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Street Fighter V Would Be Just As Good Without Mega Boobs
Among the many problems plaguing the release of Street Fighter V — you know, not being able to find an online match at launch, there not being an arcade mode, and rage quitting, for instance — it seems as though its biggest issue is being greatly overlooked and under-discussed: what the hell is up with the character models for ALL of the females on the roster?
I remember as a child, playing Super Street Fighter II Turbo for hours on end. Hours upon hours were spent cheesing with Chun Li’s Hyakuretsukyaku, Ryu’s Habdoukens and electrocuting those who got close as Blanka. Never once did I think, “Man, you know what this game really needs? Bigger boobs!” Sure, Chun Li was cute, and she was probably my first crush, but she wasn’t over-the-top sexualized like she is now (see What’s Going On With Chun Li’s Ridiculous Boob Physics via Eurogamer for an interesting video).
I know, I know — how dare a die hard fan attack our beloved franchise. Well, this isn’t the same game we’ve all been playing for so long, and what was once a must-play fighting franchise that allowed gamers to feel an unprecedented level of self-expression is now a game that focuses on T&A instead of a fun and strange experience. In fact, the latest Street Fighter takes the sexuality to the nth degree.
The biggest offender in the latest iteration of the franchise is R. Mika, a wrestler who is proportionally, well, top heavy. But her chestiness isn’t the only thing that makes R. Mika standout on the roster of mostly otherwise great-looking characters (I love the new Dhalsim). Last year, Capcom found themselves in some hot water over some of R. Mika’s animations, one of which showed the fighter smacking her butt after winning with her super attack. Capcom, attempting to save some face, decided to change the animation, moving the butt slap off camera. Although they didn’t give an official reason for their change of heart, the change undeniably came about after online backlash. But what about the fact that she still does a butt bounce at her enemy? Or the fact that she’s frequently depicted in sexual poses?
R. Mika is just the start of Street Fighter V‘s character design flaws. Take a look at Laura’s design, especially in her alternate costume. And, the numerous crotch shots.
As a side note, I always wonder how these sorts of conversations go. Is the game director walking around, checking out the animations and saying things like, “No, her boobs are too small. No, too much clothing. No, the jiggle physics are all wrong!” Seriously, am I the only one who wonders these things? You have to know that the results we’re seeing in-game are deliberate. The thought that these directors and designers are having actual, thought-out and thorough discussions on their character designs only to see results like R. Mika and Laura as they are in SFV is an outrage in itself.
I’ll point out that female sexuality is not inherently a negative thing; the problem arises when women are objectified and their sexuality is being exploited for the male gaze. Street Fighter V is pandering to a predominantly male audience, which is why Capcom is failing to attract a stronger female fan base for the franchise.
Of course, Street Fighter V isn’t even the biggest offender of oversexualization. I know this; I’m not unaware of Dead or Alive. But where Street Fighter seems to be heading is more noteworthy, since the fighting game franchise hasn’t always been the ridiculous experience SFV offers. Dead or Alive, on the other hand, has always been the absolute worst offender.
But the point of all of this is to present the question, why is it all necessary? Why does Capcom feel the need to go over-the-top? I’m certain that fighting game fans wouldn’t have skipped the game if R. Mika had a B cup. If Laura was a little on the heavy side, would we not have preordered? No, and THAT’S the point that’s important here. We are in an internet of things age where pretty much everything around us can browse the web. If the fighting game community feels the need to check out some scantily clad women, there are sites on top of sites on top of sites dedicated to just about everything you can imagine. When we’re able to get porn on our smartwatches, do we need it in our video games?
It appears as though so-called artistic liberty in the form of gratuitously oversexualized characters has become more important than not contributing to the objectification of women. Maybe if Capcom’s developers focused less on making their characters smack their asses and more on actually developing important things (you know, like an arcade mode), Street Fighter V might not be so bad. But as it stands right now, the franchise is trying to up the sexy factor to attract new players, but instead of getting the results they’re looking for, it’s looking like the ugliest person in the room.
What are your thoughts about the character design in Street Fighter V? Sound off in the comments below.
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State Employees’ Credit Union Review: Checking, Savings and CDs
SECU has more than 260 branches and more than 1,100 network ATMs in North Carolina, but membership is limited outside of the state. It has solid checking and savings accounts, but checking comes with a $1 monthly fee.
Margarette BurnetteOctober 16, 2019
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The bottom line: If you live in North Carolina, there’s a good chance you’re near a State Employees’ Credit Union branch. But there's not much presence outside the state. The credit union's checking and savings accounts earn interest, but membership is limited primarily to employees of the government and their families.
Basic checking account earns interest.
No minimum deposit required to open a checking account.
Call center is staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Membership is limited outside of North Carolina.
The $1 monthly checking fee cannot be waived.
State Employees' Credit Union Share Account
With $25 minimum balance
Like many credit unions, SECU requires members to open a share account, which is the credit union version of a savings account. You need just $25 minimum to open an account.
State Employees' Credit Union Checking Account
With $1 minimum balance
The 0.10% annual percentage yield on SECU’s basic checking account is better than what many traditional banks and even some online banks offer. There is no minimum deposit required to open an account. But once the account is open, you must keep enough in it to cover the $1 monthly maintenance fee and any other charges you incur. Another plus: There are more than a thousand ATMs in North Carolina.
State Employees' Credit Union CD
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SECU offers a variety of share term certificates, the credit union equivalent of certificates of deposit. The certificate terms range from six months to five years. The certificates require a minimum deposit of $250, which is reasonable compared to other banks and credit unions — those often have minimums of $1,000 or more.
SECU’s network is best for those living in North Carolina. Membership is limited primarily to employees of the state government and their families. If you’re eligible, though, you’re joining a big community. The credit union claims membership of about 20% of North Carolina’s residents.
The call center is staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The credit union also boasts solid ratings for its iOS and Android apps.
SECU waives NSF fees for the first two days you overspend your checking account per year. In addition, SECU offers a program called Another Chance Alert to let members know about pending NSF transactions. The program gives members until 5:30 p.m. that day to make a checking deposit to cover the shortfall.
If you do overdraw your account after those first two forgiveness days, the NSF fee is $12 per item. But that’s well below the average for the country’s largest credit unions — $26 — according to recent NerdWallet research. Linking a SECU savings or credit account for overdraft transfers is also a cheap way to avoid NSF fees. You get two free per year, and after that the credit union will charge 50 cents per transfer — up to six transfers each month.
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Project: 6.5
Citizen science for threatened species conservation and building community support
Project Leaders: Richard Fuller
Citizen science is surging in Australia, and represents a huge opportunity to engage the public with threatened species, to capture valuable data and to deliver crowd-sourced on-ground conservation action. This project will deliver protocols to guide the application of citizen science to threatened species monitoring and management.
Citizen science collected information on Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo has been utilised in recovery planning for the species which is listed as endangered by the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. Photo: Ralph Green Flickr CC.
Substantial investment is being made in citizen science programs in Australia and a huge opportunity exists to harness citizen science programs to benefit threatened species conservation. While there have been many highly successful citizen science programs in Australia there have also been failures. No comprehensive evidence based guidelines exist to inform the development of citizen science programs.
To date, there has been no assessment of the extent to which citizen science programs can raise support for threatened species conservation, and can transition participants from data collection to delivering on-ground conservation actions for threatened species. Citizen science is thus arguably failing to reach its full potential for threatened species conservation in Australia.
Finally, robust citizen science data could be used to support planning, reporting and decision making in many areas, such as; threatened species recovery and threat abatement planning; State of the Environment and Convention on Biological Diversity reporting; spatial prioritisation for the National Landcare Programme; and assessment of programs such as the 20 million trees program. To enable this, confidence in the quality of the data will be essential, and will need to be directed to strategically relevant times and locations.
This project will extend existing research about why and how the Australian public engages in citizen science, and will examine how this relates to Australia’s threatened species. In particular the project will:
Review Australian citizen science programs relevant to threatened species in order to determine the design features of a successful citizen science program
Develop and test methods to use citizen science programs to scale up threatened species monitoring and improve quality
Plan a trial program to transition citizen scientists from observers to conservation actors.
The project will improve our understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of alternative citizen science program models, including constraints and barriers to participation and achievement of program goals. It will deliver protocols to guide the application of citizen science to threatened species monitoring and management in Australia. A range of supporting communication tools will also be developed to share the findings of this project with citizen science programs relevant to threatened species monitoring and management.
Citizen scientists can increase the coverage of monitoring programs. Photo: Claire Fuller
The project activities focus on three areas:
1. Discovering the design features of a successful citizen science program
The team will conduct a thorough review of Australian citizen science programs relevant to threatened species to determine why some programs are successful and others are not. Using content analysis and questionnaire surveys, citizen science programs will be examined based on tried and tested evaluation frameworks. Finally there will be an assessment of the characteristics that lead to success of a project.
2. Develop and test methods for scaling up threatened species monitoring through citizen science in Australia
The team will design experiments to enhance the quality and quantity of threatened species monitoring data, using established and successful citizen science programs, such as eBird and Birdata. Experimental interventions will involve directing monitoring to strategic locations or times using novel and innovative methods of communication and information sharing.
3. Plan a trial for transitioning citizen scientists from observers to conservation actors
For some threatened species, especially those occurring in or near urban areas, management actions taken by the public can play a significant role in their conservation. Actions, such as deliberately planting habitat trees in your yard, can also increase the connection a person feels with threatened species conservation. During this initial one year project we will identify a case study, negotiate with the relevant stakeholders, and produce a plan for establishing an experimental regime for testing whether citizen scientists can be transitioned into delivering on-ground conservation actions that help recover threatened species.
Many citizen science programs utilise bird watchers. Photo: Rochelle Steven
The project is being undertaken by researchers from the University of Queensland, RMIT, Charles Darwin University, the Australian National University and CSIRO, working in close collaboration with BirdLife Australia. Each group brings a suite of specialised skills, including ecological, social and technical capabilities, to ensure the project outcomes are of a high standard and are useful to key stakeholders in threatened species recovery.
The project aims to influence on-ground participation in threatened species surveillance and management across Australia. Citizen scientists and citizen scientist generated datasets reach across the whole of the continent and as such, the review component of this project will cover all threatened species related citizen science in Australia. The on-ground experimental component will be undertaken in the South East Queensland region.
This is the first stage of a longer three year project. The first stage will run for one year beginning in 2017.
For more information please contact Rochelle Steven - r.steven@uq.edu.au
Top image: Birdwatchers at Mount Tambourine, QLD. Photo: Nicolas Rakotopare
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How citizen science programs are implemented in Australia for threatened species
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Medication errors and adverse drug events in a UK hospital during the optimisation of electronic prescriptions: A prospective observational study
Slight SP, Tolley CL, Bates DW, Fraser R, Bigirumurame T, Kasim A, Balaskonis K, Narrie S, Heed A, Orav EJ, Watson NW
Background: WHO’s Third Global Patient Safety Challenge, Medication Without Harm, focused on reducing the substantial burden of iatrogenic harm associated with medications by 50% in the next 5 years. We aimed to assess whether the number and type of medication errors changed as an electronic prescribing system was optimised over time in a UK hospital.
Methods: We did a prospective observational study at a tertiary-care teaching hospital. Eight senior clinical pharmacists reviewed patients’ records and collected data across four adult wards (renal, cardiology, general medical, and orthopaedic surgical) over a 2-year period (from Sept 29, 2014, to June 9, 2016). All medication errors and potential and actual adverse drug events were documented and the number of medication errors measured over the course of four time periods 7–10 weeks long. Pharmacists also recorded instances where the electronic prescribing system contributed to an error (system-related errors). A negative-binomial model and a Poisson model were used to identify factors related to medication error rates.
Findings: 5796 primary errors were recorded over the four time periods (period 1, 47 days [Sep 29–Dec 2, 2014]; period 2, 38 days [April 20–June 12, 2015, for the renal, medical, and surgical wards and April 20–June 15, 2015, for the cardiology ward]; period 3, 35 days [Sep 28–Nov 27, 2015] for the renal ward, 37 days [Sep 28–Nov 23, 2015] for the medical ward, and 40 days [Sep 28–Nov 20, 2015] for the cardiology and surgical wards; and period 4, 37 days [Feb 22–April 15, 2015] for the renal and medical wards and 39 days for the cardiology [April 13–June 7, 2015] and surgery [April 18–June 9, 2015] wards; unanticipated organisational factors prevented data collection on some days during each time period). There was no change in the rate of primary medication errors per admission over the observation periods: 1·53 medication errors in period 1, 1·44 medication errors in period 2, 1·70 medication errors in period 3, and 1·43 medication errors in period 4, per admission. By contrast, the overall rate of different types of medication errors decreased over the four periods. The most common types of error were medicine-reconciliation, dose, and avoidable delay-of-treatment errors. Some types of errors appeared to reduce over time (eg, dose errors [from 52 errors in period 1 to 19 errors in period 4, per 100 admissions]), whereas others increased (eg, inadequate follow-up of therapy [from 12 errors in period 1 to 24 errors in period 4, per 100 admissions]). We also found a reduction in the rates of potential adverse drug events between the first three periods and period 4. 436 system-related errors were recorded over the study period.
Interpretation: Although the overall rates of primary medication errors per admission did not change, we found a reduction in some error types and a significant decrease in the rates of potential adverse drug events over a 2-year period, during which system optimisation occurred. Targeting some error types could have the added benefit of reducing others, which suggests that system optimisation could ultimately help improve patient safety and outcomes.
Funding: No funding.
Lancet Digital Health 2019; 1(8):e403-e412
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Coronavirus: Ministry of Health denies it misled Kiwis after COVID-19 hospital case numbers higher than reported
Michael Morrah
Watch: The Ministry of Health has now changed its wording after claims its hospital COVID-19 case numbers were misleading. Credits: Newshub.
Each day at 1pm, we're told how many people are in hospital with COVID-19 - but Newshub has discovered that often there are more people in hospital with the virus than we're told.
The Ministry of Health has now changed the way it publicly reports the number of positive patients in hospital, after Newshub identified the actual number was higher than official figures.
It's led to claims the data has been presented in a misleading way, although the Director-General of Health says he's been "very open" with the numbers.
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'In hospital' used to be the messaging when publicly talking about the numbers in our hospitals with COVID-19 - but on Tuesday, after Newshub raised concerns about the information, there was a subtle change in language.
"Today there are just two people in hospital-level care," Dr Ashley Bloomfield said.
It may sound similar - but there's a big difference between those in hospital, and those in hospital-level care.
Email Investigations Reporter Michael Morrah in confidence if you have more information at michaelmorrah@mediaworks.co.nz.
Dr Bloomfield on Tuesday said "we have been very open with the data to date" - but exactly how open has the Ministry of Health been?
Its press statement stated on Monday: "Today there are again two people in hospital with COVID-19, one each in Middlemore and North Shore hospitals."
However a North Shore Hospital status report, obtained by Newshub and sent to staff at 1:30pm - exactly 30 minutes after the Ministry's statement - showed there were in fact five COVID-19 patients at the hospital.
An employee from the Waitemata DHB says in her mind, the Ministry's reporting of the data has been misleading. She says what is being stated publicly isn't actually the reality in terms of the numbers of patients with COVID at hospitals around the country.
Since Newshub pointed out that the figures didn't add up, the Ministry has changed its language.
Dr Bloomfield says the Ministry hasn't been misleading, but some people from rest homes who have COVID-19 are in hospital because the facilities they were in had staffing issues.
"We haven't counted them in our numbers of people who are requiring hospital-level care," Dr Bloomfield said. "We are happy to make that clear on the website."
So to clarify, the numbers of confirmed COVID-19 patients staying in our hospitals tonight is five - not just two as reported by the Ministry of Health.
On Tuesday night the Health Ministry sent Newshub an email after we pointed out the discrepancies in the way they'd been reporting the cases.
"You asked today about our reporting of hospital patients with COVID-19 linked to St Margaret's and Dr Bloomfield agreed to change the way this was reported on the Ministry's website," a spokesperson told Newshub.
"This has now been changed."
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Jacinda Ardern's COVID-19 re-emergence plan: The scenario that could lead to nationwide lockdown
Zane Small
Anna Bracewell-Worrall
Watch: The Government has revealed what it would take to return to lockdown. Credits: Newshub
If multiple clusters of COVID-19 re-emerge in the community New Zealand will be put back into nationwide lockdown - but the Government would look to localise the response first to keep the economy open.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern delivered a speech on Wednesday laying out the Government's plan in the event of a COVID-19 re-emergence in the community as is being seen in Australia and around the world.
It has been 75 days since community transmission in New Zealand, but Ardern said the businesses community has asked the Government to provide a framework for what it would take for the country to be put back into lockdown.
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What if there's a case in a community?
Ardern said strong restrictions would be applied locally in a neighbourhood, town or city to contain the coronavirus outbreak and stop it from spreading.
The nation would remain at alert level 1 and only local measures would be put in place, including rapid contract tracing, and isolation of contacts, and scaled up targeted testing of people connected to cases.
"The point with this scenario is we would look at act hard and fast, but local in an attempt to ring fence the virus," Ardern said.
What about a cluster within a region?
A significant cluster within a region would prompt the Government to undertake "much wider" community testing, on top of testing any contacts or potential contacts of those with the virus.
Ardern said this would be similar to the situation in the Australian state of Victoria where health staff went door to door to test people in affected areas.
The Government would also look to stop the spread to other parts of the country so a regional shift in alert level would likely be applied to the restricted area. That would mean inter-regional travel to that area would be stopped.
"The aim here is to contain the spread away from other areas to avoid the whole country having to put in place restrictions so we can remain at alert level 1 nationally, depending on the evidence of risk of spread outside the region," Ardern said.
What about multiple clusters nationally?
In the case of multiple clusters appearing across the country, Ardern said the Government would most likely apply a nationwide increase in alert level to stop transmission.
"There is an assumption in all of these scenarios that we know whether we have a contained outbreak or not. Where we don't have full information, we will take a precautionary approach, and scale back as needed, rather than run the risk of doing too little too late," Ardern said.
"Ultimately though, as with the original application of the alert levels we will be guided by science and what we know works."
She said internationally the evidence is that "going hard and early" is the best way to stop the virus and "ultimately delivers the best results" for human health and the economy over "half measures" that could see the country in lockdown for longer.
The Prime Minister said the Australian state of Victoria is a "cautionary tale" for New Zealand that we can learn from. The state reported on Tuesday a further 270 cases over 24 hours - the third-highest daily increase since the start of the pandemic.
"It appears their current outbreak is linked to a managed isolation facility similar to the ones we run here and that the entire outbreak was seeded by just two cases," Ardern said.
"That goes to show how quickly the virus can spread and it can move from being under control to out of control, and that even the best plans still carry risk in a pandemic."
Ardern said the Government's testing regime is "picking up" amongst new arrivals who are in managed isolation with nearly 30,000 people going through a facility without a COVID-19 case transferring to the community.
But the Government has had a few slip-ups. Four people have managed to break out of the facilities and last month two COVID-19-carrying sisters had been allowed to leave an Auckland managed isolation facility on compassionate grounds without being tested first.
That was despite new rules introduced on June 9 that people in managed isolation and quarantine facilities need to be tested at days 3 and 12, and that a negative result is required for the day 12 test before being allowed to leave.
"There is limited room for error," Ardern said. "The first thing we need to do is continue to ensure our border and our managed isolation facilities stay as tight as they can be."
She said Australia is currently conducting an audit of its quarantine system and Australian Prime Minister Morrison has been asked to share any insights so New Zealand can learn and improve on what's being carried out.
Ardern also said the Government's strategy for responding to the COVID-19 pandemic remains elimination. That has not and will not change, she said.
"We have seen overseas the toll that that takes on lives and economies.... The simple approach of limiting the ability for the virus to move from human to human to break the chain of transmission remains the foundation of our response no matter what."
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Facebook Announces Changes To Relevance Score
Facebook is removing its Ad Relevance Score and replacing it with three new metrics, which seems to be a good thing for advertisers. So, what is an Ad Relevance Score, and why does this matter?
The Ad Relevance Score exists to give advertisers an idea of how their ads should perform, based on positive and negative feedback from an audience. The higher the score, the more relevant the ad and the better it is expected to run.
The three new metrics will allow advertisers to look more closely at different elements of their ad’s relevance. The metrics are Quality Ranking, Engagement Rate Ranking and Conversion Rate Ranking.
With these three more granular metrics, advertisers will be able to identify key areas for improvement. We should see the new metrics over the next few weeks, and we’ll say goodbye to the Ad Relevance Score on April 30. Read more @Social Media Today
Google Removed 2.3 Billion Bad Ads Last Year
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Google recently shared that it removed more than 2.3 billion ads, and almost a million advertiser accounts last year. As an industry leader in online advertising, Google’s work sets a standard across the board.
Google removes ads in accordance with it’s policies on allowable content. A recent policy banned ads from for-profit bail bond providers, when it was seen that the industry was taking advantage of at-risk communities. Other areas which faced restrictions included ticket reselling, cryptocurrency, addiction support, and, of all things, garage door repair services.
For well-meaning advertisers, a new Policy manager in Google Ads will give tips and explain policy changes to help advertisers meet Google’s standards. Read more @Google Ads Blog
All Your Wizarding Dreams Just Came True
The wizarding world is in trouble; magical creatures and artefacts have appeared all over the world and left the secrecy of the wizarding world at stake. The ministry of magic has called on wizards everywhere to take action. This is the premise of the new AR game, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, from Niantic, creators of Pokemon Go!
Just like in Pokemon Go!, players walk around the real world, and discover magical places using their phones. They then see an AR view of their surroundings, in which they can fight off evil using various spells.
Players can also make themselves a house, choose an occupation and collect ingredients to brew potions.
The game should be released at some point this year, but Niantic isn’t saying exactly when yet. Knowing Potterheads, (Harry Potter fans, for those not in the know) the game is likely to be incredibly popular, whenever it arrives. Read More @Variety
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Countdown to a Vaccine
Five Experiences of the Pandemic
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Finding Connection and Resilience During the Coronavirus Pandemic
By Robin Wright
In a mass-quarantine center in Wuhan, the megacity where this coronavirus first emerged, women have turned to karaoke to lift the spirits of sequestered groups.Photograph by Wang Yuguo / Xinhua / Redux
Across the globe, a coronavirus culture is emerging, spontaneously and creatively, to deal with public fear, restrictions on daily life, and the tedious isolation of quarantine. “This is a bad science-fiction movie that is real,” Agustín Fuentes, an evolutionary anthropologist at the University of Notre Dame, told me, in a late-night discussion this week, about how COVID-19 may alter the human journey. He envisions a profound evolutionary process to insure the survival of the species as pandemics become more common. It’s already visible.
“What is so important to humanity is connection. The kind of quarantines—in New York and Seattle, and what will happen in thousands of other places in the United States—will require people to connect in other ways,” he said. “One of the amazing things about the human species—once harmless critters not much more than monkeys running around—is that, over time, we have become very creative. We’ve adapted to survive. That’s what people will rely on now—coming up with incredibly imaginative ways to find connections even when they’re not in the same physical space together.”
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In these early days of the global pandemic, human creativity has centered largely on simple forms of relief and release. In China, the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak and a nation where almost eight hundred million people have experienced some form of lockdown, night clubs that were forced to shut their doors have turned to virtual “cloud clubbing.” Viewers can watch d.j. sets on streaming platforms and send in messages to be read live, to create the illusion that they are connected. The new reality show “Home Karaoke Station” features famous singers taking requests, engaging with viewers, and performing—from self-quarantine in their own homes. Shuttered gyms have offered workout classes online or via the popular WeChat social-messaging app. Other Chinese people on WeChat created a group looking for love under lockdown. In one of the twenty-plus mass-quarantine centers in Wuhan, the megacity where this coronavirus first emerged, women have turned to karaoke to lift the spirits of sequestered groups. At night, echoes of “Wuhan Jiayou”—or “Stay Strong Wuhan”—have been heard as Chinese shout encouragement at each other from their windows.
The new reality show “Home Karaoke Station,” in China, features famous singers taking requests and performing from self-quarantine in their homes.Source: iQiyi
In Iran, another of the COVID-19 “red zones,” doctors and nurses—individually and in groups—have participated in a coronavirus dance challenge, posting videos of themselves dancing to lively music in hazmat suits. Other medical staff in quarantine serenaded each other or brought instruments to perform for sequestered patients. A third-grade teacher in Khuzestan Province improvised to keep her classes going online after schools were closed nationwide. Stuck at home, she used the side of her refrigerator as a whiteboard. With a blue marker, she wrote out the rules, with diagrams, to explain how to calculate the area of squares, rectangles, and triangles. A photo of her lesson went viral on Twitter.
Over time, the impact of the novel coronavirus may be so sweeping that it alters human rituals and behaviors that have evolved over millennia. “This could change everything from the way we conduct our economy to our greeting and grieving rituals,” Fuentes said. “We’ve had plenty of things thrown up at us before, although this is on an unprecedented scale.”
One of the keys to stemming the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, between 2013 and 2016, was changing long-standing traditions about dealing with the dead, including touching a corpse before burial. In just one case, in 2014, twenty-eight people became ill with Ebola from the three-day funeral of a prominent pharmacist in Sierra Leone; eight later died. “The Ebola virus causes a horrific death. You bleed all your fluids out,” Terrence Deacon, a professor of biological anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, told me. “The worst thing you can do with Ebola is to touch the dead, because their bodies are filled with virus-filled fluids. People had to go in with guns to prevent families from interacting with their dead.” Behavior changed; the epidemic eased.
Traditions develop because they fit the ecology and biology of the times—and get passed on because the people who do them are better off. The evolution of rituals has already begun in small ways—not congregating, not travelling, or attending meetings virtually. Around the world, many people have stopped shaking hands, a tradition that originated as a sign of trust but is now the most common way of transmitting the disease.
“We’re such a social species that it’s hard not to touch each other,” Deacon said. “So much of our communication is about touch. We don’t have conventions about how to behave under circumstances like these. We’ll develop new cultural habits, new tricks, new mnemonics to get by. We’re already experimenting.” After the coronavirus outbreak, he attended a workshop of his peers at Stanford. “People were bowing or touching elbows. We didn’t know what to do,” he said. “But we knew we had to avoid shaking hands.”
I asked Deacon if he thought COVID-19 would mark the end of the handshake. “It could be,” he replied. “Behaviors are driven by the context. Shaking hands is about trust. If that behavior passes on a deadly virus, then it affects our trust markers.”
Last week, Sylvie Briand, the director of the Department of Pandemic and Epidemic diseases at the World Health Organization, tweeted a cartoon of “handshake alternatives,” captioned “the elbow,” the “Thai wai” bow with hands together in front, and a sort of queenly wave. “We need to adapt to this new disease,” Briand wrote. In China, the so-called Wuhan shake—a kind of foot-shake, tapping shoes together—emerged initially in jest but soon in seriousness. At the ceremonial opening of a bridge in Tehran last month, the mayor and the provincial governor traded fist-bump gestures, coming close but not touching their hands.
In Europe, adaptations to COVID-19 even crept into Fashion Week last month. Giorgio Armani cancelled his show at Milan Fashion Week, and instead débuted his winter collection from an empty theatre to an online audience. Even with no viewers, he opted to wear a face mask. At Paris Fashion Week, models for Marine Serre strode the catwalk in outfits with matching masks. Women in the front row of Dries Van Noten’s show were photographed wearing their own masks. In Croatia, the designer Zoran Aragović, of the BiteMyStyle brand, created mask accessories in bright colors inspired by comic books, Pop art, and Disney characters. They’re more fashion accessories than medical protection.
The need to adapt almost certainly will not end with a vaccine for COVID-19. “The Darwinian story here is that we are in environments where these viruses mutate. The common cold is a coronavirus that keeps mutating. Viruses are evolution in action—on steroids,” Deacon said. In the twenty-first century, changes in the pattern of human existence—from global commerce and travel to climate change—could produce viruses that breed faster and move farther.
But Darwinian evolution is not necessarily all bad, Samuel Paul Veissière, an evolutionary anthropologist and the co-director of the Culture, Mind and Brain Program at McGill University, told me. Quarantines date to Neolithic times—and the transition from hunter-gathering to sedentary agricultural life—when zoonotic pathogens transferred from animals to humans produced infectious diseases and early epidemics. Communities eventually developed immunities to local diseases, but not to others nearby. “It’s quite possible that we evolved into being fearful of diseases and of strangers,” he said. For millennia, people have been overly attentive to potential threats, because “our psychological bias makes us assume that there are pathogens in other humans.”
At the same time, however, humans tend to be an altruistic and coöperative species when it comes to survival. “One of the wonderful things that happens is that people coöperate when there’s a natural disaster,” Veissière said. “That’s how we evolved in harsh conditions.” The one caveat, he cautioned, is that modern societies, particularly in the West, are not as used to such sweeping bodily or mortal threats in the twenty-first century. The 9/11 attacks were such a shock to Americans because they had not experienced such an epic challenge to their physical or national survival since the Civil War or the attack on Pearl Harbor. “There’s been an erosion of resilience in over-safe societies. We’re not as used to threats anymore,” Veissière said. There are also dangers the pandemic “will harness the dark psychological biases that increase social competition,” he said. So the process of adapting to COVID-19 is just beginning. This turning point in human evolution still has much more to come.
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Cohering the Radical Present
SCHOOL FOR EMPATHS
WITH DAVID SAUVAGE
3 in-depth, online and interactive sessions
Two hours each
Wednesday, April 18 @ 7:30 pm EST / 4:30 pm PST
Sunday, April 22 @ 7:30 pm EST / 4:30 pm PST
Tuesday, April 24 @ 7:30 pm EST / 4:30 pm PST
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Everything you need to know about protecting yourself and unlocking your superpower
Learn everything you want to know about being an empath from a master empath and superb teacher. This live, interactive course is playful, deep, informative, spontaneous and ultimately transformational. You’ll learn how to distinguish your emotions from other people’s emotions, how to protect yourself and cleanse yourself, how to establish healthy boundaries in the trickiest relationships, and how to approach your own healing with self-compassion and patience.
Above all, you’ll expand your gifts so that you can give them joyfully, in fullness, back to the world.
Think of this class as an initiation. You’ll emerge as a proud member of a community of empaths who know how to handle their superpowers.
Your teacher is David Sauvage, a professional empath who was singled out in the Guardian as a master of his craft. David is capable of emptying out his nervous system, tuning into people on command, absorbing their emotions fully, providing deep insight into their lives, and returning to himself safely— all thanks to the methods he will share with you. He has performed empathic readings everywhere from art galleries, to virtual reality, to the middle of Times Square. Recently, he taught “How to Thrive as an Empath” on Evolver Learning Lab to glowing reviews. Students reported that just by taking the class, they felt centered and empowered. A shaman by nature, David doesn’t just present information; he creates transformational experiences.
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Wednesday, April 18, 7:30 pm EST / 4:30 pm PST
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Tuesday, April 24, 7:30 pm EST / 4:30 pm PST
(April 18)
Lesson one: What is an empath?
In this lesson, we will explore:
The origin and evolution of the word "empath": from 1950s pulp science fiction to the pop internet psychology of today.
The similarities and differences between Highly Sensitive People (HSP), introverts, and empaths.
The latest science on empaths.
Reviewing Dr. Judith Orloff’s "Are You An Empath?" online assessment test.
Lesson two: Self-protection and cleansing
In this lesson, you will learn:
The basics of emotional self-awareness.
How to distinguish your feelings from others’.
Protect yourself when you’re around energy you don’t want. Release the energy you do absorb.
Daily rituals and full detoxes to keep yourself clear.
Lesson 3: Establish healthy boundaries
In this lesson you will discover how to:
Acknowledge your deepest entanglements.
Separate your empathic feelings from your sense of obligation.
Dispel the illusion of goodness.
Know your needs, especially the ones you’re ashamed of, and share them through Non-violent Communication.
LESSON 4: HEALING THE WOUNDS
In this lesson you will learn about:
Self-compassion and self-acceptance as the foundation of healing.
Emotion Exposure and tolerating intense feelings.
The many techniques, physical, therapeutic and shamanic, to heal yourself. There’s no rush. Everyone has their path.
Insights on plant medicine and psychedelics.
Healing the trickiest wounds of all: the ones you inherited from your family. The wounds that are deepest within you.
LESSON 5: Giving your gifts
In this lesson you will learn:
How to own what you’ve got and notice how you use your gifts already.
Empathy as a psychic superpower (aka “clairsentience”).
David’s method of empathic readings.
How to test, refine, fail, explore and grow as you develop your own style and practice.
LESSON 6: Empaths Unite!
In our final lesson, we will explore these topics together:
There’s no going alone. We grow from surrendering ourselves to others.
Can empaths save the world?
We can create and and share feelings with others.
A closing meditation.
3 live, interactive sessions with David Sauvage. Each session is 2 hours with a short, mid-session break.
3 interactive Q&A portions of the live sessions, approximately 30 minutes each.
Audio and video recordings of each session — sent to your inbox after every class.
Unlimited access to a Class Portal, where you can engage in discussion with David, share your experiences, and access the recorded materials as well as additional class multimedia.
"Find the others." Join a community of seekers, practitioners, and fellow empaths looking to self-actualize in an atmosphere of mutual transformation and support.
Wednesday, April 18 @ 7:30 p.m. EST / 4:30 p.m. PST
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The renowned Graham Company brings Sacred/Profane back to New York after its acclaimed international tour.
Experience the powerhouse Graham dancers in this season’s world premiere and recent commissions by choreographers Lucinda Childs and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, with a special presentation of Lar Lubovitch's Legend of Ten in celebration of his Company's 50th anniversary. Rediscover Graham’s genius through her visceral masterwork The Rite of Spring, her powerful anti-war statement Chronicle, and sly melodrama Embattled Garden. Explore the origin of Graham’s technique with the captivating solo Ekstasis, and with over 30 local dance students in the tour de force Panorama, from 1935.
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Addabbo marches with Rockaway high school seniors during 2018 College March
Each year State Senator Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr. participates in NYC Outward Bound’s College March where students march from their high school classrooms to mail their college applications, and this year he marched with the seniors from Channel View School for Research in the Rockaways.
On Friday, December 14, Addabbo took the march with the Channel View seniors as they met with a representative from the United States Postal Service who stamped their letters, preparing them to be sent to their colleges of choice.
“I love attending these College Marches every year,” Addabbo said. “It is really a great experience, especially for the seniors because it is a time of such hope and aspiration for them as they anticipate their future prospects. One of my favorite parts of the entire march is that the younger students are involved and they cheer the seniors on with signs and fanfare, which encourages the other students to apply for college when they become seniors.”
After the march, the students, faculty, and invited guests were treated to performances by Channel View’s dance team, step team, and choir.
“I would like to thank NYC Outward Bound Schools and the event’s sponsor Capital One for making this march possible for thousands of seniors across the city,” Addabbo said. “I look forward to keeping this great tradition alive for many more classes of seniors. All the best to the Class of 2019 as they move toward their dream of going to college.”
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife Sophie were assassinated in the Bosnian city of Sarajevo. This was a key event in sparking the Great War of 1914–18.
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Desjardins downs Jensen for CRD chair
Esquimalt mayor retains her position as chair of the regional board
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Nov. 7, 2016 9:00 a.m.
Mayor Nils Jensen
In a second consecutive head-to-head vote, Esquimalt Mayor Barb Desjardins retains her role as Capital Regional District board chair after last week’s board meeting.
Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen was also nominated for the role during the meeting Nov. 9.
The chair is elected each year.
“This has certainly been an exciting year at CRD and I’ve been encouraged by the board’s energy and your willingness to take ownership of issues that have come our way regardless of our differing opinions,” Desjardins said, during her four minutes allotted to address the board before the vote. “I came into the chair’s position seeking positive change through efficiency … as a result we were able to reduce the number of new staff requests in the 2016 budget.”
She congratulated the entire board for bringing “some conclusion” to the sewage treatment problem, and noted they’re poised to meet climate action charter commitments and put forward several regional initiatives going forward such as housing first strategy, transportation service development and input on regional government study.
“I intend to call a special committee of the whole meeting when time permits to have a full board discussion providing input regarding committees, structure and composition,” Desjardins said, “I do not intend to take the foot off the pedal, nor I hope will your enthusiasm wane.”
Desjardins was elected Esquimalt mayor in 2008 and has served on the CRD board since 2009.
Jensen also outlined a need to work efficiently and smartly, also looking at governance and committee structure.
“At the heart of our work is the ability to come together, sometimes in challenging circumstances, to responsibly manage resources, infrastructure and services,” Jensen said. “We need to, by the virtue of what we do – our actions – reconfirm the vital role that the CRD plays in our region.”
Broad community issues include sewage treatment, housing, transportation that require regional solutions “harnessing collective strengths.”
“Moving forward we’re about to embark on the largest infrastructure program ever. The process leading up to this point has been long, has been protracted but resulted in a better project,” Jensen said. “It must now be implemented on time and on budget. The public expects this.
“I will make it my goal as CRD chair to support Esquimalt in the needed resources to ensure the job gets done on time,” he said.
Without a motion to reveal the vote numbers, paper ballots were destroyed. Southern Gulf Islands Electoral Area director David Howe was re-elected as vice-chair. Victoria director Marianne Alto is Capital Regional Health District chair.
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Operational resilience and key learnings from operational incidents across the financial services industry
United Kingdom | Publication | September 2020
First published in Thomson Reuters Accelus Regulatory Intelligence on September 11, 2020.
Plan for disruption and keep the plan under review
Be alert to warnings and map risks
Consider your outsourced business up front
Be proactive and coordinate when incidents occur
Operational incidents show no signs of abating: in recent years, there have been a number of high profile cyber-attacks by third parties, as well as IT incidents such as those resulting from system updates and migrations. Certain of these have attracted regulatory attention and in this final part of our three part series on operational resilience we draw out key learnings regarding the expectations around operational resilience from enforcement cases in this area. See our previous articles COVID-19: Firms confront operational resilience challenges and Operational resilience and the pandemic has exposed firms’ vulnerabilities in their financial systems and controls.
Demonstrating adequate steps taken to avoid incidents is key. In one high profile banking systems outage, a software compatibility problem led to an IT failure affecting over 6.5 million customers for several weeks. Amongst other things, the FCA considered that the banks’ IT risk appetite and policy should have had a much greater focus on designing systems to withstand or minimise the effect of a disruptive incident.
Even with such steps, cyber-attacks may strike at some point and occasionally system changes will not go as smoothly as they should. Planning for such eventualities should include consideration of how best to ensure effective communication and coordination between relevant teams and stakeholders during an incident. Any plan should also be subject to rigorous and regular review, including in light of organisation changes and experience.
Incident management procedures must be kept up to date and tested with regular run-throughs to identify any practical issues or potential pitfalls that otherwise may only emerge in the heat of responding to a real life incident. Examples that have been cited by the FCA include the incident management rota having the wrong telephone number for the business incident manager. Out of date information like this can lead to unnecessary delay in invoking crisis management procedures. In the same case, the FCA also highlighted the fact that emails were sent to an inbox that was not manned over the weekend (instead of following the correct procedure and calling the on-call fraud analyst).
Where operational risks are identified in one part of the business or more widely within the industry, firms need to consider the full extent to which those risks may arise within the organisation and, if so, ensure those risks are communicated and appropriate action is taken. In a number of enforcement cases in recent years, there had been prior incidents or warnings which should have been properly addressed and the firms in question were criticised by regulators for failing to deal with foreseeable risk.
Outsourcing adds another layer of complexity in that, when considering operational resilience, firms will need to give detailed thought as to: (i) how their systems depend on those of their outsourcing providers, particularly where services they provide are critical (such as any outsourced business continuity and disaster recovery arrangements); and (ii) defining at the outset the firm’s outsourcing risk and tolerance levels.
If, despite best efforts, an incident does happen, following the immediate aftermath, firms still have the chance to manage the situation and the actions firms take in reacting to an incident can impact the overall outcome from a regulatory perspective. In one cyber-attack case, proactive remediation steps taken by the bank included: (i) commissioning a root cause analysis of the weaknesses that made the bank vulnerable to the attack and an evaluation of its financial crime controls; (ii) carrying out a comprehensive redress programme; and (iii) demonstrating high levels of senior level cooperation with the FCA, which all contributed to a 30% mitigation discount to the FCA fine (on top of a 30% discount for early settlement).
Firms may also need to co-ordinate responses on a number of fronts and jurisdictions and consider how decisions will impact all interested or potentially interested bodies and parties, recognising that information may be shared between them. Depending on the nature of the incident more than one regulator may become involved, including, in the UK, the PRA, FCA and, where personal data has been lost, the Information Commissioner’s Office. In addition, complaints may be made to the Financial Ombudsman Service, a body set up by Parliament to assist consumers with resolving disputes with financial services providers. Customers may also bring litigation in connection with the incident (whether as part of a class action or otherwise).
In terms of future enforcement in this area, we expect higher fines from the FCA. In one of the cases mentioned above, the FCA made it clear that there was no loss of personal data and yet the outcome was a £16.4 million fine. It seems likely that if a regulated entity loses personal data as part of a cyber-breach in the future, the magnitude of the FCA fine would be increased to reflect this.
In addition, we anticipate enforcement against individuals and in particular, senior management. Both the FCA and PRA have stressed the importance of understanding these particular risks (despite their technical nature) and the need for effective challenge at Board and senior management level in relation to cyber risk. For some years now there has been a regulatory focus on individual accountability and enforcement action has already been taken against individuals for systems and controls failings in other areas.
Therefore, firms and senior individuals should take heed from the mistakes of others where they can by monitoring enforcement in this area and learning relevant lessons, in particular where any significant system changes are on the horizon or potential weaknesses have been identified.
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“I will start lightly.”
Hyeonu relaxed as he stared at the fast-approaching black wild boar.
‘How long will it take to die?’
He had previously hunted the black wild boar on the stream. At that time, he killed the black wild boar instantly using pure energy. The Hyeonu of that time was very different from Hyeonu now. In fact, the difference was too big. His level had changed, so his stats had naturally changed as well. Additionally, the ranking of his skills had increased.
The greatest difference was this Mysterious Sky Sword, which gave off a subtle blue light. The Mysterious Sky Sword cut through the air like it was splitting cloth, and at the end of its trajectory, there was an angry wild boar with yellow eyes. The black wild boar had an unsightly appearance. Its sharp teeth, which gave off a feeling of pressure, were cut like tofu, and its mouth was torn to twice its initial size.
“It is a bit short, but the attack power has become overwhelmingly stronger.”
Hyeonu’s attack timing was perfect, but the black wild boar momentarily braked, reducing its speed. Then Hyeonu swung the Mysterious Sky Sword lightly. The black sword energy flowed through the air, striking the back of the black wild boar in a fierce manner. A small explosion occurred, and a deep hole was dug into the back of the black wild boar.
[The black wild boar has been killed.]
[Experience has been acquired.]
This was the end. Having had its flesh dug out, the black wild boar could no longer stand out.
‘Isn’t the effect terrifying?’ Hyeonu admired it inwardly. The effect of the enhancement was better than he thought. It wasn’t even comparable to the sword’s performance the other day.
-Two blows this time?What?
-It doesn’t feel that strong?
-The damage seems to have gone down since the enhancement.
However, some viewers didn’t know the difference between Hyeonu of the past and the present. They only remembered the number of blows he dealt—one blow then and two blows now. Hyeonu saw the chat and kindly added an explanation about the situation: “No, it is a huge difference. It’s because I used pure energy at that time, while now I’m doing nothing, just waving my sword. For the finish, it was too bothersome to walk over, so I just shot out some sword energy.”
‘There are many people who are coming in for the first time.’
Hyeonu’s stream still had an influx of viewers. It never stopped, continuing to grow little by little. Consequently, this was a natural consideration for them.
-I understand.It is a huge difference compared to pure energy.
-Enhancement seems pretty efficient.
-It isn’t junk that only consumes gold coins.
-Quency is different from the money-sucking companies.
-Those warriors from Gamepia are really trash.It costs money any time you try to do something.
After hearing Hyeonu’s explanation, the viewers immediately understood. This was natural because the content wasn’t very difficult. Admiration emerged the moment they understood. They admired Alley Leader’s strength and Quency for providing quality content. It seemed they had a different policy from that of other game companies.
However, it was a bit different for Hyeonu.
“Isn’t this completely a black hole that eats gold? What’s good about it? It’s better not to try it. Take a look. I lost 20,000 gold alone today. The amount of money spent on my land is only 14,000 a week. Huh? Isn’t it a gold eating hippopotamus?” Hyeonu screamed in a rotten mood.
His warehouse assets had been stolen. All the money he’d earned from killing monsters and selling items had flown away.
‘I didn’t intend to exchange it for cash…’
Of course, he had no intention of changing Arena’s gold for cash, but he just felt good seeing his gold. Now that the gold had disappeared, he had a pained feeling like his heart was being squeezed.
-Yes, this is the only captain who has a territory.
-We should just buy enhanced items.
“Oh, is it just me? Is that so?” Hyeonu shook his head like he really didn’t know. Then he started moving silently. From the back, his shoulders were obviously drooping.
The stream ended, but Hyeonu didn’t log out. He immediately tore the return scroll to Yuanyang.
‘Today is the last time.’
It was the day they’d agreed upon. The ending moment of the long quest was coming.
[Defeat the Remnants of the Gucheon Secret Department]
[Defeat the remnants of the Gucheon Secret Department hidden on Mount Cheon.
Rating: S+
Conditions: Kill the remnants 0/666
Rewards: Experience, Chen Long’s gift.]
‘I don’t think it is difficult…’
666 people—in terms of number, it was definitely a big number. It just wasn’t so big when thinking about the entire quest.
‘Chen Long will also bring some subordinates…’
He just had to fight moderately, and the quest would be over. However, it seemed he would have to put a bit of effort into battle with the leaders. Hyeonu entered the castle of Yuanyang as naturally as if it were his own home, and no one stopped him. They all knew his status because he had already visited several times before.
“Your Highness, how are you?”Hyeonu greeted Liu Yongyun.
There was still a bit of time before he had to meet Chen Long, so he came to Liu Yongyun using that time.
“Earl, why have you come this time…?”Liu Yongyun looked confused when he saw Hyeonu, who had arrived suddenly.
Liu Yongyun hadn’t received any reports. Be it the castle’s guards or the attendants, someone should’ve announced Hyeonu’s appearance. Yet no one had informed him. Therefore, it was only natural for him to feel flustered.
“I brought some good news. Soon, the wish of the imperial family will be achieved,” Hyeonu said with a smile.
Today’s visit had no real purpose. It was just to say this.
‘Of course, the idea is to prepare for a reward.’
Hyeonu believed an NPC like Liu Yongyun would understand that well. Liu Yongyun asked with wide eyes, “Did everything work out well? I know that you delivered the information about the Secret Camp to His Majesty last time…”
He was really surprised. It was natural since Hyeonu was progressing through the quest at a speed that surpassed the scope of common sense.
“Today, we are going to wipe out Chen Tai of the Gucheon Secret Department. From tomorrow onward, it will be a new Gucheon Secret Department,” Hyeonu spoke confidently.
Then he added in a friendly tone, “I’ll see you soon at Taeyang’s palace. Shouldn’t we see it altogether after the work is done?”
Liu Yongyun recognized the meaning behind Hyeonu’s words and responded with a slight smile, “Once the work is over… At that time, I’ll see you in Taeyang, not Yuanyang.”
After exiting the castle, Hyeonu immediately left Yuanyang and headed to the place in Mount Cheon where he’d agreed to meet. On the way there, Hyeonu met some unexpected people.
“It has been a long time, Alley Leader,” several people, not just one or two, greeted Hyeonu.
However, Hyeonu didn’t remember their faces.
‘Who are they?’
It was clearly not the first time they had met. He vaguely remembered them, but their encounter hadn’t been significant enough to leave a deep impression in his mind. The image of them were just there.
‘Still, I couldn’t have met this type of people in the East Continent, right?’
“Who are you? I can’t remember. I am the kind of person who can’t really memorize the faces of others…” Hyeonu spoke some embarrassing words as he asked for the identity of the people before him.
“I understand. Alley Leader is a busy person. We are called the Venom Guild. We’ve met a few times before,” the man standing at the front of the group revealed their identity.
‘Venom? Ah…!’ The memory came to mind once Hyeonu heard the name.
The Venom Guild—he had met them in the Balder Mountains.
‘The terminally ill chuunibyou.’
The one who just spoke was the chuunibyou. He was a person who gave others goosebumps just by looking at him. In a way, he was the scariest person. It was frightening to get close to him. Hyeonu couldn’t talk leisurely because he didn’t have enough time, so he asked his question so quickly that he seemed stiff: “What is going on today? I’m a bit busy right now. It feels like you’re waiting for me in a place like this.”
“You must be in a hurry. I understand. I just wanted to say a few words to you today. The quest you are going on now will probably be harder than you think.”
“What?” Hyeonu asked like an idiot when he saw the man speaking surprising words with a casual expression.
“There are quite a lot of players who got involved. There are people you know and others you don’t. Then we’ll be going now.” The man and his group disappeared as quickly as they appeared.
While looking at them, Hyeonu muttered, “The real thing appeared… Seriously…”
Upon arriving at the appointment place, Hyeonu once again met some unexpected people.
“Brother? Reina? Why are you here?”
All the people that Hyeonu had introduced to Chen Long were present. To be precise, they had come here with their guild members.
“Chen Long called us. We also received a quest to kill some people today,”Reina calmly explained the situation to Hyeonu.
The others nodded quietly.
‘It is indeed strange for them to call only me after all.’
Hyeonu had introduced them to Chen Long so that they would be called in this way. They should still receive quests even if Hyeonu wasn’t around.
“I see… I will go and meet Chen Long. I have a few things to talk to him about.”Hyeonu nodded at the gathered players and wandered to the place where Chen Long was supposed to be.
‘There he is,’ Hyeonu thought.
Chen Long was sitting on the ground, leaning against the tree. By his side, Bakar was constantly moving his mouth.
“You’re here? I've been waiting for you.”Chen Long found the approaching Hyeonu and stood up.
“You’ve been waiting? Then I’ve arrived too late,” Hyeonu spoke slowly to Chen Long. Then he bowed and greeted Bakar.
Chen Long opened his mouth and said, “Bakar, tell me about the plan today. I have to hear it now.”
Hyeonu laughed helplessly when he heard Chen Long’s words: “Pfft… Don’t you know it?”
Chen Long looked at Hyeonu and said, “If I listen one time, I’ll have to hear it twice. Why should I listen first?”
He was shameless. He didn’t like hearing things twice, so he’d waited.
“I have something to say first,” Hyeonu interrupted before Bakar could open his mouth. Then he first delivered the message from the Venom Guild: “I don’t think it’s just the leaders who escaped over there.”
Bakar’s eyes widened as he stared at Hyeonu who had cut off his words. It was the same with Chen Long.
“What does that mean?” A sense of seriousness appeared on Chen Long’s playful face.
“It seems that adventurers have intervened. Moreover, there must be quite a lot of them. Maybe more than us,” Hyeonu replied.
Hearing that, Bakar’s expression became even more solemn. The words that came from Hyeonu’s mouth was a serious matter.
“Is that so? I will just ask one thing then. Will there be an adventurer like you?” Chen Long asked.
Hyeonu shook his head at Chen Long’s question. There were no players like Alley Leader in Arena. There was only one Hyeonu.
“Then it’s fine. Let’s listen to Bakar’s story together.” Chen Long smiled.
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Hennock Community Primary School
Find out how Hennock Community Primary School rates compared to other primary schools in Devon with our school ratings
Here Hennock Community Primary School, Hennock, Bovey Tracey, Newton Abbot, TQ13 9QB, is put into focus to show its scores in relation to other schools in the area.
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The open date and status above indicate when Hennock Community Primary School opened or when it changed to its most recent incarnation, with a number of schools converting to academies in recent years. Where schools have changed type recently, data for previous years covering their previous incarnation is included below as well - so a school may have a status of New due to converting to an academy but have data for previous years prior to conversion.
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In terms of section 2(1)(a) of the Judges’ Remuneration and Conditions of Employment Act, 2001 (Act No. 47 of 2001), Jacob Zuma determines that,... →
National Road Traffic Act (93/1996): Exemption of motor vehicles that does not comply with the height restriction in terms of the Act (Gazette No. 34621 – Regulation 776)
S’busiso Joel Ndebele, Minister of Transport, acting in terms of section 75(1)(d) of the National Road Traffic Act, 1996, exempt the operation of... →
Magistrate’s Courts Act (32/1944): creation of sub-districts and the appointment of a place within the sub-district for the holding of a court (Gazette No. 34622 – Notice 777)
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South African Strategy for the Palaeosciences: Draft for discussion: Version 12.1: For public comments (Gazette No. 34624 – Notice 657)
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Philosophy Dictionary of Arguments
Analysis: examining a subject by breaking it down into its components.
Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.
> Kripke, Saul A.
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Analysis/Theory/Test/Kripke: When considering whether a given linguistic phenomenon in English is a counterexample to an analysis, one should consider a hypothetical language that resembles English, except that here the analysis is set to be correct - if now the phenomenon in question occurs in the corresponding (hypothetical) community, the fact that it occurs in English cannot refute the hypothesis that the analysis is correct for English.
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Kripke I
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Naming and Necessity, Dordrecht/Boston 1972
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"Speaker’s Reference and Semantic Reference", in: Midwest Studies in Philosophy 2 (1977) 255-276
Eigennamen, Ursula Wolf, Frankfurt/M. 1993
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Is there a problem with substitutional quantification?
Truth and Meaning, G. Evans/J McDowell, Oxford 1976
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Outline of a Theory of Truth (1975)
Recent Essays on Truth and the Liar Paradox, R. L. Martin (Hg), Oxford/NY 1984
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Apple CarPlay gets new features in iOS 9.3, see all compatible models
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It's been about two year since Apple used the Geneva International Motor Show to announce its CarPlay service, "designed from the ground up to provide drivers with an incredible experience using their iPhone in the car," as per the marketing speak. CarPlay is an integral part of your car's infotainment system, compatible with all iPhones that have a Lightning port, and dubbed to be a "smarter, safer and more fun" way to use those iPhones in a car.
There are the obligatory huge, luscious icons, which are easy to spot and press while driving, and give you immediate access to navigation, calling, music services, and messaging. These can be operated with touch, or via engaging Siri's voice assistant chops via a dedicated, steering wheel-mounted button. CarPlay can also predict your eventual destination, based on a trip log, and Siri can read the directions out loud, while maps appear on the car's display. As far as the music experience goes, besides all the tunes stored on your iPhone or in Apple Music, you are able to use 3rd party apps like Spotify, for streaming anything your heart desires.
With the newest iOS 9.3, though, Apple is shaking up CarPlay, taking up the battle for your dashboard on another level. CarPlay recently earned Autoblog's Technology of the Year Feature award, so let's preview what novelties will iOS 9.3 bring to these accolades:
New and For You from Apple Music — since you won't have time to preview a long list of suggestions and catch up with the latest tunes while diving, a curated selection of songs, artists, and albums tailored to your tastes will be available at the touch of a button on your car's display;
Nearby feature in Maps makes the nearest gas station or Rosie's Diner visible with a single tap, plus more of the local points of interest, should you be on a lazy road trip.
Apple's CarPlay is available on brands like Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz or BMW, and a number of others, like Ford, Volvo, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, Jaguar Land Rover, Kia, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Peugeot, Citroën, Subaru, and Suzuki. Toyota is notably absent, and Ford only has one compatible model, the 2017 Ford Escape. Below are some of the more popular models that are available with CarPlay out of the box... oops, out of the dealership.
Find the full list of cars that offer CarPlay here
Popular models with Apple CarPlay
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Barriers and facilitators to parents seeking and accessing professional support for anxiety disorders in children: qualitative interview study.
Reardon T., Harvey K., Young B., O'Brien D., Creswell C.
Anxiety disorders are among the most common mental health disorders experienced by children, but only a minority of these children access professional help. Understanding the difficulties parents face seeking support for child anxiety disorders could inform targeted interventions to improve treatment access. The aims of the study were to identify barriers and facilitators to seeking and accessing professional support for child anxiety disorders, and ways to minimise these barriers. A qualitative interview study was conducted with parents of 16 children (aged 7-11 years) with anxiety disorders identified through screening in schools. Barriers and facilitators were identified in relation to four distinct stages in the help-seeking process: parents recognising the anxiety difficulty, parents recognising the need for professional support, parents contacting professionals, and families receiving professional support. Barriers and facilitators at each stage related to the child's difficulties, the role of the parent, and parent perceptions of professionals and services. Findings illustrate the need (1) for readily available tools to help parents and professionals identify clinically significant anxiety in children, (2) to ensure that families and professionals can easily access guidance on the help-seeking process and available support, and (3) to ensure existing services offer sufficient provision for less severe difficulties that incorporates direct support for parents.
Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry
Anxiety disorders, Barriers, Children, Help seeking, Parents, Anxiety Disorders, Child, Female, Help-Seeking Behavior, Humans, Male, Parents, Qualitative Research
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Man Tasered several times after breaking into mother's home, police say
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MERCERSBURG - A Fayetteville man was Tasered several times as police attempted to handcuff him after he allegedly broke into his mother's home because he was "hungry."
Clinton Franzoni, 33, is charged with a felony count each of burglary and criminal trespass, a misdemeanor count each of possession of an instrument of crime, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct, and a summary count of criminal mischief. He is in Franklin County Jail, unable to post $100,000 bail.
Pennsylvania State Police wrote in court documents filed in Magisterial District Judge Jody Eyer's office in Mercersburg that police were dispatched shortly after 4 p.m. Tuesday to an active burglary at a home on Treher Road, Greene Township.
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A neighbor told police a man had broken into the home through a side door and was inside.
Several troopers established a perimeter around the residence. One trooper used the PA system in his patrol vehicle to tell anyone in the home that police were there and to come out of the front door with their hands up.
After a "substantial" period of time during which no one came out, the homeowner arrived on the scene. The homeowner said she believed her son was in the residence.
The homeowner told police Franzoni had been advised several times that he is not allowed at her home without her permission, according to court documents.
After an officer again used the PA system to order all occupants to come out of the house, a man who matched the description given by the caller and was later identified as Franzoni came out.
Franzoni obeyed orders to turn around with his hands in the air and walk backward toward the sound of an officer's voice, but he did not comply when told several times to lay on the ground on his stomach with his hands behind his back, according to court documents.
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After an unsuccessful attempt at handcuffing his right wrist due to a wrist guard, an officer handcuffed Franzoni's left wrist. At this point, Franzoni began "actively resisting arrest," and pulled his arms away from the officer, according to court documents.
Several officers grabbed Franzoni and forced him onto the ground. Despite commands to stop resisting and lay on his stomach, Franzoni continued to resist by pulling his arms and legs away from troopers, according to court documents.
A trooper then "dry stunned" Franzoni two times with a Taser. Franzoni continued resisting, so a trooper again stunned him with a Taser, after which troopers got him handcuffed and under control, according to court documents.
Franzoni told police he used a black pen to break in the door, which a police report said caused about $50 in damage. He said he broke in because he was hungry, according to court documents.
Franzoni was transported to Chambersburg Hospital to be evaluated, after which he was released to police.
Once Franzoni was gone from the scene, police talked to the neighbor who had made the call. He said he was in his driveway when he saw Franzoni at the front door of his neighbor's residence attempting to break in using a black object.
The neighbor told police that the homeowners had told him about two weeks prior that they were going out of town and that no one else was permitted to be at their home. They told him to call police if he saw anyone at the home.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Tuesday.
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Edward River Mission (now Pormpuraaw) crocodile farm, 1990
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Edward River Mission (now Pormpuraaw) crocodile farm, 1990. In 1938 the Church of England began the Edward River Mission. The mission's superintendant between 1957-62 was the father of Dr Heather Beattie (nee Halliday), later wife of Peter Beattie, Premier of Queenland 1998-2007. The name of the mission was changed to Pormpuraaw in 1987. A commercial crocodile farm beagn in 1969. Slides by Marie Hayes, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland
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Golfers will get a chance to take their swings at Hadlock Field
With no baseball on the horizon at Hadlock Field, the Portland Sea Dogs will turn their ballpark into a target golf course July 9-12.
By Kevin ThomasStaff Writer
No, there are not yet plans for baseball at Hadlock Field, but the Sea Dogs announced Thursday they will temporarily turn Hadlock Field into Hadlinks Golf Club. Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer
Balls will be flying into the outfield at Hadlock Field next month, but not in the usual way.
While there’s still no baseball, there will be golf.
While the Portland Sea Dogs staff continues to hold out hope for some kind of baseball season at Hadlock, they’re coming up with other ideas for their ballpark.
The Sea Dogs announced Thursday that Hadlock will become the “Hadlinks Golf Club,” open to golfers from July 9-12.
Hadlock will be set up for a nine-hole “target golf” course. Nine tee boxes will be placed at the skybox level around the field. Nine holes will be cut into the outfield, with flags and with “greens” marked off with paint. Scoring ranges from 1 (in the hole) to 5 (still in the stadium). Golfers will get two shots at each hole.
“The Hadlinks idea is one we’ve had for a few years now,” Sea Dogs President Geoff Iacuessa said. “The (San Diego) Padres did something similar a few years back and we’ve always kicked around the idea of doing it here.
“Given our season is still delayed, we’ve been looking at a number of ideas to stay engaged with our community and thought this was one we’d like to try.”
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, pro baseball was halted during spring training in mid-March. Minor league baseball, including the Sea Dogs, won’t resume – if it does at all this summer – until Major League Baseball and its players association work out a deal for a shortened season.
“I am still holding out hope that perhaps some baseball can be played this season,” Iacuessa said. “There are a lot of obstacles in the way of that, but just as during a rain delay, until we are told our season is off, we will remain ready for the potential of games.”
Until then, the Sea Dogs are trying to be creative. On June 8, the franchise began offering takeout and limited delivery of some of its concession stand food and drink, for lunch or dinner, Monday through Friday.
“We have several ideas of events we’d like to try this summer,” said Iacuessa, who added that a “dine-in” experience at Hadlock is a possibility.
As for the golf, it will run 5-9 p.m. on Thursday, July 9; then 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. that Friday, and 8 a.m. to noon on both Saturday and Sunday. Tee times can be made and “greens fee” ($30) paid online at www.seadogs.com. Social distancing will be enforced, with only one golfer allowed at a tee box (groups of golfers are asked to make consecutive tee times).
The longest hole is 160 yards and golfers will be allowed to use only four clubs (7-, 8-, and 9-iron and wedge). Iacuessa said that rule is for the sake of safety (so balls are not flying out of Hadlock), but “we will certainly work with golfers who feel they need a different club to get close to the pin.”
Golfers are already making tee times.
“I said, ‘Sign me up,'” said Luke Labbe. “It’s a cool event, in a different venue, and we want to support it.”
Labbe, 55, president of PeoplesChoice Credit Union, is both an avid golfer and a Sea Dogs season-ticket holder.
“All of us miss the Sea Dogs. It’s a big loss for the community. But this will be fun.”
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Home / Press Releases / Digital Projection Announces M-Vision Cine 400 3D
Digital Projection Launches Powerful, Full HD Single-Chip 3D Projector at CEDIA Expo 2010
Press Release | Sep 22, 2010
ATLANTA, GA – CEDIA 2010 - Digital Projection International (DPI) an Emmy® Award-winning manufacturer of high performance projection systems, announces the active-3D enabled M-Vision Cine 400-3D. With over three years of experience manufacturing, distributing and supporting powerful 3D projectors, DPI will unveil this new, high-value, entry level single-chip 3D solution to CEDIA Expo 2010 attendees. Equipped with the same DLP® DarkChip technology featured in DPI’s entire product line, the M-Vision Cine 400-3D delivers immersive 3D imagery for screens up to 12’ wide. The M-Vision Cine 400-3D will be priced below $20,000, enabling home cinema enthusiasts to enter the world of large-screen 3D entertainment at a previously unattainable price point.
The 5,500 lumen M-Vision Cine 400-3D thrives in cinemas with screens up to 12’ wide, as well as in venues with some ambient light, such as media rooms with smaller screen sizes. The compact and quiet Cine chassis, 1080p resolution, broad source connectivity and straightforward user interface make the M-Vision Cine 400-3D an optimum 3D solution for home entertainment enthusiasts desiring simple operation and stellar 3D imagery. Augmenting these benefits are the overall efficiency and long-life of the lamp system, enabling this new platform to produce beautiful 2D and 3D imagery while consuming very low power and producing very little heat.
Previously, large-screen 3D experiences in the home were reserved for the most elite home theaters using DPI’s award-winning TITAN Reference 1080p-3D. Serving as a compliment to the existing TITAN 3D product line, the M-Vision Cine 400-3D introduces a native 1080p, single-chip 3D display to home cinemas for a fraction of the cost. Enthusiasts can now experience flicker-free 3D at a full 120 frames per second while benefitting from the exceptional value of the M-Vision Cine 400-3D.
Installation is flexible due to the M-Vision Cine 400-3D’s compact and lightweight chassis design, and extraordinary lens shift range of 30% horizontal and 120% vertical. Multiple easy-to-change lens options provide further flexibility, with throw ratios ranging from 1.25 to 3.0:1. There is also a fixed lens which offers a .73:1 throw ratio. Connectivity includes two HDMI inputs, as well as RGB via D-15, component, composite and S-Video inputs.
DPI will be demonstrating the new M-Vision Cine 400-3D, as well as new LED and high-value, lower cost precision displays in their massive CEDIA Expo booth (#4436) and the Future Tech Pavilion (#3874) from September 23 – 26 in Atlanta, Georgia.
About Digital Projection International
Founded in 1989, Digital Projection International (DPI) has been instrumental in the development and application of Digital Light Processing™ technology by Texas Instruments for projection systems. DPI introduced the world’s first 3-chip DLP® projector in 1997, and has since delivered expert system engineering and world-class customer services, thus maintaining its position as a digital imaging pioneer.
DPI’s groundbreaking projection research and development has garnered the admiration of industry professionals around the world. This has earned the company many awards, including two Emmy® Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. DPI remains the first and only projector manufacturer to win the coveted award.
Today, DPI manufactures and distributes an extensive line of ultra high-performance 3-chip and single-chip DLP® projection systems. These projectors are the reference standard for demanding applications such as large-venue, live-event staging, fortune 5000, education, medical and scientific research, command and control, digital cinema, commercial entertainment, worship and elite home cinema.
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Home Broadcast News EBU looking to establish dot-radio domain
EBU looking to establish dot-radio domain
The European Broadcasting Union is hoping to create an internet domicile for radio broadcasters on a global basis. It is seeking on “a robust basis” to acquire the Top Level Domain (TLD) name .radio for use by radio broadcasters everywhere. It is endorsed by numerous other global broadcast organizations, and among the members you will find several major US broadcasters and the NAB.
The .radio suffice would be usable instead of the usual .com, .net and .org currently in use by most members of the radio business.
EBU President Jean-Paul Philippot stated, “The EBU’s acquisition of this TLD will serve a greater good, bringing tangible benefits to radio broadcasters and listeners everywhere. Our application includes the firm, written support of the EBU’s seven sister unions, representing the interests of around 50,000 radio stations with a potential reach of some 5.5 billion listeners.”
The sister unions cited by EBU are all members of the World Broadcasting Unions organization, and include Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU); Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU); African Union of Broadcasting (AUB); Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU); International Association of Broadcasting (IAB); North American Broadcasters Association (NABA); and Organizacion de Telecomunicaciones Iberoamericanas (OTI).
A number of major US broadcast companies, including all four major television entworks, are member of NABA, and the National Association of Broadcasters is an affiliate member of NABA. CPB and NPR are listed as associate members.
Referring to the TDL application which must be filed with ICANN by 4/12/12, EBU stated, “This application, which has the full backing of the World Broadcasting Unions (WBU) and other relevant bodies, will stress that the .radio TLD would allow the EBU to create an internet-based platform where the world’s radio broadcasters could assemble. Closer networking ‘under one roof’ would also bolster their position as an indispensible media sector, whose development would be accelerated by new radio services.”
EBU Director General Ingrid Deltenre added, “The EBU wants to ensure that the world’s radio community has fair, reasonable access to a domain name that could bring unique impetus to the entire sector. The EBU would administer the .radio TLD in a neutral, reliable and not-for-profit way; it would be regrettable if it fell into hands that do not represent the entire radio community.”
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Home Broadcast News Liberty Media ups stake in SiriusXM
Liberty Media ups stake in SiriusXM
Liberty Media has raised its stake (8/28) in SiriusXM Radio to 48.8% from 48.1%, according to a regulatory filing. It bought around 40.4 million shares in the $100 million purchase. The latest buy of Sirius shares by Liberty comes just weeks after the company’s most recent increase in its stake. On 8/14, Liberty disclosed in an SEC filing that that it has purchased 89.97 million shares, increasing the company’s stake to 48% from 46.2%. The company also said in the filing that it has reached a forward purchase agreement with another holder to buy another 41 million shares under a contract that expires in October.
Liberty has said it plans to take control of Sirius, but has kept its options open. Earlier this month, Liberty filed an application with the FCC asking the for approval to take full control of Sirius by buying enough stock to take its stake to more than 50%.
Liberty management has signaled it could replace Sirius CEO Mel Karmazin, whose contract expires at the end of the year, pay dividends, buy back stock and spin off its Sirius stake to Liberty investors upon taking control.
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Home Adbiz Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings launches in UK
Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings launches in UK
The solution, like here in the U.S., allows advertisers to measure the ability of online ad campaigns to reach their intended audiences with a never-seen-before degree of accuracy, and in real time.
Leading to the launch, tests of Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings in the UK show that on average less than half of all online ad impressions are reaching the advertiser’s intended audience, based on age and gender. In one test campaign it found that ads for an innovative consumer product aimed at young women were completely missing their intended audience and actually being viewed predominantly by older women and by men.
The trials also show there is a big variance in performance between different online publishers and networks. Campaigns are running very successfully on some sites, with more than 80% of impressions reaching the advertiser’s intended audience; on other sites though, it’s as low as 15%. Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings tells advertisers in real time which sites are most effectively delivering their campaigns, allowing them to use their media budgets more efficiently by switching ads from failing sites to more successful sites while campaigns are still ‘in flight’.
These early findings from UK campaigns mirror the results from more than a thousand campaigns in the US, collected since Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings launched here in August 2011.
Pre-launch, consumer goods giants Unilever and Reckitt Benckiser tested campaigns using Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings in the UK. Reckitt Benckiser global digital advertising manager Siobhan Crowe explains: “This is a great opportunity to understand who has seen our advertising online. These metrics will allow us to better understand the efficiency of our digital advertising campaigns.”
In addition, OMD and PHD are among the first media agencies to sign up UK campaigns for a host of their leading brands to be measured using Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings at launch. These results will provide them with the world’s most robust measure of online campaign performance in terms of reach, frequency and GRPs – the same metrics used and trusted by planners of TV campaigns.
Said Nielsen managing director for digital in Europe, David Gosen: “Today marks a significant step in the development and maturity of online advertising in the UK, with the launch of Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings. In today’s challenging business world where ROI is vital, this new system delivers both a well-established metric in the form of GRPs and in-flight campaign optimisation. These attributes will drive effectiveness in online advertising to new levels and we fully expect Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings to help establish a currency for online campaign effectiveness.”
Bhavin Balvantrai, head of research for Omnicom Media Group, the global media agency for advertisers such as McDonalds, explains the agency’s involvement with Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings: “We are at the forefront of delivering better client performance and Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings is a perfect opportunity to better understand online delivery for our clients. We intend to use the data to inform future buying decisions.”
As well as advertisers and their agencies, publishers are also set to benefit from the UK launch of Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings. Unanimis, one of the first digital networks to sign up to Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings, will use the data produced to independently prove the value of its inventory and its ability to reach specific consumer demographics.
Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings combines Nielsen’s high quality panels with aggregated, anonymous demographic data from participating online data providers. Using this unique approach, Nielsen is able to provide reach, frequency and GRP measures for online advertising campaigns of practically any size – campaigns with as few as 15,000 impressions have already been successfully measured – with extremely high accuracy.
This approach gives advertisers the opportunity to analyze results to a new degree of granularity, such as by day, by demographic, by publisher and by placement. At the same time, the use of anonymous demographic data ensures both consumer and commercial privacy to users and advertisers.
Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings are already revolutionizing the online ad world in the US. Using the solution, a study there of 30 campaigns showed that clients can optimize campaigns to either save on average 11% budget, or improve campaign delivery by an average 14%.
Gosen continues: “Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings will start to impact the online advertising market in the UK straight away. But it will also continue the Nielsen journey towards Nielsen Cross-Platform Campaign Ratings into Europe to cover the measurement of both TV and online. Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings helps to evaluate the real value of media by allowing planners to clearly identify the most- and least-effective sites their campaigns are running on. More than a century ago, the retailer John Wanamaker famously said, ‘Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.’ Had it been around then, Nielsen Online Campaign Ratings would have told him.”
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Pacific looking to improve upon opening game
Justin Frommer
The Pacific women's basketball team's game against No. 1 Stanford on Wednesday was a tale of two halves.
Through 20 minutes, the Tigers challenged the Cardinal. But after trailing by only 11 points at the half, Stanford took full control of the game to send Pacific to a season-opening loss.
The Tigers, however, are looking at the lessons from that game as they prepare for their next challenge: two games in two days.
"All-in-all I thought we executed offensively," Bradley Davis, Pacific head coach, said. "We were able to do the things that we planned to do and kind of ran out of gas and legs to stay with them like we had in the first half. Overall I was pleased with the effort and attention to the game plan."
Pacific heads out to Las Vegas this weekend to be part of multiteam event, hosted by UNLV. The Tigers will face LSU at 1 p.m. Saturday, then return the next day to play UNLV at 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Loyola Marymount is also playing in the event.
"We have been focusing most on LSU because we play them first," Davis said. "UNLV runs a very similar stuff to Stanford. Their head coach (Lindy La Rocque) played there and coached there the last few years. We’ve got some of that we have been watching and seeing there. They do some different things defensively and have some personnel that are different and we have to adjust to.
"With LSU we expect a lot of pressure. We expect them to press, score in transition and press again. We’ve got to keep that game in our tempo in order to have success.”
Given all that was up against his team against Stanford, including being down four rotational players due to delayed COVID-19 contact tracing, Davis said he liked the way the Tigers performed offensively. He said Pacific was able to put the "right people in the right spots", including senior guard Lianna Tillman.
Tillman, a Stockton native, scored a team-high 15 points, including Pacific's first points of the year.
"She didn't force shots. She took the shots that she should have," Davis said of the Lincoln High grad. "Aside from that she was trying to create and get our offense moving. That’s what we really need her to do. We don’t need the fancy pass, we need the right pass. She was able to do that over and over and over again."
Added Tillman: "I just think over the summer and all of these practices, we have been working on getting into the offense and finding the right players. Trying to take great shots, not just good shots. I just think it went well like we have been practicing."
The second half was a struggle for the Tigers as Stanford took the reigns, especially on the boards.
The Cardinal doubled Pacific's rebounding effort, 46-23. A lot of that can be credited to Stanford simply having better, bigger and longer athletes than the Tigers. However, the Tigers said they can be fundamentally better at rebounding, and expect to improve in that aspect during the two weekend games.
"What Stanford got us in the second half was just boards," senior forward Valerie Higgins said. "I think we are going to take that to heart and going into this next game it is going to be a key for us to make sure that we box out and we don't let teams get second-chance points off of us.
Pacific will still be at only 10 bodies for its back-to-back games, which should prove challenging in a quick turnaround scenario. However, Davis said he looks at it as another opportunity to improve ahead of conference play.
"I think we all know this will be a crazy year and it’s just about getting better each week," Davis said. "It's a cliché, but you just want to keep getting better so you are playing your best towards the end of February. In a year like this, it’s never been more true."
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San Bernardino County coronavirus hospitalizations take record jump
By Jennifer Iyer | jiyer@scng.com | Redlands Daily Facts
San Bernardino County saw a record day-over-day increase of coronavirus-positive hospital patients, but case and positivity rates are improving, according to state data released Tuesday, Dec. 1.
As of Monday, Nov. 30, there are now 75 more COVID-19 patients in county hospitals, bringing the total to 856. The previous single-day record was 67 new patients on Saturday, Nov. 28.
There have been five single-day increases of 50 patients or more since Nov. 20. Before that, the largest increase had been 36 people in July.
The latest hospital data released by the county shows more than 32% of the county’s 2,613 occupied hospital beds were being used by confirmed or suspected COVID-19 patients on Nov. 29.
The number of new confirmed cases per day per 100,000 residents, adjusted for testing volume, is now 23, down from 28.5 on Saturday and 31.2 a week ago on Nov. 24. The percentage of tests coming back positive is also down, from a high of 13.9% Saturday to 11.3%.
None of those numbers qualify the county to be in a less-restrictive risk tier on the state system, but they are both moving in the right direction after two months of worsening.
Over the past nine days the county has reported no deaths.
County officials said there are no glitches in the system, but noted Tuesday that deaths can take more than a week to show up in state data.
“It does take a while for each death to be investigated to determine if it was a COVID-19 death,” Department of Public Health spokeswoman Lana Culp said in an email, “so there have always been lags between hospital spikes and subsequent spikes in fatalities showing up in the data.”
Here are the latest numbers, according to county and state public health officials.
Confirmed cases: 94,106 total, up 435 from Monday, averaging 938 reported per day in the past week
Deaths: 1,129 total, no change from Monday, averaging 0.0 reported per day in the past week
Hospital survey: 856 confirmed and 78 suspected patients hospitalized Monday, including 177 confirmed and 8 suspected patients in the ICU, with 24 of 25 facilities reporting. The number of confirmed patients is up 47% from a week earlier.
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People tested: 1,121,688 total, up 5,181 from Monday, averaging 10,931 reported per day in the past week
Resolved cases (estimate): 86,475 total, up 1,553 from Monday, averaging 1,438 per day in the past week
Reopening plan tier: Purple (widespread risk level, many non-essential indoor business operations are closed) based on these metrics as of Tuesday:
New cases per day per 100,000 residents: 46.1
Case rate adjusted for testing volume: 23.0
Test positivity rate: 11.3%
What’s next: San Bernardino County is not meeting the criteria to move to a less-restrictive tier. When it has met them for two consecutive weeks, it can advance.
To see a map and list of cases, deaths and per-capita rates by community, click here.
Here is a look at how the county’s numbers have changed each day:
Staff Writer Nikie Johnson contributed to this report.
Jennifer Iyer | Reporter
Jennifer Iyer graduated cum laude from UC Riverside in 2000 with a bachelor’s in creative writing and started working at The Press-Enterprise newspaper that year. After stints as night metro editor, assistant features editor, videographer, community reporter and other roles, she transferred to sister paper the Redlands Daily Facts in March 2018. Jennifer has covered wildfires, war games, courtrooms and blimp rides, been sprayed with fire retardant, and covered in bees (in a protective suit). She has interviewed celebrities on the red carpet at the Palm Springs Film Festival and homeless people in the rain. A nature enthusiast, Jennifer sold some of her nature photography prints to raise money for local nature centers and collaborated with her mother on the book “Wildflowers and Important Native Plants of the Inland Empire” by the Riverside-Corona Resource Conservation District.
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Reviewed by: Sam Hollis
Right from the word go, when tilted opening titles loft over a black-and-white California sky – almost ironically reading “Netflix International Pictures Presents” – Mank feels as though it was pulled from the rubble of a time capsule planted in the 1930s, grime and gashes intact.
Herman J. Mankiewicz, or Mank (Gary Oldman), is an alcoholic screenwriter with a wit renowned by the top brass of 30s Hollywood, including press tycoon William Randolph Hearst (Charles Dance) and his mistress Marion Davies (Amanda Seyfried). Following a car crash, a bedridden Mank is asked to pen a script for the debut film of a “young genius from New York”, Orson Welles (Tom Burke).
Of course, the film in question is Citizen Kane, still regarded by many to be the greatest and most influential film ever made. Cited as an early example of auteurism, Welles is often considered the sole mind behind its creation. Mank tells a different story.
Though its narrative doesn’t reach the heights of suspense achieved in other David Fincher films, Mank feels like the cinematic gift we deserve this Christmas. Between the imposing sets, regal costumes, and boisterous personalities on display, it captures the dingy atmosphere of an early noir classic. It shines in black-and-white, photographed by Erik Messerschmidt with plenty of canted callbacks to Citizen Kane.
Mank is about the conflict behind creativity; the contentious debate for authorship between Mank and Welles, Hearst’s fear of public humiliation when it becomes clear that Mank’s script about power, greed, and corruption is based on him. It may not sound fun per se, but Jack Fincher’s endlessly witty script makes the story sing. Mank is a talker, and Oldman places each word perfectly – some slurred beyond comprehension, others overtly articulated to offend that rich prick at the other end of the dining table.
Mank is a lesson in craft and polish. While its narrative is catnip to any movie fan, I can’t help but wonder if casual viewers will find it as fascinating. Its physical beauty is bound to make anyone suspect there is more beneath the surface, and those intrigued by its plot will find new details every time they put it on.
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Scotch Whisky, known worldwide as "Scotch" is an umbrella term for any of the following whisky varieties produced in Scotland; Single Malt, Blended Malt, Single Grain, Blended Grain and Blended (Malt & Grain) Whisky.
In terms of an official definition, Scotch Whisky must be at least 40% ABV, it must be distilled to a maximum strength of 94.8% ABV, it must be wholly matured in an excise warehouse in Scotland for at least 3 years and the cask that the whisky is matured in must not exceed a capacity of 700 litres. In addition, if an age statement is present on the bottle or label, every spirit within that bottle must be at the very least, the age stated. This is the case with all varieties of Scotch Whisky.
Traditionally, Scotland was divided into four distinct whisky producing regions, each with their own characterisitc styles and flavours.
These were;
The Scotch Whisky Association now recognises an additional region which lies within the Highland region, called Speyside. It is an area that encompasses the Spey river valley in the north east of the country and is home to just under half of Scotland's working distilleries.
In addition to this, a further but unofficial region exists in the form of "The Islands" with whiskies such as Scapa, Highland Park, Talisker, Arran and Tobermory hailing from this region. Technically however, The Islands are part of the Highland region.
Therefore the regions are as follows;
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A bill for an act
relating to public safety; providing for the right to carry without a permit; providing
for an option permit to carry; amending Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 624.714,
subdivisions 2, 3, 7, 15, 20, 23, by adding subdivisions; repealing Minnesota
Statutes 2018, sections 624.714, subdivisions 1a, 1b, 16; 624.7181.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 624.714, is amended by adding a subdivision
new text begin Subd. 1c. new text end
new text begin No permit required. new text end
new text begin (a) The legislature of the state of Minnesota recognizes
and declares that the second amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees the
fundamental, individual right to keep and bear arms.
new text end
new text begin (b) A person who is not prohibited from possessing a firearm by any law of this state or
any federal law shall have the right to carry, hold, or possess a firearm in a motor vehicle,
snowmobile, or boat, or on or about the person's clothes or the person, or otherwise in
possession or control in a public place.
new text begin (c) For the purposes of this section, "public place" means property owned, leased, or
controlled by a governmental unit and private property that is regularly and frequently open
to or made available for use by the public in sufficient numbers to give clear notice of the
property's current dedication to public use but does not include: a person's dwelling house
or premises, the place of business owned or managed by the person, or land possessed by
the person; a gun show, gun shop, or hunting or target shooting facility; or the woods, fields,
or waters of this state where the person is present lawfully for the purpose of hunting or
target shooting or other lawful activity involving firearms.
Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 624.714, is amended by adding a subdivision to
new text begin Subd. 1d. new text end
new text begin Optional carry permit. new text end
new text begin A person may apply for an optional permit to carry
a pistol as provided in this section.
Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 624.714, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
Subd. 2.
Where application made; authority to issue permit; criteria; scope.
Applications by Minnesota residents fornew text begin optionalnew text end permits to carry shall be made to the county
sheriff where the applicant resides. Nonresidents, as defined in section 171.01, subdivision
42, may apply to any sheriff.
(b) Unless a sheriff denies a permit under the exception set forth in subdivision 6,
paragraph (a), clause (3), a sheriff must issue a permit to an applicant if the person:
(1) has training in the safe use of a pistol;
(2) is at least 21 years old and a citizen or a permanent resident of the United States;
(3) completes an application for a permit;
(4) is not prohibited from possessing a firearm under the following sections:
(i) 518B.01, subdivision 14;
(ii) 609.224, subdivision 3;
(iii) 609.2242, subdivision 3;
(iv) 609.749, subdivision 8;
(v) 624.713;
(vi) 624.719;
(vii) 629.715, subdivision 2;
(viii) 629.72, subdivision 2; or
(ix) any federal law; and
(5) is not listed in the criminal gang investigative data system under section 299C.091.
(c) A permit to carry a pistol issued or recognized under this section is a state permit
and is effective throughout the state.
(d) A sheriff may contract with a police chief to process permit applications under this
section. If a sheriff contracts with a police chief, the sheriff remains the issuing authority
and the police chief acts as the sheriff's agent. If a sheriff contracts with a police chief, all
of the provisions of this section will apply.
Form and contents of application.
(a) Applications fornew text begin optionalnew text end permits to
carry must be an official, standardized application form, adopted under section 624.7151,
and must set forth in writing only the following information:
(1) the applicant's name, residence, telephone number, if any, and driver's license number
or state identification card number;
(2) the applicant's sex, date of birth, height, weight, and color of eyes and hair, and
distinguishing physical characteristics, if any;
(3) the township or statutory city or home rule charter city, and county, of all Minnesota
residences of the applicant in the last five years, though not including specific addresses;
(4) the township or city, county, and state of all non-Minnesota residences of the applicant
in the last five years, though not including specific addresses;
(5) a statement that the applicant authorizes the release to the sheriff of commitment
information about the applicant maintained by the commissioner of human services or any
similar agency or department of another state where the applicant has resided, to the extent
that the information relates to the applicant's eligibility to possess a firearm; and
(6) a statement by the applicant that, to the best of the applicant's knowledge and belief,
the applicant is not prohibited by law from possessing a firearm.
(b) The statement under paragraph (a), clause (5), must comply with any applicable
requirements of Code of Federal Regulations, title 42, sections 2.31 to 2.35, with respect
to consent to disclosure of alcohol or drug abuse patient records.
(c) An applicant must submit to the sheriff an application packet consisting only of the
following items:
(1) a completed application form, signed and dated by the applicant;
(2) an accurate photocopy of the certificate described in subdivision 2a, paragraph (c),
that is submitted as the applicant's evidence of training in the safe use of a pistol; and
(3) an accurate photocopy of the applicant's current driver's license, state identification
card, or the photo page of the applicant's passport.
(d) In addition to the other application materials, a person who is otherwise ineligible
for a permit due to a criminal conviction but who has obtained a pardon or expungement
setting aside the conviction, sealing the conviction, or otherwise restoring applicable rights,
must submit a copy of the relevant order.
(e) Applications must be submitted in person.
(f) The sheriff may charge a new application processing fee in an amount not to exceed
the actual and reasonable direct cost of processing the application or $100, whichever is
less. Of this amount, $10 must be submitted to the commissioner and deposited into the
general fund.
(g) This subdivision prescribes the complete and exclusive set of items an applicant is
required to submit in order to apply for a new or renewal permit to carry. The applicant
must not be asked or required to submit, voluntarily or involuntarily, any information, fees,
or documentation beyond that specifically required by this subdivision. This paragraph does
not apply to alternate training evidence accepted by the sheriff under subdivision 2a,
paragraph (d).
(h) Forms for new and renewal applications must be available at all sheriffs' offices and
the commissioner must make the forms available on the Internet.
(i) Application forms must clearly display a notice that a permit, if granted, is void and
must be immediately returned to the sheriff if the permit holder is or becomes prohibited
by law from possessing a firearm. The notice must list the applicable state criminal offenses
and civil categories that prohibit a person from possessing a firearm.
(j) Upon receipt of an application packet and any required fee, the sheriff must provide
a signed receipt indicating the date of submission.
Permit card contents; expiration; renewal.
(a)new text begin Optionalnew text end permits to carry must
be on an official, standardized permit card adopted by the commissioner, containing only
the name, residence, and driver's license number or state identification card number of the
permit holder, if any.
(b) The permit card must also identify the issuing sheriff and state the expiration date
of the permit. The permit card must clearly display a notice that a permit, if granted, is void
and must be immediately returned to the sheriff if the permit holder becomes prohibited by
law from possessing a firearm.
(c) A permit to carry a pistol issued under this section expires five years after the date
of issue. It may be renewed in the same manner and under the same criteria which the
original permit was obtained, subject to the following procedures:
(1) no earlier than 90 days prior to the expiration date on the permit, the permit holder
may renew the permit by submitting to the appropriate sheriff the application packet described
in subdivision 3 and a renewal processing fee not to exceed the actual and reasonable direct
cost of processing the application or $75, whichever is less. Of this amount, $5 must be
submitted to the commissioner and deposited into the general fund. The sheriff must process
the renewal application in accordance with subdivisions 4 and 6; and
(2) a permit holder who submits a renewal application packet after the expiration date
of the permit, but within 30 days after expiration, may renew the permit as provided in
clause (1) by paying an additional late fee of $10.
(d) The renewal permit is effective beginning on the expiration date of the prior permit
to carry.
Minnesota Statutes 2018, section 624.714, subdivision 15, is amended to read:
Subd. 15.
Commissioner; contracts; database.
(a) The commissioner must maintain
an automated database of persons deleted text beginauthorized to carry pistolsdeleted text endnew text begin issued an optional permit to
carry a pistolnew text end under this section that is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, only to
law enforcement agencies, including prosecutors carrying out their duties under subdivision
8a, to verify the validity of a permit.
(b) The commissioner may maintain a separate automated database of denied applications
fornew text begin optionalnew text end permits to carry and of revoked permits that is available only to sheriffs
performing their duties under this section containing the date of, the statutory basis for, and
the initiating agency for any permit application denied or permit revoked for a period of six
years from the date of the denial or revocation.
(c) The commissioner may contract with one or more vendors to implement the
commissioner's duties under this section.
Monitoring.
(a) By March 1, 2004, and each year thereafter, the commissioner
must report to the legislature on:
(1) the number ofnew text begin optionalnew text end permits applied for, issued, suspended, revoked, and denied,
further categorized by the age, sex, and zip code of the applicant or permit holder, since the
previous submission, and in total;
(2) the number ofnew text begin optionalnew text end permits currently valid;
(3) the specific reasons for each suspension, revocation, and denial and the number of
reversed, canceled, or corrected actions;
(4) without expressly identifying an applicant, the number of denials or revocations
based on the grounds under subdivision 6, paragraph (a), clause (3), the factual basis for
each denial or revocation, and the result of an appeal, if any, including the court's findings
of fact, conclusions of law, and order;
(5) the number of convictions and types of crimes committed since the previous
submission, and in total, by individuals deleted text beginwith permitsdeleted text endnew text begin legally carrying pistols as provided by
this sectionnew text end including data as to whether a firearm lawfully carried solely by virtue of deleted text begina
permitdeleted text endnew text begin this sectionnew text end was actually used in furtherance of the crime;
(6) to the extent known or determinable, data on the lawful and justifiable use of firearms
by deleted text beginpermit holdersdeleted text endnew text begin individuals legally carrying pistols as provided by this sectionnew text end; and
(7) the status of the segregated funds reported to the commissioner under subdivision
(b) Sheriffs and police chiefs must supply the Department of Public Safety with the basic
data the department requires to complete the report under paragraph (a). Sheriffs and police
chiefs may submit data classified as private to the Department of Public Safety under this
(c) Copies of the report under paragraph (a) must be made available to the public at the
actual cost of duplication.
(d) Nothing contained in any provision of this section or any other law requires or
authorizes the registration, documentation, collection, or providing of serial numbers or
other data on firearms or on firearms' owners.
This section sets forth the complete and exclusive criteria and
procedures for the issuance ofnew text begin optionalnew text end permits to carry and establishes their nature and
scope. No sheriff, police chief, governmental unit, government official, government
employee, or other person or body acting under color of law or governmental authority may
change, modify, or supplement these criteria or procedures, or limit the exercise of deleted text begina permitdeleted text endnew text begin
the rightnew text end to carrynew text begin a firearmnew text end.
Sec. 9. new text begin REPEALER.
new text begin Minnesota Statutes 2018, sections 624.714, subdivisions 1a, 1b, and 16; and 624.7181, new text end new text begin
are repealed.
Repealed Minnesota Statutes: 19-2054
624.714 CARRYING OF WEAPONS WITHOUT PERMIT; PENALTIES.
Subd. 1a.
Permit required; penalty.
A person, other than a peace officer, as defined in section 626.84, subdivision 1, who carries, holds, or possesses a pistol in a motor vehicle, snowmobile, or boat, or on or about the person's clothes or the person, or otherwise in possession or control in a public place, as defined in section 624.7181, subdivision 1, paragraph (c), without first having obtained a permit to carry the pistol is guilty of a gross misdemeanor. A person who is convicted a second or subsequent time is guilty of a felony.
Subd. 1b.
Display of permit; penalty.
(a) The holder of a permit to carry must have the permit card and a driver's license, state identification card, or other government-issued photo identification in immediate possession at all times when carrying a pistol and must display the permit card and identification document upon lawful demand by a peace officer, as defined in section 626.84, subdivision 1. A violation of this paragraph is a petty misdemeanor. The fine for a first offense must not exceed $25. Notwithstanding section 609.531, a firearm carried in violation of this paragraph is not subject to forfeiture.
(b) A citation issued for violating paragraph (a) must be dismissed if the person demonstrates, in court or in the office of the arresting officer, that the person was authorized to carry the pistol at the time of the alleged violation.
(c) Upon the request of a peace officer, a permit holder must write a sample signature in the officer's presence to aid in verifying the person's identity.
(d) Upon the request of a peace officer, a permit holder shall disclose to the officer whether or not the permit holder is currently carrying a firearm.
Recognition of permits from other states.
(a) The commissioner must annually establish and publish a list of other states that have laws governing the issuance of permits to carry weapons that are not similar to this section. The list must be available on the Internet. A person holding a carry permit from a state not on the list may use the license or permit in this state subject to the rights, privileges, and requirements of this section.
(b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a), no license or permit from another state is valid in this state if the holder is or becomes prohibited by law from possessing a firearm.
(c) Any sheriff or police chief may file a petition under subdivision 12 seeking an order suspending or revoking an out-of-state permit holder's authority to carry a pistol in this state on the grounds set forth in subdivision 6, paragraph (a), clause (3). An order shall only be issued if the petitioner meets the burden of proof and criteria set forth in subdivision 12. If the court denies the petition, the court must award the permit holder reasonable costs and expenses including attorney fees. The petition may be filed in any county in the state where a person holding a license or permit from another state can be found.
(d) The commissioner must, when necessary, execute reciprocity agreements regarding carry permits with jurisdictions whose carry permits are recognized under paragraph (a).
624.7181 RIFLES AND SHOTGUNS IN PUBLIC PLACES.
Subdivision 1.
For purposes of this section, the following terms have the meanings given them.
(a) "BB gun" means a device that fires or ejects a shot measuring .18 of an inch or less in diameter.
(b) "Carry" does not include:
(1) the carrying of a BB gun, rifle, or shotgun to, from, or at a place where firearms are repaired, bought, sold, traded, or displayed, or where hunting, target shooting, or other lawful activity involving firearms occurs, or at funerals, parades, or other lawful ceremonies;
(2) the carrying by a person of a BB gun, rifle, or shotgun that is unloaded and in a gun case expressly made to contain a firearm, if the case fully encloses the firearm by being zipped, snapped, buckled, tied, or otherwise fastened, and no portion of the firearm is exposed;
(3) the carrying of a BB gun, rifle, or shotgun by a person who has a permit under section 624.714;
(4) the carrying of an antique firearm as a curiosity or for its historical significance or value; or
(5) the transporting of a BB gun, rifle, or shotgun in compliance with section 97B.045.
(c) "Public place" means property owned, leased, or controlled by a governmental unit and private property that is regularly and frequently open to or made available for use by the public in sufficient numbers to give clear notice of the property's current dedication to public use but does not include: a person's dwelling house or premises, the place of business owned or managed by the person, or land possessed by the person; a gun show, gun shop, or hunting or target shooting facility; or the woods, fields, or waters of this state where the person is present lawfully for the purpose of hunting or target shooting or other lawful activity involving firearms.
Whoever carries a BB gun, rifle, or shotgun on or about the person in a public place is guilty of a gross misdemeanor. A person under the age of 21 who carries a semiautomatic military-style assault weapon, as defined in section 624.712, subdivision 7, on or about the person in a public place is guilty of a felony.
This section does not apply to officers, employees, or agents of law enforcement agencies or the armed forces of this state or the United States, or private detectives or protective agents, to the extent that these persons are authorized by law to carry firearms and are acting in the scope of their official duties.
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Robots & Artificial General Intelligence – How Robotics is Paving The Way for AGI
Artificial General Intelligence or short AGI was commonly referred as Strong AI. The continues advancements in robotics are also spurring the development of AGI. Currently we only have narrow AI or weak AI. But robots are paving the way for strong AI. In the future, robots might possibly become smarter than us or at least, reach human level intelligence. The field of robotics has seen many improvements over the years, as artificial intelligence systems continue to get better. Machine intelligence is a trendy topic among computer scientists and other relevant researchers on the field. As robots continue to get better, concerns for the rise of a superintelligence or an artificial general intelligence that could have different goals from ours, is increasingly getting the attention of computer scientists and lay people alike. We have often seen works of science fiction where robots and AGI have malicious intent. However, things could go really bad fur us even if initially these intelligent machines are programmed to obey human orders and follow our values. As a machine continues to improve itself by modifying it’s own source code, it could lead to an intelligence explosion. A point of time often referred as a technological singularity. Where it becomes hard if not impossible to predict future trajectories of the AI in question. As of the year 2017, there are over 40 organizations focused on the development of AGI. As we’ve said many times before, today’s AI is narrow. However the field of robotics is accelerating the rise of AGI and we will possibly witness a truly general AI in our lifetimes.
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How Quantum AI could help you live to 200, like a bowhead whale.
Google’s quantum supremacy news opens exciting doors. A quantum computer completed a task in 200 seconds that would take 10,000 years on today’s fastest supercomputer.
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Martin Ford The Rise of Artificial Intelligence & Technological Unemployment
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Martin Ford The Rise of AI & Robots–Threat of a Jobless Future
The Long & Short Of It: The A.I. Investment Landscape
The hype surrounding artificial intelligence, or A.I., is “well deserved” as a growing number of companies use A.I. to tap their own proprietary data assets, says Goldman Sachs Investment Banking’s Jung Min, who has already seen the technology start to shape the M&A landscape. Bolstered by the need to build an A.I. competency, companies are hiring teams of A.I. scientists and acquiring data assets. Min expects mature corporations, rather than startups, to derive the most value from AI given their volume of historical data – data that is highly valuable to draw conclusions and predict future outcomes in AI models. “The value of AI is going to show up in surprising places,” Min says. “And where I would focus is actually on…mature companies that have the business process and the data that’s going to underlie the A.I. models of the future.” Learn More http://click.gs.com/r6aq
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Machine Learning Engineer Jobs, Resume & Salary | Machine Learning Engineer Salary Report | Edureka
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Digital Twin is one of the purpose driven Digital transformation themes to reduce operational costs or innovate with new revenue streams for the manufacturing organizations. If properly strategized & implemented, Digital twins have the potential to become a game changer for the organizations to create sustainable competitive advantage. In this webinar, the speakers simplify the definition of digital twins including the application streams, focus on key problems that digital twins solve for manufacturing organizations, and present a case study from automotive industry for digital twin solution implementation based on their experiences.
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From Artificial Intelligence to Superintelligence: Nick Bostrom on AI & The Future of Humanity
Artificial Superintelligence or ASI, sometimes referred to as digital superintelligence is the advent of a hypothetical agent that possesses intelligence far surpassing that of the smartest and most gifted human minds. AI is a rapidly growing field of technology with the potential to make huge improvements in human wellbeing. However, the development of machines with intelligence vastly superior to humans will pose special, perhaps even unique risks.
Most surveyed AI researchers expect machines to eventually be able to rival humans in intelligence, though there is little consensus on when or how this will happen.
One only needs to accept three basic assumptions to recognize the inevitability of superintelligent AI:
– Intelligence is a product of information processing in physical systems.
– We will continue to improve our intelligent machines.
– We do not stand on the peak of intelligence or anywhere near it.
Philosopher Nick Bostrom expressed concern about what values a superintelligence should be designed to have.
Any type of AI superintelligence could proceed rapidly to its programmed goals, with little or no distribution of power to others. It may not take its designers into account at all. The logic of its goals may not be reconcilable with human ideals. The AI’s power might lie in making humans its servants rather than vice versa. If it were to succeed in this, it would “rule without competition under a dictatorship of one”.
Elon Musk has also warned that the global race toward AI could result in a third world war.
To avoid the ‘worst mistake in history’, it is necessary to understand the nature of an AI race, as well as escape the development that could lead to unfriendly Artificial Superintelligence.
To ensure the friendly nature of artificial superintelligence, world leaders should work to ensure that this ASI is beneficial to the entire human race.
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Artificial Intelligence & the Future – Rise of AI (Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Sundar Pichai) | AI
Is good education enough for today’s world? The Future of Work ? AI the next BIG THING ?Non Traditional Education? Artificial Intelligence & the Future – Rise of AI (Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Sundar Pichai)
Sixty-five percent of children entering primary school will end up in jobs that don’t yet exist, reveals the World Economic Forum.
The future of work won’t be about college degrees, it will be about job skills.
Nearly 14% of the Jobs in The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries (OECD) are likely to be automated, while another 32% are at high risk of being partially automated – so nearly 1 in 2 people is likely to be affected in some way.
Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Bill Gates, and many other big names in science and technology have recently expressed concern in the media and via open letters about the risks posed by AI, joined by many leading AI researchers.
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The Role of UX in AI & Robotics
EP72 Joscha Bach on Minds, Machines & Magic
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Joscha Bach talks to Jim about better understanding ourselves via AI, narrow vs general AI incentives, AGI & human-level intelligence, philosophy of AI, limitations of the human brain, GPT-2 & 3, understanding language, layers of meaning, brains columns & mini columns, human vs animal intelligence, matter vs information, physics, realism, spirt as OS, layers of interacting emergence, evolution & memetics, dualism, causally closed minds, rational magic, idealism, human cooperation & delayed maturity, symbolic cognition, compounding impacts of learning capacity, cognitive modularity in AI, cybernetics, Dietrich Dörner‘s impact on Joscha’s work, and much more.
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7 Rubik's Cube World Record Robots – Fastest & New Inventions
On this list, we are going to see Rubik’s Cube Robts which broke world records: fastest and the unique new inventions. We will explain how a self-solving Rubik’s cube works and will also talk about the Open AI’s robot hand that can solve the Rubik’s cube and also will talk about the Gan Robot which is made for consumers and is powered by a smartphone.
1. Cubestomer 3 (made from LEGO)
Powered by Samsung Galaxy S4, CubeStormer 3 robot broke the Guinness World Record for solving a Rubik’s cube in 3.253 seconds in 2014. The robot was built by Mike Dobson and David Gilday, creators of CubeStormer 1, Android Speedcuber and CubeStormer 2.
2. Paul Rose and Jay Flatland Rubik’s Cube Robot
This Rubik’s cube solving robot was developed by two software developers Paul Rose and Jay Flatland. On February 5th, 2016, the machine broke the 2.39 seconds world record held by Zackary Gromko’s robot, by solving the cube in 0.9 seconds using. Four USB webcams are used to feed data into software running on a Linux PC that determines the cube-state and this, in turn, is relayed to the Kociemba Rubik’s Cube solving algorithm. The algorithm then determines a set of moves to solve the Rubik’s Cube and the instructions are sent to the stepper motors.
3. Sub1 Reloaded
Built by Infineon’s engineer Albert Beer from Germany, The Sub1 Reloaded smashed the Guinness World Record by becoming the fastest robot to solve a Rubik’s with just 0.637 seconds in November 2016. This breaks the previous record of 0.887 seconds achieved by an earlier version of the same machine using a different processor. While every Rubik’s Cube can be solved with just 20 movements, Albert did not design the computer to use the fewest moves. Instead, he programmed it to achieve the best time, allowing the Sub1 Reloaded to take extra moves to reach its goal.
4. Rubik’s Contraption
Currently, Rubik’s Contraption is the fastest robot to solve Rubik’s cube. Developed by M.I.T’s graduate Ben Katz and Jared DiCarlo, the robot solved the Rubik’s cube in just 0.38 seconds in 2018. The robot is built from custom parts that are easily acquirable. It uses six Kollmorgen’s ServoDisc U9-series motors, which can be obtained relatively cheaply on eBay, as well as optical encoders on the back, also from eBay. To detect the current state of the cube, a pair of Playstation 3 Eye webcams were positioned at opposite corners of the cube, allowing each camera to observe three faces. A special software was developed to identify all the colors, build a description of the cube and pass it to the min2phase solver which implements Kociemba’s two-phase algorithm.
5. Dactyl – Robot Hand
Unlike other Rubik cube solving robots, this is a humanoid robotic hand is not designed specifically for solving Rubik’s cube. It is designed for general purpose, self-learning robots. It is called Dactyl. Developed by Artificial intelligence research organization OpenAI, Dactyl has learned to solve a Rubik’s cube one-handed. It is not as fast as those purpose-built Rubik’s solvers, because the robotics team at OpenAI has very different ambitions. They are trying to build something that is much more general in its scope, similar to how humans and how human hands can do a lot of things, not just a specific task.
6. A Self-Solving Rubik’s Cube
You might think that there are some camera tricks or visual effects in this video, well.. you are not alone. Many people thought so too when the Japanese inventor, Human Controller posted this video on his youtube channel. This is a real Rubik’s Cube that can completely solve itself while floating in mid-air.
How does a self-solving Rubik’s cube work?
With the help of the “first two layers” or the F2L algorithm, the Arduino board at the heart of the cube controls the 3D printed custom cores full of servo motors that spin any of its multi-colored sides. The levitation was made possible by installing powerful magnets in both the cube and the table under it.
7. GAN Robot
The GAN Robot can both scrambles and solves a 3×3 Rubik’s cube using a smartphone app. For now, it can only solve the GAN 356i cube. It can solve the cube in less than 15 seconds after calculating the best solving path in 0.01s. The robot is perfect for teaching people to solve the cube step by step, scrambling cubes uniformly in competitions for fair and accurate results.
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9 Most Advanced AI Robots – Humanoid & Industrial Robots
A list of most advanced Humanoid, Industrial and Service robots that are changing the future with the help of Artificial Intelligence.
Digit is envisioned to help take care of people in their homes, assist with disaster response and deliver packages to front doors. With its nimble limbs and a torso packed with sensors, Digit can navigate complex environments and carry out tasks such as package delivery. In May 2019 Ford Motor Company and Agility announced a partnership to develop a last-mile logistics solution that combines Ford’s autonomous vehicle technology and Agility’s Digit.
Pepper is the world’s first social humanoid robot that is able to recognize faces and basic human emotions. Pepper has been adopted by over 2000 companies around the world. Perfect in retail and finance industries, Pepper has numerous functionalities including increasing store traffic by attracting the attention of shoppers, creating memorable in-store experiences, stimulating purchase and retain customers. Pepper can also gather comprehensive data to enrich the customer base and generate shopper insights.
Atlas is the world’s most dynamic humanoid robot built by BostonDynamics, a company that was previously owned by Google and now by SoftBank. Atlas is becoming more sophisticated year by year, thanks to its state of the art hardware and algorithm that allows it to quickly understand instructions. With its 28 hydraulic joints, 4.9 feet of height and 176 pounds weight, the robot can perform both impressive terrifying acts including navigating uneven terrain, jumping around a parkour course, doing somersaults. All these activities demonstrate human-level agility so the robot can be perfect for search and rescue operations and performing human tasks in environments where humans could not survive.
Spot is a robot dog designed for industrial uses such as carrying goods through a warehouse and inspecting a remote site with an unfavorable environment for human operators. It can run at 5.2 feet per second, has 360-degree cameras, and can operate in temperatures ranging from 4 to 113 Fahrenheit. With its API and flexible payload interface, the robot can be easily customized for desired tasks. Spot is also manufactured by BostonDynamics and is now being leased to eligible companies.
HRP-5P
HRP-5P is an advanced humanoid robot designed to operate autonomously and carry out heavy labor in hazardous environments. It is equipped with environmental sensors and object recognition, full-body motion planning and control, and task description and execution management. HRP-5P is based on more than 20 years of humanoid research at AIST. In those 20 years, the institute has created 4 other robots which are the predecessor of HRP-5P.
Surena IV
Surena IV is the fourth generation of Surena humanoid robot series developed by the University of Tehran in Iran. With a height of 5.6 feet and a weight of 154 pounds, this robot is able to walk at a speed of 0.43 miles per hour. Its custom force sensors at the bottom of its feet help the robot step over uneven surfaces by adjusting the angle and position of each foot.
Aquanaut is an advanced unmanned underwater transformer that can transform itself from a nimble long-distance submarine into a half-humanoid robot capable of carrying out complex underwater manipulation tasks. Designed by Houston Mechatronics Inc, Aquanaut can inspect subsea oil and gas infrastructure, operate valves, and use subsea tools with just a few mouse clicks. Operating completely untethered and without support ships, Aquanaut can travel more than 124 miles in submarine mode, has a max speed of 7 knots and a maximum operational depth of 984 feet.
Stuntronic robot
A Stuntronic robot is an animatronic stunt double designed to entertain the crowds at Disney theme parks and resorts. With its onboard sophisticated sensors, it can make its own real-time decisions—all while flying 60 feet in the air. It knows when to tuck its knees to perform a somersault, when to pull its arms to twist, and even when to slow down its spin to make sure it makes a perfect landing.
Handle is another robot from Boston Dynamics. With its deep-learning vision software, this robot can identify and locate boxes, unloads trucks, palletizes, and depalletizes at the push of a button. Its mobility enables it to operate in multiple work-cells, moving through facilities along with the flow of goods. It can pick up to 360 boxes/hr.
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SingularityNET Foundation and leading blockchain research and development company IOHK, have today announced that they are planning to port a significant portion of the SingularityNET decentralized protocol and platform from Ethereum to Cardano.
This would involve providing mechanisms for swapping some of the current (Ethereum-based) ERC-20 AGI tokens to Cardano-based AGI tokens, and also creating analogues of the Solidity smart contracts underlying aspects of the SingularityNET platform using Cardano’s new Plutus smart contract language.
IOHK and SingularityNET, CEOs Charles Hoskinson and Ben Goertzel sit down here for a wide-ranging discussion of the future of technology. The conversation at the University of Wyoming Blockchain Stampede touches on the intersection of decentralization and artificial intelligence. SingularityNET is working with Cardano on the shared goal of pushing power to the edges of the world through the application of next-generation technology.
Top 5 Countries to Study Data Science, ML, AI & Analytics Abroad | Top Universities, Jobs & Salaries
In today’s digital age, “Data” is the new oil. There is a huge amount of data around us, and it’s expanding at an exponential rate. The challenge is that this big data set (Big Data) is noisy and heterogeneous. So, it’s very important to extract knowledge or insights from the data around us.
The field of data science explores the patterns within large data sets and aims to drive meaningful actionable decisions.
Data science is an umbrella term that encompasses data analytics, data mining, machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), and several other related disciplines.
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Meghan Trainor called in to let RADIO.COM's David, Sue and Kendra from Boston’s Morning Magic know, that “I’m here, I’m pregnant, I’m happy!”, among other things of course, including her newly released Christmas album, A Very Trainor Christmas.
Despite, this year’s the lack of travel, Meghan insists, that with a baby on the way and home interviews she’s been staying busy. "Without traveling it’s much easier," Meghan noted. “But it’s still a lot of interviews at home and zooms and trying to figure out how to unmute myself, she quipped. “It’s a lot of work still. I’ve only left to do, like, two music videos and then I went in-person with a mask and gloves on to look at the baby crib that I just bought ‘cause it was a lot of money. You gotta figure it out.”
If you didn’t already know, then let us inform you, Meghan loves Christmas, being a Christmas baby herself, she revealed that while she had similar aspirations for her little one, she “didn’t achieve that goal,” as her baby’s due date is in February.
Meghan went on to reveal in her household, while growing up, the Christmas season was the “best time of year.” Both her older brother and her have late December birthdays, his being the 17th and her’s the 22nd, so they “always had birthday parties.” And who doesn’t love a party?!
Meghan never felt shorted, with her birthday so close to Christmas. “My parents, they were so good to me, they always made it feel so special, and that day was my day.” The only qualm Meghan seemed to have, is that because her birthday fell during school winter break, she never got serenaded my her school singing Happy Birthday in the cafeteria. However, she did admit that years later, on tour with Nick Jonas, he got an entire arena to sing to her on her birthday, which was “worth all those years not getting sang to” at school.
With Meghan being so close with her family, it should come as no surprise that putting together her new Christmas album, A Very Trainor Christmas, was quite the family affair. Meghan shared, “my whole family was a part of this, my younger brother recorded all my vocals for me, my older brother wrote some songs with me, and we all produced them together.” Additionally, Megan’s dad played piano on “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas,” her little cousin sang background vocals on “Rudolf The Red Nose Reindeer,” while her mother and husband, Daryl Sabara also dabbled in a bit of background singing.
Like we said, Meghan’s love for Christmas runs deep, but for her, there’s no debate between Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. “I think Christmas Eve is better because that’s when we get with the family and we give our gifts to each other.” Or how she additionally put it, “that’s the party.”
For Christmas Day, Meghan explained, “usually we like to have the kids have their time with Santa Claus’ gifts in the morning and have a good family time moment.” Excitedly noting, “and I’m gonna be a momma now, I’m gonna have that. So I do want that family alone time on Christmas Day.”
When it came to selecting the songs for A Very Trainor Christmas, she selected classics along with songs that had special meaning to her, with included a Britney Spears Christmas tune, “My Only Wish,” which Meghan admits to be one of her favorites, in addition to “White Christmas,” and “Last Christmas,” which the chorus, Meghan admitted, “always got me.”
We get it Meghan, it gets us too, especially your version. Yes we’re already listening, yeah we know it’s still November, and we still have Thanksgiving, but we don’t care!
For all those merry deets and more, listen to Meghan entire interview with Morning Magic above.
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What is Nanolithography?
Nanolithography is the art of making structures on the nanometre scale. This might be used for creating integrated circuits and parts for semiconductor technology, where being able to manufacture the smallest possible transistors and circuits not only allows for creation of smaller devices but can help increase the power efficiency and performance of the components.¹
Advances in lithography methods have also made it possible to construct complex structures that can be used for microelectromechanical or nanoelectromechanicalsystems (MEMS or NEMS) devices. Such miniature machines have already found use as pH sensors and transistors but there is a wealth of future possible development for such technology, such as using the devices for drug delivery.²
How does nanolithography work?
There are a variety of different techniques for performing nanolithography machining depending on the types of materials being worked with and the specifications of the final structure. Generally, most nanolithography techniques make use of the properties of light or electrons to create patterns in a substrate. This patterning can be targeted via the use of masks being added to the photoresist in order to protect areas from the incoming light. The pattern is then etched onto the uncovered areas and, if necessary, the previously masked areas can be removed.
Electron beam lithography (EBL or e-beam lithography) is the technique that can be used to create the smallest features (as small as 5 nm).³ Rather than using light to illuminate the surface, a tightly focused beam of electrons is scanned over the surface. The electron beam exposes the pattern and then the resist can be developed. After this, the pattern transfer can be completed either by etching and resist removal or evaporating a metal onto the resist and dissolving the remaining unwanted metal and resist.
The Technical Challenges
While impressively minute and complex devices can be shaped with nanolithography, the smaller the scale of the manufacturing, the more precision in the pattern transfer becomes of paramount importance. Issues with precision can lead to manufacturing mistakes with wasted materials and their associated costs. However, there are a number of technical challenges that need to be overcome to make very high precision pattern transfer possible.
In order for the electron beam or light source to be able to correctly trace a pattern over a resist, it needs feedback on its relative position, both in terms of the relative height of the source and its position in the horizontal plane of the resist.¹
Another related issue in electron beam lithography is the ‘stitching error’. When transferring larger patterns, the total pattern is broken down into smaller writing areas that are joined by movements of a translation stage. Here, the movements of the translation stages must be absolutely precise to preserve the full pattern over its constituent areas.⁴
'Cd3As2 nano-cross'
Weiyi Wang, Fudan University, China
'3D-Fresnel lense array in 5 µm thick e-beam resist'
Raith GmbH, Dortmund, Germany
'Ring of plasmonics'
Thomas Loeber, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany
'Photonic crystal waveguide in ZEP520a '
Thomas Krauss, University of York, UK
'Hall bar and FIB devices based on a Cd3as2 nanobelt sample '
Enze Zhang, Fudan University,China
'Precise overlay demonstrated by a consecutive, multiple lithography process '
Paul Scherer Institute, Villingen, Switzerland
Raith’s Solutions
Thankfully though, there are several options available to improving the stability and precision of nanolithography fabrication. Raith are market-leaders in offering technologies for nanofabrication that overcome many of the technical challenges associated with nanolithography fabrication.
Raith offers a broad range of electron and ion beam technologies from 20 eV to 100 kV for e-beam lithography. In the 100 kV range, Raith has the EBPG5200, which has an overlay accuracy of ≤ 5 nm for extreme direct write precision. Where 50 kV would be more appropriate, and users need a machine with a small footprint, the VOYAGER includes the Raith’s patented eWRITE system to allow for quick processing (up to 1 cm²/h) for samples of up to 8 inches.
Given that stitching areas in nanolithography is a source of additional errors and imprecision, Raith have developed the traxx and periodixx technologies, which allow for stitch-free lithography. By using their exclusive Fixed-Beam-Moving Stage (FBMS) technology to translate the sample, it is possible to draw patterns up to centimetres in length in a continuous writing mode. This removes any of the stitching errors associated with writing region by region and is particularly beneficial in high-precision manufacturing applications such as making waveguides and X-ray optics.
In conjunction with traxx, peridoixx uses a similar principle, the Modulated-Beam-Moving-Mode (MBMS) to combine the advances of FBMS with some beam movement as required for drawing repetitive patterns. Both write modes can be combined with the Laser Interferometric Stage and are available on many of the Raith lithography instruments including VOYAGER, RAITH150 Two, eLINE Plus and VELION.
The large range of instruments offered by Raith in combination with their very high precision and capabilities of very small scale machining make them ideal for nearly any nanolithography application.
Nanolithography systems
1) Pimpin and W. Srituravanich, Eng. J., 2012, 16, 37–55
2) Fujita and Y. Mita, Nanofabrication Handb., 2012, 353–378.
3) Chen, Microelectron. Eng., 2015, 135, 57–72.
4) K. Dey and B. Cui, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B, Nanotechnol. Microelectron. Mater. Process. Meas. Phenom., 2013, 31, 06F409
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Scotland set for historic Rugby World Cup with 50 days to go
Rugby fever is gripping Japan as final preparations for Asia’s first Rugby World Cup are fine-tuned across the 12 host cities as the countdown clock reached the 50-days-to-go mark.
Scotland play in Pool A in the Rugby World Cup facing Ireland, Samoa, Russia and the tournament hosts in the group stage matches.
Today, organisers confirmed that 83 per cent of the 1.8 million tickets have now been sold, reaffirming confidence of a full sell-out, while the next sales phase opens next Saturday (10 August).
Japan is transforming into a stadium of 137 million people ready to be the perfect host to welcome the world’s top teams and more than 400,000 international visitors.
The latest independent research confirms a significant increase in awareness in recent months with 77.4 per cent of the population – a staggering 98.3 million people – aware of the tournament.
World Rugby Chairman Sir Bill Beaumont said: "With 50 days to go, we are confident and excited that Japan 2019 will be a very special success on every level – it will break records and make history on and off the field as Asia’s first Rugby World Cup.
"Records will be broken during the tournament from fan-zone attendance to broadcast and engagement, but significantly with 50 days to go, we can confidently say that Japan 2019 is already proving to be a transformational driver of sporting and social legacy in the host nation and across Asia.
"The hosting of this tournament has paved the way for 1.16 million people to experience the sport across Asia, 200,000 in Japan alone, through our dedicated Impact Beyond legacy programmes in partnership with the JRFU and Asia Rugby, it has provided an important and exciting step-change for rugby in the world’s most populous and youthful region."
The remaining ticket inventory will go on general sale at 18:00 JST on Saturday 10 August at www.rugbyworldcup.com/tickets, while official travel and hospitality options are also available. Fans can also purchase tickets via the Rugby World Cup 2019 official resale service which gives fans a safe and secure platform to resell tickets to other fans at face value for matches they can no longer attend www.rugbyworldcup.com/tickets.
With such exceptional demand for tickets, fans are being urged to buy exclusively from official channels to avoid being let down. For more details visit www.rugbyworldcup.com/buy-official.
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Garden of Delight
A man takes revenge on the people from his past by saving the life of a professional killer who becomes indebted to him.
Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
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Marvin is unexpectedly fired from his job. He tells his wife Iris the news about his firing. She asks Marvin to take care of the house and to tend to their large garden while he is job searching to which Marvin agrees. He takes care of the house and looks at their gigantic sized garden. He decides to go to a restaurant/bar instead.
He saves a man from choking at the bar. The man introduces himself as Lloyd and that he is a professional killer. He asks Marvin whom he would like killed. Marvin tells Lloyd his ex-boss that just fired him.
Days later, he receives a phone call from Lloyd telling him "the project" is done and where Marvin would like the project sent to. Marvin tells him to bring it to the house. Marvin and Lloyd bury the body in the massive garden. Marvin tells Lloyd that he has other people he would like killed. Lloyd complies.With each body Lloyd and Marvin bury, the garden grows with various plants and vegetables. Iris and their friends are impressed with Marvin's new-found gardening abilities.
Marvin tends to the garden and it becomes an obsession. By working in the garden, his body transforms from being soft and flabby to hard and muscular. As his body has become hard and confident, so has his mind.
Marvin continues to tend to all the plants despite some close calls with the neighbors.
Iris and her neighborhood friend June walk around the garden. Iris complains that Marvin has changed. Iris tells June that her moving into the neighborhood was the best thing that has ever happened to her. They kiss and have sex in the garden. Marvin sees them through a sheer curtain in the living room.
Marvin tells Lloyd to kill his wife. Lloyd refuses. Marvin states to Lloyd that if he doesn't kill Iris, he will tell the police what he's done and that he was forced to bury the bodies in his backyard. Lloyd pulls out a gun and so does Marvin. The scene fades to black as two gunshots are heard.
Iris comes back from work and doesn't see Marvin anywhere. She tries to call him on his cell but no answer. She then goes out to the garden. She sees a new dirt mound and a blood trail. She turns around and sees Lloyd dead. Iris calls someone on her cell phone.
She digs a hole in the garden and buries Lloyd's body. Suddenly, two arms wrap around her. It is June. She asks if they can be together. Iris calls Marvin on her cell phone. She hears a muffled ring in the new dirt mound.
When Iris confirms to June that they can be together, they kiss and embrace. When Iris breaks away from the embrace, she realizes that June has mortally stabbed her. Iris dies.
Suddenly two arms wrap around June and a face comes into view. It is Marvin.
A flashback shows the standoff between Marvin and Lloyd ends up with Marvin killing Lloyd and making it look like Lloyd killed Marvin and then Lloyd dying in the process of burying Marvin.
Marvin lowers the dead body of Iris in a hole in the garden and begins to bury her. A flashback shows how Marvin discovered that Iris was attempting to murder him with the help of Lloyd.
Marvin finishes burying Iris and goes to June. They kiss and embrace. June will play this role...for now.
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Story Type:
Story Situation:
Daring enterprise
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Minor cgi
Female Adult, Male Adult, Male Middle Aged
Villian Type:
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Damsel in distress, Femme fatale, Gentleman thief, Lovers, Nerd
Black/Dark, Sex, Suspense-Thriller, Gay and Lesbian, Sexual/Erotic, Woman’s Friendship, Horror, Gothic, Macabre
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Mid-life Crisis/Middle Age
United Kingdom (UK), United States of America (USA)
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Domestic, Emotions and feelings, Intimacy, Jealousy, Love, Passion, Sexuality
Submitted: June 18, 2020
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The Writer: Paul Grammatico
Forbidden to see graphic films as a child and limited to edited TV movies, I received my horror information second hand through stories from older friends and siblings. I also vacationed in a desolate cottage, raised in houses with creepy basements, and lived in an apartment with a “full torso apparition”. Inspired by my experiences, I am a multi-award-winning screenwriter with an affinity of the weird and unexplained. Go to bio
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Training strategy for today's full-time dental research scholars p. 129
HA Mosadomi
DOI:10.4103/sjos.SJOralSci_90_20
A memory-recall checklist for dental services during the COVID-19 outbreak: A clinical recommendation p. 131
Amal A Al-Khotani, Haila A Al-Huraishi, Dalia E Meisha
The epidemic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has infected millions of people and put a huge amount of stress on the health-care system. Health-care professionals, including dental professionals, are at a high risk of acquiring COVID-19. Therefore, extra precautions need to be implemented for routine dental infection control procedures. It is encouraged to have a written reminder in the form of a checklist to recall these crucial steps, especially when nonroutine procedures must be followed. The aim of this special communication is to present a proposed mnemonic or memory-recall, user-friendly checklist to be used in the dental clinic during the COVID-19 outbreak. The checklist was created following the guidelines for reopening dental services in governmental and private sectors during the COVID-19 pandemic that were published by the Ministry of Health on June 5, 2020. Based on the patient's score and the urgency of the dental situation, specific steps should be followed. When the patient's score is ≥ 4 and needs an emergency aerosol-generating procedure, REDS steps should be recalled. Further, MRS steps must be followed if the patient's score is < 4. For both groups, GAMES can be followed when personal protective equipment is needed before the patient examination and HD steps should be applied after finishing the dental procedure. In conclusion, this written reminder in the form of a checklist can be helpful for a safe dental practice during pandemics to recall the crucial nonroutine steps. We recommend that the dental staff place those steps as a written reminder in an accessible, visible place.
The effect of in vitro aging on the color stability of cubic and tetragonal zirconia materials p. 139
Maha S Mezied, Fawaz S Alqahtani
Aim: The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of artificial-accelerated aging (AAA) on the color stability of three types of monolithic cubic Zirconia materials of the third generation compared with tetragonal Zirconia materials of the first generation. Materials and Methods: A four groups of 10 disc-shaped specimens (10 mm × 1.2 mm) were made from the following CAD/CAM Zirconia blocks: first-generation Zirconia (Ceramill Zi LT) as a control, and three brands of third-generation Zirconia (Ceramill Zolid FX UT, Katana UTML, and Cercon XT) as the experimental groups. Ten discs from each group were subjected to the color measurement using a Spectrophotometer (Hunterlab, EasyMatch QC. Ver 4.90). Then, same discs were subjected to AAA for 3500 cycles. The data were analyzed with the one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Tukey's post hoc test. Data analyses were evaluated at a statistically significance level of P < 0.05. Results: Statistically significant differences were detected in the L*, a*, and b* values among the four groups both before and after AAA. One-way ANOVA was used, which showed statistically significant differences among the groups (P < 0.001). The Ceramill ZI LT showed the greatest change in color (ΔE = 2.74 ± 0.23), followed by Katana UTML (ΔE = 1.91 ± 0.23), Ceramill Zolid FX UT (ΔE = 1.52 ± 0.43), and least change in color was seen in Cercon XT (ΔE = 1.44 ± 0.25). Tukey's post hoc test showed a statistically significantly difference among the test materials, except between Ceramill Zolid Fx UT and Cercon XT, where there was no significant difference seen in ΔE. Conclusion: The AAA protocols used in this study resulted in a significant effect in the (ΔE) of the four-tested Zirconia materials. The Ceramill ZI LT (First Generation) showed the greatest change in color and the least change in color was observed with Cercon XT (third generation). The color changes in all four tested Zirconia, though statistically significant was not a clinically perceivable
The effect of levodopa in combination with Hank's balanced salt solution in enhancing periodontal ligament cell viability: An in vitro study p. 145
Smita P Patil, Prashant B Patil, Meena V Kashetty
Aim: This study aims to study the viable property of periodontal ligament (PDL) cells in the avulsed teeth using Hank's balanced salt solution (HBSS) storage medium with levodopa (L-dopa) and without L-dopa. Materials and Methods: The study samples included 40 freshly extracted, noncarious, non-impacted human teeth with closed apices. The teeth were then randomly divided into four groups containing four different experimental storage solutions, namely Group 1: Deionized water; Group 2: Deionized water with L-dopa (1 μg/μl); Group 3: HBSS; and Group 4: HBSS with L-dopa (1 μg/μl). All the teeth were stored in different test solutions for 60 min. Collagenase assay was performed followed by analyses of the number of viable PDL cells using a hemocytometer under a light microscope at ×20 magnification. The mean and standard deviation (SD) of viable PDL cells of all the four groups obtained were evaluated using Kruskal–Wallis test. P < 0.001 was considered statistically significant. Comparison between the four groups was done using Mann–Whitney test and U <23 and P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: Comparison of mean and SD of viable PDL cells showed a significant difference between the four groups (P < 0.001). Group 4 showed the highest mean number of PDL cells, followed by Group 3, Group 2, and Group 1, respectively. These findings indicate that the viability of PDL cells was highest when teeth were stored in HBSS with L-dopa, followed by HBSS, than de-ionized water with L-dopa and least in de-ionized water. Conclusion: The results of the study showed that the PDL cells were rendered more viable by the synergistic effect of L-dopa along with HBSS as a storage medium for an avulsed tooth.
The range of pathological diagnoses of oral diseases in Jordan: An 11-year-retrospective study p. 151
Yazan Hassona, Doaa Al Boosh, Asmaa Al Saed, Mohammad Al Mousa, Nicola Barghout, Awni Al Kayed, Faleh Sawair
Objectives: The objective of this study is to describe the pattern of oral and maxillofacial diseases in Jordan and to compare it with global trends. Materials and Methods: A retrospective analysis of pathology records in a major university hospital in Jordan was conducted. Age, gender, anatomical site, and pathological diagnosis were assessed. Results: A total of 1062 records were included. There were 525 (49.4%) females and 537 males (50.6%). The mean age of the study sample was 39 ± 18.7 years (range = 2–88 years). Nearly half of the lesions originated from the jaw bones (48.8%, n = 518), followed by oral mucosa (38.3%, n = 407), and gingivae (7.1%, n = 75). Cystic lesions were the most common type of pathologies (35.8%, n = 380), followed by reactive lesions (25.8, n = 274), and tumors (13.9%, n = 148). The most common individual pathologies were radicular cyst (19.8%, n = 210), followed by dentigerous cyst (11.3%, n = 120), and fibroepithelial polyp (8.8%, n = 93). Conclusion: Reactive and cystic lesions are the most common type of diseases encountered in the present study. The pattern of oral and maxillofacial diseases reported here is consistent with global trends.
Clinical practice preferences of Australian and New Zealand practitioners in the implant management of the edentulous mandible p. 156
James Dudley, Fiza Mughal
DOI:10.4103/sjos.SJOralSci_9_20
Introduction: Mandibular edentulism remains a widespread health burden with a variety of available treatment modalities, but without an accepted single best practice approach. The purpose of the present study was to survey clinical practice preferences of Australian and New Zealand practitioners in the management of patients with edentulous mandibles with a specific focus on the use of dental implants. Materials and Methods: A questionnaire comprising thirty questions was developed and administered online via a unique web link sent to all known Australian and New Zealand general dental and specialist professional membership bodies. Results: Responses received from the members of five of the ten membership bodies constituted 7.35% overall response rate. Respondents who had undertaken implant training and were involved in implant treatment of the edentulous mandible totaled 65.5%. The pattern of referral to specialists for surgical implant placement varied according to the type of prosthesis being constructed. Of 111 respondents, 72% preferred two implants for mandibular implant overdentures (MIODs), whereas 97% of 98 respondents preferred four or more implants for a mandibular fixed complete implant denture. The main reasons for choosing MIOD instead of fixed complete implant denture were cost, patient preference, and available jaw bone. Conclusions: The highest level of education in implant dentistry varied significantly between respondents and was potentially reflected in the wide variety of reported treatment approaches. Even within a specific implant prosthesis type, there was no universally accepted modality of management. Future research should focus on alternative survey strategies for obtaining important data representative of the total practicing population.
The effect of pediatric dental clinical environment on children's behaviors in Riyadh City p. 164
Haneen Alshukairi, Dalal Al Muhaidib, Saja Aleidan
Background: Fear of dental treatment prevents children from cooperation in the dental clinic. Children's behavior can be improved if the environment of the dental practice is modified. Aim: This study aims to assess the effect of the atmosphere of the dental clinic and the dentist's attitude on the patient's behaviors. Materials and Methods: A 13 questions survey was developed to assess the various factors contributing to childhood fears in the dental clinic. One hundred and thirty children presenting to Riyadh Elm University who agreed to participate consented. Results: Fifty percent of children prefer to have a female doctor, and 60% of them like to see a dentist in a white coat. Furthermore, 46% of children are happy watching a cartoon, and 44% enjoy listening to a story during treatment. The presence of parents during the procedure and getting a reward at the end show significant children satisfaction. In addition, having a play station in the waiting room and having a dental tour before starting treatment were useful tools to reduce the fear of children. Finally, the color and the smell of the clinic, as well as the time of the dental appointment, were not significant factors to improve children anxiety. Conclusion: Improving the environment of the dental clinic and the attitude of the dentist are crucial elements to reduce children's fear during dental treatment.
Assessment of the low-speed centrifugation concept modified in the release of fibroblast growth factor-2 in Saudi healthy patient p. 169
Abdulrahman Alshehri, Salah Alokaili, Sami Shafik, Nasser M Assery, Naghshbandi Jafar, Khalid Alhezaimi
Introduction: Alteration of the centrifugation time and protocol may impact the release of platelet-rich fibrin (PRF) scaffolds. The current study purpose was to investigate the released levels of fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF-2) in standard PRF (S-PRF) and low-speed centrifugation concept known as advanced PRF (A-PRF and A-PRF+). Measurements were done at five times interval over 42 days. The aim was to assess the FGF release and the relation between initial platelet counts and the concentrations of FGF-2 release using the following technique: (1) S-PRF, (2) A-PRF, and (3) A-PRF+. Materials and Methods: Twenty-four blood samples were taken from eight random Saudi Arabian national healthy subjects enrolled in the investigation. Blood samples were processed using S-PRF, A-PRF, and A-PRF+ centrifugation protocols. Protein quantification was performed using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay at 1, 7, 14, 28, and 42-day intervals. Results and Discussion: A statistically significant difference in the mean of FGF-2 measurement between protocols at the 7th day where both S-PRF and A-PRF were significantly higher than A-PRF+ (P < 0.012). Initial platelets' significant count for S-PRF, A-PRF, and A-PRF+ was on day 1, day 7, and 7th day, respectively. Both protocols S-PRF and A-PRF yielded significantly higher release of the FGF-2 when compared to A-PRF+ in Saudi healthy subjects.
Caries-related treatment decisions of general dental practitioners in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia p. 174
Marwa Eltayeb Elagra, Haya Fahad Alzaid, Mai Mohammad Alsabeh, Nada Abdulaziz Altoub, Sahar Fahad Binhowaimel
Introduction: For decades, caries management strategies followed G. V. Black's concept, which has been considered an invasive approach since the development of operative care. Several studies showed a wide variation in restorative treatment decisions even among dentists within the same country. Aim: The aim of this study is to investigate treatment decisions for carious lesions in relation to the patients' caries risk among general practitioners. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study using a self-administered paper-based questionnaire was conducted among general dental practitioners in Riyadh city. The demographic characteristics of the practitioners were obtained. The questionnaire included five clinical scenarios aided by photographs; each scenario involved either a high- or a low-caries risk condition, and the scenarios were presented alternately. The recall interval was recorded. Occlusal and proximal caries thresholds were also explored. Data were analyzed using SPSS version 21 software. Chi-square and logistic regression analyses were conducted, and values of P ≤ 0.05 were considered statistically significant. Results: A total of 340 participants were included in the analysis. The treatment decisions of the general dental practitioners for the International Caries Detection and Assessment System code 2 scenarios were mostly preventive. Proximal carious lesions extending to the dentinoenamel junction were the principal indication for operative treatment. Most participants preferred to recall patients after 6 months. Conclusion: There was vast discordance between knowledge and practice in restorative treatment decisions for occlusal carious lesions. The general dentists tended to opt for restorative treatment in high-risk patients three times more often than in low-risk patients. Clinical Significance: A low level of clinical implementation of evidence-based information was observed in this study regarding occlusal caries.
Pulp therapy of primary molars using lesion sterilization tissue repair and traditional endodontic treatment p. 181
Prerna Beniwal, Namita Kalra, Rishi Tyagi, Amit Khatri
Aim: This study aimed to compare the clinical and radiographic success of lesion sterilization and tissue repair (LSTR) therapy and traditional endodontic treatment for pulp therapy of primary molars over a period of 6 months. Materials and Methods: Fifty primary mandibular molars from children aged 3–8 years in need of pulp therapy presenting with signs of irreversible pulpitis and those meeting our inclusion criteria were selected for the study. The teeth were randomly divided into two groups: Group 1 individuals received intervention by LSTR therapy and Group 2 individuals were treated with the principles of traditional pulpectomy procedures using a mixture of zinc oxide (ZnO) and calcium hydroxide (Ca(OH)2) as the obturating material. Patients were reviewed clinically and radiographically at 1, 3, and 6 months. Results: At the end of 1 and 3 months, both the study groups were comparable in their overall success rates. At 6 months, the clinical success was comparable between the two study groups. Radiographic success rate of the two study groups achieved statistically significant difference, with Group 2 faring better than Group 1. Conclusion: Primary mandibular molars showing signs of irreversible pulpitis, particularly those which were destined to have a poor prognosis, were successfully treated in Group 1 using LSTR and in Group 2 with traditional endodontics using a mixture of Ca(OH)2and ZnO as obturating material.
Dental esthetics and its effect on psychological well-being in a university hospital in Riyadh, KSA p. 189
Yasmine Tarek Ahmed, Abdulrahman Al Saffan, Atheer Saleh Al Malky, Haila Ahmed Al Nughaimshi, Reem Jasir Al Herbisch, Reema Ebrahim Al Yahya, Sultana Mohammed Al Zain
Background: The importance of dental esthetics among young adults is significantly increasing, affecting their self-confidence and self-image, especially with the major role being played by the media. Objective: The objective of this study was to assess the impact of dental esthetics on the psychological well-being of adult patients attending a university hospital in Saudi Arabia. Materials and Methods: A total of 613 patients attending university hospitals participated in this study by answering the online and printed version of the questionnaires. A Psychosocial Impact of dental aesthetics questionnaire was used in self-assessment for satisfaction with dental esthetics, and a self-perceived dental treatment needs. Collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Chi-square tests. Results: The participants reported smile satisfaction with satisfied (52.4%) and highly satisfied (22.8%), while only 24.8% reported dissatisfaction. Tooth color was the most common cause of dissatisfaction (49.3%). Conclusions: The majority of the participants were satisfied with their smiles, however, a large percentage are still in need of further esthetic dental treatments as their smiles have a major impact on their social and psychological well-being. Hence, more public awareness programs should be directed to educate our community to make better choices of cosmetic dental procedures.
Problem-based learning in dentistry, implementation, and student perceptions p. 194
Jayashri Tamanna Nerali, Lahari Ajay Telang, Ajay Telang, Pishipati Vinayak Kalyan Chakravarthy
Introduction: Problem-based learning (PBL) is one of the most comprehensive and widely accepted student-centered tool for teaching and learning health professions education, wherein students define the problem, establish learning objectives, undergo self-directed learning and facilitate understanding of the problems. This study has been carried out with an aim of assessing 3rd year dental student's perception of PBL as a teaching and learning method over a 5-year period based on problem-solving and self-directed learning, cooperative learning, role of facilitator and product discussion. Methodology: The perception of 3rd year students from year 2014 to 2018 was assessed at the end of PBL sessions using a self-administered, structured questionnaire. Their responses were recorded using a five point Likert scale and data collected retrospectively was analyzed. Students' open feedback regarding the PBL process was also recorded and analyzed. Results: A total of 376 participants responded to the questionnaire (female = 250 [65%], male = 126 [35%]). Majority of students agreed that PBL improved problem-solving skill, self-directed learning and perceived that it had a positive impact on cooperative learning. Students also felt that PBL product discussion prepared them for future presentation and helped to clarify concepts. Conclusion: The results suggested that students had a positive attitude toward PBL and it improved their problem-solving skills as well as motivated them to learn and participate actively. Some students felt that PBL was time consuming, yet it was a fun and interesting way to learn.
Characterization of oral lichen planus in a subset of patients: A single-center experience p. 199
Azza F Alhelo, Soulafa A Almazrooa, Ghada A Mansour, Sana A Alhamed, Sara Alfarabi, Sara K Akeel, Nada O Binmadi, Nada A Alhindi, Lujain Alsulaimani, Manal A Alamri, Hani H Mawardi
Introduction: Lichen planus (LP) is a common chronic, mucocutaneous inflammatory disorder with unclear pathophysiology. The aim was to describe the epidemiology and clinicopathological characteristics of oral lichen planus (OLP) patients at King Abdulaziz University Dental Hospital (KAUDH) in Jeddah. Materials and Methods: This was a retrospective, chart-review study which included OLP patients previously seen at KAUDH from June 2012 to June 2018. Demographic data, clinical features, management, and outcome were collected and analyzed. Diagnosis of LP was done using clinical criteria with or without histopathologic diagnosis, and the scoring system by Escudier et al. was used. Results: Fifty patients with a mean age of 48 years (range: 21–71) and 2.5:1 female-to-male ratio were included in this study. The most concomitant systemic diseases were diabetes mellitus (30%) and hypertension (26%). Reticular OLP was the most common form (98%), followed by erythematous (66%), ulcerative (26%), and plaque-like type (8%). More than half of the patients were asymptomatic (64%), whereas twenty-two symptomatic patients were managed with either topical steroids, a combination of topical and systemic steroids, and/or intralesional steroid injections with 68% improvement. Conclusion: Based on the current data, clinical features at KAUDH matched what has been previously reported in the literature. In addition, the response to different treatment modalities varied between patients which could be linked to factors such as disease extension and severity.
The impact of presurgical nasoalveolar molding on the surgical and quality of life outcome: A case report with 1-year follow-up p. 206
Fatmah Nasser Almotawah
Since its introduction in 1996, the use of presurgical nasoalveolar molding (P-NAM) has been a controversial topic. While P-NAM has become routine in many cleft centers, there have been others who have refused to adopt it. Difficulties cited have included the apparent lack of parent co-operation and perceived challenges in parent compliance. This report looks at both the esthetic postsurgical outcomes and the impact the procedure has on the overall oral health-related quality of life. The report looks at not only the procedure of P-NAM but also examines the steps a multidisciplinary team would need to take in order to make the experience beneficial to both the surgeon and the parent.
Regenerative endodontic therapy using platelet-rich fibrin in children p. 210
Parul Singhal, Bindu Kadian, Pawan Midha, Ritu Namdev
Regeneration of pulp–dentin complex in an infected necrotic tooth with an open apex is possible if the canal is effectively disinfected. The purpose of this case report is to add regenerative endodontic cases to the existing literature about the use of plateletrich fibrin (PRF). Three clinically and radiographically diagnosed necrotic immature permanent teeth were treated using PRF as a scaffold for revascularization. The therapeutic protocol involved accessing the pulp chamber, irrigating copiously with sodium hypochlorite, applying a triple antibiotic paste as intracanal dressing, and then provisionally sealing it. After 3–4 weeks, the canal was cleaned and PRF was introduced in the canal that would serve as a scaffold for pulp revascularization. Mineral trioxide aggregate was used to seal the chamber and finally restored with composite. All the cases treated with PRF as a scaffold showed magnificant healing and apical end closure along with thickening of dentinal walls. On the basis of the results obtained in our case reports, we conclude that the revitalization of necrotic infected immature tooth is possible under conditions of total canal disinfection, and PRF is nearly an ideal biomaterial for pulp–dentin complex regeneration.
Management considerations for the patient and the prosthodontist during coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic p. 216
Rajkiran Chitumalla, Abdulkader Aljarrah, Swapna Munaga
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Self-driving cars, humans must learn a common language
The rise of robot vehicles will mean reprogramming a longtime relationship
By Carolyn Said and David R. Baker
Anthropologist Melissa Cefkin has studied folk dancers in Turkey, salespeople in Spain and Germany, and bus dispatchers in the United States. Her research has focused on how people express themselves through body movements and form their identities through workplace practices.
These days, she’s applying her ethnographic skills to solving a more complex problem: figuring out how self-driving cars can talk to people.
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Her team at Nissan Research Center in Sunnyvale observes the ways that humans and cars behave — “what happens on the road is very much like an impromptu choreography,” she said — then experiments with concepts that will allow autonomous cars to communicate their intentions to the people they’ll encounter.
“Cars are profoundly intertwined with our lives,” said Cefkin, principal scientist and design anthropologist at the research center. “The increasingly autonomous future will reconfigure how that will feel. What will it mean for these vehicles to be good citizens in the world? How will they interact with everybody else on the road? That’s a job for social scientists to understand.”
These are not trivial questions. For all the intricate technology required for autonomous cars — the sensors to replicate eyes and ears, the computers and algorithms to serve as the car’s brains, the high-definition 3-D maps to guide them — there’s another factor that computer science alone cannot solve: how these cars will engage with people — passengers, motorists, bicyclists and pedestrians — and vice versa.
“It’s crucial to make self-driving cars accepted in society so people feel they are trustworthy and part of daily life,” said Sameep Tandon, CEO and co-founder of Drive.ai, a Mountain View self-driving car company that is experimenting with rooftop displays to signal a car’s intentions. “Otherwise there’s a risk people will think of this as the robot apocalypse.”
Sensors are seen on top of a self driving car by Drive.ai in Mountain View in 2017. Autonomous cars will be on the road for all of us very soon -- all the more reason for the California Legislature to require them to use clean energy right now. (Santiago Mejia / The Chronicle | San Francisco Chronicle)
The front sensor of a self driving car by drive.ai on Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017, in Mountain View, Calif. Drive.ai is a Silicon Valley startup that's creating artificial intelligence software for autonomous vehicles. (Santiago Mejia, The Chronicle | San Francisco Chronicle)
The scores of carmakers, startups and Silicon Valley giants now working on autonomous technology are acutely aware that it won’t matter how exceptional their cars are if people are scared to ride in them, or be near them. For most of us, it requires a leap of faith to accept the idea of a robot-controlled, 2-ton hunk of metal hurtling down the highway at a mile a minute.
“Passenger trust is critical to establish before society will accept self-driving cars,” said Jack Weast, chief systems architect of Intel’s Autonomous Driving Group. “We need to make sure the cars not only work technically, but that they are embraced psychologically. The path to trust is a relationship with the machine.”
Of course, humans have a more than century-old relationship with traditional cars, resulting in ingrained behaviors that will be tough to overcome. Still, people have adapted to talking to their cell phones and relying on GPS for directions. And newer cars have introduced drivers to semiautonomous features such as adaptive cruise control and automatic lane-keeping.
But better vehicle-to-person communication will be crucial, as most experts predict a lengthy period — perhaps decades — of mixed traffic, with robot cars navigating roads alongside human-driven ones. Even once all cars are robots and can communicate with each other, they will need to “talk” to pedestrians and cyclists.
This human-machine interface issue has drawn researchers from a host of social science disciplines, including anthropology, sociology and psychology, as well as roboticists, engineers, programmers and designers. A number of experiments are under way.
A study is used to note public's reaction to driverless vehicles by having the driver wearing a car seat costume, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017, in Stanford, Calif. (Santiago Mejia, The Chronicle | San Francisco Chronicle)
A few companies, including Waymo, Uber and NuTonomy, have living laboratories on the road, providing robot-car rides to civilians, observing them and interviewing them about their experiences.
But those are expensive yet limited endeavors (today’s few hundred autonomous vehicles cost upward of $100,000 each) and there are bans everywhere on testing them on the street without a driver. So researchers are getting creative.
Some rely on technology — immersive driving simulators and robot cars that exist only digitally, as algorithms on a computer, for instance.
Others employ stagecraft techniques, such as a “ghost driver” experiment in which the driver behind the wheel is disguised as a car seat, essentially becoming invisible. That lets researchers gauge the reactions of passersby to what appears to be a driverless car.
“Our techniques are theater-like ways of simulating the future, like live-action, improvisational role-play for science,” said Wendy Ju of Stanford’s Center for Design Research, who spearheaded the ghost driver effort. “There’s a comedy to it, but we are dead serious about collecting real behavioral responses.”
The future of driving may just depend on it.
The data visualizer from undergraduate student Nick Landolfi at UC Berkeley on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, in Berkeley, Calif. (Santiago Mejia, The Chronicle | San Francisco Chronicle)
Finding a common language
The simple vocabulary most cars now employ — turn signals, brake lights, hazard lights, horns — may need to be radically expanded once driving eliminates the human element. That’s true from seemingly simple situations, like a pedestrian making eye contact with a driver before crossing in front of a car, to the more complex, like negotiating four-way stops and highway lane changes.
New communication methods could include patterned lights; audible cues (perhaps a polite voice saying “Cross now,” or a musical tone as at some stoplights); rooftop displays showing symbols or words; laser devices to project a message such as a crosswalk on the road ahead to indicate that it’s safe to cross; and cars that wirelessly transmit their intentions to other vehicles.
“There’s so much rich interaction with drivers that we take for granted. It seems like a mundane thing, but it turns out to be a really big deal,” said Karl Iagnemma, CEO and co-founder of NuTonomy. His company has been testing robot taxis in Singapore for almost a year and plans similar tests soon in Boston with ride-hailing service Lyft. “I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a true reinvention of (autonomous cars’) interface to the outside world.”
Anthropologist Melissa Cefkin at the Nissan Research Center on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, in Sunnyvale, Calif. (Santiago Mejia, The Chronicle | San Francisco Chronicle)
At Nissan, Cefkin’s team assesses how people and cars interact today and experiments with ways they might do so in the future.
For instance, they’re testing “intention indicators” — mechanisms for robot cars to signal their next move, something particularly important when cars arrive at a four-way stop at the same time.
One concept is an arc of white LED lights atop a car’s roof that would blink in a moving dash pattern when the car is about to move. Nissan filmed cars arriving simultaneously and then proceeding at four-way stops in the Sunset District. It added the simulated lights in postproduction, then showed the videos to test subjects.
One of them, Mirza Baig, sat in a mock-up of a driver’s seat in Nissan’s lab, gripping a steering wheel as he “drove” while viewing a video of the cars on three 42-inch screens. With his feet poised over a gaming system’s accelerator and brake pedals, and goggles tracking his eye movements, researchers tried to determine whether he could intuitively grasp what the cars were signaling.
Cefkin’s team is trying to keep its technology simple. “No one will want their car to look like a moving Christmas tree,” she said. “So we are actively exploring use of just a single color (of light) or a small variety of shades.”
So far, each company is devising its own approach to the communications question. At some point, the companies will need to get together and establish standard methods. But that could be a long process.
Even something as simple as turn signals took years to become reality. As cars evolved in the last century, hand signals gave way to devices including “trafficators,” semaphore signals similar to those on trains; hand-shaped mechanical arms; and pop-up signs on the rear bumpers. The blinking-light turn signal was patented in the 1920s but didn’t become common until after World War II.
‘Emotional intelligence’
Anca Dragan wants autonomous cars to understand people.
Dragan, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at UC Berkeley and head of its InterACT Laboratory, which focuses on human-robot interactions, said driverless cars will need to predict what humans on the road will do — and figure out how to behave appropriately around them.
“Cars need to be very expressive and clear about their intentions,” she said. “They need reasoning to understand intentions of other drivers and pedestrians.”
That is easier said than done. Working with a student to scribble formulas calculating potential trajectories of other vehicles, Dragan traced elaborate swirls in the air. “How can I write an equation to describe how people drive?” she said.
Her autonomous vehicle now exists only as a computer model, but it has learned how to suss out other drivers’ intentions when attempting to merge into lanes. It simply nudges toward the adjacent lane and detects whether the simulated human driver hits the brakes or the accelerator, fairly similar to how most people change lanes.
“Those reactions tell it about your driving style, so it can anticipate whether it should merge or let you go first,” she said. “We’re excited to see that the car can ‘reason’ properly about people.”
Even more strikingly, the simulated car devised its own way to communicate at four-way stops. To indicate to other cars that they should go first, it will inch backward (if there’s no other car behind it).
“It was surprising behavior, but it works” to communicate intent, Dragan said.
Being able to learn and adapt to the constantly changing circumstances of traffic will be crucial for self-driving cars.
Robot cars trained to avoid obstacles at all cost, for instance, are vulnerable to pranksters; just by stepping in front of the cars, they could create instant traffic jams. Google found that its self-driving cars were programmed to be so “polite” that they became stranded at four-way stops, yielding to every other car that approached.
“So many complicated things can happen in the real world,” said Drive.ai’s Tandon. “If you program a rule for every single case, you’d have a decision tree so complicated no one could deal with it. Instead, we use deep learning to make the process go seamlessly. We want our vehicles to learn from as much data as possible.”
While they can’t make eye contact, some self-driving vehicles already can interpret a limited number of visual cues from humans. Waymo’s self-driving minivans, for example, can read the hand signals of bicyclists on the road, said Waymo engineer James Stout.
A toy car at the Nissan Research Center on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, in Sunnyvale, Calif. (Santiago Mejia, The Chronicle | San Francisco Chronicle)
But replicating human behavior remains tricky. Waymo deals with it, in part, by using an elaborate computer simulation program that takes situations encountered by its cars and re-creates them in a virtual world. Each simulation replicates a particular moment at a particular location in California, Arizona or Texas, including the behavior of nearby pedestrians and human drivers. Waymo can then run a virtual car through that situation again and again, teaching it how to respond.
Nissan researchers also study a wide variety of driving practices. Video recorded at a roundabout in Sao Paulo displays the traffic intricacies of even the most ordinary day. As cars, bikes, scooters and motorcycles navigate the circle, pedestrians, some wheeling baskets of produce, wait to cross the roadway. Delivery people on motor scooters weave in and out of traffic. A car suddenly backs up; a woman wanders in and out of the crosswalk.
“We’ve got to be ready for any situation, and there are good and bad drivers everywhere,” said Stout, lead software engineer for Waymo’s simulation project. “We’re not going to be able to shape the world around us. We have to be able to deal with the world as it is.”
Carmakers are eschewing traditional rules-based robotics in favor of deep learning, which relies on algorithms inspired by the brain’s structure and function.
“Deep learning gives the ability to improve, adapt to different circumstances, use ‘intuition’ to improve abilities,” said Tory Smith, a Drive.ai technical program manager.
Essentially, robot-car makers see teaching the cars to “think” as the best way for them to cohabit with humans.
Executive director of the International Design Research Center Wendy Ju drives in a simulation at Stanford University on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017, in Stanford, Calif. (Santiago Mejia, The Chronicle | San Francisco Chronicle)
Putting passengers at ease
Despite working in tech in her job at Arizona State University, Sara Bryant is cautious about leaping into innovations. So she was taken aback when she requested an Uber ride to work from her Scottsdale home recently and got a message saying she’d been assigned a self-driving car. Though she had the option to decline it, her curiosity won out and she agreed to the ride.
Her verdict? “It was enchanting,” she said. “I don’t think we’re ‘back to the future’ yet, but it was seamless and smooth; it was never frightening.”
That was largely because Uber’s robot taxis come with two humans, a backup driver and a safety engineer, both well-versed in a spiel about how the cars work. “I would not have gotten in if there had not been attendants,” Bryant said. “To me, it’s a great unknown what will happen once these are on the road without human drivers.”
She also appreciated the touch-pad in the back seat that greeted her with a “Welcome, Sara” message and a “Let’s ride” button she pressed to begin the trip. It then displayed a robot’s-eye view of her route, a colorful 3-D rendering of everything from the lane markers to the bikes, buildings and trees along the way.
When Sara Bryant got a ride in a self-driving Uber in Arizona, she captured this video from the iPad in the back seat that shows what the car is “seeing.” Courtesy of Sara Bryant
The interactive screen even had a selfie option: “I took one and texted it to my family and friends,” she said.
Uber has about 100 autonomous cars available to ride-hailing passengers in the Phoenix area and in Pittsburgh (its autonomous vehicles in San Francisco don’t pick up customers), and says it has given almost 30,000 paid robot rides.
Waymo is also testing autonomous cars in Arizona, by recruiting families to volunteer for rides in its robotic Chrysler Pacifica minivans to all their daily activities: school, work, sporting events, nights out. Intel recently invited a handful of Arizona residents to ride in its autonomous cars and provide feedback, while other companies, including Apple at its Cupertino headquarters and General Motors’ Cruise division in San Francisco, have set up ride services for their own employees.
These early tests seek to understand what makes people feel comfortable in autonomous cars — although the experiments are all skewed by the fact that the cars have drivers ready to take over.
Participants in Intel’s Arizona study were initially anxious and skeptical, mirroring a recent AAA report that three-quarters of Americans said they are afraid to ride in robot cars.
Intel’s Weast said explaining how the technology works — and simply taking a ride — helped change their minds.
“The car would communicate, tell people what it was doing and why,” such as needing to reroute for a detour, he said. “People appreciated that the car told riders what they need to know.” Soon enough, he said, riders got to a point of not needing any more updates, and even wanted to shut off further communication.
Uber’s back-seat iPad similarly is designed to build trust, by showing ride information and a robot’s-eye view of the route.
Intel found that it helped for the car to have anthropomorphic features, such as a voice interface a la Siri or Alexa. In fact, people who had used such devices soon jumped into conversing with their cars, Weast said.
According to a research study of 100 participants using a driving simulator reported in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, people are less likely to blame autonomous cars when something goes wrong if the cars have a name, gender and human voice.
In Singapore, some NuTonomy riders took it upon themselves to assign human characteristics to their car. “We found that comparing the ride they experienced to a person helped them become more relaxed and confident in the technology,” Iagnemma said. “One woman compared it to the way her grandmother drove.”
Building trust on the road
Graduate student Lawrence Domingo conceals himself as a car seat at Stanford University as part of a study to gauge the public’s reaction to driverless vehicles.
(Santiago Mejia, The Chronicle | San Francisco Chronicle)
On the edge of the Stanford University campus, a black Nissan Leaf sits parked in a cluttered workshop. The car appears empty — until the driver’s seat moves.
Behind the steering wheel, a graduate student is encased in a suit designed to look like a black fabric car seat. Dark gloves hide his hands, which are held at the bottom of the wheel, out of sight. A black mesh screen masks his eyes.
It’s part of an experiment by Ju, the Stanford researcher, and colleague David Sirkin, who study how humans and machines interact. The ghost driver test examines how people react to a car that truly seems to be driving itself.
While autonomous vehicles have become a daily sight in parts of the Bay Area, they always have a human in the driver’s seat — required by the state. So Ju and Sirkin needed a way to fool pedestrians. As their ghost driver cruises through streets with pedestrians, they watch how people respond and interview them afterward.
“The heavier the pedestrian traffic, the more interesting it is,” Sirkin said, as students began building another suit, pulling supplies from a Joann craft store bag.
Autonomous cars will need to understand how humans act, not just when they are driving other cars, but on foot. Human drivers and pedestrians can signal each other with eye contact and hand or body gestures, but robots may not be able to sense such nuanced activity. Pedestrians, meanwhile, may not be able to predict how an autonomous car will behave at a stop sign or crosswalk — assuming they realize the car is autonomous.
A similar seat-suit experiment in Virginia drew attention in August when NBC reporter Adam Tuss spotted a gray, unmarked van with no one visible in the driver’s seat. After pulling up nearby and seeing the hidden driver’s hands on the wheel, Tuss tried an unorthodox approach to interaction: “Brother, who are you? What are you doing? I’m with the news, dude.”
The driver remained silent. But a month later, Ford fessed up: It had commissioned the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute to run the test. The van had a “light bar” that pulsed when yielding and blinked rapidly when accelerating from a stop. John Shutko, a Ford technical specialist, wrote that the company hoped to develop a common language for self-driving cars.
“As people, we’re constantly giving off expectations based on what we do, how we move,” said Ju, the executive director of interaction design research. “Basically, machines that interact with humans are going to have to learn that game as well.”
And learning just one set of expectations won’t suffice.
People act differently in different parts of the globe. Boston drivers are famously aggressive; Los Angeles drivers, fast and precise; Wisconsin drivers, slow and mostly polite. Tokyo pedestrians meanwhile, can be counted on to wait for lights to cross a street, while Romans are more willing to step into traffic.
Ju has talked with autonomous vehicle engineers who are convinced that as long as the cars behave consistently, humans will adapt to them, suggesting that pedestrians and human drivers everywhere will modify their behaviors to accommodate robot cars.
She considers that notion “wildly unrealistic.”
So how have pedestrians responded to her ghost driver car? It depends, Ju says. Stanford students largely ignore the sight of a car with no apparent driver. So do pedestrians in Mexico City. In the Netherlands, people approach the car, intrigued.
“The main thing that happens is surprising,” Ju said. “Most people decide, ‘I’m just going to cross’” in front of the seemingly driverless car. “They don’t spend a lot of time trying to figure out what’s happening.”
Engineering may be able to make cars more human, it seems, but changing people may be a bigger challenge.
Carolyn Said and David R. Baker are San Francisco Chronicle staff writers. Email: csaid@sfchronicle.com, dbaker@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @csaid, @DavidBakerSF
The advent of self-driving vehicles portends a vast disruption in how we live and work, and the Bay Area is the engine driving that change. This story and other installments of Driving the Future explain how autonomous vehicles are going from experiment to reality, and what that means for all of us.
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Giants' Pagan to undergo season-ending back surgery
Examiner Staff
Sep. 23, 2014 12:00 a.m.
Tony Avelar/AP file photoGiants center fielder Angel Pagan will have back surgery
LOS ANGELES — San Francisco Giants outfielder Angel Pagan will have season-ending surgery to repair a bulging disk in his back.
Manager Bruce Bochy said the operation will be Thursday in Los Angeles. Recovery is expected to take about three months, so Pagan would not be available to the Giants in the postseason.
San Francisco entered Tuesday night with a magic number of two to clinch a playoff spot.
Pagan missed his fourth straight game when the Giants played the NL West-leading Los Angeles Dodgers. He sat out six of the team's previous seven games on the current trip, and missed 44 games earlier in the season because of his back.
Bochy said Gregor Blanco will likely fill Pagan's leadoff spot. Pagan declined to talk to reporters.
“It's just time to get something done,” Bochy said. “This thing's been nagging him for three or four months. It's just not getting any better. We want to get it done now so he'll be a full go in spring training.”
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SOHC ladies 1st team on target for league and cup glory after Sunday success
Published: 4:56 PM March 2, 2020 Updated: 7:10 PM November 7, 2020
Action from Sidmouth and Ottery Hockey Club ladies' firsts vs SOHC ladies seconds. Picture: Andrew Coley - Credit: Archant
There was Sunday action for a number of Sidmouth & Ottery Hockey Club (SOHC) teams as the hockey season moved into the month of March.
Pride of place must surely go to the ladies 1st XI who are already on a 'juggernoaut' style course to the Sedgemoor One title and now they can look forward to a Devon Trophy final contest after they travelled to Plym Valley II for a semi-final tie that they won 4-0 thanks to a brace of goals from Becca Allen and one each from Cassia Wilson and Taz Murray.
This has already been an outstanding season for the ladies 1st XI and now they are all set to go and make it a case of 'double success' in the closing weeks of the campaign.
The men's fourth team were also in action as they played a rearranged league game against Chard after the original match fell to the presence of Storm Dennis last month.
A youthful men's fourth XI competed well in the first half, but Chard took control in the second, scoring goals at regular interval on their way to an 8-0 success.
Other results on Sunday included a run out for a development side in the ladies' section, at home to Chard who departed with the honours after a 2-0 success.
The fourth piece of SOHC action was for the Mixed XI with visiting Winchester enjoying their time at Sidmouth, winning 7-3 in what was an English Hockey Mixed Tier II game.
Make sure of a copy of this weeks Sidmouth Herald to see the regular hockey pages that rounds up all the results from then men's and ladies teams that play for SOHC.
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Ancient and modern
How Boris’s Roman predecessors took back control
The Tories, allegedly a ‘one-nation’ party, are currently imposing Brexit on a divided nation. As a result, some Tory MPs will vote against Brexit, effectively abandoning the party. This raises the question of political values – the question being, what happens after Brexit? Romans faced the same problem when the republic collapsed (27 bc) and Augustus became emperor.
The Roman historian Tacitus, looking back at those events some 140 years later, summarised how Augustus achieved supreme power: he charmed the army with bonuses, the people with cheap corn, and everyone with the beguiling pleasures of peace. He then gradually took over the functions of the senate, the magistratus (officers of state such as consuls and praetors) and the legislature, all nullo adversante (‘with no opposition’). So ‘in this altered world there was no more of the fine old Roman way of doing things. Political equality was a thing of the past. Everyone waited on imperial orders’.
But republican commitment to ancestral values did not disappear overnight. An emperor who did not want the reputation of tyrant had to be accommodating. He would be wise to nod to republican values such as openness to consultation, accessibility, liberality but self-restraint, respect for gods and fellow citizens, temperance, traditional attire, modesty, justice, and so on. Nero (however fruitlessly) was given Seneca as an adviser, the epitome of the old Roman Stoic; Trajan’s reign was praised by Pliny the Younger for demonstrating ‘the republic still exists’.
However tyrannically the PM exerts pro-Brexit control over every aspect of government, he does so because he respects the will of the people. But with Britain out, the PM, no longer needing to play the tyrant, can go back to being the wishy-washy liberal he is. This brave new world will require brave new one-nation thinking (and a brave new post-Brexit cabinet?) and the Tory values of capitalism, private property, private enterprise, lower taxes, sound money, the free market, choice and rolling back the state — all consistent with liberal provision of public services — will be needed more than ever. The PM will rise to that challenge. And what values will the stranded Tory rebels espouse then?
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Health minister Peter Dutton says Medicare spending unsustainable
By Dan Harrison
January 4, 2014 — 3.00am
Health Minister Peter Dutton has predicted an overhaul of Medicare, saying spiralling costs will make the system ''unmanageable'' without change.
In an interview with Fairfax Media, Mr Dutton gave the strongest signal yet that the Abbott government may adopt a politically explosive proposal to charge a $6 fee to visit the doctor.
"In the end, we want to strengthen Medicare and we want to strengthen our health system": Peter Dutton. Credit:Andrew Meares
While refusing to comment directly on the proposal, made by Tony Abbott's former policy advisor Terry Barnes in a submission to the Commission of Audit, Mr Dutton said Medicare Benefits Schedule spending had grown at a ''rapid'' rate over the past decade and some argued this growth was ''unsustainable.''
''In the end, we want to strengthen Medicare and we want to strengthen our health system, but we can't do that if we leave change to the 11th hour,'' Mr Dutton told Fairfax Media.
''The threshold question is whether people want the health system of today strengthened for tomorrow because at the moment the health system is heading to a point where it will become unmanageable.''
Annual spending on Medicare climbed from $8.1 billion in 2002-03 to $17.8 billion, an increase of 120 per cent. Growth in Medicare spending was faster than growth in the total health budget of 104 per cent over the decade, and Pharmaceutical Benefits Schedule spending, which rose 79 per cent over the same period.
Mr Dutton said when he considered the pressure conditions such as dementia and diabetes would place on the health budget as the population aged ''it's very hard to understand where we are going to find the money to pay for these services.''
He said he was ''open to suggestions'' on how to place the system ''on a sustainable basis''.
''I think it would be foolish to rule out ideas that people are putting forward,'' he said.
Mr Barnes argued his proposal would deliver $750 million over four years in savings by reducing ''avoidable'' GP visits and reducing incentives for doctors to over-service. But doctors and health groups have attacked the proposal, predicting such a change would have the greatest impact on the poorest and sickest and risked overwhelming hospital emergency departments.
Labor has vowed to fight the proposed fee, which it has branded a ''GP tax''.
Brian Howe introduced a fee for GP visits in 1991 when he was health minister in the Hawke government.
But Mr Howe said he would be opposed to such a fee today, because it would be driven by a search for savings. He said it would be better if doctors were more focused on keeping their patients healthy.
Dan Harrison
Dan Harrison is Health and Indigenous Affairs Correspondent for Fairfax Media. He is based in Canberra.
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Why Do We Judge a Book by Its Cover
Why Do We Judge a Book by Its Cover - Unconscious Bias
Simon Bishop
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Human nature means we make up our mind about people within seven seconds of meeting them. This human trait we all have is a hangover from our primitive beginnings. Thousands of years ago, in the days before you could Google something or check Trip Advisor, humans had to make quick decisions. Decisions which were a matter of life and death – Do I eat that berry? Shall I touch that fire? Should I attack that Mammoth?
This evolutionary hangover still exists in us all today and can be seen through the phenomenon known as unconscious bias.
Unconscious bias refers to the biases we have of which we are not in conscious control. These biases occur automatically, triggered by our brain making quick judgments and assessments of people and situations based on our background, cultural environment and our experiences. It affects every area of our lives. Unconsciously, we tend to like people who look like us, think like us and come from backgrounds similar to ours. Everyone likes to think he or she is open-minded and objective, but research has shown that the beliefs and values gained from family, culture and a lifetime of experiences heavily influence how we view and evaluate both others and ourselves.
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These thought patterns, assumptions and interpretations we have built up over time help us to process information quickly and efficiently. From a survival standpoint, bias is a positive and necessary trait. In business, however, bias can be costly. It can cause us to make decisions that are not objective; and ultimately we miss opportunities. Joan Williams and Sky Mihalylo recently wrote “How the Best Bosses Interrupt Bias on their Terms,” where they note that “well-managed diverse groups outperform homogeneous ones and are more committed, have higher collective intelligence, and are better at making decisions and solving problems.” However, eliminating bias entirely is nearly impossible and a more reasonable goal is to simply interrupt it – starting with your hiring practices. The authors note basic changes such as limiting referral hiring and insisting on a diverse pool of candidates.
Bias is a "mental shortcut" that fills in gaps in our knowledge with similar data from past experiences and cultural norms. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but it can lead to bad decisions. As an example, Google points to mobile video uploads - the team that built the iOS YouTube app didn't consider left-handed users when it added in mobile uploads, causing videos recorded in a left-handed person's view of landscape to appear upside-down.
There is a growing body of research which suggests unconscious biases influence key decisions in the workplace and are responsible for some of the enduring inequalities that are evident today. Unconscious bias starts at the top and leadership is one area where diversity and inclusion has not moved the needle nearly enough. In a recent Boston Consulting Group article, it noted that “of the Fortune 500 CEOs (at the time of publication of the article) only 24 are women (less than 5% of the total), only three are black, and only three are openly gay.”
In Human Resource Executive, it was noted that diverse management teams are:
33% more likely to generate better than average profits
Are 70% more likely to capture new markets
Generate 19% more revenue from innovation than companies with below average leadership diversity
With relatively few women in key roles, women's unconscious beliefs about career advancement could be holding them back from reaching the top. Bias comes in many forms, from assuming you need to take on more "masculine" characteristics to succeed, to doubting your abilities and strengths. To begin a real process of change, women also need to look at their own unconscious bias and move away from these potentially damaging beliefs. Assumptions are internal; they come from within us and before any external change can be made in a company's culture, they need to be understood.
For example, a McKinsey report from Women in the Workplace found that even though women are earning bachelor’s degrees at higher rates than men and staying in the workforce despite challenges of childcare or other obstacles – progress has stalled at best.
Google disclosed its first Diversity Annual Report in 2014 and each year since has updated the statistics and progress to its commitment to diversity. In 2019 the company presented information from employees that self-represented as LGBTQ+ and those that have a disability. The essence of the report is the company’s commitment to help create a more inclusive workforce while minimizing bias.
We must unlearn our current beliefs and relearn new ones. If there are no suitable role models in our surrounding environment, we have to create our own definition of what makes a great leader and become advocates for ourselves.
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Mr. Mike Smithson, Director of Development at Oxford, represented the Vice-Chancellor at the ceremony. He welcomed Sri Chinmoy on behalf of the Vice-Chancellor and read out the following letter:
Dear Sri Chinmoy,
I am delighted that you have chosen to honour the University by visiting Oxford today, and lifting up so many of our colleagues in your very special ceremony. My one regret is that I am unable to witness these events myself.
Please accept my warm best wishes for your important and continuing work.
Sir Colin Lucas
Mr. Smithson added, “Welcome to Oxford and welcome to everybody who has come to watch this extraordinary ceremony.”
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Dr Piyasi Morris, main organiser
Lady Margaret Hall was started in 1879 and has shown quite a remarkable achievement over the years that it has been here. The pioneering women of Oxford who came to study here opened the doors to learning that were previously the domain of men.
In 1979, with its pioneering role fulfilled, Lady Margaret Hall opened its doors to men, and the College, like so many others that were previously all female, became mixed.
This College offers a very special environment for study, both for teachers and for students, and now women stand equal to men in the fields of medicine, the arts, sciences, commerce and government.
We are very fortunate to have this very significant and beautiful setting for our event today. Thank you.
Sri Chinmoy, The mind loves the heart, the mind becomes the heart, part 1, Agni Press, 2003
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Jennifer Morlok, then a senior therapist, and Karen Stokes, then an executive assistant, said in recent interviews that they decided to sue out of frustration after new UO President Michael Schill said publicly that no UO employee did anything wrong with regard to the student.
The 18-year-old student, known publicly only as Jane Doe, sought counseling in 2014 after a sexual encounter with three UO basketball players. The student said she was raped by the men. The players said it was consensual.
The lawsuit by Morlok and Stokes seeks compensation for lost income, lost benefits, lost seniority and emotional distress. It doesn't specify a sum.
The pair hired Portland attorney Beth Creighton, who specializes in employment and civil rights matters, to represent them.
Creighton has represented clients in high-profile cases such as that of Hong Kong spiritual leader Kwai Fun Wong, who was detained and repeatedly strip searched in Multnomah County jails; of Oregon Liquor Control Commission warehouse worker Gene Summerfield, who alleged workplace discrimination; and of a trial assistant who sued the Deschutes County District Attorney's Office.
The university is doing its best, UO spokesman Tobin Klinger said in a prepared statement Tuesday.
"We believe the university has worked diligently and in good faith to balance the complex demands of student privacy, employee rights and fostering a workplace that values trust and ethical conduct.
"Ms. Stokes remains an employee of the university. Ms. Morlok quit, despite efforts to create accommodations intended to protect her and her clients," Klinger wrote. The UO has not yet filed a formal response to the lawsuit.
Shelly Kerr, director of the UO Counseling and Testing Center, is facing a $5,000 fine and an ethics refresher requirement from the Oregon Board of Psychologist Examiners because of her role in the UO's seizure of the files.
"A system of no accountability," Morlok wrote in a letter of resignation to the UO on Oct. 31, "is certainly not going to learn from its mistakes, and it perpetuates a cycle of the same unethical and problematic leaders repeating harmful history." Morlok could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
This is the third lawsuit to stem from a March 2014 rape allegation, which has become a blight that the university can't seem to shake.
In late October, one of the three basketball players, Brandon Austin, filed a $7.5 million suit against the university, saying the administrators treated him unfairly and potentially ruined his professional career when it dismissed him from the team and the campus following the sexual incident.
Jane Doe sued the university earlier this year, saying the UO endangered her when it allowed Austin to enroll because he was under investigation for sexual assault at his previous college in Rhode Island. Jane Doe settled with the UO in August for $800,000 and a four-year, full-ride enrollment at the UO.
Stokes' and Morlok's lawsuit, meanwhile, provides detail about how the university took custody of Jane Doe's records.
In December 2014, Stokes had been executive assistant to the counseling center director for more than three years.
One day she got an email from center director Kerr saying to make a complete copy of Jane Doe's file and provide it to the university's general counsel without stamping or documenting that the file had been copied, according to the lawsuit. The email also said to discuss the work with no one but counseling department managers.
"Stokes did not understand why the request was made outside the normal procedure and protocol and noticed that there was no consent in the file authorizing the disclosure of the medical records to General Counsel, nor was there any notice to the student's clinical therapist of the request as was the norm for medical records requests," the lawsuit says.
So, instead of following orders, Stokes made a copy of Kerr's email and took her concerns to Morlok, who was Jane Doe's therapist. Morlok said in the lawsuit that was the first she heard of the university's decision to take the records.
Another employee then did the copying work Kerr requested, the lawsuit says.
Morlok sent Kerr's email, along with a complaint, to the Oregon Board of Psychologist Examiners, who later found against Kerr. The two also alerted the UO administration about their concerns.
UO officials said earlier that they disagree with the board, and they'll appeal the examiner's decision.
Stokes and Morlok said thereafter they faced on-the-job retaliation. Their duties were assigned to other people, they say in the lawsuit. Stokes was told that Kerr no longer trusted her.
Morlok was a case manager and senior staff therapist at the counseling center for about 2½ years. As Jane Doe prepared her case against the university, she asked Morlok for a letter summarizing her treatment.
Although providing such letters is common, according to the lawsuit, Kerr asked Morlok to not comply with her client's request, the lawsuit said.
"Morlok, feeling uncomfortable with the instruction to deny her client a service, which others had been given in the past without issue, conferred with her own legal counsel about the propriety of denying a summary letter request," according to the lawsuit.
After, she placed a summary letter in Jane Doe's file in defiance of Kerr's orders because she believed she had a legal and ethical duty to do so, according to the lawsuit.
"In response, Defendant Kerr lectured Morlok for over 2 hours and gave her a directive not to consult with any attorneys about any UO matters and told her if she disobeyed this directive, she could face discipline, up to and including termination," according to the lawsuit.
Subsequently, Morlok got a negative evaluation, was criticized publicly in a staff meeting and on other occasions for making "frivolous, false, misleading and inappropriate" claims, the lawsuit said. Administrators also ignored her professional opinions on unrelated clients.
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The Milky Way head-butted another galaxy billions of years ago
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Billions of years ago, a galactic smash happened, and one star eyeballed by NASA’s TESS planet hunter revealed everything.
The Milky Way has merged with many other galaxies in the distant past. The problem is that these mergers have been notoriously difficult to date, because the clusters of stars from these smaller galaxies have a distinct way of moving that is not in sync with other objects in our galaxy. Now a study on TESS observations has revealed that the star v Indi of the constellation Indus — so bright you can see it with the naked eye — gives away when the phenomenon otherwise known as the Gaia-Enceladus collision happened.
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“Since the motion of ν Indi was affected by the Gaia-Enceladus collision, the collision must have happened once the star had formed,” said Bill Chaplin, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Birmingham, and leader of a study recently published in Nature Astronomy. “That is how we have been able to use the asteroseismically-determined age to place new limits on when the Gaia-Enceladus event occurred.”
This definitely makes sense, since v Indi couldn’t have been affected by the event if it was just a cloud of gases that hadn’t yet evolved into a star. The star also shows signs of having been heated by the motion of the epic crash between the monster Milky Way and the dwarf galaxy Gaia-Enceladus.
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As if that isn’t enough evidence, there are many stars formerly of Gaia-Enceladus scattered in the Milky Way, which Chaplin and his team believe tell us the intensity of the collision and the impact on our still-developing galaxy.
Stars’ histories are frozen in time, kind of fossilized in a way, which gives insight into their history and the environments that spawned them. v Indi is an ideal remnant of the disaster to focus on. Astroseismology, or the measurement of a star’s oscillations (movements back and forth), inferred from TESS observations, was used to put an age on this star. ESA mission data was also used to shed light on the mystery of when this star was born and when its motion changed. The time that v Indi’s movement through the galaxy was shaken up gives away the time of the collision. Turns out Gaia-Enceladus head-butted the Milky Way between 11.6 and 13.2 billion years before the solar system was even formed, way before it was even a twinkle in any of those stars.
Galaxies collide all the time (like the two spiral galaxies of Arp 27, above). When one galaxy passes another, their forces of gravity can at the very least warp both galaxies (this is called an interaction), and at the very most, pull one into the other, merging them. A dwarf galaxy like Gaia-Enceladus obviously didn’t stand a chance next to the gravitational muscle of the Milky Way. Because immense amounts of galactic gas and dust are sent flying at each other at superfast speeds, they create enough friction and shock waves for the genesis of new stars.
“This study demonstrates the potential of asteroseismology with TESS, and what is possible when one has a variety of cutting-edge data available on a single, bright star,” said Chaplin.
Galactic mergers take hundreds of millions of years, so it’s not just like you can watch one happening through a telescope. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has let us in on different stages of such collisions through its unreal images.
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Poplar Farm, Grantham
Grantham was awarded Growth Point Status in 2006 following a successful bid by South Kesteven District Council and Lincolnshire County Council for additional funding from the Department of Communities and Local Government. The Spitalgate Heath expansion, latterly badged as one of the ‘garden village’ schemes at the start of 2017, aims to provide up to 3,700 new homes and 11ha of commercial development.
The land was formally allocated for development under SKDC’s local plan in 2012. The area is dominated by the high limestone country typical around Grantham and by the River Witham’s valley, sheltering a highly-valuable riverine habitat. Water quality is key both in the river for its habitat value and for the underlying aquifer in the limestone that supports water-supply abstractions to the east.
SYSTRA’s Role
SYSTRA provided infrastructure investigation and design services to the landowners, commencing in 2007 with work on an outline planning application and corresponding technical documents. This included investigating the existing land drainage arrangements and identifying a suitable surface drainage approach to serve the site in accordance with requirements of the relevant drainage authorities. The site spreads across a hillside and the ground is generally clayey in nature with a widespread agricultural field drain network. The ground conditions would not support infiltration drainage as an effective site-wide solution and an alternative drainage approach would be needed.
SYSTRA consulted extensively with SKDC, LCC, the Environment Agency and with the local Internal Drainage Board who controlled the stream draining the site. A large attenuation lagoon had been formed as part of the earlier development phase but changes to drainage performance standards and to the development scale meant that this was no longer sufficient for the whole site. SYSTRA devised a series of additional attenuation features to provide additional capacity that would allow a site-wide storm drainage system to serve the development parcels. The strategy was presented as part of the Flood Risk Assessment and Drainage Strategy reports and outline planning permission was granted in 2009.
Client: Buckminster & Norwich Hub
Date: 2007 to present
Drainage strategy for storm and foul drainage
Detailed drainage and SuDS design
Technical approvals / consents from Anglian Water Services and from Upper Witham Internal Drainage Board
Construction oversight
Reference: Grantham Southern Quadrant Masterplan SPD
Contact: tdawe@systra.com
Spitalgate Heath, Grantham
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Almost Live from NAB: Matrox Monarch LCS
Shawn Lam interviews Matrox's Wayne Andrews regarding the Matrox Monarch LCS, a Streaming Media Best of NAB 2016 award-winning new, dual-input, dual-encoder addition to the popular Matrox Monarch series of streaming and recording appliances.
By Shawn Lam
In this interview from NAB 2016, I spoke with Matrox senior product manager Wayne Andrews regarding the Matrox Monarch LCS, a new addition to the company's popular series of streaming and recording appliances that adds dual inputs and the ability to encode, record, and stream those inputs separately, or deliver a composited stream or recording that combines, say, a presenter and a slide deck, in a PiP or side-by-side configuration.
"It's a new way of webcasting for corporate, medical, and school" applications, Andrews says. "They want to take talent and supporting materials, such as computer input, and without having an external switcher or other production equipment."
With the Monarch LCS, Andrews says, "It's all built into the box."
For streaming purposes, the encoders use either RTMP or RTSP protocol to deliver live streams to local media servers or cloud-based CDNs. In recording applications, the encoders write MP4 or MOV files directly to network-mapped drives, eliminating the need for post-lecture file transfer, or alternatively to local USB drives or SD cards.
The Matrox Monarch LCS, which ships in in Q2 2016 at a price point of $2,495, was selected as one of Streaming Media's Best Products of NAB 2016.
Here is the complete transcript of the video.
Shawn: Hi, it's Shawn Lam, I'm here for Streaming Media Producer at NAB 2016. I'm at The Matrox booth and I'm talking with Wayne Andrews from Matrox. Now, you have a new product here in the Monarch series, the Monarch LCS. How is this different from the popular Monarch products you already have in the workflow?
Wayne: Specifically, it's now dual-input, with dual encoders, and now we have the ability to independently record or stream, or we could take the two inputs, composite them in a picture-in-picture production or side-by-side, for example. We also have cropping. It's a new way of webcasting for corporate, medical schools, and stuff like that. They want to take the talent and supporting material, such as a computer presentation, and combine it without having an external switch or other production equipment. It's all built into the box. It's a basic switcher-compositor, with dual independent H.264 encoders that can do RTSP, RTMP, and independent recording. You could set up the two channels, because there are 2 encoders, to be separate; you could record and stream two streams to two different CDNs, or record both inputs independently.
Shawn: There are a lot of different configurations and options in terms of the displays: You can have the picture-by-picture, picture-in-picture, two independent streams out to CDNs, and there's a new breed of web player that's out there. Can you explain to us how that works, and how Monarch is positioned to deliver to that?
Wayne: With the release of a few web players, and there will be more coming as the days and weeks and months come up, they actually can now receive multi, so there are multistream web players so you could stream 2 independent streams to a single player. Which puts the power of the experience in the viewer’s hand, because they can decide if they want to view it as a composition, or just view the supporting materials as a Keynote or Powerpoint, or just the person who's doing the lecture; so they get to decide what's of interest to them, rather than the producer on the event side saying, "I want to deliver it in this way.” The box is flexible. You can either stream those 2 or you record locally, and then you serve it up after as a VOD. The box has independent frame-syncs on our import, so they will detect that your video is running at 30p or 29fps interlaced--it doesn't matter; we have the interlacers and 10-bit scalers and all that in the box. The synchronizers will actually detect the two inputs, and then, based on what you want to record, will re-sync, or reframe, so that the two of them are exactly matching; and then we put the audio so they are locked. When you’re streaming, when you're switching, it will always be lip-synced, perfect end frame, accurate streaming recording, even when you have mismatched frame sizes and frame rates.
Shawn: That's a very important consideration. I'm glad that you guys put that in there, because otherwise those are things that some people could actually overlook, and then it really results in a poor user or viewer experience. When the lips just aren't syncing, and then there's a different latency between the two different feeds. You have a lot of users that were already using your Monarch products in, say, an education environment, or trying to accomplish similar types of things. Was that the impetus behind this product?
Wayne: Absolutely. We have a good installed base currently throughout corporate, religious services, education, and government, and we were getting a bunch of feedback from them. The one thing that kept coming to the top was, "I want to stream two cameras. I want to take two cameras in, and I want to stream or composite them."
Shawn: On the technical basis you have, how many HDMI, and how many SDI inputs, and what's the capacity resolution-wise, in and out?
Wayne: We have one SDI input, and then we have two HDMI inputs; so, we call it A and B: you decide, "I'm going to have SDI or HDMI," and B is always going to be HDMI. And we have 3G SDI all the way up to 1080p 60fps.
Shawn: What about on the recording side?
Wayne: On the recording side you can go up to 1080p/30fps. Nobody is streaming 60fps, and we have the ability to sync the compositing and stuff like that, but you could record up to 1080p 60fps in single-camera mode.
Shawn: Or 720p 60fps, if you want the high frame rate.
Wayne: You can do that with 2. When you're doing 2, the limit is 60 frames at 720, or 30 frames at 1080. You get 10 megs per encoder 10 megabits per second.
Shawn: And we're recording on SD cards?
Wayne: You can record on SD cards, you can record on USB drives, or through network, through our network shared drive. We have a feature that we called "file segmentation," which is a kind of a fail-safe, where you can define every 5 minutes, for example, "Create me a new file, create me a new file, create me a new file," and when we'd make those files switches, there won't be a frame missing; some people have ... I've said, "You know what you’ve got there? You got a built-in disaster recovery," because if something happens during one contiguous file--say, you lose power--the file is never closed, so that file is kind of trashed. It's garbage, you can't recover it, because the header was never written. So every time we close the file, we write a header, a header, a header. You can be an hour in and then something happens, at least you have that one hour, and then we have a free utility that will assemble it all back into one file. Even if it was a three-hour event, you could still have it. You could decide to play them all in 5 minutes, or you can put it back into one contiguous file and it's done in seconds.
Shawn: Thank you very much, Wayne. This has been a look at the Matrox Monarch LCS, at NAB 2016.
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Topnews, Konsular, Südafrika in Deutschland
South African Consulate General in Munich: Measures Taken in the Context of Covid - 19 Pandemic
In support of the measures taken by the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany to contain the spread of COVID-19 and protection of personnel, the Consulate is closed from 19 March 2020, until further notice with non-essential staff required to work from home. The Consulate will continue to provide essential and urgent consular services.
South African Citizen stranded in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg are requested to make contact with us as per below contacts for further assistance.
The Consulate will continue to observe the situation and provide further updates about any change in the status of the operations.
The following are the numbers to be contacted for essential and urgent consular matters: +49 162 4174989/ +49 174 2435634 / +49 173 9984120
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Ricardo Chavez Tovar
The Saga of The King of Sacrifice I&II, 2018, Photogram, 94x115cm 115x94cm.
October’s Full Moon Party At The Tropical Gardens Of Lady Luna, 2012, Mixed Media (Photogram, Soft Pastel, Silk Screen, Graphite, Gold Leaf), 206x258cm.
Tropikal Avant-Dark
8 – 23 Jun 2019
Dwelling into the works of Ricardo Chavez Tovar is like taking a lifelong excursion into a multifaceted adventure with a very disciplined man. It leaves the viewers with no definite conclusion but as your ride delves into substrata, you will permeate into a realm he created for himself and his conscious connection with his muse whom if one notices, occasionally peeks. In the truest sense, studying Ricardo, who has been to most art cities is an iconographer’s nightmare, lest you can uplift yourself to that realm of your subconsciousness. Ricardo in one sentence is an efficient and intellectual purist whose conviction in art is about individuality, and to do it right all the time. Everything is intended, from his art to frame to display or its imperfection thereof. His answers are as unpredictable as the man himself, who does not associate himself with ethnic, gender, religious, political stance or incline to be tied or formulated to one. His forte is installations and assemblages or merry picture making which he faithfully created using a medieval technique of making pictures without the use of cameras, but to expose objects onto light sensitive paper in a darkened room to gather silhouettes which forms the contents ‘lubrique’ to his storyline. Each still, a lead to another, the whole which forms the substance requires patience to achieve depth of field and gradation.
“Tropikal Avant-Dark” is inspired by his lifelong interest in myths, literature and the sacrosanct sacred feminine with her grip on our psyche and body parts. A culmination of his trilogy perhaps? That began with the series ‘The Muse Is Not Available’ which started 19 years ago when he accidentally sojourned to South East Asia and settled here in Malaysia. Ricardo is a lecturer at the Equator Academy of Art, Penang. He did art because it has a soul. And he has never betrayed that belief. That, to him is integrity.
The Elusive Art Of Sacred Ritual
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Can company fire employees for refusing to sit for AG investigation?
This employment dispute asks whether an employer had cause to fire two employees who did not comply with an order to explain themselves in the context of a government investigation into possible criminal conduct.
The case is Gilman v. Marsh & McLennan, decided on June 16. The State Attorney General was investigating whether insurance brokers were steering clients toward particular insurance carriers. Marsh & McLennan hired a law firm to conduct an internal investigation into all of this. Plaintiffs were to be interviewed in this internal investigation. The AG's office then shifted its investigation into an alleged bid-rigging scheme involving Marsh and several insurance carriers. After people at AIG pleaded guilty to bid-rigging and identified plaintiffs as co-conspirators, plaintiffs were directed to sit for interviews and threatened with termination if they failed to comply with that directive. Meanwhile, the State Attorney General told management that it would forego criminal prosecution of the company if it cooperated with the investigation. Plaintiffs refused to sit for interviews. One was fired; the other resigned and was denied certain post-retirement benefits "for cause."
The Court of Appeals (Jacobs, Kearse and Winter) says plaintiffs were fired for-cause because they disobeyed a lawful order from management. The order was lawful because the employer was entitled to seek information from its employees about possible job-related criminal conduct. True, the employees may have had the personal right not to sit for these interviews. But management has rights, too.
The Court reasons:
Marsh’s demands placed Gilman and McNenney in the tough position of choosing between employment and incrimination (assuming of course the truth of the allegations). But though Gilman and McNenney “may have possessed the personal rights to [not sit for interviews], that does not immunize [them] from all collateral consequences that come from [those] act[s],” including leaving Marsh “with no practical option other than to remove [them].” “[T]here would be a complete breakdown in the regulation of many areas of business if employers did not carry most of the load of keeping their employees in line and have the sanction of discharge for refusal to answer what is essential to that end.” Marsh had to use the “sanction of discharge for refusal to answer,” id., because in the absence of an exculpatory explanation, Marsh needed to assume the worst: that the bid‐rigging allegations were true and that Marsh was vicariously liable for their criminal conduct.
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How entrenched sexism and racism can destroy a city
By D.A. Bullock | June 12, 2016
This photo is courtesy of MinnPost.
Do you want to know how entrenched sexism and racism can destroy a city? Do you want to know how institutional sexism and racism lead to grandmothers getting shot dead on the street?
A woman is appointed as police chief in a major metro. Immediately she is undermined and disrespected by rank and file officers who still do not accept a world where a woman can be their superior, especially in their estimation, in work that requires some hyper-masculine militaristic authoritarian posture and philosophy.
Said chief spends an inordinate amount of time trying to win over the rank and file by publicly expressing unequivocal support even in the most heinous cases of police misconduct and brutality. What does this buy her? No respect from her officers, no willingness to change or adhere to ideas of better policing. They still consider themselves hammers, and we are the nails.
A woman is elected mayor in a free and democratic process, she is our choice to lead. At the first opportunity, the police embarrass themselves in a flimsy attempt to align this mayor with street gangs through a photo. The police are mocked and belittled nationally and the butt of a joke. This enrages them more and fuels a general feeling of retribution that they will eventually enact on this chief and this mayor and these people. In the aftermath, the mayor and the chief try to walk this ephemeral impossible tightrope of appeasing the rank and file and placating their ridiculous smallness, instead of making the difficult radical choice of rooting out this cancerous police culture and setting a new standard, doomed by half-measures.
Meanwhile, the cases of abuse by police against citizens continue to mount, costing the city millions and millions of dollars as the City Council continues a compliant position of indemnifying these cancerous individuals from responsibility, further embolden their militarism. Meanwhile, the chief and the mayor are negotiating contracts conceding more and more power and immunity to police officers. Recruits continue to join the ranks of this police, continue to commute from other suburbs, continue to harden their view of folks in these communities as Us vs. Them. The police force continues to not reflect the face of the folks they are policing. The powder in the keg continues to build.
A young man is killed by the police. I should say, another young man is killed by police. There is an awakening in community that enough is enough. The mayor and the chief respond, already knowing that they have little respect and/or support by this force mostly because they are women, they respond in a curious way. They ostensibly cast the protestors as villains. What does this “support” of police militarism buy them? It buys them a revenge plan by police at that precinct. They will show us who is boss, and show the mayor and the chief, now smarting from the insult of commoners questioning and challenging their authority: somebody has to pay.
An inspector steps out and admonishes his officers for “acting like babies,” and to “do your job.” He is dealt with swiftly by the powerful rank and file. He is taught a lesson. They claim that BLM has him by the balls. These small men, they trump up the necessary grounds and inexplicably the chief falls in line and suspends this inspector. Is she still trying to win the favor of a force who clearly will never favor her?
The cascade continues. This move demoralizes community members who were looking for an opportunity to work with police and forge a compromising path forward. Police lose their only allies in the community. The police of that precinct stage a community engagement event. It is like a ghost town in the same space where stood hundreds of community, providing fellowship and warmth and food and good conversation; now there is the occasional child with parent given a free bike helmet and a popsicle.
The mayor and the chief endeavor to solve this community engagement problem. They articulate no plan to the community, no plan to stop the violence, no plan to engage the community. Perhaps the two rely on a strange national reputation they are promoting of doing reform right, not wanting to tarnish that image by exposing the chaos under the surface. A false image garnered mostly because the citizens showed great restraint, they are given credit because those people did not burn down their community as they have done in other cities. The communication with general community becomes less and less, whittled down to a tighter and tighter circle of folks they deem representative of community; delusional at best.
The streets get hotter by the day, bolder in the knowledge that this is the wild wild west. The police in that precinct continue to pout and give a collective, “See what you made? See who you really are without my authority? See how y’all act without my boot?” to the community. Resentment grows on both sides.
On social media, the beefs grow and the manhood challenges grow out of control and out of proportion. The access to firearms grows and is easy as getting takis from the corner store.
They blasting over arguments, they blasting over music videos, they blasting over who slept with who, they blasting over everything. The chief and the mayor look on with paralysis, not knowing what to do but retreat into the bunker, attend another national conference on reform.
On a warm day in May, while they blast away with impunity, police kick back behind the locked door of the precinct with impunity, and a grandma is sitting in her car and they blast her. Because of petty vindictiveness from young people who don’t know any better and police officers who should, because of ingrained, deeply rooted sexist and racist philosophies of what policing and responsibility and community is, because of a cascade of domino events, Grandma is dead.
It’s senseless, it’s maddening, it’s devastating and it was avoidable.
I encourage female mayors and police chiefs, people of color in positions of power, people in dominant culture who understand the effects of deep root system injustice: don’t do half measures. You won’t last long in your position as a result anyway, you might as well go in and do as much radical change as you can before you are shown the door.
Here we are right now, is this opportunity or dreaded march toward inevitable end? Some might say, well your first statement is how this would destroy a city, that seems hyperbolic. They might say, “I’m good, I’m living nice, I’m drinking fine craft beer, and my bike is outfitted for winter fat tire riding, life is swell.”
The destruction of a city is like the destruction of the body; one system failure leads to the inevitable next. Just continue thinking, oh that’s just my liver, that’s happening over there.
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Home Events Solidoodle showcases slick 4th gen desktop 3D printer at CES
Solidoodle showcases slick 4th gen desktop 3D printer at CES
Solidoodle 4
International CES first-timer Solidoodle has been getting the most out of the thronging crowds in the TCT + Personalize-sponsored 3D Printing TechZone, largely supported by the slick machine on display.
This is Brooklyn-based Solidoodle's fourth generation 3D printer and the smooth black casing of this plug-and-play device is the perfect specimen for the burgeoning consumer 3D printing marketplace.
The Solidoodle team has been swamped with enquiries about the Solidoodle 4 3D Printer, but Sam Cervantes, founder and CEO, and Yahea Abdulla, PR and distribution, managed to find a little time to speak to TCT about their experience at the Las Vegas event and their latest product.
"We have brand new model here. For 1,000 bucks you won't find a better printer on the market," said Cervantes.
"Solidoodle stands for affordable and easy to use - out of the box printing," he continued. "We have been around for two and a half years and we've sold 10,000 printers."
Cervantes was keen to stress Solidoodle is on a different plain from other smaller 3D printer manufacturers. "Most of the printers you see here are vapour wear," he said. "So many companies are selling printers they have not even produced yet. We have an excellent reputation. We are quick to take things to market and we're quick to make announcements. We are not announcing products we haven't designed yet."
Cervantes and Abdulla showed TCT how easy it is to set up the new Solidoodle machine. It requires very little tinkering - none in fact - which makes it a very attractive product for the consumer 3D printing marketplace.
"Assembly is out of the box with a snap fit lock for the filament," explained Abdulla. "We've made some improvements to this model. We have been working on a new extruder design this past year. It's been designed to help cool the filament so you just pull it out. It's really easy."
Cervantes said: "We announced this on Black Friday. It's funny because our largest customer is dads, actually. Dads like to buy these machines to build toys with their kids. So the dads love to print toys with their children and the mums don't mind because it doesn't cost too much and it looks just like an appliance."
In addition to techy fathers, the pair listed their other main markets, including schools, designers and students.
"Schools are interested in incorporating it into their classrooms. In a one school we work with, they have five printers set up," Cervantes revealed.
"Some of our customers are retired engineers - they like the sturdy steel frame and the fact they can modify it a little bit," he added. "We've had a lot of interest from retailers. Everybody is asking how do we get this in our store? We're actually one of the best selling 3D printers in the iMakr store in London."
Solidoodle is doing extremely well in the increasingly crowded desktop 3D printing marketplace, and so the attention the company’s stand has received at its CES debut has been a real bonus.
"It's been great here these past few days. I am amazed. People cannot believe they can 3D print at this price. It's our first CES and there's a lot of the press are here and it's just been great talking to everybody."
"I've been blown away by CES," Abdulla added. "[The visitors] ask you questions about the machine and they can't believe it. The 3D printers speak for themselves. This is our first year and people are seeing our machine and talking to us - it's been really great."
"Next year we will absolutely be here - but with a bigger booth," Cervantes concluded.
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PREVIEW: Super Mario 3D World (Wii U)
Nothing sells a Nintendo games console like a new Mario title, and there’s nothing Nintendo need more now than to sell more Wii U consoles. But rather than playing it safe and putting together a “Super Mario Galaxy 3” title, Nintendo’s first 3D HD outing for Mario on the Wii U is instead a semi-sequel to the 3DS handheld’s Super Mario 3D Land, called Super Mario 3D World.
And that’s no bad thing – the 3DS outing was a breath of fresh air for the franchise, and with the Wii U’s added processing grunt, Super Mario 3D World totally won over the Tech Digest team. The Wii U may be about to get another much-needed must-have title.
Played primarily from a dynamic isometric perspective, Super Mario 3D World actually feels more like a game bridging the gap between the Galaxy titles and the afore-mentioned 3DS adventure. While there’s still the time-attack focussed stages race-to-the-finish level design, Mario has the full complement of his 3D moveset here, from crouches to long jumps.
But its not just Mario along for the ride. At the beginning of the five demo stages we tried at yesterday’s hands-on event, we oculd choose to play as either Mario, Toad, Luigi or Princess Peach. Sound familiar? That’s because it is – the oft-overlooked Super Mario Bros. 2 let you do just the same, and just like that title, each character handles slightly differently. Mario controls just how you’d expect, but Luigi has a fluttering lingering jump that stretches slightly higher, Peach can float for a more delicate and directed landing from onto platforms and Toad (the weakest jumper of the four) is the fastest on foot.
This ties into the game’s manic multiplayer modes. Each level can be played with up to four pals simultaneously, across Wiimotes and the Wii U gamepad. Like the New Super Mario Bros titles, you can either approach each level competitively or co-operatively, launching each other up to out-of-reach areas or (as I sneakily did to a fellow journalist) over the edge of a ravine, towards their doom.
It’s gleeful fun, and well suited to the spacious 3D levels on show here. Whereas the 2D multiplayer Mario platformers feel like bunched up chaos, the extra space afforded in Super Mario 3D World’s more expansive levels allow for a more considered multiplayer approach, with each player afforded the option to take alternative routes to each other in many cases. It feels a more natural multiplayer fit. Competitive players can enjoy chasing higher-scores than their competitors, delivered at the end of each stage and ranked based on number of coins collected, enemies defeated and secrets found.
Co-operative sections of levels also seem more cleverly designed. Bouncing off a string of enemies simultaneously with pals may trigger a secret to appear, as will lighting up a number of trigger pads together. There was even an entire level where players get to ride on a giant Yoshi dinosaur and hurtle down some river rapids – in order to avoid the routes many traps, players need to jump and turn in tandem to steer the dino-boat.
Visually, Mario has never looked better, with the game mining 30 years worth of Mario titles for inspiration. The block-like level design is most reminiscent of Super Mario 3, albeit rendered in 3D.
There are however a number brand new additions added into the mix. Firstly, there are now transparent warp pipes to jump into, often with multiple exit points and routes to take. You’ll see Mario and co sucked around these pipes, and you’ll need lightning-fast reactions to steer the gang out of the right exit point, as well as guiding them towards coins and power-ups within the pipes, and away from enemies lurking inside.
Then there’s the Cat Suit, which seems to be the main new power-up for the game. It plays into the added sense of verticality among the levels, and gives Mario and friends the ability to pounce, run a little faster, slash with claws and run up walls. It controls intuitively and is great fun to use, and will likely be the weapon of choice for those looking to speed-run through levels.
If there’s a problem anywhere, it’s potentially with the game’s perspective – whereas the 3DS cousin of this game had the handheld’s depth effect to help judge jump landings, it can be quite easy to misread distances and landing spots, leading to some unnecessary, frustrating falls. A little tweak to each character’s shadow to help better judge landing spots would be a quick and easy fix for this ahead of release.
We’re incredibly excited about Super Mario Bros 3D World, easily our favourite title in Nintendo’s winter release schedule. The Super Mario 3D World release date is pencilled in for some point in December 2013, and we’ll look to bring you a full review closer to release.
Jun 26, 2013 Gerald Lynch
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PREVIEW: The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (Nintendo 3DS)
Kaihaku says:
I played this game’s e3 demo at a Nintendo Experience hosted by a local Best Buy. It is brilliant. The multiplayer is much smoother than New Super Mario Brothers U and the level design borders on genius – fostering an excellent balance of cooperative and competitive gameplay.
Retro gamer guy says:
I am so ready for this title. You can’t beat a top Nintendo game nothing quite like it. And I am 38 lol
John Goatbirth says:
I WANT!
I am so ready for this title. You can't beat a top Nintendo game nothing quite like it. And I am 38 lol
WellWisher says:
Cool, I was worried it might suck.
TwinTails says:
But nothing from the Galaxy team has ever “sucked” though. 😉
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Religious Meaning Of MAGA Riot
Capitol Hill today. 'Make America Godly Again' (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Let me say up front: not all conservative Christians supported Donald Trump; not all conservative Christians endorsed the Jericho March, and the rest. If you are using today’s horrifying, disgraceful events in Washington to justify your hatred of all conservative Christians, you are wrong, and should knock it off. I’m not going to post your comments if so.
And: the disgusting actions of the MAGA mob in DC today do not obviate the awfulness of the radical Left — nor do the disgusting actions of the radical Left obviate the awfulness of the radical Right.
Conservatives saw the progressive mobs rampaging last summer. We saw the media and others within the liberal Establishment downplaying the wickedness of that violence. We were meant to understand the pain of the demonstrators. We have seen institutions — corporations, universities, media outlets — change their policies to react favorably to what these mobs have demanded. Conservatives have stood up to these things.
And yet now, we have seen the MAGA mob do one better than the BLM mobs, which never attacked the US Capitol. We never saw them do things like this to the citadel of American democracy:
Rioter uses a metal barricade to try to break open a Capitol building door. pic.twitter.com/54XJR51g0R
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) January 6, 2021
And the BLM/Antifa mobs did not do what they did at the instigation of a leading Democratic politician. Today’s mob did it at the instigation of the President of the United States.
I don’t want to hear “whataboutism” from my side. What happened today in Washington was a defilement of the most potent architectural symbol of American democracy. In the Bible, Jesus said, speaking of an approaching apocalypse:
“So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’ spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand—then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.” (Matthew 24:15-16)
He’s talking about the Hebrew Temple. The US Capitol is not a religious building. But from a nationalist point of view, the Capitol is our Temple. And this MAGA idiot in the headdress is an abomination of desolation standing in the holy place:
It is hard to overstate how shocking this is. Again, it is a defilement. This is going to be deeply felt by the American people. Symbolism matters.
The fact that this previously unthinkable thing happened is a sign of a far deeper disorder. Let those in Judea understand what they’re seeing. I’m not talking about anything to do with God. I mean this in a completely secular way. I’m talking about symbolic meaning.
Nevertheless, I believe that these MAGA fools have provided those on the Left — in the government and within corporations, universities and other institutions — who wish to suppress conservatives and religious dissidents with a Reichstag-fire excuse to crack down (except in the case of the Reichstag fire, that didn’t happen; this abomination in Washington today really occurred). The soft totalitarianism I’ve been warning about: the MAGA mob today accelerated its arrival.
To repeat what I said at the beginning: not all conservative Christians supported Donald Trump. But there is no way to excise the role that some very prominent Christians played in creating what happened today. I wrote about them here, here, and here — the Jericho March people, with their insane rhetoric, calling on people to be prepared to die for Donald Trump and his presidency. Here is a clip from my initial Jericho March coverage:
This Flynn speech was important, though. He said, “The Courts don’t decide the election, we the people decide.” But later: “The rule of law is at stake.”
Well, which is it? The rule of law in our Constitutional republic means that the courts operate in the name of We the People. Flynn declares mob rule over our constitutional institutions in the same speech in which he decried the loss of the rule of law. He obviously didn’t get the irony, nor, I’d wager, did a soul in that crowd.
He also told the people to ignore their minds and listen to their hearts, because in your heart is where you determine truth. It’s. All. About. Feeling. Don’t think, feel. This is 100 percent what Metaxas was saying this week on Charlie Kirk’s show: logic & evidence don’t matter if your heart tells you that Trump won.
Every single Christian leader who has encouraged Trump’s post-election behavior has a duty to repent. The passions unleashed by the mob today will destroy this country. Are destroying this country. Today I saw a tweet from a Christian Trump supporter showing a group raising a big cross near the Capitol as part of the protest. That tweet has since been removed. But the point has been made by so many of these MAGA Christians in the past month or so.
The Civil Rights Movement was led by black pastors. Even though they were fighting against American apartheid, they never once did anything remotely like what the MAGA mob did today. They brought honor to the church not only by their cause, but by their peaceful protest, even when they were physically attacked for it. The contrast between the MAGA Christians and them is instructive. Shame! Repent!
For the rest of us small-o orthodox believers, think, metaphorically, of the Judean hills. Things are about to get bad.
UPDATE:From Jeffrey Goldberg’s report, marching with the MAGA mob:
What I do know, after spending hours sponging up Trumpist paranoia, conspiracism, and cultishness, is that this gathering was not merely an attempted coup but also a mass-delusion event, not something that can be explained adequately through the prism of politics. Its chaos was rooted in psychological and theological phenomena, intensified by eschatological anxiety. One man I interviewed this morning, a resident of Texas who said his name was Don Johnson (I did not trust this to be his name), told me that the country was coming apart, and that this dissolution presaged the End Times. “It’s all in the Bible,” he said. “Everything is predicted. Donald Trump is in the Bible. Get yourself ready.”
The conflation of Trump and Jesus was a common theme at the rally. “Give it up if you believe in Jesus!” a man yelled near me. People cheered. “Give it up if you believe in Donald Trump!” Louder cheers.
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Post meeting, berth likely for Navjot Sidhu
Posted: Nov 26, 2020 07:12 AM (IST)
Navjot Singh Sidhu. File photo
Chandigarh, November 25
Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh and his former Cabinet colleague Navjot Singh Sidhu held an hour-long meeting over lunch at the former’s farmhouse in Siswan here today.
Sports Minister Rana Gurmit Singh Sodhi was also reportedly present at the meeting, following which Sidhu left for Amritsar.
AICC general secretary and Punjab affairs in-charge Harish Rawat, who had been trying for a rapprochement between the two, called it a positive development. “My job is done. The big brother (Capt) and the younger brother can now strategise a way forward in the interest of Punjab,” said Rawat. “It was a warm and cordial luncheon meeting that saw the Chief Minister and Navjot Singh Sidhu discuss a host of important political matters of Punjab and national interest,” the CM’s media adviser tweeted.
The meeting could soon see the re-induction of Sidhu into the state Cabinet. There could also be a reshuffle of departments. — TNS
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Maine Lawmakers Send Same-Sex Marriage Measure to Ballot; Polls Show Voters Likely to Approve
A citizen initiative to legalize same-sex marriage in Maine is headed for the November ballot, the Kennebec Journal reports:
The Maine House of Representatives unanimously voted this morning to indefinitely postpone the bill, which has the effect of sending it directly to voters. House Speaker Robert Nutting, R-Oakland, recognized Minority Leader Emily Cain, D-Orono, to make the motion. Cain is a supporter of gay-marriage.
"We just think this should be decided by the voters," said Cain's spokeswoman Jodi Quintero. "We would like to see this citizen initiative succeed."
The action by the House avoids a public hearing and a recorded vote by lawmakers. In 2009, the Legislature, which was then controlled by Democrats, held a daylong hearing at the Augusta Civic Center where hundreds of people testified on both sides of the issue.
A recent poll from PPP shows that Maine voters are likely to approve it:
It looks like Maine voters will reverse their 2009 decision and legalize gay marriage in the state this fall. 54% think that gay marriage should be legal to only 41% who think it should be illegal. And when we asked about the issue using the exact language voters will see on the ballot this fall, they say they're inclined to support the referendum by a 47-32 margin.
There's some indication that the exact ballot language is confusing people a little at this point. Only 67% of those who support gay marriage in general say they'll vote yes while 12% say they'll not and 21% are not sure. At the same time just 60% of those who oppose gay marriage generally say they'll vote against the proposed referendum, while 24% say they'll vote for it and 16% are not sure. My guess is at the end of the day voters will see this as a straight referendum on gay marriage regardless of what the language on the ballot says- and the 54/41 number bodes well for pro-equality voters.
Republicans' opinions are pretty much the same as they were in 2009. But Democrats' support for gay marriage has increased slightly, from 71% to 78%. And more importantly independents have gone from voting against gay marriage 52/46 three years ago to now supporting it by a 57/36 margin.
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These Bills Affect Toy Safety
The Senate and House Log Legislative Action
By: TDmonthly Staff
The following 2007 and 2008 Congressional bills relating to toy safety are listed in order of introduction, from the most recent. They are accompanied by a brief summary as provided at GovTrack.us. Simply click on the bill's title for more information.
S. 2663: Update to S. 2045: CPSC Reform Act of 2007 – February 25, 2008
To reform the Consumer Product Safety Commission to provide greater protection for children's products, to improve the screening of noncompliant consumer products, to improve the effectiveness of consumer product recall programs, and for other purposes.
This bill is superceded by H.R. 4040, which passed both the House and the Senate.
H.R. 4040: Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 – November 1, 2007
To establish consumer product safety standards and other safety requirements for children's products and to reauthorize and modernize the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
This bill passed in the House of Representatives on Dec. 19, 2007. It passed in the Senate March 3, 2008, superseding S. 2663. The House and Senate resolved differences and then voted to pass the bill on July 31, 2008. President George W. Bush signed the bill into law on August 14, 2008.
H.R. 3903: Kids' Toys Safety Act – October 18, 2007
To amend the Consumer Product Safety Act to require the development of a multi-stage product testing process to ensure compliance of children's products with consumer product safety standards, and for other purposes.
This bill was referred to the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
H.R. 3691: SAFE Consumer Product Act – September 27, 2007
To reauthorize and improve the Consumer Product Safety Act.
S. 2045: CPSC Reform Act of 2007 – September 12, 2007
A bill to reform the Consumer Product Safety Commission to provide greater protection for children's products, to improve the screening of noncompliant consumer products, to improve the effectiveness of consumer product recall programs, and for other purposes.
This bill was scheduled for debate in the Senate on Dec. 5, 2007.
H.R. 3499: Children's Products Safety Act of 2007 – September 7, 2007
To amend the Consumer Product Safety Act to require third-party verification of compliance of children's products with consumer product safety standards promulgated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and for other purposes.
This bill, identical to S. 1833, was referred to the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
S. 1847: Consumer Product Safety Modernization Act of 2007 – July 23, 2007
A bill to reauthorize the Consumer Product Safety Act, and for other purposes.
This bill was referred to the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee.
S. 1833: Children's Products Safety Act of 2007 – July 19, 2007
A bill to amend the Consumer Product Safety Act to require third-party verification of compliance of children's products with consumer product safety standards promulgated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission and for other purposes.
H.R. 3100: Import Safety Act of 2007 – July 19, 2007
To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the Consumer Product Safety Act to increase the safety of food, toothpaste, and toys.
This bill was referred to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, and the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
H.R. 1698: Infant and Toddler Durable Product Safety Act – March 26, 2007
To direct the Consumer Product Safety Commission to promulgate a consumer product safety standard for each durable infant or toddler product, and for other purposes.
This bill was referred to the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
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Havre De Grace, MD Mountain Biking Trails and Maps
Looking for the best Mountain Biking trails around Havre De Grace?
Find the top rated mountain biking trails in Havre De Grace, whether you're looking for an easy short mountain biking trail or a long mountain biking trail, you'll find what you're looking for. Click on a mountain biking trail below to find trail descriptions, trail maps, photos, and reviews.
Big Woods Trail
State: PA
Butterfly Acres Trail
Chester Creek Trail
Creek Road Trail
Elephant Swamp Trail
Crushed Stone, Dirt, Gravel, Woodchips
Enola Low Grade Trail
Ballast, Crushed Stone
French Creek Trail
Asphalt, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
Goshen Road Trail
Hanover Trolley Trail
Heritage Trail (PA)
Asphalt, Boardwalk
James F. Hall Trail
Lancaster Junction Trail
Little Jersey Trail
Crushed Stone, Dirt
Lower Susquehanna Heritage Greenway Trail
Mill Creek Trail (PA)
Parrish Trail
Crushed Stone, Gravel
Red Clay Creek Trail
Springlawn Trail
Struble Trail
Swamp Forest Trail
Warwick Township Linear Park Trail
Asphalt, Crushed Stone
Envisioned as a multi-use trail that will eventually connect the Thun Trail section of the Schuylkill River Trail in Union Township in southeast Berks County to the towns of Elverson and St. Peters in...
PA 3 mi Crushed Stone
Situated near the south end of Lititz borough, the half-mile long Butterfly Acres Park Trail follows a restored wetland and small stream, connecting two neighborhoods. A smaller segment, which is...
PA 0.5 mi Asphalt
The nearly 3-mile long Chester Creek Trail is finally a reality after nearly two decades of planning. Phase 1 of the multi-use trail was opened to the public in late 2016. It follows the path of the...
The Creek Road Trail extends north from a connection with the Pomeroy and Newark Rail Trail in White Clay Creek State Park. The scenic park features over 37 miles of hiking trails through wooded...
DE 2.3 mi Dirt, Gravel
TRAIL CLOSED: As a precaution to help limit the spread of COVID-19, the local managing authority has temporarily closed this trail to non-residents. As you walk along the Elephant Swamp Trail, it’s...
NJ 5 mi Crushed Stone, Dirt, Gravel, Woodchips
Caution: On April 12, 2018, a fire severely damaged the Martic Forge Trestle, which runs over Pequea Creek and River Road on the Enola Low Grade Trail. Access to the trail going west from the Route...
PA 28.9 mi Ballast, Crushed Stone
A work in progress, the French Creek Trail is one of several trails being developed by East Pikeland Township. Although a small part of it follows the route of the former Pickering Creek Railroad,...
PA 4.6 mi Asphalt, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
The Goshen Road Trail runs through Newtown Township, which lies about 30 miles west of Philadelphia. Just shy of a mile, the crushed-stone trail offers a great place for a quick run. The route, which...
PA 0.9 mi Gravel
The Hanover Trolley Trail is being built along the 16-mile corridor of the York-Hanover Trolley Line that ran between the two cities in the early 1900s. Currently, about a quarter of that distance is...
PA 3.5 mi Crushed Stone
Part of the township's ongoing efforts to create a network of multi-use greenways, Manheim Twp.'s Heritage Trail begins at Valley Road and extends south, along the eastern boundary of Landis Woods to...
PA 1.1 mi Asphalt, Boardwalk
The James F. Hall Trail—a rail-with-trail—packs a lot into a short stretch: Its paved surface is great for bicycling, in-line skating, and strolling, and there are multiple playgrounds, picnic areas,...
DE 1.8 mi Asphalt
The popular Lancaster Junction Trail follows the former Reading and Columbia Railroad, which transported iron ore and coal from Reading to the Chesapeake Bay via the Susquehanna and Tidewater Canal...
The Little Jersey Trail loops through Lums Pond State Park on a wide, packed earth surface that accommodates hikers, cyclists and equestrians. The trail is the longer of two loops; the Swamp Forest...
DE 8.1 mi Crushed Stone, Dirt
Maryland's Susquehanna State Park is recognized for challenging hiking and biking trails, camping facilities, rock outcroppings, boating, a museum and restored historical sites. But none of these...
Just short of a mile in length, the Mill Creek Trail follows the south bank of the stream for which it is named in the suburbs east of Lancaster. Paved with a surface of compact woodchips, the...
PA 0.9 mi Woodchips
Located in Kennett Township, the Parrish Trail follows the West Branch of the Red Clay Creek from Pennock Park south, currently ending off Chandler Mill Road just south of its intersection with...
PA 1.5 mi Crushed Stone, Gravel
A work in progress, the Red Clay Creek Trail currently extends along the east branch of the creek for which it is named in Kennett Square. The trail, which has a crushed-stone surface of varying...
PA 1 mi Crushed Stone, Gravel
The Rim Trail offers a 2.2-mile route in Hibernia County Park, following a former railroad bed along the West Branch Branywine Creek. This southeastern Pennsylvania excursion is one of a handful of...
The Springlawn Trail travels on what was once Springlawn Road, connecting Chesterville Road (Rt. 841) and Strickersville Road. The 2-mile trail is comprised of dirt and gravel and makes for a good...
PA 2.1 mi Dirt, Gravel
The Chester County Parks & Recreation Department opened this trail in 1979 on part of a former Pennsylvania Railroad right-of-way. Today the 2.6-mile trail attracts more than 125,000 visitors each...
The Swamp Forest Trail loops through Lums Pond State Park on a packed earth surface that accommodates hikers and cyclists. The trail is the shorter of two loops; the Little Jersey Trail runs closer to...
The Warwick Township Linear Park Trail is a joint project of Warwick Township and Lititz borough. The pathway extends from Market Street north, following the Santo Domingo Creek, to Newport Road....
PA 1.2 mi Asphalt, Crushed Stone
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Farmingdale Trail
great local trail
January, 2021 by fletch0419
We’ve been hiking this trail for awhile. We walk the whole way to longs park and could even go the whole way to park city. There’s so many trails to hike with different terrains and views with plenty of wildlife.
Cold and Windy but fun
January, 2021 by sandymo
Great 29 mile out and back from Route 372 trailhead. Introduced a friend to the trail. Sorely need a big sign for the trailhead and an actual address. Still, it was a great day to be out, nice and sunny. Nice frozen trail on the way out and a little softer on the return. There were a few rock climbers along the river. I thought both bridges were being repaired but the first one didn’t appear to started yet. The trail has so much potential. I can’t wait for the bridges to be repaired. Highly recommend the trail even if it’s a little bumpy high now.
Chester Valley Trail
little loud
January, 2021 by cassini56
Started at the North Gulf road. Nice trail. Little loud since your close to the interstate. My recommendation would be to drive further down (3-4 miles in the trail, around Penn medicine) and it’s getting quieter. Overall nice trail to bike and be out of the house.
great trail
December, 2020 by clintoncw_ww
Great trail parking a little hard if you come at a busy time
Great trail in great shape
December, 2020 by richardsj1
Flat and paved is always a welcome reprieve from crushed stone or otherwise. The drawbacks (frequent road crossings and occasional visual proximity to rte 202) are easily outweighed by the quality of the trail. Signage makes the trail easy to follow, and the quarter mile markers are an improvement over the usual half mile markers. The crossings are well designed to keep cyclists and pedestrians safe.
Conestoga Greenway Trail
Easy and Nice Scenery
December, 2020 by sharoneberly3
Macadamed easy flat trail right along the Conestoga Creek. Approximately one mile away from traffic.
Northwest Lancaster County River Trail
Recreational biking when leaves are down Falmouth->Marietta
December, 2020 by curlybrian
Started at new section in Falmouth, great big paved parking lot. Nice paved trail on a Saturday in December. A roly-poly trail with turns. Great varied scenery when the leaves are down.
Significant water views with several spots with truly spectacular views (RR bridge). Nice fields and some woodsy areas. Paved trail is about 6-7 feet wide. There were several areas with picnic tables and several benches on this 8 mile stretch. Even a telescope to view Bald Eagles. About 5 places with facilities.
It was crowded in areas (Saturday in December), especially around Bainbridge. People are mostly friendly, but it is paved so there are the "stationary bike exercisers" that only look straight in front of them and down (even at gorgeous river front scenes). It seemed the narrower the tires the more miserable the demeanor. No dangerous road crossing. Many 4-6 person groups having a great social time.
Bring a picnic and enjoy this wonderful ride. Would recommend when leaves are off trees for more varied scenery. One of the most scenic trails we've done in the USA.
running here is great
December, 2020 by lucelytapi
run here daily, short but peaceful trail
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Spoilers Godzilla: King of the Monsters - Review and Discussion Thread
Discussion in 'Science Fiction & Fantasy' started by thribs, May 29, 2019.
Your Grade?
captainkirk Fleet Captain Fleet Captain
I wonder what the reaction would be if one could take this movie back in time to 1998 and show it to Toho after they walked out of the Emmerich movie.
captainkirk, Jun 5, 2019
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Redfern Rear Admiral Rear Admiral
You know, given the often ribald nature of "Monster Island Buddies" segments upon YouTube, I have a sneaking suspicion how the creator will deal with the stinger Mothra now possesses. It would be even more perversely funny when one is aware Rodan and Mothra are a "married" couple in those comedy shorts.
Redfern, Jun 6, 2019
Noname Given Admiral Admiral
Noname Given
Redfern said: ↑
Considering (in the film) Mothra gave Godzilla TWO 'Rainbow Showers'...
Noname Given, Jun 6, 2019
Has anyone heard or read about Toho's reaction to the movie? Supposedly (I honestly don't know), representatives for the studio left before a showing of the '98 film concluded, but were more "receptive" of the 2014 film. Given this film has even more elements resembling those of the Showa and Heisei eras, I'd like to believe Toho approves and may be willing to extend the license, allowing Legendary and Warner Bros. to produce additional films beyond "Godzilla vs. Kong".
Of course, the critical deciding factor will be the box office returns.
I haven't heard their reaction, but considering how respectful the movie is to Godzilla's past I imagine they would be happy with it. Since they've announced plans to make their own live-action films again, would they extend the license? I've heard that they aren't allowed to both have movies going at the same time, but since 2014 they've produced Shin and the anime trilogy.
Grendelsbayne Rear Admiral Rear Admiral
captainkirk said: ↑
The way I heard it, they're not allowed to release a (live action) movie in the same year as a Legendary Godzilla film. A different year is fine.
But Toho seemingly is looking to get more mileage out of the Big G again, so that limitation combined with potentially disappointing box office for the remaining Legendary films could be enough for them to not renew the deal.
Grendelsbayne, Jun 7, 2019
Kai "the spy" Vice Admiral Admiral
Kai "the spy"
The rumor I heard, seeing how Toho reinvested into their Hollywood offices, that they'd seek to renegotiate a new deal with Legendary (the original deal is over with "Godzilla vs Kong", anyway) to have Legendary produce more movies with the Toho monsters, but Toho would be more involved. Box office allowing, obviously. The way the box office for KotM looks right now, they might just go back to making their own movies and use their Hollywood people to shop them around for international streaming rights.
Kai "the spy", Jun 7, 2019
Gov Kodos Admiral Admiral
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Noname Given said: ↑
I was also sad they killed off the 'Professor Sarazua' character as I liked Ken Wantanabe's performance of the character, but don't know if he just didn't want to do it any more after this, or the producers just felt the character was done, etc. To me, the whole reason for his death was ridiculous and that was a Nuclear warhead, and I don't see why it would be required to place it 10 feet from Godzilla to work. They could have set the timer on the ship and used one of their drones to get it in te vancinity; but yeah, I'm trying to be logical talking about a Godzilla movie.
True, he was a great character but I liked the idea of Dr Serizawa sacrificing himself to save Godzilla when in the first film Dr Serizawa sacrifices himself to destroy Godzilla.
Gov Kodos, Jun 8, 2019
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Crystalline Entity Lieutenant Red Shirt
The monsters - sorry, Titans - were terrific! In particular, Ghidorah stole the movie: maybe the best and scariest CGI monster I've seen to date in theaters. I mean, Smaug was great (the Hobbit movies less so), but having a creature like Monster Zero in our world somehow made him so much more real and scary. He was so frickin' big!
That whole Antarctic sequence of his rebirth and fight with Godzilla was such a fantastic scene! Even the people weren't too bad, but it would have been so much better if the trailers hadn't spoiled Emma Russell's motivations.
Crystalline Entity, Jun 11, 2019
bigdaddy Vice Admiral Admiral
Space Massachusetts
The movie is a bomb in the USA, there is no way I see the series continuing unless Godzilla Vs King Kong is a MASSIVE hit.
bigdaddy, Jun 11, 2019
bigdaddy said: ↑
Well perhaps having the two most famous monsters in movie history will help. The original King Kong vs Godzilla is still the most successful movie in the Toho series.
captainkirk, Jun 11, 2019
The thing is, even if "Godzilla vs. Kong" is a hit, Legendary will have to think twice about continuing. If you need the two biggest stars of the genre to get a hit, you can't build a franchise on it, because you can't have them face off that often while keeping the audience interested. The deal with Toho is done with "Godzilla vs. Kong", so to continue they'd have to renegotiate the deal. Toho has already signalled they'd be ready to make another deal, but that they'd want more involvement. It pains me, because I love this movie, but I just can't see how Legendary could do such a deal, and I don't see Toho being willing to invest highly into a partnership with a franchise that is demanding budgets which are simply unwarranted considering the return.
At this point, I've pretty much given up hope of a continuation of Legendary's MonsterVerse beyond next year, and instead hope for Toho to do a deal with Netflix to make their own new series of Kaiju movies with a secured international distribution.
Kai "the spy", Jun 11, 2019
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Kai "the spy" said: ↑
I'd be down for that as long as they're better than the animated movies.
Netflix probably didn't know what they were getting when they bought the international distribution rights for the anime trilogy. Considering how bad they were received, Netflix probably would want more traditional Godzilla movies in order to accept a new deal. And considering the lackluster performance of the trilogy at the Japanese box office, Toho would most probably agree.
I know we're talking about a hypothetical situation, but what would actually be a great fit for Netflix would be Dougherty's Godzilla B.C. idea. I cannot see such a movie doing well at the box office but would probably get a lot of attention as a Netflix movie.
As much as I'd love to see it, I doubt that they could do such a movie on a budget that Netflix would be willing to do. "Outlaw King" might be the most expensive Netflix Original Film so far, at $ 120 million, Godzilla B.C. would have to seriously cut corners to go even that low. "The Highwaymen" was $ 49 million, "Rim of the World" less than $ 20 million.
True, "The Irishman" is going to top "Outlaw King" at $ 200 million, but that's drawing attention thanks to Martin Scorsese, De Niro & Pacino, and Netflix is probably hoping for Oscar buzz.
To be fair the first one is a lot of fun, the second one was so bad I never bothered with the third.
I liked the anime trilogy as a heady philosophical scifi story, but they totally missed the opportunity of what a Godzilla anime could have been. You'd think, looking at animes like "Akira" or "Gundam", big kaiju battles animated in that style would be the dopest thing ever, and instead you had a Godzilla that barely moved, and he was the one that they stayed relatively close to the original concept with. Mechagodzilla City could have been awesome, instead it was barely doing anything. Mothra was more a hint than an actual appearance. And Ghidorah were the ghost dragon heads on really, really long necks sticking out of black holes.
It's kind of crazy that America produces the better Godzilla vs King Ghidorah fight scene than Japan. I think there were a lot of interesting ideas in the trilogy, they just didn't do anything with them. And for all the complaints people had about the human characters in the Monsterverse, they're still better and more interesting than the animated ones.
CuriousCaitian Lieutenant Commander Red Shirt
South Gloucestershire, UK
I'm not as worried about the box office as others. It may be underperforming in the US, but it's doing very well elsewhere - eg, China and Japan - and will likely still make a modest profit as a result. As to why it's not doing so well in the US, you can actually draw parallels with Star Trek Beyond, in that it also had to contend with publicity issues and an over-saturated marketplace.
In KOTM's case the marketing was probably a little overdone, which can be off-putting, and you could argue it didn't do quite enough to distinguish itself from all the other city/planet/universe-smashing movies out there. That X-Men: Dark Phoenix and The Secret Life of Pets 2 are also underperforming, X-Men a little more so than KOTM, is strongly suggestive of fatigue in movie-goers. The way things are going it wouldn't surprise me if Hobbs & Shaw stumbled, too, and even the Marvel bubble has to burst some time.
At the very least, don't write the Monsterverse off quite yet.
CuriousCaitian, Jun 12, 2019
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Wilfred Season 3 Episode 5 “Shame” airs on Thursday July 11 starting at 10 pm on FX.
Episode Synopsis: “Shame” – Wilfred helps Ryan pick a roommate.
Show Summary: Wilfred is a half-hour, live-action comedy about ‘Ryan,’ a young man struggling to make his way in the world until he forms a unique friendship with ‘Wilfred,’ his neighbor’s canine pet. Everyone else sees Wilfred as just a dog, but Ryan sees a crude and somewhat surly, yet irrepressibly brave and honest Australian bloke in a cheap dog suit. While leading him through a series of comedic and existential adventures, Wilfred the dog shows Ryan the man how to overcome his fears and joyfully embrace the unpredictability and insanity of the world around him.
Wilfred is based on the critically acclaimed Australian series of the same title and was originally adapted for FX by David Zuckerman (Family Guy, American Dad, King of the Hill). Zuckerman also serves as an executive producer along with Reed Agnew, Eli Jorné, Jason Gann, Rich Frank and Jeff Kwatinetz of Prospect Park, Randall Einhorn, and Joe Connor and Ken Connor of Renegade, producers of the Australian version of the series. Einhorn also serves as director. Wilfred is produced by FX Productions. The Australian version of Wilfred was written by Jason Gann and Adam Zwar, directed by Tony Rogers and produced by Jen Livingston.
Elijah Wood (Lord of the Rings, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Happy Feet) stars as ‘Ryan,’ and Jason Gann, who co-created and starred in the Australian series, plays the title character ‘Wilfred.’ Series regulars also include Fiona Gubelmann as ‘Jenna,’ Ryan’s beautiful neighbor and Wilfred’s owner, and Dorian Brown as ‘Kristen,’ Ryan’s uptight sister.
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Meghalaya: Home deptt submits proposal for construction of Central Jail in Shillong
The Home Department had requested the state government to allot 25 acres of land for construction of the Central Jail at the New Shillong Township.
Published on : 29 Oct, 2020 , 3:19 pm
SHILLONG:
The Meghalaya's Home (Jails) department has submitted a proposal to the state government to construct a modernised Central Jail in Shillong.
Informing this, Inspector General (Prisons), Mariahom Kharkrang informed that they had requested the state government to allot 25 acres of land for construction of the Central Jail at the New Shillong Township.
According to him, the Central Jail will be more of a correctional centre rather than a prison adding that there is a need to change the perception about jails.
Kharkrang said that they are considering of providing facilities like training centres to equip the prisoners with various livelihood skills which will help them get employment once they leave the jail.
At present, the initiative cannot be rolled out in the Shillong District Jail due to paucity of space.
Meanwhile, IG (Prisons) informed that there are 984 prisoners inside the five prisons across the State, as on September 30, 2020.
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Kharkrang also admitted that there is congestion inside the Shillong District Jail.
"It is for this reason (that) we have resumed the construction of the Nongstoin District Jail. We are hopeful that by next year they would be able to hand over Nongstoin District Jail to the department. Once this is completed, we would be able shift a number of prisoners from Shillong District Jail to Nongstoin," IG (Prisons) informed.
Reacting to a question on steps taken to ensure prisoners are not exposed to COVID-19 risks, Kharkrang said that the prisoners inside are the most safest people, provided they can control the people who come into contact with them.
"The people who come into contact with them are only the wardens. We have stopped contact of the prisoners with the outside world and this means they would not be able to meet their relatives," he said.
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If they (prisoners) want to contact the relatives, they are provided with facilities like a telephone or mobile phone to get in touch with their family members.
"We (have) stopped all the visits to the jail. We have given them lots of educational programme and our medical officers are teaching the jail inmates how to prevent (themselves from the virus) and all our jail staff have been equipped with all the body protective gears," he said.
Furthermore, the IG (Prisons) said that when the COVID-19 broke out in the state, they had constructed two isolation wards at the Shillong District Jail.
"Any new accused sent to the prison are kept in the isolation ward. After seven days, he is allowed to mix with the other population, on receiving his medical test report that confirms that he has no symptoms," Kharkrang said.
He, however, said that there are a number of prisoners who were tested positive during the random testing inside the jail adding that they probably contracted the virus from the new inmates.
"Ultimately, we had no alternative but to convert the whole cell as an isolation cell only for the COVID positive prisoners," IG (Prisons) added.
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The UK royal family have been accused of breaching coronavirus regulations while on an outing to a park in Sandringham, England. The royals, including the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their children, were photographed in close proximity to other family members in a park on Sunday, according to a leading British publication. Prince William […]
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Giving frontline workers hero tag is a burden on their mental health: Prince William
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Amidst Prince Harry and Meghan’s Royal exit, Queen grants Prince William new royal title
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Meghan Markle skipped Queen’s crisis summit meet on Sussexes future
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Breeders’ Cup rewind: Saturday’s Midlantic results
Posted by The Biz | Nov 1, 2015 | Breaking, Racing, Regionwide, Top Stories | 0 |
American Pharoah was a blur in taking the Classic wire-to-wire. Photo by © Breeders’ Cup/Todd Buchanan 2015
When the best horse is also the controlling speed… well, that’s a recipe for exactly what happened in Saturday’s $5 million, Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Classic.
Triple Crown winner American Pharoah, aided by the scratch of top race mare Beholder, who figured at least to be a pace presence, bounded to the lead shortly after the gates opened and never looked back, cruising to an emphatic six-length win that put the cherry on top of what was already a sweet-as-could-be year.
The son of Pioneerof the Nile also headed a cavalcade of horses with connections, of one sort or another, to the mid-Atlantic. His was his two Grade 1 victories in the region, first in the Preakness at Pimlico in May and then, in August, in the Haskell at Monmouth Park.
Pharoah was one of a trio of horses in the day’s biggest race connected to the region.
Tonalist, the talented not-a-Virginia-bred who spoiled California Chrome’s 2014 Triple Crown bid in the Belmont Stakes, made a big move entering the far turn but emptied out when Victor Espinoza, aboard American Pharoah, asked his mount for more. Tonalist finished fifth. Also making a big middle move was Frosted, the Pennsylvania Derby winner, who met a similar fate, stopping after getting to third and finishing seventh.
“What can I say?” asked Pharoah’s owner, Egyptian-born Ahmed Zayat. “What a horse! He is the most brilliant horse I have ever seen. We are so appreciative to have him and we owe American Pharoah everything. He is a once-in-a-lifetime horse.”
The day’s most colorful winner’s circle belonged to Mongolian Saturday, whose owners, Mongolian Stable, appeared in traditional Mongolian garb after posting a 15-1 upset in the Turf Sprint. That win pointed to the mid-Atlantic as something of an epicenter for turf sprinting. Mongolian Saturday had suffered narrow defeats in Parx Racing’s two Grade 3 turf sprints, the Parx Dash and Turf Monster, earlier this season.
“I was expecting the horse to run well,” said trainer Enebish Ganbat. “I thought he could come first or second. Here, he’s been doing very, very well. We came here to win a Breeders’ Cup and we did.”
Mongolian Saturday won by a diminishing neck over speedy sophomore filly Lady Shipman, forced by circumstance into a stalk-and-pounce approach Saturday. Trained at Monmouth by Kathleen O’Connell, Lady Shipman won three stakes in the region this year, taking the Stormy Blues in May at Pimlico and then the Crank It Up and Klassy Briefcase, both at Monmouth, over the summer.
“That was such a tough beat, but she ran her heart out,” O’Connell said. “For a 3-year-old filly to come in second and with all she’s accomplished, we are very, very proud of her.”
Bobby’s Kitten, the defending champ who won the 2014 Penn Mile, finished fourth, while Turf Monster winner Pure Sensation was eighth.
Smiles abounded from the members of Mongolian Stable after their Mongolian Saturday upset the Turf Sprint. Photo by © Breeders’ Cup/Weasie Gaines 2015
It was, in fact, a pretty good day to be a filly taking on the boys. Four-year-old Tepin took the Breeders’ Cup Mile over a stellar group of European shippers, and three-year-old Found did the same in Breeders’ Cup Turf, upsetting Golden Horn, winner of the Arc de Triomphe.
In that latter event, Found’s defeated foes included Big Blue Kitten, the winner of the United Nations at Monmouth Park, who finished third with Jersey Joe Bravo in the irons; Delaware-certified The Pizza Man, who was fifth; and Fair Hill-based Cage Fighter, who finished last in the race and went off as the day’s biggest longshot, 150.80-1.
“He’s an amazing animal in my book,” Bravo said of Big Blue Kitten. “He really laid it on the line turning for home. He’s a real special horse.”
With Shining Copper entered as a rabbit for Big Blue Kitten, the Turf had an odd running line. It took the field more than 28 seconds to go from the half-mile pole to the quarter pole — and then less than 25 seconds to get the last quarter mile. That’s because, after a mile, Shining Copper held a 20-length lead in 1:39.07; after a mile and a quarter in 2:07.20, his lead was down to just a length.
Bravo and trainer Chad Brown also teamed up in the Filly and Mare Turf, with Bravo riding the trainer’s Watsdachances, earlier this year the winner of the Grade 3 Gallorette at Pimlico. She finished sixth, just a half-length behind Photo Call, the Fair Hill-based Graham Motion trainee who was fifth.
Three other runners bred in the region also tried their luck on Saturday.
The best result of those belonged to Pennsylvania-bred Favorite Tale, the Guadalupe Preciado trainee ridden by Javier Castellano, who ran willingly to be third in the Sprint, beaten less than two lengths for all the money. In that race, Runhappy put on a show, running down Private Zone late to win by nearly a length in a track record time of 1:08.58.
“We can’t ask for better than what he did,” said Preciado. “We’re happy. Those are two nice horses that finished ahead of him.”
He wasn’t the only runner with connections to the mid-Atlantic in the Sprint. Two others that won regional stakes also competed, with Holy Boss finishing a game fourth after setting the early pace; he was just a length ahead of Salutos Amigos.
It was a less successful day for distaff sprinters connected to the mid-Atlantic.
Two horses bred in the region were well up the track in the Filly and Mare Sprint. Maryland-bred Kiss to Remember finished ninth, and Pennsylvania-bred Dame Dorothy was 11th after a rough trip.
Also in the Filly and Mare Sprint, Stonetastic, trained by Kelly Breen at Monmouth Park, finished eighth after racing near the pace. She was just behind Room for Me, the David Jacobson trainee who won Monmouth’s Regret Stakes earlier this year.
Another Breen trainee, Bold Quality, finished last of 10 in the Juvenile Fillies.
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Japan widens virus emergency to 7 more areas as cases surge
By Mari YamaguchiThe Associated Press
Wed., Jan. 13, 2021timer4 min. read
TOKYO - Japan expanded a coronavirus state of emergency to seven more prefectures Wednesday, affecting more than half the population amid a surge in infections across the country.
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga also said Japan will suspend fast-track entry exceptions for business visitors or others with residency permits, fully banning foreign visitors while the state of emergency is in place.
Suga’s announcement comes less than a week after he declared a state of emergency for Tokyo and three nearby prefectures. The new declaration, which adds seven other prefectures in western and central Japan, takes effect Thursday and lasts until Feb. 7.
“The severe situation is continuing, but these measures are indispensable in turning the tide for the better,“ Suga said at a news conference, bowing as he sought understanding from the public.
He said he put the seven prefectures in urban areas under the state of emergency to prevent infections from spilling over into smaller cities where medical systems are more vulnerable.
The government is asking bars and restaurants in Osaka, Kyoto, Hyogo, Fukuoka, Aichi, Gifu and Tochigi prefectures to close by 8 p.m., employers to have 70% of their staff work from home and residents in the affected areas avoid going out for nonessential purposes.
Suga has been criticized as being to slow to act as the country’s reported coronavirus infections and deaths roughly doubled over the past month to about 300,000 and 4,100 respectively. Both states of emergency were declared only after local leaders pleaded with him to do so.
Experts have warned that even the emergency declarations, which are nonbinding and largely rely on voluntary co-operation, may be insufficient to significantly slow the infections.
Unlike an earlier seven-week emergency Japan had in April and May last year, schools, gyms, theatres and shops will stay open.
Suga has faced criticism for not taking strong enough government action earlier in the outbreak. He mostly limited his interventions to asking the public to take basic safety measures such as wearing masks, washing hands and avoiding drinking and dining in groups until mid-December, when he finally announced the suspension of a government-subsidized domestic tourism campaign.
Suga eventually took action after calls from the local leaders, while his support ratings nosedived in polls showing the public increasingly dissatisfied with his handling of the virus. He also came under fire for attending a pricy steak dinner that had eight participants in mid-December.
Suga took office in mid-September and pledged to keep the infections under control while also getting the economy back on track. He also promised to successfully hold the Tokyo Olympics, which were postponed from last year until this coming summer.
Despite the current surge in infections, Japan has reported far fewer infections than many countries of its size.
Japan made it through earlier surges in infections without a lockdown, but experts and officials warn that people are growing fatigued and are becoming less co-operative than before.
In a bid to more effectively enforce virus measures, Suga has said he will seek a legal revision in parliament next week to allow authorities to penalize business owners who defy official requests for coronavirus measures, while legally providing compensation to those who comply. Suga’s government also plans to revise the infectious disease control law so it can penalize patients who defy self-isolation requirements, hospitalization or co-operation with health authorities, Japanese media reports say.
Japan Medical Association President Toshio Nakagawa said at a news conference Wednesday that medical systems in the country have been collapsing, with regular daily treatment at many hospitals compromised due to the growing burden of coronavirus patients.
“I’m afraid a fear of explosive infections as in the U.S. and Europe can become a reality,” he said, urging people to co-operate and regain their sense of crisis and urgency.
Japan is already facing a possible medical system collapse because coronavirus treatment is largely concentrated at public hospitals in a country where most hospitals are privately run and not equipped for infectious diseases. Suga said the situation should be reviewed.
The government has provided financial support for hospitals admitting coronavirus patients, while struggling to secure more beds as infections rise.
Officials in Tokyo, facing a hospital bed crunch for coronavirus treatment, are considering turning three prefecture-run hospitals into centres for COVID-19 patients.
Japanese coronavirus measures have relied heavily on widespread mask wearing, contact tracing and other safety measures. But the number of new cases in the current outbreak has made contact tracing impossible, prompting Tokyo and neighbouring prefectures to announce a cutback on the strategy to relieve the burden on local public health officials.
Experts have also raised concerns about cases of more contagious variant of the coronavirus that has spread across Britain. About 30 cases of the new variant have been detected since late December. Another variant was also detected in four people arriving from Brazil this week.
This story corrects Suga’s first name to Yoshihide, not Yoshide.
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Chokers, front-runners, over-achievers: Why Big Bash storylines matter
David Schout
3rd February, 2020
If the choker tag wasn’t affixed firmly enough to the Melbourne Stars after last season’s calamitous final, Friday night’s loss to the Sydney Sixers would see it branded onto their green kits.
Bowled out for just 99, the Stars recorded their lowest ever Big Bash total at a time they could least afford it. The two keys to their fortunes this season, Marcus Stoinis and Glenn Maxwell, both failed to fire, doing little to dispel lingering questions of over-reliance on the pair.
After notching ten wins in their first 11 games to seal top spot, David Hussey’s side have since lost four on the trot, becoming the source of ridicule despite a mostly successful season.
The Stars have made the finals in eight of nine BBL seasons – more than any other club. But they’re also one of just two sides, along with the Hobart Hurricanes, who are yet to taste Big Bash success. In an almost unlosable position in last season’s final the Stars needed just 53 off 43 with ten wickets in hand yet snatched defeat in comical circumstances.
(Chris Hyde/Getty Images)
The choker tag is somewhat unfair given clubs such as the Thunder and Heat have made just two finals series in their history. But importantly in this context, those two have lifted the BBL trophy. The Stars haven’t, and the growing narrative is that a pressure to perform when it matters is weighing them down. It’s a story arc fans are keenly following, with more than a dollop of schadenfreude for some.
And it’s exactly the narrative the league needs more of.
Whether the Stars are mentally hampered by failures of the past is irrelevant. The fact is that fans have a frame of reference around the club when they take to the field. And while it’s a reference the Stars would rather rid themselves of, it’s one that fosters interest and assists in building hype around future contests.
The Brisbane Heat, who like the Stars are now tagged with a similarly unflattering reputation of being stubborn sloggers or front-runners, are another side whose storyline fans are well aware of. Skipper Chris Lynn even conceded the characterisation after losing to the Renegades in this season’s most baffling performance.
“I don’t know what goes on out in the middle because we just seem to panic,” Lynn said after his side lost 10-36 with the bat. “And then it’s not just a wicket or two, it’s a train wreck.”
(Photo: Ian Hitchcock/Getty Images)
Reaction from Heat fans on social media was damning. But it showed they care. Had fans been apathetic after that defeat, there would be more to worry about for the club than merely missing out on two points. But they did, and in a twisted way it was an endorsement of the club.
Slowly Big Bash clubs are gaining identities. This creates context around matches rather than the prism of one brightly coloured team against another. It has taken the IPL, which soon enters its 13th season, time to develop these too.
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While the Stars and Heat are more obvious examples, the Renegades have quite clearly morphed into the competition’s most mercurial side, while up until last season the Scorchers were the league’s biggest over-achievers.
Of course there has to be a sense of realism about the level of fan investment in the BBL. The league will never replicate the sense of parochialism seen in the football codes and likely won’t become cricket’s showpiece like the IPL is in India. But at a basic level, interest in the league is more sustainable when there’s a historical context around the teams involved, however short that history may be.
Thursday night’s Challenger match pits the Stars against the Thunder, the winner of which will face the Sixers at the SCG in Saturday’s final. Those who tune in will be all too aware of the Stars’ troubles not just this season but also seasons gone by.
And it makes for all the more intriguing an encounter.
David Schout is a Melbourne-based freelance journalist who has written and reported for the likes of the Guardian, the ICC, Sportsbet, and AFL Media.
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Species-specific plastic accumulation in the sediment and canopy of coastal vegetated habitats
Catégorie : Détection et Caractérisation
Cozzolino, Lorenzo; Nicastro, Katy R.; Zardi, Gerardo I.; Los Santos, Carmen B. de.
The Science of the total environment : 723, 138018.
Plastic waste has become ubiquitous in ecosystems worldwide. Few, recent studies report evidence of coastal vegetated habitats acting as sink for plastics, yet assessments have been completed either for macro or microplastics and focussing on just one type of vegetated habitat. Here, we investigated the role of marine coastal vegetated habitats as sinks for macro (≥5 mm) and microplastics (<5 mm) through a comprehensive, multi-habitat approach. We assessed the occurrence, abundance and physical properties of macro and microplastics in the canopy and superficial sediment of two intertidal (seagrass Zostera noltei, saltmarsh Sporobolus maritimus) and two subtidal (mixed seagrass meadows of Cymodocea nodosa and Zostera marina, rhizophytic macroalga Caulerpa prolifera) habitats in the Ria Formosa lagoon (Portugal). Our results showed that coastal vegetated habitats trapped macro and microplastics in the sediment at variable degrees (1.3-17.3 macroplastics 100 m-2, and 18.2-35.2 microplastics kg-1). Macroplastics accumulated in all vegetated habitat but not in nearby unvegetated areas, yet only S. maritimus habitat presented a significant trapping effect. Microplastics occurred in the sediment of all vegetated and unvegetated areas with similar abundances and high variability. Microplastics, all of type fibre, were recorded on all canopies except for S. maritimus. Overall, the trapping capacity of microplastics in the sediment and on the canopy was higher for subtidal than for intertidal vegetated habitats. We conclude that generalizations in the trapping effect of coastal vegetated areas should be done with caution, since it may be highly variable and may depend on the plastic size, habitat and tidal position. Since these habitats support a high biodiversity, they should be included in assessments of plastic debris accumulation and impacts in coastal areas. Further research, including experimental studies, is needed to shed more light on the role of coastal vegetated habitats as plastic sinks.
DOI-Link : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138018
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Home Politics - India What Made Fadnavis Resign From Chief Minister Post?
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What Made Fadnavis Resign From Chief Minister Post?
The Supreme Court of India has directed to conduct a floor test in the Assembly of Maharashtra as Devendra Fadnavis’s government lost majority after NCP leader Ajit Pawar’s resignation.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Devendra Fadnavis on 26th November resigned from the post of Maharashtra Chief Minister. Mr. Fadnavis has submitted his resignation letter to Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari.
Now the question is, What made Fadnavis resign from CM post?
Talking to reporters in Mumbai, Mr. Fadnavis said his government lost majority after Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar’s resignation as the State’s Deputy Chief Minister.
The Supreme Court of India has directed to conduct a floor test in the Assembly of Maharashtra. Hours after the apex court directed to conduct a floor test, Devendra Fadnavis has resigned from the post of CM on November 26, 2019.
“Submitted my resignation as Maharashtra CM to Hon Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari ji. Hon Governor asked me to function as caretaker CM till alternative arrangements,” wrote Fadnavis on his Twitter page.
Submitted my resignation as Maharashtra CM to Hon Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari ji.
Hon Governor asked me to function as caretaker CM till alternative arrangements pic.twitter.com/TI7ER3iBkv
— Devendra Fadnavis (@Dev_Fadnavis) November 26, 2019
The BJP will not indulge in horse-trading and will act as a responsible Opposition in the State of Maharashtra, said Fadnavis.
On 23rd November 2019 Devendra Fadnavis was sworn in as the Chief Minister and Ajit Pawar was sworn in as Deputy Chief Minister.
The BJP with 105 Assembly seats emerged as the single largest party in the State while Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress Party won 56, 54 and 44 seats respectively.
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Sell-Side, Technology November 11, 2019 9:59 AM GMT
JP Morgan invests in machine learning research analysis firm Limeglass
Limeglass recently completed the JP Morgan In-Residence Program aimed at facilitating FinTech start-ups.
By Hayley McDowell
US investment bank JP Morgan has made a strategic investment in FinTech firm Limeglass, which deploys artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) to analyse institutional research.
Limeglass stated that it recently completed JP Morgan’s In-Residence Program, after being accepted into the scheme for FinTech start-ups in February 2018. The program aims to help emerging technology companies develop products for banking.
“The insights our research teams produce daily are a huge source of value to our clients. We are continuously investing in technology to help deliver industry-leading content and to help us and our clients further mine that value,” said Hussein Malik, head of transformation and implementation for sales and research at JP Morgan.
Limeglass uses technology to analyse text in research in real-time, while considering the document’s context and structure. Its ‘Research Atomisation’ service uses NLP, AI and machine learning for cross-asset and macro taxonomy to smart-tag paragraphs within research documents.
“The volume of financial research, and the lack of innovation in how it is delivered, mean that market participants can spend hours searching through their email to find information on the trades they are considering,” said Rowland Park, CEO and co-founder of Limeglass. “It is all too easy to miss vital information buried deep in large documents, wasting time and valuable research insights.”
Simon Gregory, chief technology officer and co-founder at Limeglass, added that he has worked in research his entire career, and is often surprised by how much research is missed by users.
“We looked at the research consumption and distribution workflows from first principles and realised that the document centric approach was limiting access to the content,” he said. “Using cutting edge technology to analyse the unstructured data in research documents, we’ve created a whole new way for market participants to engage with financial research.”
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Bizarre roster snafu causes confusion in Blue Jays’ rubber match loss to Atlanta
By admin on August 7, 2020
Nick Markakis capped his first start of the season with a game-ending home run in the ninth inning that lifted Atlanta to a 4-3 win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Thursday night.
Days after opting back into the season after stepping away due to coronavirus concerns, Markakis lined the one-out homer off Wilmer Font (0-1) that carried into the restaurant behind the right-field stands.
Markakis was added to the active roster on Wednesday after changing his mind about sitting out the year.
Following the homer, Atlanta players circled home plate with plenty of distance, waving their hands in the air as Markakis finished his trot.
Mark Melancon (1-0) pitched a perfect ninth.
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Freddie Freeman hit a two-run homer in the first off Toronto rookie Nate Pearson.
Bo Bichette hit a homer in the fourth for the Blue Jays.
Right-hander Touki Toussaint gave the depleted Atlanta rotation a boost by setting career highs with his 6 2/3 innings and nine strikeouts.
Toussaint left the game with a 3-2 lead, but Blue Jays pinch-hitter Teoscar Hernandez singled up the middle off Tyler Matzek to drive in Rowdy Tellez to tie the game. Toussaint gave up four hits and three runs with no walks.
Pearson, making his second start, allowed three runs on two hits in five innings.
Marcell Ozuna didn’t look happy when a 96 mph fastball from Pearson sailed above his head in the fourth. Ozuna answered by lining a single to left field with an exit velocity of 110 mph.
Ozuna moved to second on Pearson’s wild pitch to Nick Markakis, whose grounder to first advanced Ozuna to third. Adam Duvall’s fly ball to left field drove in Ozuna for a 3-1 lead.
Jays forced to change pitching plan
An apparent roster snafu forced the Blue Jays to change their pitching plans for Thursday night’s game against Atlanta.
After Pearson gave up three runs in five innings, manager Charlie Montoyo brought in right-hander Jacob Waguespack to open the sixth.
As Waguespack walked to the mound, he was greeted by home plate umpire Alan Porter, who apparently delivered some bad news: The right-hander wasn’t on the 28-man active roster for the game.
The Blue Jays optioned Waguespack and infielder Santiago Espinal to the team’s alternate training site on Thursday to reach the 28-man roster limit.
Montoyo told reporters before the game Waguespack had been recalled when right-hander Trent Thornton was placed on the 10-day injured list with right elbow inflammation. That move apparently was not processed, leaving Waguespack off the active roster.
Waguespack walked to the dugout and Montoyo brought in Rafael Dolis as the official replacement for Pearson.
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Painted Door on Main transitioning from non-profit
The Painted Door on Main will be making the change from a non-profit business to a locally owned gift shop and gallery.
Emily Jansen
Jul 31, 2020 • 5 months ago • 2 minute read
The new co-owners of The Painted Door on Main gift and gallery. (L-r) Coreena Kornel, Sherry Allies, Bonnie Belzevick and Bonnie-Jean McAllister. (Supplied)
Four local artists will be stepping into the role as co-owners of the new Painted Door on Main Gift and Gallery Inc., supporting and promoting the work of Beaumont’s artists, artisans and creatives. Painted Door members Bonnie-Jean McAllister, Coreena Kornel, Bonnie Belzevick and Sherry Allies will continue to fulfill the values and mission the Painted Door was founded on.
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“We’re an incredibly amicable women leadership team. We all have our own skills we bring to the table and we’re all sharing the duties of running the business,” said McAllister.
The four women have been collaborating to update the Painted Door’s business, social media, merchandising and more, bringing their experience working for the Painted Door non-profit and experience as artist members to the work.
“Even though we’re working more hours and putting in more time, there’s a simplicity to it because we don’t have the structure of a non-profit anymore. There’s only four of us now … it’s been so easy for that transition,” McAllister said.
Since its opening in December of 2014, The Painted Door on Main has become a staple in Beaumont for its unique works of art and handmade gifts. However, the financial challenges of 2020 necessitated the change from a non-profit status to continue supporting local artists and displaying their work.
Currently there are 15 unique local artists featured in the boutique. The restructuring has allowed more space for even more artists, McAllister added, who has a goal of seeing at least 20 artists in the space by the fall.
“It gives us more flexibility … to grow and serve more artists and give them a place to be,” McAllister said.
“The new structure, because our structure before required every artist to participate in the running of the store … because we’ve removed that from the table, it’s now easier for them to bring their stuff, post on social media that they’re here and we take care of the rest of it,” added Kornel.
The Painted Door will also now be open for longer business hours, from Tuesday through Saturday, and offer a better shopping experience for customers, McAllister explained.
“For the customers it’s going to be really great,” she commented. “The four of us are going to work the hours … the simplicity of that is very nice.”
For those populations who are more vulnerable, the Painted Door is offering appointments outside of regular business hours for those to visit the shop. The shop will also be observing safety precautions such as masks, hand-sanitizing stations and regular sanitation of surfaces.
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Acorn winners 2016: Sarah Elisabeth Downes, 28
Head of commercial and strategy, Premier Inn Germany, Whitbread
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Proudest moment "Seeing the first guests check in to our new Frankfurt hotel. My team had worked tirelessly for the previous 18 months to get us to that point, and it was emotional to see all that hard work come to fruition."
Greatest inspiration "My boss, Kelli Fairbrother, for being passionate, engaging, hard-working and focused on delivering great results. But also the other senior women at Whitbread, who set an example for how to succeed as a female in a male-dominated workplace."
Ambition "I'd like to continue working in a commercial role, but perhaps work on a new brand or new business development challenge."
Sarah Elisabeth Downes' CV is full of surprises. She graduated from Oxford with a degree in materials science engineering and, before joining Whitbread, she worked at Javelin Group within the strategy consulting team, specialising in e-commerce and multi-channel retail.
But her heart is clearly in hospitality. In September 2014, just a year after joining Whitbread as group strategy analyst, Downes was promoted to lead Premier Inn's multi-hundred-million-Euro launch into the German market.
This was a massive task, but within 18 months, she and her team of 30 had opened the first Premier Inn and Costa Coffee in Frankfurt with projected revenue of €4m and €700,000 respectively. Among her many achievements in opening the 201-bedroom property was spearheading the development of a new restaurant concept as well as tailoring the Costa food menu to compete in the German market.
Downes has consistently displayed a capacity to deliver that is beyond her years and level of experience. Not least, she directly advised the chief executive and chief financial officer of Whitbread Group PLC when the group strategy director was on maternity leave. Unsurprisingly, she was recently promoted to head of commercial and strategy, Premier Inn Germany.
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Force India have ‘pretty good’ Saturday in Turkey
Force India declared themselves ‘encouraged’ by the qualifying performance that leaves Adrian Sutil and Paul di Resta starting tomorrow’s Turkish Grand Prix twelfth and thirteenth respectively.
Sutil knows, however, that qualifying is less important this year thanks to the new Pirelli tyres. He thinks, though, that the team are better-placed to compete for a good haul of points tomorrow than they have been in previous races this season.
“It was quite a straightforward session for me with no major issues,” said the German. “I think we used the tyres well, there were no problems with traffic and it was a great team effort. But we should remember that the races so far this year have shown that qualifying is not as important as it used to be and it’s more important to have a good car for the race.
“I’m pretty happy with my set-up for tomorrow and feel more comfortable with the car than I did at the last race. In terms of the tyres, the hard seemed to perform very well yesterday, but the softs are looking good in the higher temperatures so it will be interesting to see how that develops in the race.”
Di Resta reveals that he has a set of tyres in reserve for race day, and is aiming to add to his tally of F1 points tomorrow. “I think it was another great team performance today and we are roughly where we expected to be,” he commented. “There were no problems in Q1, and in Q2 I only did one run because we thought it would optimise our race strategy and save a set of tyres.
“I’m happy with my set-up for the race and I think we’ve sacrificed a bit more today to have a better car tomorrow. Hopefully that will put us in a reasonable position to fight the cars ahead of us and pick up some more points.”
Force India Deputy Team Principal Robert Fernley shares his drivers’ positivity, and is expecting a busy race. “A pretty good day overall,” he said in summary. “Starting in P12 and P13 puts us in a great position to race strongly and hopefully challenge for more points. It was a shame that we just missed out on getting ahead of Barrichello, but ultimately Williams were just a little quicker today.
“For the race I think we can expect more of what we saw in China with lots of action throughout the field. It will be interesting to see how the tyres hold up, especially with the demands of turn eight, and we know there are some good overtaking opportunities in the lap which should make for some exciting racing.”
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Disappointing finish 2 times in a row without any points. by both drivers. They need to be fired. Even Kobayashi is finishing from the last with points.
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Pérez admits Racing Point ‘on the back foot’ ahead of the Monaco Grand Prix
By Becca Stubbs
Credit: Octane Photographic Ltd
Racing Point F1 Team driver Sergio Pérez admitted he’s on the ‘back foot’ ahead of the glamour and glitz of the Monaco Grand Prix.
The Mexican started out on the traditional Thursday sessions with a 1:14:566 but finished sixteenth in Free Practice 1.
Despite improving his time in Free Practice 2 to a 1:12:752, Pérez still found himself in a lowly fifteenth position.
Even more troubling for the Racing Point team is that Pérez was a whole 1.6 seconds off Scuderia Toro Rosso driver Daniil Kyvat.
And Pérez seemed frustrated after the Thursday sessions and said: “We completed lots of laps today, but I haven’t found the Monaco rhythm just yet and I think that shows in our performance today.
“We need to find a good step if we want to be in the fight for Q3 so there’s a big night ahead of us and we need to make good use of the extra day tomorrow.”
Although Pérez wasn’t overly impressed with his car’s performance on Thursday, he seemed grateful for the extra day Monaco grants the teams.
With Friday being an ‘off’ day on the city circuit, Pérez seemed pleased that the team had an extra day to try and improve the car and, therefore, help him challenge in qualifying on Saturday.
After finishing fifteenth at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya two weeks ago, Pérez will be looking to improve his finishing position around the narrow streets of Monaco.
“The car doesn’t feel too bad – the balance is okay, but we are still on the back foot,” added Pérez. “With some fine-tuning we can definitely make things better.
“Understanding the data and making good decisions is a real strength of this team so I’m confident we can be in a better position by Saturday afternoon”
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Racing Point’s Szafnauer optimistic for good weekend in Canada
By James Eagles
Credit: Racing Point F1 Team
Racing Point F1 Team principal Otmar Szafnauer says that his team has the potential for a good result in Sunday’s Canadian Grand Prix.
After the first six races of the 2019 Formula 1 season, Racing Point sits in fifth place in the Constructors’ Championship – 13 points behind the fourth-placed McLaren F1 Team.
However, the team has failed to score in its last two outings in Spain and Monaco and Szafnauer hopes that the strengths of the RP19 can bring a return to form for Sergio Pérez and Lance Stroll.
“As a circuit it’s a very different challenge compared to the last two races,” said Szafnauer.
“You need good top speed, stability under braking and a car that can attack the kerbs.
“I think we can be competitive there considering the strengths of our car and the priority is to pick up points to maintain our position in the championship.”
Making use of the financial security bestowed on the team by Lawrence Stroll‘s consortium takeover last summer, Racing Point has teased the potential of a major upgrade to the current car before the summer break.
Plans to expand the team’s Silverstone factory are also in the works, in a bid to help the team reach “the next level”.
The race at the Circuit de Gilles Villeneuve is also the home event for the younger Stroll, and was the venue of his first F1 points finish in ’17 with Williams Racing; a result that started a run of three successive scores, including a maiden podium in Azerbaijan.
“Canada is an important weekend for everybody in the team,” Szafnauer added.
“It’s a home race for Lance so it’s going to be busy on and off the track.
“It’s always a fun week because the Canadian fans are some of the best in the world. The grandstands are full and the city gives us a really warm welcome every year.”
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‘Salaam Bombay’: The Cinematically Rich Story of Poverty
Aritra Dey
There have been many movies based on the street life, children and slums. In the 70’s and 80’s, Bollywood practically thrived on the streets, with the protagonist often rising from the slums to conquer the world. The films were melodramatic and the scenes which were supposed to be emotional, actually bordered on nausea. The most recent take on the slums and brothels was the Oscar winning ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. Danny Boyle’s on screen rendition of Q&A was a wonder for the west but cinematically was a waste. It focused on poverty so much that you are automatically inclined to connect that to the country at large. Between melodrama and racial offense, came a quiet masterpiece by a debutant director which revolutionized modern Indian filmmaking and set the field for better things to come.
The absence of a proper script or story proved to be a blessing in disguise for Mira Nair, allowing her to set herself loose in the streets of Bombay and the story wrote itself. The brilliance of the screenplay by Sooni Taraporevala was in how it made us empathize with each and every character, however insignificant he/she might have been. ‘Chaipau’ might have been the ultimate protagonist in any other film, with the entire story revolving around him. But Sooni, much like the confusing lanes of the Bombay slums, weaves her story to other characters, making us a part of their troubled and yet happy lives. We laugh with the two faced drug pusher, ‘Chillum’, pity his descend into madness and weep out loud at his final rites. We enter the infamous red light area through the footsteps of innocent ‘Sola Saal’, who is sold for her virginity. We see the estranged family of the local influence ‘Baba’ and his prostitute wife, ‘Rekha’, their clash of emotions and their attention starved daughter, Manju. The story delicately shows their difficult lives, with Chaipau losing his job, but shows a never-ending hope in every brick and speckle of dust in that area. The audience somehow falls behind him on his quest to save Rs. 500, even feeling the quiet excitement as the little urchins rob an elderly Parsee in broad daylight. There are moments where we felt like calling Chaipau and giving him the money, or lift Manju up in the air and play with her, or just slap ‘Baba’ in the face for his malicious lies.
This connection was present throughout, something seriously lacking in ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. We never really connect with the exploits of Jamal Malik nor are we annoyed with the shrewdness of Salim. Latika was supposed to symbolize chastity in the midst of debauchery, but somehow she came out as manipulative. Both had its share of love angles, but the love between Jamal and Latika seemed a tad too much, lacking pain and possessing a sympathy-seeking syndrome. It lacked the tender innocence of the smitten Chaipau and foreign ‘Sola Saal’, well symbolized through a tiny chicken or the coy smile she had on her face while day dreaming about the treacherous ‘Baba’. The rift between the impoverished and the influential is apparent in both but shown in contrasting ways. While the Oscar Winner took the aid of violence and poorly showcased ruthlessness to bring about that clash, Mira Nair resorted to subtle imageries and moments to highlight it. She showed the resentment of the trodden class towards the uplifted by a simple humiliation scene. She did not dig up guns and other instruments of torture to degrade the ultimate motive of the picture, making it, in other words, aesthetically pleasing. It is wonderful how she ignored the picturesque filth of Bombay, which had formed the backdrop of Danny Boyle’s film, and instead chose to focus on the humanitarian aspect of the people living on the streets. Her intricate camera was like a baton, directing a poetic musical, showing the filth without making the audience nauseated. Most importantly, Mira Nair showed hope, endless hope, possessed by these shadowy souls, that one day their dreams will come true, and they live on their tough lives clinging to that hope – The hope of Chaipau to return to his native, of Manju to get the care and love she lacked and of Rekha to take Manju from the perils of prostitution. Danny Boyle resorted to vulgarity to bring out this meaning, using the poverty as a weapon to gain sympathy from the west.
The entire cast of Salaam Bombay, baring a few names, was mostly from the streets itself. Mira Nair never taught them to act, but behave naturally in front of the camera. The children delivered with aplomb, making it into a fantastic documentary on humanism. Nana Patekar was menacing as Baba and the talented Raghubir Yadav turned heads with his brilliant performance as Chillum. Shafiq Syed as Chaipau was supposed to be the start of a fantastic journey, but the prodigy is now an auto-driver in Bangalore. Irfaan Khan came in for 2 minutes and shone like always as the irate letter writer. Other than Irfaan Khan and Saurav Shukla, the cast of ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ put in ludicrous performances, especially Anil Kapoor, who apparently seemed too excited to be a part of a Hollywood production. The intense naturalism which formed the backbone for Salaam Bombay was sadly lacking in this high budget production, making it fantastical and to some extent, offensive.
L.Subramaniam’s background score for ‘Salaam Bombay’ was thematic music at his best. Rarely does the background music in a film go hand in hand with every twist and turn, and this collaboration between Mira Nair and L. Subramaniam was sympatric. The jazz fusion coupled with some excellent violin work helped in carrying the meaning behind the film to a whole new level altogether, making the audience empathize further with the characters and the streets of Bombay. We rarely got that from Slumdog. Clearly the West had never heard of A.R. Rehman before. He was brilliant as usual, but his work for ‘Roja’, ‘Taal’ or ‘Bombay’ should have had the international recognition instead of ‘Jai Ho’. The songs were good and the score was fun, but was parallel to the film’s story, not even tangential.
Mira Nair had taken a leaf out of the book of neo-realism, co-authored by Satyajit Ray and Vittorio De Sica. Her filmmaking had certain elements akin to the masters’ works, especially the audacious use of the surroundings and its elements to highlight particular scenes, something which Raam Reddy would repeat with ‘Thithi’. Salaam Bombay is a treat to watch and is modern filmmaking at its very best. The Academy Award Loss and blissful ignorance by the home media was baffling to say the least. If films like ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ can sweep the Oscars, the audience does expect art like Salaam Bombay to win at least one golden statuette. It did win our hearts though and would remain a film which all Bollywood filmmakers should try to emulate. ‘Salaam Bombay’. Salaam Mira Nair.
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Lockdowns Don’t Prevent Coronavirus Spread
American Institute For Economic Research - January 12, 2021
Much has been said about the terrifying models that in the spring projected such a staggering number of deaths from the novel coronavirus.
In hindsight, as bad as the pandemic has been, it never even approached the dismal numbers suggested ‒ the very numbers that rationalized society-wide lockdowns in Italy, the U.K., New York City, and then in many other places as the pandemic spread.
What researchers have struggled with since then is how to measure the impact of various actions taken. Do we even know if what we’re doing is working? Where’s the evidence for that, and are there other things we ought to do instead?
Naturally, proponents of lockdowns have long said that strong government action prevented all kinds of horrors. If anything, the poor outcomes we had in the spring and the fall indicated that we didn’t do enough. Skeptics, on the other hand, said that lockdowns did nothing but harm our societies ‒ physically, economically, and mentally ‒ and that infection rate curves moved the way they did regardless of what strong-worded politicians implemented, and often before their strong policies took effect. The August NBER paper by Andrew Atkeson, Karen Kopecky and Tao Zha, ‘Four Stylized Facts about COVID-19’ spells out the uncomfortable position for most policy-makers: the virus seems to spread rapidly, kill selectively, and in no way responds to anything that well-meaning politicians have thrown at it.
The general corona debate quickly became a battle of pointing to this or that country: Lockdowners picked Australia and New Zealand; skeptics picked Sweden and Taiwan. The angry feuds in political arenas and editorial pages were off to the races. Death rates in Sweden far outstripped those of its neighboring countries, a topic on which we already in August tried to bring some clarity. To an American and British audience who couldn’t tell Bergen from Ystad, or slurred Danish from Finnish diphthongs, higher death rates and weaker restrictions were conclusive evidence that Sweden’s slightly-more-open strategy had failed. Never mind that the Nordic countries may differ in other respects. One-variable statistical analysis at its worst while practically no one compared Sweden to the much worse-performing UK, Belgium or France.
Maybe countries greatly differed from one another in ways that would make such naive comparisons completely misleading: demographics, population densities, the size of the Covid-shock, the effect of government advice, the soft cultural values of how real people interact and how they responded to the pandemic. Besides, all these countries introduced so many new policies and behavioral changes that even those of us who tried to make sense of them quickly lost track.
What we needed was an experiment, where all of those background differences were controlled for. Ideally, a jurisdiction with similar conditions operating on similar rules; where some of their areas locked down hard, while their neighboring counties, identical in every other way, did not. In a new article, one of us together with another co-author, did exactly that. The article, “Lockdown Effects on Sars-CoV-2 Transmission – The evidence from Northern Jutland,” by Kasper Planeta Kepp and Christian Bjørnskov is now available on MedRxiv.
In late summer, a new mutation of the Sars-CoV-2 virus was discovered among mink farms in Denmark. That information suddenly became important in Danish debate in October, when researchers from the Danish Serum Institute warned against the mutation, and politicians demanded action. On November 4, the prime minister announced that in the Danish region of Northern Jutland, seven municipalities were to enter into extreme lockdown, enacting the usual battery of work-from-home, closing of commercial and leisure activities and closed public transport. Scattered among them, all in the same region of Northern Jutland, were four municipalities that didn’t; they remained under the then-fairly moderate rules in the rest of Denmark. In total 280,000 people and 126,000 jobs were affected by the extreme lockdown, as people were banned from crossing municipal borders to go to work.
Here was a golden opportunity to measure the infection impacts of very strict lockdowns. By comparing otherwise very similar municipalities ‒ language, culture, administrative region, geography ‒ the Danish professors could avoid the problems with identifying cause and effect that hampered cross-country observations. In addition, the lockdown of seven municipalities was not justified on different case numbers or spread of the virus, but only on a worry about a new mutation that subsequently proved to be unfounded.
Prior to the heavier lockdowns in our seven municipalities, there was no detectable difference between the two Northern Jutland groups. In the seven days before the lockdowns, the strict group had 0.15 positive tests per thousand inhabitants per day compared to 0.14 in the open group. In the spring, too, when far fewer people were tested, the former group experienced a total of 0.69 positive tests per thousand inhabitants while the open group saw 0.82 positive tests (all differences statistically insignificant).
Treating the two groups as stand-alone units, Planeta Keep and Bjørnskov write that
“[W]e find no statistically significant differences between the two groups of municipalities prior to intervention. The strong similarity in infection rates at different timescales before the intervention strongly supports treating the lockdown as an actual quasi-natural experiment.”
In no statistical specification that the researchers run does the lockdown variable ‒ shifted by 4, 7, or 10 days to allow for an uncertain incubation period of the virus ‒ pass conventional significance tests for its impact on the number of infections. The only thing that seems to be driving positive tests in the North-Danish municipalities are the infections in previous days and weeks.
As seen in Figure 1 of the paper, the number of Covid infections in the two groups was already falling before the onset of the heavy restrictions in the lockdown municipalities ‒ and it keeps falling just the same in both groups. In non-statistical terms: looking at identical counties, with as natural as natural experiments come, the researchers cannot detect any impact from lockdowns. Lockdowns don’t stop, slow down, or seem to affect the future spread of the disease in any way.
What’s remarkable is that the study includes a big enough population to detect that change. It has similar test-and-control groups with hundreds of infections in each. There was a big push for mass testing in both groups, and so virtually no chance that testers did not detect a meaningful number of infections. The professors reflect on the study and describe it as
“[T]he most time- and space-focused empirical dataset available with sufficient statistical power, adequate and homogeneous control group, nearly complete testing, and with the smallest possible confounder pollution imaginable in a real setting.”
In great contrast to the terrifying projections from imagined models, this study showed real outcomes with real people going about their real pandemic lives. It could very well be that lockdowns work in some settings, in some jurisdictions, and under some conditions. But in a setting with voluntary compliance, high trust in government and lots of general information available to the citizen, such as across Denmark (and other Nordic and Northern European countries), lockdowns don’t seem to have added anything to prevent the spread.
Whether this result is unique to a predominantly rural part of Denmark, or whether it translates to lockdown as a preventive policy more broadly remains to be seen. Because it has “lack[ed] actual empirical control cases for the same populations,” the scientific community has not been able to tease out what works and what doesn’t. However, a number of recent studies trying to get around different problems in different ways also conclude that lockdowns don’t work.
What the new study from Northern Jutland shows is that an extreme form of lockdown didn’t work in one of the most law-abiding societies in the world. Why, then, should we expect lockdowns to be effective anywhere else?
Reported infection levels in the administrative region of Northern Jutland around the time of the November lockdown (Blue: daily new positives; orange: running weekly summed positives). (A) The seven municipalities with lockdown mandate. (B) The four municipalities without lockdown mandate. Vertical lines indicate first and last days of mandate effective (November 6 and 9). Any effect has to emerge later than this, since PCR also takes time to manifest in the population of positives.
Figure A2: Increase in infection in December
(A) Municipalities with lockdown. (B) Municipalities without lockdown. The dashed lines are 7-day running averages. Vertical lines indicate day of mandate effective (November 6) and first day where PCR positives can possibly be registered (three days). This shortest possible interval requires almost perfect test intensity. The increase in infection in December is very similar percentwise in both groups (approximate 5-fold increase), confirming similarity also post-NPI within the noise.
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Rapaport Price Drop Met With Anger, May Temporarily Suspend List
The Rapaport Price List - the benchmark for most polished diamond traders - published last Friday, March 20, announced steep, across-the-board price drops that have angered many diamond traders and unleashed a wave of protest on social media. "Our heart goes out to the diamond community during these difficult times," a statement read. "We understand that today’s reduction of prices in the Rapaport Price List is upsetting." They might have underestimated the response.
After a weekend of protest from diamond companies and traders in the form of direct letters to the publisher and posts on the popular Telegram and Instagram apps, publisher Martin Rapaport yesterday (March 23) released another statement to the diamond community stating that the price list publisher would put it to the community to vote on a temporary suspension of the price list.
"For the past few days, I have received hundreds of emails and numerous calls from leaders of the diamond industry," he wrote. "Many have expressed outrage about the reduction of prices in our March 20 price list. Others have asked that we suspend publishing the price list. While we reject the idea that prices have not declined ... we are receptive to calls for a short term suspension of the price list." Rapaport is considering suspending publication of the price list until May 1, and has requested Rapaport members to vote on the issue until March 24 at 10 am New York time.
In response, many diamond traders have removed their stock from the Rapaport trading site, RapNet, and are calling for a boycott on the vote. The price cuts announced last week were visible across most diamond categories, with the drops ranging from 5% to 9% on both rounds and fancies. The average drop was generally estimated at about 7%. Rapaport says he understands the frustration of traders, but insists the price changes reflect the current market.
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Media powerbrokers: let’s rethink how we treat our publishers
By Alicia Navarro-19 October 2015 15:28pm
Alicia Navarro
Every week there are new stories popping up about which media owners are digitising their offerings, which are letting go of their print publications or buying up new local ones, which are partnering with agencies on branded content… The list goes on, as do the opportunities for publishers to expand their businesses and cater in new and better ways to their audiences.
I see media owners working hard to understand digital on a deeper level all the time, either through developing their in-house teams or by partnering with digital agencies and tech brands. Trinity Mirror has developed its Trinity Mirror Solutions team, we’ve seen ITV revamp the X Factor with digitally interactive elements, the Daily Mail partnered with Snapchat and WPP at Cannes to launch their Truffle Pig content agency, and NewsCorp announced its acquisition of one of the most successful London startups, Unruly Media.
The rules are as clear as they ever were for publishers: know your audience, and provide them with what they want. Although when it comes down to it, we sometimes underestimate the huge role that publications play in giving users what they’re looking for, and to what extent that content itself drives consumer decision-making.
Advertisers have long supported the publishing world, for almost as long as it has existed. Given that the two are intrinsically linked, there is a complexity to their relationship that sometimes intermediaries and onlookers can only surmise. And thanks to digital media, this has become even more complex. For advertisers, the value of any publisher is in its audience, and as the automated trading of audiences become standardised, publishers are in a rush to understand how they can benefit more fairly from this “new normal” way of marketing to their users.
Publishers have a few interesting questions on their hands: what if someone from my readership buys something from an advertiser, directly, because they read a piece of content on my site? Is that tracked? Do we get rewarded? Currently, this is a really grey area. We’re able to track which ad clicks ended up in a sale through banner advertising, affiliate, video, and a host of other channels. Then through this tracking we can reward those sites that drive traffic and conversions.
But for publishers, their content is the most captivating and persuasive way to engage their audience. They know this to be true because they’ve been receiving real-time feedback from readers on things like quality of articles, tone, length, formats, and so on, for years. The fine art of creating digital content that people want to read – and which drives intent to purchase – is something that has not yet been harnessed for marketing purposes. Or at least purposes that benefit everyone in the loop.
Without doubt, publishers who trade their audience segments with brands and agencies in this new era of big data should also be rewarded for providing a strong link in the chain when it comes to the customer’s path to purchase. The measurability of advertising has arrived at a stage where agencies funnel money into what delivers clicks, simply because it is measurable – but the holes in that logic are unmissable. As human beings, we know that content helps shape our thinking immensely. We rip through content at a pace that would have been unthinkable when the first printing presses were built, and all of that content weighs heavily on our decision-making as consumers.
By returning power to publishers, the triumvirate of data, technology and content becomes a more harmonious one and doesn’t simply cater for advertisers’ needs without regard for the publishers’ properties, formats, audience and so on. By helping publishers to successfully leverage commerce-related content, (or as we call it, ‘comtent’), such as image galleries, product reviews, lists, gift guides, deals and sales or ‘get the look’ advice, advertisers are able to build a better picture of who is interested in those products.
In my opinion, the first step is to start recompensing publishers for using their audience segments, then we’ll start to see the tides shift.
Alicia Navarro is CEO and co-founder of Skimlinks
This article is about: UK, Publishing, Content, Audience, Media
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SMU gives the Owls their Second Loss of the Season
(PHILADELPHIA, PA) In a back and forth game up until the last five minutes, the SMU Mustangs gained their sixth win of the season, giving the Owls their second conference loss 79 to 71. Led by Darius McNeill off the bench with 17, the Owls couldn’t keep up with SMU’s 51.7% shooting from the floor.
Holding Kendric Davis to only 13 points, the Owls kept SMU’s top scorer to his worst game so far. Yet the second unit had no match for McNeill or Yor Anei, who was recently activated onto the team, coming in with 14 points and two rebounds in 22 minutes.
Brendan Berry, backup guard for the Owls, had his best game of the season, totaling 17 points on 5/10 from three. His contributions from beyond the arc just wasn’t enough, as he was the only Owl to cash in on more than one of his attempts. Forwards J.P. Moorman and De’Vondre Perry shot 2/13 combined from beyond the arc, and missed some crucial shots down the stretch.
Guard play was not an issue, with starting guards Damian Dunn and Jeremiah Williams totaling 28 of Temples overall 71 points. The problem tonight for the Owls was foul trouble, as both Damian Dunn and Jake Forrester both couldn’t play as much as they wanted to. With Dunn fouling out with roughly two minutes left, the team showed they needed his explosiveness to make a run in the closing minutes.
When asking Senior Brendan Berry what advice he gave to the younger guys to prepare them for late game scenarios, he said, “Ya know it’s just playing your game. Just because the clock is winding down doesn’t mean you know you’re not going to play your game, you’re going to slow it down or anything like that.” Having Berry as not only the top shooter on the team, but a leader on and off the court will be important for the development of the younger guys.
Coach Mckie had an interesting game plan, as with nine minutes left in the game, he put out a lineup of four guards and J.P. Moorman, an undersized big man, run the center position. When I asked Coach about this lineup, he claimed he thought it could help their offense move faster and get some better looks. “Maybe it could generate some more offense for us. I thought it helped because it pulled their bigger guys from the basket.” Look out for the Owls to start running a lineup like this more often, as this lineup came into the game down seven, and cut the SMU lead to just three.
Temple is looking to bounce back from a two game losing streak against the 6-4 Memphis Tigers this Saturday at noon. With this being another conference game, this is a must win for the Owls, as going down 0-3 in the American conference would put them at a big disadvantage for the rest of the season.
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Mastercard joins hands with MS Dhoni to build 'Team Cashless India'
K.R. Srivats NEW DELHI | Updated on October 16, 2019 Published on October 16, 2019
The initiative is to bring consumers and merchants to the forefront of the digital payments dialogue.
Mastercard, a technology company in the global payments industry, along with legendary cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni launched on Wednesday a nationwide initiative to accelerate the acceptance and adoption of digital payments.
Titled 'Team Cashless India', the initiative brings consumers and merchants to the forefront of the digital payments dialogue.The campaign encourages all Indians to nominate one or more merchants who currently do not accept digital payments.
Mastercard will work together with the Confederation of All India Traders, acquirer banks and fin-tech companies to support nominated merchants to deploy digital payments acceptance infrastructure.
Speaking on the occasion, MS Dhoni said there is a need for all to adopt digital payments and help formalise the economy. "This (Mastercard) campaign is a good move forward. The common man also needs to contribute. It's an effort in the right direction," he said at the launch event.
Dhoni said that adoption of digital payments is a way of contributing to the country "as every time you make a digital payment, it gets accounted for".
Transition to cashless economy
Ari Sarkar, Co-President, Asia-Pacific, Mastercard, said that India was 97-98 per cent cash economy not too long ago. “ We have seen some good progress in the last four to five years, where transition has been at fairly good clip. We are still at 90 per cent cash. You can see the shift going from 98 to 90, and you can see the enormous opportunity for all stakeholders to drive the cashless agenda", Sarkar said.
Sarkar highlighted that cashless and digital is massive step forward for formalising a very large part of an informal economy.
The informal economy, which forms large part of Indian economy, is plagued with many challenges including important challenge of “access to credit”, he said.
“When you drive informal economy to formal economy, access to credit is going to be transformational. We have seen how MUDRA. We still haven’t seen the real potential of this movement to a formalised economy and what it can deliver”, he said.
Sarkar said that global payments industry — call it electronic, card-based, digital or mobile-based — is going through massive transformation, and India is actually at the forefront of that transformation or change. The real growth of digital or electronic has been the way “debit as a product” has grown in recent decades. This has opened significant scale of opportunity of converting a large part of cash economy into digital and thereby into formal economy.
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Someone once said, “There is no such thing as a heavy Loire wine, nor a high-alcohol Loire wine.”* As you will discover on our Loire Valley wine tours, here white wine is supreme. This is the land of Sancerre, Pouilly-Fumé, Vouvray, Muscadet. There are varieties of red (from the Cabernet franc grape), but the area’s most known wines come from the Chenin blanc, Sauvignon blanc, and Melon de Bourgogne grapes. At The International Kitchen we love them all!
See all our wine tours in the Loire.
How to Talk about Wine in France
But before breaking into a discussion of Loire Valley wines, a brief (as brief as I can make it) note on the French way of talking about wine. Wines in France are dictated by a strict set of rules based on the grape variety (or sometimes, but not often, varieties) used, and by the specific geographic location of the grape’s production. The variety of grape is what is most known to American wine drinkers (the Sauvignon blanc grape, for example, or the Chardonnay). The legal indication of precisely where the grapes were grown is called the appellation. (Not the terroir? some grape enthusiasts might ask. The appellation legally defines the terroir–literally “earth”–in which the grapes were grown.) Famed appellations of the Loire Valley are Sancerre, Pouilly-Fumé, Vouvray, Muscadet, to name a few. So one can find different types of Sancerre wine (red, white), made from different grapes, but only grown in the specific geographic area around Sancerre. Other restrictions (maximum grape yield, alcohol level, etc.) also play into the rules of the appellation, but for our brief look at Loire Valley wines this explanation is sufficient.
Back to the grapes. The origins of the Sauvignon blanc grape lie in the Loire Valley and Bordeaux. From there this popular variety spread to the world, where it has gained praise for its heartiness and complex flavors and aromas. In the Loire the most known appellations associated with this grape are Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé, both found in the eastern side of the region. It is no secret that the Sauvignon blanc grape lends itself to wines that are enormously varied, and these Loire appellations are no different, producing wines from crisp and refreshing to grassy and full-bodied.
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Vouvray Wines
The famed Vouvray, although arguably the most known Loire wine, is also the hardest to pin down. It is always made from the Chenin blanc grape, but it’s flavor can range from the vigorously dry (sec) to the intensely sweet (moelleux). It also produces an excellent crémant, or sparkling wine.
The area’s other most popular grape is the Melon de Bourgogne, rather an oddity. It is a grape found hardly anywhere else, and is cultivated only in a very small part of the Loire Valley (Muscadet). And yet, they are wines of great importance, both in the volume of production (being one of the most-produced in France) and name-recognition. Bordering as they do the Atlantic Ocean, the Muscadet vineyards lend that hint of sea to the wines that make them a superior companion to fish and seafood (remember this the next time you eat oysters, considered the Muscadet pairing par excellence!).
In short, Loire Valley wines are an excellent addition to any cellar, and, because they are often under-appreciated, are usually a very good value.
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*Roger Voss in “Decode the Wines of the Loire Valley,” Wine Enthusiast Magazine, April 6, 2011.
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The Death Of Sudan The Northern White Rhino
Many of you may have heard that the last male Northern White Rhino passed away on march 19th of this year. His name was Sudan. This loss left the Northern White Rhino species virtually extinct. All that remains are Sudan's daughter and grand-daughter who both cannot breed. How did this happen? How did a species of rhino that once roamed freely across Uganda, Chad, Sudan, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo now become extinct?
Many would like to argue that this is part of nature, the natural selection, but this was not nature. This was man made extinction. Due to the ivory trade and the idea that rhino horn is medicinal (in traditional eastern medicine) the Northern White Rhino species was virtually destroyed. So badly, that in the 1960's there were 2,360 in the wild. A number that had already been reduced drastically, but by 2003 the killing of rhinos for ivory or "traditional eastern medicine" decimated the population leaving only 30 in the wild. This was not nature, natural extinction happens to 1 to 10 species per million, per year. In the case of man made extinction, this is occurring 1,000 times more frequently than the natural background. This is on us. And this type of extinction is extremely dangerous. You see, the loss of a species like the Northern White Rhino has a large impact on the eco system in the territory. This is a loss to Africa's eco system and natural heritage.
Researchers are trying to use a method in which they use the sperm collected over the years from the Northern White Rhino, use an egg from the remaining two females and find a surrogate from the closely related Southern White Rhino to carry the baby. Researchers have found success in mice but have yet to try in a larger species. There is hope to possibly bring back the species, but we will have to wait and see.
However, the sad truth is we have lost a beautiful species of rhino not to nature - but at the hand of humans. This occurrence is not just the case for the rhinos either. African and Asian Elephants are being poached to dangerously low numbers. In rain forests such as Indonesia, palm oil production is causing the loss of habitat for animals like Orangutans who's number are also dropping rapidly. Our ocean's coral reefs are being devastated, and just like the extinction of the Northern White Rhino, is all man made.
But we have the power to bring change! To not let this happen again to another species. What we buy can mean the difference for the future of wildlife across the globe. We can check to see if our products have palm oil, and if it does is it conflict free? We can choice to not support the ivory or fur trade. Even the smallest of our everyday choices impact the entire world. So simply being a little more conscious can mean all the difference in the world. Watching documentaries like Racing Extinction can give us a wealth of knowledge to help make better decisions as well.
We can support organizations who are working tirelessly to bring change. Organizations like International Rhino Foundation, Save the Rhinos, International Elephant Foundation, Save the Elephants, Orangutan Project. We can also support companies who are supporting change.
We can be the difference. We can better the world we all share. It is our duty to stand for wildlife and speak for those who cant speak for themselves.
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Primitive Methodist Church
Bartholomew Street
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Inside a building - public/private
Description: Stained glass window
Glass Stained Glass
About the memorial: Three Light stained glass window
"The memorial window, which stands in the most commanding position in the Church, at the centre of the eastern end, consists of three lights, headed by six ornamental openings filled with floral designs in coloured glass. The left hand light contains an ornamental cross, the symbol of sacrifice, the right hand one, a crown, representing victory, whilst the centre light, at the top, is an angel holding a scroll bearing the words. "Their Name Liveth for Evermore." At the foot encircled by laurels appear the names of the fallen as follows:- Under the whole of the memorial, under the glass, are inscribed the words: "To the Glory of God and in grateful memory of the devotion even unto death of the young men of this Church and Sunday School, who gave their lives for truth, justice and freedom in the Great War 1914-1918. Their names are recorded hereon." The window was designed and executed by Messrs Abbot and Co Ltd, Lancaster." Newbury Weekly News, 21 Jul 1921
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TASTE October 2019
As the cosy autumn nights draw in, Britain’s culinary scene welcomes a diverse range of brand new restaurants and exciting cafes. From classics with a luxurious twist to jaw-dropping venues, Britain shows no sign of losing its crown as one of the most exciting foodie destinations for travellers.
Loyalty Tavern
Former Duck & Waffle Executive Chef, Tom Cenci has teamed up with restaurateur, Adam White to create a stylish yet welcoming new eatery in Bermondsey. Along with an impressive bar and cocktail list, Loyalty Tavern brings tempting small plates to the site that was previously Village East. A great addition to the area’s expanding foodie scene, this new neighbourhood establishment offers a menu with sustainability and value at its heart, with diners enjoying dishes including rich buttermilk-poached cod, venison tartare, kid goat and pork belly meatballs from just £6.50.
The Betterment
British chef and restaurateur, Jason Atherton has welcomed the first diners to The Betterment at the Biltmore Hotel, Mayfair. The once mentee of Gordon Ramsay is no stranger to running a high-end eatery, with his previous venture, Pollen Street Social, having gained a Michelin Star within a year of opening. Under the trusted hands of Chef Paul Walsh, the menu will focus on signature salads, plant-based and meat-centred dishes cooked over embers, and an indulgent afternoon tea menu. Mains from the à la carte menu range from £24 to £34, while sharing dishes of meat and fish cooked over embers cost up to £85.
Bubala
The heart of bustling east London has just welcomed a brand new Tel Aviv-inspired eatery, Bubala. The name endearingly means ‘darling’ in Yiddish, and the restaurant certainly looks set to become a darling of the culinary scene, with its menu of Sephardic Jewish dishes, including laffa flatbread, pumpkin tirshy, flourish fattoush, and tahini, date and tangerine ice cream. Prices range from £5.50 to £9.50.
Neat Burger
Lewis Hamilton’s Neat Burger, hailed as the first international plant-based burger chain in the world, opened in Mayfair this September, and the F1 star is already gearing up to change the face of fast food, with a further 14 restaurants planned in the next two years. Having worked closely with the group behind ‘Beyond Meat’, known to create one of the best meat-replicas on the market, Hamilton’s menu features a sumptuous selection of animal-friendly fast food, with prices ranging from £7.50 to £8.50 for burgers, and £3.50 for classic fries. What’s more, Neat Burger‘s partnership with Eden Reforestation Programme means that for every burger sold, one tree will be planted, guaranteeing diners a truly guilt-free feast.
Kiss the Hippo
Having recently opened their second location in September, Kiss the Hippo roasters have now brought their high quality, sustainable coffee to Fitzrovia. Sourcing their product from around the world, the chain aims to champion the origin of each brew, whilst making the journey from farm to cup as eco-friendly as possible. Coffee-lovers can swing by Kiss the Hippo to taste their latest seasonal bean of choice, with each batch roasted in-house in a low-emission roaster, allowing for unique flavours to remain.
The Ivy Glasgow
The Ivy Collection expanded their city-dwelling brasserie chain to the heart of Glasgow this summer. The colourful and boldly designed restaurant offers all-day British classics, served with an air of sophistication, in a modern, stylish environment. Their menu includes elegant starters such as steak tartare (£9.50) and seared Atlantic scallops (£12.50), main courses including fish and chips (£15.50) and blackened cod fillet (£17.95), and a delectable afternoon tea (from £7.95)
August saw the opening of ultra-sustainable Bar Brett in Glasgow, the sister restaurant of Cail Bruich. Serving a selection of small plates, the restaurant’s menu changes daily and revolves around high quality, meat, fish and shellfish from their specially selected suppliers, all complemented by a wine list from small European vineyards.
The Purple Robot
August 2019 saw the opening of Hull’s first vegan taproom, a brand new addition to the former city of culture’s growing foodie scene. The project of former Beautiful South guitarist, David Rotheray, The Purple Robot offers a completely vegan menu, with its animal-friendly ethos even extending to the beer. The menu takes inspiration from around the world and promises delicious vegan alternatives to fish and chips, American-style burgers, bratwurst sausage and crispy pan-fried duck And with dinner dishes starting at £10.95, diners can be sure of a great value, cruelty-free evening in a fun, sci-fi inspired atmosphere.
Lu Ban
Due to open on 31 October 2019, new restaurant Lu Ban will transform the former Cain’s Brewery Building, a historic icon in the heart of the Baltic Triangle. Bringing a taste of the north-eastern port city of Tianjin to Liverpool, the venue will showcase the region’s world-famous techniques and specialities via dishes such as jasmine and black tea cured wild salmon, twenty-four hour pork belly with fennel seed and pickled ginger, and lobster, scallop and turbot dumplings. To celebrate the restaurant’s opening, visitors can enjoy a complimentary bottle of prosecco for all booked evening meals in November.
This autumn will see innovative, family-run chain Tattu opening one of their cherry-blossom filled eateries in the Scottish capital. Transforming the newly refurbished Mint Building on West Register Street into an opulent dining spot, the restaurant will offer guests a cocktail of traditional Chinese cuisine surrounded by breath-taking interior design. Expect a menu featuring dishes such as caramel soy beef fillet (£31), pan fried Szechuan sea bass (£20), dim sum, small plates and several exciting set menus to share, for an innovative taste of the east in the heart of Edinburgh
Patrycja Woda
patrycja.woda@visitbritain.org
Tattu, Edinburgh
Great Tastes
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Park Industries “RAPTOR” Quarry Drill Exceeds Expectations with help from VMAC Hydraulic Drive Air Compressor
Working in stone quarries can present some of the most challenging environmental conditions on the planet for both man and machine. Extreme heat in the summer, followed by extreme cold in the winter, along with large amounts of dust when it’s dry and excessive mud when it’s raining or snowing; each create a unique set of adverse conditions.
A well designed piece of equipment will not only withstand these conditions, but also help operators deal with the elements while maintaining productivity that the job requires.
This is exactly the case for the Park Industries RAPTOR quarry line drill. The RAPTOR is designed for drilling a straight row of holes in dimensional stone quarries so the stone can be split into manageable square blocks. The RAPTOR is a self-contained drilling rig that works in challenging conditions and varying geological formations while keeping the operator comfortable and safe inside a climate controlled cab.
Powerful and Reliable
An integral part of the RAPTOR’s hydraulic drill system is the VMAC hydraulic drive air compressor system. It is a 100% duty cycle rotary screw air compressor, which means it provides its promised 40 CFM of air continuously, all day. And the RAPTOR puts in long days.
The machine works straight 8 and 12 hour shifts, which means the VMAC hydraulic drive air compressor system is working right along with it. The VMAC system is used to “flush air”, which means that as the drill bit penetrates the stone, compressed air is forced down through the drill bit, removing stone cuttings from each hole. The first system has drilled over 217,000 feet of holes, and the VMAC compressor has maintained clean holes the entire distance.
“The most important thing for our air system was the 100% duty cycle; a reliable 100% duty cycle,” says Jim Fuchs, Mechanical Engineer at Park Industries and the lead designer on the RAPTOR. “Lots of systems say they provide that, but I’ve worked with a several different air compressors over the last 20 years and few actually do. We also needed a system renowned for reliability in extreme weather fluctuations. Many small mobile air compressors have problems with freeze up in cold weather conditions. And, in my experience, Canadian manufacturers understand the extreme fluctuations in temperatures like this better than most in the world, so I had more confidence the VMAC system would deliver on this better than other systems,” Fuchs continued. “The RAPTOR works in the Texas summer heat and Manitoba cold in January.”
In addition to its reliability, the VMAC air compressor system’s small footprint made it an ideal fit as there isn’t a lot of spare room on the RAPTOR for additional equipment; it is purpose-built, with every aspect providing a job-related function. The VMAC air compressor system is 50% smaller and lighter than its competitors, which is perfect for the RAPTOR’s limited space.
Setting a New Safety Standard
The RAPTOR is the only system of its kind, and was designed to reduce drilling costs while maximizing productivity. Additionally, it is the only system that truly removes the operator from those challenging environmental conditions as all drilling operations are managed within the operator cab with a camera alignment system. The protection of the climate controlled operators cab dramatically reduces safety issues caused by environment, and enables the operator to work safely for longer continuous periods of time.
For extreme environments and working conditions, the RAPTOR is also remote control capable.
Stone Industry Tradition
The RAPTOR represents a new market for the family-owned Park Industries, which has been in the stone fabrication business for more than 60 years. Its focus in the early years was on machine development for finished stone working equipment. They matched this with second-to-none customer service, including 24-hour a support line, which allows customers to reach actual people at all times. Developing machines for the quarry and drilling side of the stone industry is a new venture for Park Industries which is what led to the development of the RAPTOR. With Jim Fuchs’ past quarry experience and Park Industries experience designing machines for the producers of stone products, it was a natural evolution for the company.
The RAPTOR has been available for over a year and can fulfill the drilling needs for most types of open pit stone quarries such as sandstone, granite and limestone quarries. With the help of the VMAC hydraulic drive air compressor system, Park Industries RAPTOR quarry drill answers an industry need that previously had no solution.
Discover more information on custom OEM solutions with VMAC air compressors. If you have any questions about this article or anything mobile compressor related, please contact us.
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The City of Oxford
The tranquil South Oxford Canal
Magdalen Bridge Oxford
Pretty Cottages at Cropredy
Riverside pub, Lechlade
Spires of Oxford
Halfpenny Bridge, Lechlade
Guildford Castle
Route Highlights:
A fantastic start location, perfect for those wanting to escape the hustle and bustle. With so many route options suited to beginners and experienced boaters alike, our base near Oxford is ideal for those wanting either a truly rural escape or a city break. 'The City of Dreaming Spires' is only 6 miles from our base making it just perfect for a weekend cruise for friends wanting pubs and clubs, or couples wanting a romantic getaway.
PLEASE NOTE: there is an additional charge for cruising on the canals when you set off from Oxford - no extra charge for the River Thames - just call the Booking Team for details and they can advise you on costs etc.
Click for suggested routes.
The sample routes below are merely suggestions. The age and nature of our unique waterways means that there may occasionally be a need for planned or emergency restrictions or closures and therefore it cannot be guaranteed that every route will always be available.
Short Break Route Suggestions (3 & 4 nights):
Relaxed route: Oxford, Abingdon and Return – 32 miles, 14 locks, 13 hours total
Begin your journey by heading north, following the bend of the river and remaining on the River Thames, passing the outskirts of Wytham Great Wood and heading through King’s Lock. Follow the contours of the river towards Godstow, where there are a couple of pubs and the remains of Godstow Nunnery. Continue cruising towards Oxford which is only three hours' cruise from the base. Moor up close to Osney Bridge or at the moorings by Isis Lock for an easy walk into Oxford city centre - the 'City of Dreaming Spires'. Famous for being home to one of the most prestigious universities in the world, Oxford offers a host of museums, shops, pubs and restaurants, as well as numerous attractions such as the Bodleian Library and Oxford Castle. Continue from Oxford along the River Thames heading south and travelling through pleasant, wooded scenery on the approach to Abingdon Lock. Pass through the lock and cruise a short distance to the moorings, allowing you to visit the historic market town of Abingdon. Visit the remains of the Abbey, along with the Abbey Gardens and St Helen’s Church before choosing from one of several pubs and eateries on offer. Turn at one of the boatyards in Abingdon to return back to base.
Intermediate route: Lechlade and Return – 44 miles, 14 locks, 16.5 hours total
A real rural escape travelling through quiet, open meadowland, past picturesque riverside pubs and villages. Cruise west along the Thames, passing through Pinkhill Lock and the waterside pub at Hythe, then under one of the oldest stone bridges on the River Thames at Newbridge. Continue through Shifford Lock, following the contours of the river past the riverside pub at Tadpole and through a couple of locks on the way to Radcot. Cruise under the impressive triple-arched 13th Century stone bridge at Radcot, continuing through Grafton Lock. Drift alongside beautiful countryside to the pristine village of Kelmscott, home to Kelmscott Manor which was built in 1570 - the house and gardens are open to the public at selected times of the year. The river meanders its way to St John’s Lock, after which there are several mooring points for the market town of Lechlade. A tall spire visible from the river belongs to the 15th Century church of St Lawrence. Take a stroll around this idyllic Cotswold town or sample one of its many pubs, cafes or cocktail bars. Turn either at one of the boatyards or at the Round House winding hole a little further on, to return.
Active route: Wallingford and Return – 58 miles, 22 locks, 22 hours total
Follow the relaxed short break route to Abingdon (shown above) and then continue south to the delightful town of Wallingford. The town has strong links to murder mystery fiction – Agatha Christie lived here and it is here that ‘Midsommer Murders' is filmed. Wallingford itself has numerous independent shops, including plenty of antique stores. The town also has plenty of pubs, cafés and restaurants for your enjoyment. Wallingford is very attractive, with some lovely architectural features including the Corn Exchange which overlooks the Market Place in the centre of town and the medieval building that houses Wallingford Museum. The Castle Gardens and Meadow are also worth a visit. Moor near Wallingford Bridge for easy access to all amenities. Turn and return to our Oxford base.
Active route: Aynho and Return – 44 miles, 26 locks, 23 hours total
This route offers boaters the opportunity to travel along one of our most tranquil, scenic canals - the South Oxford Canal - which is best explored over a midweek break. Start your journey on the River Thames, passing Wytham Great Wood along the riverbank and making your way to Duke’s Cut. Cruise from here on to the South Oxford Canal (an additional licence is required to cruise on the South Oxford - please ask for more details). Cruise through the outskirts of Oxford to the village of Thrupp, where there are a couple of pubs and a canalside cafe. Cruise under one of the many lift-bridges along the South Oxford, some of which you will find left open, wending your way through the picturesque Cherwell Valley. Cruise past the canalside pub at Enslow, continuing through a deeply wooded stretch of canal with trees forming a tunnel overhead, on the approach to Lower Heyford. The scenery changes here to open farmland and water meadows. Pass through Upper Heyford, with its lift-bridge, thatched houses and two pubs, then cruise on through the village of Somerton, and Somerton Deep Lock, until you reach Aynho Wharf. Moor up here for a pleasant mile-long walk into the village or stop at the popular canalside pub for food, before turning around to start your journey back to base.
Weekly Route Suggestions:
Relaxed route: Banbury and Return – 57 miles, 34 locks, 29 hours total
A relaxing weekly route travelling along both the River Thames and one of the most peaceful canals on the network- the South Oxford Canal. Cruise from the base along the River Thames, past Wytham Great Wood and up to Duke’s Cut Lock. Here you join the South Oxford Canal (an additional licence is required to cruise on the South Oxford - please ask for more details) and cruise through the outskirts of Oxford to the village of Thrupp, stopping at one of the canalside pubs or at the café for refreshment. Cruise through the Cherwell Valley, with the scenery changing from deep wooded stretches to wide open countryside and water meadows, as you pass through Lower and Upper Heyford. Continue past the village of Somerton and through Somerton Deep Lock, to Aynho Wharf. Moor up here for a pleasant mile-long walk into the village or to stop at the canalside pub. Continue along a pleasant rural stretch, passing through some locks and lift-bridges on the way to the market town of Banbury. Use the moorings available in the town centre (or just before) to visit the Market Place, walk through the Old Town, or have a spending spree at the Castle Quay shopping centre. Turn at Banbury to begin the journey back to base.
Intermediate route: Wallingford, Lechlade and Return – 102 miles, 36 locks, 39 hours total
Begin your journey by heading east, passing the outskirts of Wytham Great Wood and passing through King’s Lock. Cruise past Godstow towards the City of Oxford, which is only a three hour cruise from the base. Moor up close to Osney Bridge or by Isis Lock for an easy walk into Oxford city centre. Oxford has numerous museums, historic buildings, attractions, shops, pubs and restaurants. Continue south from Oxford along the Thames, travelling through Abingdon Lock and onto the historic market town of Abingdon. Cruise through open countryside and past the 17th century Greystone Manor at Culham, heading towards a very picturesque stretch of canal near Clifton Hampden, with beautiful thatched cottages scattered on the hillside. Continue past the outskirts of the Roman town of Dorchester and the village of Shillingford, where there is a riverside pub. Cruise through Benson Lock to the beautiful market town of Wallingford - mooring up by Wallingford Bridge (small fee may apply) for a short walk into the town- one of our oldest Royal Boroughs. Visit the Castle Gardens with the remains of a Norman castle or browse the shops in the town centre, before turning your boat around for the journey to Lechlade. Cruise back past the base, through Pinkhill Lock and scenic open countryside, to the small hamlet of Radcot. At Radcot, cruise under the oldest bridge on the River Thames – an impressive triple-arched 13th Century stone bridge and continue to the pristine village of Kelmscott. The river meanders its way to St John’s Lock, after which there are several mooring points - from here you can visit the market town of Lechlade. The tall spire visible from the river belongs to the 15th Century church of St Lawrence. Take a stroll around this idyllic Cotswold town or sample one of the pubs, cafes or cocktail bars. Turn either at one of the boatyards or at the Round House winding hole a little further on to cruise back to base.
Intermediate route: Henley-on-Thames and Return – 109 miles, 38 locks, 42 hours total
A great weekly route travelling downstream along the River Thames. Begin your journey heading east past the outskirts of Wytham Great Wood and through King’s Lock. Cruise to the City of Oxford, only a three hours away. Moor up close to Osney Bridge or by Isis Lock for an easy walk into Oxford to visit the numerous attractions there. Travel to the historic market town of Abingdon and past the 17th century Greystone Manor at Culham. Cruise through Benson Lock to the beautiful market town of Wallingford. Moor up by Wallingford Bridge (small fee for overnight mooring) for a short walk into the town - one of our oldest Royal Boroughs. Visit the Castle Gardens with the remains of a Norman castle, or browse the shops in the town centre. Cruise from Wallingford along a broad stretch of river which narrows on the approach to Goring, where there are several pubs and restaurants within easy reach of the moorings. Continue towards Basildon, where there are moorings for the Beale Park Wildlife Park. Travel through Pangbourne with its riverside pub and on towards Mapledurham, where you’ll pass a cluster of period houses and cottages on the riverbank. From here you’ll be on the approach to the busy town of Reading - moor by Reading Bridge to visit numerous attractions such as Reading Gaol, the Abbey Ruins or The Oracle shopping centre, not to mention a fantastic array of bars and restaurants. Cruise past the pretty village of Sonning to the attractive market town of Henley-on-Thames. Use one of the several mooring spots available close to the town to visit an array of independent shops, the River & Rowing Museum or some of the many pubs, bars and eateries. Turn here for the return journey back to base.
Active route: Cookham and Return – 133 miles, 46 locks, 50 hours total
Follow the intermediate route to Henley-on-Thames (above) then continue east past Hurley, towards Marlow. Marlow is renowned for its Michelin-starred restaurants and pubs, such as The Compleat Angler Hotel, The Vanilla Pod and The Hand & Flowers – each run by famous chefs. Marlow itself is a handsome Georgian town with some attractive buildings to admire and links to some great literary figures; such as Shelley and T.S. Eliot. Cruising further down the river, you'll pass the hamlet of Bourne End before arriving at the bustling village of Cookham. Stop near Cookham Bridge for easy access to an excellent choice of pubs, restaurants and shops – from antiques and boutiques. Pretty cottages line the village lanes and there are other historic buildings to visit if you wish to, such as the old Wesleyan Chapel and Holy Trinity Church (c. 1140). Turn here and return to our Oxford base.
Fortnight Route Suggestions:
Relaxed route: Hampton Court Palace and Return – 191 miles, 70 locks, 74 hours total
A relaxed 14 night route allowing boaters time to stop off at the many attractions along the River Thames. Start your journey heading towards the City of Oxford, mooring at Osney Bridge or Isis Lock to visit the city. Travel through the historic market towns of Abingdon and Wallingford, stopping at riverside pubs en route for refreshment if needed. Continue towards Basildon, where there are moorings for Beale Park Wildlife Park. Travel through Pangbourne with its riverside pub and onwards to Mapledurham, where you’ll pass a cluster of period houses and waterside cottages. Cruise on towards the town of Reading, mooring by Reading Bridge to visit the town’s attractions such as The Oracle shopping centre, the Abbey Ruins and Reading Gaol. Travel past the pretty village of Sonning to the attractive market town of Henley-on-Thames, using one of several mooring spots available close to the town, to visit an array of independent shops, the River & Rowing Museum or some of the many pubs, bars and restaurants. Continuing along the River Thames you’ll pass many attractive towns and villages including Marlow and Cookham, both home to a selection of pubs and restaurants. Cruise from here to the town of Windsor, stopping to visit attractions such as Windsor Castle and Legoland. Continue cruising through Runnymede and Staines-upon-Thames, mooring at Penton Hook marina to visit one of the UK’s biggest theme parks- Thorpe Park. Travel past the towns of Chertsey and Weybridge on the approach to Royal Hampton Court, mooring at the 'palace moorings' to explore the home of Henry VIII; visit the grand gardens and the famous maze; spending time walking corridors steeped in Tudor history.
Intermediate route: Warwick and Return – 131 miles, 128 locks, 75 hours total
An interesting fortnights' cruise travelling along three different waterways- the River Thames, the South Oxford Canal and the Grand Union Canal. Cruise along the River Thames to Duke’s Cut lock, joining the South Oxford Canal (an additional licence is required to cruise on the South Oxford - please ask for more details). Cruise to the canal village of Thrupp, where there are 2 pubs and a canalside cafe. Meander through the picturesque Cherwell Valley, with the scenery changing from deep wooded stretches to wide open countryside and water meadows as you reach Lower and Upper Heyford. Cruise on past the village of Somerton and Aynho Wharf, where there is a canalside pub, continuing along a pleasant rural stretch. Pass through lift-bridges and locks en route to the market town of Banbury. Pass the pretty stone cottages at Cropredy and travel through the locks at Claydon, after which the canal winds its way towards the village of Fenny Compton and past the medieval village of Wormleighton. Cruise through rolling farmland to Marston Doles, where the windmill on Napton Hill will come into view. Travel through the Napton Locks, mooring by Napton Bottom Lock to walk into Napton-on-the-Hill. Cruise past the canalside pubs to Napton Junction and join the Grand Union Canal, heading west. Navigate through 10 locks at Stockton then cruise over a small aqueduct and past a couple of canalside pubs at Long Itchington, before tackling a further set of locks and continuing your descent into Warwick. Moor up either by Bridge 49B or 50A (or continue to the Saltisford Arm) for a pleasant walk into history-packed Warwick. Visit Warwick Castle, the 14th Century Lord Leycester Hospital and the Church of St Mary’s before turning your boat in the Saltisford Arm for your journey back to base.
Active Route: Guildford and Return- 210 miles, 91 locks, 85 hours total
A fairly busy 14 night route, requiring around 6+ hours cruising per day on average, but allowing boaters the opportunity to experience one of Surrey’s best kept secrets - the River Wey. Start your journey east past the City of Oxford and through the historic market towns of Abingdon and Wallingford. Continue cruising past picturesque riverside towns and villages on the way to the town of Reading, where the scenery changes from rural to urban. Reading is home to Reading Gaol, the Abbey Ruins and The Oracle shopping centre, as well as a multitude of restaurants, bars and pubs. Cruise on through the pretty village of Sonning and the attractive market town of Henley-on-Thames. Continuing down the River Thames you’ll pass attractive towns and villages including Marlow and Cookham, both home to a selection of pubs and restaurants. Two of the UK’s theme parks can be reached from the Thames, moor at Windsor to visit 'Legoland' or at Penton Hook marina to visit 'Thorpe Park'. Continue towards the town of Chertsey and through Shepperton Lock, where the River Thames meets the River Wey. Join the River Wey (a licence can be purchased from the Thames Lock) and make your way south down this delightfully peaceful river, travelling past waterside villages and riverside pubs. Make your way to the moorings near Onslow Bridge for a short walk into Guildford town centre to visit some of the many attractions there, including Guildford Castle and Guildford Cathedral or spend an afternoon indulging in a bit of retail therapy, finally sampling some of the many bars, pubs and restaurants Guildford has to offer. Use the winding hole by Guildford Town Bridge to turn your boat, ready for the return journey.
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CMS to Allow States to Impose Work Requirements for Medicaid Recipients
WHA reiterates concerns to DHS on WI’s proposed policies
On January 11, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new policy that would allow states to make participation in work or other community engagement a requirement for Medicaid recipients. The announcement immediately drew national attention, with those opposed indicating it will likely undergo legal challenges in the days to come.
The new policy by CMS represents a fundamental change to the Medicaid program. In its letter to state Medicaid directors, CMS indicated that requiring work or participation in community engagement activities meets the objectives of the Medicaid program because work helps to promote physical, mental and emotional health. CMS says the requirements would be allowed only for Medicaid recipients who are not elderly, pregnant or disabled. States would be required to seek federal approval through a waiver process, commonly known as the 1115 waivers.
Wisconsin is one of ten states that have submitted—but not yet received approval for—requests to CMS seeking approval for several Medicaid policy changes, including work requirements. This was done in June 2017 as a proposed amendment to the existing waiver related to adults without dependent children or “childless adults.” In addition to the work requirements, Wisconsin’s proposal also included several other new policies such as the imposition of premiums and copayments for Medicaid recipients. (See
May 19, 2017 Valued Voice article.
While CMS’ new guidance supports states interests in implementing work requirements, Wisconsin may need to make changes to its proposed policy to be compliant with CMS’ guidance. For example, CMS’ guidance clarifies that states should consider community service and other activities that could count toward the work requirement. CMS also says states should exempt individuals with acute medical conditions. Both of these are issues WHA raised in its comment letters to DHS and CMS in June 2017.
CMS also outlines the requirements for monitoring and evaluation of the work requirements to ensure they meet outcomes, including “whether those requirements assist beneficiaries in obtaining sustainable employment or other productive community engagement and whether sustained employment or other productive community engagement leads to improved health outcomes.”
In Wisconsin, although the waiver amendment has yet to be approved, the underlying childless adult waiver is set to expire in December 2018. DHS is planning to submit a request for a waiver extension. As such, on January 5, 2018, WHA took the opportunity to again advance its concerns regarding policies such as premiums and copayments, and to encourage DHS to seek enhanced federal funding for its expansion of Medicaid to the childless adult population. WHA’s comments can be found here.
This story originally appeared in the January 12, 2018 edition of WHA Newsletter
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