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Two dead after light planes collide mid-air in New Zealand
Breaking news. (photo credit: JPOST STAFF)
Two light aircraft collided mid-air on their final approach at a regional aerodrome in New Zealand on Sunday killing both pilots, police said.
Four parachutists on board of one of the planes had jumped shortly before it crashed with the other plane, a training aircraft. A helicopter, also preparing to land, managed to avoid the collision.The police said that both planes dropped immediately after impact, hitting the ground south of the Hood Aerodrome near the town of Masterton.
There was no immediate information about a potential cause of the crash and the police would not release the names of the victims, saying they were still trying to locate family members.
Witnesses told New Zealand media that they heard a loud bang and saw the planes spiraling down.
Stuff.nz, a New Zealand news website, cited a local pilot instructor saying the aerodrome was unrestricted up to 9,500 feet, but pilots were required to record their movements through a shared radio channel.
One of the planes belonged to Skydive Wellington while the other to the Wairarapa Aero Club. The Hood Aerodrome is owned and operated by the Masterton District Council.
"We have a close-knit community at Hood Aerodrome and the incident has understandably rocked that community," the council said in a statement on its website.
Luxembourg PM cancels participation at Israeli embassy event due to Peretz's homophobic remarks
Electric scooters allowed on train
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"Promising future" for Saudi-Lebanon ties after talks with ex-PMs -ambassador
Road accident in the South injures 22
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Categories: Civil Procedure
Date: Aug 8, 2014
Title: In re Nintendo of America: Writ of Mandamus to Transfer Venue, Sever & Stay Claims Against Defendants Granted
Category: Civil Procedure
By: Christian Hannon, Contributor
Title In re Nintendo of Am., No. 2014-132 (Fed. Cir. June 24, 2014).
Issue [Did] [t]he distrcit court [correctly] den[y] the motion of Nintendo and the [eleven retailer defendants (the "Retailers")] to sever and stay the claims against the Retailers, and transfer the separated action against Nintendo to the Western District of Washington.
In re Nintendo of Am., at *2 (text added).
Holding The benefits of trying the case against Nintendo in the Western District of Washington are indisputable. We conclude that the district court should have exercised its discretion to grant the petition.
Procedural History Secure Axcess LLC brought this suit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, charging Nintendo and [the "Retailers"] with patent infringment. The district court denied the motion of Nintendo and the Retailers to sever and stay the claims against the Retailers, and transfer the separated action against Nintendo to the Western District of Washington. Nintendo and the Retailers filed this petition for a writ of mandamus.
In re Nintendo of Am., at *2.
Legal Reasoning (Newman, Rader and Hughes)
Applicable Law: Change of Venue, MIsjoinder and Nonjoinder of Parties A district court is authorized to "transfer any civil action to any other district or division where it might have been brought or to any district or division to which all parties have consented." 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a). Where, as here it is unclear whether the entire action could have been brought in the transferee venue, courts may sever defendants for purposes of transfer. Fed. R. Civ. P. 21.
Applicable Law: Customer Suit Exception When a patent owner files an infringement suit against a manufacturer's customer and the manufacturer then files an action of noninfringment or patent invalidity, the suit by the manufacturer generally takes precedence. This "customer-suit" exception to the "first-to-file" rule exists to avoid, if possible, imposing the burdens of trial on the customer, for it is the manufacturer who is generally the "true defendant" in the dispute.
Applicable Law to Nintendo & Retailers Writ of Mandamus
While the circumstances of this case differ from those of the customer-suit exception, we agree with the district court that the same general principles govern in that Nintendo is the true defendant. [...] [T]he customer-suit exception, Rule 21, and § 1404(a) are all designed to facilitate just, convenient, efficient, and less expensive determination. Petitioners argue persuasively that granting this motion would resolve these claims more efficeintly and conveniently. Indeed, the district court recognized that "the issues of infrignement and validity are common to Nintendo and the Retailer Defendants" and that if Secure Axcess were to collect roaylties from Nintendo, this would preclude suit against the Retailers. Moreover, the record reflects that all of Nintendo's identified witnesses reside in the transferee forum or would find travel to and from that venue significantly more cenveient[.]
In re Nintendo of Am., at *4-5 (internal citations omitted).
The district court order denying the motion to sever,
transfer, and stay is vacated, and the district court is
directed to grant petitioners’ motion.
Image Attribution Statement: Evan-Amos, “A Nintendo 3DS in Aqua Blue,” available as a work released to the public domain by the author, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nintendo-3DS-AquaOpen.jpg (last visited Aug. 2, 2014) (image edited).
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Nihon Kikan Shokudoka Gakkai Kaiho
Nihon Kikan Shokudoka Gakkai K ...
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Changes in Laryngeal Position with Aging
Atsushi Ishibashi, Yurika Kimura, Hitome Kobayashi
2019 Volume 70 Issue 3 Pages 219-224
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2468/jbes.70.219
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Changes in the position of the larynx with aging are reported to influence swallowing. Here, we examined lateral X-ray images of the neck to identify age-related changes in larynx position at rest. Subjects: In total, 258 men and 268 women were examined. Methods: The distance between the highest point of the anterior edge of the third cervical vertebra and the lowest point of the anterior edge of the fifth cervical vertebra, set as a base distance (a), was measured as well as the distances from the level of the highest point of the anterior edge of the third cervical vertebra to the lowest point of the hyoid bone (b), to the anterior commissure (c), and to the lowest point of the thyroid cartilage (d). Ratios of the distances (b), (c), and (d) to distance (a) were compared by sex and age group using Student's T-test. Results: The (c/a) ratio and the (d/a) ratio were significantly lower in men than in women. All three ratios, (b/a), (c/a), and (d/a), increased with age in both men and women. The position of the larynx was significantly lower in men in their forties than in men in their fifties, and similarly, in women in their forties than in women in their sixties. Conclusion: The position of the larynx gradually becomes lower with aging, with notable progression in the forties and beyond.
Prognostic Significance of Intramural Metastasis in Patients with Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Akihiko Okamura, Masayuki Watanabe, Ryotaro Kozuki, Keita Takahashi, T ...
Intramural metastasis (IM) from esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is sometimes found. The aim of this study was to clarify the specific characteristics and survival impact of IM in patients with ESCC. Among 840 patients who underwent surgery for ESCC, 44 (5.2%) had IM. Patients with IM had significantly more advanced tumors compared with those without. In addition, the curative resection rate was lower in patients with IM (p<0.01). Overall survival (OS) and disease-specific survival (DSS) of patients with IM were significantly worse than those without IM (both p<0.01). In multivariate analysis, the presence of IM was one of the independent risk factors for poor OS and DSS (both p<0.01). To improve outcomes in such cases, multimodal treatment with strong antitumor activity should be considered.
Current State of Dysphagia Treatment: Survey Results by The Osaka ENT Association
Mutsukazu Kitano, Niro Tayama, Misako Nishihara, Ko Shiraishi, Mitsuo ...
We conducted a questionnaire survey to clarify the current state of dysphagia treatment in Osaka prefecture. The survey results revealed the following challenges. 1) Adoption of videoendoscopic evaluation of swallowing (VE) and scoring systems: Only a limited proportion of private practitioners conducted VE (22%), and scoring systems remain inadequate, with adoption rates at 57% for hospital physicians and 14% for private practitioners. This finding highlights the need for dynamic awareness activities. 2) Collaboration with speech therapists (ST): Only 1% of private practitioners had designated STs, making ST-led dysphagia rehabilitation difficult. It is important to perceive the larger community as a team ─ such as liaising with STs from visiting nurse stations ─ and to establish a structure that allows for collaborative dysphagia treatment. 3) Information dissemination: When asked whether any facilities or departments within the community offer dysphagia evaluations, the majority of responses were either “none” or “unclear.” These highlight difficulties in identifying facilities that offer evaluations. Dysphagia is a functional disorder that can occur from various diseases, so information about the various facilities and types of evaluations on offer should be made available, especially to facilitate liaisons between patient consultation, other relevant departments, and STs. To achieve this, active dissemination of information is imperative. 4) Engaging in and promoting home medical care: Despite the promotion of home medical care, this service is not offered by hospital physicians and only 5.2% of private practitioners offer swallowing function evaluation through house visits. Ear, nose, and throat physicians should also actively engage in home medical care.
A Case of Bilateral Vocal Cord Abductor Paralysis Caused by Idiopathic Non-inflammatory Myopathy Localized in the Posterior Cricoarytenoid Muscle
Ayumi Okada, Hideto Saigusa, Osamu Kadosono, Yasuyo Maeda, Keisuke Yam ...
The subject was an 83-year-old male who had suffered repeated dyspnea attacks with inspiratory stridor starting 8 years earlier. He had a previous history of two tracheotomies. Because his glottic opening width had gradually decreased, a “Retina” with one-way speech valve had been inserted after the second tracheotomy one year ago. The patient consulted a hospital to have the tracheal stoma closed. Laryngoscopic findings demonstrated that the vocal cords were drawn into the trachea after abduction during inspiration, and the glottic opening narrowed. Electromyography of the posterior cricoarytenoid muscle using hooked wire electrode showed a clear myogenic change. We confirmed clear denaturation confined to the posterior cricoarytenoid muscle and performed the Woodman method of vocal lateralization. Pathological findings revealed non-inflammatory myopathy of the posterior cricoarytenoid muscle. We closed the tracheal stoma to keep the widened airway in good condition. Recurrence of tracheal stenosis has not occurred after one and a half years post-surgery.
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Aspiration Prevention Surgery to Control Post-tracheostomy Infection Caused by Multidrug-resistant Bacteria: A Report of 2 Cases
Sanami Azuma, Rumi Ueha, Taku Sato, Takao Goto, Takaharu Nito
Post-tracheostomy infection control is a major issue in patients with severe dysphagia, because the tracheostoma is easily infected by aspirated saliva. It is of even greater concern in patients infected with multidrug-resistant bacteria, owing to the limited number of available antibiotics. Herein, we report 2 cases in which aspiration prevention surgery was performed following posttracheostomy infection caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria. Case 1: A 64-year-old male who was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis underwent a tracheostomy due to respiratory problems. He was a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carrier, and hence, aspiration prevention surgery was performed post-tracheostomy. During the surgery, stomal infection by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus was detected and was controlled by debridement around the tracheal stoma, aspiration prevention, and effective antibiotic use. Case 2: A 64-year-old male who was diagnosed with multiple system atrophy underwent a tracheostomy for treatment of aspiration pneumonia caused by multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Despite the administration of antibiotics before the tracheostomy, tracheal-stoma infection developed about a week after the procedure. As saliva aspiration was considered to be the main cause of infection, aspiration prevention surgery was performed in addition to frequent debridement and wound washes for infection control. The results in these cases suggest that when severely dysphagic patients with multidrug-resistant bacterial infection need a tracheostomy, a concurrent aspiration prevention surgery may be recommended over tracheostomy alone. In such cases, the treatment strategy should be determined considering post-surgery infection control.
A Case of Aggressive Thyroid Cancer Detected in the Second Half of Pregnancy
Hajime Ishinaga, Satoshi Nakamura, Kazuhiko Takeuchi
Surgery is the treatment of choice for thyroid papillary carcinoma. However, we need to be careful when making a decision on a treatment strategy in cases of thyroid carcinoma during pregnancy. Here we reported our treatment experience with an aggressive thyroid cancer case during the second half of pregnancy. A 33-year-old female presented with median cervical mass at the 37th week of pregnancy. Fine needle aspiration cytology showed malignancy but not specified. She underwent a Caesarean operation two days after her first visit. Subsequently, she had a total thyroidectomy with right-sided neck dissection on the 25th day after the first visit, followed by RI therapy due to lung metastasis. The post-operative course was favorable, without severe complications. We concluded that surgery should be considered even during pregnancy in cases of a clinically aggressive thyroid cancer with cytologically indeterminate nodule.
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Pato Box - A full action duck fighting experience
Adventure/fighting game inspired by the "punch-out" series, taking place in the building of a corrupt corporation.
Bromio
369 backers pledged MX$ 210,700 to help bring this project to life.
Project We Love Puebla, Mexico Video Games
MX$ 210,700
pledged of MX$ 200,000 goal
TIER PRICES ARE IN MXN! FOR EVERYONE NOT IN MEXICO CHECK BELOW THE TITLE FOR THE PRICE IN USD (IT'S LOWER THAN YOU THINK!)
Be sure to check out the demo!
After just 7 days we have been greenlit on Steam! Thanks everyone that helped us by voting Yes!
Patobox is an adventure/fighting game for Windows, Mac and PSVita inspired by the “Punch-Out!!” series, taking place in the building of a corrupt corporation named Deathflock.
You play as Patobox, a boxing champion with a special distinction of having a duck’s head on a man’s body. He has been betrayed by members of Deathflock, the same company that has been sponsoring him during his career. Patobox will find retribution by hunting down Deathflock’s henchmen while discovering the dark secrets the company hides and the truth behind his treason one fight at a time.
The world of Pato Box is full of mysteries and strange characters that will make you wonder if everything is just a dream. Learn more about the world just as if you were reading a graphic novel! Pato box is made for people that love a mystery and want to play and experience something different.
A game that will test the player’s reflexes and change their perception between what is real and what is not.
The visual art style is based on graphic novels and comics. We took the elements and characteristics that make comic books so unique and recognizable and applied them into the game. Using them for different purposes both in illustration and menus to tell the story and play the game. Some of them are the cinematic and introductions presented to the player as comic strips. You will find many other elements used in comic books like the classic dialogue balloons for both the characters and the narrator.
To achieve a darker and more serious effect we are using only black and white as our color palette which gave us new challenges and fresh ideas while we designed the game. The story being told in black and white gives personality to the characters and a sad / mysterious ambience within the game. This characteristic also makes more interesting spaces by making them darker because of the attention given to the volume and shadows of the objects. A lot of inspiration is being taken by artists such as Frank Miller.
Every sprite used for both npcs and decorations are hand made, copying the stroke and the aesthetics from artists dedicated to the graphic novel art form so that you get the intensity only compared to a original batman comic but with a toonish and absurd touch. We want you to see every trace with an organic signature so it feels more alive and authentic.
Original artwork fights mixed with a 3D world environment that feels just as if you were inside a comic book.
Interactive dialogues. Learn more about Deathflock and Patobox by talking to members of the organization and reveal their dark secrets, what is Deathflock hiding and what it means to our hero Patobox?
Remember that not everyone inside the building is against you! Pato Box is a boxing champion and some people will be glad to help a famous duck like you!
While you explore the world of Pato Box in unique areas with traps and minigames, a story filled with mystery, flutter and tension will unfold.
The world will test your boxing abilites as well as you try to open your path by punching everything in your path. Patobox is the best at what he does but what he does is using his fists!
Using boxing techniques find and fight 7 different bosses with unique abilities and mechanics. Learn everything about those bosses before you engage them by exploring Deathflock’s headquarters and get ready for really challenging fights that will test your reflexes and abilities as a boxing duck!
Hidden collectables to expand the story. Reveal the darkest secrets of the game by reading special documents with more information about the background of the members of Deathflock and even Patobox himself!
While you explore Deathflock’s headquarters you will find small tokens that resemble Patobox. After collecting enough tokens you will unlock different furniture for Patobox’s room, try to find them all and you will unlock a special surprise!
An original and immersive soundtrack created by Abuguet Studio. Pato Box’s music takes inspiration on other artists like Kavinsky and other soundtracks like Drive and Hotline Miami. Pato Box's music uses 80’s synthesizers and a mix of Tecnho, Synthpop and Progressive House Music to give a retro but at the same time modern feeling to the game.
Pato Box has a strong reminiscence to Super Punch-Out!! gameplay, intense fights with interesting characters and the need to replay the fights until you get the correct attack patterns of the enemies. However, the similarities end there: Pato Box proposes exploration as a fundamental part of the gameplay between fights. In these sections, you will have to find your way through Deathflock's headquarters while solving complex puzzles and mini games. During the whole game you will control Pato Box from a third person perspective, the only difference between exploration and combat is that in the earlier you will be able to move Pato Box through 3D environment.
Dodge, block and perform lower or upper attacks to defeat your enemies.
Be aware of your enemy moves to detect cues of their next attack.
Enemies with different attack patterns and mechanics to defeat them.
Not all enemies will be regular boxing matches. Every member of Deathflock will bring his unique set of skills to the table and is up to you to figure out how to beat them in your search for the truth! For example, Pizzicanatra is a chef that will try to put you in his soup if you don’t defeat him, in the fight you will have to pick up different ingredients and cook a dish before you can punch him, this will require to hone your reflexes since he will be still attacking you will you try to lure him into the soup!
Hunt down Deathflock's henchmen trough 3D environments.
Find information about the organization and its members as well as clues to discover the truth behind the treason on Patobox.
Puzzles and mini games to progress through Deathflock's headquarters.
Interactive dialogues.
Community - We chose Kickstarter because of the great community that revolves around the platform. We know that backers become in one way or another our teammates in the project, providing feeback, ideas and ways to improve the game that couldn't been discovered without their aid. We want you to help us create the best possible game.
We are Bromio, a small indie developer group from Puebla, México. We've been making interactive experiences for the past 3 years (mobile games, mobile apps, educational games and interactive contents for museums) in order to fund the development of our own games. We've been working in Pato Box for the last 8 months (with a 2 month break to complete contractor work) and want to finish the whole game by October 2017, however, to achieve this goal we need financial support to focus on the development of the game for the next 8 months. The support will allow us to focus solely in the development of Pato Box and don't have to worry about completing contractor work to pay the bills.
Samir is the producer and project manager of Pato Box. He founded Bromio with the vision of creating high quality games with innovative visual and gameplay proposals, he really thinks Pato Box is nailing that vision. He is in charge of keep things going smooth during the whole development process, from communication, project tracking to everyday operations.
(Tony for short) is the lead programmer of Pato Box, he is in charge of making sure that everything in the game works and solves any problems that emerge between all the programmers. Tony is also the game designer of the boss fights in Pato Box and is in charge of the difficulty of the game making him the guy to blame if they start kicking your ass!
Graphic Designer. Cofounder of 2think design studio (6 years). Gamer above all. Worked in different projects, from logos to editorial design. Jammed twice in the global game jam to enter the video game industry and obtain some knowledge around it. Have always loved to create worlds and characters, some funny, some a little bit darker. Creative and passionate in which he does always trying to think in new, fresh unique ideas.
Luis is one of the programmers of Pato Box, his main field of work is to develop all the main systems for the game, like the dialogue system, save systems, etc. He enjoys tackling new problems head on looking to solve whatever features the game need in order to be outstanding.
Heri is the technical artist of Pato Box. An enthusiast of games an art he has been working with Bromio since its beginning. His primary role is to solve any problems that could occur between artists and programmers when trying to make the game look amazing.
Coco is part of the art team. As a fanatic of irreverent animation and absurd stuff she has found in the project a place to focus all of her passion. Her main task is to create and give life to every element and character in Pato Box, giving the sensation of a real and fascinating world.
As one of the team's programmers, he is tasked to create new and fun features to complement the game's exploration mode, such as breakable objects and puzzles. His curiosity on how problems like these are solved in his favorite games have made Pato Box and interesting and exciting challenge for him.
Abraham is the social media guy of Pato Box, he is the one that finds the right emoji and designs the promotional images and info in our social networks. He is also a graphic designer and illustrator, so he supports the art team when it's needed. He is happy for finding a job at Bromio that matched his skills and his hobbies.
Alejandro is a sound engineer with a Master’s degree in Sound Recording from the McGill University. Alejandro main task is to make Pato Box sound amazing. His main focus is the sound design of the game and doing the master tracks that are going into the game and the final mix of the tracks.
Luis is currently doing his MA in Music Industry Studies at Liverpool University. He is in charge of composing Pato Box’s music and recording. Luis is responsible of the music that makes you nod your head and makes you want to defeat all the bosses to obtain Patobox’s retribution!
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You can also find more information about us at:
We've been working in Pato Box for about half a year now, we've defined the general gameplay, story, character outline and the overall feeling of the game (which you can experience in the demo), however, we want to include your opinion in the development, so the only risk we can foresee right now is the delay of the release date to improve the game with the feedback of the Kickstarter supporters.
Pledge MX$ 100 or more About US$ 5
Plathyr Tier
Digital copy of the game.
Pledge MX$ 250 or more About US$ 13
Javanica Tier
Digital copy of the game and digital soundtrack.
Guttata Tier
Two digital copies of the game, digital sountrack and pdf art book. We will also include your name in the credits!
EARLY BACKERS
Eytoni Tier
Two digital copies of the game, digtal soundtrack and pdf art book. We will also include your name in the credits!
Arborea Tier
Get acces to early builds of the game (alpha and beta) and give us feedback to create the best game possible.
All Eytoni rewards.
Pledge MX$ 1,000 or more About US$ 53
Autumnalis Tier
Digital sketch of yourself in the games style signed by the team
All Arborea rewards
Pledge MX$ 3,000 or more About US$ 158
Arcuata Tier
Design a prop for the game, it can be a picture of yourself or an image you designed.
(Subject to approval)
Bicolor Tier
Be part of the world of Pato Box by becoming an NPC. You can also propose your own dialogue ideas! (Dialogue subject to approval)
Speculanas Tier
The complete digital remaster of first issue of the comic of Pato Box. (Historia antes de la pelea). Learn more about the backstory and the events that lead to the beginning of the game in this special new comic. (About $300)
Lophonetta Tier
Chat with us via Skype or Discord! We will talk about your ideas for the game and anything you want to ask about us! (About $350)
Dendrocygna Tier
You will design one secret boss in the game, moves, attacks and even back story!
Pledge MX$ 12,000 or more About US$ 632
Viduata Tier
Help us design a section of Deathflock’s building and give us ideas of what kind of puzzle would you like to see inside! (About $600 USD)
Pledge MX$ 20,000 or more About US$ 1,054
Cygnus Tier
Executive Producer Credits
Your name will be at the top of Pato Box Credits with a special title! (About $1,000 USD)
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Charlize Theron reveals her seven-year-old child is transgender
Josephine Agostino | April 23, 2019
She’s behind it 100 per cent, saying it’s not for her “to decide” who her kids want to be.
For the first time, Charlize Theron has shared how she is parenting a transgender child.
The Academy Award-winning actor reveals her eldest child, seven-year-old Jackson (who was born a boy), confessed to her four years ago that she was actually a girl.
Charlize adopted Jackson in 2012. Source: Splash
“Yes, I thought she was a boy, too,” the 43-year-old, who also a mum to a four-year-old little girl named August, told the Daily Mail.
“Until she looked at me when she was three years old and said, ‘I am not a boy!’ So there you go. I have two beautiful daughters who, just like any parent, I want to protect and I want to see thrive.”
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Finding her own way
A long-time LGBTQ activist, Charlize made it perfectly clear just how she has approached the major shift in her child’s life, and that she was supportive of it, no matter what.
“They were born who they are and exactly where in the world both of them get to find themselves as they grow up, and who they want to be, is not for me to decide,” she went on.
“My job as a parent is to celebrate them and to love them and to make sure that they have everything they need in order to be what they want to be, and I will do everything in my power for my kids to have that right and to be protected within that.”
Before now little was known about her children. Source: Splash
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The South African actor said it was her own mother who showed her the way in being an accepting and tolerant human being.
“You know, I grew up in (South Africa) where people lived with half-truths and lies and whispers and nobody said anything outright, and I was raised very specifically not to be like that,” the mum-of-two said.
“I was taught by my mum that you have to speak up. You have to be able to know that, when this life is over, you’ll have lived the truth you’re comfortable with, and that nothing negative can come from that.”
Charlize is a long-time supporter of LGBTQ organisations. Source: Instagram
Strong opinions
While Charlize hasn’t posted anything about her children on social media, her Instagram followers haven’t held back in questioning her decision to raise Jackson as a girl.
“Why is a three-year-old contemplating their gender? My kids (same age) don’t even know the difference,” one commented.
“Would you take legal advice from three-year-old,” another asked. “Would you allow a 3 year old to do your taxes, would you get into an Uber being driven by a 3 year old, would you let your 3 year old make financial decisions for your household? I think not, so why in this case are we all for children making major life-altering decisions?”
She's done it all on her own, too. Source: Splash
Some hateful comments even went as far as questioning the actor’s fitness as a mother, but there were just as many messages of support.
“I love your courage and bravery my fellow queen👑 How fun your little princesses👸🏾👸🏼 are going to be,” one posted.
“People are disgusting thank you @charlizeafrica for actually accepting your child," voiced another fan. "I'm sorry you're receiving so much hate from small-minded people who don't realize transgender children psychologically feel different from as early as they can remember."
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A bed is a nice place to be in especially after a busy day. You can stretch your arms and legs and get rid of all those muscle aches so you can sleep through the night peacefully. But there can be hindrances to your relaxation that if not remedied quickly, may cause some serious discomforts to you. These threats are bed bugs which can be the most unpleasant visitors that ever invaded your home. They are the last creatures in this world that anyone would want to share his bed with. Those who are unfortunate enough to be visited by these pests desperately look for ways on how to get rid of bed bugs.Another way on how to kill bed mites include washing the beddings and clothes in hot water. You do not have to use any chemicals since a simple detergent would do. You can also use a vacuum to clean mattresses, box springs and bed frames. If you choose to use chemicals, there are several that are commercially available.
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Bed bugs treatment products are easily available over the counter at most stores that sell pest control products. You can find these products online as well. Make certain you are purchasing a product designed to kill the type of infestation you have. Then when you have your spray purchased, you must prepare the room to be exterminated.Room Preparation:Before you can begin to use your bed bug treatment products, the room you are spraying must be cleaned and prepared for the extermination. You need to remove any stuffed toys, throw rugs, pillows, draperies, bed skirts and blankets. Basically anything that would be easy for the bugs to hide inside of. These types of items can be sealed in plastic bags with small insecticide strips to fumigate the bags.You should now be ready to spray or fog the room. Make sure clothes are out of the closet and closet doors are open. When using any types of bed bug treatment products, it is important to read the manufacturer's instructions carefully and follow the instructions exactly.Be certain to pay attention to how long you will need to be out of the room for your safety.It may sound like a lot of work, but it is well worth it. Professional bedbug removal can cost hundreds, if not thousands of dollars. This method will most cost you time, but it is time well spent.
We cannot say for certain which between Simmons, Sealy and Serta is the better mattress. I cannot speak for you on what can bring you more comfort when you are sleeping. In fact, it is difficult to find a mattress that provides all the things we need.
However, to answer the question "which is a better choice", I would have to say Sealy. Mind that I have only arrived to this conclusion due to the lesser complaints thrown at this company and the higher satisfaction rating they have received. When one is comparing, one should look at the bigger picture.
There really is not that much of a difference. Only that, each have a specific attribute that they excel on. For instance, Simmons offers better spring beds with their beautyrest line. Sealy offers better memory foam and latex technology with their posturepedic line. Serta is just in between.
So in general, you have to test the comfort of the mattress first and get to know more about the reputation of the mattress brand before giving your plastic and have them charge you with thousands of dollars.
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Tempurpedic Mattresses are considered the top of the line memory foam mattresses anywhere. Unfortunately, the prices of tempurpedic mattress aren't considered cheap and many people can't afford a tempurpedic mattress
It used to be each distributor and dealer of tempurpedic products set their own retail price and if you shopped around hard enough, you may find one that sells relatively cheap or at a discount.
However recently, Tempur-Pedic decided to change its policy. All tempurpedic mattress will be sold at the same retail prices so now it is really pointless to search around for the cheapest tempurpedic mattress.
The reason for this is that Tempur-Pedic wants to assure their customers that no matter where you get their products, it is always the same price and quality. That means no extra benefits added by the dealers such as free shipping, extra pillow, extra tempurpedic mattress topper etc to entice customers to buy. The same rules applies for all dealers.
The other alternative to buy other memory foam mattresses instead. Though I still prefer tempurpedic mattress, there are some people who cannot afford the prices.
Now, there are about a dozen different types of memory foam mattress sold, probably a lot more than I can count. So how do I get it that is cheap and comparable to tempurpedic mattress?
The only way to know is to test and that means paying a visit to your local retail store and trying it out first before buying. The most important thing is you feel comfortable and make sure there is a free trial or a back money guarantee so that you can always return it if you feel the memory foam mattress does not suit you.
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The Simmons Bedding Company is an American major manufacturer of mattresses and related bedding products, based in Atlanta, Georgia. The company was founded in 1870, and is one of the oldest companies of its kind in the United States. Simmons' flagship brand is Beautyrest. In addition to operating 18 manufacturing facilities in the United States and Puerto Rico, the company licenses its products internationally. According to a Simmons press release, net sales for 2005 were $855 million, and its revenue was $1.13 billion in 2007 and $1.228 billion in 2013.[1] As of 2011, Simmons ranked in third place among U.S. mattress manufacturers, with a 15.7 percent market share.[2] In 2012, Simmons and its sister company Serta International were acquired by American private equity company Advent International.[3]
In 1870, Zalmon G. Simmons opened his first factory in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He started out by manufacturing wooden telegraph insulators and cheese boxes.[4] He branched into making bedsprings after receiving a patent for a woven-wire bedspring in payment of a debt.[5] In 1876, Simmons became the first manufacturer to mass-produce woven wire mattresses. This process helped the company produce beds faster and cheaper, and by 1889, with the introduction of spiral coil springs into woven mattresses, Simmons’ mattress prices dropped from $12 to 95 cents, making mattresses more widely affordable.[6] The business was incorporated in 1884 as the Northwestern Wire Mattress Company, adopting Simmons Manufacturing Company as its name in 1889. According to company records, by 1891 it was the largest company "of its kind in the world".[5]
Zalmon Simmons, Jr., who took charge of the business after his father's death in 1910, was to oversee additional growth.[5] In 1916 Simmons began advertising nationally, initiating its first national advertising campaign with a double-spread ad in the Saturday Evening Post.[4]
By 1919 growth was fast. In response, Simmons acquired manufacturing plants in San Francisco, California; Los Angeles, California; Montreal, Quebec; Toronto, Ontario; Winnipeg, Manitoba; Vancouver, British Columbia; Elizabeth, New Jersey; Seattle, Washington; and Atlanta, Georgia.[4] The following year, Simmons started a new sales arrangement. Instead of purchasing a mattress directly off the retail floor, customers could test the product on in-store samples, order a mattress through the retailer, and receive direct delivery within the next 24 hours from one of Simmons' 64 warehouses.[4][5] This arrangement reduced the need for retailers to own and store their own product inventories.[4] In 1923, Simmons moved its corporate headquarters to New York City.[5]
Equipment developed by Simmons in 1925 automated the process of coiling wire and inserting it into fabric sleeves, called encasements. This allowed mass production of pocketed coils, a type of coil that had been available only in very high-priced luxury mattresses. The pocketed coil is the basis for the Simmons Beautyrest mattress brand, which was introduced in 1925.[4] Although the new manufacturing technology greatly reduced its cost, at the time of its introduction a Beautyrest mattress sold for $39.50, three to four times more than the typical price for a standard wire mattress.[5] Simmons promoted its products aggressively with ads that included testimonials from famous people such as Eleanor Roosevelt in 1927 and Henry Ford, H.G. Wells, Thomas Edison, Guglielmo Marconi and George Bernard Shaw in 1929. Eleanor Roosevelt continued to promote the brand into the 1930s, through her radio show.[4] Cole Porter mentioned the Beautyrest brand in the lyrics of his 1934 song "Anything Goes".[7]
In 1940, Simmons introduced the Hide-A-Bed, a sofa that incorporates a fold-out spring and mattress that pull out to form a bed. This was to become one of the company’s best known products and was manufactured until the 1980s.[5] During World War II, Simmons' facilities were diverted to military production, making cots, parachutes, bazooka rockets and other products.[4][5] By the post-war year of 1947, the company was back in the mattress business and started using advertising to associate its products with the Hollywood glamor of actresses including Dorothy Lamour and Maureen O'Hara.[4] A research and development facility was established in Munster, Indiana, in 1957, building upon pioneering studies on human sleep behavior that Simmons had sponsored in the 1930s. In 1958, the company became the first U.S. mattress maker to produce mattresses in king and queen sizes,[4] an innovation that was promoted as solving the "space battle in the bedroom".[6]
In 1975, the Simmons corporate headquarters moved to Atlanta, Georgia. Shortly thereafter, the company research and development team also relocated to Georgia, to a building in what is today Peachtree Corners but was then an unincorporated part of Gwinnett County, near Norcross.[4] In 1995, the company’s R&D division moved into a new home, the Simmons Institute for Technology and Education (SITE).[4]
Simmons underwent the first in a series of corporate mergers and acquisitions in 1979, when the company was acquired by Gulf+Western. Six years later, Gulf+Western sold Simmons to Wickes Corporation.[5] Wesray Capital bought the business in 1986, and sold it to the Simmons employee stock ownership plan in 1989.[7] Merrill Lynch Capital Partners obtained a majority interest in Simmons in 1991,[5][7] and sold to Investcorp in about 1996. Fenway Partners bought the company about two years later, then sold to Thomas H. Lee Partners in 2003.[7]
In the 1990s a commercial for the Simmons Beautyrest featured a bowling ball being dropped on a Beautyrest mattress and a standard open-coil mattress to illustrate the company's claim that a person’s nighttime movements are less likely to disturb a sleep partner if their mattress is a Beautyrest.[4][8] The bowling ball demonstration, which was popular with Simmons dealers, consumers, and industry experts, was revived in 2006.[8]
In 2003, Fenway Partners made the Sleep Country USA chain of retail stores a part of Simmons;[9] in 2006 Simmons sold the chain to The Sleep Train of Citrus Heights, California.[10] The following year, the company added memory foam products to its offerings by acquiring the Comfor–Pedic line of memory foam mattresses and pillows from Comfor Products of Kent, Washington.[11]
The company suffered financially under the successive ownership of multiple private equity firms and other private investors. The private equity owners extracted $750 million in profits out of Simmons, while the company's debt increased from $164 million in 1991 to $1.3 billion in 2009.[7] On September 25, 2009, Simmons announced a Chapter 11 restructuring plan and signed a purchase agreement with an investor group led by Ares Management and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan.[12] The bankruptcy court approved the deal, reducing the company's total debt from about $1 billion to $450 million. The bankruptcy did not include subsidiaries in Canada and Puerto Rico, but those units were included in the deal with Ares Management and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan.[13] Ares and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan were also the owners of the Serta brand name under National Bedding Company LLC. They operated Serta and Simmons Bedding as independent entities that continued to compete with one another.[14]
On October 2, 2012, private equity firm Advent International acquired a majority interest in AOT Bedding Super Holdings (now Serta Simmons Holdings, LLC), the parent company of Simmons and Serta. Ares Management and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan continued to own a "significant" share of company equity.[3] At the time of the Advent acquisition, Simmons and Serta together held a 34 percent share of the U.S. mattress market.[2] Simmons and Serta retained separate sales, marketing, research and development, and merchandising departments, and continue to remain separate.[3]
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COLUMBIA - Mayor Brain Treece officially announced John Glascock as Columbia's official City Manager. The announcement happened at 11 a.m. Monday at city hall. The council chose between...
City, Highway Patrol Stress Importance of Upcoming Water Safety Class
2 years 1 week 1 day ago Thursday, July 06 2017 Jul 6, 2017 Thursday, July 06, 2017 2:29:00 AM CDT July 06, 2017 in News
By: Casey Edwards, KOMU 8 Reporter
COLUMBIA - To cool off during summer, many families enjoy a weekend at the lake, a float trip or a quick jump in the pool.
But Missouri Highway Patrol Sgt. Scott White said living in an area surrounded by water has certain risks.
Since the start of 2017, the Missouri State Highway Patrol has reported 26 drowning deaths in Missouri. According to the National Center for Fatality Review and Prevention, 12 children in Missouri died by drowning in 2015.
To educate more families on how to stay safe in the water, the Columbia Department of Parks and Recreation will hold a free water safety class Thursday, July 6 from 9:30-11:30a.m. at the Douglass Family Aquatic Center on Providence Road. The class is free and no registration is required. Staff members from the Columbia Activity and Recreation Center will lead the class in interactive games to learn more about water safety.
ARC Recreation Supervisor Janel Twehous said it doesn’t take long for a casual day at the pool or lake to become an emergency situation, especially if you have small children with you.
“You can be the most observant parent possible, but there’s times if you just take your eye off them for a second, an incident can happen around the water,” Twehous said.
Twehous also said children under the age of nine are the most at risk for drowning.
Wearing a life jacket and avoiding going near or into water alone are good ways to prevent people of any age from drowning.
“Having a life jacket is one of the factors that can turn something minor into something serious.” Sgt. White said.
While life jackets and lifeguards can be found at every city pool, Sgt. White said families should also establish rules like asking permission before going near water, having to swim with a buddy and making sure children know how to swim by the age of eight.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol strongly encourages families to attend educational water safety classes like the one at Douglass Family Aquatic Center.
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Warmer temps cause early punch from seasonal allergies
by: Tony Smith, 8 News NOW Reporter
Posted: Feb 22, 2016 / 08:38 PM PST / Updated: Feb 23, 2016 / 10:39 AM PST
Allergy season may be off to an early start, and the warm weather is partially to blame.
El Nino-related weather has produced some warmer temperatures around the valley for this time of year, and this has caused plants to bloom a little earlier than normal.
Flowers in bloom, pollen in the air, and temperatures on the rise: all of these things are contributing factors to the jump-start in the valley’s allergy season.
“Last week, I saw a few. So, I think it is starting to hit,” said Dr. Troy Bertoli, Dignity Health Medical Group.
Doctors say the pollen count is the highest from 5 p.m. until 10 a.m. the next morning.
“Try to avoid it as much as you can,” Dr. Bertoli said. “Other than that you have medicines.”
“Pollen is the biggest contributor to allergies here in Southern Nevada,” said Tanvi Patel, a UNLV Pollen Program Supervisor.
It’s Patel’s job to research what’s blowing around outside. Her team collects samples from six sites throughout the Las Vegas valley.
“We have these in different parts of town, and we can see, if you are living in North Las Vegas — maybe there is a type of tree that is being planted over there that is starting to cause a lot of allergies,” Patel said.
This technique allows those with seasonal allergies to track and prepare what’s blooming.
Even though allergy season is a pain, the beautiful weather puts things in perspective for some sufferers.
“I am just thankful there is no snow on the ground, that’s what I am going to be thankful for and carry lots of tissue,” said Amy Wishard, suffers from allergies.
Here are some tips to combat allergies:
Take off your shoes at the door at home. This will reduce the number of pollutants in your home.
Take a shower before bed. This keeps you from bringing pollen or mold to bed with you.
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Jun. 27, 2018, 2:35 p.m.
Moorpark's Drake London commits to USC for football and basketball
Drake London of Moorpark announced he has committed to USC. (Eric Sondheimer)
The No. 1 two-sport athlete in California, Drake London of Moorpark, announced via Twitter on Wednesday that he has committed to USC and will play football and basketball for the Trojans.
The 6-foot-4 London is a standout receiver in football and an outstanding guard in basketball.
He has dreamed of playing both in college and that’s his plan for now. He said his scholarship will be in football.
Happy Birthday to the best Dad in the world! I wouldn’t be here without my family and the Man above🙏🏽 I’m truly blessed to be fully committed to my DREAM school, USC for both Football and Basketball #TrojanMade #FightOn ✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽 pic.twitter.com/mzSSjGarFi
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Richard Mercado is new baseball coach at Mater Dei
Santa Ana Mater Dei has hired Saddleback Valley Christian coach Richard Mercado as its new baseball coach.
Mercado is a Mater Dei grad. He replaces Burt Call, whose contract was not renewed.
Mercado was a catcher at the University of Arizona.
Schedule changes for this week's Fairfax basketball tournament
Tuesday’s schedule for the Fairfax basketball tournament was postponed, forcing a revised schedule beginning Wednesday.
There will be seven games played on Wednesday at Fairfax. First-round games include Mater Dei vs. Valencia, 11:45 a.m.; Beverly Hills vs. Rolling Hills Prep, 1 p.m.; and Loyola vs. Pasadena, 2:15 p.m.
Also on Wednesday are quarterfinal games: Sierra Canyon vs. Sherman Oaks Notre Dame, 7 p.m.; Taft vs. Fairfax, 8:30 p.m.
Ziaire Williams is exciting junior basketball player for Sherman Oaks Notre Dame
6-8 sophomore gets 36 points, 10 rebounds, 10 blocks
The opening night of the Fairfax basketball tournament produced the usual jockeying for space under the basket, with five videographers determined to capture the best dunk from Sierra Canyon’s group of dunkers.
But the real star from the opening games was 6-foot-8 junior Ziaire Williams of Sherman Oaks Notre Dame. He scored 36 points and had 10 blocks and 10 rebounds in an 82-74 win over Santa Monica.
As Brentwood coach Ryan Bailey put it, “That’s a pro with the ball.”
Kinzie Hanson of Norco is Division 1 player of the year in softball
Junior catcher Kinzie Hanson of Norco has been named the Southern Section Division 1 player of the year in softball.
Here’s the link to the All-CIF softball teams.
Pitcher Cory Carrillo of Newbury Park was the Division 2 player of the year.
Ryan Daughtery of Capistrano Valley tops All-CIF baseball teams
Pitcher-outfielder Ryan Daugherty of Capistrano Valley has been named the Division 1 player of the year in high school baseball. He helped lead the Cougars to the Division 1 championship.
Here’s the link to the All-CIF teams.
Tyson Heaton of Yucaipa was the Division 2 player of the year.
CIF sports transfers increase statewide for the fourth consecutive year
The final high school sports transfer number is in for the 2017-18 school year. There were 16,839 transfers reported by the member schools of the California Interscholastic Federation.
That’s a record number of transfers statewide and the fourth consecutive year of an increase.
In 2014-15, the number was 15,865. In 2015-16, it was 15,882. In 2016-17, it was 16,595. The total increase over four years is 974 and comes out to a rise of 6.1%.
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Top Sierra Canyon players set to compete in Fairfax tournament
Sierra Canyon coach Andre Chevalier said most of his top players will be available starting Monday to play in the Fairfax tournament.
Sierra Canyon opens against St. Francis in a 7:30 p.m. game at Fairfax High.
Sierra Canyon is expected to be the No. 1 team in the state for 2018-19.
Sundays with Sondheimer: A comeback for the ages
Titans rally from 21 points down in fourth quarter
It’s summertime, and I’m looking back at my favorite stories, videos and moments.
Dec. 12, 2015, had me at San Marino High on a Saturday night for the state football playoff bowl game between the home school and Sierra Canyon.
It produced one of the greatest comebacks I’ve seen in high school football. I was so certain that San Marino was going down to defeat that I tweeted Sierra Canyon fans, telling them to get the bus ready for a trip to Sacramento.
Damien wins Maranatha basketball tournament title
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Damien winning the Maranatha block party 🎉 Chip 🏆 2020 Austin Cook All Tourney, 2021 Malik Thomas , 2020 Amare Brown going to be one of the best bigs on west coast, unbelievable improvements in game this summer, All 3 will be National prospects 👀 pic.twitter.com/eVlhod8jsL
— Tim Cook (@CoachCook4444) June 24, 2018
Damien captured the Platinum Division championship of the Maranatha basketball tournament with a 66-55 victory on Saturday night over Harvard-Westlake.
Malik Thomas finished with 17 points. Amar Brown, Austin Cook and Jarred Hyder added 14 points apiece. Hyder, a transfer from Cajon, was tournament MVP.
Spencer Hubbard finished with 18 points for Harvard-Westlake. Fairfax took third place with a 62-58 overtime win over Long Beach Poly. Justin Gladney scored 22 points.
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Sierra Canyon, Rancho Christian top first Southern Section Division 1 basketball rankings
Sierra Canyon is No. 1 and Rancho Christian No. 2 in the first Southern Section Division 1 boys’ basketball rankings.
Here’s the link to complete rankings.
For girls’ basketball, Bishop Montgomery is No. 1 and Sierra Canyon is No. 2.
Tournaments at Westchester, Corona Centennial bring together top 25 teams
The high school basketball season moves into high gear this week. Tournaments at Westchester and Corona Centennial will feature lots of potential games between top 25 teams.
At Westchester, among the teams competing from The Times’ top 25 rankings are No. 6 Westchester, No. 8 Bishop Montgomery, No. 12 Riverside Notre Dame, No. 13 Washington Prep and No. 24 Long Beach Poly.
At Centennial are No. 2 Rancho Christian, No. 7 Centennial, No. 11 Etiwanda, No. 18 Rancho Verde, No. 19 Orange Lutheran, No. 21 Chino Hills.
Football: State and Southern California Regional bowl pairings
STATE BOWL GAME
OPEN DIVISION CHAMPIONSHIP
Nov. 25, 2018, 5:39 a.m.
Football: Saturday's championship results
Saturday, Nov. 24
DIVISION I CHAMPIONSHIP
Julian Rishwain scores 35 points to help Sherman Oaks Notre Dame rally to win over Chaminade
Julian Rishwain scored 35 points on Saturday night to lift Sherman Oaks Notre Dame past Mission League rival Chaminade 70-65 in the championship game of the Chaminade tournament.
The big news was the Knights giving up the first 19 points of the game before rallying. Kenneth Simpson had 22 points for Chaminade.
St. John Bosco 96, Fremont 54: The Braves won the El Monte tournament championship. Joshua Adoh had 20 points and Jonathan Salazar 18. Chris Page led Fremont with 21 points.
Lou Cvijanovich, who retired as the winningest high school basketball coach in California history, dies at 92
Former Santa Clara coach Lou Cvijanovich with daughter Sherri in 1997. (Anne Cusack)
Lou Cvijanovich, a basketball coach at Oxnard Santa Clara who retired in 1999 as the state’s winningest high school basketball coach with 829 wins, has died, family friend Pat Frank said Saturday. He was 92.
Frank, the basketball coach at Ventura St. Bonaventure, said Cvijanovich died at his home on Saturday in Oxnard, which he shared with his wife, Martha.
Cvijanovich is member of the California High School Sports Hall of Fame and National High School Hall of Fame. He accomplished the rare feat of coaching Southern Section championship teams in football, basketball and baseball.
Great Oak boys and girls teams continue domination at state cross-country championships
Nico Young of Newbury Park won the Division II state cross-country championship. (Jeremiah Soifer)
All hail Temecula Great Oak, the school of runners.
Great Oak became the first team to win five consecutive California Division I boys titles at Saturday’s state cross-country championships at Woodward Park in Fresno.
Then Great Oaks’ girls’ team won its seventh straight championship, edging league rival Vista Murrieta 79-83 in Division 1. The boys and girls teams have won a combined 13 state titles under coach Doug Soles.
Football: Friday's championship scores
Friday, Nov. 23
Chaminade, Sherman Oaks Notre Dame advance to tournament championship game
It will be an all-Mission League final at the Chaminade tournament Saturday at 6 p.m.
The host Eagles fought back a determined Shalhevet team to come away with a 75-58 win Friday. Kenneth Simpson scored 24 points and Keith Higgins added 16. Wes Crump contributed 13 points. Zack Muller had a big game for Shalhevet with 26 points.
Sherman Oaks Notre Dame won the other semifinal, defeating Crespi 58-48. Ziaire Williams scored 21 points and Julian Rishwain 19. Ellis Kahn scored 13 points for Crespi.
It's the Charisma Osborne show in Windward win over Harvard-Westlake
Charisma Osborne of Windward scored 30 points in a win over Harvard-Westlake on Wednesday. (Nick Koza)
Big games always seem to bring out the best in the reigning Southern California player of the year, Charisma Osborne.
It happened again on Wednesday night in a rematch of last season’s Southern Section Open Division championship game between Windward and Harvard-Westlake.
The Wolverines held a one-point lead after the first quarter. Then Osborne’s defense and scoring took over. She had 14 points in the second quarter en route to a 30-point performance that lifted Windward (3-0) to a 73-43 victory at Redondo High.
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Fort Lauderdale Criminal Defense Attorney | Kenneth Padowitz, Esq. Kenneth Padowitz 2019-06-16T22:42:34+00:00
Kenneth Padowitz is a Fort Lauderdale Criminal Defense Trial Attorney at Kenneth Padowitz P.A.
Kenneth Padowitz Aggressively and Strategically defends people accused of crimes in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
A Trial Attorney for 32 years, Ken has tried over 300 Jury Trials and 35 First Degree Murder Trials.
Ken is a former Homicide Prosecutor with the Broward County State Attorneys Office for 16 years and a practicing Trial Lawyer for 32 years. Ken is an “AV” rated lawyer, known as Preeminent, the highest rating given by Martindale-Hubbell. Best Lawyers has awarded Broward criminal lawyer, Kenneth Padowitz, recognition and inclusion in Best Lawyers. Best Lawyers is the oldest and most respected peer review publication in the legal profession. He is in the Top 100 Trial Lawyers by the National Trial Lawyers and recognized by Super lawyers as a Super Lawyer – only 5% of Lawyers in the State. Ken Padowitz has also been awarded America’s Top 100 Criminal Defense Attorney’s. Broward criminal lawyer, Kenneth Padowitz, is rated 10.0 out of 10 on Avvo.com and was honored in South Florida’s Top Rated Lawyers, Who’s Who in America, Florida Trend Magazines “Legal Elite“ and is “Lead Counsel” rated.
Kenneth Padowitz Does Not Delegate Important Duties
With a 34 to 1 win/loss record in First Degree Murder Trials, 300 plus trials, hundreds of National Television appearances and law lectures, over 50 Grand Jury presentations and thousands of depositions in 32 years, Kenneth Padowitz retains superior qualifications which can not and will not be delegated on important matters. Ken Padowitz has intentionally limited the size of his firm so that less qualified and less experienced attorney’s will never attempt to duplicate skills that can not be duplicated. From pre-indictment, pre-trial, trial and post conviction appeals, Kenneth Padowitz has the skills to confront and aggressively defend you for the best resolution to your case.
Kenneth Padowitz has Uniquely Qualified Experience
From Federal criminal trials to State criminal trials; 1983 Federal Civil-Rights Lawsuit Trial to Multi-million dollar Civil Trial verdict, Kenneth Padowitz is the Real Deal. While recommending Kenneth Padowitz for Circuit Court Judge in 2006, the Miami Herald stated:
“Mr. Padowitz…was an Adjunct Law Professor a Nova Southeastern Law School for seventeen years and has an extensive record of public service. With his professional demeanor and career record, it’s no surprise that Mr. Padowitz was found qualified by the Judicial Nominating Commission in 2001.”
The Sun-Sentinel also endorsed him for Circuit Judge in the same race and said:
“His knowledge of the law is extensive…He has the intelligence, experience and fair-mindedness to be an excellent Judge”
The Sun-Sentinel described a recent Cross-examination of a witness by Ken Padowitz during a high profile trial this way: “Defense lawyer Ken Padowitz chiseled away at Chait’s credibility for most of the afternoon Wednesday.”
Buddy Nevins, a Political Expert at Browardbeat.com commented on a high-profile trial and said: “There are other reasons for the Krafts’ victory. Both had outstanding defense attorneys. She had Ken Padowitz…”
The Naples Daily News covered a Strategic Win for Ken Padowitz when he got all charges dropped against an innocent client. The clients mother stated “She hired Padowitz months later because she was tired of the delays and wanted a top attorney outside Collier County.” “Cindy Hendricks…hired defense attorney Kenneth Padowitz of Fort Lauderdale, a former high-profile prosecutor and Court TV commentator.”
Adjunct Law Professor
Broward criminal attorney, Kenneth Padowitz, was an Adjunct Professor at Nova Southeastern University Law Center for 17 years and has taught and lectured extensively in the areas of trial advocacy, scientific evidence and trial exhibits. He was also a Faculty Instructor for:
The National Institute of Trial Advocacy
Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association
University of Florida Law School Prosecutor/Public Defender course
Institute of Police Technology and Management
The National Student Leadership Conference at American University in Washington D.C. and Stanford University in California.
Ken was the Director of the Pre-Law program at American Heritage High School where he taught students five days a week before going to court. Padowitz previously sat as Chairman of a Grievance Committee for the Florida Bar, which handles matters of attorney misconduct and discipline.
Kenneth Padowitz is Uniquely Qualified to resolve your criminal investigation or charge
A veteran 16-year former Prosecutor, Ken Padowitz retains the knowledge, experience and relationships to be there for you in your time of adversity – when you can’t afford to lose. A criminal charge carries with it a threat to your reputation, career and your freedom. The pressure on families of the criminally accused is stressful enough. Ken Padowitz protects you and your loved ones with time proven, multi-faceted skills, to negotiate the legal maze you find yourself in. From the expertise to maneuver high profile media cases, to misdemeanor charges, Ken Padowitz retains the legal strategy and laser focus, unmatched by most other lawyers. When what you have built in your life is placed in jeopardy, the caliber of your Criminal Defense Trial Attorney is crucial. (See 5 things to look for Before Hiring a criminal Lawyer – Huffington Post)
Why Strategic Defense from the Real Deal?
Attention to detail culminates in 34 wins out of 35 First Degree Murder Trials. Attention to detail results in only one First Degree Murder Trial reversed on Appeal out of 35, as a prosecutor. Attention to detail results in which expert to call, which witness to put on the stand, what move will win the case. These skills can be applied to your Defense for the results that you need. Trial is always the last resort. Broward criminal lawyer, Kenneth Padowitz, will always prepare and work up the case specifically to exhaust every possible alternative to trial. It is only by doing the in-court and out-of-court work from a real experienced trial lawyer, that the best alternative options to trial materialize. When a battle hardened Criminal Trial Attorney like Kenneth Padowitz comes up to the plate, there is no substitute for your case or for your life.
Former Assistant State Attorney
As an Assistant State Attorney in the Homicide Unit, Kenneth Padowitz prosecuted many high-profile trials, which include the case against Lionel Tate, a 12 year old indicted by a grand jury as an adult in the murder of a 6-year-old girl, Tiffany Eunich. The defendant blamed professional wrestling for the child’s death. The jury convicted him of 1st degree murder. Another one of those high profile trials include the case against Kenneth Pierce, convicted of the hit and run death of little Nicole Rae Walker. Pierce drove off the road on a Dania street and drove into a group of five children. A two-month manhunt led to the widely publicized trial and conviction of the defendant. A computer animation reenactment of the crime was introduced into evidence at trial, by Padowitz, for the first time in a Florida courtroom. The appellate court upheld this visual evidence in a written opinion – the first case law in the United States to allow the use of animation in a criminal trial.
Kenneth Padowitz won a jury verdict over Two Million dollars from a lawsuit he filed, representing a Miami Hurricanes Football player who was attacked by the former Heavyweight World Boxing Champion, Shannon Briggs. To see story and Million Dollar Judgement CLICK HERE.
Fort Lauderdale personal injury attorney, Kenneth Padowitz, works closely with a team of personal injury lawyers and accident attorneys to help you receive the highest level of compensation possible. Based on the fee structure guidelines we follow, filing a personal injury lawsuit with our law firm costs you nothing – we only get paid if YOU are compensated.
Ken is Frequently Called Upon by the News Media
Ken is frequently called upon by the media for opinions and discussion on various legal issues being debated in the country and our community. He has appeared on:
20/20 with Barbra Walters
ABC-Good Morning America
Larry King Live
The O’Riley Factor
Nancy Grace
CNN News and Headline News
CNN-The Morning Show
NBC-The Today Show
The John Walsh Show
Phil Donohue
Wolf Blitzer Reports
Hannity & Colmes
Gretta Van Susterns’ ‘The Point’
Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell
Politics Nation with Al Sharpton
Court T.V.
American Justice
The Mitch Album Show
NBC Miami
National Public Radio ‘All Things Considered
Kenneth Padowitz is a frequent legal expert on the Fox News Channel, and appeared in such publications as:
National Trial Lawyers Magazine
American Bar Association Journal
Rosie Magazine
USA Today and USA Today
Maclean’s magazine
Multimedia World
Info World
The Prosecutor Magazine
OZY.com
The Daily Mirror – United Kingdom
The Daily Mail – United Kingdom
The Florida Bar – Daily News Summary
JET Magazine
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Books – Ken Padowitz Quoted in numerous Books: Research Design;
Radio – The Sports Junkies – Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area
The front page of The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald and Sun-Sentinel
Litigated over Three Hundred Jury Trials including Thirty-Five First Degree Murder Trials
Adjunct Professor, Nova Southeastern Law School, 17 years
AV – Highest Rating (Very High to Preeminent)10 years in a row Martindale-Hubbell Attorney Peer Review Rating
Best Lawyers – Recognition and inclusion. Best Lawyers lists have earned the respect of the profession, the media, and the public, as the most reliable, unbiased source of legal referrals anywhere.
Top 100 Trial Lawyers – The National Trial Lawyers award
Super Lawyers – Super Lawyers award and inclusion. Top 5% of Lawyers in the State
America’s Top 100 Criminal Defense Attorney’s – National Criminal Defense Award
Google Reviews – Top Rating – 5 Stars
Avvo.com – rated 10.0 out of 10
Expertise.com – Top Rated
Who’s Who in America – Distinguished as one of the leading achievers from around the country
South Florida’s Top Rated Lawyers – The definitive Guide to Legal Representation in South Florida
Legal Elite – Florida Trend Magazine
Lead Counsel Rated
Found Qualified – Broward Judicial Nominating Committee for appointment as Circuit Judge, 2001
Faculty Instructor, National Institute of Trial Advocacy and Fl. Prosecuting Atty. Assoc.
Faculty Instructor, University Of Florida Law School, Prosecutor/Public Defender course
Faculty Instructor, University of North Florida, Institute of Police Technology and Management
Director, American Heritage High School, Plantation, Fl, Pre-Law program
Faculty Instructor, National Student Leadership Conference, American University, Washington D.C.
Faculty Instructor, National Student Leadership Conference, Stanford University, California
Guest Lecturer, Criminal Justice Institute, Broward Community College
Guest Lecturer, Broward Sheriff’s Office, Homicide Unit and Detective training.
Textbook – Reviewed and Advised Author (page xviii): From Crash to Courtroom – Collision Reconstruction for Lawyers and Law Enforcement; By John Kwasnoski
Former Chairman, Seventeenth Judicial Circuit Florida Bar Grievance Committee
Member, Florida Bar, United States District Court Southern District of Florida, United States District Court Middle District of Florida, United States Court of Appeals.
The first admission of Computer Animation as evidence in a criminal trial in the state of Florida. A forensic computer generated reconstruction of a hit and run collision of five children was created as demonstrative evidence for courtroom presentation during jury trial. Procedures were developed and strategies implemented to insure admission into evidence of this new technology. My work was ratified in the first written appellate decision in a criminal case in the United States that upheld computer animation as evidence. State v. Kenneth Pierce, 718 So.2d 806 (4 DCA 1997).
NOVA UNIVERSITY, Law School, Fort Lauderdale, Florida – Juris Doctor, May, 1986
First Place Team Award, ATLA 1985 Spring Trial Competition (Mock Trial Team Partner – Leslie Rothenberg, 3rd DCA Appellate Judge)
Distinguished Achievement Award, ATLA Trial Competitions, November 1984, May 1985, November 1985, April 1986
President, Delta Theta Phi Law Fraternity – Recognition for Outstanding Leadership
Special Achievement Award – Student Bar Association, 1985
Certificate of Appreciation – Student Bar Association, 1985 and 1986
Who’s Who Among American Law Students, 1985 and 1986
UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA, Gainesville, Fl. Bachelor of Arts in Education, December, 1982 Associate of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences
Alpha Kappa Delta, Sociology Honor Society – Distinguished Interest and Study in the Area of Sociology
Student Government Senator, College of Education
Vice President Membership, B’nai B’rith Justice Unit, 2007
Board of Directors, B’nai B’rith Justice Unit, 2005, 2006
Broward Sheriff’s Office, Detective training, 2005
Broward Sheriff’s Office, Homicide Unit, Guest Lecturer, 2015
Florida Department of Children and Families, Keynote Speaker, Child Abuse Prevention Conference, 2003
Broward County Bar Association, 1987, 1993, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2018, 2019
National Television Legal Consultant, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, FOX NEWS, COURT T.V., B.E.T., 2000-2017
Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association, Faculty Instructor, Evidence Seminar, Palm Beach, 1993
Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association, Faculty Instructor, D.U.I./Vehicular Manslaughter Seminar, Tampa, 1993
Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association, Faculty Instructor, D.U.I. Trial Advocacy School, Miami, 1991,1992, 1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001
Broward Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Legal Panel Member, Seminar on media and Legal community, 2005
Weston Rotary Club, Lecture Presentation, Criminal Justice System, 2006
Institute of Police Technology and Management, Faculty Instructor, D.U.I. Manslaughter Prosecution, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, 1991
Institute of Police Technology and Management, Faculty Adviser, Development of a felony level course for police officers, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, 2001
Criminal Justice Institute, B.C.C., Guest Lecturer, Sex Crimes, D.U.I. Manslaughter, Criminal Justice System, 1990, 1991, 1992
Broward County Trial Lawyers Association, Lecture Presentation, Computer Animation in the Courtroom, 1993
Nova Southeastern University School of Law, Criminal Law Class, Lecture, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991
Nova Southeastern University School of Law, Instructor/Coach, Mock Trial Team, 1987-1988, 1995
Nova Southeastern University School of Law, Guest Lecturer, Scientific Evidence class, Computer Animation as Evidence, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996
Nova Southeastern University School of Law, Guest Lecturer, Student Orientation, 1987, 1988, 1989
Nova Southeastern University School of Law, Guest Lecturer, Trial Advocacy Class, Opening Statement, 1996
Nova Southeastern University School of Law, Guest Lecturer, The prosecution of Lionel Tate v. State of Florida, 2001
University of Florida, College of Law, Gainesville, Lecture Presentation, Computer Animation as Evidence, 1997
St. Thomas Law School, Miami, Guest Lecturer, Computer Animation as Evidence, 1993
Broward State Attorney’s Office, Lecture Presentation, County Court Division; Opening Statement, Closing Argument, Cross Examination, Direct Examination, Jury Selection, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
Broward Sexual Assault Treatment Center, Guest Lecturer, Victims Rights, 1990
Anglia Polytechnic University, Great Britain, N.S.U., Ft. Laud., Guest Lecturer, Criminal Justice System,1996, 1997
M.A.D.D., Guest Speaker, Roundtable Discussion/Victims Rights, 1991
Plantation Police Department, Guest Lecturer, Roll call Training, 1986
Piper High School, Guest Lecturer, Florida Gun Laws and the Criminal Justice System, 1991
Wilton Manors Kiwanis Club, Guest Lecturer, Criminal Justice,1994
S.T.O.P. (Stop Turning Out Prisoners), Guest Lecturer, Criminal Justice System, 1994
Sunrise Chamber of Commerce, Guest Lecturer, Criminal Justice System, 1994
Boca Raton High School, Guest Lecturer, Criminal Justice System, 1994
Sawgrass Elementary School, Guest Lecturer, Career day, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
Seminole Middle School, Plantation, Fl., Lecture, 2003, 2004
Coral Springs High School, Lecture, Criminal Justice System, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
Pre-Law Advisory Committee, Fort Lauderdale High School Magnet Program, 2000-2001
Croissant Park Elementary School, Guest Speaker, Student Council installation, 2006
Hallandale Police Department, Local Law Enforcement Block Grant Program, 1998-2001
Young Professionals for Covenant House, 1995-1997
Broward County Public School Teacher, 1982
American Cancer Society, 1997-1998
March of Dimes, 1994-1996
Daily Bread Food Bank, 1996-1997
Gold Key Civic Association, 1985-1990
American Bar Association, 1986-1992
National District Attorney’s Association, 1986-1991
Weston Business Chamber of Commerce, 2005, 2006
Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce, 2005, 2006
American Cancer Society, Jail and Bail 1986-2019
Distinguished Faculty Award, Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association, Presented FPAA Annual Conference, 2001
ABA Trial Team Coach’s Award, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Nova Southeastern University, 1995
Appreciation for Dedicated Service Award, Broward State Attorney’s Office Homicide Trial Unit, Advocate Par Excellence, Minister of Justice, 2002.
Outstanding and Dedicated Performance Award, Broward State Attorney’s Office, Sex Crimes Unit Plaque, 1990
Judges Certificate of Appreciation, Nova Southeastern University, Law Center
Mock Trial Competition Judge, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001.
Certificate of Appreciation, Florida Prosecuting Attorneys Association, Mid-Level Felony Trial Advocacy Course, 2000
Certificate of Appreciation, Broward State Attorney’s Office, Take your child to work day – Mock Trial, 2001
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news, local-news, curator, cultural centre, The Mary Kunyi Legacy., exhibition, art
Curator Dr Cathy Laudenbach has been fascinated with Indigenous artist Mary Kunyi's unique style for many years. "She's not a household name, but she should be," she said. "She didn't paint what was there, she interpreted what was there." The curator of The Mary Kunyi Legacy, showing at the Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Culture Centre will be delving into the work next week as part of a series of 'lunchtime talks'. "I will really be drawing attention to the fact that [Mary Kunyi] was living an isolated life in the bush, and that she was a strong woman who has inspired many artists. "Her art is important for so many reasons. She was living in an isolated place, but her work was corresponding to art going on in big centres like New York and Sydney." With the assistance of the cultural centre, Dr Laudenbach contracted public and private collections of Mary's work from around Australia. She said it was a privilege to have a hand in putting the exhibition together. "When I was teaching in Darwin years ago, I became particularly interested in Mary's work. I met her and was fascinated by her unique style. "I believe she is really underrepresented even though her art is included in some big collections." The Mary Kunyi Legacy brings the artist's major works together from collections across the country for the first time, and highlights the significance of her contribution to Australian Indigenous art history as well as her contribution to the now iconic artistic style of the Daly River region. Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Culture Centre director, Poppy Searle, said the talk follows on from the successful lunchtime talks by Therese Ritchie and Danny Murphy, presented in February. "The curator, Dr Cathy Laudenbach has had a long term interest in the work of this important Daly River artist, and visited the Merrepen Art Centre on numerous occasions when Mary was working," Mrs Searle said. "In this talk Cathy will give an overview of the exhibition as well as discus the repetition and symbolism in Mary Kunyi's work. Cathy will also speak of the relationship of Mary's work to other artists, both Indigenous and non- Indigenous, working in Australia at the same time as Mary. "We encourage anyone with an interest in art to bring their lunch along and enjoy our air conditioning while learning more about this extraordinary artist." The free lunchtime talk with exhibition curator Dr Cathy Laudenbach is happening at the Cultural Centre on Tuesday May 21 from 12.30 to 1.15pm. For more information about the exhibition head to the Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Culture Centre here. While you're with us, you can now receive updates straight to your inbox each Friday at 6am from the Katherine Times. To make sure you're up to date with all the news, sign up here.
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Cultural centre's lunchtime talk delves into The Mary Kunyi Legacy
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LEGACY: Dr Cathy Laudenbach and members of Mary Kunyis family. Picture: Cultural Centre.
Curator Dr Cathy Laudenbach has been fascinated with Indigenous artist Mary Kunyi's unique style for many years.
"She's not a household name, but she should be," she said.
"She didn't paint what was there, she interpreted what was there."
The curator of The Mary Kunyi Legacy, showing at the Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Culture Centre will be delving into the work next week as part of a series of 'lunchtime talks'.
"I will really be drawing attention to the fact that [Mary Kunyi] was living an isolated life in the bush, and that she was a strong woman who has inspired many artists.
"Her art is important for so many reasons. She was living in an isolated place, but her work was corresponding to art going on in big centres like New York and Sydney."
With the assistance of the cultural centre, Dr Laudenbach contracted public and private collections of Mary's work from around Australia.
She said it was a privilege to have a hand in putting the exhibition together.
"When I was teaching in Darwin years ago, I became particularly interested in Mary's work. I met her and was fascinated by her unique style.
"I believe she is really underrepresented even though her art is included in some big collections."
The Mary Kunyi Legacy brings the artist's major works together from collections across the country for the first time, and highlights the significance of her contribution to Australian Indigenous art history as well as her contribution to the now iconic artistic style of the Daly River region.
Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Culture Centre director, Poppy Searle, said the talk follows on from the successful lunchtime talks by Therese Ritchie and Danny Murphy, presented in February.
"The curator, Dr Cathy Laudenbach has had a long term interest in the work of this important Daly River artist, and visited the Merrepen Art Centre on numerous occasions when Mary was working," Mrs Searle said.
"In this talk Cathy will give an overview of the exhibition as well as discus the repetition and symbolism in Mary Kunyi's work. Cathy will also speak of the relationship of Mary's work to other artists, both Indigenous and non- Indigenous, working in Australia at the same time as Mary.
"We encourage anyone with an interest in art to bring their lunch along and enjoy our air conditioning while learning more about this extraordinary artist."
The free lunchtime talk with exhibition curator Dr Cathy Laudenbach is happening at the Cultural Centre on Tuesday May 21 from 12.30 to 1.15pm.
For more information about the exhibition head to the Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Culture Centre here.
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On the seventh episode of “Too Long; Didn’t Listen,” I sit down with comedian and host of The Goddamn Dave Hill Show on WFMU, Dave Hill, and comedian and former announcer for The Artie Lange Show, Mike Bocchetti.
TL;DL Episode 6: Talking Catcalls And Women In Comedy With Bonnie McFarlane And Marina Franklin
In a special sixth edition of “TL;DL,” Katla McGlynn sat down with the very funny Bonnie McFarlane and Marina Franklin ahead of their New York Comedy Festival panel entitled, “Women Aren’t Funny: Debunking The Myth” on Nov. 6 at Caroline’s.
TL;DL Episode 5: The Lucas Bros. Play ‘Would You Rather?’
On the fifth episode of “Too Long; Didn’t Listen,” Katla McGlynn sits down with identical twin comedians Keith and Kenny Lucas (aka The Lucas Bros.) to talk dropping out of law school, pumpkin spice hysteria, their new sketch comedy show, …
TL;DL Episode 4: David Rees Casts The All-Female ‘Ghostbusters’ Movie
Cartoonist, humorist and hilarious TV show host David Rees joins us for the fourth installment of “TL;DL” in which we discuss everything from female “Ghostbusters” and Ben Affleck’s penis to cat-assisted rap albums and something called “Hair Wars.” It’s a …
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TL;DL Episode 3: Kevin Barnett & Josh Rabinowitz Of ‘Friends Of The People’
They say that the third time’s the charm, which might explain why the third episode of our podcast was so charming! Comedians Kevin Barnett and Josh Rabinowitz of upcoming TruTV sketch comedy show, “Friends Of The People,” dropped by to …
TL;DL Episode 2: Talking Online Satire With Sarah Pappalardo, Anna Drezen & Joe Garden
On HuffPost Comedy’s second — can you believe it? — podcast, Carol Hartsell and Katla McGlynn sit down with former Features Editor of “The Onion” Joe Garden, and Sarah Pappalardo and Anna Drezen of Reductress.com to discuss satire vs. trolling, …
TL;DL Episode 1: Comedian Tom Shillue Reveals The Origin Of The Ragtime Gals
For our inaugural episode, we sat down with comedian, storyteller and TV commentator Tom Shillue to discuss the latest celebrity photo hacking, the origin of his “Tonight Show” barbershop quartet, the most annoying part of social media “breaks” and more. …
Web Series: Stallin'
A comedy web series. Set in a bathroom. Hosted by Dave Hill.
Stallin’ With Dave Hill Episode 5: Janeane Garofalo Talks Women In Comedy, Hecklers & Actresses Who Don’t Poop
Everyone knows that the best conversations happen in the ladies’ bathroom. So that’s exactly where we shot our web series, Stallin’ with Dave Hill. For the final episode of HuffPost Comedy’s inaugral series, Dave sat down with comedy favorite Janeane …
HuffPost • 6th March 2013
Stallin’ With Dave Hill Episode 4: Nick Kroll Talks ‘Kroll Show,’ His Trip To Bolivia & Being Mistaken For Chris Kattan
Everyone knows that the best conversations happen in the ladies’ bathroom. So that’s exactly where we shot our first web series, Stallin’ with Dave Hill. For our fourth episode, Dave interviewed his good friend and fellow comedian Nick Kroll, star …
Stallin’ With Dave Hill Episode 3: Michael Che Talks His First Time Doing Stand-Up
Everyone knows that the best conversations happen in the ladies’ bathroom. So that’s exactly where we shot our first web series, Stallin’ with Dave Hill. For our third episode, Dave sat down with rising stand-up comedian and “Best Week Ever” …
Stallin’ With Dave Hill Episode 2: Nikki Glaser And Sara Schaefer Talk Ladies’ Bathroom Etiquette
Everyone knows that the best conversations happen in the ladies’ bathroom. So that’s exactly where we shot our first web series, Stallin’ with Dave Hill. For our second episode, we had the pleasure of featuring not one but two hilarious …
HuffPost • 1st February 2013
Stallin’ With Dave Hill Episode 1: John Hodgman Gets Serious In The Bathroom
Everyone knows that the best conversations happen in the ladies’ bathroom. So that’s exactly where we shot our first web series, Stallin’ with Dave Hill. Our inaugural guest? Why none other than comedian, author and “The Daily Show” correspondent John …
Web Series: Jason & Katla's War On Christmas
A four-part holiday exposé on the biggest holiday of all time, brought to you by myself and Jason Linkins.
HuffPost • 20th December 2013
Jason & Katla's War On Christmas Episode 4: The Santa Supremacy
Jason and Katla love Christmas — their stockings are always hung by the chimney with care, even though neither technically owns a chimney. But this year, they’ve noticed the entire world having an insane debate about Santa Claus? White Santa …
Jason & Katla's War On Christmas Episode 3: Christmas Entertainment
Jason and Katla love Christmas — they watch “Elf” every year and still crack up at Amy Sedaris’ throw-away line about declawing cats. But they’ve noticed that with all this new space to fill on cable television and at the …
Jason & Katla's War On Christmas Episode 2: The Political War On Christmas
Jason and Katla love Christmas — they love the way the spirit of the season makes everyone’s day a little brighter. And that’s why they hate the way that somehow, their favorite, all-inclusive greeting to everyone they meet, “Happy Holidays,” …
HuffPost • 3rd December 2013
Jason & Katla's War On Christmas Episode 1: Christmas Creep
Jason and Katla love Christmas — they have over two metric tons of tree ornaments between the two of them. However, they hate the way that Christmas has beaten autumn’s holidays into submission, become a political firestorm and made Santa …
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Black and white negative and print made from it of a smock windmill in Reigate, Surrey, known as 'Trumpets Hill Mill', showing a ~ view from the rear, taken on 24th March 1940.
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Black and white negative and print made from it of a smock windmill known as 'Shiremark Mill' in Capel, Surrey, showing a ~ view from the rear, taken during the evening in April 1935.
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Black and white negative and print made from it of the interior mechanism of a smock windmill known as 'Elmer's or Almer's Mill' in Ockley, Surrey, showing a detail of the stone nut, taken on 17th December 1933.
Black and white negative and print made from it of a smock windmill known as 'Elmer's or Almer's Mill' in Ockley, Surrey, showing a detail of the base, in a state of disrepair, taken on 10th June 1934.
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Black and white negative and print made from it of a smock windmill known as 'Shiremark Mill' in Capel, Surrey, showing a ~ view from the front, in a state of disrepair, taken on 2nd October 1955.
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Black and white negative and print made from it of a smock windmill known as 'Somerley Mill' in Earnley near Chichester, West Sussex, showing a ~ view from the front, taken on 4th March 1934.
Black and white negative and print made from it of a smock windmill known as 'Somerley Mill' in Earnley near Chichester, West Sussex, showing a ~ view from the rear, taken on 4th March 1934.
Black and white negative and print made from it of a smock windmill known as 'Somerley Mill' in Earnley near Chichester, West Sussex, showing a ~ view from the front, taken on 19th March 1933.
Black and white negative and print made from it of a smock windmill known as 'Somerley Mill' in Earnley near Chichester, West Sussex, showing a ~ view from the rear, taken on 15th July 1934.
Black and white negative and print made from it of a smock windmill known as 'Somerley Mill' in Earnley near Chichester, West Sussex, showing a side view, taken on 6th October 1935.
Black and white negative and print made from it of a smock windmill known as 'Somerley Mill' in Earnley near Chichester, West Sussex, showing a distant rear view with sheep in the foreground, taken on 9th September 1934.
Black and white negative and print made from it of a smock windmill known as 'Somerley Mill' in Earnley near Chichester, West Sussex, showing a ~ view from the front, taken on 15th July 1934.
Black and white negative and print made from it of a smock windmill known as 'Somerley Mill' in Earnley near Chichester, West Sussex, showing a detail of the gallery and base, taken on 15th July 1934.
Black and white negative and print made from it of a smock windmill known as 'Somerley Mill' in Earnley near Chichester, West Sussex, showing a ~ view from the rear, taken on 9th September 1934.
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UK RUSHES FOR 288 YARDS, EASES TO SEASON-OPENING VICTORY | Lexington Herald Leader
UK RUSHES FOR 288 YARDS, EASES TO SEASON-OPENING VICTORY
By Chip Cosby - Ccosby@herald-Leader.Com
Kentucky offensive coordinator Joker Phillips knew he wanted to establish the run in the season opener against Eastern Kentucky last night, but Phillips decided on the team bus on the way to the game that he wanted to send a message first.
"I've been telling the offense that we have to go for the jugular and put teams on their heels, and I started thinking, 'If I'm telling them that, why don't I show them that?' " he said. "So in the pre-game warm-up I said, 'Let's go deep on the first play. You could see the excitement in the guys' eyes."
"We're going to be hard to stop this year with all the good backs we have," Little said.
Brooks praised Smith not only for his running but his two tackles on the kick coverage units.
"That's a good problem to have when your third-string back runs as well as Alfonso," Brooks said. "He's turning into a complete football player."
Eastern never could get much offense going, finishing with just 202 yards of offense. Its only touchdown was set up when Little fumbled a punt deep in Wildcats territory.
The Colonels never seemed to recover from Kentucky's quick strike on its opening play.
"That kind of got under us a little bit," EKU defensive lineman Chris Hall said. "It kind of hurt us. We should have bounced back from it, but we didn't."
It was also a nice debut for new defensive coordinator Steve Brown.
In addition to holding Eastern to the fewest total yards by an opponent since Murray State mustered just 189 yards in 2003, the Cats also allowed Eastern to convert just two of its 14 third-down opportunities, a big sore spot for the defense last season.
"We had certain goals, one of which was to stop their running game," Brown said. "We got them to where they had to pass, which is probably what they didn't want to have to do."
Kentucky led 30-0 midway through the second quarter and was able to get a majority of its second- and third-stringers in the game in the final two periods. Brooks said his team also stuck to a "fairly basic" package both offensively and defensively.
Brooks reminded his players of Division I-AA Appalachian State's shocker over Michigan earlier in the day during his pre-game speech, a game he called "one of the biggest upsets of all time or at least one of the biggest in years."
"I pointed that out to our team before the game," he said. "I thought it ought to do two things. One, that ought to wake us up and let us know that anybody can beat anybody. And it also gives Eastern hope that they can come in and do the same thing. I have to give our players credit for focusing and mostly doing the right things."
Date story ran: Sunday September 02, 2007
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Charger Island
The Chargers won last Sunday, and yes, as expected, they were still the San Diego Chargers. After this offseason, I was certain that watching the only professional football team I’ve ever loved would be completely different. The Chargers want a new stadium and they’ve clearly given up working with the city to make that happen here. Despite this problem intensifying in 2015, the central dynamic of the conflict has basically been the same for almost 20 years. It feels normal to root for a team that’s unhappy.
In Week One of the season, it was alarming that after all this turmoil the actual product on the field hadn’t changed drastically. The Bolts displayed the normal progression of a team trying to navigate through a hyper competitive league with a few new faces and growth from the older players. It felt like the beginning of another year. For those of us who cared, we all seemed to fall back into place.
The Chargers gave Philip Rivers an $84 million contract extension during training camp and in his first regular season game he went 35-42, for 404 yds with 2 TDs, and 2 interceptions against the Detroit Lions. He looked like he always has: A guy who will kill himself to win a title for San Diego. Keenan Allen had a big game in what felt like a coronation for a new young star and Eric Weddle made some big plays that some feared were behind him. The crowd at Qualcomm looked decent on TV, with local news stations doing their usual coverage of the parking lot tail gate parties. I watched at a friend’s house and we continued the same rituals that we have for years.
Sunday Rituals for Nick McCann and the Geniuses He Watches With:
When the Chargers score, play the techno anthem Bolt Up (available on iTunes under The Official Gameday Music of The Chargers).
If the announcers mention Antonio Gates’ basketball playing past, DRINK! (this rule is currently under suspension)
If the Chargers are losing, mix up a Darren Sproles (Diet Mt. Dew and Canadian Mist). The Chargers will always come back if this is deployed. Once they take the lead, stop immediately. It was discovered in 2008 and it works. NOTE: this drink can only take the lead back. The Chargers still have to do the rest. Respect the Sproles or you will get burned.
Complain that we haven’t gotten serious about Charger Island. This is a rap metal band that is always on the brink of coming together. All the songs that have yet to be written will be about a new football structure that needs to be built called Charger Island. The idea is to build a stadium off shore in international waters that resembles something out of Waterworld. Prostitution and gambling will be legal there and you can only arrive via Jet Ski. Instead of making a serious proposal to the city and the Chargers, our plan is to bring back that late 90s Florida sound and scream about it. Currently, we’re looking for the right DJ and practice space.
The Bolts were down 21-3 less than halfway through the second quarter in the Lions game, and then Rivers helped rally the Chargers to 30 straight points for a riveting 33-28 victory. He overcame two interceptions, including a 31-yard return for a touchdown by Glover Quinn. The go-ahead touchdown came on Rivers’ 13-yard pass to tight end LaDarius Green early in the fourth quarter. It tied Rivers with Hall of Famer Dan Fouts for the franchise record, 254.
It was a fun. Remember fun?
More importantly, it felt like a collective type of fun that my city deserves. Some people are turned off by the team’s management and football in general. That is totally valid, but I’m choosing to root for this 2015 San Diego Chargers team. If they win the Super Bowl it will force the Spanos family into one of the most awkward PR disasters in modern sports history. There isn’t really a precedent for a team winning it all and then leaving the next year. This being the case, I don’t want to get sucked into this dangerous idea of wanting them to win so we can “Save Our Bolts”. We shouldn’t have to grovel for the NFL to stay here (a portion of this post was written at one of our many helpful and beautiful libraries).
Win the title, team I’ve supported my entire life. Do it for a goof…just to say you did. Or don’t. Get bounced from the playoffs by Week 14 and then announce you’re leaving. I’ll just be out here with water all around me. The Bengals are next. They have their dry land and I have no problem hating them for it.
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Motorola TLKR T92 Licence-free Two Way Radios
Four Pack
Eight Pack
Ten Pack
License free walkie talkies
Range up to 10km (subject to terrain and conditions)
8 PMR Channels + 121 codes
Rugged and all weatherproof (IP67) design
Motorola TLKR T92 Quad Pack License-Free Two Way Radios
Motorola TLKR T92 Six Pack License-Free Two Way Radios
Motorola TLKR T92 Eight Pack License-Free Two Way Radios
Motorola TLKR T92 Ten Pack License-Free Two Way Radios
If you’re looking for a two-way radio that can put up with extreme conditions, then the Motorola TLKR T92 is the ideal choice. Whether you’re using it in a demanding workplace environment or on a kayaking adventure, this is a walkie talkie that will never let you down.
Floating waterproof design
Some two-way radios are waterproof, but the Motorola T92 takes things a step further. Thanks to a special core, it will float if you drop it in water. What’s more, the torch is also activated when the radio comes into contact with water, so you can easily spot it should you drop it. Thanks to an IP67 rating, all the components inside are protected from the water, which also makes the TLKR T92 fully weatherproof.
Long-range- up to 10km
The Motorola TLKR T92 offers extensive range of up to 10km in optimum conditions. That’s much further than most two-way radios, so it’s ideal if you need your set to cover some extra distance. Motorola radios generally offer a reliable range, and the TLKR range in particular got top marks in liGo’s in-house tests. While the actual range will vary depending on the surrounding environment, the TLKR T92 performs well over longer distances.
Packed with features
The T92 also includes a host of handy features that help make it one of the top two-way radios on the market. Some of these are major additions, such as VOX functionality for hands-free use or the built-in torch. But there are also plenty of small touches which will prove extremely useful in certain circumstances. For instance, the removable belt clip also includes a whistle, so you can still signal to others in your group even if the radio gets broken or runs out of power. What’s more, there’s an emergency button which will automatically tell others that you’re in trouble with just one quick press.
Up to 16 hours’ battery life
With the Motorola TLKR T92, there’s no need to continually buy disposable batteries to keep on using the radio. Instead, each handset comes with its own rechargeable battery pack, which can be powered up using the included micro USB plug. When fully charged, these battery packs provide up to 16 hours’ use, which should be plenty. If you need any extra power in between charging, then we also offer additional battery packs. Take a spare along with you, and you can simply swap out the used battery for a charged one for double the usage time!
TLKR T92 H2O
Charging Dock Included
Number of Sub-Codes
Charge Indicator
Earpiece Socket
Up to 10 Km
These are top quality licence-free two way radios. The range is not going to be great in less than ideal conditions to be fair in undulating landscape under 1km but ideal for being in the garden or in travel woth another car. The fact they are yellow and waterproof makes them ideal for large gardens. Torch could be stronger but these are great for visibility. Charging cycle does take a while but the batteries do last a long time admittedly they are new and time will tell how many cycles we'll get out of them. Overall very good!
By Keith on 15 November 2017
Good radios
Range, always an issue with licence free, acceptable.
Have achieved 4 miles in ideal conditions however 1-2 miles is the norm.
Good clear speakers, and the waterproofing seems to be OK. Ideal for out on the boat talking to the dinghy.
Whistle is pretty useless though, albeit a good idea.
By martin on 19 July 2018
Very easy to use. Bought to work with a set of T80 Extreme's and no problems in using them. Only used them for distances of up to about half a mile but no problems with device to device transmission and reception so far.
By R.W on 20 June 2019
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GoFundMe set up to help four traders after thieves steal thousands of pounds of tools
Tools worth thousands have been been stolen from vans in the quiet village
13:41, 9 OCT 2017
A fundraising campaign has been set up to help those affected by spate of van thefts
A community is rallying round to help workers after tools costing thousands were stolen from their vans.
Up to four people in Ruskington, near Sleaford, have had their vehicles targeted by tool thieves - with one victim losing out on £3,000 worth of kit.
Now Shaun Colin, who lives in the village, has set up a GoFundMe page to help the local entrepreneurs.
And he has already raised more than £500 in less than a week.
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The 44-year-old said he used to live next-door to one of the people who were targeted and said they have since been forced to max out credit cards to buy basic tools and replace those stolen.
Mr Colin said: "[My neighbour] started right from scratch with a wheelbarrow and hedge cutters.
"He has worked with sweat to get where he is.
"There was a spate of van attacks over the weekend [October 1] where people were going round with special tools to get into vehicles."
He said that it appears the thieves have deliberately targeted tradespeople.
"The village is normally quiet," he said.
"When [my neighbour] told me he had been done, I thought: 'never in a million years'.
The GoFundMe page was set up for his neighbour but the final total is going to be shared between all of those affected.
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It comes after Lincolnshire Police warned of a tools theft spree in the county. The force has teamed up with the trade industry to promote security tips for tradespeople.
Inspector Pat Coates said that insecure vans are being targeted but the force has also seen forced entry to vans in some cases.
From August 1 to September 12, there were 20 vans targeted across North and South Kesteven.
Some of the security tips from police include removing tools from the van or installing a tool safe and fitting it with quality locks.
Owners should also ensure the van is locked and possessions should be out of sight.
If it is possible, owners should also park in a lit area that is covered by CCTV.
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Police also recommend fitting an alarm and add that those which are Thatcham/Secured by Design accredited are recommended.
These often act as a deterrent when they are activated.
Officers say items stored in the van should also be marked with paint pens and then sealed down with a clear lacquer spray.
Those which include the company name, postcode, house or building name are less desirable and more difficult to sell on, police say.
Those who would like to help tradespeople living in Ruskington should visit www.gofundme.com/replace-andys-stolen-tools
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Schoolchildren aim to get song in charts
Indian named one of best in UK
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Congress Faces Issues of Facial Recognition Technology
Jesse M. Brody
Businesses would need the explicit consent of individuals before using facial recognition technology pursuant to new bipartisan legislation introduced in Congress.
The Commercial Facial Recognition Privacy Act of 2019 would mandate that companies that collect, store or process facial recognition data notify individuals about their use of such technology and obtain affirmative consent to do so.
Individuals should also be provided with an explanation of the reasonably foreseeable purposes, or examples, for which the data will be collected; the data retention and deidentification practices of the company; and if the company offers the ability to review, correct or delete information, the process to accomplish such action.
Senate Bill 847 would prohibit the use of facial recognition technology to discriminate against individuals and forbid companies from repurposing facial recognition data for a different purpose than that for which the individual provided consent. If the company wants to share the facial recognition data with an unaffiliated third party, it must obtain separate affirmative consent from the individual.
The proposed legislation, which would task the Federal Trade Commission with enforcement and leave room for states to establish their own, more stringent regulation of facial recognition technology, has already received the support of the Center for Democracy and Technology.
“Our faces are our identities,” Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), co-sponsor of the bill along with Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), said in a statement. “So the responsibility is on companies to ask people for their permission before they track and analyze their faces.”
To read Senate Bill 847, click here.
Why it matters: The federal legislation would impose requirements upon the use of facial recognition technology but would not preempt tougher state laws. Illinois and Texas already have measures in place, with a similar measure pending in Washington. Several lawsuits have been filed pursuant to the Illinois statute, which permits private rights of action and provides for damages of up to $5,000 per violation.
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Diageo launches its first ever UK e-commerce portal
Diageo has launched its first ever online store as part of wider push to expand the breadth of its digital offering.
By Seb Joseph 1 Feb 2013 12:00 am
Drinks maker launches online portal for consumers to purchase premium brands.
The Alexander & James website, named after sprits makers Alexander Walker and James Buchanan, sells premium Diageo brands including Johnnie Walker Blue Label, Ciroc Ultra Premium Vodka and selected single malts.
It focuses on gifts and features a dedicated area offering ideas for packaged present ideas.
Philippa Dickson, managing director of Alexander & James, says the “luxury e-commerce platform” will give the brand greater insight into how its customers behave online as well as highlight the heritage behind its premium brands.
She adds: “Alexander & James is more than an online shop, it provides ideas that will appeal to the lifestyle of the discerning person alongside new and beautifully packaged gift ideas. It is a white glove, end to end luxury brand experience where people will be able to learn about our spirits and receive expert advice on food pairing and mixology ideas for every occasion. We provide the ease of making a well-informed purchase online.”
The portal, created in partnership with digital agency Huge, will also link to Facebook for users to share wish lists and get reminders of friends birthdays. Registered members can create a wish-list to share as well.
It is currently only available in the UK and will be expanded across Europe in the coming months.
The launch marks a new retail context for Diageo, one which moves its products beyond supermarket shelves and off-licenses. It is hoped the platform will allow the company to convert users searching for its products online into direct sales.
The initiative is not the first time Diageo has experimented with selling to fans online. Last year, it partnered with Amazon to launch a Smirnoff-branded YouTube for fans to purchase party items directly from featured videos. The company is planning to focus more of its marketing activity around social media and online video this year across its brands.
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BT puts telemarketing one step closer to oblivion
Russell Parsons
BT’s launch of a landline phone that claims to block sales calls is a canny piece of opportunistic marketing that taps into a very real menace for many UK householders. It also, however, puts another nail in the coffin of the telemarketing industry.
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listen to a new version of Majical Cloudz "Childhood's End", remixed by CFCF
Canadian producer CFCF added some trippy gamelan elements to Majical Cloudz' "Childhood's End", which also features newly recorded vocals."
Catch Majical Cloudz on tour and follow along, as Devon updates majicalcloudz.com daily with summaries of every show along the way.
Tue 8-27 - Los Angeles, CA @ Echo
Wed 8-28 - San Diego, CA @ Casbah
Sat 8-31 - Austin, TX @ Red 7
Sun 9-1 - Dallas, TX @ Club Dada
Mon 9-2 - Houston, TX @ FItzgerald’s
Wed 9-4 - Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
Thu 9-5 - Nashville, TN @ The End
Fri 9-6 - Asheville, NC @ Emerald Lounge
Sat 9-7 - Raleigh, NC @ The Hive (Hopscotch Music Festival)
Mon 9-9 - Washington, DC @ DC9
Tue 9-10 - Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie
Wed 9-11 - New Haven, CT @ Cafe Nine
Thu 9-12 - Middletown, CT @ Eclectic House
Fri 9-13 - Brooklyn, NY @ Glasslands
Sat 9-14 - New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge
Sun 9-15 - Allston, MA @ Great Scott
Mon 9-16 - Buffalo, NY @ Tralf
Tue 9-17 - Toronto, ON @ Wrong Bar
photo from the OsheagaFestival flickr
Ted Leo and The Pharmacists: New Tour Dates, Same Great Taste
(pic taken from Lori Paulson's Flickr page)
Depending on which side of the St Lawrence River you live, Ted Leo and The Pharmacists will be hitting up the Northeast or Southeast section of your country this June. It won't be hockey season so hopefully we all can get along?!?!
And just a reminder for all of you in Austin, Ted swings by End of an Ear today for a solo in-store performance and then meets up with The Pharmacists at Emo's (outside stage) later tonight for a proper show with Screaming Females and Sally Crewe & The Sudden Moves supporting (tickets purchased for The Parish will be honored)
Fri, 6/18 - Milford CT - Daniel Street Club
Sat, 6/19 - Portland ME - SPACE
Sun, 6/20 - Burlington VT - Higher Ground
Mon, 6/21 - Quebec City QC - Le Cercle
Tue, 6/22 - Montreal QC - Il Motore
Thu, 6/24 - Ottawa ON - Zaphod Beeblebrox
Sat, 6/26 - Toronto ON - Lee's Palace
Sun, 6/27 - Buffalo NY - Mohawk Place
Sun, 7/11 - Louisville KY - Forecastle Festival Buy Tickets
Click Here for a full list of Ted Leo and The Pharmacists tour dates
Jay Reatard instore tour update
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Greetings from the Big White Van (whom the rental company named 'Beth'),
So we're officially halfway into the instore tour. 5 down, 5 to go. SoCal is in the bag and we've made our way north where it feels like it's friggin October. Nobody told us it was going to be 55 degrees in August. We're cold. A shopping day is very much in order. Anything with sleeves is tops on the menu. We've switched from three Mexican meals a day to three Thai meals a day. Sonic Youth, Faust, Adam Franklin, Eric's Trip and Naked Raygun have dominated the stereo. We haven't played the Bass Fishing video game the the rental company gave to us. A fuse blew on Jay's amp. Twice. We got free t shirts. We got lost. The Big White Van's battery died. And that millionaire guy killed his model girlfriend.
Are you sorry you missed one or more of the free, all-ages shows Jay's been destroying? Well you should be. Cause they've been awesome. Amoeba Hollywood, Fingerprints, M-Theory, Streetlight and Amoeba SF were all packed to the gills with fans who certainly walked away satisfied. And Amoeba Berkeley, Jackpot, Easy St., Sonic Boom and Zulu should prove no different.
So if you see the Big White Van flowing through your town, be sure to follow it to the next stop for some ear-bending rock.
See yiz,
Jay, Steven, Billy, Mike and Beth
Coachella Unofficially: Catch The Cave Singers And Sneak A Listen To "The Eternal"
This weekend, I'll be globbing on the Zinka and heading to Palm Springs. It's not about Sir Paul or Robert Smith although, admittedly, it's a tad about TG and bear hugging this guy.
Rather, I will be suffering through Broachella to hand deliver a test pressing (approved hopefully) of Sonic Youth's new album to spin at the Ace Hotel on Saturday from 2-4pm.
The Cave Singers will be teeing off the event by playing from 1-2pm out by the pool. Embedded to the right is a flyer with a RSVP if you care to attend. (click on it to make it bigger)
Thanks to the Ace Hotel for sorting this out and prepare thyselves for a big order of those famous snow cones. We're always looking for new ways to cool off 10,000 Marbles.
Programming note: This having Matador bands host SY listening parties might actually turn into something, so stay tuned.
JO'C tour with Damien Jurado
Tonight is our last night of our 5 date, west-coast run with Damien Jurado - it has been really, really great. Damien and Eric and Jenna are fantastic musicians and people and its been an honor to share a stage with them all week.
Rocky Mountains:
DJ Soundcheck:
That's it, I guess. I meant to take more pictures and do a record store blog but there wasn't enough time. West coast drives between cities are too long.
Playing in the van: The Shins - Oh, Inverted World, Spiritualized - Songs in A&E, Jay Reatard - Singles 06/07, Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III, Damien Jurado - Caught In The Trees, Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs Vol. One
T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou
This '70s group from the African country of Benin (or in its earlier incarnation Dahomey) has been kicking my ass lately. Poly-Rythmo recorded every imaginable type of African popular music - rhumba, funk, calypso, blues, Beninois folklore - but manage to imprint their elegantly loping, loose style onto every one. They released over 50 LPs and 100 7"es, mostly on the Albarika Store label, before guitarist Papillon died in the early '80s.
T.P. stands for "Tout Puissant," a moniker used by other African groups such as Franco's OK Jazz.
Thanks to Analog Africa for posting this video from a videocassette. If this piques your interest, search out the Kings Of Benin compilation on the excellent Soundway label.
Matador Heads To The Arctic Circle
Not every day do you get offered the opportunity to head to the North Pole, but last week I did just that. I'm not one for holiday-blogging but I figured this might rival Patrick's culinary exploits.
Last week I was lucky enough to head to the most northerly inhabited place on the planet - Longyearbyen in Svalbard, North of Norway. This tiny 'town' inhabits only 2000 people, with probably more polar bears and reindeer than there are humans. It took no less than three flights to get there, landing in between mountains on an incredibly small runway.
The reason I was there is somewhat ridiculous, but it involved a competition run by a tortilla crisp company. Your every day polar-sponsoring company. My friend won the competition and as part of the prize, he walked into the Guinness Book of Records as the First Advert in Space. You'd probably think that they'd send something slightly more meaningful into space in an attempt to reach out to possible life forms, but no, advertising crisps to the largest audience possible was what went first.
So we headed to a space station on top of a mountain and sent the message of Chilli Heatwave and Tangy Cheese to Ursa Major.
Truly the most beautiful place i've ever been. Rook got an airing at about 3am as we tried to cope with the 24hr sunlight streaming through the window. If you ever get the opportunity to head to the arctic circle courtesy of a tasty snack, I wholeheartedly endorse it.
A Poorly Lit Look Into Our Founder's Rich Leisure Time
August 23rd, 2007 at 12:10 am by Gerard
Not actually a photograph of Chris Lombardi's personal rumpus room. However, now that the idea's been successfully planted in the mind of 304 Hudson's most devoted Phil Lynott fan, check back in a few months.
Matador Vs. The Ponys bowl-off round 1
July 23rd, 2007 at 7:46 pm
As killer as last Saturday night's Bowery Ballroom Ponys / Jay Reatard show was, it is pretty hard to compete with a bowling alley where the bands play right in the middle of the lanes. With that in mind I had no problem getting in the van for the trip to senic Asbury Park New Jersey. I picked up Paul Sommerstein, ESQ and we raced, Corzine style, down the Garden State Parkway to the up and coming neighborhood of Asbury Park. Once there we didn't waste too much time getting down to business on the lanes.
The first game was just me and Jered and we both we're having trouble getting into the zone. Jered has a great style: launching the ball into the air at first with lots of spin on it producing a killer hook, but he just couldn't get it down and many a ball ended up in the gutter in the first game. If he had it down I'd of been done for, but my basic style prevailed. The second game brought Paul and Meslissa into the action and upped the stakes when Paul produced two awesome (and huge) home made buttons. Aerosmith and Cheap Trick, winner gets to choose their pin. Jered clearly had me beat until the 10th frame when I channelled my love of Aerosmith into two consecutive strikes. Woo-hoo!
In our defense the Asbury Lanes, although totally cool, isn't really conducive to competitive bowling, but it sure was a good time. And speaking of a good time, althogh these remaining Ponys / Jay Reatard shows are not happening in bowling alleys you should by all means try to attend.
23 Jul 2007 Washington DC, Black Cat
24 Jul 2007 Columbus, OH Skully's
25 Jul 2007 Newport, Kentucky, Southgate House
Lovin' Love of Diagrams in the City of Brotherly Love
Love of Diagrams (above) opened the first date of their opening stint with Ted Leo and the Pharmacists last night in Philadelphia at TLA, and this correspondent reports that it was an amazing show. Totally packed house, great opening set by Love or Perish (which I just realized is also the title of a poem by W.H. Auden, thanks google!), cold Yuenglings and good times and great music all around as Matador's favorite Aussies got some Illadelphians dancing up front. If you're, y'know, a sentient being residing in the lower 48, please do yourself a favor and go see them on this tour. Dates are here: Matador tour page. Tonight's show in D.C. sold out weeks ago, though, but they're playing pretty much everywhere else, so go!
Chan(el)
In an event that edged on the surreal but certainly was a hugely successful piece of grand theatre Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues rocked the highest echelons of the fashion world on Tuesday providing the music for Chanel's haute coutre cat walk show. Housed in the magnificant and recently restored Grand Palais in Paris the performance took place in a specially constructed arena with the stage high above the models entrance. Proceedings kicked off with Judah, Greg, Eric, Jim and Chan swaggering into a version of "Naked If I Want To". Six men rolled out a huge grey and white carpet centered with a giant Chanel logo. The models strutted their stuff wearing what to these unschooled eyes looked like opulent and sophisticated yet very pleasing creations. The DDB kicked into a muscular version of "Could We" proving what they bring to the mix (though it doesn't detract from the the album or the Memphis Rhythm Band versions) creates their own sinuous take on the song. As "Satisfaction" continued the momentum did I notice a flicker of amusement across the concentrated face of Marianne Faithfull watching the models intently from row two? Certainly the woman next to Sean Lennon started taking photos of Cat Power and not the models. The band seamlessly stepped into a gorgeous version of "Tracks of My Tears" which built to a crescendo with Chan singing "you can tell by the look on my face" as the final model commanded the floor in a stunning white coat and gown. The curtains opened and Karl Lagerfeld sat there amongst his team as if they too were an audience watching the show.
So I missed clocking Sigourney Weaver, Madame Chirac, Catherine Deneuve, the French Minister of Culture oh and Kate Moss but we did see Sofia Coppola and get to take same great photos of Chan with Marianne Faithfull and Karl Lagerfeld.
Admissions On Our Emissions
In the history of rock 'n roll, one has to look no further than Stevie Ray Vaughn and Bill Graham to know that helicopters and rock concerts make dubious bed fellows. Thusly, when we conceived this audacious contest on Stereogum we thought the flack we'd take would be centered upon subjecting innocent, fun-loving Yo La Tengo fans to the perils of propellers and physics.
But, we were quite mistaken. Some folks have pointed out that this contest is potentially harmful to the environment - something that both us and the band are particularly sensitive too. We have done some research and in fact, this flight will emit about 26 lbs of CO2 into the atmosphere.
In light of this, we have worked with Adam Stein and his good people at Terrapass to secure a $9.99 Puddle Jumper pass which is good for 2,500 lbs of CO2 emissions - leaving us enough room to get Yo La Tengo's tour bus from here to Chicago. Proof of purchase is below. Thank you for keeping us on our toes!
It's Official: Las Vegas Is Really Freakin' Weird
This past weekend I took a break from the hustle and bustle of New York City to work on achieving one of those fantastic feats I've been aiming for my whole life: that's right, I visited my 47th state out of 50, the lovely state of Nevada. And not only did I visit just any ol' place in Nevada, I went the entire crapshoot route and touched down in Las Vegas for a weekend of debauchery, buffets and, uh, Jimmy Buffett (that's right, the Margaritaville franchise store is still in full effect on the Strip).
First impressions always help us new arrivals, and Vegas says, "What better way to impress than with slot machines right out the gates?" Resisting the temptation to play my odds (as I'd just ridden JetBlue, I figured I'd already taken enough risks for the day), I went on to my hotel of choice, The Venetian. And really, while in an artificial town in the middle of the Great American Desert, why not stay at a recreation of Italy's famous city that's crumbling into the sea? Makes sense, right? Can't recommend this hotel enough, especially the plush bathrobes (available for you to take home for only a $85 charge).
So many great things happened this past weekend, it's hard to keep track of 'em all. Highlights would have to include the visibly methed-out homeless population, the incredibly bad tattoos I saw on tourists of all ages while walking down the Strip, and the fact that if you don't own a car, you're not going anywhere. Another Vegas highlight has to be the ridiculous 9/11 tribute fountain at the foot of the fake Statue of Liberty in front of New York, New York that combines quotes from Nelson Mandela, Eleanor Roosevelt and George W. Bush:
Seriously, though, the Pinball Hall of Fame was awesome - after many games of Paperboy, Simpsons Pinball Party and many others, I was ready to take on PUNK! - unfortunately, it wasn't that impressive:
Figuring that something more "high stakes" than pinball was necessary to try, I later hit the blackjack tables ($5 minimum, that's how we roll) at the dingy Las Vegas Club. Finding myself playing at a table with a guy from Albuquerque with a gigantic bandage on his arm, and two guys from Texas (one drinking a mudslide out of a plastic football) has to be one of the highlights of my life. No, really, it was fun, I broke even and had many free drinks courtesy of one of the most haggard-looking waitresses I've ever seen (but she was really nice! honest!). I really recommend checking out some of the downtown (and downtrodden) Vegas casinos - they have their own particular charm, apart from the smell of desperation and crushed cigarettes.
And for those of you reading this who happen to live in Vegas (if you made it this far through my observations on your charming city), don't forget that Pretty Girls Make Graves play there November 25th with She Wants Revenge.
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Chi Ho Kwan is an associate in the Hong Kong office of Latham & Watkins and a member of Litigation & Trial Department. He is a member of the firm’s local Training and Career Enhancement and Pro Bono Committees.
Mr. Kwan specializes in civil and commercial litigation and arbitration. He has represented companies and individuals in cases involving shareholders disputes, contractual disputes and debt recovery actions.
He regularly represents multinational and local corporations as well as professional intermediaries in regulatory investigations and disciplinary inquiries, and has hands-on experience in liaising with regulators.
Mr. Kwan is fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin.
Mr. Kwan’s experience includes representing:
A Japanese investment fund company in relation to an investment dispute in Fujian, China administered by Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre
A US-based world leader in wind turbine design in an ICC arbitration under Singapore law against a substantial Indian renewable energy company with regard to a dispute arising from a license agreement
A US-based company involved in distributing hardware and electromechanical products to the global aerospace industry in its court action against a HK defendant in relation to a wire fraud
A HK subsidiary of a Jiangsu-based steel enterprise in China in its proceedings against its former director for breach of fiduciary duty and fraud against the company
A PRC subsidiary of a major pharmaceutical company in relation to an internal investigation concerning the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
A Singapore-based semiconductor company in its pre-listing internal audit with a special focus on commercial risk issues
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LL.B., London School of Economics and Political Science, 2009
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Bobby Scanlon was thrown out on a bunt attempt to open the second for North Carolina. Andrew Kent struck out. Bo Kenan singled to right field. Jimbo Welsh grounded out to the pitcher.
In the bottom of the second, Ian Swan singled to left field and was awarded second on an obstruction call. Michael Pineda laid down a bunt single and advanced Swan to third. Hayden Kingston struck out. Dylan Owens struck out. Cawley grounded out to first.
For North Carolina in the top of the third, Josh Kent ripped a single to right field. Anstrom grounded out to the shortstop. Welch chopped a grounder to third that he beat out, scoring Josh Kent for a 1-0 lead. Orr singled to right field, and Welch advanced to third. Casey and Scanlon struck out.
Prater grounded out to second to lead off the bottom of the third. Benvenuto struck out. Samuels hit an infield single. Wallace doubled down the right field line, scoring Samuels from first to tie the game, 1-1. Christian Smallwood grounded out to second to end the inning.
In the top of the fourth for North Carolina, Mike McHugh struck out. Kenan hit a line drive off the pitcher and reach safely. Sam Lentz struck out. Josh Kent lined out to the first baseman.
For Florida in the bottom of the fourth, Pineda doubled to the gap in right-center field. Kingston popped out attempting to bunt. Chris McLoughlin struck out. Cawley walked and Prater singled to load the bases. Benvenuto singled to left field, scoring two runs for a 3-1 lead. Samuels struck out.
Anstrom struck out to lead off the fifth for North Carolina. Welch walked, then took second on a wild pitch. Orr singled to right field to put runners on first and third. Casey hit a ground ball that the second baseman couldn't gather up, and Welch scored to cut the lead to 3-2. The runners moved to second and third on a passed ball. Scanlon struck out. McHugh grounded out to shortstop.
In the bottom of the fifth for Florida, Wallace grounded out to first base. Swan hit a ground ball that got through the third baseman's legs. Pineda singled to left field. Kingston struck out for the second out. Dylan Owens grounded out to the pitcher to end the inning.
For North Carolina in the top of the sixth, Kenan led off with a single to left field then moved to second on a passed ball. Lentz struck out. Josh Kent struck out. Kenan took third on a wild pitch. Anstrom struck out to end the game.
For more on this game, come back to Macon.com or pick up Thursday's Telegraph.
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Snapshot looks at health as a family affair
Thursday, July 4, 2019 - 5:47pm
A parent’s lung, heart and bone health all have an impact on their child by the age of 11 or 12, according to a snapshot of pre-teen health.
Led by Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, the Child Health CheckPoint was a one-off physical assessment of 1800 children and their parents across 30 Australian cities and towns.
Through the 15-minute, circuit style tests, researchers examined the links between the health of 11-12 year olds and at least one parent, looking for clues to the genetic and environmental causes of disease development.
The results are published in BMJ Open.
Child Health CheckPoint project leader Professor Melissa Wake said information from the assessments would help governments, health workers and researchers develop strategies to keep Australians healthy.
“Identifying possible links between the health of a child and their parents means we can identify high-risk kids while the window for prevention remains wide and take steps to keep them healthy,” Prof Wake said.
At the Heart Lab assessment station, researchers measured blood pressure, and the elasticity and thickness of the walls of arteries that are known to predict heart disease and stroke in older adults.
Almost 1 in 10 parents in the study had high blood pressure, potentially putting them at cardiovascular risk and highlighting the need for early prevention.
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute group leader and author on the vascular health paper Prof David Burgner said the results showed that some measures are similar in parents and their children by age 11-12.
“Our findings support and contribute to other population studies that show links between children and parents’ vascular health,” Prof Burgner said.
“This is likely to reflect both shared genes and similar lifestyle factors such as diet and exercise in families”.
“The next step is to look further into how and why arterial stiffness, and the related risk factors, are transmitted in families.”
In the Lung Fun assessment, researchers used a spirometer to measure respiratory health, examining airway size and lung volume to identify airway obstruction. They found a modest but significant family link, highlighting the potential for better identification of at-risk populations.
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute honorary fellow manager Dr Liam Welsh said that while there are likely to be a range of factors influencing lung health, these results suggest a potential role for screening.
“Screening the children of parents with low lung function for possible intervention might guard against low lung function or lung function decline,” said Dr Welsh, who was lead author on the lung health paper.
Osteoporosis and poor bone health can begin in childhood, but are not usually diagnosed until a fragility fracture occurs later in life. Genetics is thought to contribute to an individual’s bone mass much more than lifestyle and behaviour, and osteoporosis often clusters in families.
In the Bone Zone assessment, children and parents had their upper leg scanned using peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT) scanner; a technique that gives a more complete picture of bone health than traditional density scans.
The results showed a strong familial link in bone shape and a moderate link in bone density, suggesting that a person’s genetic bone density is fully expressed before they reach adolescence.
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute honorary fellow and author on the bone health paper Dr Peter Simm said there was growing evidence that bone density alone does not adequately explain fragility fractures, with bone size and geometry possibly better predictors.
He said that while the most focus is on bone health in older Australians, skeletal health in later life likely also results from peak bone mass established in childhood and the rate of inevitable bone loss during mid-life.
“Shifting the focus to identify poor bone health in childhood and mid-life could help identify those at-risk and therefore intervene before fragility fractures occur,” Dr Simm said.
• Funded by the Federal Government, the Child Health CheckPoint study is nested within the Growing Up in Australia study, which is run by the Department of Social Services, Australian Institute of Family Studies and
Australian Bureau of Statistics. The Child Health CheckPoint was supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council (Project Grants 1041352, 1109355), Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation (2014-241),
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, National Heart Foundation of Australia (100660), Financial Markets Foundation for Children (2014-055, 2016-310) and the Victoria Deaf Education Institute.
Available for interview:
• Professor Melissa Wake, Child Health CheckPoint chief investigator
Christine Tondorf Bridie Byrne
MCRI Media Advisor MCRI communications specialist
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christine.tondorf@mcri.edu.au bridie.byrne@mcri.edu.au
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Meade Hill Shul
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Our Synagogue was founded on 21st March 1904 – 5 Nissan 5664. When the late Rabbi Yudelovitch left the New Shul, Cheetham Hill Road, his followers decided to form a synagogue of their own.
Rabbi Avrohom Aharon Yudelovich was born in Novardok, Russia in 1850 and was recognised as a child prodigy. In 1871, at the age of 21, he published his first sefer Olim L’mivehan. He received semicha from Rabbi Yom Tov Lippman of Bialystok, Poland.
Rabbi Yudelovich was appointed Rabbi of the new Shul, Cheetham Hill Road in 1898. When he left this Shul in 1904 he became the first Rabbi of the United Shul, based in Park Street Cheetham, which became the foundation of what is now Meade Hill Shul.
Such was the popularity of the learned Rabbi Yudelovich that this new Shul was always crowded. It was normal for there to be a queue on the stairs leading up to the Shul, of people anxious to hear his Shabbat and Yom Tov sermons or to attend his nightly Shiurim.
In 1905 Rabbi Yudelovich became the Rov of the Broder Shul – The United Shul is a breakaway from the Broder Shul. Then in 1908 he left for America where he took the pulpit at Sharei Tefilah in Boston. He authored many seforim: sefer Teshuvat Beis Av on the Shulchan Aruch, the five volume work called Drash Av, and other works on drush.
Rabbi Yudelovich passed away on the 5th Shevat 5690 – 3rd February 1930 survived by his wife and children.
By 1906 it was felt that more spacious accommodation was required. It was in this year that the Cheetham Hill Road premises were acquired and the Synagogue rehoused. Those responsible for the purchase were Messrs. E. Marks, A. Baum, S. Silverstone, B. Berman and U. M. Mendelson.
In 1907 the first Executive was formed. Those elected were: President, E. Marks, Esq. ; Warden, S. Silverstone. Esq.; Hon. Treasurer, A. Baum. Esq. Elections to ok place yearly.
The synagogue’s first president was Ephraim Marks, brother of Marks and Spencer founder Michael Marks. The first Penny Bazaar was located in Robert Street at the top of Cheetham Hill Road.
In the years between 1907 and 1921 a flourishing Chevrah Gemmorah was formed and it was also during this period that a large collection of sepharim was amassed. These sepharim were obtained mainly by presentation — donors ranging from Rabbi Yudelovitch, himself, to the ordinary layman. This resulted in the collection of an exceptionally fine library from which many prominent Rabbanim have enhanced their knowledge.
In 1915/9 we had 208 seat holders.
The first chazan to officiate was Chazan Katz who went to America in 1909. He was succeeded in 1909 by the famous Chazan Siroto, who served as First Reader from then until his death in 1926 — a period of seventeen years in all. The Chazan’s grandson. Lee Lawrence was a popular singer In the 50’s and 60’s.
The Cheetham congregation’s last minister was Chazan Alexander Mentlik. Chazan Shmuel Terry replaced Chazan Mentlik in 1984.
Below is photo of original Shul on Cheetham Hill Road, from the on-line photo records at Manchester Central Library.
The United Synagogue’s Beth Hamedrash held 700 people and was the largest Shul hall in the city. It was popular venue for simchas and meetings. In Its heyday the synagogue was so busy that a commissionaire manned the door on yomim tovim and police were on duty to shepherd crowds across Cheetham Hill Road. On Kol Nldrei entry was by ticket only.
The congregation was in its heyday in the 1930’s. The great and good flocked to the Shul for the Golden Jubilee celebrations in 1954. The minister at the time was Rev S Freedberg. who also served as a mohel.
Present at the celebrations was Rabbi Julius Unsdorfer of Holy Law Synagogue. Rov Maurice Gaguine from the nearby Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue. Rabbi S Rapaport from the Higher Crumpsall and Rabbi Louis Jacobs who wont on to establish the Masorti Movement from the Central Synagogue in Heywood Street. Dayan I Golditch and Dayan I J Weisz also attended. Civil dignitaries present wore Lord Mayor of Manchester Alderman Abraham Moss and Salford Alderman J Schlosberg,
The old synagogue was sold in 1965. This was arranged by Mr Abrams who sold the premises on Cheetham Hill Rd and arranged the purchase of the present site on Meade Hill Road. The site was formerly a pig farm and the farmer lowered the price as the use was to be for prayer.
Michael Rappaport remembers “My grandfather arranged the bridging loan from Mr Baker as the sale took a long time and the need for the Shul in the new neighbourhood was great. The first Barmitzvah (Mark Perner) in the current premises was March 1969. I was Barmitzvah in the May and had my first Aliyah on the Thursday in the old Shul, so for a short while both premises were in use. I cannot recall if the new Shul was in use for the previous Yamin Naraim.”
In 2004, one of the congregation’s oldest members was 81-year-old Leslie Isaacs, whose father Barnett Isaacs donated the chandelier above the ark In the Cheetham Hill Synagogue. Barnett’s name is remembered on a lectern in the current Shul. Leslie was barmitzvah at the Shul in 1936. He recalls: “The voices of Chazan Stern and his sons singing in the choir is my lasting memory. The bass singer in the choir (Rothbaum) was a Hebrew teacher at the Jews’ Shul. Leslie’s elder son Anthony was one of the last boys to be barmitzvah in the old Shul. He remembers the head of the Talmud Torah. Dr IW Slotki addressing the barmitzvah. Younger son Steven was barmitzvah at Meade Hill Road. Looking back to the Shul’s glory days before the war Leslie says: “The Shul was always full. Because we were poor we sat at the back.” Because there were so many Shuls In Cheetham Hill Leslie said that it was like a “football match” after Yom Kippur as worshippers emerged from all the synagogues en-mass.
Rabbi I Freedman was the first minister at the Meade Hill Road premises and remained in office from 1965 until his death in the early 1990’s. After a brief period without a rabbi, Rabbi Joseph Lever came to the synagogue in 1998.
When Sidney Huller first became involved In the Shul the building was a large wooden structure. He raised funds and with a loan from the late Morris Baker, which saw the building of the current synagogue. He proudly stayed in post for 35 years until ill health meant he had to stand down in 2012.
At the AGM in 2012 (the first AGM in over 20 years) a new executive was voted in headed by President Colonel Martin Newman. This was a big change after so long under the old leadership. The new executive looked to bring back a little of the old glory days to what is a magnificent building and a wonderful community.
In 2014 Rabbi Yanky Prijs and Rebbetzin Esti Prijs joined the Shul. They brought new vigour and excitement to the Shul. By the end of 2014 the Shul became a registered charity. Due to there being a United Synagogue already in existence the Shul changed it’s name to Meade Hill Shul to reflect the Road they were on.
By 2017, as numbers started to increase the Shul started to re-introduce many services sadly lost in the past to dwindling number. To recognise this growth, the
Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis speaking at Meade Hill Shul in January 2017
Shul was honoured to welcome Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mervis on Sunday 29th January 2017 for the official induction of Rabbi Yanky Prijs. This was the first Chief Rabbi in 50 years to visit our Shul. Over 150 people attended including Dayan Berger from the Beth Din and many Rabbonim and executives from Shuls both in and around Manchester. They were expertly entertained by our quartet of Chazonim, Martin Radnan, Simon Caplan, Alan Goodman and Menachem Leiberman.
The Shul is looking forward to offering many new services over the coming months and years to cater for the increasing number of Jews moving into the area.
Please note that Meade Hill Shul ARE now in the Manchester Eruv.
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Identifying diabetes early is essential for preventing disease related health complications. Periodontitis, inflammatory gum disease, may be an early indicator of prediabetes and thus, a dental office may be a suitable site for pre-diabetes screening.
Diabetes is a disease of ever increasing prevalence and with very harmful potential complications. However, due to a combination of absence of early stage symptoms and lack of public knowledge, diabetes is commonly not detected until in a later stage, where chances of said complications increase. The best option for management of diabetes mellitus is early detection and intervention, and as a result, researchers are looking into prediabetes screening for early risk factors of diabetes.
Studies have shown a relationship between oral diseases and diabetes, the most common of which is periodontitis. Periodontitis is a chronic inflammatory gum disease that is a major cause of tooth loss. Studies have shown that diabetes exacerbates the effects and occurrence of periodontitis, and that it is commonly found in uncontrolled diabetes. Given its association with diabetes mellitus, it is proposed that dental clinics be equipped with prediabetes screening tools for patients that have periodontitis.
In a new study published in BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care, Teeuw et al. tested using a dental office as a screening site for prediabetes. The site was a university dental clinic and glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) measurements from dry blood spots were used to screen for prediabetes. HbA1c levels correspond to an individual’s blood sugar levels over the past 2 or 3 months, and higher levels are indicative of diabetes. The researchers hypothesized that patients with periodontitis would display higher incidence of prediabetes. A total of 313 patients were tested, with 78 having severe periodontitis, 126 with mild to moderate periodontitis and 109 absent of gum disease.
The findings supported the theory that periodontitis is an early indicator of diabetes. In patients with severe periodontitis, more than 18% of patients had HbA1c levels in the diabetic range, close to double the prevalence in mild to moderate periodontitis and control groups. As well, treatment of metabolic dysregulation associated with diabetes is also helpful in periodontitis treatment, so collaboration between dentists and diabetologists can assist in treatment of both diseases. It should be noted that HbA1c has been reported to overestimate diabetes prevalence, as may be the case in this study, where the percentage of patients diagnosed with diabetes exceeded the general population. However, when adjusting the HbA1c threshold to one where diabetes prevalence matches the general population, patients with mild to moderate and severe periodontitis remained at higher risk of diabetes mellitus than controls. These findings support using dental clinics as screening sites for prediabetes to reduce patient complications associated with late identification of diabetes mellitus.
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Secondhand smoke linked to hospital readmission for asthmatic kids
Published Monday 20 January 2014 Published Mon 20 Jan 2014
By Marie Ellis
A new study reveals that children who have asthma are much more likely to be readmitted to the hospital within 1 year if they are exposed to secondhand smoke at home or in the car.
Researchers from the study, which was published in the journal Pediatrics, say their findings could prompt insurance companies to give incentives to parents or guardians who quit smoking.
Guided by senior author Dr. Robert Kahn from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Ohio, the research team - also from Penn State Milton S. Hershey Children's Hospital in Pennsylvania - studied over 600 children between the ages of 1 and 16, who were admitted to the hospital for asthma or bronchodilator-responsive wheezing between August 2010 and October 2011.
By measuring cotinine - a substance produced when the body breaks down nicotine - in the blood and saliva of the children, the researchers were able to scientifically assess tobacco exposure, though they also asked primary caregivers about tobacco exposure.
The children were followed for at least 12 months to see if they were readmitted to the hospital in that time.
The researchers say their cotinine technique could be used in targeting smoking cessation efforts, as well as to reduce the chances of future hospitalizations for asthmatic children.
Dr. Kahn explains:
"The ability to measure serum and salivary cotinine levels presents the possibility of an objective measure that can be obtained when a child is seen in the emergency department or in the hospital and may be used to predict future hospitalizations."
This new finding could potentially help some of the 7.1 million children the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says have asthma in the US.
Readmission twice as likely for kids exposed to smoke
Of the children in the study, 17% were readmitted within 1 year, the researchers say.
Although tobacco exposure rates as reported by parents and caregivers totaled 35.1%, the researchers found that serum and saliva measures were actually 56.1% and 79.6%, respectively.
The study revealed that children with asthma who are exposed to secondhand smoke are twice as likely to be readmitted to the hospital within 1 year, compared with their non-exposed counterparts.
The overall findings state that there was no correlation between tobacco exposure reported by caregivers and hospital readmission.
However, secondhand smoke exposure as revealed by cotinine measurements in blood and saliva was linked to a readmission risk twice as high for children exposed to smoke, compared with those not exposed.
"Such a measure for exposure to tobacco smoke could be used to target specific interventions at caregivers of those children before discharge from the hospital," suggests Dr. Kahn.
"Several interventions, including parental counseling and contact with the primary care physician, could be adopted in clinical practice," he adds.
Secondhand smoke causes 'irreparable harm'
Dr. Judie Howrylak, lead author of the study from Hershey Children's Hospital, notes that 76% of the children from the study were assisted by Medicaid.
"Certainly there could be a financial incentive for insurance companies to help caregivers quit smoking, rather than pay the downstream costs of a future asthma readmission," she says.
The team's study is released at a time when the American Heart Association (AHA), in response to a new Surgeon General's Report, calls for more action against tobacco.
The AHA's CEO Nancy Brown writes that the report points to over 20 million Americans who "could have lived healthier and longer lives if they had never lit their first cigarette."
She writes about the effects of secondhand smoke:
"The report also points to something that never occurred to Americans back in the 1960s - just being in the same room with a smoker can cause you irreparable harm. Two and a half million of those who died were non-smokers exposed to secondhand smoke."
The study from Dr. Kahn and colleagues certainly lends credence to these latest statements. He and his team are also studying links between traffic-related air pollution and hospital readmission for asthmatics.
Medical News Today recently reported on two factors that may protect against asthma: a high-fiber diet and, interestingly, having dogs in the house.
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China is set to establish the region’s first drone factory in Saudi Arabia, following the visit of King Salman to the far-eastern nation earlier in March.
Saudi Arabia has granted permission for a Chinese firm to set up the Middle East’s first drone factory, which will manufacture hunter-killer aerial drones.
The kingdom’s key science and technology organisation confirmed that the factory’s setup was agreed during King Salman’s visit to China this month.
According to IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly, the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) signed a partnership agreement on March 16 with the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), which manufactures China’s CH-4 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
Earlier this month, Saudi Arabia and China signed $65 billion in deals relating to energy, culture, education and technology during the Saudi monarch’s visit.
The Saudi Technology Development and Investment Company (TAQNIA) had also signed a protocol with China’s Aerospace Long-March International Trade (ALIT) for the drone production line in February, the South China Morning Post reported on Sunday.
Earlier in March, China’s Chengdu Aircraft Design and Research Institute said its latest combat drone rivals the United States MQ-9 Reaper. It added that it may turn out to be China’s “biggest export deal”.
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DERRY GAA: Tough questions lie ahead after Oak Leaf relegation
Germany win the World Cup; Scotland says ‘No’ to independence and the ‘ice bucket challenge’ grips the globe.
Sorry, that was 2014 but if people want to continue talking like it’s 2014, then, yes, Derry are Division One finalists.
It’s not 2014 and people need to stop talking like it is. Indeed, some need to stop talking like it’s 1993!
This year marks 20 years since the Oak Leaf county lifted the Ulster Senior Football Championship. Only twice in the interim years has the county even made the final (2000 & 2011). Derry have seven Ulster Championship wins in total. Only Fermanagh - yet to taste success - have less in the history of the competition.
That’s not league football of course but Championship is the true gauge we’re told and those facts don’t make pretty reading. Some would do well to remember them whilst scratching their heads on social media and wondering, how did we end up here?
The post-mortems are in full swing but it’s only in the movies that we get a big reveal and the evil mastermind who caused all the trouble is unveiled. This isn’t Hollywood. There’s no big reveal to solve the problem and Derry are in Division Four because that’s where the last four years say they belong.
It isn’t Damian McErlain’s fault. It’s not Damian Barton’s, nor is it Brian McIver’s. The situation is a culmination of factors which have at their heart an underlying apathy toward the success of the county team.
Every Oak Leaf Gael wants the county team to succeed but that’s not the question we should be being asking. The question people should be asking is, ‘How much do we want the county team to succeed and what are we willing to sacrifice to achieve it?’
It’s not an easy question to answer and much more complex than a few hundred words allows. The past decade has seen the emergence of full-time county set-ups taking on part-time county set-ups and as the elite moves further into the distance, the problem becomes more acute for counties like Derry.
Strong Derry clubs are continuously cited as the problem and there’s no doubt that the strength of the club can be the weakness of the county in the present era. The professional nature of the game at the top level now makes it impossible for players to balance family, life, work and two hugely demanding sporting masters. And for trying to do so, they are often pillared and criticised or described as not caring enough for either club or county. The players can’t win.
The Derry club championship has always been held in high regard but if the club scene was truly so strong would Slaughtneil have dominated the past four years with such relative ease?
That’s not the Emmet’s fault. They are a superb template for clubs across the country and there’s little doubt that had Derry had the Slaughtneil contingent available, they would not be starting next season in the bottom tier. At least five, possibly more, Slaughtneil players would be starters and that’s losing a third of your team to begin with but arguments over personnel merely paper over the cracks.
Danny Heavron, Emmet McGuckin, Ryan Bell and one or two others have a strong case as to why they deserve to be in the panel but that’s a manager’s choice and it’s not like most possible county players in Derry haven’t had a chance over the past four years. Derry’s turnover of players in that period has been huge.
The most worrying trait from that is the comfort with which players feel entitled to walk away or not join up in the first place. Not being selected for a few games should not be reason enough to turn your back on your county. It’s easy to look at that and say the players don’t care but nothing could be further from the truth. You don’t go through what these boys go through because you don’t care but it’s almost a curse these days to be a talented footballer because your life is no longer your own.
Derry League win is important first step on road to recovery
When Damian McErlain came in he made the conscious decision to base his plans around the successful minor teams that took Derry to three Ulster minor finals and one All Ireland final. That is a sound plan and remains so, even after Sunday. It wasn’t as if he was dispensing with a trophy laden blue-print but now is the time to be steadfast.
So far almost everything has been to blame and I’m sure Vladimir Putin must be waiting to have his name mentioned in the next County Board meeting.
Even Celtic Park got a mention on the list of culprits which says everything. It wasn’t so much of a problem back in 1993.
Negativity is the easiest thing in the world, especially negativity without culpability. Derry county football is now at its lowest ebb so we go back to that question, ‘How much do Derry Gaels want Derry to succeed?’
As a county, Derry has done its best to serve club and county and deserves huge credit for refusing to dilute the club game but as professionalism increases, tough decisions lie ahead, especially if the national calendar can’t be sorted.
That problem is out of Oak Leaf hands to an extent. The first focus has to be inward. Only 445 bothered to turn up when Derry defeated Wexford two weeks ago. Admittedly it wasn’t the most attractive fixture but a week previously when Armagh needed backing, Damian McErlain’s team faced a packed Athletic Grounds, roaring their side on and it won Armagh a tight game.
‘How much do we want the county team to succeed and what are we willing to sacrifice to achieve it?’
Answer that honestly and Derry will be back.
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MIKEY’s OP-ED – Air Force Base Names Homophobic, Anti-Semitic Chaplain as ‘Officer of the Year’
A major war is being viciously waged against the United States of America, a war that’s global in scope and poses a terrifying threat to our national security interests. The ruthless attacks, which this conflict has generated, have inflicted grievous damage to nothing less than the U.S. Constitution itself, as well as the foundational core values of the United States armed forces. While the mainstream media has been woefully asleep regarding this raging conflict, the Pentagon has verified through its own official publications that the war has already led to vast transformations within the armed forces. Religious fanatics are spearheading this pernicious worldwide campaign and, no, I’m NOT referring to Shia or Sunni Islamic jihadists…. but “jihadist” was a good guess. I’m referring, of course, to our very own fire & brimstone fundamentalist Christian crusaders, both within uniform and without, who have seemingly infiltrated every echelon of the United States armed forces. These religious extremists are bolstered by legions of civilian zealots, parachurch organizations, legislators, and persons of influence who are carrying out their own grievous massacre of bedrock civil rights under the banner of “religious freedom.”
You want the latest proof? Witness the appalling appellation and homage recently given to USAF Chaplain (Capt.) Sonny Hernandez, 445th Airlift Wing Chaplain Corps: freshly crowned as the “Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Individual Mobilization Accession Company Grade Officer of the Year” at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, in Dayton, Ohio. The official statement regarding this newly benighted Company Grade Officer of the Year sounds wonderfully amazing and ecumenical. Well, don’t cue the U.S. Air Force band rendition of Kumbaya yet, folks – the plot’s about to thicken with bountiful bile and phlegm.
Upon reading the generic claptrap emanating from Wright-Patterson AFB’s Public Affairs department, we at the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) had a hunch. Indeed, a simple Google search for Chaplain Hernandez and a brief perusal of his sermons indicate that the man is not only a fanatical, fundamentalist Christian supremacist, but he’s also an egregious homophobe and classic anti-Semite.
Just take the sermon “Wrath of God”, which Hernandez delivered at his church, Sovereign Grace Baptist Church in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. I invite those who can stomach such violent hatred to try, and try hard, to listen to this putrid, bigoted oration. In it, the Chaplain stormily decries “abominations” deserving the “hatred of God about the perfect justice of God Almighty which is going to come upon those who loathe at his sovereignty. To those who burn with enmity against his law and his good works which have clearly been manifested throughout history, this is clearly his righteous judgment that’s going to take place upon those who bathe in their sin and boast in their debauchery.” Later on in the sermon, Hernandez provides us with an example of such “perfect justice” in the form of a howlingly moronic explanation of a virus “many of you may have heard of the virus called HIV,” a “due penalty” for the “detestable and abominable” act of homosexual love. In true quack fashion, the hate-preacher then uses cherry-picked statistics to buttress the radical right-wing canard of HIV being a “gay thing”, a consequence of his claim that “God gave them over to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done” and that God has thus abandoned them.
Hernandez then takes the time to veer from the topic of “perversion” into theological anti-Semitism, claiming, “It’s almost identical to how Jesus was delivered into the hands of wicked men. In Mark 15:15, the Bible tells us that Pilate wishing to satisfy the Jews released for them Barabbas and then what happened? They scourged Jesus and delivered him to be crucified.” Wow, “Pilate wishing to satisfy the Jews”? This Air Force unit’s “Officer of the Year” blames “the Jews” in classic Old School anti-Semitic fashion despite the fact that Mark 15:15 doesn’t say “Jews” – it says, “the crowd” or “the people.”
In the sick mind of Hernandez (and sadly, to the “flock” he propagandizes with searing prejudice every Sunday) such bitterly hateful bigotry is “true love,” and those Christians who disagree with him are themselves abominable, unprofitable, and unqualified for every good work, grace or mercy under heaven.
As a civil rights foundation which represents over 41,000 active duty, veteran, and civilian military personnel, about 96% of whom are practicing Christians themselves, we at the MRFF have long been wise to the fact that the DoD Chaplaincy is riddled with absolute bigots of the likes of USAF Poster Child Hernandez. You know, the types of major league religious extremist creeps who make Tomas de Torquemada seem like a career minor leaguer – and they’re as ubiquitous as cockroaches. For every anti-Constitutional dominionist theocrat discovered in the U.S. armed forces, there are thousands of others, big and small, hiding furiously and burrowing into the Pentagon’s worldwide woodwork. And you had better be sure that they’re laying their perverse proselytizing eggs with reckless, unconstitutional abandon.
In such conditions of almost unimaginable infestation, we “pest control experts” at MRFF were NOT at all surprised by the fact that the senior leadership at the 445th Airlift Wing saw fit to reward Hernandez for his loathsome “spiritual labor.”
Now dear readers THINK, please, what all of this crap actually means. Ponder the far-reaching ramifications of what the U.S. Air Force has just done here. It has just singled out for magnificent and honorable recognition, in stiff competition no doubt, this particular virulently gay-bashing, homophobic chaplain who-for good measure- still blatantly blames “the Jews” for killing Jesus. Ah, yes that ol’ anti-Semitic blood libel still plays so well in 2015, eh, bro? Hey, got Vatican II, Chaplain Hernandez? Ruminate, just for a quick second here, on the clear message sent by the Air Force in officially so honoring and rewarding an officer festooned with such blood-curdling hatred for others. T-H-I-N-K, dammit!
After all, this is the same U.S. Air Force that assigned a fundamentalist Christian “’ex-gay’ therapist”, Mike Rosebush, to a titular role at the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) Center for Character and Leadership Development. This is the same U.S. Air Force which trumpeted quite institutionally the virulently anti-Jewish Christian snuff porn, “The Passion of the Christ,” back in 2004 while my two Jewish sons and Christian future daughter-in-law were attending USAFA. Indeed, this is the very same film which also spews the same ancient anti-Semitic Jew-baiting slurs repeated by Hernandez. And most recently, this is also the same U.S. Air Force which apparently left unpunished Colonel Mark H. Slocum, Commander of Seymour Johnson AFB’s 4th Fighter Wing in North Carolina, after he claimed that the U.S. is “Doing the Lord’s Work” (i.e. embarking on a Crusade) in the Middle East. Oh, yes indeed, and the very same U.S. Air Force which has officially sanctioned its armed, uniformed Security Force gate guards at Robins AFB, Georgia, to “assess” all who enter the base with that oh-so-sweet greeting of “Have a blessed day”. Oh, and let’s recall that this deplorable decision to allow the sectarian “gate blessings” came merely two days after the Security Forces squadron commander ordered his troops to cease and desist from “blessing all entrants literally within 3 minutes and 10 seconds after MRFF’s demands were made to him on behalf of numerous MRFF clients (most of them Christians) at Robins AFB.
So, my friends, the next time some fanatical Jesus freak from the “Family” Research Council, the American “Family” Association or the “Liberty” Institute (or some other Orwellian-named fundamentalist Christian hate-group) comes along and tries to sell you the unadulterated crap that the U.S. military under President Obama has become a “hostile environment for Christians”, in general, and hideously hostile to those poor, oppressed, pious military chaplains (like “Officer of the Year” Chaplain Hernandez) in particular, inquire about whether they also have some magic beans or love potions to sell you. You may then inform them with the cold, hard, irrefutable facts of the uber-dominating, Dominionist Christian influence pervading our armed forces, and the war on real religious liberty that is being waged.
Question: Are Americans REALLY so breathtakingly gullible and willfully ignorant as to believe the pathetic and terribly transparent con-job of “persecution” and victimization being fraudulently sold by the radical right-wing Christian faux-“religious liberty” movement? If the answer is yes, then it won’t be long before we find ourselves in the grizzly grip of a theocratic dictatorship of Christian fundamentalism/totalitarianism at the helm of the most lethal military apparatus devised in the history of humankind; the United States military.
Up is now down, black is now white and sunny day is now rainy day? Designating a hate-monger like Capt. (Chaplain) Hernandez as its USAF’s unit’s “Officer of the Year” Poster Child provides a terrifying glimpse into just what such a near term futuristic catastrophe awaits us all if we don’t act passionately and tirelessly to STOP it and demand DoD adherence to the United States Constitution.
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Tom Frazee
Thank you, Mikey, for your eloquent ability to clearly pin point and discredit these factless hate mongering traitors to America and the world. Please continue!
Yeshua Warrior
One again Mikey spews out his putrid hatred while twisting the truth to fit his cause against Christians and chaplains!
He did get it right about what the chaplain said, that yes God does call homosexuality an abomination for it goes against His nature and it just amazes me that our society today automatically calls any Christian homophobic and bigoted just because we only repeat what God has already called homosexuality a sin, so I guess that means God is homophobic as well huh?
I watched the chaplains sermon on You Tube and the chaplain was not saying that HIV is God’s punishment for sin, rather he was quoting the CDC statistics that a high percentage of those who have HIV are homosexual males and bisexuals. What most people do not realize is that HIV started first in Africa with heterosexuals who did not have protected sex, so that about that first Mikey!
Now regarding the accusation that the chaplain is anti-Semitic because he says that he mentioned the word Jews instead of crowd when Jesus was handed over for crucifixion. If you listen carefully to the sermon, what the chaplain was doing was making a point that the Greek phrase “handed over” is the same word in Romans 1 when it says that God handed over them to their sin to the situation in Mark 15. Now, listen very carefully and think about this, where is Jerusalem, oh yes in Israel, and what people lived in Jerusalem, wait for it…Jewish people, so it does not take a rocket scientist to realize that the “crowd” mentioned in Mark 15 were what…Jewish people. So…either Mikey is not a theologian but maybe just blind, stupid and ignorant and oh yes, wait for it again, a liar!!! Piece of advice for Mikey, leave the bible interpretation to us theologians.
I wonder if Mikey ever read why the chaplain was named officer of the year, it is worth ready by all!
http://www.445aw.afrc.af.mil/news/story_print.asp?id=123445230
Hmm, does this sound like the chaplain was anti-Semitic?
“While at the Air Force Academy, Hernandez was the on-call chaplain support to the active-duty Rabbi chaplain, allowing the cadets Jewish religious rites.” I think Mikey should do his homework before opening his mouth.
Maybe Mikey should memorize this famous quote – “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”
Question: Are Americans REALLY so breathtakingly gullible and willfully ignorant as to believe the pathetic and terribly transparent con-job of “persecution” and victimization being fraudulently sold by the radical right-wing Christian faux-“religious liberty” movement?
I answer:
From birth Dominionists – many from IFB churches are told they are exceptional and because of that they are hated. Anyone not sharing their belief are ‘other’ and under the influence of Satan. Critical thinking is demonized. That is their excuse for poor behavior as viewed through the lens of 2015.
As for the rest of The USA there is an expectation of live and let live. They’ve not been attacked or demonized by Dominionist relatives or friends. At lest that is my experience. I can’t speak for others.
Because of the actions, beliefs, and words of those Dominionists I know i am in the fight for my life. Their deity doesn’t fit me nor do their ideas as to how I love. I’d say let’s share the world but they say no – I am not really a human.
They started it. As a person who has been bullied for too long, I will end it. Peacefully because that is who I am but their influence shall fade and the world will be a better place.
Or so I imagine. Peace out.
Posted August 10, 2017 at 6:48 PM
U r a tool
Posted September 14, 2017 at 3:14 AM
Thank you for this. Hernandez isn’t just anti-Semitic. He’s against every religion that isn’t christianity.
Christian Service Members: Avoid Supporting Or Accommodating Evil!
http://barbwire.com/2017/09/12/christian-service-members-avoid-supporting-accommodating-evil/
Jeffrey S. Nelson
Have you checked his credentials?
He claims to be a “Dr.”… But the only education I can find is a 4-year Bible College…
Virginia Reader
Posted September 18, 2017 at 9:49 PM
I’m puzzled. Does Chaplain Hernandez actually think “Satan” is some kind of immortal evil figure? Does Chaplain Sonny actually elevate the Old Goat to the status of a god? It’s hard to believe that an officer serving in the US Air Force can actually hold such anti-scientific ideas.
Does he think Jews have horns? That Catholics are unthinking slaves of the pope?
But it’s also odd that a man can wear the uniform of an American officer and still thumb his nose at the Constitution he has sworn to defend and not get court martialed and cashiered.
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Teen girl stabbed new boyfriend to death 'after he tried to touch her breasts'
Young mum Martyna Ogonowska stabbed her new boyfriend after a row over his driving following a night out with her mother and friends
Kelly-Ann Mills
Martyna Ogonowska was found guilty of murder (Image: Cambridgeshire Police)
A teenage mum who stabbed her boyfriend through the heart in a “fit of anger” during a night out has been jailed for life.
Martyna Ogonowska had only been dating 23-year-old Filip Jaskiewicz for a few days when the murder took place.
The court heard the pair had been out with Ogonowska’s two friends and her mother at the Solstice bar, in Peterborough.
The four returned to the victim’s car in the early hours of Sunday, October 21, as her mother went home, and an argument began over Mr Jaskiewicz’s driving.
Mr Jaskiewicz stopped his car and Ogonowska proceeded to walk out of the car.
"He started to follow me and we started to have an argument," she said in a previous hearing during the trial.
"He grabbed me by the neck, pushed me and I fell on my knees. He then grabbed me by the neck and started to touch my legs.
"He said that I would be with him always."
The trial previously heard how Mr Jaskiewicz started touching Ogonowska on her breast and legs as they were arguing, Cambridgeshire Live reports.
At just after 5am, while parked 18-year-old Ogonowska stabbed Mr Jaskiewicz as he looked at his mobile phone.
She ran off with the knife, followed by her two friends, who believed she had punched the victim.
Martyna Ogonowska outside Cambridge Crown Court (Image: Cambridge News/BPM MEDIA)
Filip Jaskiewicz was just 23 years old (Image: Cambridgeshire Police)
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Mr Jaskiewicz was found dead by a member of the public about two hours later and at roughly the same time Ogonowska took a taxi to Thorpe Wood Police Station, with the knife, and handed herself in to police.
Ogonowska, a mother of one, of Victoria Place, Peterborough, denied murder and having a bladed article, but was found guilty by a jury at Cambridge Crown Court, today.
She was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 17 years.
Filip Jaskiewicz, who was killed in Peterborough (Image: Cambridge News/BPM MEDIA)
Martyna Ogonowska had only been dating 23-year-old Filip Jaskiewicz (pictured) for a few days (Image: Cambridge News/BPM MEDIA)
During the trial, the court heard Ogonowska and Mr Jaskiewicz, who are both Polish by birth, had met through mutual friends and a relationship had begun to form.
Mr Jaskiewicz had come to England about a year previously and settled in Peterborough where he lived in a house with friends and worked as a van driver.
The court heard Ogonowska knew “precisely what she had done, she left Mr Jaskiewicz to die alone."
In police interview, she claimed it had been an accident and had punched him in self-defence but forgotten about the knife she was holding.
The knife used to kill her victim (Image: Cambridgeshire Police)
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However, she admitted she could have got out of the car and walked away before the fateful moment.
DCI Adam Gallop, who led the investigation, said: “This is a tragic case which once again shows the potentially lethal consequences of carrying a knife.
"Ogonowska had taken the kitchen knife out with her and then into the car where it was eventually used.
“Once she had stabbed Filip she ran and made no attempt to alert emergency services, so leaving him to die.
“Filip’s family are devastated by his death but I hope the fact that justice has today been done may help them in some way to live with their loss and grief.”
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WBSC, Twitter to amplify buzz for youth U15 Baseball World Cup 2016 #u15worldcup
Press Release World Baseball Softbal Confederation
IWAKI, Japan — The World Baseball Softball Confederation announced that Twitter will be the Official Social Media Platform for the III WBSC U-15 Baseball World Cup® 2016, which opened today in Iwaki, Japan.
As the Official Social Media Platform, Twitter’s full suite of platform tools and applications, including Twitter Challenger, Periscope, Vine and SnappyTV, will be brought to the U-15 Baseball World Cup in Iwaki to expand and enhance real-time/in-game coverage, and create highly shareable/unique content, to amplify online media buzz and discussion.
Twitter Challenger (expansion of Twitter Mirror), the exclusive selfie app, will be used to capture self-expression of the U-15 teams/athletes, and give fas and followers an exciting behind-the-scenes, close-up perspective of the U-15 Baseball World Cup in Iwaki, particularly during post-game celebrations.
Twitter-owned SnappyTV will be integrated for clipping, editing and sharing clips from live broadcasts, in cooperation with WBSC’s broadcast partners, in near real-time to stimulate online sharing/discussion and drive audiences to the full on-air broadcast, while also driving fans to attend the games in Iwaki.
WBSC and Twitter partnered on the Premier12® 2015 global baseball flagship event last November in Japan and Taiwan, which generated top ratings and a massive online media buzz in the host nations, and was Japan and Taiwan’s most-watched major sports event in 2015.
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IN WORDS: We Got the Luck Back - Toto Toto talks lady luck, tough...
German GP 2018
IN WORDS: We Got the Luck Back - Toto
Toto talks lady luck, tough calls and bumper crowds at the German GP...
'It changed in our favour'
We emerged from the topsy-turvy German GP with a quite incredible one-two finish, which both drivers - and the rest of the team - had to work incredibly hard for in challenging conditions.
"The race happens on Sunday, not Saturday, and it's not always the quickest car that wins," Toto explained.
"That is what makes the sport so special. Certainly, in qualifying and at the start of the race, Ferrari had the quickest package.
"But, with all the circumstances and the rain, it all changed in our favour. We got the luck back that we didn't have in the last few races.
"This is a very difficult Championship, with a competitor that is going from strength to strength. We keep adding performance to our car and engine, and they do the same.
"Keeping the belief in yourself and the team is going to play an important role in how this Championship goes."
'It was about bringing the result home'
The late Safety Car prompted a flurry of activity, with Valtteri stopping for fresh UltraSofts and Lewis making a late call to stay out.
At the restart, Valtteri took the fight to Lewis but was unable to get through, before the difficult call was made to hold station to the finish.
"At that stage of the race, chaos broke loose out on track," Toto said, on the Safety Car period. "It was very difficult to make the right call.
"At the end, between various voices over the radio, he [Lewis] made the decision to stay out - which was good for us, because we were splitting the bets and that proved to be the right call.
"The decision later in the race when they started to battle each other on the restart, fair enough. It was still raining in places, still humid and after so much bad luck in recent races, the scenario of losing a car or two was something we didn't want to envisage.
"If it was the other way around, we would've made the exact same call. It was important to score the one-two in order to recover some of the points which we have lost through bad luck. It was about bringing the result home."
'F1 is very alive in Germany'
Of course, the result was made all the sweeter by the venue. A home race victory for Mercedes-Benz in front of a passionate Hockenheim crowd - something Toto hopes will be a sight to behold once more in the years to come.
"You could see how many people attended today. It was absolutely full house. With another grand stand being built up.
"F1 is very alive in Germany and I'm really happy to see that because after the last couple of events we had here it wasn't clear.
"After not having an event last year people came and they saw a great racing spectacle and I hope that it is going to continue that between promoter and the state and Liberty they are going to find a solution to keep the German GP."
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REPORT: Lewis and Valtteri Score Sensational 1-2
REPORT: Front Row for Valtteri, Hydraulic Failure for Lewis in Qualifying
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Rituals in caves invoked the power of earth and underworld
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’More lively are the designs on the terracotta stamps used to print patterns on something (perhaps cloth or the human body) which has not been preserved in the archaeological record. There are geometric and abstract motives, monkeys and eagles, stylized versions of Quetzalcoatl, the Plumed Serpent, and of other strange figures who may be gods or heroes’ (Warwick Bray). These would have been hand made, in a tradition going back some two millennia (2,000 years) before the Aztecs.
Examples of Aztec clay stamps in Mexico City’s National Museum of Anthropology; can you spot the little monkey! (Click on image to enlarge)
Evidence from finds at Tlatilco, a large pre-Hispanic village in the Valley of Mexico, shows that even the earliest (roller-shaped) baked clay stamps (occasional stone, copper and bone ones have been found) were used by common folk as well as the better-off, to apply ink or paint to clothing, paper, or to the body. Roller-shaped stamps - that sometimes had two ingenious parallel lines running lengthwise to act as margin guides for printing onto sashes and belts!) - gave way to simpler, flatter models hundreds of years before the Aztecs came on the scene. Printing with stamps was - among ancient Mexicans - and remains today - all over the world - very much a folk art. It must have been common for people to decorate their cheeks, arms and legs during major festivals, a bit like the modern-day fad for face-painting and the use of stick-on temporary tattoos at big events.
A modern inking stamp with a pre-Hispanic look and feel to it... (Click on image to enlarge)
Museums contain some examples of rounded stamps, ideal for printing onto human limbs. The stamping process was also used for decorating pottery pieces, being applied to the surface of the vessel when the clay was still pliable.
Colour dyes were made from charcoal and pine (for black), chalk (white!), cinnabar (bright scarlet mercury ore), cochineal, indigo and other materials.
Popular designs - which tended to be strongly stylized - included geometric patterns, interlaced flowers, animals, serpents, eagle heads, and (one often reproduced in books of ancient Mexican motifs today) ‘monkeys dancing in pairs to some irresistible rhythm’...
The classic work of Jorge Enciso who died in 1969 remains the best source on pre-Hispanic stamp designs: (L) Dover Publications edition (1953) based on the author’s own original edition (1947) (Click on image to enlarge)
For decades we have been recommending as the best source book on ancient Mexican (stamp) designs, the books by Jorge Enciso, widely available thanks to the Dover Publications edition (look how well thumbed our copy is in the photo!) In Enciso’s own words ‘their variety and ingenuity interested me intensely’. He collected, studied - and traced! - hundreds of original stamps, in museums and private collections. The smallest he found measured just one square centimetre; the largest (from Tlatilco) was 23 cms in length.
(Click on image to enlarge)
NOTE ON TATTOOS:-
We consulted a world expert on tattooing traditions around the world, Lars Krutak, on tattooing in ancient Mexico. He told us -
There really is no firm evidence of a tattooing tradition among the Olmec, Maya or Aztec. It is speculative at best and I am more inclined that these groups either body painted or practiced scarification in antiquity. In short, they may have tattooed prisoners from the ethnic groups they conquered, but there just isn’t enough data out there. The firmest evidence we have of true tattooing in Mexico is of Uto-Aztecan peoples like the Tarahumara, Pima, and others of the Northwest who certainly tattooed – as we have learned from early missionary accounts. - learn more of Lars’ work as a tattoo anthropologist from his website, below...
Info from:-
• Design Motifs of Ancient Mexico by Jorge Enciso, Dover Publications, New York, 1953
• Aztecs Royal Academy of Arts exhibition catalogue, London, 2002
• Aztec Art by Esther Pasztory, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1983
• Ancient Mexico & Central America by Susan Toby Evans, Thames & Hudson, London, 2004
• Every Life of the Aztecs by Warwick Bray, Dorset Press, New York, 1968
Image sources:-
• Museum object photos by Ana Laura Landa and Xavier M. Miró/Mexicolore
• Modern inking stamp photo by Ian Mursell/Mexicolore
NOTE 2012:-
The last link below takes you to a small Polish photogallery collected by Boguchwala Tuszynska during her travels. As the text is in Polish, here is some of the introductory text in English:-
During excavations all over Mesoamerica, archaeologists often find small objects with various patterns on them. They are a kind of stamps with residues of pigments, especially red, blue, yellow and black. These items are usually small in size - from a few to a dozen centimeters and have flat, cylindrical or conical shapes. Most of them were made of clay, and only a few of stone. The flat stamps have small handles that make using them easier, and the cylindrical ones have holes through which a stick can be put to facilitate applying the pattern by rolling the stamp. The most common designs include flowers, lizards, snakes, birds, butterflies and other animals, but also fantastic beasts. Sometimes these are just geometric patterns, zigzags, spirals and circles, occasionally there are also glyphs. Stamps have been found in different areas, such as Tlatilco, Teotihuacan, Colima, Chiapa de Corzo, Calakmul, in the vicinity of San Luís Potosí, on the Olmec site of San Andrés, in Veracruz and the Mexica areas, which indicates that they were quite commonly used from the pre-Classic to post-Classic period
(With thanks to Agnieszka Hamann).
See a ‘fire serpent’ clay stamp
See some small clay stamps for decorating the cheeks during festivals
Lay out 3 ancient Mesoamerican roller stamp designs!
Lars Krutak’s tattooing website
Boguchwala Tuszynska’s photo archive of 47 pre-Columbian stamps (text in Polish)
Here's what others have said:
7 At 10.42am on Wednesday February 29 2012, sadie wrote:
you came to my school recently and showed us some stamps you were very interesting!!!
6 At 5.13pm on Sunday May 22 2011, otirudam wrote:
I loved your clay stamp article. It will be great when many of those stamp motifs are finnally deciphered. Some motifs are so special that they must have meant something very important, which can be seen repeated in so many of the cultural remnants we have to this very day. Some motifs remind me of the incredible patterns embeded in the Mitla fabulous temples. Also they somehow resemble many ancient petroglyphs inscribed in rocks and cliffs of the Americas. Thanks for sharing these fascinating subjects. Keep on sending more please.
5 At 1.17am on Saturday August 14 2010, Gerardo Jacuindes wrote:
to mexiclore. Heres my email adress: jacuindesg@yahoo.com. email me if you would like more details or pictures on the clay stamp that we have.
4 At 11.49pm on Wednesday August 11 2010, DENISE wrote:
I was hoping you could look at photos and offer your opinion about an artifact I have in my possession.
Last weekend, my partner and I had a yard sale. He opened a box of items for sale, one which I spotted immediately. I took the item out of the box and said, “Um....no. We are not selling this. Tell me what you know about this piece?”
My partner is from Mexico. His friend gave his the item years ago along with a story. Apparently, his wife’s grandfather unearthed the object while plowing a field in Santiago Ixcuintla. I estimate he found it at least 90-100 years ago.
I believe it is a cermaic stamp carved like a sun, similar to the clay stamp mould pictured on your web site. It feels heavy like stone, perhaps fired clay.
I would appreciate any insight you can offer on the age and origin of the stamp. I am very intrigued to have found such an interesting artifact, which almost made it’s way into a yard sale. (smile)
Mexicolore replies: (We’ve asked Denise to supply more details, which we hope to post in our ‘Can You Help?’ section...)
3 At 12.42am on Saturday August 7 2010, Gerardo Jacuindes wrote:
My father has what looks like a real aztec clay stamp of an aztec warrior. Email me.
Mexicolore replies: Sounds great, Gerardo - but you haven’t supplied an email address! We’d love to hear/see more about your stamp...
2 At 3.26am on Saturday July 10 2010, J G wrote:
I have a friend that showed me a REAL Ink stamp,with a dog or a wolf’s face as a holder in the back, also has a Jade Mask About 2 1/2” by 2 1/2” , If he lets me take a picture of them I will post them.
Mexicolore replies: Cheers, JG, keep in touch and let us know how you get on - we’d love to see/share any photos you can get...
1 At 10.51pm on Tuesday May 11 2010, tecpaocelotl wrote:
I have a reproduction stamp that looks exactly like the one you guys have as the sample.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v258/tecpaocelotl/DSC00616.jpg
There’s a book that looks like an updated version with the same title as the book design motifs of ancient mexico which has a cd rom with all the images in the book. It’s great for educational purposes.
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Dwyane Wade, came out to support his longtime buddy. “He texted me to get the bleep over here so I got outta the bed,” said Wade, adding seriously: “He’s one of the most talented young people we have in the [entertainment] world.” The native Philadelphian wouldn’t agree; Hart’s too humble. Asked how it feels to have more than 7.5 followers on Twitter, he said: “I’m appreciative of it. I’m in love with my profession. My fans support me. I wake up every day and thank God for doing what I love to do. I don’t have feelings of, ‘Oh I wish I had this or that.’”
He also bristles at the term, “The New King of Comedy.”
“I’m a student of the game. I’m able to do what I do because so many before me have paved the way. I’m just someone coming up on the totem pole.”
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Article | Open | Published: 26 October 2018
Flexible and stable high-energy lithium-sulfur full batteries with only 100% oversized lithium
Jian Chang1,
Jian Shang1,
Yongming Sun2,
Luis K. Ono3,
Dongrui Wang1,
Zhijun Ma1,
Qiyao Huang1,
Dongdong Chen1,
Guoqiang Liu1,
Yi Cui2,4,
Yabing Qi ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-4876-80493 &
Zijian Zheng ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-6653-75941
Nature Communicationsvolume 9, Article number: 4480 (2018) | Download Citation
Lightweight and flexible energy storage devices are urgently needed to persistently power wearable devices, and lithium-sulfur batteries are promising technologies due to their low mass densities and high theoretical capacities. Here we report a flexible and high-energy lithium-sulfur full battery device with only 100% oversized lithium, enabled by rationally designed copper-coated and nickel-coated carbon fabrics as excellent hosts for lithium and sulfur, respectively. These metallic carbon fabrics endow mechanical flexibility, reduce local current density of the electrodes, and, more importantly, significantly stabilize the electrode materials to reach remarkable Coulombic efficiency of >99.89% for a lithium anode and >99.82% for a sulfur cathode over 400 half-cell charge-discharge cycles. Consequently, the assembled lithium-sulfur full battery provides high areal capacity (3 mA h cm−2), high cell energy density (288 W h kg−1 and 360 W h L−1), excellent cycling stability (260 cycles), and remarkable bending stability at a small radius of curvature (<1 mm).
The emergence of flexible and wearable electronics has a significant role in the realization of the Internet of Things, allowing the creation of intelligent fabric for body-worn or near-body sensors that can communicate with each other or with the internet1,2,3. To persistently power wearable devices, lightweight and flexible energy storage units with high energy density and electrochemical stability are in urgent need4,5,6,7. Rigid-typed lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) fabricated on metal foils are currently dominating battery technologies for portable electronics because of their relatively high energy density and long cycle-life. In the past decade, much effort has been devoted to developing flexible-typed LIBs; however, increasing the energy density while maintaining the light weight, flexibility and cycling stability of the devices remains challenging due to limited electrochemical capacity and high mass density of intercalation electrode materials. For example, the state-of-the-art flexible LIBs exhibit low energy density, i.e. <2 mW h cm−2 and short cycling lifetime, i.e., <50 cycles8,9,10.
Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries show great promise as the next-generation high-energy-density batteries for flexible and wearable electronics because of their low mass densities (Li: 0.534 g cm-3; S: 2.07 g cm−3) and high theoretical capacities (Li: 3860 mA h g−1; S: 1675 mA h g−1)11,12. However, most reported Li-S batteries to date require the use of heavy Li foil anodes (~100 mA h cm−2)13,14,15,16. The use of heavy Li foil as anode has led to several drawbacks, including (1) low Coulombic efficiency of Li anode (<90%) and the quick dry out of electrolyte17,18, (2) low energy density due to the heavy weight of Li foil and the large amount of electrolyte14,15,16, (3) easy formation of Li dendrites19,20, and (4) poor mechanical flexibility14,15,21.
To solve this problem, many research works focus on developing stable Li anode and S cathode with high Coulombic efficiency (CE). Several useful strategies have been reported to achieve stable Li metal anodes, including the design of artificial solid electrolyte interface (SEI) layers18,22, the use of electrolyte additives19,23,24, and the development of high-surface-area Li hosts20,25,26,27. On the cathode side, effective S hosts through physical confinement approaches28,29,30 and/or chemical modification approaches using metal oxides31, sulfides32, and even nitrides33 have been reported to reduce the shuttle effects of polysulfides. Regardless of this rapid progress in the past decade, the state-of-the-art still cannot avoid the use of a large excessive amount of Li, typically ~1500–15,000% oversize as compared with S cathode31,32,33,34,35. As a result, the reported Li-S batteries are still far from the viable commercial target to replace Li-ion technology36,37,38.
It has been pointed out lately that a critical challenge for Li-S batteries is achieving high energy density and high stability in a full cell with the use of a Li anode that is only 6 mA h cm−2 in size (~100% oversize)38. This is also of remarkable importance from a sustainability point of view, as the production of Li is environmentally unfriendly and expensive39. Until now, high energy density and stable cycling has not been achieved in a flexible Li-S full cell with a limited source of Li.
To address this critical challenge, we report here a highly flexible, stable and high energy density Li-S full battery, with the use of only 100% excess of Li. The key is to deposit Li or S onto rationally designed metal-coated carbon fabrics (CFs). Specifically, Li deposited on Cu-coated CF (Li/CuCF) is used as an anode, while a graphene/sulfur mixture on Ni-coated CF (NSHG/S8/NiCF) is used as a cathode. The fabric structure simultaneously endows mechanical flexibility and reduces local current density of the electrodes. More importantly, the metal coating on CF significantly stabilizes the electrode materials to reach remarkable CE. On the anode side, the Cu coating renders uniform deposition of Li nanosheets instead of dendrites and leads to an average CE > 99.89% over 400 charge-discharge cycles. On the cathode side, the Ni coating can catalytically accelerate polysulfides reduction and strongly anchor Li2S, which leads to an excellent capacity retention > 99.82% over 400 cycles. Ultimately, mechanically robust Li-S full cells with high energy density (6.3 mW h cm−2), high areal capacity (3 mA h cm−2), large current density (2 mA cm−2) and excellent cycling stability (capacity retention per cycle: 99.89% for 260 cycles) have been successfully achieved. The Li-S full cells could maintain stable charge/discharge characteristics over 200 cycles and power large LED screens to display for tens of minutes even when repeatedly bent at small radii of curvature (<1 mm).
Design and fabrication of lithium-sulfur full batteries
Fabric-based batteries can effectively accommodate the complex deformations induced by body motion and are easy to integrate into the ordinary cloth. To construct Li-S fabric batteries, we firstly fabricate metal-coated CF for use as current collectors. CFs are known to be lightweight and flexible, but their high electrical resistance40, chemical instability41,42,43, and poor affinity for lithium and sulfur27,28,29,33 are far from being the ideal host. Therefore, a uniform layer of chemically stable and highly conductive Cu (for anode) or Ni (for cathode) is deposited onto CFs via a modified polymer-assisted metal deposition (PAMD) method44,45,46. In brief, CFs were activated through an acid treatment to render the surface hydrophilic, followed by surface-initiated polymerization to form a 10-nm-thick poly[2-(methacryloyloxy) ethyl] trimethyl ammonium chloride (PMETAC) coating (Fig. 1a). The PMETAC layer acted as an interfacial layer to immobilize Pd moieties through the quaternary ammonium groups, after which an electroless deposition (ELD) of dense metal nanoparticles onto the fabrics was carried out from the PMETAC layer (Fig. 1b, c, and Supplementary Fig. 1 and Supplementary Fig. 1). Both Ni-deposited carbon fabric (NiCF) and Cu-deposited carbon fabric (CuCF) show exceedingly low sheet resistance of 0.48 and 0.1 Ω cm−2, respectively, which are one order of magnitude lower than that of pristine CF (3.04 Ω cm−2, Fig. 1d), and the resistance remains unchanged over 5000 bending cycles. Furthermore, these metallic fabrics exhibit much higher tensile and compression strength than that of CFs without obvious density increase (Fig. 1d, Supplementary Fig. 3a, and 3b), which is in accordance with the wear-resistant and lightweight requirements for wearable devices. The remarkable properties can be ascribed to the uniform polymer interfacial layer (i.e., PMETAC) that bonds the metal to the CF surface.
Schematic of the fabrication process and design principle for the electrodes. a To simultaneously endow mechanical durability and cycling stability of Li-S batteries, chemically stable and highly conductive Cu or Ni thin layers are uniformly coated onto carbon fabrics (CuCF or NiCF) via a scalable polymer-assisted metal deposition (PAMD) method. After electrodeposition, the achieved Li/CuCF anode with Cu-protective layers and lithiated carbon could stabilize Li metal deposition and offset the irreversible Li loss during plating/stripping process. After vacuum infiltration, the NSHG/S8/NiCF cathode (NSHG is nitrogen and sulfur heavily doped graphene) with Ni-catalytic layers could simultaneously speed up the redox kinetics of soluble polysulfides and solid Li2S. b, c Digital images of scalable CuCF and NiCF (scale bar = 3 cm). The corresponding enlarged metallic fibers are also observed using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images, as shown in the inset (scale bar = 3 µm). d Sheet resistances of various fabrics (CF, CuCF, and NiCF) as a function of bending cycles at a given bending radius (r = 2.5 mm). e Typical tensile stress-strain curves of CF, CuCF, and NiCF. (ELD is electroless deposition)
Subsequent to the metal deposition, a certain amount of Li metal was electrochemically plated on CuCF to yield the Li/CuCF anode. On the other hand, a slurry mixture containing nitrogen and sulfur heavily doped graphene (NSHG), Super P (a type of carbon black), and S8 was coated on NiCF to yield the NSHG/S8/NiCF cathode (Fig. 1a). Finally, the two pieces of fabric electrodes, together with a commercial separator membrane and ether-based electrolyte, were assembled into a soft full cell and sealed in an aluminum encapsulation.
Plating and stripping behavior of lithium anode
As shown in the cross-sectional scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images at different positions of the anode, the electrodeposition of Li metal was very uniform (Supplementary Fig. 4). The Li metal preferentially deposits on the top part of CuCF due to the shorter Li+ diffusion pathway, as opposed to the bottom part. With increasing the areal capacity of Li/CuCF anode, the deposition of Li metal gradually expands from the top to the bottom of CuCF (Fig. 2a and Supplementary Fig. 5), reaching a thickness of ~80 µm when the amount of deposition was 10 mA h cm−2. For this thick sample, Li metal is plated onto the surface of metallic fibers and the space among them at the upper position of the fabric (P1, Fig. 2a). At the middle position of the fabric (P2), each metallic fiber is coated by Li metal and some gaps are filled. At the lower position (P3), no Li metal is observed.
Plating and striping behavior of lithium anode. a Low and high magnification scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images of lithiated copper-deposited carbon fabric (Li/CuCF) anode in the through-thickness direction (scale bar for a is 100 and 5 µm, respectively). The upper position (P1), middle position (P2) and lower position (P3) of the fabric are shown. b Nucleation behavior of Li metal onto various hosts (copper-deposited carbon fabric (CuCF), carbon fabric (CF), and Cu foil) at 1 mA cm−2 during the 1st electroplating process. c–f Low and high magnification SEM images of Li/CuCF anode after the 1st and 100th plating/striping cycle at 1 mA cm−2 (scale bar for c and e is 100 µm; scale bar for d and f is 0.2 and 2 µm, respectively). g Galvanostatic plating/stripping profiles in Li/Cu foil, Li foil, and Li/CuCF symmetric cells at 1 mA cm−2. h Galvanostatic plating/stripping profile of various Li anodes at 1st, 2nd, 10th, 100th cycle. i Rate performance comparison between Li/CuCF and Li/Cu foil at various current densities from 0.5 mA cm−2 to 5 mA cm−2. The areal capacity of Li metal anodes is 10 mA h cm−2 (a) and 6 mA h cm−2 (b–i), respectively
The CuCF possesses an ultrahigh ability to stabilize Li metal during its electroplating and stripping process. As a proof-of-concept, we firstly analyzed the nucleation behavior of Li metal during the 1st electroplating process, in which the nucleation overpotential of Li is defined as the difference between the sharp tip voltage and the later stable mass-transfer overpotential. When plating Li onto bare Cu foil, a large nucleation overpotential of 170 mV is observed (Fig. 2b), which indicates the unfavorable interaction between Cu foil and Li metal. In contrast, the nucleation overpotential of Li metal on CuCF is only 15 mV. The electrodeposition on CuCF exhibits a two-step process: an initial Li+ intercalation into CuCF from 0.75 V (vs. Li/Li+) and a subsequent Li metal deposition on the Cu surface at nearly 0 V (Supplementary Fig. 6). The initial Li+ intercalation step is believed to form a LiCx complex with the carbon fibers, which turns CuCF into a highly lithiophilic substrate for the subsequent Li deposition. In addition, the Cu nanoparticles, which fully cover the surface of CuCF, may also serve as nucleation centers to further enhance the affinity to Li metal. Uniform spherical particles and partial ultrathin nanosheets of metallic Li are observed inside-out the CuCF after the electroplating (Fig. 2c, d).
Apart from the ultralow nucleation overpotential at the 1st electroplating process, Li/CuCF also maintain a significantly low mass-transfer overpotential in a long-term repeating stripping/plating of Li metal. Here, coin cells made of one pair of Li/CuCF anodes (electrode capacity: 6 mA h cm−2) are stripped and plated in a partial capacity of 2 mA h cm−2 at a current density of 1 mA cm−2. It is found that the Cu nanoparticles on the surface of CuCF can also confine the deposits of metallic Li and allow the continuous formation of Li nanoflakes on CuCF during the stripping/plating process (Fig. 2e, f). Namely, the lithiated CuCF with high-porosity can serve as a stable cage for accommodating Li metal inside fabric structure, further stabilizing the SEI layer. The spherical particles of Li metal formed at the 1st electroplating process gradually transform into uniform nanoflakes. The Li nanoflakes significantly reduce the mass-transfer overpotential of Li metal by allowing much faster Li+ transport and Li metal deposition, which lead to steadily low overpotential. As shown in Fig. 2g and h, the overpotential of Li/CuCF symmetric cell starts at a very low value of ~30 mV. It continues to decrease until reaching ~20 mV at the 10th cycle and keeps constant for 120 cycles. In comparison, when one pair of pure Li foils or Li on Cu foils (Li/Cu foil) are assembled into symmetric coin cells, obvious dendrite formation was observed (Supplementary Fig. 8). The fragment and delamination of Li foil after cycling adversely increase the overpotential and simultaneously speed up the Li loss. For Li/Cu foil, the uncontrolled mossy deposits of Li metal lead to the violent fluctuation of overpotential at the 15th cycle and the sudden jump at the 35th cycle.
The ability to stabilize Li metal with CuCF becomes even more prominent when the striping/plating process is carried out at high rate. For example, when the current density is increased to a very high rate of 5 mA cm−2, Li/CuCF still shows a successively reduced overpotential at the early stage and keeps a very low value of ~50 mV (Fig. 2i). The Li/Cu foil, however, results in drastically increased overpotential over 150 mV just after 10 cycles.
Coulombic efficiency and cycling stability of lithium anode
For Li metal anode, the primary challenge is to reduce the Li loss during the cycling, i.e., to achieve a high CE to ensure a long cycle life. The cycled Li loss primarily originates from two unstable interfaces: (i) SEI layers which repeatedly break and repair due to the dendrite formation, and (ii) the interfacial side reaction between Li and the substrate surface, which repeatedly occurs during cycling.
A high CE of the Li/CuCF anode can be expected due to the high stability of Li on Li/CuCF and a low operation overpotential discussed above. As proof-of-concept, we recorded the CEs of various Li anodes including Li/CuCF, Li/CF, and Li/Cu foil during the electrochemical cycling against Li foil, where 3.5 mA h cm−2 of Li is fully plated and stripped at a current density of 1 mA cm−2 (Fig. 3a). For Li/Cu foil, the CE rapidly drops to below 90% after only 6 cycles, resulting from the dendrite formation and SEI damage. Compared to Li/Cu foil, Li/CF exhibits a higher average CE of 98.2% during the first 40 cycles, indicating that the three-dimensional fabric structure with high surface area can reduce the effective current density and stabilize the SEI layer. Unfortunately, Li/CF suffers from a cycling deterioration after the 40th cycle, which is attributed to the Li-ether co-intercalation and subsequent structural damage26,42,47. Li/CuCF shows a much higher average CE of 99.54% and much longer cycling stability than that of CF and Cu foil. This can be ascribed to the fact that the Cu coating can effectively prevent side reaction between Li and CF surface.
Cycling stability and storage mechanism of lithium anode. a The Coulombic efficiency (CE) of various Li anodes including lithiated copper-deposited carbon fabric (Li/CuCF), lithiated carbon fabric (Li/CF) and lithiated copper foil (Li/Cu foil) during cycling against Li foil, where 3.5 mA h cm−2 of Li is fully plated and stripped at 1 mA cm−2. The profiles of areal capacity versus voltage for Li/CuCF anode are recorded in the inset. b Areal capacities and corresponding CE values of Li/CuCF, Li/CF, and Li/Cu foil anode- Li4Ti5O12 (LTO) cells for 400 cycles are plotted at a current density of 1.5 mA cm−2 from top to bottom, respectively. The cycling process is involved in three stages: Stage I represents the cycling process that only occurs to the plated Li metal; Stage II represents the cycling process that occurs to both the plated Li metal and the inserted Li+; Stage III represents the cycling process that only occurs to the inserted Li+. c Scheme of three cycling Stages (I, II, and III) for Li/CuCF anode. d Galvanostatic discharge profiles of Li/CuCF-LTO and Li/CF-LTO cells at 1.5 mA cm−2 for various cycling stages. The areal capacity of Li metal anodes is 3.5 mA h cm−2 in all cases
To more accurately evaluate the CE and deeply investigate the storage mechanism of Li metal anodes, a Li4Ti5O12 (LTO) counter electrode (1 mA h cm−2) is paired with an oversized Li/CuCF anode (3.5 mA h cm−2) (Fig.3b). The total capacity of Li/CuCF anode includes the plated Li metal capacity of 2 mA h cm−2 and the intercalated Li+ capacity of 1.5 mA h cm−2. The use of the LTO counter electrode ensures that all the cycled Li loss originates from Li/CuCF anode because LTO has no prestored Li. It is observed that there is a large Li loss of 0.18 mA h cm−2 due to the formation of SEI in the 1st cycle (Fig. 3b). From the 2nd cycle, the capacity of the cell decades slowly until the 140th cycle. When the capacity of Li metal is in excess to that of LTO, the striping process only occurs to the plated Li metal (Fig. 3c, d and Supplementary Fig. 9). This process is defined as Stage I. The average CE of Li metal in Stage I is calculated to be 99.42% in Li/CuCF anode. In Stage II starting from the 141st cycle, the striping process occurs to both the Li metal and the intercalated Li+ due to the less capacity of Li metal than that of LTO. In Stage III starting from the 300th cycle, the capacity of the cell becomes very stable and no obvious drop is observed. The CE of Stage III is 99.99%, which is attributed to the highly reversible Li+ insertion/desertion of the CuCF. Therefore, the capacity depletion in Stage II can be ascribed to the loss of Li metal, and the average CE of Li metal is determined to be 99.89% in Li/CuCF anode. Following the same testing conditions, the reference cell made of Li/CF//LTO shows a much shorter Stage I until only 50th cycle (Fig. 3d), which corresponds to a low CE of 98.36%. The reference cell made of Li/Cu foil//LTO with similar capacity loading decades even much more rapidly and loses all the capacity at the 70th cycle, which corresponds to a very poor CE of 71.7%. Again, the results indicate that the three-dimensional metallic CF current collector can not only reduce the effective current density and stabilize the SEI layer, but also prevent the side reaction between Li and CF surface. Furthermore, the partially intercalated Li+ in Li/CuCF anode may offset the irreversible Li loss of cycled Li metal and further extend the cycling performance of Li/CuCF.
Electrochemical properties of sulfur cathode
The as-prepared NiCF was immersed into a pre-mixed slurry containing 70 wt% S8, 17.5 wt% Super P, and 12.5 wt% NSHG and then dried in a vacuum oven. The NSHG is synthesized through a modified procedure48 and the detail characterization is listed in Supplementary Fig. 10. From the SEM and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) characterizations (Fig. 4a, d), the fiber surfaces are uniformly and densely wrapped with the well-mixed NSHG/Super P/S8 nanocomposites after the coating process. From the electron probe micro-analyzer (EPMA) and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) (Supplementary Fig. 11a, b), the precise content of S8 is determined to be 75 wt% in the nanocomposite coating. The highly polar NSHG serves as a conductive binder to strongly immobilize sulfur onto the surface of each metallized fiber. The Super P addition mainly contributes to the prevention of NSHG restacking. Finally, the NSHG/S8/NiCF cathode with various sulfur loadings can be prepared by tuning the amount of NMP solvent due to the varying viscosity of the ink (Supplementary Fig. 11c–e). Notably, the porous NiCF can uniformly adsorb the sulfur mixture over a large lateral area and the cross-section direction due to the capillary force (Supplementary Figs. 11–14). At a relatively low mass loading of 1.4 mg cm−2, the fiber surfaces are coated with sulfur slurry. At 3.2 mg cm−2, the space between the fibers is partially filled. As mass loading increases to 5.6 mg cm−2, most spaces are filled up.
Cycling stability and rate capability of sulfur cathode. a–c Low and high magnification scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images of the NSHG/S8/Ni cathode (NSHG is nitrogen and sulfur heavily doped graphene). The sulfur cathode was obtained by direct infiltration of NSHG/S8 hybrid inks into the nickel-deposited carbon fabric (NiCF), followed by drying at 60 °C in a vacuum chamber. Scale bar for a–c is 100 µm, 5 µm, and 500 nm, respectively. d Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images of NSHG/S8 cladding layers, extracted from NSHG/S8/Ni cathode (scale bar = 200 nm). e Specific capacities at various rates for sulfur cathodes, including NSHG/S8/NiCF, NSHG/S8/CF (CF is carbon fabric), RGO/S8/NiCF (RGO is reduced graphene oxide) and Super P/S8/Al electrodes (Super P is a type of carbon black). f Specific capacities, and corresponding CE values of the optimized NSHG/S8/NiCF cathode were obtained at 2 mA cm−2 for 400 cycles. g Cyclic voltammetry curves of NSHG/S8/NiCF and NSHG/S8/CF at a scan rate of 0.2 mV s−1 in a potential window from 1.7 to 2.8 V. h Theoretical calculation of the adsorption and decomposition energies of Li2S on the surface of RGO, nitrogen-doped graphene (NGr), NSHG, and the thin slab of Ni (111). Notably, the thin slab of Ni (111) with a large adsorption energy of −3.51 eV and a tiny decomposition energy barrier of 0.2 eV for Li2S facilitates the rapid oxidation of Li2S back to sulfur (carbon is gray, sulfur is yellow, lithium is purple, nitrogen is blue, nickel is light blue)
The NSHG/S8/NiCF cathode (vs. Li foil) exhibits high capacities at a wide range of discharging rates ranging from 0.1C to 4C (1C = 2.3 mA cm−2). For example, the initial capacity at 0.1C, 0.5C, and 4C reach 1427, 1016, and 614 mA h g−1, respectively (Fig. 4e). The capacities at all rates are much superior to reference samples made with NSHG/S8/CF, RGO/S8/CF (RGO = reduced graphene oxide) and super P/S8/Al cathodes (Fig. 4e, Supplementary Figs. 15 and 16). More importantly, the capacity retention per cycle of NSHG/S8/NiCF reaches 99.82% over 400 cycles with a high mass loading of 2.4 mg cm−2 (Fig. 4f). A stable areal capacity of 3.51 mA h cm−2 is obtained at a sulfur mass loading of 4.2 mg cm−2 (Supplementary Fig. 15i). After cycling, no obvious morphological change of the NSHG/S8/NiCF cathodes was observed from topographical and cross-section SEM analysis (Supplementary Figs. 17 and 18).
The excellent rate capability, cycling stability, and high areal capacities of NSHG/S8/NiCF cathode are ascribed to three main factors as follows. (1) The incorporation of high-surface-area CF could improve the accessibility of electrolytes to the electrodes, e.g., RGO/S8/CF electrodes exhibit much better capacities compared to Super P/S8/Al at all rates (Fig. 4e). (2) The addition of NSHG not only serves as excellent binders to immobilize solid sulfur onto the metallic fabric, but also takes advantage of the hetero-atoms (N and S) doping sites to chemically absorb soluble polysulfides. That is, NSHG/S8/CF electrodes further enhance the capacities at high rates compared to RGO/S8/CF. (3) Most importantly, the Ni coating supported with high-surface-area CF effectively catalyze the reduction/oxidation of soluble polysulfides and the absorption/decomposition of the Li2S end-product to improve the utilization of sulfur/Li2S. The rapid growth of uniform sulfur/Li2S nanoparticles within conducting NSHG matrix onto NiCF illustrates the catalytical role of Ni-metallic layers.
To further prove the catalytic property of Ni surface, we tested the electrochemical activity of the electrodes by cyclic voltammetry (CV) at a potential window of 1.7–2.8 V and a scan rate of 0.2 mV s−1. Both NSHG/S8/NiCF and NSHG/S8/CF electrodes exhibit two cathodic peaks and one anodic peak (Fig. 4g). The two representative cathodic peaks originate from the reduction of elemental sulfur to soluble lithium polysulfides (Li2Sx, 4 ≤ x ≤ 8) at the higher potential and the formation of insoluble lithium sulfides (Li2S2/Li2S) at the lower potential, respectively. When scanning back, one anodic peak shows the oxidation of Li2S to S8. The lower oxidation potential and higher reduction potential always reflect lower polarization and faster redox rates in electrochemical systems. Compared to NSHG/S8/CF electrodes, NSHG/S8/NiCF electrodes reveal the large upshift (2.24 V → 2.36 V; 1.89 V → 2.00 V) of the two reduction peaks and the downshift (2.55V → 2.44V) of the oxidation peak, which indicates that the introduction of polar Ni coating on CF can efficiently catalyze the reduction/oxidation of soluble polysulfides. In addition, NSHG/S8/NiCF electrodes also exhibit much narrower and sharper redox peaks than that of NSHG/S8/CF and Super P/S8/Al, reconfirming the reduced polarization and rapid redox kinetics (Supplementary Fig. 19).
Stable and high capacity sulfur cathodes require not only rapid reduction/oxidation kinetics of soluble polysulfides, but also efficient absorption/decomposition of solid Li2S49. In principle, highly reversible charge/discharge characteristics of the sulfur/Li2S cathode requires the large adsorption energy and small decomposition energy of Li2S. From the density functional theory (DFT) simulation, we also found that of the Ni surface can immobilize lithium sulfides (Li2S) more effectively in addition to the catalytic effect of polysulfides. It is known that carbon surface has low affinity to Li2S. Therefore, the absorption and decomposition energies of on various modeling slabs including RGO, nitrogen-doped graphene (NGr), NSHG, and Ni (111) were well-studied (Fig. 4h and Supplementary Table 2). Compared to that of RGO (0.92 eV) and NGr (1.28 eV), the higher binding affinity of NSHG (1.41 eV) with Li2S indicates the incorporation of N and S heteroatoms can improve the deposition of polar Li2S onto the nonpolar graphene surface. Compared to RGO, NGr, and NSHG, the thin slab of Ni (111) exhibits the much stronger binding energy (3.51 eV) with polar Li2S and subsequently forms three S-Ni chemical bonds. On the other hand, the decomposition energies of Li2S on the surface of RGO, NGr, NSHG, and the thin slab of Ni (111) were calculated to be 1.48, 1.40, 1.54, and 0.20 eV, respectively. Notably, an intact Li2S molecule is decomposed into LiS and Li+ (Li2S → LiS + Li+ + e–). As shown in Fig. 4h, the Li+ rapidly diffuses far from the sulfur atom of Li2S and finally stabilizes at the center of C/Ni rings, which is accompanied by the breakage of the Li-S bond. Compared to graphene materials, the thin slab of Ni (111) exhibits the lowest decomposition energy barrier, suggesting efficient catalytic effects of Ni on Li2S decomposition. In other words, the efficient absorption and decomposition capability of the Ni layer significantly facilitates the oxidation of Li2S back to sulfur. Therefore, the Ni-coated layer of NSHG/S8/NiCF can simultaneously speed up the redox kinetics of soluble polysulfides and solid Li2S, subsequently resulting in high sulfur recycling utilization.
Cycling stability and flexibility of lithium-sulfur full batteries
To examine the structural stability of both electrodes during mechanical deformations, sheet resistance of anodic Li/CuCF and cathodic NSHG/S8/NiCF with various mass loadings have been provided as a function of bending cycles at a given bending radius r = 2.5 mm (Fig. 5a, b). The sheet resistance of both electrodes increases very slightly with the increase in mass loading of the electrode. The sheet resistances of both electrodes do not show obvious increase over 2000 bending cycles, which is well contrasted with Li foil. No delamination of the electrode materials from the metallized fabrics are observed (Supplementary Fig. 20 and Fig. 21). Therefore, the high flexibility, high capacity and electrochemical stability of Li/CuCF and NSHG/S8/NiCF cathode are highly suitable for making high energy flexible Li-S full cells. As proof-of-concept, we stacked the two fabric electrodes with a polypropylene separator to fabricate the full battery (Fig. 5c). NSHG/S8/NiCF cathodes with different sulfur loadings of 1.4 and 3.2 mg cm−2 are paired with a limited amount of Li/CuCF anode (6 mA h cm−2) (Fig. 5d). The electrochemical properties of the as-made Li-S full batteries under different current densities are summarized in Table 1. It should be noted that the gravimetric and volumetric densities are calculated based on the total weight and volume of the entire battery including current collector, electrode, and separator.
Cycling stability and mechanical durability of lithium-sulfur full batteries. a, b Sheet resistances of the electrodes (lithiated copper-deposited carbon fabric, Li/CuCF and NSHG/S8/NiCF where NSHG is nitrogen and sulfur heavily doped graphene and NiCF is nickel-deposited carbon fabric) as a function of bending cycles at a given bending radius (r = 2.5 mm). c Digital picture of the inner cell configuration in full-cell Li-S batteries. A flexible microporous separator is used for separating two kinds of composite fabrics (NSHG/S8/NiCF as cathode and Li/CuCF as anode). d Cycling stability of Li-S full batteries at high current densities of 1 mA cm−2 and 2 mA cm-2. The sulfur cathode of NSHG/S8/NiCF with different sulfur loadings of 1.4 mg cm-2 and 3.2 mg cm−2 was paired with a limited amount of Li/CuCF (6 mA h cm−2) to study the cycling performance. e Areal capacities of our Li-S full cells with a size of 4 cm−2 are recorded at 1 mA cm−2 for 150 cycles, during which 200 repeating bents at 5 mm radius are carried out. To demonstrate flexible and wearable applications, two batteries of a size of 4 cm−2 are connected in series to yield an open circuit voltage of 4.2 V and a high areal capacity of 4 mA h cm−2. The tandem cell can be used for powering 264 LEDs-array screens for tens of minutes. The array screen can display a clear caption of “Li S Fabric”, although the Li-S batteries as a power supplier were harshly bended at various bending radius of (i) r = ∞, (ii) r = 7.5 mm, (iii) r = 5 mm, as shown in the inset. f Areal capacities of Li-S full cells with a size of 4 cm−2 are recorded at 2 mA cm−2 for 50 cycles, during which 40 repeating folds are performed at a folding radius of <1 mm. g Areal capacities of conventional Li foil-based Li-S pouch cells with a size of 4 cm−2 are recorded at 1 mA cm−2 for 53 cycles and 100 repeating bends at 5 mm radius are conducted after the 50th cycle
Table 1 Performance metrics of our flexible Li-S full batteries
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Importantly, both batteries with high and low mass loading show remarkable cell capacity and stability. For example, the Li-S battery with 3.2 mg cm−2 sulfur cathode exhibits high capacities of 3.8, 3, and 2.4 mA h cm−2 at 0.5, 1, and at 2 mA cm−2, respectively. At a practical current density of 1 mA cm−2, the cell provides high areal energy density of 6.3 mW h cm−2, gravimetric energy density of 288 W h kg−1, and volumetric energy density of 360 W h L−1 (Table 1). To the best of our knowledge, all of the corresponding battery metrics are much higher than the state-of-the-art flexible LIBs and recently reported Li foil-based flexible Li-S batteries (Supplementary Table 3 and Table 4). Most importantly, the Li-S full battery with limited Li anode could be cycled up to 260 cycles with a capacity retention of 99.89% per cycle at a high current density of 2 mA cm−2, which is even comparable to inflexible Li-S batteries with a high sulfur loading50,51,52. The Li-S battery with sulfur loading of 1.4 mg cm−2 also provides a good capacity of 1 mA h cm−2 and an even higher capacity retention of 99.92% per cycle over 260 cycles (Supplementary Fig. 22).
The Li-S full battery is ideal for flexible and wearable applications. To showcase the capability, two batteries of a size of 4 cm−2 are connected in series to yield an open circuit voltage of 4.2 V and a high areal capacity of 4 mA h cm−2. The tandem cell is used to power a screen consisting of 264 light-emitting diodes (LEDs) (trigger voltage: 3.7 V; size: 10 × 3 cm−2), which display a clear caption of “Li S Fabric” (Fig. 5e and Supplementary Fig. 23). The LED screen keeps lighting with stable brightness during repeated bending at small radii of curvatures of 7.5 and 5 mm for tens of minutes. The charge/discharge characteristics of the battery is recorded at 1 mA cm−2 for 150 cycles, during which 200 repeating bends at 5 mm radius are carried out. Again, the high capacity retention of ~99.5% and small fluctuations during mechanical bending indicate the excellent mechanical stability of Li-S full batteries. To further examine the mechanical robustness of our textile-based Li-S full cells, more severe folding deformation (r < 1 mm) at higher current density (2 mA cm−2) was conducted. As shown in Fig. 5f, 40 folds of the Li-S full batteries were carried out during the 50 charge/discharge cycles. The cell also shows remarkable stability. No obvious cell failure phenomenon was observed.
In comparison, conventional Li foil-based Li-S pouch cells can barely operate several cycles and fail upon 100 bending cycles (r = 5 mm), which is ascribed to the low fatigue resistance of bare Li foil anode (Fig. 5g). This result is similar with previous published works, where most Li-S pouch cells could only be bent for one to several times. For those bent for more than 100 times, the Li-S pouch cells could typically last only for several charge/discharge cycles (Supplementary Table 4).
In conclusion, we have reported the first example of stable and high-energy Li-S flexible full batteries that use only 100% excess of Li, to the best of our knowledge. The cells exhibit high energy density (6.3 mW h cm−2), high areal capacity (3 mA h cm−2), large current density (2 mA cm−2) and excellent cycling stability (capacity retention per cycle: 99.89% for 260 cycles) and can maintain stable charge/discharge characteristics while being repeatedly bent at small radii of curvature. The excellent electrochemical performance and mechanical flexibility of Li-S full batteries are ascribed to the unique design of fabric-typed electrodes as follows. The fabric structure of CF simultaneously endows mechanical flexibility and reduces local current density of the electrodes. More importantly, the metal coating on CF significantly stabilizes the electrode materials to reach remarkable CEs. On the anode side, Cu protective layers not only effectively prevent side reactions between Li and the CF surface, but also stabilize the SEI layer by reducing the local current density during cycling. The Cu coating renders uniform deposition of Li nanosheets instead of dendrites and leads to an average CE of 99.89% over 400 charge-discharge cycles. On the cathode side, catalytic Ni layers can effectively catalyze the reduction of soluble polysulfides, strongly capture Li2S and further catalyze the decomposition back to sulfur, which enables excellent capacity retention of 99.82% over 400 cycles. As a result, the trade-off between electrochemical performance and mechanical flexibility of Li-S batteries is successfully resolved by the employment of rationally designed metallic fabrics. The achievement of mechanical and electrochemical performance sheds light on the effectiveness of the design principle. This material and electrode design principle could also be applied for other flexible and wearable energy storage devices, such as supercapacitors53,54, Li-ion batteries55, and Li-air batteries56.
Preparation of copper-/nickel-coated carbon fabrics
Commercially available CFs (Gas Hub Technology Pte Ltd) were immersed into a mixture of concentrated H2SO4/HNO3 (v/v = 3:1) and then sonicated at 80 °C for 2 h. Then acid-treated CFs were rinsed using deionized (DI) water (>18 MΩ cm) several times and dried at 80 °C for 10 min. For ELD of Cu or Ni, the retreated CFs were immersed into a 4 % (v/v) [3-(methacryloyloxy) propyl] trimethoxysilane solution (solvent: 95 % EtOH, 1% acetic acid (HAc) and 4 % deionized (DI) water) for 1 h at 25 °C. After rinsing, the silanized CFs were then dipped into an aqueous mixture of [2-(methacryloyloxy) ethyl] trimethyl ammonium chloride (METAC) (20 wt%) and potassium persulfate (2 g L−1), followed by free-radical polymerization at 80 °C for 1 h. Then, the PMETAC-coated CFs were rinsed using DI water for several times and dried at 80 °C for 10 min. After that, PMETAC-coated CFs were immersed into a 5 × 10-3 M (NH4)2PdCl4 aqueous solution and kept for 20 min for loading [PdCl4]2− in a dark environment. Finally, the [PdCl4]2− loaded CFs were individually immersed into the ELD bath of Cu or Ni for 30 min, in which a corresponding thin metal layer was deposited onto the surface of CFs. The ELD of Cu was performed in a plating bath consisting of a 1:1 (v/v) mixture of solution A and B. Solution A contains NaOH (12 g L−1), CuSO4·5H2O (13 g L−1), and KNaC4H4O6·4H2O (29 g L−1) in DI water. Solution B is a formaldehyde (HCHO, 9.5 mL L−1) aqueous solution. The ELD of Ni was performed in a plating bath consisting of a 10:1 (v/v) mixture of solution A and freshly prepared B. Solution A contains Ni2SO4·5H2O (80 g L−1), sodium citrate (40 g L−1), and lactic acid (20 g L−1) in DI water (pH = 7.5). Solution B is a dimethylamine borane (1.5 g L−1) aqueous solution44. All ELD experiments were carried out at room temperature.
Preparation of fabric-typed lithium anode
The CuCF was cut into a certain size and shape to serve as the working electrode, a Celgard 2500 membrane as the separator and a lithium foil as the counter/reference electrode in the sandwiched cell. The prepared electrolyte is 1 M lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (LiTFSI) in a mixture solution of 1,3-dioxolane (DOL) and 1,2-dimethoxyethane (DME) (1:1, vol. ratio) with 2 wt% LiNO3 additives. The cell was firstly cycled at 0–1 V (Li+/Li) at 1 mA cm−2 for five cycles to activate the cuprous oxide from cladding metallic layers. Then the required Li metal was deposited inside CuCF at 1 mA cm−2 to obtain the Li/CuCF anode, which is easily extracted from the open cell. Here, the partial Li+ was inserted into CF by passing through metallic layer and the content of inserted Li+ might be easily controlled by changing the lithiation current.
Preparation of nitrogen and sulfur heavily doped graphene
Graphite oxide (GO) was synthesized from natural graphite powder according to the modified Hummers method57. Graphite oxide powder was sonicated in DI water for half an hour to yield GO solution with a concentration of 2 mg mL−1. In brief, an aqueous dispersion of GO (2 mg mL−1) with 2-amino thiazole in a weight ratio of 1:2 was stirred at ambient temperature to obtain amino thiazole functionalized GO. Then the mixture was sealed in a 100 mL Teflon-lined stainless-steel autoclave for hydrothermal reaction at 160 °C for 12 h. The obtained black hydrogel was immersed into DI water several times to remove the residual 2-amino thiazole and dried in the oven at 50 °C to obtain a loose NSHG sponge. For a control experiment, NG was prepared using the same procedure by adding equal amount of ethylene diamine. RGO sponge was also prepared through the same procedure without adding any dopants.
Preparation of fabric-typed sulfur cathode
The S8@Super P nanoparticles hybrid was prepared following a melt-diffusion strategy. Commercial S8 powders and Super P nanoparticles were grounded together based on the optimal weight ratio of 4:1. Then the hybrid was heated to 155 °C and maintained for 12 h. Homogeneous sulfur-containing ink was fabricated by mixing 1.05 g sulfur hybrid and 0.15 g NSHG in N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP) solvent followed by high power ultrasonication for 60 min. The as-prepared NiCF was then immersed into the concentrated ink for 10 s and removed from the ink. Finally, the NSHG/S8/NiCF composite was obtained by drying in a vacuum oven at 60 °C overnight. The concentration of the ink was tuned by varying the amount of NMP to obtain different sulfur mass loading.
Assembling of the flexible lithium-sulfur full battery cell
The fully flexible Li-S battery cell with the encapsulation of commercial soft Al-plastic film was assembled in an argon-filled glove box using the NSHG/S8/NiCF composite as cathode, a microporous polypropylene membrane as separator and the Li/CuCF composite as anode. The electrolyte of 1 M LiTFSI in DOL/DME with 2 wt% LiNO3 is appropriately added according to the electrode size (20 µL cm−2).
The surface morphology of the electrodes was examined using field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM, JSM6335F, JEOL, Japan). The microstructure of the NSHG/S8/NiCF composite was investigated by high resolution transmission electron microscope (HR-TEM, JEM-2011, JEOL, Japan). The NSHG/S8/NiCF composite was sonicated in ethanol for 5 min and the suspension was dropped in a 200 mesh Cu grid. The elemental mapping of sulfur cathodes was performed using electron probe micro-analyzer (EPMA-1600, Shimadzu, Japan). The stress–strain curve of CuCF and NiCF was obtained using an Instron 5565 A tester. In situ resistance–strain measurements were carried out by a two-probe method through a Keithley 2400 sourcemeter. The chemical structure and composition were investigated by high-resolution X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS, Axis Ultra, Kratos) with a monochromated Al-Kα (1486.6 eV) excitation source. Raman spectroscopy was performed using a BaySpec Nomadic Raman system with a laser wavelength of 532 nm.
Electrochemical measurements
Stainless steel coin cells and soft-packaged cells were assembled in an Ar-filled glovebox with oxygen and moisture content < 1 ppm. In the cathodic and anodic half cells, the electrochemical performances of NSHG/S8/NiCF and Li/CuCF composites were individually evaluated by galvanostatic cycling of 2032-typed coin cell with the same amount (40 µL cm−2) of electrolyte. Galvanostatic cycling of the electrodes were conducted on Arbin and Neware battery testing systems. Cyclic voltammetry measurements were performed on a CHI660e electrochemical workstation.
Theoretical calculation
All theoretical calculations were performed using the Vienna ab initio simulation package code based on the first-principles of density functional theory (DFT) framework. The projector augmented wave pseudopotentials were applied to describe the electron–ion interactions. The electronic exchange correlation interaction effect was evaluated through the generalized gradient approximation with Perdew–Burke–Ernzerhof exchange–correlation function. A cut-off energy of 450 eV was employed for the plane wave basis to ensure convergence. All the structures were optimized with energy and force convergence criterions of 0.01 meV and 0.02 eV Å−1, respectively. A vacuum slab of 20 Å was applied to exclude the interaction between all the corresponding slabs. A single layer graphene of a 4 × 4 supercell size with two-point defects was adopted as the model for non-doped reduced graphene oxide. Herein, the pyridinic nitrogen and thiophene-like sulfur were used as representative dopants for N, S heavily doped graphene. In addition, a corresponding 4 × 4 supercell size Ni slab with optimized thickness (explained in the Supplementary Table 2) was also adopted as the model for thin layer Ni-coated fabric. The vdW-DF2 correction was adopted in the simulation of absorption and decomposition processes by automatically adding the physical van der Waals interaction. The adsorption energy (Ead) for Li2S in various surface slabs are defined according to the equation: Ead = Etotal − Eads − Esuf, where Etotal is the total energy of the adsorbed system, Eads is the energy of the adsorbate in vacuum and Esuf is the energy of the optimized clean surface slabs. The climbing image nudged elastic band (CI-NEB) method was applied for computing the decomposition barrier (Ede) and the Li+ diffusion process of Li2S (Li2S → LiS + Li+ + e−).
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We acknowledge financial support from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (1-YW0Z and 1-ZVK1) and RGC/NSFC (N_PolyU528/16). L.K.O. and Y.B.Q. would like to acknowledge funding from the Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, the OIST R&D Cluster Research Program, and the OIST Proof of Concept (POC) Program.
Laboratory for Advanced Interfacial Materials and Devices, Institute of Textiles and Clothing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China
Jian Chang
, Jian Shang
, Dongrui Wang
, Zhijun Ma
, Qiyao Huang
, Dongdong Chen
, Guoqiang Liu
& Zijian Zheng
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
Yongming Sun
& Yi Cui
Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, 1919-1 Tancha, Onna-son, Okinawa, 904-0495, Japan
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Which was the best decade for the hobby?
As in costs,weather,and radio reliability!
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Percy Verance 08/02/2019 06:55:56
Spot on Chris. I bought a Skyleader Courier set brand new in 1981, and it had rate switches, which were an extra cost option...... I don't recall any servo reversing on it though.
Posted by Jonathan M on 07/02/2019 19:31:47:
The answer - for me - has to be the present, or if you like the current decade.
I have a fabulous choice of stick and tissue FF plans from pre-War to the present which I can download and build from balsa ordered online (and a far greater range of other materials and equipment that a single model shop could ever carry), I can put together a 2-stroke classic pattern ship from a modern laser-cut kit, or stay old-school and build a trad Chris Foss aerobatic for 4-stroke or a similar era slope-soarer, or very quickly assemble an ARTF and bung in my own RX, plus I can benefit from very high-tech materials and extraordinary electronics and TX programming by way of a current DLG design or moulded slope-soarer.
On top of all this, there are superb resources and knowledge-bases online, enabling learning and communication that simply didn't exist when I was converting a Keil Kraft SE5A (from Henry J Nicholls on the Holloway Road) to Telco CO2... surprised it actually flew!
Edited By Jonathan M on 07/02/2019 19:33:20
THat reminds me of my first club, The REgents Park MFC. We used to fly on Hampstead Heath and Epsom Downs.
I was only with them for a few months. I wonder if any of them are still around.
Flyer 08/02/2019 09:17:10
Here and now! As it's the anticipation of what I'm going to build and fly.............
iqon 08/02/2019 09:21:40
The 0`s. if you want nostalgia it`s still there, but now we have electric and petrol. ( and me ). Is that why your depressed John
NOW. Radio, Engines, motors have never be cheaper and you are spoilt for choice. It it sad that one can no longer browse in your LMS unless you are lucky enough to live near the few remaining shops but their demise just reflects the retail trend in general. On the other hand online it is a global shop with infinite variety of choice, availability and price.
If you are a traditionalist (I am) then thousands of plans are available online to build that model you always hankered after but couldn't afford or simply didn't have the time, back in the day. Perhaps that is not so much nostalgia as an opportunity to fly something different to one of the modern offerings but using modern reliable and cheap radio control. And now we have the choice of using a traditional two stroke, four stroke or electric conversion. No, we have never had it so good, to coin a phrase!
FlyinBrian 08/02/2019 11:28:46
For me I would say that now is the best era for modelling. OK more rules and regs etc but modelling is far cheaper than it was in the 60s & early 70s (My first full set of propo radio was c£180.00 in 1970 ish - that equates to about £2700 now. A single servo was c£25.00 An OS61 FSR was about £75.00 which was about a weeks wages at the time.
Now If you want to build you can but if you want to get a model into the air quickly you can - at a price that would have been unbelievable 30 - 40 years ago.
Radio is incredibly reliable and cheap, engines and electric motors too. Good servos are available for around a tenner or less. In real terms what has increased in price are plans, building materials, and kits.
You have never had it so good!
SONNY MONKS 08/02/2019 13:06:48
Were the diesel engines more reliable than the 2 and 4 stroke glows,and the petrol engines?
Well SONNY, some modellers had great success using diesel engines, and still do although some seemed unable to master having two adjustables ( fuel mixture and compression) to deal with. Yes, they're certainly reliable in the hands of someone who knows diesels. They can also swing a much larger propeller than a glow engine.
Diesel engines are fewer these days Sonny, with just a handful of manufacturers now offering them. PAW, Laser, MVVS and a few others now produce them. The smaller capacity diesels are still popular with free flighters though. Davis Diesel in the US produce conversion kits for quite a number of glow two strokes.
Edited By Percy Verance on 08/02/2019 13:29:55
Robert Welford 08/02/2019 13:44:41
I agree with FlyinBrian in terms of reliability; accessibility and cost.
The downside is pressure on flying sites; demise of local model shops and the reduction in numbers especially of the younger generation. This is a significant risk for the future of our sport.
As good as it would be to have a steady influx of younger members Robert, there are sometimes new flyers in their 30's and beyond whom enter the hobby thankfully. Not all whom try it stay, but there seems little we are able to do about that......... Some I know have unfortunately had less than pleasant experiences as club members, and have moved on to form their own small groups. Like people, clubs can differ.
I also wish our future looked stronger.........
Ray Wood 4 08/02/2019 14:04:59
Hi Sonny,
I started trying to start my dads Mills 1.3 diesel back in the early 1960's when I was about 8 years old, once you have smelt the Ether rthere is no looking back, still have a PAW .5cc in the Mini Tyro & a replica Mills 1.3 in the enlarged Keilcraft Eaglet.
Never did get my dads engine going but I tried for years, the fuel was probably past it's best
Regards Ray
SIMON CRAGG 08/02/2019 14:10:02
Posted by Percy Verance on 08/02/2019 13:52:48:
As good as it would be to have a steady influx of younger members Robert, there are sometimes new flyers in their 30's and beyond whom enter the hobby thankfully. Not all whom try it stay, but there seems little we are able to do about that......... Some I know have unfortunately had less than pleasant experiences as club members. Like people, clubs can differ.
Our club peaked at about 65 members a few years ago, but now we have 40 members fully paid up for this year. We have a new web site, are on the BMFA club finder. have adequate instructors, a fantastic flying site, a warm mobile home complete with "shop", have interesting monthly meetings and go out of our way to make sure the members come first, at a safe and well organised site. We were hoping for an influx of newbies after the recent CH4 model series. So far (and I know its early in the year), we have attracted two complete novices and four ex-members. We have no "youngsters" at all. We are very positive about the future and believe we are as proactive as we possibly can be. No doubt about it, the hobby is changing rapidly!!
Sounds like a great club Simon, where is it? Hope it is near me! (Dorset)
Sounds very positive and quite encouraging Simon.
Some clubs are struggling now, and are actively advertising for members. The nearest club to me ( I'm not a member) had 100+ members about 20 years ago, and has now dwindled to about 25, or so I'm told. Out of the 75 odd members whom are now missing, about 10 or a dozen have passed away, with perhaps 4 or 5 having moved out of the area on retirement. The rest have either left the hobby for health reasons, or have moved on to form other groups/clubs. I fall into this category.
MAD Dave 08/02/2019 14:44:24
fao Piers - Wareham!
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Hi Piers
If you PM me, I'll give you all the gen.
Martin Dilly 1 12/02/2019 18:42:58
Can I have three decades please, all consecutive? I’d go for 1950 till 1980. This was a time when I was first a member of the Croydon club (not the Croydon Airport one, which flies RC and didn’t exist till around 1970), which was an enthusiastically competitive free-flight club with seven consecutive annual wins of the Plugge Cup at a time when a hundred or so other clubs were competing for it. There were four model shops within five miles of home, and half a dozen model flyers living less than a mile away. If you wanted diesel fuel you went along to Boots and, at the age of fourteen, bought a pint of ether, four ounces of amyl nitrate, went into the garden shed and mixed it with some paraffin and Castrol R. Nobody died. We managed to cross roads when there was a gap in the traffic too, instead of pressing some button and then waiting while the gaps went past till a beeper went and stopped cars that weren’t in sight when we arrived. But I digress.
What made it such an enjoyable period for the sport was that there were several free-flight venues within easy reach of London at various times - Epsom, Fairlop, Chobham and Bassingbourn, with a contest almost every weekend at one or another. The big appeal of free-flight was, and still is, that the sole aim of competitions is duration; a stopwatch shows how successful you are, so it's pureely objective. It’s man versus the elements, rather than the opinions of a panel of judges. We competed against ourselves as much as with others, and making subtle adjustments to the trim or the structure (which of course we had built and probably designed ourselves) would improve the performance for the next contest. I suspect that the stamina of a younger body helped too; I’d certainly think twice now about a 400 mile round trip drive to a contest in Yorkshire, but we seemed to take it in our stride then.
gangster 12/02/2019 20:06:16
Sonny you ask if the diesels are more reliable than Glow or petrol. I don’t think any type is more or less reliable. Although some of the old diesels were so variable some barely ran at all In recent decades all engines have been good. I think It’s more a case of suitability for RC use. Please someone correct me if I am wrong but I wonder if vibration and poor throttling cause the diesel to not be the engine of choice for RC. Now can someone correct me if I am wrong but didnt Irvine produce a 40 sized diesel? Or has the old memory misfired
Irvine did produce some diesels gangster. As did Super Tigre and Enya at one time. Glows probably won over diesels because of ease of operation for beginners to the hobby. Some competition classes remain steadfastly with diesel though.
It's good to see ED diesels back on sale via Weston UK. Available with balanced crankshaft at extra cost. It's also possible to obtain a Laser 80 diesel, but it's request only engine, and Jon builds them to special order only.
PAW are probably the most popular UK produced diesel just now. Do let me know if you ever see a Saito two stroke though. They're extremely rare, and I've seen just one in the last 30 odd years being used at Old Warden in a vintage model.
Maurice Dyer 13/02/2019 07:57:59
The 1970s . I had hair ( but no money or time), now I'm a pensioner I have money but no hair. And beer was 15 pence a pint.
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Happy Family (Other Life Productions) – Toronto Fringe Festival 2017
July 6, 2017 Jackie Mahoney
When you go into a show called Happy Family, you know right from the get go that it’s probably going to depict the exact opposite of that. Other Life Production’s show as a part of the Toronto Fringe Festival playing at the Franco Boni Theatre did not disappoint — it presented a deeply flawed unit teetering, as they said themselves, on the edge of something big. It left me pondering the lengths we go to in order to save, and sometimes sabotage, our families.
The action takes place in a park where three siblings along with their numerous problems charge in and out of. The play manages to create an air of constant conflict without becoming grating or tiresome.
This is thanks to the expert delivery of the three actors- Adele Power, Kristi Woods and Leonard Scott-Collins. Woods’ middle sibling Van was believably outlandish and extreme, considering her dark backstory. I found that she really found her stride just in time to hit the final scene out of the park (pun fully intended).
As older sister Lindsey, Power gave a lovely depth to what could have been a one dimensional character. You could tell the audience was rooting for her as the show went on, as she seemed to be the only sibling who still had a bit of a footing on solid ground.
Scott-Collins portrayed the sheltered Roland with a very admirable sincerity and it never felt like his presentation was taunting his character’s idiosyncrasies. His beautifully comedic moments brought a nice levity to the show.
As for the story, I found it was effective in what it was trying to present. It explored the complicated dynamics present both between siblings and within the context of the wider family. At one point, Lindsey asks, “what is a happy family anyways?” It made me realize that no matter how hard you try, no clan will ever be picture perfect, and it is within these familial complexities that we have to find moments of beauty.
The one thing I felt could have been improved was how the climax was written into a scene. It often felt as though certain moments were building to a big reveal, only to veer off into another direction. This made some of the scenes lose a bit of momentum, but the actors would then regain it when the big moment did come. With a little editing, I think these moments could be wonderfully gut-wrenching.
I thoroughly enjoyed Happy Family and would definitely recommend it to anyone. It was a thought provoking, interesting show that had moments of both hilarity and growth. The audience obviously loved the show as well, giving the three actors an uproarious applause as they bowed.
Happy Family plays at The Theatre Centre’s Franco Boni Theatre. (1115 Queen St. W.)
Tickets are $12. The festival also offers a range of money-saving passes for serious Fringers.
Tickets can be purchased online, by telephone (416-966-1062), from the Fringe Club at Scadding Court, and — if any remain — from the venue’s box office starting one hour before curtain.
Be aware that Fringe performances always start exactly on time, and that latecomers are never admitted.
Content Warning: Mature Language.
This venue is accessible.
Wednesday July 5th, 10:30 pm
Friday July 7th, 09:45 pm
Sunday July 9th, 12:00 pm
Tuesday July 11th, 08:30 pm
Wednesday July 12th, 05:45 pm
Friday July 14th, 02:15 pm
Sunday July 16th, 02:45 pm
Photo of Leonard Scott-Collins, Kristi Woods, and Adèle Power in Happy Family.
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Second suspect in Springfield shooting arrested after standoff at apartment complex
Police say Cortell Scott and Deandre Walls shot up a home on Lois Street in April.
Second suspect in Springfield shooting arrested after standoff at apartment complex Police say Cortell Scott and Deandre Walls shot up a home on Lois Street in April. Check out this story on news-leader.com: https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/crime/2019/05/16/second-suspect-springfield-shooting-arrested-after-standoff/3698743002/
Harrison Keegan, Springfield News-Leader Published 5:18 p.m. CT May 16, 2019
Police say the second suspect in last month's shooting in Springfield was arrested Thursday after a standoff at an apartment complex.
Cortell Scott, 30, was booked into the Greene County Jail on suspicion of first-degree assault after he was arrested following a brief standoff at an apartment complex in the 2100 block of South Ingram Mill Road, according to a news release from the Springfield Police Department.
Scott and Deandre Walls, 34, are accused of shooting up a home on West Lois Street on April 28, seriously injuring one man.
A second suspect in last month's shooting on West Lois Street was arrested at an apartment at 2150 S. Ingram Mill on Thursday, May 16, 2019. (Photo: Nathan Papes/News-Leader)
Springfield police say they arrested Walls in the area that night, but they had been looking for Scott for the past two weeks.
According to a probable cause statement used to charge the suspects, officers were dispatched to a home in the 700 block of West Lois Street just after 11 p.m. on April 28 for reports of a shooting.
Witnesses told police the shots came from the backyard into the home, and two men were seen running from the scene.
The statement says police used a K9 to track and arrest one of the suspects — Walls — on the nearby Bass Pro Shops' property on the night of the shooting. A handgun was also found nearby.
Police say they used surveillance video from Bass Pro to identify Scott as the second suspect.
As for motive, the statement says one of the residents of the home on Lois Street told police Scott accused her of stealing from him.
The statement says police discovered messages between Scott and the woman before the shooting in which Scott appeared to threaten the woman and her family.
Police believe the man who was shot was not the intended target.
More: Charges filed after police say men shot 21 times into Springfield home
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Gruesome stabbing fueled by jealousy, police say
Posted: 4:13 AM, Oct 24, 2018
A man was booked into the Davidson County Jail late Tuesday, charged with attempted criminal homicide. Officers said he tried to kill a woman during an argument.
An arrest affidavit for Danny Sullivan Cosby said Cosby was with a woman at her daughter's house Tuesday. During that visit, investigators said they got into an argument about another man.
According to the police report, Cosby told police he "snapped." Investigators said Cosby slashed the woman's throat and stabbed her in the torso.
Officers got to the home and took Cosby into custody. During questioning, his affidavit revealed he told officers "if he could not have the victim, nobody could."
Cosby reportedly told officers about the beige knife he used in the attack, and officers recovered it at the scene.
The woman was taken to the hospital to receive treatment.
Cosby was booked into the jail on a charge of attempted criminal homicide.
Investigators didn't state the exact relationship between Cosby and the victim, only reporting they are in a "domestic relationship."
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Mueller Investigation Could Have Classified Communications Intercepts Proving Trump Worked With Russia: Former FBI Chief
By Donica Phifer On 1/12/19 at 2:56 PM EST
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Following a report that the FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation into President Donald Trump's relationship with Russia, former Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Frank Figliuzzi said it is likely that Robert Mueller indeed has "classified" evidence.
"I think this is particularly sobering, even for career counterintelligence professionals who always in the back of their minds think there is an outside possibility someone could rise to high office who might be playing for another team," Figliuzzi said during an appearance on MSNBC's AM Joy. "To see this in writing, to hear this report — if it's accurate to say the bureau actually opened a case on Donald J. Trump — is really like hitting the American people in the gut."
Figluizzi and AM Joy host Joy Reid referenced a report from the New York Times, published on Friday, which revealed that the FBI began the counterintelligence investigation just days after former FBI director James Comey was fired. The goal of the investigation, the Times said, was to determine if Trump "was knowingly working for Russia or had unwittingly fallen under Moscow's influence."
While Mueller took over the counterintelligence case and combined it with his own investigation, the Times was unable to determine if he is still pursuing the counterintelligence matter.
According to the Times, the investigation began in part after Trump linked Comey's firing to the Russia probe. If the president had fired the former FBI director to stop or hold up the investigation then it would be both obstruction of justice and a national security issue.
"It means likely, Joy, even though the article is citing the public behavior of the president, as you just noted, in order to get this to pass muster, in order to get this through FBI headquarters, through teams of lawyers, across the street to the Department of Justice, to be the title name of an investigation, I am virtually certain that more evidence than just the public behavior of the president is involved in this and I think that evidence is likely classified evidence," Figluizzi said.
No evidence has been released publicly that Trump was obtaining instructions from Russia or involved in secret communications with Russian officials, the Times said.
Trump's attorney, Rudy Giuliani, dismissed the investigation when questioned by the Times, saying: "The fact that it goes back a year and a half and nothing came of it that showed a breach of national security means they found nothing,"
However, Reid asked Figluzzi, a national security contributor for NBC News, if he believes that the FBI has some sort of evidence that Trump indeed was involved in counterintelligence with Russia.
"The short answer is yes. But I don't even think that those relaxed regulations may play into that or not. They might, but from day one, Joy, you've heard the intelligence professionals saying there is much more to this iceberg than just the tip," Figluzzi said. "That is what we call the dark side — the signals intelligence, the intercepts worldwide."
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Nearly 62 years later, twins Norma Burke and Heather returned to Niagara Falls, Canada to visit the Lower Landing of Canada’s newest signature experience, Hornblower Niagara Cruises. Their journey brought them back to Niagara’s most talked about attraction after their grandfather, Geoffrey Hawthorn worked on the Maid of the Mist (the Canadian side) for nearly 13 years as the boat’s Captain. During their visit the ladies reminisced about how charismatic, loyal and humble Geoffrey was not just to them, but to the many who enjoyed the famous boat tour for years before. Geoffrey joined the Maid of the Mist after working in the marine industry his entire life by working on sail ships in the Caribbean’s, to the Lock system on the Canals. When asked what brought him to the Maid of the Mist after working for a number of years, his grand daughter said, “the people and the love for the marvellous Falls.”
Flash forward 62 years, the evolution of the iconic boat tour has evolved into Niagara’s newest experience, Hornblower Niagara Cruises. The San Francisco based company will officially launch it’s Canadian operation in Spring 2014 welcoming two 700-passenger state-of-the-art catamarans along with a 149-passenger Safety and Rescue boat that will to act as a private charter for evening cruises. Evolving from a simple boat tour, visitors can enjoy a variety of cruise experiences including: Sunset Cocktail Cruise, Falls Fireworks, Falls Illumination and the Voyage to the Falls Boat Tour.
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NIS published Q1 2019 performance results
NIS Group has published a report on its consolidated Q1 2019 performance, drafted pursuant to International Standards of financial Reporting.
Q1 2019 has seen NIS continuing the completion of strategic projects, which will represent the cornerstone of the company’s further development. A total of RSD 8.3 billion have been invested, 6 per cent more than in the first three months of 2018. The greatest portion of investment has been dedicated to the exploration and production of crude oil and gas, while the priority in individual projects has been the continuation of investment in the “Bottom-of-the-Barrel” plant in the Pančevo Refinery, making it one of East Europe’s ultimate technology refineries. Other than that, actions have been undertaken towards the completion of another two capital construction projects. March has seen the commencement of the construction of a combined heat and power plant (CCPP) in the town of Pančevo, in the Refinery compound, being carried out by NIS in association with “Gazprom Energo Holding”. Furthermore, NIS continued its involvement in the Plandište Wind Farm project in association with the МЕТ Group.
Indicator EBITDA (Earnings before Interest, Taxation, Depreciation & Amortisation) amounted to RSD 6.3 billion, while the net profit totalled RSD 158 million. NIS Group’s Q1 accomplished financial performance has been affected by the plunging average prices of crude oil compared to the first trimester of 2018, turnaround in the Pančevo Refinery and higher amortisation. NIS Group paid RSD 40 billion to the state coffers.
In terms of operative indicators, 321 thousand tons of crude oil and gas equivalent have been produced in Q1 2019, with the total scope of refining the crude oil and semi-finished products amounted to 599 thousand tons. Along these lines, 726 thousand tons petroleum products have been sold. NIS Group also focused on streamlining occupational safety indicators, so the number of lost time Injuries per million exposure hours Indicator (LTIF indicator) was reduced by 38 per cent compared to previous year’s Q1.
Kirill Tyurdenev, CEO of NIS said:
“Capital projects and further development of NIS remain our priorities in 2019. We also attach a special importance to the revamp of the Refinery in the town of Pančevo and the works in the construction of the “Bottom-of-the-Barrel” plant. Furthermore, in association with our partners we continue activities in the construction of a combined heat and power plant in the town of Pančevo and completion of the Plandište Wind Farm project. Other than that, in the rest of the year NIS will focus on boosting operative efficiency and streamlining financial and operative performance within the entire group“.
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Welcome back to Nite Art. Collaborations are central to our program, bringing the voices of artists, galleries, museums, curators, collectives and small organisations together. In 2018 Nite Art seeks to deepen the relationship and experience for audiences and artists over time, through a series of programs throughout the year.
We continue to play an important role in mapping, connecting and creating easy access for broader audiences, to art and artists in our city. This year we are extending our boundaries. Creating new alliances and experiences to share. Capturing new ideas and works in progress.
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PATCO riders in Collingswood. Credit: Matt Skoufalos.
BREAKING: PATCO to Delay ‘Night Owl’ Service Changes Until June 1
By Matt Skoufalos on May 8, 2019 Business
DRPA CEO John Hanson said the organization will review public feedback ahead of implementing any cutbacks to its late-night train service.
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By Matt Skoufalos | May 8, 2019
A PATCO Speedline train. Credit: Matt Skoufalos.
Amid swift public outcry, changes to the PATCO Speedline ‘Night Owl’ overnight rail service that were to have taken effect May 13 will be pushed back to June 1, the agency said Wednesday.
Delaware River Port Authority (DRPA) CEO John Hanson told NJ Pen that PATCO will review its plans and make adjustments based on an analysis of its own data and the feedback it’s received.
Excluding Twitter remarks, inquiries from reporters, and conversations with mayors of the communities affected by the changes, Hanson said he’s gotten a dozen e-mails expressing concerns with the changes. After putting his office number up on Twitter yesterday, the CEO said he received his first phone call from a member of the public this morning.
“We’re just still looking at everything to see if there are changes we can make to the number of stations that are open,” Hanson said. “It’s a relatively small subset of PATCO users who are affected. I guess there’s a lot more people who like the idea of having the service run.”
Hanson also said PATCO plans to release specific figures on ridership at each station during the Night Owl hours to the public, the better to illustrate the reduced ridership at those times.
“We actually went to get a finer point on the numbers,” he said. “There’s just not many people using it in that timeframe, and I’m trying to take action that preserves [the service] rather than tears it down.”
PATCO Haddonfield Station. Credit: Matt Skoufalos.
The station closures were meant to gather a limited number of overnight riders into larger groups to avoid leaving people alone at empty stops, Hanson said.
He also maintained that the Night Owl changes would offer “a more concentrated police presence in the stations” by posting an officer at each stop as well as one on each train.
“Part of what we talked about with our police chief is that there is safety in numbers,” Hanson said. “If somebody is isolated with somebody who is opportunistic or nefarious, it’s a different dynamic.
“Any additional stations we were going to open up, it was a goal for us to have somebody there when the trains arrived,” he said. “If we open up more stations, it dilutes the presence in the stations in particular. It’s a balance.”
The planned changes to service—six, three-hour station closures and an officer posted on each train, among others—were prompted by a pair of assaults that occurred on the Speedline in the earlier part of this year, one to a train driver. Although the CEO said he didn’t consider those incidents to be reflective of an increased threat of violence, “I don’t see it as my job to wait until a trend occurs to then try and stop it.
“We absolutely value this service,” Hanson said. “This is not a reflection of us trying to do away with anything.”
Collingswood Mayor Jim Maley said he hopes the additional time will support PATCO reconsidering its position on the service changes for the affected communities.
“I think all the conversations have helped them go revisit [the idea],” Maley said. “I don’t want that service cut.”
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New material from Sex Pistols star
NME Aug 22, 2005 11:57 am BST
‘The Rabbit Song’ will feature on a forthcoming John Lydon compilation...
A new compilation album is to mark the career of JOHN LYDON.
The Best Of British 1 £ Notes’ is released on October 3, and compiles music from his career including work with Sex Pistols, Leftfield, [a][/a] and as a solo artist.
The album also includes a new track, titled ’The Rabbit Song’. The album is also being released as a double CD featuring remixes and extra tracks.
The album tracklisting runs:
‘Anarchy In The UK’
‘Public Image’
‘This Is Not A Love Song’
‘Open Up’
‘Rise’
‘Don’t Ask Me’
‘Seattle’
‘Holidays In The Sun’
‘Death Disco’
‘Flowers Of Romance’
‘Warrior’
‘Disappointed’
‘Sun’
‘Bad Life’
‘Home’
‘The Body’
‘Cruel’
‘God Save The Queen’
‘The Rabbit Song’
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Cook and Line
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Cook and Line from CBeebies' Swashbuckle perform a rip-roaring pirate adventure! Full of lively songs, crowd-pleasing games and laugh-out loud comedy, their energetic and interactive performance will be loved by both their young fans and the whole family.
Swashbuckle has taken CBeebies by storm. It consistently gets some of the highest ratings on children’s TV and has consequently been sold worldwide. The success of the BAFTA-winning show has lead Cook and Line to be featured faces on the channel, with stand-out appearances in five CBeebies pantomimes (A Christmas Carol, Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, The Nutcracker and The Snow Queen), as well as CBeebies’ A Midsummer Night’s Dream, gaining their own monthly Swashbuckle magazine, presenting the channel’s links and headlining numerous festivals. Any parent with a young child will be used to watching the slapstick antics of Joseph and Richard. The pair have a unique comedy chemistry and would be a massive draw to the many hundreds of thousands of Swashbuckle fans throughout the country.
Cook and Line are Joseph Elliott and Richard David-Caine. They have performed together for over 10 years and recently released their own CBBC comedy show, InterNOT. Richard is also well known for his work on other CBBC BAFTA-winning shows, Class Dismissed and Horrible Histories.
Thanks to Richard and Joseph for their Main Stage performance and the meet and greet in the Big Top – both were a hit with all our smaller festival goers!
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Cook and Line from CBeebies' Swashbuckle performed at our Waitrose Summer Festival 2017 and were a fantastic draw for our family audience. On the day they were a pleasure to work with and the audience loved them! We had some brilliant customer feedback with Swashbuckle being the highlight of their day.
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To book Cook and Line, please submit an online enquiry, send us an email or speak with one of our friendly booking agents on +44 (0)1372 361 004.
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Map Shows Areas of LA With Biggest Spikes in Homeless
Four parts of Los Angeles County are seeing at least a 35 percent jump in the number of homeless people. Read More
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Former Army Infantryman Accused in Southern California Terror Plot Pleads Not Guilty
A man from Reseda accused of plotting bomb and gun attacks around Southern California appeared in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom Friday and denied that he committed two terrorism crimes. Read More
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Pepper Spray Phase Out to Start at Juvenile Camps in July
Los Angeles County Probation Chief Terri McDonald says the phasing out of pepper spray in juvenile lockups will not happen at the end of 2019, a timeline given to the department by county supervisors. Read More
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State Fines LAPD for Unsafe Conditions at Station Where Officer Was Infected With Bacteria
State officials fined the city of Los Angeles more than $5,000 for health and safety violations at the LAPD's Central Station, where at least one officer was recently infected with salmonella typhi, the bacteria that causes typhoid... Read More
//www.nbclosangeles.com/investigations/Los-Angeles-Police-LAPD-Bacteria-Infection-Officer-Salmonella-Typhi-Typhoid-Health-510625741.html //www.nbclosangeles.com/investigations/Los-Angeles-Police-LAPD-Bacteria-Infection-Officer-Salmonella-Typhi-Typhoid-Health-510625741.html 510625741 State Fines LAPD for Unsafe Conditions at Station Where Officer Was Infected With Bacteria State officials fined the city of Los Angeles more than $5,000 for health and safety violations at the LAPD's Central Station, where at least one officer was recently infected with salmonella typhi, the bacteria that causes typhoid... 4 SHARE:
LAPD Officers Diagnosed With Suspected Case of Typhus, Salmonella Typhi
An officer at the Los Angeles Police Department's Central Station has contracted Salmonella Typhi, the bacteria that causes typhoid fever, and another is suspected of contracting typhus, a disease carried by rats and fleas,... Read More
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LA Extends, Expands Restrictions on Seizing Property Belonging to Homeless
A legal settlement filed Wednesday extends restrictions for three more years on when Los Angeles Police officers or other City workers may remove property that belongs to people experiencing homelessness from streets and... Read More
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Los Angeles County Aims to Improve Child Welfare Response
Los Angeles County supervisors say they want to know when changes will happen at the Department of Children and Family Services. The move follows a stunning state audit that found the child welfare system puts children safety... Read More
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Waze Reports Traffic Faster, Study Shows
It can help you get around traffic and send out alerts about accidents instantly. A new local study finds Waze reports traffic minutes earlier than traditional methods. Lolita Lopez reports for the NBC4 News on Friday, May 24, 2019.
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LA Cracks Down to Clean Up Garbage-Filled Street
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Probation Officer Hospitalized After Attack at Juvenile Hall
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Late Night Politics
Punchlines ripped from the headlines
Stewart Mocks Romney's "Checkmate Moment" at Debate
“He inexplicably walked into a weird nitpicky semantic trap that hadn’t even really been set,” Stewart says
By Debra Pangestu
Published Oct 18, 2012 at 4:27 AM | Updated at 9:54 AM PDT on Oct 18, 2012
Stewart noted that unlike the first presidential debate, President Obama actually "decided to attend."
Following President Barack Obama’s lackluster performance during the first presidential debate, "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart was eager to see “which version of Barack Obama” would appear at Hofstra University: first debate’s "Sleepytime McGillicuddy" or post-debate’s "Pretty Talk Jones."
"Yes, President Obama decided to attend this debate!" Stewart proclaimed, tipping his hat to Obama’s sharp debate performance.
Although Stewart acknowledged that "Romney was sharp and drew blood," he noted that unlike two weeks ago, the president threw multiple zingers at former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and called out the GOP presidential candidate for lying, which Stewart said showed just "how much they f---ing hate each other!"
Despite Gov. Romney’s "odd moment" when he said his efforts to staff more women for Cabinet positions was aided by "whole binders full of women," Stewart expected Gov. Romney to score big points when it came to discussing the Obama administration’s muddled response to the U.S. Consulate attack in Benghazi.
Only no points were scored.
"He inexplicably walked into a weird nitpicky semantic trap that hadn’t even really been set," Stewart mocked.
Romney flung a false charge that the president didn’t refer to last month’s Benghazi attack as "an act of terror" the day following the attack, which prompted the president to utter three words: "Please proceed, Governor."
What could have been Romney’s "checkmate moment" was more like a Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner moment, Stewart said, where "that door your opponent is pointing to is merely paint on a rock."
Stewart went on to observe that the evidence of Obama's resurgence was everywhere post-debate.
"MSNBC no longer seemed suicidal," Stewart teased. "And of course, Fox News … well, just let them cry themselves to sleep."
To see Stewart’s take on the second presidential debate, check out the clip below, courtesy of Comedy Central:
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Cubs add waiver claim Anthony Varvaro to bullpen mix
By Tony Andracki May 03, 2015 1:30 PM
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The Cubs and manager Joe Maddon are still trying to get all the bullpen pieces to fit together.
Sunday, they added Anthony Varvaro to the mix, claiming the 30-year-old right-hander off waivers from the Boston Red Sox.
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Varvaro has appeared in 166 big-league games (all out of the bullpen) and has a 7-9 record, 3.23 ERA and 1.28 WHIP.
Varvaro made 123 appearances from 2013-14 for the Atlanta Braves, posting a 2.74 ERA and 1.18 WHIP while striking out 93 batters in 128 innings.
Varvaro pitched in nine games for the Boston Red Sox this season with a 4.09 ERA in 11 innings, allowing 14 hits and six walks. But his FIP (fielding independent pitching) was only 3.32, indicating he was getting a little unlucky.
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The Cubs bullpen took a major hit when hard-throwing right-handers Justin Grimm and Neil Ramirez went on the disabled list, and both are said to be progressing toward a return in the next couple weeks.
The Cubs designated left-hander Joseph Ortiz for assignment to make room for Varvaro on the roster.
Cubs not yet considering ways to get Victor Caratini and Willson Contreras in lineup together
By Tony Andracki July 15, 2019 8:17 AM
Offensive production is very much judged in a "what have you done for me lately" manner.
And by that measure, the Cubs offense is just fine and there's no need to tinker.
However, overall, this lineup has weaknesses, including second base (Cubs rank 21st in MLB with .675 OPS from their second basemen) and center field (19th in MLB with .698 OPS). Before the trade deadline hits, it seems apparent Theo Epstein's front office will add another hitter of some sort to augment this offense.
But what if the Cubs had an in-house solution?
Victor Caratini had another big game Sunday — going 2-for-3 with a sacrifice fly RBI and his only out was a 109.1 mph liner to left field — and is now hitting .301 on the season with a .383 on-base percentage and .505 slugging percentage.
Caratini wasn't initially scheduled to be in the Cubs lineup Sunday, but with Willson Contreras nursing a sore foot, he got the call and continued to do what he's done all year — play very solid defense behind the plate with quality production at the dish.
Between Caratini's emergence this season and Contreras' huge bounceback year, Cubs catchers are pacing baseball in OPS, average, OBP, SLG, runs and RBI and rank second in homers and hits.
So with Contreras' ability to play the outfield, will the Cubs try to find ways to get both Caratini and Contreras in the starting lineup at the same time in search of more consistent offense?
"We haven't talked about that," Cubs manager Joe Maddon said after Sunday's game. "We have a lot of guys who have to be in the lineup when things are rolling properly. I haven't looked at that right now, honestly."
Maddon conceded that as a switch-hitter, Caratini is still utilized almost exclusively as a left-handed hitter. The second-year player is hitting .556 with a homer and a double from the right side this season, but that's come in only 10 plate appearances.
Maddon also admitted the best way to get both catchers in the lineup at the same time is if there's an injury or a natural day off for a regular player. For example, Contreras played a game in right field in Pittsburgh before the All-Star Break while Caratini started behind the plate with both Kris Bryant and Jason Heyward nursing minor injuries.
Caratini has also drawn some starts at first base over the last couple years when Anthony Rizzo is either ailing or getting a day off.
But beyond that, it doesn't appear as if we're gonna see Contreras and Caratini as cohorts in the starting lineup on even a semi-regular basis.
"Maybe part of the reason they're both playing so well or Victor's hitting as well as he is or playing as well as he is is based on the amount of usage," Maddon said. "Everybody sees a guy do well and all of a sudden, that immediately indicates he should play more often. Maybe just playing the right amount."
Tags: Willson Contreras, Victor Caratini, Chicago Cubs
Jose Quintana delivers as Cubs sweep Pirates: 'He doesn't get enough credit'
By Jared Wyllys July 14, 2019 6:33 PM
The Cubs have made a trademark out of having a strong second half, and after beating the Pirates 8-3 Sunday, they completed the sweep in their first series since the all-star break and look on their way to putting more space in the NL Central between themselves and the other four teams.
But through the first three innings, the Cubs and starter Jose Quintana looked more like they were going to let the third game of this series get away.
Quintana held the Pirates scoreless in the first two innings, but then in the third he gave up three consecutive singles, threw a wild pitch, allowed a sacrifice fly, and gave up a double, undoing the 1-0 lead the Cubs had established in the second inning on Robel Garcia's double.
But the difference in Sunday's game was how Quintana pitched after that. He tossed three more scoreless innings, completing a 90-pitch quality start and even contributed an RBI single in the fourth.
"He always goes out there and he competes. He’s so focused," Kris Bryant said of Quintana after the game. "He doesn’t get enough credit for what he does."
Leading up to Quintana's single, Garcia hit a two-out double and Pirates manager Clint Hurdle opted to walk David Bote to get Quintana to the plate for what seemed like a sure out. Instead, Quintana poked Trevor Williams' four-seam fastball to right field, allowing Garcia to score from second and trim Pittsburgh's lead to 3-2.
Quintana had already thrown a scoreless top of the fourth inning, but he gave two more after his RBI single. The hit was a timely confidence boost.
"Felt great, finally to get the base hit," Quintana said. "So excited."
This was Quintana's fifth career RBI and first since 2017, and it may have helped catapult the rest of the offense. The Cubs would score three more runs in the fifth inning to take the lead, and then added some cushion with another three in the sixth.
"Literally, when Q got that hit, Tony goes, 'homer right here,'" Jason Heyward joked after the game.
It wasn't Quintana who got the home run, but Heyward was the one to give the Cubs the lead with his own two-run homer in the fifth after Victor Caratini's sacrifice fly had scored Bryant to tie the game earlier that inning.
"We have fun with that," Heyward said of Rizzo's joking. "But we pull for them obviously because they’re out there pitching their ass off. They want to keep the game close, and sometimes they need to pick themselves up too."
Quintana's last three innings on the mound kept his team in the game. He started the fourth with a walk to Elias Diaz and then did not allow another baserunner until Corey Dickerson's one-out single in the sixth.
"I kept throwing my pitches and believing in my stuff and waiting for our offense to come back in the game, and they did really well," Quintana said. "Always in my mind was they can take more runs, so I wanted to keep it there and wait for our hitters to get back in the game. They did great work. It’s a really good feeling around us right now."
One of the keys to a strong second half for the Cubs is getting more wins like Sunday's. Bryant said after the game that it's important to get a few wins that you shouldn't, like one when the team is down 3-1 halfway through the game. And especially in the last game of a three-game set where the Cubs had already won the first two. With the series win safely secured, it would be easy to let up and drop the final game, but Quintana's timely hit and good pitching in the second half of his outing helped make the difference.
"As soon as he hits his knock, he pitched really well after that," Joe Maddon said. "He got better after the knock."
Quintana might struggle to live up to the expectations of coming from across town in a trade two years ago that cost two darling prospects, but it's worth noting that the average ERA in the National League is 4.39, and after Sunday's win, Quintana's is down to 4.21. If he's the team's back-of-the-rotation starter, that'll do just fine.
He's very capable of stringing together quality starts and pitching like the team's ace, like he has over his last three outings with three straight quality starts, but there are also stretches like his run from May 26 to June 22 where he lost six starts in a row and his ERA climbed from 3.73 to 4.50.
Either way, if Quintana makes more of his starts like Sunday's, the Cubs are in very good position to continue their yearly trend of winning in the second half of the season.
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A randomized controlled trial of N-acetylcysteine to prevent contrast nephropathy in cardiac angiography.
Durham JD1, Caputo C, Dokko J, Zaharakis T, Pahlavan M, Keltz J, Dutka P, Marzo K, Maesaka JK, Fishbane S.
Division of Nephrology, Department of Pharmacy, and Division of Cardiology, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, New York, USA.
Contrast nephropathy (CN) is a common cause of renal dysfunction after cardiac angiography. Recently, N-acetylcysteine (NAC) has been found to reduce the risk of CN after CT imaging with contrast enhancement. The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the efficacy of NAC for the prevention of CN in the setting of cardiac angiography.
Eligible patients were those undergoing cardiac angiography with serum creatinine>1.7 mg/dL. Patients were randomized to one of two groups: Group 1, IV hydration and NAC, 1200 mg one hour before angiography, and a second dose 3 hours after; Group 2, IV hydration and placebo. CN was defined as an increase of 0.5 mg/dL in serum creatinine.
Seventy-nine patients completed the study. There were no significant differences between the groups in baseline characteristics, duration of angiography, mean volume of dye infused or mean IV hydration. Contrast nephropathy developed in 24.0% of subjects, 26.3% NAC, and 22.0% placebo (P = NS). Among subjects with diabetes mellitus, there was no significant difference in the rate of CN between the groups (42.1% NAC, 27.8% placebo; P = 0.09). The independent predictors of CN risk were diabetes mellitus and preexisting chronic renal insufficiency.
NAC was not effective for the prevention of CN after cardiac angiography.
Acetylcysteine/pharmacology*
Acute Kidney Injury/chemically induced
Acute Kidney Injury/epidemiology
Acute Kidney Injury/prevention & control*
Contrast Media/adverse effects*
Coronary Angiography/adverse effects*
Coronary Disease/diagnostic imaging*
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Safeguarding computers is both a safety and moral issue
NetClean.com/News items/Safeguarding computers is both a safety and moral issue
23 March, 2017 NetClean
NEWS 2017/03/23
In the county of Värmland, Sweden, two local authorities have ensured that all networked computers are protected against child sexual abuse material. This includes computers used by local authority employees and students in schools, as well as computers used in libraries and for ancestry research.
The two Swedish local authorities, Kil and Forshaga, share an IT Department and collaborate on IT issues. Head of IT for the Kil and Forshaga local authorities, Christian Söderblom, explains that local authority computers have several owners during their life-span. It is therefore a security issue to ensure that computers are as ‘clean’ as possible when handed over to the next person.
The local authorities have chosen to only block child sexual abuse material, and have no other web filters that limit what users can access.
“Our focus is solely on illegal material,” says Christian Söderblom.
The moral issue as important as safety
The IT Department has used NetClean ProActive for ten years to ensure that computers have safety measures in place against illicit material. However, the decision to invest in this software is also a moral one which has support from both the administrative and the political branches of the local authorities. Forshaga’s profile as a local authority with a strong focus on children and young people to ensure a good start in life, further strengthens the decision to invest in the fight against child sexual abuse material.
“The software is a given on moral grounds. Recently we were faced with budget cuts and discussed the investment at length. We came to the conclusion that if we, as a local authority, can make a difference on this issue, it is important that we continue to do so. When we initially took the step to invest in the software, the moral issue was as key to our decision making as the security aspects was, and it still is,” says Christian Söderblom.
Employees and the community are positive to the fact that the software is installed on the computers.
“We inform users that we have protection against child sexual abuse material, however most people are probably unaware that we have put that in place. The people who do know, or find out, always react positively to our investment.”
Key that images are classified by law enforcement
NetClean’s database does not include images of children, but instead it operates using digital fingerprints called hash values. These hash values are created when law enforcement classify images and films as illegal. To Christian Söderblom, the quality assurance that law enforcement has classified all images is a key part of the software NetClean ProActive.
“When we get alerted by the software, we react quickly and decisively, and that means that we must be sure that we are not acting on a false alarm.”
From a purely technical point of view, NetClean ProActive is easy to install and run.
“The software is part of our standard platform and does not require a lot of maintenance to ensure that it is updated and running well.”
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If the Economy Booms, Thank Software
Microsoft’s renaissance may herald a nascent boom in software-driven productivity and economic growth
Like-minded technological evangelists have long argued artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data and other technological advances were about to unleash a new boom. But the boom refused to show: growth in productivity—the best measure of how technology enhances worker output—remained mired near generational lows.
Recently, however, there have been intriguing signs a boom may be in the offing. In the first quarter, American companies for the first time invested more in software than in information-technology equipment. Indeed, outside of buildings and other structures, software surpassed every type of investment, including transportation equipment such as trucks and industrial equipment such as machine tools. Software spending is even higher if the cost of writing original software programs, now classified as research and development, is included.
Adjusted for inflation, software investment grew 11% from the first quarter of 2018 through the first quarter of 2019. By contrast, investment in equipment grew less than 4% and in structures, just 1%. (Revised data are due out Thursday.) The headwinds buffeting capital spending broadly, whether the waning tax cut, trade war or slumping commodity prices, have largely spared software. Meanwhile, productivity growth has picked up to 2.4% in the past year, the fastest since 2010.
Whether that can continue is debatable: business investment and productivity growth appear to have slowed in the current quarter. Nonetheless, a recent survey by Morgan Stanley & Co. found chief information officers planning to boost software budgets this year by 5%, and hardware budgets just 2%. Their main target is cloud computing, under which businesses pay external providers to host their data and supply tools to analyze that data.
After Chief Executive Satya Nadella took the company’s reins in 2014, Microsoft shifted focus to cloud-based services. Dubbed “Azure,” the services now account for half of the company’s revenue. Microsoft lacks the hipness factor of consumer-facing Amazon, Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Apple Inc. Yet it has achieved comparable growth by making itself a partner for businesses bent on “digital transformation,” a nebulous term that means using technology to remake processes or products.
Source: www.wsj.com
Tags: microsoft, productivity, software
Microsoft, Facebook, trust and privacy
I’ve been reminded of this ancient history a lot in the last year or two as I’ve looked at news around abuse and hostile state activity on Facebook, YouTube and other social platforms, because much like the Microsoft macro viruses, the ‘bad actors’ on Facebook did things that were in the manual. They didn’t prise open a locked window at the back of the building – they knocked on the front door and walked in. They did things that you were supposed to be able to do, but combined them in an order and with malign intent that hadn’t really been anticipated.
It’s also interesting to compare the public discussion of Microsoft and of Facebook before these events. In the 1990s, Microsoft was the ‘evil empire’, and a lot of the narrative within tech focused on how it should be more open, make it easier for people to develop software that worked with the Office monopoly, and make it easier to move information in and out of its products. Microsoft was ‘evil’ if it did anything to make life harder for developers. Unfortunately, whatever you thought of this narrative, it pointed in the wrong direction when it came to this use case. Here, Microsoft was too open, not too closed.
Equally, in the last 10 years – that is is too hard to get your information out and too hard for researchers to pull information from across the platform. People have argued that Facebook was too restrictive on how third party developers could use the platform. And people have objected to Facebook’s attempts to enforce the single real identities of accounts. As for Microsoft, there may well have been justice in all of these arguments, but also as for Microsoft, they pointed in the wrong direction when it came to this particular scenario. For the Internet Research Agency, it was too easy to develop for Facebook, too easy to get data out, and too easy to change your identity. The walled garden wasn’t walled enough.
.. Conceptually, this is almost exactly what Facebook has done: try to remove existing opportunities for abuse and avoid creating new ones, and scan for bad actors.
Remove openings for abuse Close down APIs and look for vulnerabilities Close down APIs and look for vulnerabilities
Scan for bad behavior Virus and malware scanners Human moderation
(It’s worth noting that these steps were precisely what people had previously insisted was evil – Microsoft deciding what code you can run on your own computer and what APIs developers can use, and Facebook deciding (people demanding that Facebook decide) who and what it distributes.)
.. If there is no data stored on your computer then compromising the computer doesn’t get an attacker much.
An application can’t steal your data if it’s sandboxed and can’t read other applications’ data.
An application can’t run in the background and steal your passwords if applications can’t run in the background.
And you can’t trick a user into installing a bad app if there are no apps.
Of course, human ingenuity is infinite, and this change just led to the creation of new attack models, most obviously phishing, but either way, none of this had much to do with Microsoft. We ‘solved’ viruses by moving to new architectures that removed the mechanics that viruses need, and where Microsoft wasn’t present.
.. In other words, where Microsoft put better locks and a motion sensor on the windows, the world is moving to a model where the windows are 200 feet off the ground and don’t open.
.. Much like moving from Windows to cloud and ChromeOS, you could see this as an attempt to remove the problem rather than patch it.
Russians can’t go viral in your newsfeed if there is no newsfeed.
‘Researchers’ can’t scrape your data if Facebook doesn’t have your data. You solve the problem by making it irrelevant.
This is one way to solve the problem by changing the core mechanics, but there are others. For example, Instagram does have a one-to-many feed but does not suggest content from people you don’t yourself follow in the main feed and does not allow you to repost into your friends’ feeds. There might be anti-vax content in your feed, but one of your actual friends has to have decided to share it with you. Meanwhile, problems such as the spread of dangerous rumours in India rely on messaging rather than sharing – messaging isn’t a panacea.
Indeed, as it stands Mr Zuckerberg’s memo raises as many questions as it answers – most obviously, how does advertising work? Is there advertising in messaging, and if so, how is it targeted? Encryption means Facebook doesn’t know what you’re talking about, but the Facebook apps on your phone necessarily would know (before they encrypt it), so does targeting happen locally? Meanwhile, encryption in particular poses problems for tackling other kinds of abuse: how do you help law enforcement deal with child exploitation if you can’t read the exploiters’ messages (the memo explicitly talks about this as a challenge)? Where does Facebook’s Blockchain project sit in all of this?
There are lots of big questions, though of course there would also have been lots of questions if in 2002 you’d said that all enterprise software would go to the cloud. But the difference here is that Facebook is trying (or talking about trying) to do the judo move itself, and to make a fundamental architectural change that Microsoft could not.
Source: www.ben-evans.com
Tags: architecture, closed-open, computer-virus, guns-political-advertising, microsoft, online-rumors, privacy, rumors, security, trust, viral, virus
How Do You Turn Around the Culture of a 130,000-Person Company? Ask Satya Nadella
But if you ask Nadella how he reinvented Microsoft in half a decade, he won’t talk about the cloud computing or the billion-dollar acquisitions. For him, changing the direction of a ship carrying 130,000 employees could only be done by changing the culture on board.
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Microsoft: What Went Right Under Satya Nadella?
Go on, admit it. You thought Microsoft was so last century, didn’t you? In the late 80s and 90s, the company’s Windows operating system ruled the world.
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Jobless rate hangs steady
Christopher Boyd, Sentinel Staff WriterORLANDO SENTINEL
Despite a continuing slowdown in the construction industry, Florida's unemployment rate held steady at a seasonally adjusted 3.4 percent in May, unchanged from April and 1.1 percentage point lower than the national rate.
Florida's Agency for Workforce Innovation reported that the jobless rate was also nearly unchanged from May 2006, when it was 3.3 percent.
Metro Orlando had 26,000 more jobs in May than in the same month in 2006 -- a 2.4 percent increase for the four-county area. Only the larger South Florida market added more jobs, and the year-over-year growth there was only 1.5 percent.
"It's an extremely strong market right now," said Tom Jackson, Winter Park branch manager with Spherion Corp., a recruiting-and-staffing agency. "We are seeing growth in a number of industries, not only in the service sector, but in white-collar areas as well."
Jackson said that growth is pressuring employers to increase wages.
"We are inundated with requests to fill positions," Jackson said. "We are seeing 50-cent to dollar hikes in wages for hourly positions during the past three to six months."
Metro Orlando's unemployment rate in May -- not adjusted to remove seasonal factors -- was a squeaky-tight 3 percent, unchanged from a year earlier.
The state has added 125,000 jobs since May 2006, with the biggest increases coming in education and health services, and in professional and business services. The two categories accounted for 53 percent of all new jobs.
The housing slump continued to dog the construction industry, which lost 16,200 jobs, a 2.5 percent decline from a year earlier. It was the first time since 1992 that the sector has lost construction jobs for three months in a row.
Manufacturing and information businesses were also weak in May. Manufacturing lost 7,600 jobs, or 1.8 percent, and information shed 1,600 positions, a 1 percent year-over-year decrease. The state agency said weakness in computer and electronic-product manufacturing, Internet services and telecommunications accounted for most of the drop.
"Problems in manufacturing are part of a global phenomenon that has been going on for several years," noted Sean Snaith, a University of Central Florida economist. "And in information, there have been a lot of consolidations and buyouts."
But Snaith added that the economy overall is strong, though he predicted problems in the housing sector will continue into 2008.
"We are a state that is doing better than the nation and a region that is doing better than the state," Snaith said. "We're looking for that trend to continue."
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Caernarfon Town star Thomas silencing doubters and proving he belongs at JD Welsh Premier League level
By Dean Jones
Darren Thomas has been in stunning form for Caernarfon Town of late.
CAERNARFON Town talisman Darren Thomas is finally proving that he belongs at JD Welsh Premier League level.
The popular playmaker, who has been dubbed the “Cofi Messi” by the club’s passionate fan base, has come on leaps and bounds since the turn of the year and turned in yet another mesmerising display in their 3-1 defeat at champions The New Saints in front of the S4C Sgorio cameras on Saturday.
This surge in form is a real vindication for both Thomas and the Canaries, who have stuck by him through a difficult start to life in the top fight that had some questioning whether or not his impressive skill-set would make a transition to WPL level after a period of underachievement at Aberystwyth Town.
There is no questioning Thomas was the standout performer of their Huws Gray Alliance title victory, and he deserves an enormous amount of credit for believing in his own ability and working exceptionally hard to ensure his performances in the field improved considerably.
The faith shown in him by manager Sean Eardley and the rest of the Cofis’ coaching staff must have also been a great relief for him, and Thomas has rewarded them with a tireless commitment and quality in the final third that has gone a long way to securing an expected fourth placed finish for the club during their first season in the top flight.
When Thomas is in the mood there are few better in the domestic game, with his nous in tricky situations and his ability to make the right decisions on a consistent basis setting him apart from most playing in the same position.
He is an inspirational figure within the squad and is relied on heavily both on and off the pitch, which is a responsibility he takes extremely seriously at his hometown club.
Anyone that questioned whether Thomas was made for the top of the Welsh football pyramid must now concede this is not the case, and there is no telling the heights he could reach with a good pre-season under his belt and the possible experience of Europa League action should the Canaries secure a memorable playoff victory.
That, of course, is still to be decided, but given how much stronger Thomas has got as the season has gone on, they could reach the promised land on his back to round off what has been an exceptional few months.
Nobody would take more pride in this than Thomas, who has silenced the doubters and, at last, made his presence felt amongst the Welsh football elite.
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Candidates Congratulate Gingrich And Vow To Continue Nomination Fight : It's All Politics With South Carolina's primary now part of history, the candidates addressed supporters and looked toward the next primary battle. Watch their speeches via PBS NewsHour.
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GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks to supporters in Charleston, S.C. after placing in second in the state's primary Saturday.
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Most of the candidates in the GOP primary race have given their primary night speeches following South Carolina's primary Saturday.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich won the state's primary.
PBS NewsHour will be posting video of all of the candidates' speeches here.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who placed second, was the first to address supporters Saturday.
"This election is a battle for the soul of America," Romney told the audience at his campaign headquarters.
He continued by attacking the GOP's ultimate opponent, a tactic he also used in his victory speech following his win in New Hampshire's primary earlier this month.
"President Obama wants to fundamentally transform our country. We want to restore to American the founding principles that made this country great," Romney said.
Later, Texas Rep. Ron Paul spoke to supporters telling them that it's the "beginning of a long hard slog."
"The message of liberty is being received by more people every single day thanks to your effort," said Paul.
Ron Paul is expected to place last in South Carolina's primary results.
And Rick Santorum appeared on stage at his campaign headquarters saying Newt Gingrich achieved an "enormous victory" in South Carolina.
Each of the candidates appear ready to take their campaigns to the next early primary state, Florida, which holds its primary Jan. 31.
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Sharbat Gula, subject of the famous "Afghan Girl" image, is in a Pakistani jail over alleged ID fraud. In 1984, Gula's brief encounter with photographer Steve McCurry, seen here next to images of Gula, led to a cover photo for National Geographic. Ulrich Perrey/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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Woman From Famous 'Afghan Girl' Photo Is Arrested In Pakistan
October 26, 2016 Sharbat Gula was around 12 years old when her image became the most famous National Geographic cover in the magazine's history. She's now in her 40s.
Jockeys ride wooden plows in the traditional sport of buffalo racing in Bali. Bram Paulussen/2015 National Geographic Photo Contest hide caption
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The Richness Of 'Poor' Places, From National Geographic's Photo Contest
October 19, 2015 The pictures capture racing buffalo in Bali, climbing kids in Burkina Faso and high-wire electricians in Bangladesh.
After decades as a nonprofit, National Geographic magazine will become part of a new media company, in which 21st Century Fox owns 73 percent and the National Geographic Society owns 27 percent. Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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September 9, 2015 The 127-year-old National Geographic magazine will be part of a new venture called National Geographic Partners; Fox will own 73 percent.
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July 26, 2015 In 1984, Steve McCurry was in Pakistan covering a refugee crisis for National Geographic. Captivated by a young girl's eyes, he clicked the shutter — and took one of the magazine's most iconic photos.
Down to the oldest plowed fields in the world, the Cilician Plain of southeastern Turkey. Paul Salopek/National Geographic hide caption
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December 15, 2014 Journalist Paul Salopek's long walk recently brought him face to face with the possibility of losing his toes to frostbite — and with one of the largest mass migrations in modern history.
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What's With The Hot Pink In Baghdad?
July 15, 2011 On assignment for National Geographic magazine, photographer Lynsey Addario went back to Baghdad for the first time since 2004. She discusses a motif that appears in her photos — and the remarkable changes she saw afoot.
On Saturday morning, March 5, National Geographic Channel and a team of scientists, engineers & two world-class balloon pilots successfully launched a 16' X 16' house 18' tall with 300 8' colored weather balloons, and set a new world record for the largest balloon cluster flight ever attempted. Stewart Volland /PRNewsFoto/National Geographic Channel hide caption
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VIDEO: Just Like In 'Up', House Floats Into Sky Under 300 Balloons
March 8, 2011 National Geographic Channel's How Hard Can It Be? show decided to see if it could use balloons to float a whole house — just like in the Pixar movie Up. The answer: yes.
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Surprising Portraits: Photos Of Feathers
January 25, 2011 A National Geographic article about bird evolution is interesting; even more interesting are the portraits of feathers.
Photographing Apple's Snow Leopard And Other Big Cats
August 5, 2010 Steve Winter has an odd experience when he enters an Apple store. The elusive snow leopard, which he chased for 10 grueling months in northern India, is now everywhere. His tiger photos appear in this month's National Geographic magazine.
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June 17, 2008 All about "uncontacted" tribes in the Amazon with explorer Scott Wallace.
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April 22, 2008 Around the world with NPR and National Geographic.
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Trump's Attacks On Clinton Sound A Lot Like Those Of Clinton's Lately Some of Donald Trump's digs have sounded suspiciously like criticisms Hillary Clinton has leveled against him.
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On Friday, Donald Trump made a bold claim. He said Hillary Clinton is responsible for first raising questions about whether or not President Obama was born in the United States.
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DONALD TRUMP: Hillary Clinton...
(BOOING)
TRUMP: ...And her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy.
MARTIN: That statement is not true. In fact, it was Trump who led the charge to try and delegitimize Obama's presidency by floating the idea that the president was actually from Kenya. Trump has spent a lot of time lately accusing Hillary Clinton of things that Democrats have actually been saying about him. NPR's Scott Detrow explains.
SCOTT DETROW, BYLINE: Here's something that Donald Trump said about Hillary Clinton the other week.
TRUMP: She's trigger happy and very unstable.
DETROW: Sounds a little familiar, doesn't it? That's because the suggestion that Trump is too unstable, too unpredictable to be commander-in-chief has been a central attack Clinton has been making against her opponent all year.
HILLARY CLINTON: A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.
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DETROW: This has been happening a lot lately. Trump takes the main critiques Clinton makes against him and says no, they apply to her, too. It's kind of like his campaign strategy comes from that childhood comeback to an insult. I'm rubber, and you're glue. Whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you. This trend really got a lot of attention when Trump started saying this.
TRUMP: Hillary Clinton is running a policy-free campaign. She offers no ideas, no solutions and only hatred and derision.
DETROW: Now, the fact is that Clinton's campaign has buried itself in white papers and policies. And until lately, Trump has instead stuck to broad pronouncements, many of which boil down to the fact that he'll fix things because of his track record as a businessman. Clinton has repeatedly criticized him for not offering any details, but now Trump is throwing that charge back in her face.
JOHN BRABENDER: What they're trying to do is make sure that everybody looks and says OK, she's as bad as he is. And I think they've looked at it as a net win.
DETROW: John Brabender is Pennsylvania-based Republican strategist who's worked in presidential politics. Taking your opponent's most positive trait and using it against him or her is a typical political tactic. But embracing your weaknesses and trying to use them on your opponent like a Judo throw - that's a little different.
BRABENDER: What most candidates want to do is they want to immediately diffuse the attack against them by just responding to the attack. And I think it's actually a pretty innovative and somewhat ingenious solution to say - yeah? Well, let's talk about her - how on the same thing she's even worse.
DETROW: Brabender says Trump and his staff realize that every campaign event is going to be boiled down to just a few quotes or moments. Last month offers a good example. Hillary Clinton delivered a detailed, researched speech on Trump's many disparaging remarks about minority groups and the way the fringe alt-right nationalist movement has embraced Trump's campaign.
CLINTON: This is someone who retweets white supremacists online.
DETROW: Around the same time, Trump responded with a few lines at a rally.
TRUMP: Hillary Clinton is a bigot who sees people of color...
TRUMP: ...Only as votes.
DETROW: And as John Brabender says Trump anticipated, many stories quoted them at almost equal levels.
BRABENDER: I think what they're trying to do at the very least is fight it to a draw. And if they can keep doing that, I think they feel like that's to their advantage.
DETROW: The increasingly tightening polls suggest it may be working. Scott Detrow, NPR News.
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How to release Trump's taxes: There's a right and wrong way for Democrats to reveal this crucial information
By David Cay Johnston
Jan 07, 2019 | 5:00 AM
Time to show and tell. (Twitter)
This year, at long last, the Democrats who now control the House of Representatives will move to make Donald Trump’s tax returns public.
Just how they do it, however, is crucial. Their style will determine whether voters become engaged, informed, interested, outraged or just shrug. If the Democrats mishandle disclosure of the tax returns they might even generate sympathy for Trump and solidify support from his base.
So how should these documents be revealed? Let’s start with a touch of crucial history.
The very first constitutional power we grant our Congress is to tax us.
The first American Republic failed because the Articles of Confederation government had no power to tax or regulate business. “The revenue of the state is the state,” Edmund Burke, the 18th century founder of modern conservatism, declared quite correctly in 1793.
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Back in 1924, less than a decade after the individual income tax began, Congress voted itself the power to examine any tax return. It also has the right to “any tax information” related to those returns that the federal tax police, now called the IRS, and the Treasury Department possesses.
That means business records obtained during audits, among other things.
This law is unambiguous. It says that the chairmen of three committees — House Ways and Means, Senate Finance and the Joint Committee on Taxation — “shall” be given the tax documents by the Treasury secretary. The chief of staff of the joint committee also holds this power to obtain tax returns.
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Congress exercises this authority all the time as part of its constitutional duty to supervise the executive branch. Indeed, for decades, the joint committee staff has examined all tax returns with multi-million-dollar refunds before the money is sent out.
If Steve Mnuchin, Trump’s treasury secretary, declines to comply with the law, the courts will decide. The clear language of the statute, the congressional power to tax and its oversight duty as well as longstanding practice all make it virtually certain that Trump will fail if he tries to obstruct a Congressional investigation into his tax returns.
It won’t help Trump that any litigation would likely cite Trump’s twin tax fraud trials, which I discovered in 2016. Trump fabricated a business with more than $600,000 of losses and no revenue. He never produced a single receipt or check to back up the deductions, for which he was fined, but not prosecuted criminally.
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Worst of all, Trump’s longtime tax lawyer and accountant, Jack Mitnick, testified that while Trump’s city tax return bore his photocopied signature, he had not prepared the return. There is a word for that: fraud.
What House Democrats must do is assign staff to carefully review the returns before disclosing them. If they find improper conduct, they must explain this not in the arcane language of tax experts, but it in plain English.
Focusing on simple things like the backdating of a document to escape taxes will matter. That is what revealed that showed President Richard Nixon was indeed a crook, a felony that sent his tax lawyer to prison.
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The Democrats also need to avoid the mistake made by The New York Times when it dumped a powerful investigation into Trump’s tax cheating in the last century, a 14,000-word expose that few people read fully. Instead, the House should hold public hearings exposing the facts Trump wants to hide. And they had best do it over many days so that voters can absorb the information.
By subpoenaing witnesses, including Trump aides and even state and federal tax auditors, hearings can turn the fine details of tax forms into a human story that resonates with voters.
Johnston is author of “It’s Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America.”
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Fashion & Style|When Conscience and Closet Collide
When Conscience and Closet Collide
By RUTH LA FERLA JUNE 12, 2008
REVIEWING her wardrobe earlier this season, Elizabeth Marvin had a moment of reckoning. “How did this closet become so massively overstuffed?” she mused, disconcerted by the sight of so many Marni jackets, Chloé bags and Jimmy Choo shoes jostling for space on the racks. “From my green perspective, part of me feels guilty about being such a major consumer.”
But Ms. Marvin, the New York sales director for the National Audubon Society and a self-described “major environmentalist,” felt neither so guilty nor so strapped that she planned to stop shopping cold turkey. “Instead of buying that Chloé jacket that I want right now,” she said, “I’m much happier purchasing something at a consignment store that is much less.”
THIS OLD THING A consigned D & G corset dress awaits a new home at the Ina boutique at 15 Bleecker Street in New York. Credit Filip Kwiatkowski for The New York Times
In recent months, high-end designer resale shops have been the beneficiaries of a subtle shift in consumer thinking, as fashion lovers, even those who can afford to splurge, reassess their priorities. Unsettled by continuing recession fears and the soaring prices of designer clothes, and assailed by queasy consciences as well, many find these shops a way to update their wardrobes without seriously denting their bank accounts — or their sense of social propriety.
“Everyone is feeling the pinch these days or knows people who are feeling the pinch,” said Linda Kenney Baden, a prominent lawyer in New York. “It’s good to buy a used car again, and it’s chic to buy used clothes.”
Shoppers like Mrs. Baden, some with formidable retail habits, are turning to consignment stores to offload designer clothing and accessories and to accumulate spare cash, as often as not plowing the profits back into the very same store. Cash-strapped bargain seekers and affluent trophy hunters alike are paring their closets, earning 40 to 50 percent of the resale shop’s asking price. Resale shoppers pay roughly a quarter to a third of the original market value of still-coveted Saint Laurent Muse bags, Stella McCartney jumpsuits and Louboutin pumps.
Barbara Nell adjusts a Chanel hat on a customers head at the Daisy Shop in Chicago. Credit Sally Ryan for The New York Times
Merchants report that the number of shoppers and consignors is climbing and that business has rarely been so robust. “The rise of the euro, sky-high retail prices and the idea of recycling — those are some of the things that drive customers right to our door,” said Laura Fluhr, an owner of Michael’s, the 54-year-old grande dame of fancy resale stores on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
“In an otherwise bleak retail scene, consignment is a thriving area,” Ms. Fluhr said, noting that her business is 30 percent ahead for the first four months of 2008. She added that the extravagant prices of new designer fashions and the influx of European visitors scouring New York for bargains have contributed to the growth.
“People are really resenting designer prices at conventional stores,” said Ina Bernstein, the owner of Ina, the designer resale chain in Manhattan. “In a way, that’s why our business is up.” She said that sales are ahead by 15 percent from January through April at each of her five boutiques.
Michael's in New York. Credit Filip Kwiatkowski for The New York Times
Vicki Haberman, who sells privately and through a Web site, ascribes a heightened interest in consignment shopping partly to consumers’ apparently unquenchable appetite for luxury labels, even those that are gently worn. “Every time you open a magazine, you see somebody wearing a quote-unquote vintage designer gown,” she said. “Shopping vintage and consignment has lost much of its stigma and become mainstream.”
April was a record month for Ricky’s Exceptional Treasures, a luxury resale store on eBay. Ricky Serbin, the owner, reported that his site had about 150,000 hits and some 4,000 visits a day. “These people do not need to be shopping on eBay,” Mr. Serbin said of his well-heeled customers. “They tell themselves, ‘I’m getting a $13,000 gown for $2,000 or $3,000,’ which is nothing to them.”
If a customer parts with $1,000 for a jeweled Lanvin necklace at the site, it’s a bargain compared with the original $8,000 tag. “They may see that as a tightening of the belt,” Mr. Serbin noted tartly.
SECONDHAND ROSES A dress at Michaels in New York. Credit Filip Kwiatkowski for The New York Times
Certainly the rewards of buying and selling through resale shops can be more emotional than practical. As Judy Yun, a customer and consignor at Ina, acknowledged, there are no savings in getting back $350 for a Balenciaga bag that cost $1,600, then spending the money on a $400 pair of Manolo Blahnik sandals. She buys and consigns nonetheless because, she said: “I like seeing that little bit of extra cash. Actually, it’s not so little when you’re talking about a Balenciaga handbag.”
Among the covetable pieces at Ina last week were a Prada pink mock-crocodile evening bag, which was selling for $825, compared with the original price of about $2,200; a D & G evening dress in bronze-colored lace for $475, $1,800 new; and a $325 pair of Louboutin pumps, originally $775.
At Act II, a designer resale store in Kansas City, Mo., pieces from St. John, Yves Saint Laurent, Prada and Dior are quick to vanish from the racks, said Gloria Everhart, the owner. Chanel bouclé tweeds and Hermès handbags can fetch prices in the thousands wherever they turn up.
Ina Bernstein of Ina. People are really resenting designer prices, she says. Credit Filip Kwiatkowski for The New York Times
Other labels that once sizzled have lost their draw. “Escada has gone cold, and so has Armani,” said Barbara Nell, the owner of the Daisy Shop on Oak Street in Chicago.
But for the most part, clothes that have gathered dust in closets for months rarely molder on consignment racks. That is because high-end merchants turn their inventory frequently, buying pieces that are no more than a few seasons old and dropping prices every few weeks to ensure that the wares look fresh and will sell at a reasonable cost.
Both merchants and consumers say that purging the closet and buying castoffs can be cleansing for the soul. “The whole idea of recycling and going green motivates some of our customers,” said Ms. Fluhr of Michael’s. “People are aware that Jimmy Choos fill landfills, too.”
Ms. Yun said she has grown increasingly sensitive to environmental issues. “Selling to resale shops becomes a platform to recycle,” she said. “Besides, I tell myself, ‘It’s obscene to have so much.’ ”
Five years ago, Mrs. Baden, the lawyer, rarely gave much thought to paying full retail for an evening dress she was unlikely to wear again. But in the weeks approaching a recent gala, she bought a Chanel gown at Ricky’s on eBay for one third of its original $10,000 price. “I was going to wear it to just one function,” she recalled. “To spend that kind of money — I couldn’t justify it.”
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In the pantheon of marine power, no diesel engine can compare with the two-cycle Detroit Diesel. Designed and developed by General Motors in 1938, the engine achieved almost mythic status because its two-stroke combustion cycle (one power stroke for each crankcase rpm) gave it significantly greater power density than diesels using the more common four-stroke combustion cycle (one power stroke for each two rpm).
The two-cycle Detroits were produced in different series, the first being the 71 Series. The original engine model was the 6-71, with the first number designating the number of cylinders and the second the displacement in cubic inches of each cylinder. There were 53, 71, 92, and 149 Series with anything from four to 16 cylinders. The engines were also modular, which meant that two V-6s could be bolted together to create a V-12 and two V-8s could be combined to make a V-16.
The principal disadvantage of the two-cycle Detroit was that its combustion configuration allowed unburned fuel to pass out the exhaust port before the port closed, resulting in excessive emissions. The engines' design also required a complex system of seals that often failed over time, causing oil leaks. (This problem was largely overcome when Roger Penske purchased Detroit Diesel from General Motors in 1988.)
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Two projects proposed in Bath at former YMCA lot
By Alex Lear
BATH — The City Council on Wednesday heard two redevelopment proposals for the vacant former YMCA lot at 26 Summer St.
The Newheight Group of Portland presented one option, in conjunction with Portland-based Community Housing of Maine.
Portland-based Szanton Co. – which is redeveloping the former John E.L. Huse School into 59 mixed-income apartments – has partnered with the Bath Housing organization to present the second proposal.
Szanton proposes a mixed-income rental housing project with a three-story brick facade that would face Summer Street and contain between 42-49 apartments. The building would step up to four stories farther back from the road, and the site’s lower portion – accessed from Elm Street – would offer parking and driveway access.
“Our proposed project would help meet a deep and longstanding need for quality housing at an affordable price in a location that is plugged into the services and amenities of downtown Bath,” the project narrative states. “The 2015 Bath Area Housing Assessment highlighted the need for housing that is energy-efficient, affordable across the spectrum of income levels, and accessible to citizens of all ages – and this proposed project would meet that need.”
Monthly rents could range between $670 for a one-bedroom apartment at 50 percent of the area median income, to $1,050 for a two-bedroom market rate apartment.
The project could be funded through MaineHousing affordable housing tax credits, MaineHousing subsidies and debt or mortgage, and Community Development Block Grant funds from the state, allocated through the city. The proposal also mentions the possibility of obtaining tax relief through a tax increment financing/credit enhancement agreement, which “would refund to the project a portion of the new tax revenue for a period of time,” according to the narrative.
“MaineHousing incentivizes this type of tax relief by awarding points in the highly competitive allocation process, so a TIF for 26 Summer St. would vastly increase the chances of getting the project built,” the proposal adds.
Jess Irish, director of Bath Housing, told the City Council, “We’re currently experiencing waits for between two and three years” for housing.
Szanton proposes to have eight to 10 parking spaces on site, with shared parking in other city lots, where apartment dwellers would tend just to use the lots at night. Facilitating all parking on the former YMCA site could cost $1 million, driving down the affordability of the project, developer Nathan Szanton told the council.
Still, some concern was expressed at the meeting about facilitating off-site parking at times such as snowstorms, when people parked at city lots would have to locate their vehicles elsewhere.
The NewHeight proposal calls for mixed-use development that would contain market rate housing as well as commercial/retail space.
“NewHeight Group is proposing 20 to 30 residential condominiums above structured parking of one or two levels, with a commercial use fronting Summer Street, and another full level of commercial/recreational space in a single structure,” an April 24 memo from the organization states. “The building will present an attractive three-story facade facing Summer Street, with step-backs at the fourth and fifth floors.”
The condos would be between approximately 700 to 1,200 square feet, and priced between around $250,000 to more than $400,000, with most units at the lower end of the range.
“NewHeight Group continues to investigate potential uses for the commercial space, with a goal of creating an important community hub,” the memo notes.
One level of parking would be accessed from Elm Street, and the other from Summer Street.
The building would rise higher than the neighboring Moses Block, providing views of key city features, such as the Kennebec River, Library Park and downtown, according to Tom Federle, principal of NewHeight Group.
The structure could house 20-30 condos, he said, with the site holding about 40 parking spaces.
The development would “add value to the City in this location both by increasing the tax base and by bringing desired market rate housing options into this urban core,” NewHeight stated, adding that the commercial uses would draw more pedestrian traffic downtown.
The city tore down the YMCA building – also the former home of the Bath Youth Meetinghouse and Skatepark – in January 2012. The half-acre lot sits across the street from the Patten Free Library, and is in the Downtown Commercial zone.
Residences, professional and corporate offices, and businesses such as restaurants and ice cream parlors were among desired uses mentioned in the city’s six-page request for proposals.
“I am so thrilled that we have two amazing proposals here tonight,” Council Chairwoman Mari Eosco said following the presentations. “It’s exciting … to have developers coming in.”
The panel was scheduled to discuss financial details such as proposed purchase prices in executive session following the meeting. Wednesday’s meeting marked a step in an ongoing process, City Manager Bill Giroux said.
Alex Lear can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 113 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter: @learics.
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Wall Street closes above 11,000 for first time since May
PUBLISHED: October 8, 2010 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: August 29, 2017 at 11:18 am
NEW YORK – The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 11,000 for the first time in five months Friday as hopes built that the Federal Reserve will take more action to get the economy going again.
A weaker jobs report added to a series of tepid economic indicators in recent weeks that have built expectations that the Fed will announce new steps to encourage borrowing when it meets in early November.
Private employers added 64,000 workers last month, short of the 75,000 economists expected, according to a monthly government report released early Friday. Overall, 95,000 jobs were slashed as governments laid off workers, including temporary census employees. The unemployment rate held steady at 9.6 percent.
Jason Pride, director of investment strategy at wealth management firm Glenmede, said that the weak report gives the Fed “the window of opportunity to take action.”
The Fed’s goal, if it starts buying bonds again, would be to drive interest rates down further from their already low levels and spark borrowing and spending. Lower rates could also eventually drive investors into riskier assets like stocks or into currencies in countries with more attractive interest rates.
According to preliminary calculations, the Dow rose 57.90, or 0.5 percent, at 11,006.48. The last time it crossed above 11,000 was May 3 of this year. It first crossed 11,000 in May of 1999, and reached its highest close of all time on Oct. 9, 2007, when it finished at 14,164.53.
The Standard & Poor’s 500 index gained 7.09, or 0.6 percent, to 1,165.15, and the Nasdaq composite index gained 18.24, or 0.8 percent, to 2,401.91.
Employers have not started hiring a lot of workers because of worries about potential tax hikes and unknown costs associated with health care and financial regulatory reform passed earlier this year. Consumers have also kept their spending down, which has kept a lid on hiring.
In corporate news, Alcoa Inc. rose 5.7 percent after its earnings beat analysts’ expectations late Thursday. The aluminum maker also raised its forecast for global aluminum consumption. Many companies have said international operations will be the driving factor in improving profits in the coming quarters because U.S. growth is so slow.
Alcoa is seen as a bellwether for earnings season because it is the first company among the 30 that make up the Dow industrials to report earnings. Alcoa rose 69 cents to $12.89.
Earnings are likely to become more of a factor in the market’s direction in the coming weeks as hundreds of companies report results.
Carole Peck, president and founder of Carole Peck Financial Center, said “if we see positive earnings, and projections for the fourth quarter are fairly decent, that should play positively.”
Strong earnings results and upbeat corporate outlooks drove the Dow up 7.1 percent in July.
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Photos of various space missions launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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[ Return to Flight - Launch of Discovery ]
This gallery contains images from the launch of space shuttle Discovery from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This was the first launch since the Columbia accident in February 2003.
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[ Titan 4B Launch on 14 Feb 2004 ]
Photos of the launch of a Titan 4B carrying a Telstar6 Satellite from Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral AS, Florida.
[ Titan 4B Launch on 30 April 2005 ]
Launch of a Titan 4B carrying a Galaxy 3 satellite from Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral AS, Florida. This was the final Titan launch at the Cape Canaveral AS. The Titan lift system has been retired and had its final launch ever at Vandenberg AFB, CA a couple months after this.
Space Shuttle Columbia's Final Launch
This photo shows the launch of the space shuttle Columbia on its final voyage. It was taken from the central housing area of Patrick Air Force Base, which is the home base of the 45th Space Wing.
It's ironic that, as we all stood there watching, we realized that this was probably one of the most beautiful day launchs in a while. As you can see, the sky was perfectly clear and blue.
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Endeavour on the Pad
There are signs along the roads leading to the launch pads that read: "No Stopping Any Time". Okay, so I stopped for a couple minutes....This photo was shot back late 2000.
Lockheed Atlas 2AS Night Launch
The launch of a Lockheed Martin Atlas 2AS from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida. This was taken from my backyard in Melbourne.
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The contrail from the launch of a Lockheed Martin Atlas 2AS from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida.
Space Shuttle Endeavour on Pad 39-A
This was taken of the Space Shuttle Endeavour on Launch Pad 39-A, with the moon rising in the background. The launch was the final for Endeavour before the Columbia disaster. The launch for this particular evening was scrubbed due to winds. We came back the following night for the eventual launch. Launch pad 39-B can be seen in the middle.
Shuttle Night Launch
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Space Shuttle Atlantis Launch Plume
As you can probably tell, the exhaust plume drifted some before I took this. The launch pad from which Atlantis lifted off is the structure to the right. The one to the left is the other Shuttle (and former Saturn V) launch pad.
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Space Shuttle Atlantis - Booster Seperation
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The Division 1.6 update will nearly double the size of the Dark Zone
By Andy Chalk 2017-01-20T19:28:46.19Z
The update will also add new Contamination events and a Legendary difficulty level.
Ubisoft announced today that the launch of The Division DLC Last Stand, which we learned about yesterday, will be accompanied by the release of update 1.6, which along with "the regular balancing tweaks and changes" will also feature an expanded game map, new "Contamination events," updates to Named gear, Dark Zone leaderboards, and a brand-new difficultly level.
"In Update 1.6, the gates in the northern parts of the Dark Zone will open and Dark Zone 7, 8 and 9 will finally become available! While the Dark Zone has never been the most welcoming place in New York, the situation up in Dark Zone 7-9 is especially dire," the announcement states. "We don’t want to spoil too much in this article, as we’d rather have you experience the new areas on your own, and there’s a couple of surprises waiting for you in there. In total, these new areas—including all their vertical space, like rooftops and underground locations—almost double the playable size of the current Dark Zone."
Despite the greater size of the Dark Zone, the number of players present in each instance will not be increased, meaning they'll be spread out more and thus have more opportunities for PvE combat. The update will also enable fast travel between Dark Zone checkpoints. It will not bring in a new World Tier, however, as "we don’t want you to have to go through old content to increase your gear score again before you can do any new activities."
Contamination events will see elite Cleaners appear in underground locations where masses of body bags have led to much higher than usual levels of viral lethality. The Cleaners are set on burning everything in their path, which sounds like a smart idea, except that it also includes any civilians they may encounter along the way—and so it falls to you to stop them. Complicating matters is that the increased concentration of the virus means your filter isn't enough to keep you protected, so you'll have to move quickly and manage your health while you're roaming around in these infested locales.
The new Legendary difficulty is meant to "give our hardcore players a real challenge." But instead of just upping the hit points and damage of enemies, "all the previous content has been taken out and replaced with new, powerful and much smarter LMB [Last Man Battalion] enemies that use more advanced tactics against you and your team," Ubisoft said. There will be a wider range of enemy types present, as well as Named enemies with unique behaviors and skills.
"This mode is supposed to be the most challenging mode in the game, even more so than Heroic Incursions, and is really going to test your build, your tactics and your group synergy," Ubisoft wrote. "[Enemies] will react to your skills and status effects, will be hard to hit since they keep a low profile, will constantly try to flank you, and you really don’t want to get into melee range of them. If you’ve fought the Hunter in Survival, you have had a brief taste of what is coming."
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Anthem Demo Pre-Loading Has Begun
By Cameron Woolsey January 23, 2019 0
You can now pre-load Anthem ahead of its upcoming demo weekend. There are two demo weekends on the horizon. The first is the VIP demo, which begins this Friday, January 25.
There are two ways to gain access to the VIP demo. The first, naturally, requires you to pre-order the game and use a code. Another way is to be an EA Access or Origin Access subscriber. This early demo runs from January 25 to the 27th, and participants will get an exclusive in-game item as a reward. What this shiny, exclusive “thing” is, we don’t rightly know. But I’m guessing it’s an emote. It’s always a damn emote. Wait, can you emote in Anthem?
The open demo will cover next weekend, beginning on Friday, February 1. It will run until the end of Sunday, and it will most likely be the same as the VIP demo. Except, of course, you don’t get any fancy dancy in-game reward, other than the satisfaction that you didn’t have to pay for anything.
Don’t Go Alone
You won’t have the entirety of the game to explore in the demo, sadly. According to EA, it only encompasses a “slice of the world,” so don’t expect something like the Fallout 76 beta. You’ll start off at level 10, equipped with a more powerful Javelin and equally devastating weaponry.
You also don’t need to play the game on your lonesome. Once you download and install the Anthem demo, you’re able to invite three others. To do this, you just need to visit the Anthem Demos page, log in, click the Get Friends Passes tab, and set the link to some buddies.
To start your preload, head to the Anthem page at the Origin store. From there, click on “Try it First,” and follow the instructions. Oh, and be sure to check the system specs before you begin downloading. But don’t worry, the game isn’t as demanding as we thought. Anthem officially launches for PC on February 21.
Cameron Woolsey
Cam has been shooting for high scores since his days playing on the Atari 2600. Writing about video games since 2005, Cam has also worked with GameSpot, GamesRadar, and PlayBoy.
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PA Joey Concepcion together with Hyacenth Bendaña during their meeting last week.
Breaking the shackles of poverty
GO NEGOSYO PILIPINAS ANGAT LAHAT! - Joey Concepcion (The Philippine Star) - June 20, 2019 - 12:00am
Aside from being an advocacy that supports the development of micro and small entrepreneurs, I believe that Go Negosyo is a storyteller, a narrator of inspiring and empowering success stories of many entrepreneurs.
For the past 14 years, Go Negosyo has featured countless of entrepreneurship journeys of not just the big entrepreneurs, but also of micro and small entrepreneurs who sought and worked for their own “tagumpay.”
Recently, I met one inspiring individual who is at the perfect place to empower other people. Her name is Reycel Hyacenth Bendaña, Ateneo de Manila University’s 2019 Class Valedictorian. You may have heard of her as she became a trending topic recently when she delivered her valedictory address.
I invited her to our house last Saturday before I went abroad. A bubbly and bright lady, Hya is a beaming hope for the youth as she advocates for the transportation sector. She shared her story.
Having attended Ateneo de Naga for her high school, Hya was suppose to join the University of the Philippines community to study Industrial Engineering. However, since her sister is an upcoming high school student, she opted to join Ateneo as one of its scholars so her sister could have the allowance for her studies. Her mother is a former saleslady, while her father is a former construction worker turned jeepney driver who has been driving since 2000.
Hya said her mother is, in fact, the entrepreneur in the family. Her mom took the risk of getting a loan for the jeepney, then eventually a truck. This is one of the familiar stories of micro and small entrepreneurs — of mothers who are willing to risk and sacrifice for their family. In fact, many mothers have the entrepreneurial spirit because of their natural instinct to help provide for their children. Microfinance institutions like CARD-MRI of Aristotle Alip have a record of wives and mothers applying for loans for their small businesses.
Hya shared her frustrations. While she was volunteering for a community as a public elementary school teacher in the province during her second year in high school, she met Noynoy, one of her students. Despite being the same age as her, Noynoy is still in grade one. Hya said, “Parehas naman kaming nagsisikap. Parehas naman kaming masipag. Parehas naman kami ng background of having a poor family, pero bakit ako may chances? Bakit ako may opportunities? Bakit siya, wala?”
“We’re going to break the shackles of poverty because after all, I am breaking mine, but there are people na hindi sipag yung problema. Hindi pagsisikap yung problema kasi masipag na sila at nagsisikap na sila. It’s really the system. Yung barriers of opportunity for people. At yun yung kailangan gawin kaya may call for the economy to be more inclusive.”
This is one great example of how poverty changes the ball game. While some turn to drugs and criminality to escape their reality, some use poverty as their biggest motivator to move up in life. There are many successful entrepreneurs, like Dado Banatao who hailed from Cagayan. Now, he is a billionaire after becoming a successful technopreneur.
Hya is also vocal about the modernization program for jeepney drivers. Her father has stopped driving jeepneys because when the modernization program started, their franchise was no longer renewed by the LTFRB. In the Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program of the government, jeepneys must pass the new standards within three years. Hya said, “I think the majority of the jeepney drivers still do not want to transition and want to oppose the jeep modernization policy, but there are a number of those who want to transition. I think we are at a perfect place to be able to help them to breach that gap. To transition to other sources of income na hindi sila mawawalan ng kabuhayan… I think Go Negosyo is the perfect platform to be able to reach out to them so that we will not have hundreds and thousands of families who will lose their livelihood and income and whose dreams will not be killed in the near future.”
This is where we want to help our jeepney drivers, their wives, and their families — to be able to provide opportunities for livelihood. I think their problem now is the lack of support after the modernization program. With their jeepneys phased out, they will no longer have their major source of income. Through our mentorship programs, they can explore unique business ideas that they can pursue.
Additionally, with digitalization, jeepney drivers can continue driving for different platforms such as Grab, Angkas, Lalamove, Ninjavan, etc. We can show them that there are many livelihood opportunities today because of the digital transformation happening. These companies will gladly assist them in their application.
Hya can be the perfect spokesperson for helping jeepney drivers and their families. I told her to take the opportunity to give back to those who helped her by helping others. I am glad that she plans to help other people through different advocacies. I am sure that this lady will be one of the changemakers of this country. May her story inspire more people, from the low-lying communities and even the middle class — to rise from poverty and reach for success!
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US scrap plastic exports rose sharply in Mar ’15
Recycling News June 3, 2015 plasticsinfomart
SPOKANE (Scrap Monster): According to latest government data, the exports of scrap plastic by the US increased sharply during the month of March this year, in comparison with the previous month. The exports had witnessed slight increase during the month of February too. On the other hand, cumulative scrap plastic exports by the country during Jan-Mar ’15 declined over the previous year.
The country’s exports of plastic scrap during the month of March 2015 totaled 416.78 million pounds. When compared with the exports during the previous month, the volume of exports was up considerably by 36.8%. Also, exports registered a modest increase of 5.0% when compared with those during March 2014. The US plastic scrap exports had totaled 396.93 million pounds during Mar ‘14.
The weighted price of scrap plastic exports during March this year amounted to 18.24 cents per pound. The weighted price saw marginal decline of 0.4% from Feb 2015 levels. The weighted price of scrap plastic exports during Feb ‘15 had amounted to 18.31 cents per pound. Upon comparison with March 2014, the weighted price slipped by 7.3%.
The US exports of recovered plastic during the initial three-month period of the year amounted to 997.84 million pounds. The exports dropped by 9.4% when compared with the exports during the corresponding three-month period in 2014.
The average price of scrap plastic exports during the period from January through March in 2015 was 18.61 cents per pound, which is 4.5% down year-on-year.
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Decorated Christmas trees raise thousands for the NSPCC
The annual event is now in its 21st year
Rachael Dodd
Festive Christmas trees have been decorated by local businesses to raise thousands for the NSPCC.
The trees and garlands which filled Theatre Royal Plymouth were sponsored by local businesses and decorated either by their staff or by NSPCC volunteers and young people from Plymouth’s NSPCC Participation group.
Over the past 20 years the Festival of Trees, now in its 21st year, has raised more than £200,000 for the children’s charity.
Sam Doel, chairman of the Plymouth and West Devon branch of the NSPCC, said: “Without the help of the Theatre Royal Plymouth we wouldn’t be able to do this annual event which delights the thousands of visitors at Christmas time.
"I am very grateful to the sponsors of the Christmas trees and garlands at the theatre, who have helped to raise thousands for the NSPCC’s work with children."
Winners of the Festival of Trees. L- R Margaret Paynter-Phelps NSPCC volunteer, Alison Armer, Community Fundraising Manager, Viv Yandell NSPCC volunteer, Dan Downs NSPCC volunteer, Cllr Wendy Foster, Lord Mayor of Plymouth, Brian Webber NSPCC volunteer, Daniel Roberts Tamar telecommunications, Tony Spreadborough Tamar Fresh, Philip Paynter-Phelps NSPCC volunteer, Jamie Christoforou Tamar Telecommunications, Councillor Ken Foster (Consort), Mrs Sam Doel Chairman Plymouth and West Devon Branch of the NSPCC.
In a close run competition the Lord Mayor of Plymouth chose Tamar Fresh as the winner of the best decorated tree and Tamar Telecommunications as the winner of the runner-up prize at the reception at the Theatre Royal Plymouth on December 8. The event is expected to raise in excess of £11,000.
Support our Christmas appeal for the NSPCC and Childline
175,000 abused or suffering children a year try to call Childline but can't get through because demand is now so high - that's why we have joined forces with the NSPCC for our Christmas fundraising campaign.
Every 25 seconds a child contacts the NSPCC's Childline service. Right now, Childline counsellors can only respond to three out of four children who need their help.
£4 could pay for a counsellor to answer a chil'd call. It could be a call that saves a life.
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To donate £4 text 'NSPCC 4' to 88008
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Text costs include your donation of £4, £12, or £20 plus your standard network rate. The NSPCC will receive 100% of your donation. Find out how the NSPCC works to keep more children safe every day at nspcc.org.uk
The event comes as the Plymouth Herald and the NSPCC work together on a campaign urging people across the country help Childline be there for more young people in need of support.
Alison Armer, NSPCC community fundraising manager for Plymouth added: “I’d like to thank the tree sponsors and all the volunteers for their hard work and for being so generous with their time.
The NSPCC hold the judging for the Festival of Trees at the Theatre Royal Plymouth.
“The money raised will go towards helping the NSPCC continue its work to protect children, including Childline, the Speak Out Stay Safe programme and the Plymouth service centre.
“The event has always been a huge success and we always try to bring it back bigger and better every year.”
Moved by what you’ve read? Please help Childline be there for every young person who desperately needs support. Donate £4 by texting ‘NSPCC 4’ to 88008 or visiting nspcc.org.uk/plymouth.
Text costs include your donation of £4 plus your standard network rate. To donate £12 text ‘NSPCC 12’ and to donate £20 text ‘NSPCC 20’, also to 81400. The NSPCC will receive 100% of your donation.
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Home › Publications › Reports & Studies › Harris-Era Hangovers
Harris-Era Hangovers
Toronto School Trustees' Inherited Funding Shortfall
Hugh Mackenzie
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Controversy has been swirling around the Toronto District School Board and the province has been putting pressure on the board to cut spending. But what's at the heart of the problem? CCPA Research Associate Hugh Mackenzie has been tracking the flawed provincial funding formula for education since former Premier Mike Harris first implemented it the late-1990s. His detailed report gives an overview of the chronic underfunding that school boards across Ontario, but Toronto in particular, have been struggling to deal with for almost two decades. Until the province deals with the flawed nature of the funding formula itself, Mackenzie predicts more headaches for Ontario school boards.
Flawed funding formula behind Toronto school board woes: study
February 10, 2015 | Ontario Office
TORONTO – The political drama that's been unfolding at the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) over school closures and tight funding is totally avoidable, says the author of a new study from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' Ontario office (CCPA-Ontario).
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Christmas party - Leeds
Hello, I am writing on behalf of the Choir team based in Leeds. We would be having our annual Christmas carol on the 11th of December where we would be singing a few Carols and, we would like to make enquiries regarding booking musicians and musical instruments. due to the carols we would be doing we would like an orchestral feeling at the carol; most likely violin, strings or wind instruments. Please we are open to suggestions in regards to variations of instruments that could be supplied.
Wedding - Bradford
Our wedding is the Red Lion Hotel in Burnsall at 2pm Thursday 27th July this year. As lover of Bavarian Music we are considering a band to accompany the post service drinks outside in the garden area. There is a covered area if the weather is not good. Venue booking conditions stipulate bands must be 3 piece & accoustic. many thanks Tony & Heather
Corporate Function - Leeds
I would like to hire a Brass Band for the 23rd December. I work for DPD courier company, and we are looking to hire a band to play on the morning shift in the warehouse, while the guys load the vans, they can do this to brass band playing Christmas songs Thanks Tracey Ann
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Birthday party (adult) - Leeds
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Hi, I´m getting married on the 6-August-2016, in East Morton, West Yorkshire. I´m looking for a violinst to play 1 song as the ceremony starts, this will be the song that I enter into the ceremony. And then to play a variety of music after the ceremony finishes for around 45 minutes. The Ceremony is due to start at 4pm, and last for approximately 45 minutes. We are planning the ceremony to be outdoors in a park, if weather permits. Please let me know your prices and availabilty. My email is; charlotte_binns@hotmail.com. Thank you in advance! Charlotte
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Wedding at monk fryston hall near Leeds Aiming for music to start about 8 and finish by 11.
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Hi, We are looking for a German Band to open our Beer Festival for an hour and a half on Saturday 27th May 2017. The venue is Walton Village Hall. Walton Village Hall. School Lane, Wetherby, West Yorkshire, LS23 7DW. We are looking for a great band, though do not want the traditional German Beer games that often are part of the performance. A friend who is a german singer / dj is following on from the band at 20:30 Thank you!
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We are looking for a female vocalist to do either 1 or 2 hours in a small restaurant on New Years Eve depending on pricing. We are looking for someone who can provide background music for diners between 8/9-10pm. If you could let us know your thoughts it would be greatly appreciated, or if you could give us any recommendations either.
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femocracy
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About Femocracy
We used to be Project Femme. We felt that the name didn't adequately encompass the multitude of identities we sought to represent and decided to change that.
As Lin-Manuel Miranda would say, Femocracy is a movement- not a moment. It is a platform and organization dedicated to teenagers, first and foremost. We define femocracy as: democracy revitalized, rebuilt, and re-energized through intersectional feminism. We will never achieve true representation in that uniquely American principle of “We the People” until all people are included in that statement. Femocracy aims to enact progressive policy, train the next generation of progressive activists and organizers, and revolutionize how we build change- orienting it around principles of intersectionality. We focus on marginalized demographics of young people, particularly LGBTQ+ girls and young WOC, and work to establish a collaborative platform with all the resources necessary for these changemakers to engage in democracy creatively. Particularly, teenage girls may be the most under-acknowledged, underestimated, and underrepresented community in our world, but we are the most brazen and brilliant of powerhouses for change. Femocracy is not simply about women in power - that is certainly part of it - but rather, about feminism in power. That doesn’t mean any of the unconstructive accusations thrown endlessly at feminists: this isn’t about kicking men out. It is about raising everyone up. The United States of America, the Constitution, is simply a collection of arbitrary, meaningless words without us there working to actively embody it. Democracy is an evolution, a process, a strenuous and often disappointing system of small revolutions. We aim to make every young person who has ever felt unheard, invalidated, or dismissed, a revolutionary in their unique way.
We need creative spaces to speak our truths and fight to be heard in every level of civic engagement.
Femocracy is for everyone and anyone uncertain of the next step, but impassioned enough to want to be a part of it. It is for those who feel underrepresented, unheard, and voiceless in the hollow, often petty political spectacle America has so fondly created and endorsed. It is for the queer teenagers who do not know who they are yet, who are unsure of their place in this unsettling, odd universe but are discontent with the state of our democracy. It is for young marginalized feminists not to be exclusive, but rather, to represent and vocalize the experiences of a specific community of individuals that has long gone unheard and underrepresented. I started Femocracy because I believe that feminism, and intersectionality are necessities to sustainable democracy, not mere theoretical premises isolated in a vacuum outside of our politics.
We need to uplift, inspire, and enable young feminists to engage in all fields: activism, politics, creativity, etc. We have to ensure that all marginalized folks have positions of power that are used to represent the discontent and afraid. We have to engage young people- this is the crucial asset that is widely unacknowledged and underestimated. Youth civic engagement may sound like an overused, dry term, but truly, it is one of the most valuable and vital essentials to reshaping and reinvigorating our nation. We need to make political engagement accessible to all- no matter your socioeconomic circumstances. We cannot, under any circumstances, sigh ourselves into complacency. It is easier than what we have to do, but it is not humane. It is not an option for those of us who are terrified, shaken, upset, and destabilized both emotionally and literally by the administration, behavior, and men representing us as a nation.
We want a democracy that everyone can readily participate in and help to construct without discrimination. Young people are at the forefront of creating just that.
Let's build it together.
Head/Founder: Sofia Sears
Executive Event Coordinator: Liz Stewart
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by Property118.com News Team
17:33 PM, 3rd November 2011
Housebuilding Slumps to Lowest Level for 88 years
The building of new homes has slumped to the lowest level ever – running at half the number needed to keep up with demand.
The latest government figures revealed 120,000 new homes were built in England last year.
Although London has the most resilient housing market, the capital saw the largest drop in the number of new homes started – down 27% on the year before. Around 18,000 new homes were built in London in the year.
The figures highlighted the UK has a deficit of around a million homes, with the figure rising by around 100,000 properties a year.
The number of available homes is squeezed at both ends – while fewer new homes are being built, more people are living longer – and in many cases are single occupiers in homes for families.
The main reasons for the shortfall are blamed on a muddle over government planning policies and the lack of available mortgage funding, especially for first time buyers.
The Communities and Local Government Department figures showed the number of new homes built in the 12 months to April totaled 117,700 – a fall of 6% behind a 23% slump in new housing stock between 2008 and 2010.
In 2007-08, 207,000 new houses were started, falling to 157,000 in 2008-09 and 124,000 last year.
These are the lowest house building figures in nearly 90 years – records started in 1923.
“We were not building enough homes even in the good times and the recession has exacerbated the problem. Young people are finding it next to impossible to get on to the housing ladder and there is a very real risk that even when the economy recovers under-supply will push property prices further out of the reach of many people,” said Clive Betts, chairman of the Department for Communities Select Committee.
Housing minister Grant Shapps promises a new strategy is being developed to reverse the housebuilding trend.
“We will shortly publish a housing strategy outlining both the measures we’re already taking and some new moves we’ll make to get Britain building again,” he said. “These include ensuring that for the first time people see the benefits of growth in their area through the New Homes Bonus, which matches the council tax raised on new properties for six years.”
Tony Atkins
16:45 PM, 11th November 2011
As a housebuilder myself, I know full well why not enough houses are being built and why new house prices are so high: landowners wanting high prices, 40% of the site having to be given away to a housing association as "affordable homes", S106 infrastructure taxes running at £20,000 per property, ever-increasing building regulations as we approach zero-carbon homes, and none of these costs are faced by sellers of second-hand homes, which look cheaper and cheaper in comparison.
Couple all these added costs with a nightmarish planning system and a nimbyish public that attacks the more efficient use of suburban land as "garden grabbing", and developers understandable struggle to ever get anything built.
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‘Game of Thrones’ Just Released a Behind-the-Scenes ‘Cast Remembers’ Video and Heart Meet Dagger
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| 04-09-2019 | 1:13 PM
We aren’t the only ones dreading the end of Game of Thrones. In a brand-new behind-the-scenes video released by HBO, the cast of the hit series reflects on their favorite (and least favorite) memories on set. Spoiler alert: It’ll make you feel all the dragon-sized feels.
In the new “The Cast Remembers” video, GoT stars Kit Harington (Jon Snow), Sophie Turner (Sansa Stark), Maisie Williams (Arya Stark), Emilia Clarke (Daenerys Targaryen) and Isaac Hempstead-Wright (Bran) reminisce about the early days of Thrones when they were all youngin’s. Grown-ups Peter Dinklage (Tyrion Lannister), Rory McCann (The Hound), Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister), Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister) and Iain Glen (Ser Jorah) recall watching the cast grow up and the story evolve.
For Clarke and Hampstead-Wright, GoT was their first job. Clarke was so nervous she fell off a horse on her first day of filming, and the IRL Bran just tried to take it all in. Williams remembers being so young at the time that she full-on imagined she was actually in Winterfell. Turner recalls feeling “so overwhelmed and terrified” her first day on set. Dinklage, an acting vet, was initially skeptical about the show and how successful it would be, while McCann knew it’d be a hit after reading the script.
Like us, the cast remembers being hit hard by Ned Stark (Sean Bean), Jon Snow and Hodor’s (Kristian Nairn) deaths. Turner even began to distrust the show because she wasn’t sure if or when they would kill off her favorite characters.
Some other fun facts? Glen loved filming the gladiator scenes in season five episode nine because, as we learned from the GoT stunt coordinator, he’s a pretty spirited fighter. Harington enjoyed working with his now wife, Rose Leslie, (duh) and Turner’s favorite scene was when she and Williams’s characters were reunited.
“It was the funniest, most difficult day of shooting because we couldn’t keep it together,” she said.
Well, that does it. We hate goodbyes.
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Valve job posting: Is game maker thinking beyond the gaming PC?
By Jared Newman
Valve, the developer best known for creating such games as Half-Life and for running the Steam PC gaming service, recently posted a job listing for a hardware industrial designer that doesn't mention video games even once.
In the job listing, first spotted by CVG, Valve describes itself as an “entertainment and technology company” and says it’s “jumping in” to the computer hardware space, because it's frustrated by a lack of innovation.
“Even basic input, the keyboard and mouse, haven’t really changed in any meaningful way over the years,” the company says. “There’s a real void in the marketplace, and opportunities to create compelling user experiences are being overlooked.”
From that description, one might think Valve is working on a gaming PC built around new types of input. After all, a rumor in March suggested that Valve was making a “Steam Box” gaming console with biometric feedback -- possibly from a bracelet accessory -- and modular controllers. (The company later responded by saying “it's a long way from Valve shipping any sort of hardware.”)
But as these rumors gather steam, it’s worth considering that Valve's hardware could be more than just a gaming console.
Last month, Valve announced that Steam would expand beyond games to include software for creativity, productivity and more, with many of the same benefits as its gaming service, such as automatic updates and cloud saves. The announcement seemed like a clear shot at modern app stores.
If Valve is thinking beyond games on the software front, it doesn't make sense for the company to release hardware with a narrow focus. What if, instead of just a gaming box, Valve is working on a new type of PC built around its own ecosystem of applications, which themselves are designed for new types of input methods?
It's something to think about, but it's not going to happen anytime soon, especially if Valve is only hiring industrial designers now. Besides, in an interview with Penny Arcade Report last February, Valve cofounder Gabe Newell said the company wants to take an incremental approach to hardware. The company doesn't want to “go make a giant pile of inventory and hope that some set of applications emerge to justify this giant hardware investment,” Newell said.
In other words, even if Valve is thinking big about its future in hardware, expect the company to start small.
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Hands-on: MSI's GT75VR Titan brings high-end HDR display tech to a gaming laptop
Oh, and it's slightly less enormous.
Hayden Dingman (PC World (US online))
There are big laptops, and then there’s MSI’s Titan series. Weighing in at 9.7 pounds and featuring a dozen cooling pipes, an Nvidia GTX 1080, and a full mechanical keyboard, the GT75VR Titan can’t quite match the $9,000 decadence of Acer’s Predator 21 X, but it’s still one of the largest and most feature-packed laptops around.
The feature I expect will make the most difference, though not necessarily the one that will be most talked about? An HDR-ready display—two, actually, because you can get the GT75VR in 1080 and 4K variants. HDR is still a rarity in desktop displays, let alone in laptops—we’ve only seen one or two announced with the capability so far. MSI actually dropped from an 18-inch Titan down to a 17-inch Titan because of the greater availability of displays at the smaller size. The upgrade in screen technology immediately puts the GT75VR in an elite group.
Don’t discount the keyboard, either. MSI’s older Titans were infamous for packing a full Cherry MX Brown keyboard into the frame. While it made for a spectacular back-of-box feature, it wasn’t the most practical. To accommodate the keyboard it had to be placed at the front of the laptop, sans wrist rest, which made for an awkward typing experience.
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For the GT75VR, MSI turned to SteelSeries to custom-design a brand-new mechanical switch—neither a Cherry knockoff nor SteelSeries’s own proprietary “QS1” switch. Instead SteelSeries designed a mechanical switch for laptops, similar to what Razer did with the 2016 Blade Pro. It has the footprint of a standard scissor switch, but the inner workings of a mechanical.
I like MSI’s better. It’s clicky, it still has the tactile feel you’d expect from a mechanical, but it also seems to present a smoother typing experience than Razer’s (where I often found myself missing keystrokes). Is it as nice as typing on a real Cherry MX desktop keyboard? No. But it’s certainly nicer than typing on a Cherry MX keyboard awkwardly crammed into a laptop chassis, even if this solution is less impressive to the eye.
A bit weird to open a discussion of the super-powered GT75VR Titan with its screen and its keyboard, but those are the most interesting features. Inside, things are more standardized: Intel Core i7-7820HK and either a GTX 1070, dual GTX 1070s, or a single GTX 1080. Unlike the 18-inch Titan there is no dual GTX 1080 model here, with the reason likely being power.
MSI has the GT75VR Titan beating out competing laptops with the same specs, attributing it in part to the GT75VR’s superior cooling. A dozen or so heat pipes (depending on model), two huge fans—there’s even a button to temporarily turn all the fans to 100 percent, rapidly cooling the system while also turning the laptop into a miniature jet engine.
All that cooling comes with a price, as again: The GT75VR is enormous. Over nine pounds! The weight’s better-balanced than some of the other “semi-portable” or “desktop replacement” laptops I’ve used, but the Titan lives up to its name. Don’t expect to carry it around very often. If you’re my colleague Gordon Mah Ung, that’s a price you’re willing to pay for maximum power. The rest of you? Well, you might be better served by one of MSI’s ultra-thin Max-Q laptops.
Whether heat is really the reason behind the GT75VR’s excellent performance, or indeed, whether the GT75VR’s performance is all MSI claims it to be, are questions that will have to wait for a proper review, which we hope to have in the coming months.
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Christian music festival JC Fest to hold inaugural event at Lake Skinner in Winchester
The music festival is partnering with Project T.O.U.C.H, which provides transitional housing and supplies to the homeless.
Unspoken is one of the artists playing the inaugural JC Fest at Lake Skinner Recreation Area in Winchester in August. (Courtesy JC Fest)
By Alex Groves | agroves@scng.com | The Press-Enterprise
A new Christian music festival is coming to the Lake Skinner Recreation Area at the edge of Temecula Valley Wine Country for its inaugural one-day event on Aug. 3.
JC Fest, which describes itself as a “Christian-centered family fun event designed to bring communities together,” will feature an assortment of Christian singers and bands, including Brandon Heath, Unspoken and Sanctus Real. Singer Coffey Anderson, who recently performed at the Temecula Valley Balloon & Wine Festival, will be the event host. The festival is partnering with Project T.O.U.C.H, which provides transitional housing and supplies for the homeless.
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In addition to music, there will also be food trucks, professional skateboarding demonstrations, arts and crafts exhibits, a splash pad and a kids’ zone.
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco will welcome the crowd, and first responders and active duty military will receive free admission to the event with their IDs.
Tickets, which range in price from $15-$150, are currently on sale and are available at jcfest.com. Parking will be an additional $10 if purchased online or an additional $15 if purchased at the gate.
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Hearts focus on vocations and God’s call
By Sue Seconi -
Traditionally the Wednesday at Hearts Aflame is set aside to focus on vocations. Each of the guest speakers this year spoke frankly, telling of their initial promptings of being called by God.
First up, Christchurch diocese vocations director Fr John O’Connor explained that vocation comes from a Latin word meaning, “to call”.
“God is always with us,” he said. “I disagree with that song with the line ‘God is watching us from a distance’. It’s not true. God does not watch us from a distance,” he said.
“Being a Christian is not hard work or the saddest way to live as secular society might say. Being Christian is a way of living — a way of breathing,” he said. He talked about his sense of being called to priesthood in early adulthood and that first visit to Bishop Brian Ashby. Fr O’Connor had wanted to either teach or lead retreats but felt deeply called to the diocesan priesthood rather than a religious order in which he could have pursued either.
“I remember Bishop Ashby clearly saying you’ll be doing parish work! Just remember God always has the bigger picture and don’t resist or fight the call. Don’t be afraid to go deeper,” he said.
Palmerston North diocesan vocations director Fr Bryan Buenger spoke next. Hailing from Phoenix, Arizona, USA, he was a flight attendant for a major American airline. He recalled the time being grounded for 24 hours in Montana due to excessive heavy snowfalls.
“It was a Sunday and after I found out where the Catholic church was and Mass times, I made my way there in sub-zero temperatures. The church was as warm as the parishioners!” he said. This became the trigger that there may be a calling.
Sr Rachel Fleurant of the Missionaries of God’s Love sisters from Australia shared that her dream in life was climbing the corporate ladder in marketing when she was working for a big insurance company. She also dreamed of having a family. There was no inkling of being called by God to consecrated life until she went to World Youth Day in 2002.
“There, I felt God pulling me aside and saying:- You are mine and I am yours. I have chosen you and set you apart,” she said.
Each speaker threw out the challenge not to be afraid to go deeper and deeper to respond to God’s personal call.
Paul and Emma Ninnes shared about the call to married life. Both spoke about their courtship breaking up and then coming back together two years later and then being married. Their advice was not to rush the relationship and to take your time.
The key to establishing a temporary community like Hearts Aflame for young people to be formed in Catholic theology, philosophy and spirituality is that it’s not a quick weekend event. Built on Eucharist and prayer, there is no rush to go anywhere else. There is plenty of time for talking with wise priests, sisters and older lay people who are available to spend time with anyone to talk about anything.
“The success of Hearts Aflame has been the specific age range and the length of 10 days,” said Palmerston North Bishop Charles Drennan. Obviously very at home and comfortable with young people as they are with him, he kept calling others to join him for a photo shoot!
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“He gives you the keys to the car, but watches from a distance”
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Lorenzo Moroni inspired by Joost de Wijn
A real “maestro” – this is how Lorenzo Moroni, professor of biofabrication for regenerative medicine at MERLN, describes the retired biomaterial scientist Joost de Wijn, formerly of Isotis B.V. “In the traditional sense of the word: someone who is leading and actually shows you the way.”
His first meeting with Dr de Wijn was “a little intimidating”, recalls Moroni, who had just arrived in the Netherlands to do his PhD at the University of Twente. De Wijn was his assistant supervisor. “He had a peculiar way of presenting critiques. Very direct, which is very Dutch, I later learnt.” De Wijn told Moroni straight out that the analyses he wanted to do for his dissertation were among the most difficult in the field. Moroni was looking into designing smart materials that would contribute to the formation of new functional tissues for medical purposes, from a mechanistic point of view. “That put me on my guard. I thought: do I really want to do this?” Moroni laughs. “But later on, you learn to keep up.”
Although he was critical, De Wijn’s arguments were always well-founded and he was always happy to help people on their way. “I went to his office once after having made the same observation twice. I thought I was on the right path, that my hypothesis was true. He remained sceptical. I left the office feeling a bit disappointed. In the days that followed I kept thinking about how I could convince him, but then he showed up at my door. ‘Let’s go into the lab and prove it together’, he said.”
This was typical of De Wijn, says Moroni. “He’d give you the keys to the car and let you drive, but then watch from a distance. If you strayed out of your lane, he would help you get back on track. To become independent and critical, which is exactly what a PhD is for – to become an independent, critical thinker.”
Another of De Wijn’s strong suits was his technical knowledge. “He really knew his way around the lab. Which is uncommon for an older scientist. Most become research managers as the years go by. Myself included; I rarely work in the lab nowadays.” De Wijn used this talent in his personal life as well. “He had a little workshop in his garage where he built things. When I finished my PhD he built me a lava lamp, with different fluids going back and forth, as a present. It doesn’t look like a fancy lamp you buy in the store, but the principles are all there. I thought it was very cool that he made that for me at that special moment in my life.”
De Wijn has retired and Moroni moved to Maastricht, but the two still keep in touch. “We send each other regular updates about our lives. He’ll say things like: ‘My knees hurt, have you found a solution for that yet?’”
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Preparing Standard Acid and Base
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Via acid/base titration with a primary standard (potassium hydrogen phthalate) an NaOH solution of unknown concentration was standardized. Once the NaOH solution was standardized, it was used as to determine the concentration of a KHP solution of unknown molarity. In both instances, an acid/base indicator was used to signal the endpoint. Using the recorded volumes from the titrations, the molarity of the known solutions, and the molar mass of the compounds in the solutions of known concentration, the molarities NaOH and KHP in the solutions of unknown molarity were calculated. The molarity of NaOH in the unknown solution was established to be 0.109 ± 0.002 M at the 95% confidence level, and the concentration of the potassium hydrogen phthalate solution was determined to be 0.099 ± 0.001 M at the 95% confidence level.
In the lab, sodium hydroxide and potassium hydrogen phthalate (KHP) are extensively used reagents. In order to utilize these reagents accurately, their exact concentrations must be determined. The purpose of this experiment was to create and standardize a solution of NaOH, and to then use that solution to determine the concentration of a solution containing an unknown molarity of KHP. NaOH solutions must be standardized because NaOH primary standard – the solution absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and reacts to form carbonate. In order to do this, a solution of approximately 0.1 M NaOH was created, and then titrated to the endpoint into a KHP solution of known concentration with phenolphthalein indicator. This titration was repeated four times, and the data from these titrations allowed the true concentration of the NaOH solution to be determined. The following week, the standardized NaOH solution was titrated to the endpoint into a KHP solution of unknown molarity with phenolphthalein indicator. This titration was also repeated four times, and the data from these titrations allowed the true concentration of the KHP solution to be established.
Experimental Information
1-L beaker
1-L polyethylene bottle
Four 125-mL Erlenmeyer flasks
Class A 50-mL buret
Magnetic stir bar
Stir plate
50wt% NaOH
Solid KHP
Phenolphthalein indicator
KHP solution of unknown molarity
Procedural Overview
Week 1: Boil 1L of distilled water for 5 minutes. Pour the water into a 1-L polyethylene bottle and add 5.33 mL 50wt% NaOH. Cap the bottle tightly, mix well, and let cool to room temperature. Weigh four samples of solid KHP of mass 0.511g. Dissolve each sample of KHP in 25 mL of distilled water in four 125-mL Erlenmeyer flasks. Add 3 drops of phenolphthalein indicator to each flask. Titrate the NaOH solution into each flask until the endpoint in reached. The endpoint is when a very faint pink persists for at least 15 seconds. While titrating, ensure that the buret cap remains on but loosely fitted. The first titration can be done rapidly in order to find the approximate endpoint. The second-fourth titrations should be done slowly and carefully, dispensing less than one drop at a time when nearing the endpoint. Record the volume of NaOH titrated in each titration. Utilize the data gathered during this procedure to determine the concentration of the NaOH solution.
Week 2: Add 25 mL portions of a KHP solution of unknown molarity to four 125-mL Erlenmeyer flasks. Add three drops of phenolphthalein indicator to each flask. Titrate the previously standardized NaOH solution into each flasks to the endpoints. The first titration may be done rapidly in order to find an approximate endpoint. The second-fourth titrations should be done slowly and carefully, dispensing less than one drop at a time when nearing the endpoint. During the titrations, ensure that the buret cap is on but loosely fitted to minimize entry of CO2. Record the volume of NaOH solution titrated into each flask, and use the data collected to calculate the molarity of the KHP solution.
Week 1 – Titration of Unknown [NaOH] solution into Known [KHP] Solution
Week 1 Calculations:
Using the data gathered from the titrations, the concentration of NaOH in the solution of unknown concentration used in week one was determined to be 0.109 ± 0.002 M at the 95% confidence level. The concentration of KHP in the solution of unknown concentration used in week two was determined to be 0.099 ± 0.001 M at the 95% confidence level.
The confidence interval reported signifies that 95% of the time that the molarity of either solution is determined, it will fall within the reported error range of the calculated average concentration. In order to decrease uncertainty in this experiment, more samples should be titrated in order to reduce the standard deviation, and thereby reducing the error. Sources of error in this experiment include: the possibility that the volume recorded at the endpoint of each titration may be greater than the actual volume required to reach the endpoint if the person titrating did not titrate carefully (i.e. overshooting the endpoint), the presence of air bubbles in the buret, and errors in reading the buret.
In this experiment, two solution – a basic sodium hydroxide solution and an acidic potassium hydrogen phthalate solution – of unknown concentrations were standardized using titration with a solution of known concentration. The concentration of the sodium hydroxide solution was established to be 0.109 ± 0.002 M at the 95% confidence level, and the concentration of the potassium hydrogen phthalate solution was determined to be 0.099 ± 0.001 M at the 95% confidence level.
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Area Health Education Center at Heritage College joins HPV Immunization Project
The Area Health Education Center at Ohio University’s Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine is taking part in a nationwide effort, supported by funds awarded to the national AHEC Organization from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to help increase awareness among health professionals about the risks of Human Papillomavirus and the value of early HPV vaccination in preventing cervical cancer.
According to the CDC, more than 12,000 women get cervical cancer every year, though it’s estimated that up to 93 percent of these cancers are preventable. HPV vaccination helps prevent infection with the types of HPV that cause most cervical cancers.
HPV is so common, the CDC says, that almost everyone will be infected with it at some point in their lives – though most will never know it. Exposure to HPV can occur with any type of intimate sexual contact. In the United States, HPV causes thousands of cancers in both men and women every year.
Vaccination of boys and girls aged 11 to 12 could prevent many of these cancers, but low HPV vaccination rates are leaving another generation of children at risk of HPV cancers. The CDC program now underway aims to get the word out to physicians and other health care professionals, to urge parents to have their children vaccinated against this potentially deadly virus. The message for parents, according to the CDC, is that by having their kids vaccinated they aren’t opening the door to sex – they’re closing the door to cancer.
The AHEC at the Heritage College is reaching out to area health care providers to offer seminars and educational resources to help boost local HPV vaccination rates. PJ Guthrie, R.N., B.S.N., education coordinator with the AHEC, explained that like the nation overall, Ohio is lagging behind where it should be on HPV vaccination rates.
To combat this problem, Guthrie and others at the Heritage College are working to publicize the importance of HPV vaccination for cancer prevention and to explain the rationale for vaccinating pre-teens. They hope to work with area health care providers to spread the word to parents about this important health issue.
Those who want more information or wish to schedule a one-hour seminar for their organization can contact PJ Guthrie at guthriep@ohio.edu or 740.593.2258.
The Heritage College-based AHEC is the Consortium for Health Education in Appalachia Ohio (CHEAO). Its mission is to improve the health of people in Appalachian Ohio by fostering academic and community collaboration, emphasizing primary care and focusing on underserved areas. The Heritage College is one of seven medical colleges in the Ohio Statewide AHEC program and it serves 21 Appalachian counties.
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http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/Vaccines/HPV/hpv_faqs.html
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/child-adolescent.html
http://www.adultvaccination.org/vpd/hpv/5-key-steps-hpv.pdf
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PHILADELPHIA � Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins� power play felt right at home on the other side of Pennsylvania.
Crosby scored two power-play goals 90 seconds apart in the third period, and the Penguins beat the Philadelphia Flyers 5-1 on Saturday night.
�When we do get those chances, we have to make the most of them,� Crosby said. �We got them and found a way to hit the net.�
In 17 regular-season games in Philadelphia, Crosby has 13 goals and 28 points. Overall against the Flyers, the Penguins captain has posted 26 goals and 59 points in 33 games. The star center had no concrete reason why he enjoys so much success in Philadelphia.
�There�s a comfort level (between the teams),� he said. �We�ve played here a lot and know each other well. There aren�t a lot of surprises. There�s really no way to explain it.�
Mark Letestu, Chris Kunitz and Matt Cooke also scored for Pittsburgh, which won its second straight to improve to 3-3 this season. The Penguins beat the New York Islanders in overtime on Friday night for their first win in their new home arena.
The Penguins, who avenged an opening-night loss to the Flyers last Thursday at Pittsburgh�s Consol Energy Center, fired 30 shots at Philadelphia rookie Sergei Bobrovsky.
Danny Briere gave Philadelphia a 1-0 lead with a power-play goal at 6:43 of the first period.
Philadelphia�s lead lasted less than five minutes. Kunitz got the Penguins going when he took a feed from Crosby and fired a shot between Bobrovsky�s legs.
Also Saturday night
Bruins 4, Devils 1: Rookie Jordan Caron sparked Boston�s four-goal second period with his first NHL tally, and Tim Thomas made 31 saves in a win over New Jersey.
Islanders 5, Avalanche 2: Milan Jurcina scored twice and Dwayne Roloson stopped 28 shots as New York beat Colorado.
Panthers 6, Lightning 0: David Booth had two goals for Florida, which jumped out to a big lead and handed Tampa Bay its first loss of the season.
Canadiens 4, Senators 3: Tomas Plekanec scored the tiebreaking goal with 3:59 remaining to give Montreal a win over Ottawa.
Capitals 3, Predators 2, OT: Brooks Laich tipped in Alex Ovechkin�s slap shot at 1:44 of overtime, finishing Washington�s rally to a win against Nashville.
Blue Jackets 3, Wild 2: R.J. Umberger scored a short-handed goal with just more than nine minutes to play and Mathieu Garon made 21 saves as Columbus beat Minnesota.
Blackhawks 4, Sabres 3: Patrick Sharp scored his second goal of the game with 7:08 left in the third, powering Chicago over Buffalo.
Stars 3, Blues 2, SO: Brad Richards, Loui Eriksson and Mike Ribeiro scored in Dallas� perfect shootout and lifted the Stars to a come-from-behind victory over St. Louis.
Red Wings 2, Coyotes 1, OT: Niklas Kronwall scored a power-play goal 4:44 into a wild overtime to give Detroit a win over Phoenix in the Coyotes� home opener.
Flames 5, Oilers 3: Alex Tanguay scored two goals and Jarome Iginla added the tiebreaking one in the third period to help the Flames beat the Oilers.
Thrashers 4, Sharks 2: Dustin Byfuglien scored with 6:20 left in the third period to break a tie, helping the Thrashers beat the Sharks.
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INTERVIEW: Whitney Cunningham talks about her 'Top Model' journey
By Belinda Trotter-James, 04/16/2007
This full figured beauty is not so big after all. Whitney stands 5 feet ten inches tall, weighing 165 pounds and she is a size 8. Whitney says she represents the average size woman. Hmmm… that's not what Tyra and her cast of judges are calling it.
On Tyra's talk show she had real full figured woman that started at a size 14. They had attitude, they could walk, and were very photogenic and beautiful. Tyra knows if any of the size 14 plus got on top model, it would be a done deal and the show would be ruined for having a full figured model as the winner. The fashion industry is not ready to receive big girls on major runways. Whitney has a bubbly, happy personality and I had a very pleasant conversation. Read on so you can see what Miss Whitney had to say...
QUESTION: The shoots sound easy to do, look easy to do but when it was time to actually perform, the fire was not there. Please comment.
WHITNEY: What the viewers must understand is that this is a reality TV show and it is different being in front of the camera on a television show than just being in the studio at a photo shoot. When Tacara was on the show they kept telling her that she lost her fire and did not seem comfortable. So, when I came on the show, I knew I had to be 'ON' and over the top all the time. Modeling is easy to me and I always walk away with a lot of pictures to choose from for my portfolio. On the show I had a problem trying to get to the middle ground; not too much or little energy.
Note to readers: This sounds like a bunch of excuses to me but on the other hand we don't know what the producers did in the editing room to make her appear like she did not have enough confidence to get her through the shoot. Whether you are on a TV show or in a studio there are three common factors: You, the camera and the photographer. No excuses; just good photos.
QUESTION: Why do you think you were eliminated from the show?
WHITNEY: They kept saying over and over again that my photos did not translate my beauty on film. I was so shocked that I was in the bottom two again. At the last shoot Mr. Jay said, "You finally know what it means to be a model." He just kept saying how well I progressed and you know Tyra always looks for progression. So, I went into the elimination confident that I made it this far and would be traveling oversees with the girls and not going home.
Note to readers: If Mr. Jay was one of the judges, I guess I would be a little confident. However, what he says to the girls is totally different from what comes out on film.
QUESTION: You mentioned on the show that you owe your father for tuition. Please tell us the story.
WHITNEY: I auditioned for cycle 7 and did not make it. My father told me to try out again but I was not sure if I would get chosen again and wanted to apply for school. If I did not make the cut again, it would be too late to register for school. My dad kept telling me to wait, but it was my senior year in college and I wanted to go back. Then I got a call from the producers that they remembered me auditioning for cycle 7 and wanted me to meet with the producers for cycle 8. So I dropped out in the middle of the semester.
QUESTION: It is so funny how things work out. I know you were wondering how to get money to pay back your father and what falls in your lap… a beautiful diamond charm bracelet. The prize you won from the laser challenge. Please describe it. (I was kidding about selling her prize to pay her father back and she laughed and answered :)
WHITNEY: It's a beautiful platinum charm bracelet with and envelope charm that says, 'love Tyra'; it has a shooting star, yellow diamonds and a shoe with pink diamonds. I'm not going to sell it. More things will be coming my way and I will find another way to pay my father off.
QUESTION: Did the girls ever make you feel you were not a legitimate model?
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WHITNEY: I struggled the entire time. Society always looks for the stick skinny women and says they are legitimate models. That's why Tyra looks for women with strong personalities. I am comfortable and confident about my size. I have a positive self image about my size 8. I'm 5'10" and 165 lbs. I have big boobs and thighs. I carry my weight very well because I have an athletic build from playing basketball.
Note to readers: Tyra was not looking too hard for strong personalities because all of her full figured girls were mentally frustrated and never made it to the final four.
QUESTION: Are you still on a basketball team?
WHITNEY: I quit playing basketball in my junior year. We went to the finals and I have a championship ring. In my senior year I was called for top model. The call came just in time. I graduate in June and will definitely go to New York to pursue a career in modeling and acting.
Note to readers: You know, it can also be frustrating for the fans who cheer for contestants only to be disappointed when they lose their fire. It's not as easy as it looks especially if you don't have the "it" factor naturally. Good luck to Whitney and her journey at earning a living as a model.
Meet me here next week to see who will be the next contestant to loose a chance at becoming America's Next Top Model. Email me at modeldigest@aol.com or visit www.warmspirit.org/Beautybyreferral.
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The ZTE Citrine Z717VL has many features to offer despite being on the lower end tier. It features a 4-inch TFT display, has 4G LTE high-speed internet connectivity, 1.1GHz quad-core processor, and comes running Android 5.1 Lollipop. The ZTE Citrine Z717VL can be compared to other similar Tracfone smartphones like the LG Rebel because of similar features. Let's get into our full review of the ZTE Citrine Z717VL.
The ZTE Citrine Z717VL is available for ordering from the Tracfone Wireless website. It comes in a nicely packaged box that includes the ZTE Citrine gadget, battery, wall adapter charger, standard USB cable, phone feature guide, activation card, and a quick setup guide.
The ZTE Citrine Z717VL has a quite typical design with the back cover being the one unique thing. This is because it has some textured ridges that feel really nice in the palm. The back cover is also home to the rear lens, LED flash, and the hands-free speaker. You will notice the camera is slightly protruding out on the back panel giving a small bump when you place the phone on a flat surface. You may remove the back cover to gain access to the battery compartment and the SIM card and microSD slots.
Going on to the frame, we have the microUSB port on the left edge and the volume rockers on the right edge. The top of the phone contains a headphone jack, noise cancellation mic, and the power/lock key. The bottom edge only has the microphone.
Coming to the front panel, you will find the 4-inch display. The top of the display has the earpiece, front camera lens, proximity/ambient light sensor, and a LED indicator. That is it for the design; we now move on to the camera.
The ZTE Citrine Z717VL features a 5MP back camera and a 0.3MP front camera. The camera specs are not that great which is expected at this price but they shoot quite decent photos and videos. The back camera has a LED flash that supports shooting pictures even in less light. The front camera lacks a LED flash so it will only shoot in good lighting. Nevertheless, the front camera will do great on video calls and self-portraits.
Despite only having 5-megapixels on the back, the camera can shoot 720p videos at 30fps when the lighting is good enough. The camera supports geotagging, and you have an option to adjust ISO level, exposure time, and white balance. All the camera controls are easily located in the camera app.
ZTE Citrine Z717VL features a 4.0-inch TFT display which is expected for phones within this price line. The screen is bright enough and very compact for one-handed operation. It's also quite responsive and supports multi-touch, making it possible for zooming or gaming.
The ZTE Citrine Z717VL features a 1650mAh battery that will give you up to 12 hours of standby and up to 10 days of standby. The battery life is quite impressive given the phone has a medium size screen that's very efficient on battery. I could go a full day when using the phone for my regular tasks which the phone is meant for. The battery is removable. I find this nice, especially for heavy users who may need to have a spare battery for emergencies.
The internal storage capacity on the ZTE Citrine Z717VL is 8GB, with about 4GB of this available to the user. For users who require more space like myself, the phone has support for external memory expansion up to 32GB with a microSD card.
The ZTE Citrine Z717VL is quite a performer. It comes running Android 5.1 Lollipop which is a recent Operating System, though not the latest. The phone will comfortably run over a million apps from Google Play Store, and you will be able to enjoy certain Android Lollipop features such as Google Now.
The phone is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core processor paired with 1GB of RAM. I find these to be incredible specifications for the price of the phone. The ZTE Citrine Z717VL will handle multitasking quite well thanks to the quad-core processor and the advanced capabilities of Android Lollipop.
The ZTE Citrine Z717VL falls in the group of the few phones under $50 with 4G LTE capabilities. This is a major selling point on the phone. It will offer you the fastest internet connectivity. With Tracfone Wireless, call quality is great as well.
Some typical features found on every other phone like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and GPS are also available on the ZTE Citrine. The ambient light sensor on the front panel is a nice feature that helps adjust the brightness of the phone automatically. Check out the list of specifications below.
4G LTE/Wi-Fi/CDMA.
4.0-inch TFT display.
Android 5.1 Lollipop.
Camera: 5MP back with LED flash. 0.3MP front.
8GB internal storage. Expandable up to 32GB via external microSD card.
Processor: 1.2GHz Quad-core (Qualcomm Snapdragon)
Battery: 1650mAh Li-Ion removable. Talk time up to 12 hours. Standby time up to 10 days.
GPS capable
Sensors: Proximity, Accelerometer.
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RHA means water flowing in wixárika, the language of the indigenous people of Mexico’s Nayarit region. Flow, is a reference that tells us about their journey of life. The water that flows, the water that evaporates, the water that rains and returns.
RHA was born in Riviera Nayarit, in late 2016, by a band of underground house and techno music aficionados from both the US and Mexico. In the Summer of 2017, RHA was first introduced to the world, showcasing the best of global house and techno, while embracing the native Huichol culture, as well as its epic location and setting, on the shores of the Bay of Banderas.
In just its first two years, RHA has had the likes of worldwide legends like Claptone, Green Velvet, Luciano, Dimitri from Paris, Sandy Rivera, Rodriguez, Jr, Charlotte de Witte, Justin Martin, Lee Foss, Purple Disco Machine, Walker and Royce, Doc Martin, Marques Wyatt, and many more.
RHA is back at it again in 2019, furthering its commitment to quality underground dance music, with another line-up already stacked with top talent from around the globe, with a few more artists still yet to be announced, all bringing their singular strains of house and techno.
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Rhode Island Divorce Lawyers Ponder whether getting at the Truth is Prohibited in Rhode Island Family Court?
A particular Rhode Island Family Court issue arose a little more than four (4) years ago. It was in the form of a particular question that I discussed with no less than nine (9) lawyers only a few of whom I even remember and who shall remain nameless.
Yet it doesn't matter who the lawyers were. It matters that I overheard several lawyers who were unfamiliar to me discussing the same question not long ago relating to their own experiences in the Rhode Island Family Court.
The Rhode Island Family Court judges each have discretionary power by law. Most assuredly they are the authority as to what can and cannot be done in their courtrooms short of a directive from the Chief Judge of the Family Court.
One of the main things that the Rhode Island Family Court judges generally endeavor to do is to protect and preserve the family unit as a whole. I have not found this wording in any specific manual, statute, treatise, case law or Administrative Order of the Court. I have learned this consistently from numerous judges over my years of practice in the family courts and before various judges.
Yet I am not the only Rhode Island Attorney who been thwarted in his or her divorce and/or post-divorce efforts at presenting the best representation possible for clients by a judge's prohibition of calling a child of the parties as a witness in a divorce or post-divorce case.
Now, I understand and agree with the preservation of the family unit. I am a strong advocate for uncontested divorces, reasonable people, counseling for those who need it, reunification of parents with their children if it is reasonably possible without psychological injury to minor children.
Ultimately I believe this should be a concern of the RI Family Court as a judicial institution as well as the individual family court judges appointed to serve the people and address the countless issues they hear day in and day out both fairly and equitably.
Yet it is disconcerting as a Rhode Island lawyer representing a party in, for instance a post-divorce matter involving the violation of the court's order to (1) be prohibited by a judge from calling a child of the parties as a material witness to defend my client or prove my client's case when the "child of the parties" is no longer a minor and/or when the child of the parties has insisted on testifying to reveal the truth of what he or she knows has occurred, and (2) to then have the judge berate or accuse me or my client of trying to take steps to undermine and possibly destroy the family unit.
Most assuredly, if the child of the parties were a minor of younger years then I might expect some skepticism on the judge's part and the attorney and/or client might well deserve a rebuke in the eyes of some judges. Yet some judges have prohibited children of the parties who may be as old as 23 and who are married, have children of their own and who may have developed a career that rivals their own parents. In such cases, wouldn't the prohibition of testimony violate a person's right to present either their case or their defense, notwithstanding a RI Family Court Judge's concern for the preservation of the family unit?
Perhaps a proper alternative for a 17 year old might be for the RI Judge to speak with the minor child of the parties in camera with counsel so that the judge might determine the nature of the testimony, the level of it's material significance, the weight that might be given to the testimony or even the maturity level of the 17 year old minor child to determine the appropriateness of the testimony.
Clearly some attorneys might simply call a minor child to the stand and ask questions designed to emotionally injure the other parents by using the minor child merely as a tool. Such conduct should not be tolerated. Yet to jump to the conclusion that this is what is happening when one party calls a child of the parties to the stand without further examination or consideration by the judge may place blind faith in mere allegations made by counsel who is zealously representing his or her client and who might clearly benefit by the exclusion of say, the 22 year old daughter who saw and/or heard the father violate the court's order directly and without hesitation.
However, might a better route be for the Judge to suss out the nature of the testimony offered by the child of the parties and it's purpose, determine any possible bias of the child, and consider other pertinent factors.
This would seem to be a more prudent route that would result in a more equitable decision and the pursuit of justice via hearing what may be the clearest indicator of the truth as to what did or did not occur rather than a family court judge simply setting a rule that in his or her courtroom a child of the parties shall not be allowed to testify regardless of age, maturity level, or the direct importance or content of the testimony itself.
There is always the fear that as practitioners before the Rhode Island family court, that if we mention an issue that may be considered by some to be controversial that as legal practitioners we might then become a persona non-gratis (a person not in favor with the court) and thereby risk that judge's will suddenly rule against our clients at every turn.
However, I choose to believe that the members of our judiciary are above such a juvenile standard of conduct. Absent an extreme and direct encounter with a particular judge to a significantly greater degree, I believe that our judiciary is always cognizant that our family court judges are always aware that they are capable of improvement in their roles in the Rhode Island Judicial System just as we should be as Rhode Island lawyers.
This seems to simply be a matter of counter-balancing the two issues of family preservation with the search for truth with lies in each parties right to present evidence before the court to either made their case or to defend themselves against what may be unfounded allegations.
Therefore, I bring this issue to the forefront more for the consideration of the judiciary and for the betterment both of practitioners and the clients they seek to serve.
I certainly welcome any comments from the court, fellow practitioners and from the general public as I am certainly not beyond learning which I find to be a daily and never-ending practice of improvement to better serve my clients and present information to the court in a way that does not waste the court's time but also presents to the court the information needed for our judiciary to make well-informed, equitable, and just decisions for all.
Happy Holidays to the Members of the Rhode Island Family Court and to all who read my articles.
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Meet Earl Patrick Forlales who won the 2018 Cities for our Future competition with an environmentally sustainable bamboo housing system that could improve the lives of millions of people living in slums.
When he was a child, Earl would visit his grandfather on his provincial farm in the Philippines and stay in a traditional bamboo dwelling. “I loved going there. It is an essential part of the Filipino childhood experience.”
The 23-year-old’s childhood memories are the inspiration for Cubo, his modular bamboo housing system that aims to provide an affordable and environmentally sustainable alternative to slum housing for poor workers in the sprawling capital city Manila.
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Bamboo is a long-term solution that is sturdy, durable and provides dignified housing. Recent advancements in materials engineering have made bamboo a viable and low-cost material for creating cities.
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Earl's Cubo idea beat entries from around the world, including Team Heat Island’s ingenious Evaporous cooling system, which proposed replacing energy-guzzling air conditioning systems in arid African cities with locally made porous ceramic panels, designed to reduce the air temperature through evaporation.
One-third of the 12 million people who live in Manila have inadequate housing, exposed to pollution and without proper sanitation or access to fresh water. Many are construction workers who come to the city on temporary contracts.
“Relocating people outside the city is not an option because it adds to their expenses by moving them away from areas of opportunity. I wanted to combine the service provisions offered by national housing with the availability of slum housing,” says Earl.
“Recent advancements in materials engineering have made bamboo a viable and low-cost material for creating cities. I am a materials engineering chemist by education, but an architect by heart.”
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And bamboo is strong. So strong that some researchers believe bamboo composites could replace steel as the structural reinforcement material of choice in buildings – a shift that would drastically reduce the carbon debt of construction.
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Earl proposes co-housing communities made of prefabricated units that recall traditional designs and use the plentiful, cheap supply of bamboo from farms outside Manila. The bamboo will be laminated making it tougher, less flammable and more resistant to rain – an innovation inspired by Earl’s background in chemistry and materials science engineering.
The building modules can be put together on site in four hours and link together into a community with a shared kitchen and eating area, showers, toilets and other shared facilities.
Earl aims to house 10,000 workers and their families in Cubo units in the Philippines by 2023. He believes the concept could be exported to other parts of Asia, as well as Africa and South America, where bamboo is already used as a building material.
“It is a long-term solution that, although low cost, is sturdy and durable, and it provides dignified housing in areas close to the sources of work and to facilities. A future city with a Cubo co-housing community in it is a sustainable city.”
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Riverbed Helps McCullough Robertson Lawyers Close Visibility Gap and Improve Digital Experience for Users
Riverbed SteelCentral Aternity boosts employee productivity and accelerates innovation at leading independent Australian law firm
SAN FRANCISCO – February 20, 2018 – Riverbed Technology today announced McCullough Robertson Lawyers, a leading independent Australian law firm, has deployed Riverbed SteelCentral Aternity to close the visibility gap between how its lawyers are experiencing applications and services, and what the IT team could previously see with its existing set of monitoring tools. As a result of this added visibility, the IT team can now proactively diagnose and resolve performance issues, improving the digital experience and enabling staff to spend more time delivering superior client service.
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For more than 90 years, McCullough Robertson Lawyers has delivered trusted advice to major Australia and foreign-owned corporations, financial institutions, governments, private enterprises and high net worth individuals. Its 400-strong workforce spans offices in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Newcastle.
Handling urgent requests for its large volume of clients is common, and timing is critical. Long hours and late nights put added stresses on lawyers who simply expect technology to assist, not hinder them. As McCullough Robertson Laywers continued to grapple with its ageing infrastructure, employee complaints about the performance of devices, applications and services increased – especially in offices like Sydney, located far from their centralized IT in Brisbane.
“We initially approached Riverbed to assist with improving the performance of our network,” said Ron Dutta, Director of IT, McCullough Robertson Lawyers. “And while they proved early on they could meet that need with their WAN optimization solution, SteelHead, we quickly learned that our lack of visibility into how users were actually experiencing apps and services was hindering performance as well – and in a major way.”
In one example, it was taking a lawyer up to 2 minutes (with averages of around one minute) to open and send an email. Existing monitoring tools told IT that all systems were running fine. McCullough Robertson Lawyers ran a proof of concept with SteelCentral Aternity and was able to verify the user issue and diagnose that it was stemming from a non-standard installation of Outlook across a large portion of the business. “Through that one user complaint, we were able to identify that a quarter of our users were affected. To put it into perspective, we were losing about 75 hours of productivity per day on an issue our existing monitoring tools couldn’t see,” said Dutta. “Once the issue was solved, productivity spiked and levels of client-service increased across the business.”
SteelCentral Aternity extends McCullough Robertson Lawyers’ visibility into end-user experience of every enterprise app in their portfolio, running on any physical, virtual, or mobile device. “Aternity provides the insights our IT team need to understand app performance, diagnose issues and improve service levels for employees, proactively, remotely, and non-invasively. We can now troubleshoot between network and device issues at speed, and resolve issues without interfering with the productivity of our lawyers,” said Dutta.
Foundation for the Digital Age
While the implementation process is ongoing, Dutta said the system will be instrumental in enabling greater innovation at the firm, and critical in its efforts to improve efficiency and processes for the digital age.
“Lawyers don’t want to have to focus on technology - for them it’s just a mechanism to deliver to their clients more quickly,” explained Dutta. “We are focused on launching IT projects and initiatives which allow them to simply get on with the job. But to get there, we must ensure our systems are running as efficiently as possible, and this is something that requires clear visibility on how our applications and networks are performing, right down to each end user.”
Riverbed SteelCentral Aternity is the first step in achieving this ambition. Since implementing the technology, McCullough Robertson Lawyers has seen the potential for significant performance increases, and it’s allowed the firm to standardise protocols. “Thanks to the Riverbed solution, McCullough Robertson now has the required visibility to know where we need to prioritise our efforts in improving our IT,” said Dutta.
Delivering Greater Value to the Business
SteelCentral Aternity has also empowered the IT team at McCullough Robertson Lawyers to pro-actively contribute value to the business, rather than reactively dealing with issues.
“The use of Riverbed SteelCentral Aternity represents a major culture shift at McCullough Robertson Lawyers. IT is now seen as a trusted partner in our business, capable of giving employees time back in their working day – which is invaluable in our profession,” Dutta said.
Dutta expects to see other firms follow McCullough Robertson Lawyers IT transformation. “Legal firms across the world operate using the same applications, productivity tools and systems and the issues we face are often the same in other law firms. We are also a collaborative industry and I’m already seeing strong interest in what we are doing here across the Australian legal landscape.”
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SITO Mobile Survives Motion to Dismiss
Shareholder Class Action Alleging Defendants Made Materially False and Misleading Statements Survives Motion to Dismiss
Investors filed a class action complaint against SITO Mobile, Ltd. for alleged violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. According to the complaint, SITO made misleading statements regarding the 2016 presidential election and the negative impact that it had on the company’s sales and revenues. Further, SITO officials misappropriated funds from the company through illicit expense reimbursement requests and credit card charges, while at the same time promoting the company’s success and seeking to raise funds from the uninformed public. When SITO revealed to investors that the company’s revenue had suffered due to restrained advertising spending, SITO’s market capitalization declined by approximately $40 million. On January 30, 2019, U.S. District Court Judge Esther Salas denied in part defendant’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s complaint, paving the way for litigation to proceed.
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