with refunds and disputes; and penalties which may be incurred.
The paper gives a practical view of what these changes mean for businesses operating in Oman and sets out a number of considerations to made in preparation for the 2021 implementation.
READ THE FULL WHITE PAPER HERE
With their office in Muscat, Oman, MGI Vision is well positioned to advise and assist any member with interests in Oman and guide their clients in preparing for the new VAT laws.
For further information contact Piyush Thakkar pmthakkar@mgi-vision.com or visit MGI Vision’s profile page or their website.
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Michael Morpurgo Month
Theatre, Concert & Exhibitions
Farms for City Children
Private Peaceful returns to the West End
Tickets are now on sale for award-winning children’s author Michael Morpurgo’s Private Peaceful which plays for a strictly limited 16 performances only at the Theatre Royal Haymarket from 18 – 29 September 2012. Directed and adapted for the stage by Simon Reade, Private Peaceful has designs by Bill Talbot and sound by Jason Barnes. The National Theatre’s One Man, Two Guvnors will continue its run at the Haymarket from 1 October after this two-week break.
Private Peaceful relives the life of Private Tommo Peaceful, a young First World War soldier awaiting the firing squad at dawn. During the night he looks back at his short but joyful past growing up in rural Devon: his exciting first days at school; the accident in the forest that killed his father; his adventures with Molly, the love of his life; and the battles and injustices of war that brought him to the front line.
Simon Reade has previously adapted Michael Morpurgo’s Toro! Toro! for Salisbury Playhouse, The Mozart Question for Scamp Theatre’s UK tour, Twist of Gold for Polka Theatre and he wrote the BBC radio play and feature film screenplay of Private Peaceful . His other plays include Philip Pullman’s The Scarecrow and His Servant for Southwark Playhouse, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland for Bristol Old Vic for which he won the TMA Award, Pride & Prejudice for Theatre Royal Bath Productions, and Ted Hughes’ Tales from Ovid and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children both for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
The National Theatre presents Private Peaceful, a Scamp Theatre production in association with Poonamallee Productions, by arrangement with the Theatre Royal Haymarket.
Don’t miss this brilliant opportunity!
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Dates: 18 – 29 September 2012
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Ticket prices: £10 – £25
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Wikimedia Architecture Team
The Wikimedia Architecture Team defines "architecture" as the process of reasoning about complex systems. We work with Product and Technology teams to deliver conceptual artifacts such as models, workshops, diagrams, strategic recommendations, and prototypes that move the system towards its highest-value goals.
If you are looking for information about a previous team that information is available at Wikimedia Architecture Team Legacy.
Our mission is to architect[edit]
a modern platform
that can serve collections of knowledge and information,
created from multiple trusted sources,
to nearly-infinite product experiences and other platforms.
What is architecture?
Architecture bridges the gaps between the solution and/or software and the system as a whole.
⭢ Learn more
Architecture maturity model
Architecture capabilities defined and rated on a model of initial to optimizing maturity
System documentation
Browse information about Wikimedia systems by document type, layer, capability, persona, and component.
Trusted, time-tested guidelines for serious problem solving
Our favorite books and resources to continue your systems architecture study
Architecture Team
Leading system architecture practice
Wikimedia Platform Team
Diana Montalion, Alex Paskulin, Moriel Schottlender
Kate Chapman
If you have a project that is cross cutting, touches other system components, is a new component or service (or is in other ways complex), please reach out to us at architecture@wikimedia.org. We are here to help with design, modeling and designing system level capabilities. Think of us as the third part of the trio of product and engineering. Learn more about how we can help.
Defining architecture[edit]
1 Our mission is to architect
2 Defining architecture
2.1 The role
2.2 The practice
2.3 Adjacent to engineering
3 What we are focused on
3.1 Discovering leverage points
3.2 Flows
3.3 Relationships
4 How we can help
4.1 Conceptual integrity
4.2 Capabilities
4.3 Decision making
In technology, there are as many definitions of "architecture" as there are "architects". This creates confusion about where architecture practices fit into daily life. In this document, we hope to ease that confusion by describing:
How we define the role and the practice of the Architecture Team at the Wikimedia Foundation
What we are currently focusing on
The role[edit]
Key concepts: integrator, sound solutioner, cohesive problem-solving processes developer, map maker, prototyper, experimentor, assumption challenger, creator of conceptual models and champion of healthy systems patterns
We view "architect" as an integrator role, working adjacent to other roles, building conceptual bridges between them. Rather than dictate and direct, we weave relevant expertise with best practices and strategies for systems into sound technological solutions that meet high-priority organization goals. We are not just focused on the tech. We engage change itself, continuously developing cohesive, actionable processes for solving systemic problems. Healthy interactions between people is the key to system success.
We are history aware but usually not focused on holding legacy systems together. Rather, we are future focused, mapping as-yet-taken paths by illuminating both icebergs and opportunities for meaningful change. Most of all, we change the mental models, system structures and patterns that define the behaviors of the software and system itself.
The practice[edit]
Key concepts: conceptual artifacts, systems best practices and point of view, different from engineering
The work may seem strictly "high level" but it's not; the work is grounded in logic-driven best practices (like coding) and focused on deliverables (like coding) that will be meaningful to the audience relying on them. We work together in sprints to deliver conceptual artifacts such as models, workshops, diagrams, strategic recommendations, prototypes, etc that will move the system towards its highest-value goals.
Unlike coding, our focus usually precedes literal implementation. Fred Brooks says that “conceptual integrity is the most important element in systems design.” By which, he means, the strength and integrity of our mental models dictate the strength and integrity of our solutions. We work with other roles to ensure that the sum of the parts (software, workflow tools) is greater than the whole.
Adjacent to engineering[edit]
Architecture does not replace or supersede engineering leadership. Architecture skills are adjacent to engineering and leave appropriate space for implementation design (engineering). Generally speaking, if something can be straightforwardly described and modeled within software, that’s engineering. If the question is "how do we implement this requirement?", that’s usually engineering. Implementation tools are (usually) the purview of engineering. If new functionality is being implemented inside the legacy system, in our case, that’s likely engineering.
Architecture bridges the gaps between one technology point of view and another, or between multiple technology points of view and other points of view, like product. More essentially, we bridge the gap between the solution and/or software and the system as a whole.
Establishing an architecture practice is especially difficult among teams, like ours, where there is little distinction between "software" and "system", or “process” and "product". We hope to draw boundaries and flows that will enable us to create new, emergent patterns.
What we are focused on[edit]
Key concepts: When we engage with challenges, we are looking for three opportunities (usually simultaneously):
Leverage points: Is there a mental model or pattern that needs changing? For example, consider encapsulation, rather than expansion, of the legacy system. If so, how do we convey that change to others?
Improving flow: Does the change improve the flow of knowledge? Does it reflect modern (content) systems best practices?
Establishing boundaries and better relationships: Is there an opportunity to improve the relationships between subsystems? (Or, at least, establish the concept of “subsystem” within the current system?)
Discovering leverage points[edit]
Not everything can or needs to change today. We are identifying places in the technological (and organizational) system where we can make impactful, high-priority pattern changes that will unlock future potential. These types of changes are leverage points.
Leverage points are often three things: counterintuitive; protected by hyper-controlling systems because they are vulnerable; difficult to describe to people who share a common, opposing view.
Which means, finding and changing leverage points is hard. Much of our work, at the moment, involves saying things like "better encapsulation of MediaWiki is valuable" and then investing many hours demonstrating why that is true and what we can do about it.
Flows[edit]
“Knowledge" is our highest-value commodity and we are focused on how knowledge flows across the system. How it flows in; how it flows out and ways we can increase efficiency and effectiveness across the WM ecosystem. Some of the (work)flows are human and some are technology, most are both.
Initially, we are primarily focused on the structure of the knowledge (data) and improving communication patterns between parts of the system. The structure of “content” is the highest-value leverage point at the moment.
Relationships[edit]
We are designing better relationships between parts, which is what the word "modernization" usually means. Better relationships require better boundaries (in software and in life). This does not necessarily mean relationships between two pieces of (the same) software. The "wikifarm" model is one model of relationship and in many cases, works well. We are focusing on other types of relationship patterns that may strengthen and improve the system's flows as a whole.
We hope to also envision better ways to relate to, rather than consume, other services we rely on. For example, asking: “Are any of the capabilities and extensions integrated into MW better as standalone services we communicate with?”
How we can help[edit]
Key concepts: There are three ways that we can help, when we engage with other roles designing change.
Strengthen conceptual integrity: Does the work align with the highest-value capabilities of the organization and its users? Does it contribute to the value of the system as a whole? Does it “hang together” well with other work being done?
Deliver capabilities rather than features: Do we clearly understand how the work contributes to the highest-value capabilities delivered by the system as a whole?
Decision making: Is the recommendation strong, sound and cohesive? Is the design and approval process clear, navigable and directly connected to relevant expertise? Is the recommendation sound and valid under the circumstances?
Conceptual integrity[edit]
The most essential architectural pattern to establish is integrative thinking: the ability to represent a strong, cohesive solution from multiple points of view. This is why we refer to architecture as “bridge building.” Another apt metaphor is “designing the ship everyone can sail in to reach their common destination.” To establish this practice, we are focused on nurturing three behaviors:
Including a brief top-down evaluation describing:
Why a change is valuable and
What the system will do to deliver that value and
Who is the “user” gaining the value
Modeling the work in the context of the system’s goals as a whole (breaking down siloed thinking)
Workshopping “systems thinking” approaches
Capabilities[edit]
We encourage describing what people DO, what the system will be capable of, and why that capability is valuable rather than creating “features” that are conceptually isolated. To enable this, we request the opportunity to weigh in on how the change impacts (positively and negatively) the system as a whole and clarify alternatives that may not have been considered.
Decision making[edit]
Conway’s Law is truth: The way we structure communication as an organization inherently designs our solutions and the system as a whole.
To be effective, we are strongly focused on improving the way we "architect" solutions by improving the structure of solutioning together. Beginning with structuring recommendations that are more integrative and tolerant of ambiguity, while still actionable and quickly iterative.
We are actively working with engineering and product to understand how best to support organizational decision making without inadvertently rebuilding the same structures that created our legacy system. We are also creating a “system view” framework in which people can position decisions and connect them to other decisions in a more meaningful way.
Team members[edit]
Kate Chapman - Director of Architecture
Alex Paskulin - Senior Technical Writer
Diana Montalion - Principal System Architect
Moriel Schottlender - Principal System Architect
Documentation[edit]
Wikimedia system model
Wikimedia architecture maturity model
Category:Wikimedia Architecture Templates
Templates[edit]
Capability model template
Problem statement template
Architecture decision record template
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Nancy Pelosi Just Endorsed a Congressman Who Opposes Abortion and Gay Rights
Dan Lipinski even voted against Obamacare.
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Newscom via ZUMA
Illinois Democratic Rep. Dan Lipinski’s career is on life-support. The seven-term congressman from the Chicago area, who inherited his seat from his father, is facing a formidable primary challenge from businesswoman Marie Newman, whose campaign has been fueled by progressive anger at Lipinski’s opposition to reproductive rights, LGBT rights, and Obamacare. EMILY’s List, the national organization that supports pro-choice women candidates, has backed Newman and, along with a host of progressive groups—including Planned Parenthood and the pro-LGBT rights Human Rights Campaign—has spent heavily on ads against Lipinski:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo84pMMgI44
Elected Democrats—including New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and fellow Chicago-area Rep. Jan Schakowsky—have waded into the primary to back Newman. And in an unusual step for a race with a Democratic incumbent, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had declined to endorse Lipinski.
But on Thursday, less than three weeks before the March 20 primary, Lipinski did pick up one notable supporter: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
PELOSI says she supports Dan Lipinski for re-election in Illinois's 3rd congressional
"Yes. I do."
— Al Weaver (@alweaver22) March 1, 2018
Pelosi has shown a greater tolerance for Blue Dog Democrats than others in her caucus have. When progressives criticized the DCCC for refusing to apply a reproductive rights litmus test to 2018 candidates—it never has—Pelosi insisted there was room in the party for anti-abortion candidates. “This is the Democratic Party, this is not a rubber-stamp party,” she told the Washington Post.
Notably, Pelosi is showing Lipinski a degree of loyalty that the congressman has never extended to her—Lipinski has routinely voted against Pelosi for minority leader. After helping elect Pelosi speaker of the house in 2009, he voted against her in 2011, 2013, 2015, and 2017. Notably, he was also a major impediment to Pelosi’s top legislative accomplishment—the Affordable Care Act—and was one of only a few blue-district Democrats to vote against the measure.
National Democrats Launch a Bizarre Attack on a Leading Resistance Candidate
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Lexus Tops Dependability Study In 2016, Ford Flops
Viknesh Vijayenthiran February 26, 2016 Comment Now!
Lexus has been voted the most dependable brand for the fifth year in a row in J.D. Power’s Vehicle Dependability Study, which for 2016 saw the average number of problems for the industry rise yet again. Once again it was problems with in-car tech that led to the rise. In fact, in-car tech was responsible for 20 percent of all owner-reported problems.
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The influential study, now in its 27th year, examines problems experienced during the past 12 months by original owners of vehicles new for the 2013 model year, with around 33,560 owners surveyed. Overall dependability is determined by the number of problems experienced per 100 vehicles (PP100), with a lower score reflecting higher quality. The industry average this year was a PP100 of 152, up from 147 a year ago.
The problems most often reported by owners include connecting mobile devices via Bluetooth and voice recognition systems misinterpreting commands. Many vehicle owners also had problems with their navigation systems, either finding them to be inaccurate or difficult to use.
As mentioned, Lexus was the most dependable brand with a PP100 of 95. Porsche was second with a PP100 of 96 and Buick third with a PP100 of 106. When it comes to vehicle segments, General Motors Company [NYSE:GM] had the most vehicles at the top, in this case eight. Toyota and its own brands came in second with six of its vehicles topping their respective segments.
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At the other end of the spectrum, Dodge was the least dependable brand with a PP100 of 208. Coming as a surprise was Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] which came in second from the bottom with a PP100 of 204, a five-place plunge compared with 2015’s study. The Blue Oval has suffered in recent years due to its problematic Sync infotainment system.
Perception of dependability is a crucial factor in the showroom. Among owners who experienced no problems with their vehicle, 55 percent said they’d purchase a vehicle from the same brand when buying again. In contrast, only 41 percent of owners who experienced three or more problems with their vehicle said they’d stick with a brand. And heading even lower, only a third of owners who had to replace a component outside of normal wear items said they would stick with a brand.
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Home News Tata Motors Officially Discontinue JTP Range Of Cars
Tata Motors Officially Discontinue JTP Range Of Cars
June 15, 2020 | Arun Prakash
In what comes as sad news, Tata Motors has officially announced the discontinuation of the JTP range of vehicles from its product portfolio. JT Special Vehicles (JTSV) was formed as a 50:50 joint venture between Tata Motors and Coimbatore-based Jayem Automotives in 2017 and focussed on the development of performance-oriented ‘JTP’ versions of Tata’s passenger vehicle range.
Tata Motors has signed an agreement to purchase the 50% shareholding of Jayem Automotives in JT Special Vehicles (JTSV). Further to this announcement, JTSV will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Motors, following the completion of the procedural requirements.
Reason for discontinuation of JTP Range
The products to come out of this joint venture were Tata Tiago JTP and Tigor JTP. Both these models were launched in 2018 and gained appreciation for their styling and performance forming a loyal follower base. The models were only equipped with more powerful engines compared to regular variants but also came with a sportier suspension setup to offer a decidedly sporty character. Despite garnering positive attraction from people, unfortunately, due to various unfavourable market conditions, Tata Motors has decided to pull the plug on its JTP venture.
Details of the JTP Range
The Tiago and Tigor JTP came powered by 114hp, 1.2-litre turbo-petrol engines, wore fatter tyres and were also distinguishable courtesy styling tweaks. The slow-selling models were not upgraded to the BS6 emission standard that effectively marked the end of the road for the JTP twins. As per some reports, a JTP version of theTata Nexon was also in development, however, it could not see the light.
According to the statement released by Tata Motors, the company said that the passenger car industry has witnessed a challenging FY19-20, exacerbated with a mandatory change in regulations and the current COVID-19 pandemic, which has impacted the demand in this niche category of vehicles. It further added that in light of this ongoing scenario, both Tata Motors and Jayem Automotives found it prudent to discontinue this venture. The company promised that it will continue to provide all requisite support and service to customers and users of Tiago JTP and Tigor JTP cars at its select dealerships, ensuring hassle-free ownership.
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Had the market conditions been better, JTP could have emerged as a comprehensive performance division with more models in its lineup. If Tata Motors does decide to come up with a separate performance-oriented range of the passenger vehicles, the products would likely be offered under an in-house brand.
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Trial date scheduled for Kalamazoo public safety officer accused of domestic violence; court filing details allegations
Updated Jan 21, 2019; Posted Aug 08, 2011
By Rex Hall Jr. | rhall2@mlive.com
PAW PAW — A Kalamazoo Public Safety officer is scheduled to stand trial in October on a misdemeanor domestic violence charge in connection with an incident involving his wife last month at their Van Buren County home.
Attorneys in the case of Steven V. Luthy, 37, met behind closed doors Monday during a pretrial hearing in Van Buren County District Court in South Haven. Luthy is scheduled to appear for a second pretrial hearing Sept. 28 and is to stand trial Oct. 6, a district court official said.
He was arrested July 31 at his home in Bloomingdale and later released on a personal-recognizance bond following his arraignment in district court last week.
Luthy's wife, Ellen Luthy, petitioned Van Buren Circuit Judge Paul E. Hamre for a personal-protection order against her husband on Aug. 1, a day after the incident at their home. Hamre authorized the request the same day. The filing alleges two other incidents of domestic violence going back two years. Court documents indicate the couple has been together five years and that there are three children in the home.
In the filing, Ellen Luthy wrote that her husband has punched her in the face, spat on her and, in one incident several months ago, he told her: "Everyone in our family would be better off if you were dead, I get excited thinking of coming home and seeing your brains splattered everywhere."
Luthy, a 10-year veteran of KDPS, is currently on paid administrative leave with the agency.
In the July 31 incident, Ellen Luthy wrote that "he came home drunk, I asked if he had fun, he started following me, I called my sister. He hit the phone out of my hand, smashed the side of my face, pushed me down the stairs then we fought — he punched me in the face — my sister called the police — he smashed my phone which was actually his."
"Your honor, I am requesting a PPO against my husband, Steve," she wrote to Hamre. "He was arrested yesterday for physically assaulting me. I am truly in fear for my life with the severity of this situation and numerous prior assaults and threats on my life.
"I am even more so concerned, considering his position and knowledge and access to firearms and weapons. I feel that if his job is in jeopardy that it will displease him to a point of an emotional breakdown. He has shown many times his inability to control his emotions and my family and myself have a great concern of what he is capable of doing."
Included with the PPO petition were photos taken by authorities that show injuries to Ellen Luthy's forehead, knee, chin, leg, arm, ankle, elbow, foot, eye, and back. It's unclear when the photos were taken.
The Gazette was unable to reach Steven Luthy's attorney, David Butler, of Parchment, for this report.
Gazette staff reporter Rosemary Parker contributed to this report.
Contact Rex Hall Jr. at rhall@kalamazoogazette.com or 269-388-7784.
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Pitcher sparks young, thin Park Center
After a 1-19 season in 2011, new Park Center baseball coach Shannon Blansette has been searching for something to give the program a spark.
He may have found it in senior pitcher and outfielder Jordan Stroh, one of only three seniors on the Park Center roster.
Last week, Stroh pitched a four-hit complete game in a 2-0 victory over Anoka and went 7-for-11 at the plate as the Pirates won once and fell just short in a pair of one-run losses to Eden Prairie and Elk River.
"It's coming," said Blansette, who was an assistant at St. Anthony for three years before taking the Park Center position. "We're going to be a lot more competitive.''
The Pirates have only 11 players on the varsity roster, Blansette said, by design.
"We want to give our younger guys a chance to play," he said. "We don't want to bring up the 12th, 13th, 14th guys just to have them sit on the bench."
Softball rundown
• Irondale sophomore shortstop Veronica Wold helped the Knights win two of three softball games last week by going 7-for-9 with six RBI and playing perfect defense in the field.
• Park Center, the two-time Class 2A champ that has moved up to Class 3A, opened the season by winning its first three games. Senior pitcher Nicola Tade pitched two shutouts and struck out 32 batters. She also went 8-for-13 with six RBI at the plate.
Quick look at lacrosse
• In two victories last week, Andover senior attackman Jake Harmon had eight goals, five assists, controlled 14 ground balls and forced eight turnovers, placing him in the top five in the state in each category.
• Centennial's girls won twice behind midfielder Katie Armstrong, who had 10 goals and three assists. In a 13-12 victory over Mounds View, her sixth goal won it with six seconds left.
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14.09.2019 Headlines
Akufo-Addo Urges New Doctors To Accept Postings To Villages
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President Akufo-Addo
President Nana Akufo-Addo has urged 378 newly inducted medical doctors and dentists to accept postings to the countryside where their services are most needed.
This, he noted, would enable Ghana's health care system respond more to the needs of the people, as government worked to improve their service conditions.
The President made the call on Friday in Accra at a Special Induction ceremony of the Medical and Dental Council where Dr. Emmanuel Evans-Anfom, a patriot and an icon of the medical profession and a foundation member of the Council, was also honoured for his invaluable contribution to Ghana's health care architecture.
He urged the new doctors to emulate the exemplary record of Dr. Evans-Anfom, who during his practicing days as a medical doctor, accepted postings to almost every region of the country.
"The doctor, dentist population in our country remains unsatisfactory after sixty-two years of nationhood. We currently do not have the right numbers of doctors, dentists and health care professionals with the right mix of skills and expertise in our regions, districts and deprived communities especially for the newly created regions and districts.
"I encourage you our newly inducted practitioners to follow the exemplary example of Dr. Evans-Anfom and accept postings to accredited regional and district hospitals where your services are needed most particularly during your second year of Housemanship," the President appealed.
President Akufo-Addo said government was engaging the Ghana Medical Association to take another look at its codified conditions of service which were overdue for review and special attention would be given incentive packages to encourage medical personnel who accepted posting to rural and underserved communities.
"We will continue to engage stakeholders on how to care better for health professionals and how collectively we can make our health care system more responsive to the needs of our people," he said.
President Akufo-Addo implored the new doctors to abide by the Oath they swore to maintain high standards at all times.
He told them that the nation expected greater achievements from them, and that they should "do a little bit more out of the ordinary to bring relief to the present situation."
"Feel privileged to work amidst the mysteries of life, be prepared for continuous learning. Gain the trust of patients and treat each one with dignity.
"Respect all your colleagues and I do not mean just your fellow doctors, all colleagues in the health care chain, and that means technicians, nurses, clerks, cleaners, listen to them and give them respect.
"You will be surrounded by death, but remain human and do not lose your emotions. People will die, but many will be healed. Complications will occur, but make sure you stay true to science, the truth and reason.
In doing so, never lose your faith in God," President Akufo-Addo advised.
The President assured that he and his Government was determined to ensure that there were improvements needed in the health sector is realised to improve access to essential and quality health services.
"Government is committed to improving access to essential and quality health services through the provision of the necessary Health infrastructure equipment and Logistics including; the deployment of appropriate technology as part of our drive to attaining Universal Health Coverage today," he stated.
---GNA
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Prose /
Ernest Hemingway /
The Sun Also Rises /
The Sun Also Rises: Chapter 13
One morning I went down to breakfast and the Englishman, Harris, was already at the table. He was reading the paper through spectacles. He looked up and smiled.
“Good morning,” he said. “Letter for you. I stopped at the post and they gave it me with mine.”
The letter was at my place at the table, leaning against a coffee-cup. Harris was reading the paper again. I opened the letter. It had been forwarded from Pamplona. It was dated San Sebastian, Sunday:
Dear Jake,
We got here Friday, Brett passed out on the train, so brought her here for 3 days rest with old friends of ours. We go to Montoya Hotel Pamplona Tuesday, arriving at I don’t know what hour. Will you send a note by the bus to tell us what to do to rejoin you all on Wednesday. All our love and sorry to be late, but Brett was really done in and will be quite all right by Tues. and is practically so now. I know her so well and try to look after her but it’s not so easy. Love to all the chaps,
“What day of the week is it?” I asked Harris.
“Wednesday, I think. Yes, quite. Wednesday. Wonderful how one loses track of the days up here in the mountains.”
“Yes. We’ve been here nearly a week.”
“I hope you’re not thinking of leaving?”
“Yes. We’ll go in on the afternoon bus, I’m afraid.”
“What a rotten business. I had hoped we’d all have another go at the Irati together.”
“We have to go into Pamplona. We’re meeting people there.”
“What rotten luck for me. We’ve had a jolly time here at Burguete.”
“Come on in to Pamplona. We can play some bridge there, and there’s going to be a damned fine fiesta.”
“I’d like to. Awfully nice of you to ask me. I’d best stop on here, though. I’ve not much more time to fish.”
“You want those big ones in the Irati.”
“I say, I do, you know. They’re enormous trout there.”
“I’d like to try them once more.”
“Do. Stop over another day. Be a good chap.”
“We really have to get into town,” I said.
After breakfast Bill and I were sitting warming in the sun on a bench out in front of the inn and talking it over. I saw a girl coming up the road from the centre of the town. She stopped in front of us and took a telegram out of the leather wallet that hung against her skirt.
“Por ustedes?”
I looked at it. The address was: “Barnes, Burguete.”
“Yes. It’s for us.”
She brought out a book for me to sign, and I gave her a couple of coppers. The telegram was in Spanish: “Vengo Jueves Cohn.”
I handed it to Bill.
“What does the word Cohn mean?” he asked.
“What a lousy telegram!” I said. “He could send ten words for the same price. ‘I come Thursday’. That gives you a lot of dope, doesn’t it?”
“It gives you all the dope that’s of interest to Cohn.”
“We’re going in, anyway,” I said. “There’s no use trying to move Brett and Mike out here and back before the fiesta. Should we answer it?”
“We might as well,” said Bill. “There’s no need for us to be snooty.”
We walked up to the post-office and asked for a telegraph blank.
“What will we say?” Bill asked.
“‘Arriving to-night.’ That’s enough.”
We paid for the message and walked back to the inn. Harris was there and the three of us walked up to Roncesvalles. We went through the monastery.
“It’s remarkable place,” Harris said, when we came out. “But you know I’m not much on those sort of places.”
“Me either,” Bill said.
“It’s a remarkable place, though,” Harris said. “I wouldn’t not have seen it. I’d been intending coming up each day.”
“It isn’t the same as fishing, though, is it?” Bill asked. He liked Harris.
“I say not.”
We were standing in front of the old chapel of the monastery.
“Isn’t that a pub across the way?” Harris asked. “Or do my eyes deceive me?”
“It has the look of a pub,” Bill said.
“It looks to me like a pub,” I said.
“I say,” said Harris, “let’s utilize it.” He had taken up utilizing from Bill.
We had a bottle of wine apiece. Harris would not let us pay.
He talked Spanish quite well, and the innkeeper would not take our money.
“I say. You don’t know what it’s meant to me to have you chaps up here.”
“We’ve had a grand time, Harris.”
Harris was a little tight.
“I say. Really you don’t know how much it means. I’ve not had much fun since the war.”
“We’ll fish together again, some time. Don’t you forget it, Harris.”
“We must. We have had such a jolly good time.”
“How about another bottle around?”
“Jolly good idea,” said Harris.
“This is mine,” said Bill. “Or we don’t drink it.”
“I wish you’d let me pay for it. It does give me pleasure, you know.”
“This is going to give me pleasure,” Bill said.
The innkeeper brought in the fourth bottle. We had kept the same glasses. Harris lifted his glass.
“I say. You know this does utilize well.”
Bill slapped him on the back.
“Good old Harris.”
“I say. You know my name isn’t really Harris. It’s Wilson Harris. All one name. With a hyphen, you know.”
“Good old Wilson-Harris,” Bill said. “We call you Harris because we’re so fond of you.”
“I say, Barnes. You don’t know what this all means to me.”
“Come on and utilize another glass,” I said.
“Barnes. Really, Barnes, you can’t know. That’s all.”
“Drink up, Harris.”
We walked back down the road from Roncesvalles with Harris between us. We had lunch at the inn and Harris went with us to the bus. He gave us his card, with his address in London and his club and his business address, and as we got on the bus he handed us each an envelope. I opened mine and there were a dozen flies in it. Harris had tied them himself. He tied all his own flies.
“I say, Harris—” I began.
“No, no!” he said. He was climbing down from the bus. “They’re not first-rate flies at all. I only thought if you fished them some time it might remind you of what a good time we had.”
The bus started. Harris stood in front of the post-office. He waved. As we started along the road he turned and walked back toward the inn.
“Say, wasn’t that Harris nice?” Bill said.
“I think he really did have a good time.”
“Harris? You bet he did.”
“I wish he’d come into Pamplona.”
“He wanted to fish.”
“Yes. You couldn’t tell how English would mix with each other, anyway.”
We got into Pamplona late in the afternoon and the bus stopped in front of the Hotel Montoya. Out in the plaza they were stringing electric-light wires to light the plaza for the fiesta. A few kids came up when the bus stopped, and a customs officer for the town made all the people getting down from the bus open their bundles on the sidewalk. We went into the hotel and on the stairs I met Montoya. He shook hands with us, smiling in his embarrassed way.
“Your friends are here,” he said.
“Mr. Campbell?”
“Yes. Mr. Cohn and Mr. Campbell and Lady Ashley.”
He smiled as though there were something I would hear about.
“When did they get in?”
“Yesterday. I’ve saved you the rooms you had.”
“That’s fine. Did you give Mr. Campbell the room on the plaza?”
“Yes. All the rooms we looked at.”
“Where are our friends now?”
“I think they went to the pelota.”
“And how about the bulls?”
Montoya smiled. “To-night,” he said. “To-night at seven o’clock they bring in the Villar bulls, and to-morrow come the Miuras. Do you all go down?”
“Oh, yes. They’ve never seen a desencajonada.”
Montoya put his hand on my shoulder.
“I’ll see you there.”
He smiled again. He always smiled as though bull-fighting were a very special secret between the two of us; a rather shocking but really very deep secret that we knew about. He always smiled as though there were something lewd about the secret to outsiders, but that it was something that we understood. It would not do to expose it to people who would not understand.
“Your friend, is he aficionado, too?” Montoya smiled at Bill.
“Yes. He came all the way from New York to see the San Fermines.”
“Yes?” Montoya politely disbelieved. “But he’s not aficionado like you.”
He put his hand on my shoulder again embarrassedly.
“Yes,” I said. “He’s a real aficionado.”
“But he’s not aficionado like you are.”
Aficion means passion. An aficionado is one who is passionate about the bull-fights. All the good bull-fighters stayed at Montoya’s hotel; that is, those with aficion stayed there. The commercial bull-fighters stayed once, perhaps, and then did not come back. The good ones came each year. In Montoya’s room were their photographs. The photographs were dedicated to Juanito Montoya or to his sister. The photographs of bull-fighters Montoya had really believed in were framed. Photographs of bull-fighters who had been without aficion Montoya kept in a drawer of his desk. They often had the most flattering inscriptions. But they did not mean anything. One day Montoya took them all out and dropped them in the waste-basket. He did not want them around.
We often talked about bulls and bull-fighters. I had stopped at the Montoya for several years. We never talked for very long at a time. It was simply the pleasure of discovering what we each felt. Men would come in from distant towns and before they left Pamplona stop and talk for a few minutes with Montoya about bulls. These men were aficionados. Those who were aficionados could always get rooms even when the hotel was full. Montoya introduced me to some of them. They were always very polite at first, and it amused them very much that I should be an American. Somehow it was taken for granted that an American could not have aficion. He might simulate it or confuse it with excitement, but he could not really have it. When they saw that I had aficion, and there was no password, no set questions that could bring it out, rather it was a sort of oral spiritual examination with the questions always a little on the defensive and never apparent, there was this same embarrassed putting the hand on the shoulder, or a “Buen hombre.” But nearly always there was the actual touching. It seemed as though they wanted to touch you to make it certain.
Montoya could forgive anything of a bull-fighter who had aficion. He could forgive attacks of nerves, panic, bad unexplainable actions, all sorts of lapses. For one who had aficion he could forgive anything. At once he forgave me all my friends. Without his ever saying anything they were simply a little something shameful between us, like the spilling open of the horses in bull-fighting.
Bill had gone up-stairs as we came in, and I found him washing and changing in his room.
“Well,” he said, “talk a lot of Spanish?”
“He was telling me about the bulls coming in tonight.”
“Let’s find the gang and go down.”
“All right. They’ll probably be at the café.”
“Have you got tickets?”
“Yes. I got them for all the unloadings.”
“What’s it like?” He was pulling his cheek before the glass, looking to see if there were unshaved patches under the line of the jaw.
“It’s pretty good,” I said. “They let the bulls out of the cages one at a time, and they have steers in the corral to receive them and keep them from fighting, and the bulls tear in at the steers and the steers run around like old maids trying to quiet them down.”
“Do they ever gore the steers?”
“Sure. Sometimes they go right after them and kill them.”
“Can’t the steers do anything?”
“No. They’re trying to make friends.”
“What do they have them in for?”
“To quiet down the bulls and keep them from breaking their horns against the stone walls, or goring each other.”
“Must be swell being a steer.”
We went down the stairs and out of the door and walked across the square toward the café Iruña. There were two lonely looking ticket-houses standing in the square. Their windows, marked SOL, SOL Y SOMBRA, and SOMBRA, were shut. They would not open until the day before the fiesta.
Across the square the white wicker tables and chairs of the Iruña extended out beyond the Arcade to the edge of the street. I looked for Brett and Mike at the tables. There they were. Brett and Mike and Robert Cohn. Brett was wearing a Basque beret. So was Mike. Robert Cohn was bare-headed and wearing his spectacles. Brett saw us coming and waved. Her eyes crinkled up as we came up to the table.
“Hello, you chaps!” she called.
Brett was happy. Mike had a way of getting an intensity of feeling into shaking hands. Robert Cohn shook hands because we were back.
“Where the hell have you been?” I asked.
“I brought them up here,” Cohn said.
“What rot,” Brett said. “We’d have gotten here earlier if you hadn’t come.”
“You’d never have gotten here.”
“What rot! You chaps are brown. Look at Bill.”
“Did you get good fishing?” Mike asked. “We wanted to join you.”
“It wasn’t bad. We missed you.”
“I wanted to come,” Cohn said, “but I thought I ought to bring them.”
“You bring us. What rot.”
“Was it really good?” Mike asked. “Did you take many?”
“Some days we took a dozen apiece. There was an Englishman up there.”
“Named Harris,” Bill said. “Ever know him, Mike? He was in the war, too.”
“Fortunate fellow,” Mike said. “What times we had. How I wish those dear days were back.”
“Don’t be an ass.”
“Were you in the war, Mike?” Cohn asked.
“Was I not.”
“He was a very distinguished soldier,” Brett said. “Tell them about the time your horse bolted down Piccadilly.”
“I’ll not. I’ve told that four times.”
“You never told me,” Robert Cohn said.
“I’ll not tell that story. It reflects discredit on me.”
“Tell them about your medals.”
“I’ll not. That story reflects great discredit on me.”
“What story’s that?”
“Brett will tell you. She tells all the stories that reflect discredit on me.”
“Go on. Tell it, Brett.”
“I’ll tell it myself.”
“What medals have you got, Mike?”
“I haven’t got any medals.”
“You must have some.”
“I suppose I’ve the usual medals. But I never sent in for them. One time there was this whopping big dinner and the Prince of Wales was to be there, and the cards said medals will be worn. So naturally I had no medals, and I stopped at my tailor’s and he was impressed by the invitation, and I thought that’s a good piece of business, and I said to him: ‘You’ve got to fix me up with some medals.’ He said: ‘What medals, sir?’ And I said: ‘Oh, any medals. Just give me a few medals.’ So he said: ‘What medals have you, sir?’ And I said: ‘How should I know?’ Did he think I spent all my time reading the bloody gazette? ‘Just give me a good lot. Pick them out yourself.’ So he got me some medals, you know, miniature medals, and handed me the box, and I put it in my pocket and forgot it. Well, I went to the dinner, and it was the night they’d shot Henry Wilson, so the Prince didn’t come and the King didn’t come, and no one wore any medals, and all these coves were busy taking off their medals, and I had mine in my pocket.”
He stopped for us to laugh.
“That’s all. Perhaps I didn’t tell it right.”
“You didn’t,” said Brett. “But no matter.”
We were all laughing.
“Ah, yes,” said Mike. “I know now. It was a damn dull dinner, and I couldn’t stick it, so I left. Later on in the evening I found the box in my pocket. What’s this? I said. Medals? Bloody military medals? So I cut them all off their backing—you know, they put them on a strip—and gave them all around. Gave one to each girl. Form of souvenir. They thought I was hell’s own shakes of a soldier. Give away medals in a night club. Dashing fellow.”
“Tell the rest,” Brett said.
“Don’t you think that was funny?” Mike asked. We were all laughing. “It was. I swear it was. Any rate, my tailor wrote me and wanted the medals back. Sent a man around. Kept on writing for months. Seems some chap had left them to be cleaned. Frightfully military cove. Set hell’s own store by them.” Mike paused. “Rotten luck for the tailor,” he said.
“You don’t mean it,” Bill said. “I should think it would have been grand for the tailor.”
“Frightfully good tailor. Never believe it to see me now,” Mike said. “I used to pay him a hundred pounds a year just to keep him quiet. So he wouldn’t send me any bills. Frightful blow to him when I went bankrupt. It was right after the medals. Gave his letters rather a bitter tone.”
“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.
“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”
“What brought it on?”
“Friends,” said Mike. “I had a lot of friends. False friends. Then I had creditors, too. Probably had more creditors than anybody in England.”
“Tell them about in the court,” Brett said.
“I don’t remember,” Mike said. “I was just a little tight.”
“Tight!” Brett exclaimed. “You were blind!”
“Extraordinary thing,” Mike said. “Met my former partner the other day. Offered to buy me a drink.”
“Tell them about your learned counsel,” Brett said.
“I will not,” Mike said. “My learned counsel was blind, too. I say this is a gloomy subject. Are we going down and see these bulls unloaded or not?”
“Let’s go down.”
We called the waiter, paid, and started to walk through the town. I started off walking with Brett, but Robert Cohn came up and joined her on the other side. The three of us walked along, past the Ayuntamiento with the banners hung from the balcony, down past the market and down past the steep street that led to the bridge across the Arga. There were many people walking to go and see the bulls, and carriages drove down the hill and across the bridge, the drivers, the horses, and the whips rising above the walking people in the street. Across the bridge we turned up a road to the corrals. We passed a wine-shop with a sign in the window: Good Wine 30 Centimes A Liter.
“That’s where we’ll go when funds get low,” Brett said.
The woman standing in the door of the wine-shop looked at us as we passed. She called to some one in the house and three girls came to the window and stared. They were staring at Brett.
At the gate of the corrals two men took tickets from the people that went in. We went in through the gate. There were trees inside and a low, stone house. At the far end was the stone wall of the corrals, with apertures in the stone that were like loop-holes running all along the face of each corral. A ladder led up to the top of the wall, and people were climbing up the ladder and spreading down to stand on the walls that separated the two corrals. As we came up the ladder, walking across the grass under the trees, we passed the big, gray painted cages with the bulls in them. There was one bull in each travelling-box. They had come by train from a bull-breeding ranch in Castile, and had been unloaded off flat-cars at the station and brought up here to be let out of their cages into the corrals. Each cage was stencilled with the name and the brand of the bull-breeder.
We climbed up and found a place on the wall looking down into the corral. The stone walls were whitewashed, and there was straw on the ground and wooden feed-boxes and water-troughs set against the wall.
“Look up there,” I said.
Beyond the river rose the plateau of the town. All along the old walls and ramparts people were standing. The three lines of fortifications made three black lines of people. Above the walls there were heads in the windows of the houses. At the far end of the plateau boys had climbed into the trees.
“They must think something is going to happen,” Brett said.
“They want to see the bulls.”
Mike and Bill were on the other wall across the pit of the corral. They waved to us. People who had come late were standing behind us, pressing against us when other people crowded them.
“Why don’t they start?” Robert Cohn asked.
A single mule was hitched to one of the cages and dragged it up against the gate in the corral wall. The men shoved and lifted it with crowbars into position against the gate. Men were standing on the wall ready to pull up the gate of the corral and then the gate of the cage. At the other end of the corral a gate opened and two steers came in, swaying their heads and trotting, their lean flanks swinging. They stood together at the far end, their heads toward the gate where the bull would enter.
“They don’t look happy,” Brett said.
The men on top of the wall leaned back and pulled up the door of the corral. Then they pulled up the door of the cage.
I leaned way over the wall and tried to see into the cage. It was dark. Some one rapped on the cage with an iron bar. Inside something seemed to explode. The bull, striking into the wood from side to side with his horns, made a great noise. Then I saw a dark muzzle and the shadow of horns, and then, with a clattering on the wood in the hollow box, the bull charged and came out into the corral, skidding with his forefeet in the straw as he stopped, his head up, the great hump of muscle on his neck swollen tight, his body muscles quivering as he looked up at the crowd on the stone walls. The two steers backed away against the wall, their heads sunken, their eyes watching the bull.
The bull saw them and charged. A man shouted from behind one of the boxes and slapped his hat against the planks, and the bull, before he reached the steer, turned, gathered himself and charged where the man had been, trying to reach him behind the planks with a half-dozen quick, searching drives with the right horn.
“My God, isn’t he beautiful?” Brett said. We were looking right down on him.
“Look how he knows how to use his horns,” I said. “He’s got a left and a right just like a boxer.”
“Not really?”
“You watch.”
“It goes too fast.”
“Wait. There’ll be another one in a minute.”
They had backed up another cage into the entrance. In the far corner a man, from behind one of the plank shelters, attracted the bull, and while the bull was facing away the gate was pulled up and a second bull came out into the corral.
He charged straight for the steers and two men ran out from behind the planks and shouted, to turn him. He did not change his direction and the men shouted: “Hah! Hah! Toro!” and waved their arms; the two steers turned sideways to take the shock, and the bull drove into one of the steers.
“Don’t look,” I said to Brett. She was watching, fascinated.
“Fine,” I said. “If it doesn’t buck you.”
“I saw it,” she said. “I saw him shift from his left to his right horn.”
“Damn good!”
The steer was down now, his neck stretched out, his head twisted, he lay the way he had fallen. Suddenly the bull left off and made for the other steer which had been standing at the far end, his head swinging, watching it all. The steer ran awkwardly and the bull caught him, hooked him lightly in the flank, and then turned away and looked up at the crowd on the walls, his crest of muscle rising. The steer came up to him and made as though to nose at him and the bull hooked perfunctorily. The next time he nosed at the steer and then the two of them trotted over to the other bull.
When the next bull came out, all three, the two bulls and the steer, stood together, their heads side by side, their horns against the newcomer. In a few minutes the steer picked the new bull up, quieted him down, and made him one of the herd. When the last two bulls had been unloaded the herd were all together.
The steer who had been gored had gotten to his feet and stood against the stone wall. None of the bulls came near him, and he did not attempt to join the herd.
We climbed down from the wall with the crowd, and had a last look at the bulls through the loopholes in the wall of the corral. They were all quiet now, their heads down. We got a carriage outside and rode up to the café. Mike and Bill came in half an hour later. They had stopped on the way for several drinks.
We were sitting in the café.
“That’s an extraordinary business,” Brett said.
“Will those last ones fight as well as the first?” Robert Cohn asked. “They seemed to quiet down awfully fast.”
“They all know each other,” I said. “They’re only dangerous when they’re alone, or only two or three of them together.”
“What do you mean, dangerous?” Bill said. “They all looked dangerous to me.”
“They only want to kill when they’re alone. Of course, if you went in there you’d probably detach one of them from the herd, and he’d be dangerous.”
“That’s too complicated,” Bill said. “Don’t you ever detach me from the herd, Mike.”
“I say,” Mike said, “they were fine bulls, weren’t they? Did you see their horns?”
“Did I not,” said Brett. “I had no idea what they were like.”
“Did you see the one hit that steer?” Mike asked. “That was extraordinary.”
“It’s no life being a steer,” Robert Cohn said.
“Don’t you think so?” Mike said. “I would have thought you’d loved being a steer, Robert.”
“What do you mean, Mike?”
“They lead such a quiet life. They never say anything and they’re always hanging about so.”
We were embarrassed. Bill laughed. Robert Cohn was angry. Mike went on talking.
“I should think you’d love it. You’d never have to say a word. Come on, Robert. Do say something. Don’t just sit there.”
“I said something, Mike. Don’t you remember? About the steers.”
“Oh, say something more. Say something funny. Can’t you see we’re all having a good time here?”
“Come off it, Michael. You’re drunk,” Brett said.
“I’m not drunk. I’m quite serious. Is Robert Cohn going to follow Brett around like a steer all the time?”
“Shut up, Michael. Try and show a little breeding.”
“Breeding be damned. Who has any breeding, anyway, except the bulls? Aren’t the bulls lovely? Don’t you like them, Bill? Why don’t you say something, Robert? Don’t sit there looking like a bloody funeral. What if Brett did sleep with you? She’s slept with lots of better people than you.”
“Shut up,” Cohn said. He stood up. “Shut up, Mike.”
“Oh, don’t stand up and act as though you were going to hit me. That won’t make any difference to me. Tell me, Robert. Why do you follow Brett around like a poor bloody steer? Don’t you know you’re not wanted? I know when I’m not wanted. Why don’t you know when you’re not wanted? You came down to San Sebastian where you weren’t wanted, and followed Brett around like a bloody steer. Do you think that’s right?”
“Shut up. You’re drunk.”
“Perhaps I am drunk. Why aren’t you drunk? Why don’t you ever get drunk, Robert? You know you didn’t have a good time at San Sebastian because none of our friends would invite you on any of the parties. You can’t blame them hardly. Can you? I asked them to. They wouldn’t do it. You can’t blame them, now. Can you? Now, answer me. Can you blame them?”
“Go to hell, Mike.”
“I can’t blame them. Can you blame them? Why do you follow Brett around? Haven’t you any manners? How do you think it makes me feel?”
“You’re a splendid one to talk about manners,” Brett said. “You’ve such lovely manners.”
“Come on, Robert,” Bill said.
“What do you follow her around for?”
Bill stood up and took hold of Cohn.
“Don’t go,” Mike said. “Robert Cohn’s going to buy a drink.”
Bill went off with Cohn. Cohn’s face was sallow. Mike went on talking. I sat and listened for a while. Brett looked disgusted.
“I say, Michael, you might not be such a bloody ass,” she interrupted. “I’m not saying he’s not right, you know.” She turned to me.
The emotion left Mike’s voice. We were all friends together.
“I’m not so damn drunk as I sounded,” he said.
“I know you’re not,” Brett said.
“We’re none of us sober,” I said.
“I didn’t say anything I didn’t mean.”
“But you put it so badly,” Brett laughed.
“He was an ass, though. He came down to San Sebastian where he damn well wasn’t wanted. He hung around Brett and just looked at her. It made me damned well sick.”
“He did behave very badly,” Brett said.
“Mark you. Brett’s had affairs with men before. She tells me all about everything. She gave me this chap Cohn’s letters to read. I wouldn’t read them.”
“Damned noble of you.”
“No, listen, Jake. Brett’s gone off with men. But they weren’t ever Jews, and they didn’t come and hang about afterward.”
“Damned good chaps,” Brett said. “It’s all rot to talk about it. Michael and I understand each other.”
“She gave me Robert Cohn’s letters. I wouldn’t read them.”
“You wouldn’t read any letters, darling. You wouldn’t read mine.”
“I can’t read letters,” Mike said. “Funny, isn’t it?”
“You can’t read anything.”
“No. You’re wrong there. I read quite a bit. I read when I’m at home.”
“You’ll be writing next,” Brett said. “Come on, Michael. Do buck up. You’ve got to go through with this thing now. He’s here. Don’t spoil the fiesta.”
“Well, let him behave, then.”
“He’ll behave. I’ll tell him.”
“You tell him, Jake. Tell him either he must behave or get out.”
“Yes,” I said, “it would be nice for me to tell him.”
“Look, Brett. Tell Jake what Robert calls you. That is perfect, you know.”
“Oh, no. I can’t.”
“Go on. We’re all friends. Aren’t we all friends, Jake?”
“I can’t tell him. It’s too ridiculous.”
“I’ll tell him.”
“You won’t, Michael. Don’t be an ass.”
“He calls her Circe,” Mike said. “He claims she turns men into swine. Damn good. I wish I were one of these literary chaps.”
“He’d be good, you know,” Brett said. “He writes a good letter.”
“I know,” I said. “He wrote me from San Sebastian.”
“That was nothing,” Brett said. “He can write a damned amusing letter.”
“She made me write that. She was supposed to be ill.”
“I damned well was, too.”
“Come on,” I said, “we must go in and eat.”
“How should I meet Cohn?” Mike said.
“Just act as though nothing had happened.”
“It’s quite all right with me,” Mike said. “I’m not embarrassed.”
“If he says anything, just say you were tight.”
“Quite. And the funny thing is I think I was tight.”
“Come on,” Brett said. “Are these poisonous things paid for? I must bathe before dinner.”
We walked across the square. It was dark and all around the square were the lights from the cafés under the arcades. We walked across the gravel under the trees to the hotel.
They went up-stairs and I stopped to speak with Montoya.
“Well, how did you like the bulls?” he asked.
“Good. They were nice bulls.”
“They’re all right”—Montoya shook his head—“but they’re not too good.”
“What didn’t you like about them?”
“I don’t know. They just didn’t give me the feeling that they were so good.”
“I know what you mean.”
“They’re all right.”
“Yes. They’re all right.”
“How did your friends like them?”
“Good,” Montoya said.
I went up-stairs. Bill was in his room standing on the balcony looking out at the square. I stood beside him.
“Where’s Cohn?”
“Up-stairs in his room.”
“How does he feel?”
“Like hell, naturally. Mike was awful. He’s terrible when he’s tight.”
“He wasn’t so tight.”
“The hell he wasn’t. I know what we had before we came to the café.”
“He sobered up afterward.”
“Good. He was terrible. I don’t like Cohn, God knows, and I think it was a silly trick for him to go down to San Sebastian, but nobody has any business to talk like Mike.”
“How’d you like the bulls?”
“Grand. It’s grand the way they bring them out.”
“To-morrow come the Miuras.”
“When does the fiesta start?”
“Day after to-morrow.”
“We’ve got to keep Mike from getting so tight. That kind of stuff is terrible.”
“We’d better get cleaned up for supper.”
“Yes. That will be a pleasant meal.”
“Won’t it?”
As a matter of fact, supper was a pleasant meal. Brett wore a black, sleeveless evening dress. She looked quite beautiful. Mike acted as though nothing had happened. I had to go up and bring Robert Cohn down. He was reserved and formal, and his face was still taut and sallow, but he cheered up finally. He could not stop looking at Brett. It seemed to make him happy. It must have been pleasant for him to see her looking so lovely, and know he had been away with her and that every one knew it. They could not take that away from him. Bill was very funny. So was Michael. They were good together.
It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.
The Sun Also Rises, 1926
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