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80% overseas sales sees BCS recognised by HM Government as an “Export Champion”
The UK’s Department for International Trade has launched a promotional campaign entitled “If we can, You can” under the broader umbrella of “Exporting is Great”. The campaign's purpose is to encourage UK businesses of all sizes, to Export.
BCS was chosen as a example business due to its success in exporting around the world and in March of this year, a seven person film crew descended on the BCS factory in Houghton Regis to spend a full day filming various aspects of the company's day to day business. This included flying a drone fitted with a camera around the factory to capture footage of the 25,000 sq ft manufacturing facility.
BCS Managing Director, Barry Tabor was interviewed on a one to one basis, and asked about BCS's pro exporting philosophy and to offer any advice and tips to Companies that have yet to start their export journey.
Barry recalled how essentially he has exported for all of his working life - His first job in the packaging machinery industry was as an Export Sales Manager. His premise is that if you can successfully sell in the UK market then there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to sell into other similar markets such as the USA, France, Germany, Australia, Japan etc. These markets incidentally are where BCS enjoys sales success.
The “If we can, You can” campaign will begin to appear as television commercials with particular emphases on advertising thropugh social media sites such as LinkedIn and Facebook.
"It was a fun day having a film crew around" commented Barry "and I hope that other UK businesses, particularly those in Engineering, will take inspiration from BCS's success in Exporting."
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Entertainment Desk: Mary Tyler Moore, the star of TV's beloved “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” whose comic realism helped revolutionize the depiction of women on the small screen, died Wednesday. She was 80.
Moore gained fame in the 1960s as the frazzled wife Laura Petrie on “The Dick Van Dyke Show.” In the 1970s, she created one of TV's first career-woman sitcom heroines in “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.”
She won seven Emmy awards over the years and was nominated for an Oscar for her 1980 portrayal of an affluent mother whose son is accidentally killed in “Ordinary People.”
Moore's first major TV role was on the classic sitcom “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” in which she played the young homemaker wife of Van Dyke's character, comedy writer Rob Petrie, from 1961-66.
Laura was a dream wife and mother, but not perfect.
Viewers identified with her flustered moments and her protracted, plaintive cry to her husband: “Ohhhh, Robbbb!”
In her 1995 autobiography “After All,” Moore admitted she helped her terminally ill brother try to commit suicide by feeding him ice cream laced with a deadly overdose of drugs. The attempt failed, and her 47-year-old brother, John, died three months later in 1992 of kidney cancer.
In 1983, Moore married cardiologist Robert Levine, who survives her. Her marriage to Tinker lasted from 1962 to 1981. Before that, she was married to Dick Meeker from 1955 to 1961.
In 1992, Moore received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. A decade later, a life-size bronze statue went on display in Minneapolis, depicting her tossing her trademark tam into the air as she did in the opening credits of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.”
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Richmond Consolidated School eighth-graders took up rakes and shovels to help revive the school's defunct outdoor classroom, located behind the school.
PHOTO PROVIDED BY RACHEL KANZ - RICHMOND CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL
Previously densely covered with dead deciduous leaves, crawling with ticks and overgrown with poison ivy plants, the Richmond Consolidated School outdoor classroom was restored this spring thanks to a community service project led by the recently graduated eighth-grade class. The 10-member class brought in volunteers and donated materials to help clear the area, lay a cover of wood chips, install new benches and resurface the outdoo
Richmond Consolidated School eighth-graders found that, while covered in leaves and debris, a stage built for a 1980s-era outdoor classroom located behind the school is still pretty stable. They've since restored it so it can be enjoyed by future classes.
Classroom under the canopies: Recent Richmond grads restore outdoor classroom for class gift
Posted Monday, June 17, 2019 5:21 pm
By Jenn Smith , The Berkshire Eagle
RICHMOND — In keeping with a Richmond Consolidated School tradition to present the school with a gift from the class, this year's graduating eighth-graders dug into the past. Instead of printing posters or engraving plaques, the Class of 2019 chose to take up work gloves and rakes, and revived the school's outdoor classroom.
Behind the school, and just down the hill from the blacktop and playground, is a wooded area that was previously best avoided. Dense with dead leaves and overgrown with poison ivy, it had become a hospitable habitat for ticks and bees. It had been constructed in 1985 for hosting classes and theatrical performances, but the upkeep lagged and the last documented use was in 1989.
Earlier this year, the eighth-grade class ventured out to explore it some more and found that while a set of benches previously established there had become waterlogged and worn by rain and age, the adjacent stage had more stability than thought, though it was in desperate need of a sweep and some surface care. Thankfully, said eighth-grader Brandon Macchi, "We're an ambitious class."
The group successfully unveiled their project last Wednesday, the eighth-graders' last day of school, with the entire school in attendance, cheering on the students' effort and rejuvenated space.
Rising fourth-grader Khloe Amankwah's face beamed at the announcement of having an outdoor learning space.
"We can have fresh air and learn about nature, find different creatures and move," she said. She added that it will also be an asset to the school's science club.
Ada Fowler said it's also good to mix up learning environments to help shift and improve kids' moods.
"It's good to learn outdoors if it makes kids happy. You can't learn very much if you're really unhappy or being bullied by a student or bored," she said.
To get to this finished, well-received result, the eighth-grade class asked for and received a lot of help from the community along the way, as the class members detailed in Wednesday's brief unveiling ceremony.
To help them identify the needs of the project and work schedule, local landscaper Adam Weinberg happily pitched in his expertise. Students who took some measurements determined that the class would have to rehabilitate an area equivalent to 228 square yards. That's about a third of the size of the interior turf of a baseball diamond.
"Once we had a plan, we needed funds to make it happen," class member Tessa Hanson told the student audience.
Her class reached out to the school's Parent Teacher Association, and also made a presentation on April 9 at a school committee meeting.
"They were a force to be reckoned with at the meeting," said Rachel Kanz, the teacher who helped them coordinate the project.
The students — Hanson, Aiden Hoogs, Ellie Kanz, Macchi, Megan Mitchell, Collin Parker, Serena Rhind, Emily Roller, Nate Smith and Uladzimir "Vova" Tsyrkunou — each helped develop and deliver parts of a slideshow presentation. It highlighted the outdoor classroom's origins and outlined to benefits of an outdoor space to the staff and students, which they had also researched.
The group spent the spring removing trees, spreading landscape cloth and wood chips, installing new benches and landscaping to restore a beautiful, usable space. Their efforts were made possible thanks to support from the PTA, School Committee, school staff and community volunteers Rick Latimer, Kevin and Ben Holden, Jay Rhind, Dan Fabiano, Chris Kanz, and Weinberg, who donated materials and labor.
While the eighth-graders won't directly reap the benefits, Mitchell said the class members plan on keeping tabs on the project and soliciting students from other classes to help maintain the space.
"We are a small class, and we're a close class," said Ellie Kanz.
In the past, several students noted, the class had pitched big ideas but struggled to follow through on them.
So, Mitchell said, "It was very meaningful for our class to bring [the outdoor space] back."
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Two airplanes vandalized at Walter J. Koladza Airport
Airport manager says damage would have caused planes to roll in flight
Posted Tuesday, May 16, 2017 6:39 pm
By Heather Bellow, hbellow@berkshireeagle.com
GREAT BARRINGTON — Police are investigating the vandalism earlier this month of two airplanes at Walter J. Koladza Airport in an open hangar on the north side of the runway, according to airport manager Kenneth Krentza and co-owner Jim Jacobs.
Krentza said vandals bent the tail rudders of two Piper J-3 Cubs in what he described as a "direct attack" on the airport's flight school airplanes owned by airport co-owner Richard Solan. He said the rudders were bent in exactly the same way on both.
Krentza said the two airplanes were "sabotaged" overnight as they sat inside with three privately owned airplanes that went untouched. Another flight school plane had a mark on it, but was not damaged.
"And there was no other damage to any other aircraft on the field," he added.
"Rick took it very personally, and checked every other customer's plane for damage," Krentza said.
Aircraft owners and town police were notified right away.
Krentza said town police told him they have no leads so far. Great Barrington Police Chief William Walsh said in an email the investigation into the "malicious destruction of property," a felony offense, is being conducted by his department, state police detectives assigned to the Berkshire District Attorney's Office, and the state police Crime Scene Services Section.
Krentza said the damage amounted to about $8,000 to $10,000. The airplanes were repaired and are flying again, but he said there was a "significant" loss in income during the repair time. Dual instruction in one of the Pipers is $115 per hour.
With the airport embroiled in controversy over its plans to build three new hangars next to the north hangar, Krentza said the timing was unfortunate. Yet it does appear to support Jacob's claim to the Select Board at a Monday hearing that safety is yet another reason the hangars — with enclosed and locked bays — are much needed.
The airplanes were put away in the north hangar on the night of May 2, and the lights turned off, Krentza said. The damage was noticed when the Pipers were taken out on May 4.
"It was quite obvious the damage was done once they were brought into the sunlight," he said.
Had it not been noticed, that type of rudder damage would have caused the airplane to roll in flight, though Krentza said it is unlikely a pilot wouldn't have noticed the problem before he took off.
"Every pilot does a thorough walk-around before he flies," he said.
Krentza said as far as he knows, something like this has never happened in the airport's 86 years.
"It's a malicious attack," he said.
Reach staff writer Heather Bellow at 413-329-6871.
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This interactive course will teach security professionals how to use data science techniques to quickly write scripts to manipulate and analyze network and security data and ultimately uncover valuable insights from security data. The course will cover the entire data science process from data preparation, exploratory data analysis, data visualization, machine learning, model evaluation and finally, implementing at scale—all with a focus on security related problems.
Participants will learn how to read in data in a variety of common formats then write scripts to analyze and visualize that data. A non-exhaustive list of what will be covered include:
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Finally, we will introduce the students to cutting edge Big Data tools including Apache Spark (PySpark), Apache Drill, and GPU accelerated parallel computing frameworks and demonstrate how to apply these techniques to extremely large datasets.
Anyone who wishes to incorporate automated data analysis into their work.
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Runoff local election results thread
Tuesday, Dec 1 2009
Many Iowa communities held runoff local elections today. The highest-profile races are for two Des Moines City Council seats. Skip Moore and Leisha Barcus face off for the at-large seat vacated earlier this year by Michael Kiernan. On November 3 Barcus edged Moore by 32 percent to 30 percent, but this is anybody’s race. In recent days Mayor Frank Cownie endorsed Moore, who was already backed by many area labor unions. That should help him in a low-turnout environment. On the other hand, Barcus had the Des Moines Register’s endorsement and may have an advantage with west-side residents who voted for David Adelman on November 3.
Neither Barcus nor Moore lives in Des Moines’ first ward, where turnout is likely to be higher than in the city as a whole. In Ward 1, 20-year incumbent Tom Vlassis faces Drake University Law School student Halley Griess. I don’t envy the voters who faced this choice. Vlassis was knee-deep in the CIETC scandal and should have stepped down rather than run for a fifth term. Technically, city council elections are non-partisan, but it would have been nice to have a different Democrat on the ballot against Griess. I voted for two Republicans in Windsor Heights this year, but Griess seems like a real right-winger.
Turnout was relatively high (over 20 percent) for the Windsor Heights runoff, where four candidates compete for two at-large City Council seats. Only about 30 votes separated Betty Glover, Flo Hunter, Carole Tillotson and David Jenison on November 3. When Mr. desmoinesdem voted a little after 5 pm, he cast ballot number 271 in our precinct, which has about 1,200 registered voters. I expect this race to be decided by a handful of votes, so I’ve been making reminder calls the last few days to people who might not know about the candidates or remember the runoff date.
I’ll update this post later as results come in from the Des Moines area. Please post a comment about local election results in your corner of the state.
UPDATE: Preliminary results from the Polk County Auditor’s office: Moore defeated Barcus, 52 percent to 47 percent. Griess defeated Vlassis, 51 percent to 48.5 percent. If Griess becomes a rising Republican star, just remember that it could have been avoided if some people had talked Vlassis into retiring.
In West Des Moines Ward 1, Kevin Trevillyan defeated incumbent Robert Parks, 53 percent to 47 percent.
In Windsor Heights, incumbents Hunter and Tillotson were narrowly reelected. CORRECTION: Challengers Glover and Jenison won this election. I did not realize there was a precinct still to be counted in Windsor Heights when I wrote this last night. Glover and Jenison slightly increased their raw vote totals from November 3 to yesterday, which is remarkable. Typically turnout is significantly lower for a runoff.
SECOND UPDATE: The Cedar Rapids Gazette has results from two runoffs for City Council. Don Karr defeated Aaron Saylor, and Pat Shey defeated Jerry McGrane.
WEDNESDAY UPDATE: The Des Moines Register explains how Moore won:
Moore won every precinct in northeast side Ward 2, where he lives, and handily won Ward 4 on the southeast side. Barcus ran strongest in southwest Des Moines’ Ward 3, and she held off Moore in Ward 1, where she captured roughly 57.5 percent of the vote.
However, there was a significant drop-off in voters in Ward 3, which hurt Barcus.
In a low-turnout election, it’s critical to turn out your base supporters.
Weekend open thread: Halloween and local elections
Saturday, Oct 31 2009
Lousy weather for trick-or-treating last night, but the Windsor Heights Fire Department had a truck going round handing out glow-sticks to the kids. That was fun for the kids.
I miss the days when more people handed out home-made food on Beggars’ Night. There was a guy in my neighborhood in the 1970s who would set up a grill in his driveway and give all the trick-or-treaters hot dogs to eat. People don’t know enough of the neighbors to do that today. We did take an apple from our neighbor two doors down, though.
We saw some impressive pumpkins in our neighborhood, but this photo diary has some of the most creative carvings I’ve ever seen.
Although my kids don’t like face-painting, I liked this article on makeup safety for kids.
Blog for Iowa has a good post up on sugary cereals marketed to children.
There are yard signs all over Windsor Heights for Tuesday’s local elections. I’m voting to re-elect Jerry Sullivan as mayor and Flo Hunter and Diana Willits as City Council members. Diana happens to be a Republican, and I don’t know what Flo’s voter registration is, but they are both doing a great job. They don’t just show up for council meetings; I see them volunteering at every event in Colby Park. In general, I feel this community has more to offer families than it did in the past, and I like the focus on redevelopment and more events like music and movies in the park.
What’s going on in your community? Are you involved in any local election? John Deeth is voting for the students in the Iowa City election.
I have friends on all sides in the race to replace Michael Kiernan as at-large member of the Des Moines City Council. Skip Moore has been endorsed by many labor unions, Leisha Barcus has been endorsed by the Des Moines Register, and the Association of Professional Firefighters is backing David Adelman.
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Northern Disclosure: How the Community Path Meeting Went Down
by bloggingbelmont • November 22, 2018 • 1 Comment
OK – a lot of you who didn’t make it to the Board of Selectmen’s meeting on Monday – or who did make it but had to leave early (I’m looking at you, Claus!) – have asked me to provide a run down of what happened. That’s what I’ll do in this blog post, with the proviso that its not too late to express your desires and preferences regarding the Bike Path to both the Selectmen and Town Planner, as well as the members of the Community Path Implementation Advisory Committee (CPIAC). Once again, just send an email to our Selectmen (selectmen@belmont-ma.gov) and copy the members of the Community Path Implementation Advisory Committee (CPIAC) at path@bloggingbelmont.com. Also, copy Town Planner Jeffrey Wheeler (jwheeler@belmont-ma.gov) on your message.
As for the substance of the meeting on Monday:
Lots of interest
First, there was huge turnout, prompting the BOS to hold their meeting in the Town Hall auditorium. True, Community Path wasn’t the only issue on the agenda, but given the exodus after we finished discussing it, I’m guessing 1/2 to 2/3rds of attendees were there to talk about the Path. Both path supporters and opponents were there in good numbers, but I’d say the supporters solidly outnumbered opponents. So if you read about the meeting here and turned out Monday: thank you!!
Northern Disclosure
Setting the tone of the conversation – before the conversation of the Path even started- there was the letter from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (Mass DOT), which I’ve attached here.
Nov. 16 MassDOT letter to Town Manager Patrice Garvin
The letter was signed by John Ray, the Assistant GM at MassDOT’s Commuter Rail and Ferry Operations, and addressed to Town Manager Patrice Garvin the MBTA and MassDOT’s support for the Community Path including the railway underpass at Alexander Road. But it also reiterates concerns about the proposed route of the Belmont Community Path. The second paragraph is the one to note:
“The MBTA has previously voiced dire concerns with the idea of a bike path changing sides of the rail line at Brighton Street. The addition of (the) underpass makes the logical and very safe connection between the bike path and the high school/sports fields. If the community path never comes to fruition, the underpass remains an important safety feature that provides great convenience to school children and the entire neighborhood by safely connecting homes with destinations.”
I took the liberty of bolding the sections that should absolutely freak you out.
Basically what Mr. Ray is saying is that the MBTA does not approve of an at-grade crossing but does really like the idea of an underpass connecting the Winn Brook neighborhood to the High School campus.
If need be, the MBTA is ready to go ahead with one but not the other. For all those (including CPIAC member Mike Cicalese who has argued that Belmont has the State over a barrel with its desire to build this 2 mile segment of the Massachusetts Central Rail Trail), the MassDOT letter should be a wake up call: MassDOT is ready to send Belmont packing on the Path if the town insists on an unsafe route when an alternative, safer route (the North side of the Fitchburg line tracks) stands at the ready. We’ve been warned. And with the State and Federal Govt. expected to pick up 90% of the cost of this project, that’s a loud warning.
A graphic showing the proposed north-south switch at Brighton Street in Belmont, which the MBTA calls unsafe. Image courtesy of the MBTA.
Seen the World from Both Sides…Again
The Selectmen first expressed their desire to hear from all sides on this, and to counter the whisper narrative that the BOS was acting imperially again, as it did with the Town Green a couple years back. Having spearheaded opposition to the Town Green, I concur with the BOS that the two situations are nothing alike.
BOS invited CPIAC Chair Russ Leino up to discuss that Committee’s vote in October, which split 3-2 in favor of sticking with the recommended route on the south side of the tracks and pushing back on the MBTA and MassDOT. Russ talked about the discussion leading up to that vote. The word “contentious” was used a lot.
Long and short: a slim majority of CPIAC members felt like the south side of the tracks was so advantageous to the town as to override the safety concerns of the MBTA.
Why is one side of the tracks so superior to an equally viable side of the tracks just 15 feet to the north? It depends on who you ask. CPIAC member Brian Burke took the first shot at explaining why. His story was a long and colorful sales pitch and was presented with a lot of hand waving. He spoke of as yet undeclared, unplanned and unfunded improvements in Cambridge to support residential developments off of Concord Ave and in the Fresh Pond area. Tapping into this development would be like discovering gold deposits under Belmont High: a huge boon to the Town that we couldn’t afford to walk away from.
There are a bunch of problems with this narrative.
First: none of the developments and improvements Burke is speaking of are even on the drawing board in Cambridge, let alone funded by that City and ready to go.
Second, Burke envisions a bike path continuing along the south side of the Fitchburg line in Cambridge, once you cross over Brighton Street. That, even though a bike path already runs along the North side of that same stretch of track, from the Belmont Cambridge line to Alewife Station and the Minuteman Trail. (CPIAC member Heather Ivestor tried to suggest that Alewife wasn’t the “be all and end all” destination for the Path, which almost had me doing a spit-take with my Cafe Mocha.)
Third: all this land is in Cambridge, not Belmont. That kind of ties Belmont’s hands, even if we really wanted the south side trail to happen, which its not clear we do.
Plenty of path supporters got up to speak and make the same arguments we’ve heard for going on 10 years now: the need for safe passage for bikers and pedestrians through Belmont, the environmental benefits of taking cars off the road, the economic benefit to Belmont to connect our business centers to growing residential developments on Cambridge Park Drive and in Fresh Pond.
In the end, the BOS suggested they would take the comments under advisement and also follow up with MassDOT and the MBTA to allow them to clarify their (op)position to the proposed South Side route. But reading between the lines of the MassDOT’s last letter to the town, it seems increasingly likely that the choice for the Community Path will be a “North side or bust” decision. As Selectmen Dash suggested: like it or not, Belmont could soon have to decide between a path on the North side of the tracks and no track at all.
Here’s hoping the Selectmen make the right decision, should that come to pass.
Tags: Belmont Belmont High School Board of Selectmen environment Will Brownsberger
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B&W illustrations throughout
Leaving Richard's Valley
Michael Deforge
Ant Colony
Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero
Lose #7
Notes to Self
Emilie Pine
A Body Beneath
Collecting Issues of the Comic Book Series "Lose"
av Michael Deforge
Häftad Engelska, 2014-05-13
Praised by Publishers Weekly as 'one of his generation's most admired cartoonists," Michael DeForge is the vanguard of a new wave of alternative cartoonists, and Lose, collected here for the first time, is his signature series. Lose is DeForge's place to experiment with a variety of comics of various lengths and style, from three-panel gag strips to longer narratives. Lose has been the preeminent showcase for DeForge's uncanny ability to show the creepy side of cute, and the manic side of the mundane. DeForge pries back the veneer of the everyday to reveal the half-formed and fantastic lying just beneath the surface. DeForge is a storyboard artist and prop designer for the mega-hit Cartoon Network program Adventure Time. One can see hints of that show?s house style filtered through the Lynchian landscapes and otherworldly vistas of DeForge's vision. The issues of Lose that make up this collection have been nominated for nearly every major comics award including the Eisner Awards, which are considered the comics equivalent to the Oscars and are awarded each year at the industry's biggest event Comic-Con International. This collection includes issues 2-5 of Lose. Issue 1 will never be reprinted or re-released at the behest of the artist.
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Winner of the 2013 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Series Winner of the 2013 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Artist "Canadian artist DeForge's anthology series is a showcase for his warped imaginings and offbeat, genre-bending cartoons." Matt White, Publishers Weekly "Stories about body horror, S&M, Canada; it's easy to call Michael DeForge the David Cronenberg of comics. But more specifically, I'd call him the 'noise rock' of the industry, and it helps that he's in a noise rock band." GeekRex "DeForge's comic universe reflects the dark corners of our real one, but sensitive and hopeful storyteller that he is he hasn't forgotten about the exuberance, wonder and happiness there either." Chris Hampton, The Toronto Star "Like folk tales, they [the stories in A Body Beneath] fill us with dread and take terrible but expected turns. This sort of viscera-level reaction is precisely DeForge's greatest strength, and it has clearly been present from the beginning of his career." Hillary Brown, Paste "One of the most exciting and unpredictable cartoonists working in comics, Michael DeForge has a unique perspective that juggles humor, tragedy, whimsy and horror to create unforgettable stories." Oliver Sava, Los Angeles Times "Like folk tales, they [DeForge's stories] fill us with dread and take terrible but expected turns. This sort of viscera-level reaction is precisely DeForge's greatest strength, and it has clearly been present from the beginning of his career." Hillary Brown, Paste "Drawn over four years, the comics show the young artist growing more assured and the artwork becoming more confident without losing its bizarre simplicity Fans who discovered DeForge with Ant Colony will not be disappointed by what preceded it." Gordon Flagg, Booklist "Truly, if anything can be said about DeForge's work, it is that it's better when experienced than it is to hear about it, so for god's sake, go and pick up this book right now." Greg Mannix, End of the Universe "DeForge is the next-generation Ware. In Lose, he explores artistic experimentations that remain readable because of his sharp sense of humor and surprising storytelling. As a result, he has become an influential nexus in an array of talented young comic creators who are pushing beyond the observational sensibilities of '90s and early '00s era indie comics while moving into a fusion of fantasy, horror, auto-bio, surrealism, and pornography." Rich Barrett, mental_floss magazine "Though no cartoonist is without recognizable precursors, he [DeForge] is one the most original creators of this new century, with an instantly identifiable approach to cartooning. I don't think I could name another 'young cartoonist' whose work is always so visually forceful and emotionally engaged. And I mean always." Ken Parille, The Comics Journal "Collected between these covers are some of the best avant-garde comics drawn in the last ...well, ever. Top-of-the-heap great cartoonists emerge once in a generation. DeForge is today's one. Striking, funny, disturbing, beautiful, original." Seth, Author of Palookaville "If you aren't reading Michael DeForge, I don't know what you're doing with your life." Timothy Callahan, Comic Book Resources "DeForge's world is not for the squeamish. But it is one whose grotesqueries increasingly mirror, rather than distort, the mundane world with which we think we are familiar." Sean Rogers, The Globe and Mail "Prolific young Canadian-born avant-garde artist DeForge has become one of his generation's most admired cartoonists, and this is his first sizable collection While often willfully unsettling, DeForge's work resonates on many levels." Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Everything and everyone in his [DeForge's] drawings is dripping, bubbling and developing unsightly growths. He wa
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Michael DeForge was born in 1987 in Ottawa, Ontario. He currently lives and works in Toronto as a cartoonist, commercial illustrator, and as a designer for the hit Cartoon Network program Adventure Time. Past illustration clients include The Believer, Vice, New York Times Magazine, and The Walrus. His one-person anthology series Lose has received great critical and commercial success and is published by Koyama Press. Lose #1 won in the Best Emerging Talent category at the 2010 Doug Wright Awards, and Lose #3 won the 2011 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Comic. Lose #4 was released in Spring 2012, and was nominated for the Eisner Award for Best Single Issue (or One-Shot). The fifth installment was released in Spring 2013. His web comic strip Ant Comic was serialized weekly and will be collected into a graphic novel by Drawn and Quarterly upon its completion. DeForge's work blends an encyclopedic knowledge of cartooning with a range of influences that include Jack Kirby, Eduardo Munoz Bachs, Mark Newgarden, and Hideshi Hino.
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Hilton Quebec1100 Rene Levesque East, Quebec City, Canada, G1R 4P3, show map
The venue offers a perfect location close to Museum of Quebec, boasting an outdoor pool and including snow skiing, lawn tennis and cycling onsite.
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Manoir Victoria44 Cote Du Palais, Quebec City, Canada, G1R 4H8, show map
Located next to Museum of Quebec in a shopping area, this unique hotel offers a panoramic view plus whirlpool bathtubs, facials and various massages.
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Fairmont Le Chateau Frontenac1 Rue Des Carrieres, Quebec City, Canada, G1R 4P5, show map
The hotel with a private pool is located in the centre of Quebec City close to St. Lawrence River.
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Clarendon57, Rue Sainte-Anne, Quebec City, Canada, G1R 3X4, show map
The hotel is housed in an art deco-style building, boasting a quiet location in Quebec City, where you can enjoy a wellness centre and a Jacuzzi.
Grand Times Hotel5100 Boulevard Des Galeries, Quebec City, Canada, QC G2K 2M1, show map
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Hotel 7171 Rue Saint-Pierre, Quebec City, Canada, G1K 4A4, show map
This cozy hotel is centrally placed in Centre-Ville district, offering a sweeping view along with a treatment room and a Jacuzzi.
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Auberge Saint Antoine8 Rue Saint Antoine, Quebec City, Canada, G1K 4C9, show map
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Here guests can enjoy a meal at the primary restaurant and observe splendid views of the garden.
Delta Quebec690 Boul Rene Levesque East, Quebec City, Canada, G1R 5A8, show map
Built in a typical luxurious style, the hotel has been totally renovated in 2007 and offers a breathtaking view of the St Lawrence River and Laurentian Mountains.
Quebec City Marriott Downtown850 Place D'Youville, Quebec City, Canada, G1R 3P6, show map
Located just 1.6 km from Museum of Quebec, this hotel features 111 rooms and a gastronomic restaurant on-site.
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Chateau Bonne Entente3400 Chemin Sainte-Foy, Quebec City, Canada, G1X1S6, show map
160 rooms offer you views of the city, while the hotel provides with facials and massage services in the centre of Quebec City.
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The hotel offers 140 luxury rooms and guests will be amazed at breathtaking views of the city.
Hotel Le Concorde Quebec1225 Cours Du General De Montcalm, Quebec City, Canada, G1R 4W6, show map
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Closely linked to Place Royale in a shopping area, this exclusive hotel boasts an indoor swimming pool plus cots and a kids' club for children.
Hotel Classique2815 Boulevard Laurier, Quebec City, Canada, G1V 4H3, show map
The accomodation is conveniently placed near Aquarium du Quebec, offering 263 rooms along with a garden restaurant.
Hotel Cofortel6500 Boul. Wilfrid-Hamel, Quebec City, Canada, G2E 2J1, show map
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Le Germain Hotel Quebec126 Rue Saint-Pierre, Quebec City, Canada, G1K4A8, show map
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Terry McAuliffe Wrote Of Intimate Moment With Yasser Arafat With A Kiss And Leg Rubs
"Finally it was time to go and as we stood up to shake hands Arafat laid a big ole wet kiss right on my lips."
By Andrew Kaczynski
Andrew Kaczynski BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on June 14, 2013, at 4:42 p.m. ET
Chris Wattie / Reuters
Former DNC chairman and Democratic Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe wrote in his 2007 book What A Party that former Palestinian National Authority president Yasser Arafat rubbed his leg awkwardly and kissed him on the lips at a dinner in 2000 hosted by his friend Hani Masri, a Palestinian-American businessman. McAuliffe describes being uncomfortable at the gestures.
The passage reads:
Hani invited Dorothy and me to join six other guests at the Prime Rib to meet Arafat and discuss issues. When Arafat arrived at the restaurant, Hani had him sit right next to me. We talked about what was happening in the Middle East and Arafat had all kinds of questions about U.S. politics and of course about Bill Clinton. The dinner soon became somehow comical for me. Arafat would get very animated when he spoke and every time he was making a point, he would lean over and rub my leg under the table. He'd be saying something to the whole table full of people and then would look right at me, emphasizing a point, and rub up and down my leg. That is not something men normally do to me when I sit down for dinner with them. I just couldn't visualize my friend ariel Sharon rubbing my leg when I talked to him.
Dorothy went the whole meal laughing at how uncomfortable I obviously was. She knew this was unique for me given my Irish Catholic heritage. What would the nuns at St. Anns think? As interested as I was in the conversation, after a while it started getting awkward having my leg rubbed so much and I looked forward to the end of the meal. Finally it was time to go and as we stood up to shake hands Arafat laid a big ole wet kiss right on my lips. I wasn't ready for that one.
Andrew Kaczynski is a political reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York.
Contact Andrew Kaczynski at andrew.kaczynski@buzzfeed.com.
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Home Uncategorized Edmonton-based ReNü Engineering achieves sustainability with economical Passive House and Net Zero...
Edmonton-based ReNü Engineering achieves sustainability with economical Passive House and Net Zero Energy building design
Edmonton-based ReNü Engineering is achieving the sustainable ideal – building a solid, environmentally responsible engineering practice on sound scientific knowledge.
Principal Stuart Fix is a pioneer in the Canadian Passive House movement, turning the energy savings concepts into a diversity of successful projects in the western provinces.
“ReNü’s focus has always been on pragmatically delivering the most cost effective, high performance buildings possible,” Fix says. “We use a blend of building science and mechanical engineering to find the right balance between building envelope and HVAC systems to deliver comfortable, healthy and low-life cycle cost spaces for our clients.”
“Sometimes the outcome is a Certifiable Passive House building, sometimes it is a Net Zero Energy building, and other times it is simply a ‘damn good’ building,” he said.
The story behind ReNü’s practice goes back a decade, when Fix was focusing his career as a mechanical engineer designing oilfield sector machinery, clearly at the opposite end of the environmental movement.
“It was enjoyable work, and I learned a lot about detail-oriented, practical design in an international setting,” he recalls. “I didn’t, however, enjoy the boom/bust cycle of that industry, nor that I was ultimately contributing to a sector that we know must eventually play a lesser role in global energy supply.”
“I sought out a new industry, and decided that buildings would be something we’ll always need, and that the construction sector is a focal point for a large portion of the environmental movement.”
Fix moved to Toronto for two years and completed a master’s degree in building science. He also connected with the Passive House movement in its earliest days, founding Passive Buildings Canada (PHC) in 2009. (He has served on PHC’s board for many years since, and he continues to serve on the US Passive House Institute’s technical committee.)
Fix returned to Edmonton in 2010 “to practice the blend of building science and mechanical engineering that we still use today.”
Today, ReNü Engineering has a team of five with technical, engineering, and sustainable construction experience, and the organization is working on a diversity of challenging and innovative projects.
Completed ReNü projects include several memorable initiatives, including the Cottonwood Passive House, in Fort Saskatchewan, AB, which was the province’s first certified Passive House.
This single family home, completed about four years ago, uses about 90 per cent less energy for heating and cooling than a typical home. It has 20-inch-thick walls, intelligently angled to the sun. The maximum energy needed to heat the house is equivalent to running five hair dryers – and the building has superb air quality, its owners say.
Another significant ReNü project is the Mosaic Centre in Edmonton, the first Net Zero Energy Commercial building in Alberta, for “which we provided energy modelling, life cycle cost analysis and Net Zero Design.”
Powered by an array of over 213 kW photovoltaic (PV) panels, and heated/cooled by 32 geothermal wells, it is one of the most environmentally-conscious buildings in Canada, a building description says. “It has achieved LEED Platinum Certification, the highest possible level of recognition for environmental stewardship on a construction project. The building is also a bright, fresh-air, positive energy environment designed to help building occupants feel happy and inspired at work.”
In Fort St. John in Northern BC, the 50-unit BC Housing Passive House “is the largest cold climate certified project in Canada,” Fix said. Also impressively, another 50-unit social housing structure in Alberta is “likely the most exciting, as our design build team responded to a traditional housing RFP, offering Net Zero Energy construction for no increase in project budget.”
“This paves the way for major industry change,” Fix said. “We’re offering proof at the provincial level that higher performance buildings offer excellent economic value.”
ReNü provided Passive House and mechanical engineering design for the Valleyview Townhall, the first commercial building in Alberta receive Passive House certification.
“I believe major change is coming to the construction industry, and within 10 years you’ll see Net Zero Energy and Passive House type projects become the new normal,” he said. “Building codes are pointing in that direction, and we’re proving today that the economics work in many cases.”
For more information about ReNü Engineering, see http://renu.engineering/about-us.
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Home Government Ontario Superior Court decision favours contractors for bankruptcy creditor priority, says COCA
Ontario Superior Court decision favours contractors for bankruptcy creditor priority, says COCA
The Council of Ontario Construction Associations (COCA) says a recent court case favours contractors in a decision relating to the interaction of the Federal Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and provincial statutes such as the Ontario Construction Act.
COCA explained the case between the Royal Bank of Canada v. A-1 Asphalt Maintenance Ltd. and a recent decision by the Ontario Court of Appeal with implications for the industry, describing the story as follows:
A1 Asphalt went bankrupt. The City of Hamilton and the Region of Halton paid the trustee in bankruptcy $675,372.27 in respect of work done by A-1 Asphalt and its subcontractors before the bankruptcy.
The issue in the case was how the money was to be distributed. Three groups of creditors had a claim on the money. First, there was RBC, who was a secured creditor of A-1 Asphalt. Next, there was the Guarantee Company of North America, the bonding company that had paid out money to various subcontractors and suppliers and then taken over their claims against A1 Asphalt. Lastly, there were two unions representing claims by the employees of A1 Asphalt.
At first instance, Madam Justice Conway awarded all of the money to the RBC. Her decision was in keeping with the outcome in a previous case called Atlas Block.
The Guarantee Company of North America appealed Justice Conway’s decision to the Ontario Court of Appeal.
The Ontario Court of Appeal granted the appeal. “At the risk of oversimplifying, the Court of Appeal ruled that the statutory trust in the Construction Act also created a common law trust over the funds received by the trustee in bankruptcy,” COCA reported. “The effect of the ruling was to overturn the Atlas Block decision and give to the subcontractors, suppliers, and employees priority over the trust funds.”
RBC had until mid-March to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court of Canada. It is uncertain if the bank has taken that step (or the Supreme Court will consider the appeal), but COCA said in its early March newsletter that the bank would likely try to appeal the decision.
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Event Summary: A Look at the American Electorate
A Brookings panel of experts today discussed the polarized American electorate and assessed how intense feelings of party loyalty could play out in the upcoming presidential election.
Princeton University Professor Larry M. Bartels began the discussion by presenting data demonstrating the strong relationship between political partisanship and voting behavior.
“Voting behavior is more partisan than at anytime since the data became available,” Bartels said. “Partisanship has a big impact on people’s perceptions of the political world.”
The intense polarization of the current presidential campaign has figured prominently in political analysis, and the panelists were quick to ponder how the political divide has been reflected in national polls and, most notably, how it would affect the Nov. 2 election.
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Panelists said that serious answers to such questions, however, were tough to find, since there are good reasons to be skeptical about many of the national polls. Emory University Professor Alan Abramowitz cited examples of polls in which the polling sample favored a particular party. His arguments gain traction in light of the recent release of two polls with drastically different polling numbers for candidates George W. Bush and John Kerry. Abramowitz reminded members of the audience that right before the 2000 presidential election, Vice President Al Gore was ahead by 10 percentage points in the polls, yet only won the popular vote by a narrow margin.
Wall Street Journal Political Editor John Harwood said that, while flaws and discrepancies in national polls are to be expected, polling results-however accurate-can have serious consequences.
“It’s important to see that you’re up,” Harwood said. “In the current case, Democrats get portrayed as a bunch of morons who don’t know what they’re doing and it sows confusion. For Bush and the Republicans, it raises confidence and has a huge political effect-even if the numbers aren’t truly reflective of the national pulse.”
After examining the polarized political climate, Brookings Senior Fellow Tom Mann wondered if there was anyone left who was truly independent, and if swing voters truly exist.
“Is there any more room in the system?” Mann asked. “Is the partisanship so strong that the right candidate, even with the right conditions and the right pitch, can’t appeal to the opposite side?”
Panelists attempted to answer Mann’s query by examining both Bush’s and Kerry’s campaign strategies. The consensus was that both campaigns have placed greater emphasis on turning out the vote of their base, rather than embracing bipartisan campaign messages.
“The overwhelming emphasis is on voter mobilization instead of persuasion,” said Yale University Professor Donald Green.
According to Bartels, appealing to just the base voters is not necessarily a wise tactic.
“Convincing a voter to come out to the polls and to vote for your guy yields you one vote,” Bartels said. “Convincing a voter to come out to the polls and vote for your guy instead of the other guy, yields you two votes.”
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Governance Issues for Macroprudential Policy in Advanced Economies
Douglas J. Elliott Sunday, November 13, 2011
PDF File Governance Issues for Macroprudential Policy in Advanced Economies
The recent severe financial crisis is leading policymakers around the world to add a new set of tools for the management of their economy. “Macroprudential” policies may allow authorities to cushion the blow from dangerous financial crises by using an approach that fits between monetary policy for the economy as a whole and traditional regulation of individual financial institutions (now referred to as “microprudential” regulation to distinguish it from the new approach.) There are multiple definitions of “macroprudential,” but the core concept is to manage factors that could endanger the financial system as a whole, even if they would not be obvious as serious threats when viewed in the context of any single institution. Risks that are common to many financial institutions simultaneously, such as excessive exposure to housing credit, can combine with a high degree of interconnections between financial institutions to create systemic risks even when each individual institution appears sound, absent the potential for financial contagion.
Those unfamiliar with macroprudential policy may wish to read the author’s comprehensive primer on the topic, written for non-specialists, (see www.brookings.edu/papers/2011/0311_capital_elliott.aspx.[1]) This paper will examine one of the key issues in more detail: how should macroprudential authorities be structured and governed? Macroprudential policy has rarely been used in advanced economies in recent decades and the structures to set policy in this area are generally very new, or have not yet been formed. Even where an existing body is taking on these responsibilities, their nature will require new governance approaches. A number of questions therefore arise:
Should macroprudential policy be run by a single authority, multiple authorities, or a committee?
Which authority or authorities should be in charge of policy?
In practice, what entities will conduct macroprudential policy in the major financial centers?
What objectives should be given to the macroprudential authorities?
What tools should be available to the macroprudential authorities?
How should macroprudential authorities decide when and how to take action?
To what extent should authorities use subjective judgment?
How should macroprudential policy be coordinated with monetary policy?
How should macroprudential policy be coordinated with safety and soundness regulation?
How should policy be coordinated internationally?
How can we assure proper accountability for macroprudential decisions?
What other structural issues are important for sound governance?
What is the optimal communications strategy?
How could the authorities counter political pressure not to puncture bubbles?
What are the major risks facing the macroprudential authorities?
Kuznets beyond Kuznets
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Brookings Papers on Economic Activity: Spring 2018
Edited by Janice C. Eberly and James H. Stock
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Isamu Noguchi (American, 1904-1988). Bending Figure, 1933. Ink on moderately thick, moderately textured brown wove paper, sheet: 24 1/8 x 20 in. (61.3 x 50.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 48.69.2. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 48.69.2_PS2.jpg)
Isamu Noguchi (American, 1904-1988). Bending Figure, 1933. Ink on moderately thick, moderately textured brown wove paper, sheet: 24 1/8 x 20 in. (61.3 x 50.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 48.69.2. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.48.69.2.jpg)
Isamu Noguchi (American, 1904-1988). Bending Figure, 1933. Ink on moderately thick, moderately textured brown wove paper, sheet: 24 1/8 x 20 in. (61.3 x 50.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 48.69.2. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 48.69.2_bw_IMLS.jpg)
Bending Figure
In this drawing Isamu Noguchi used a thick paintbrush to apply ink in serpentine lines and slashing strokes. By changing the pressure of his touch and twisting the tip of the brush, he varied the density and width of the outlines over the course of each stroke. Such variations suggest volumetric mass in an otherwise abstracted figure. After studying traditional Chinese brush drawing in Beijing in the early 1930s, Noguchi combined that technique with the reductive approach to form inspired by his mentor, the modernist sculptor Constantin Brancusi. This blending of Eastern and Western influences characterizes the art of Noguchi, who was of Japanese and American descent.
ARTIST Isamu Noguchi, American, 1904-1988
MEDIUM Ink on moderately thick, moderately textured brown wove paper
DIMENSIONS sheet: 24 1/8 x 20 in. (61.3 x 50.8 cm) (show scale)
SIGNATURE Signed and dated in graphite lower left: "ISAMU / '33"
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CAPTION Isamu Noguchi (American, 1904-1988). Bending Figure, 1933. Ink on moderately thick, moderately textured brown wove paper, sheet: 24 1/8 x 20 in. (61.3 x 50.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 48.69.2. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 48.69.2_PS2.jpg)
IMAGE overall, 48.69.2_PS2.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2010
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Apple Patents The Wedge
Apple business laptops law
It’s not a secret that the tech industry is being distorted by our imperfect patent system. Companies are being purchased to obtain their patent portfolios rather than, say, their product lines or talented employees. The mobile phone market seems to be driven as much by patent lawsuits as by genuine innovation. Here’s an eye-opening chart of the lawsuits among the major smartphone competitors, which summarizes the state of affairs this way:
“A slew of lawsuits are rocking the smartphone industry as nearly every major manufacturer fights to get cash from the others for using its patents, to block its opponents’ products from being imported into the U.S., or just to bleed out their energy paying for lawyers rather than engineers. That could mean fewer smartphones, devices missing features, or a general slowdown of innovation in the future.”
It’s hard to avoid feeling that the world is spinning out of control when Apple gets a patent on . . . the wedge. The Verge reported today that Apple was given a patent on the profile of the Macbook Air, which looks like a wedge from the side because it tapers from the back to the front.
“A notebook with hinges, feet or a shaped back different than the MacBook Air could still be infringing as long as the rest — primarily the claimed wedge profile — is substantially similar. On the other hand, competitors can still rely on meaningful tweaks to the angles, shapes and proportions of their notebook designs to avoid the patent . . .”
Apple has been one of the most aggressive companies in the smartphone patent wars. It’s entirely possible that Apple will file lawsuits against notebook manufacturers who dare to design their laptops with a tapering shape to make them thinner and lighter.
It invites parody, doesn’t it? Apple is keeping a close eye on possible infringement by the cheese industry. <rimshot> Apple’s lawyers are preparing to file Apple v. Flock Of Geese in federal court. <drum roll> All eyes are on Google’s application to patent the parallelogram, which experts note could be construed to include the rectangle. <cymbal crash>
Except it’s not a joke. Patent games have turned into a deadly serious drag on the energy and vitality of the entire tech industry, a game played for competitive advantage and a continuing employment act for a highly specialized corner of the legal industry.
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Skype Basics: What It Does And How To Install It
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Skype has become a story of duplicates – two programs, two ways to log in.
Skype’s core function is video and voice calls over an Internet connection to anyone else using Skype, from a computer or other device running Skype software, signed into a free Skype account. Let’s start with a quick description of the other things it does, followed by some information about how to install it on a PC and how to log in.
Skype basics
• Audio and video calls to other Skype users are free. As of a few months ago, the free service includes group video calling.
• Microsoft bought Skype in 2011 but appears to have left it mostly independent, so it is not yet closely integrated into other Microsoft programs. There is some light Outlook integration (Skype can display your Outlook contacts, and you can start a Skype call from within Outlook).
• Skype can also be used for instant messages. Last year Microsoft phased out Windows Live Messenger in favor of Skype for instant messages. Unfortunately Skype’s interface for instant messages is poor so it’s not widely used.
• You can pay to use Skype to dial out to landlines and cell phones worldwide. Pricing plans are complex (monthly subscriptions vs. pay-as-you-go, either for particular countries or worldwide) but cheap, especially for international calls. Office 365 Home and Personal subscriptions include 60 minutes per month of worldwide Skype calls.
• You can also pay for a “Skype Number” – a conventional phone number assigned to you that will ring your Skype account when someone dials it from a landline or cell phone. You can select your Skype Number from many area codes or countries; for example, you could set up a number in Switzerland that would be a local call for your Swiss relatives and you’d receive it over Skype no matter where you are in the world.
There are a number of other Skype peripheral features – “Skype WiFi” available at hotspots worldwide (charged by the minute), some business features, file sharing, text messaging, and more.
Installing Skype
Skype is available on every platform: Windows, Mac, all smartphones and tablets, even Xbox One and Playstation.
On Windows 7, you’ll install the desktop version of Skype.
On Windows 8, however, there are two versions of Skype. You’ll have an easier time if you pick one and uninstall the other.
“Skype for modern Windows” is a Windows 8 app that can be downloaded from the Microsoft Store. It is preinstalled on most Windows 8 computers. This version uses the Metro design for fullscreen apps – lots of white space, large text, simplified controls, and menus that only appear when you swipe down from the top or right-click. Many of the new Metro apps are quite nice but I find the Skype app confusing and annoying, so I uninstall the Metro version and use the old familiar desktop version. You can uninstall “Skype for modern Windows” by right-clicking on the Skype tile on the Start screen and clicking on Uninstall.
“Skype for Windows desktop” is the traditional version of Skype. It can be installed on Windows 8 in addition to the Metro app but your experience will be better if you only have one installed and remove the other.
When you install the desktop version of Skype, be alert for two screens with checkboxes to be unchecked. The first one attempts to change your browser home page and search engine, the same technique used by scummy adware. Microsoft should be ashamed of this one. Uncheck those boxes!
The second one attempts to install Skype Click To Call, an Internet Explorer plugin that searches web pages for phone numbers and highlights them so you can start a Skype call with a single click. No one has ever wanted to do that and the plugin is notoriously buggy. Uncheck the box and don’t install it. If it’s installed, it shows up separately on the list in Control Panel / Installed Programs and can be removed from there.
Logging into Skype
For eight years Skype was independent and millions of people logged into Skype with their Skype names – frequently Firstname.Lastname. My Skype name is Bruce.Berls, for example.
When Microsoft bought Skype in 2011, it began the process of linking Skype accounts to its own free Microsoft accounts. You can log into Skype with a Microsoft account or a Skype name. The important thing is to remember which one works for you!
Your Microsoft account is important and long-lasting; it’s the account that connects you to your OneDrive files, your OneNote notebooks, and the settings on your Windows 8 devices. (A Microsoft account is not the same as a business Office 365 account.) If you’re using Skype for the first time, log into Skype with your Microsoft account. If you’ve been a Skype user, link your Microsoft account to your Skype name and use your Microsoft account to log into Skype going forward.
Skype is overdue for an overhaul that will integrate it more deeply with Windows and Office. Microsoft has an enterprise program, Lync, which overlaps with Skype and is clumsily able to connect to it. At times Microsoft has hinted that the two programs may wind up merged but progress has been slow. No reason to wait – put Skype to work today.
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Switch to safety a welcome one for CU Buffs’…
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Switch to safety a welcome one for CU Buffs’ Trey Udoffia
Former corner brings added bulk to new spot
Cliff Grassmick / Staff Photographer
Trey Udoffia will make a switch to safety this year after playing at corner.
By Pat Rooney | prooney@prairiemountainmedia.com | Boulder Daily Camera
PUBLISHED: May 6, 2019 at 5:10 pm | UPDATED: May 6, 2019 at 8:59 pm
Call it a fortuitous union of opportunity and necessity for the Colorado football team.
Trey Udoffia, to the benefit of the entire defense, has built his body into a form more resembling a safety than a cornerback. While the Buffaloes will go into the fall with question marks dotting the entire defensive secondary, there remains a glaring need for depth at the safety spots.
Making the move from cornerback to safety, Udoffia is ready to shore up the back end of CU’s defense. A fourth-year junior in the fall, Udoffia will be one of the most experienced players in the Buffs’ defensive backfield when the 2019 season kicks off, but he is coming off his first spring as a full-time safety.
“I’m very happy with the move so far,” Udoffia said. “I still have got work to put in, but I’m very happy with where I’m at and I like it a lot. I get to play more with my eyes and not with my back to the ball. And I like playing physical, and I get to make a lot more tackles in the run game. It’s a great fit.”
Udoffia said the last time he was a full-time safety was when he was nine years old, but his diligent work in the weight room has made him a better fit for first-year CU defensive coordinator Tyson Summers as a safety than a corner. The 6-foot Udoffia was listed at 185 pounds at the start of last season but checked in at an even 200 pounds this spring.
Hyoung Chang / The Denver Post
Colorado’s Trey Udoffia performed the team’s spring session at roughly 200 pounds, ideal for the move to safety.
“I think Trey has worked very hard,” Summers said. “I think Trey is a natural tackler. A guy that wants to play physical. A guy who that’s highly competitive. I’ve been pleased with Trey from his physical standpoint and how he’s trying to play and how he’s trying to learn.”
As a corner last year, Udoffia appeared in nine games and was credited with 31 tackles and three passes broken up. Udoffia also played in nine of 12 games as a redshirt freshman in 2017, making eight starts and finishing second on the team with eight pass breakups.
Udoffia took the reps with the No. 1 defense at strong safety during CU’s annual spring game on April 27, recording five tackles. With Mehki Blackmon and Delrick Abrams owning the inside tracks toward the starting spots at cornerback, Udoffia’s physical nature and experience as a cover corner could make him a versatile asset at strong safety.
Udoffia will compete for playing time at strong safety with Isaiah Lewis, though the overall picture at safety likely will see additional adjustments given the recent dismissal of Hasaan Hypolite for a violation of team rules, along with the return from injury by Aaron Maddox and the addition of talented newcomers like incoming freshman Mark Perry.
“I have the DB skills, the footwork and stuff, so I’m trying to put my whole corner stuff into safety thing and just go out and play,” Udoffia said. “I feel very comfortable learning the plays. I’m not satisfied with where I’m at. I still have to get in the playbook more. But from the beginning of spring until now, I’ve made big strides and I’m happy with it.”
Pat Rooney
Pat Rooney has worked for Prairie Mountain Publishing since 2011 and has covered the Colorado Buffaloes since 2015.
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A new wave of protection announced for Lancashire’s seas
Urchins and brittle stars Picture credit: Paul Naylor
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Rare creatures will be protected in Lancashire’s estuaries, which have become part of a network of wildlife havens that will surround the UK.
Endangered fish, ancient clams, urchins and anemones will benefit as three estuaries become Marine Conservation Zones, after being designated by Defra.
A Government consultation last summer saw 1,800 people from across the North West calling for greater protection in the Irish Sea. There are already 50 MCZs
around the UK and four in the Irish Sea, including the Fylde MCZ, 100 square miles off Blackpool.
Today, Defra announced that there would be another 41 zones designated, including six in the Irish Sea.
In Lancashire, the Ribble, Wyre and Lune estuaries have all received a new level of protection as MCZs.
And it sparked delight among the Wildlife Trust officers and volunteers who have fought so hard to protect these vital areas of the Irish Sea.
Dr Emily Baxter, senior marine conservation officer at the North West Wildlife Trusts, says: “We are particularly excited to see that the estuaries have been
designated as MCZs.
"These are vital sites for the protection and recovery of some of our secret species – the European smelt or cucumber fish as it is known because of
its distinctive cucumber-like smell.
“These little-known fish have been lost from many estuaries across England and Scotland but important populations still remain. Protection and conservation of
important spawning and nursery habitats could help them thrive again.”
Lessons in life from the veterans mentoring in Lancashire's schools
The Lancashire estuaries are part of six new MCZs in the Irish Sea, including two off the Cumbria coast and two to the west of the Isle of Man. It brings the total of zones
in the Irish Sea to 10.
The Wildlife Trusts Director of Living Seas at The Wildlife Trusts, Joan Edwards said: “We’ve been calling for the Government to give real protection to a connected
network of diverse range of undersea landscapes and species since 2009. We need to restore the seabed that has been ravaged over the past century and allow
fragile marine life to recover – and this can only be done with good management.
“Without these astonishing undersea landscapes there simply wouldn't be any fish, let alone fantastic jewel anemones, seahorses, dolphins and all the other wild and
extraordinary creatures which are part of a healthy marine ecosystem.”
The Wildlife Trusts believe that today’s news is a big step in the right direction for England’s seas. Proper protection of these sites after designation is needed through
the implantation of management to give our seas a real opportunity to recover.
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Chipotle might axe one of its main menu items
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Chipotle's chorizo is on the chopping block.
Hollis Johnson
Chipotle is considering cutting chorizo to make room for queso and other menu additions.
The chicken-and-pork sausage was added to the menu in late 2016.
Chipotle's drink line might also be getting an update.
Chipotle might be getting rid of chorizo, according to BTIG analyst Peter Saleh.
The spicy chicken-and-pork sausage blend, which Chipotle rolled out nationwide last year, is customers' least favorite protein, accounting for just 3% of total entree sales, Saleh said following a meeting this week with Chipotle investor relations head Mark Alexee.
Chipotle is considering cutting chorizo and other weak-selling menu items to make room for new additions such as queso dip, which the company started testing last month in hundreds of restaurants, Saleh said.
The chain has already cut chorizo from the menu in Colorado at restaurants where queso was added.
More new menu additions could be coming down the pipeline soon, such as spring mix salad with avocado citrus dressing and frozen margaritas — two items that Chipotle started testing last month.
Updates could also be coming to Chipotle's line of non-alcoholic beverages.
"The assortment, placement and in-store promotion largely hasn't changed in the past 8-10 years," Saleh said.
After decades of leaving its menu virtually unchanged, the company has been ramping up new product experimentation. The company just opened its first test kitchen that's open to the public in New York City.
Chipotle's new commitment to menu changes could draw new customers, but it could also be a sign of "desperation," according to Barclays analyst Jeffrey Bernstein.
"These offerings may be an indication of the challenges currently being experienced in returning sales volumes to prior peak levels with the traditional menu (i.e. Desperation?), and lead to issues previously feared, such as greater complexity, slower service, etc," Bernstein wrote in a note published last month. "Only time will tell, though the latter are very real concerns, as management was prudently strongly opposed to the addition of new menu items for the variety of operational concerns, which we believe are still valid."
Chipotle is still recovering from massive sales declines following an E. coli outbreak in late 2015.
The company has rolled out two new menu items since the outbreak: chorizo in 2016, and buñuelos — Chipotle's first ever dessert — in 2017.
SEE ALSO: Chipotle's new queso dip could be a sign of 'desperation'
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Fed chief Jerome Powell hints at likely interest rate cut in end July
He also says the risk that weak readings on inflation could be "even more persistent than we currently anticipate"
Mr Powell said business investment has "slowed notably", likely because of the uncertainty around trade and global growth.
FEDERAL Reserve chair Jerome Powell had two messages for Congress on Wednesday: Central bank independence is critical and an interest-rate cut is likely at the end of July.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly bashed the Fed, blaming Mr Powell and his team for harming the economy by keeping interest rates too high and threatening to try to remove Mr Powell as chair if the situation doesn't change.
Mr Powell hinted strongly on Wednesday that a cut is likely to happen this month because Mr Trump's trade war and slowing growth abroad are starting to bite. "Since (June) . . . it appears that uncertainties around trade tensions and concerns about the strength of the global economy continue to weigh on the US economic outlook. Inflation pressures remain muted," Mr Powell said on Wednesday in his opening remarks to the House Financial Services Committee before taking questions from members of the Committee at 1400 GMT.
S&P 500 hit 3,000 for the first time as Fed signalled possible rate cut. Wall Street is pricing in a near 100 per cent probability of a reduction in interest rates at the Fed's July 31 meeting.
SEE ALSO: Potential rate cuts music to market bulls' ears
The US economy is doing "reasonably well," Mr Powell said, but he noted that business investment has "slowed notably", likely because of the uncertainty around trade and global growth. He also stressed that the economic gains have not been shared evenly by everyone. Hispanics, African Americans and people in rural communities continuing to have a harder time finding jobs that pay well.
Mr Powell carefully explained the reasons why the policy committee has shifted its views this year, and noted that "crosscurrents have reemerged, creating greater uncertainty." Despite a current trade war truce with China, Mr Powell continued to stress downside risks to the outlook. "Uncertainties about the outlook have increased in recent months," Mr Powell said in the text of his remarks.
"Economic momentum appears to have slowed in some major foreign economies, and that weakness could affect the US economy. Moreover, a number of government policy issues have yet to be resolved, including trade developments, the federal debt ceiling, and Brexit." He noted that policy makers are carefully monitoring developments including the risk that weak readings on inflation could be "even more persistent than we currently anticipate".
Mr Trump is making the strong economy a centrepiece of his reelection campaign and he wants the Fed to help boost growth ahead of the 2020 election. In his latest effort to bend the Fed to his will, Mr Trump said last week that he plans to nominate conservative scholar Judy Shelton and economist Christopher Waller to fill the final two seats on the Fed board. Mr Shelton and Mr Waller both support lowering rates.
Mr Powell has stressed that the Fed will do what is best for the economy and does not take political considerations into account. "Congress has given us an important degree of independence so that we can effectively pursue our statutory goals based on objective analysis and data," Mr Powell said on Wednesday. "We appreciate that our independence brings with it an obligation for transparency so that you and the public can hold us accountable."
The benchmark interest rate is currently 2.35 per cent, the highest rate in over a decade but a low level by historical standards. The Fed is widely expected to lower the rate to about 2.1 per cent by the end of the month, which should provide extra stimulus to the economy, an unusual move at a time when unemployment is at a half-century low. WP, BLOOMBERG
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Amputee sought in shooting deaths of parents in Florida
Posted: Nov 7, 2014 12:01 AM CDT | Updated: Dec 2, 2015 5:19 PM CDT
Police were searching for an amputee Thursday after the shooting deaths of his parents in Florida.
Investigators with the Orange County Sheriff's Office found Michael Petrozzino, 63, and Nancy Petrozzino, 64, fatally shot Tuesday at their Orlando area home after Nancy failed to report to the elementary school where she taught.
Homicide detectives have released a surveillance photo of Sean Petrozzino taken Tuesday morning by a Wells Fargo ATM in Orlando and are calling him a \"person of interest\" in the slayings. In the photo, he appears to be clutching cash with the end of his arms, which end near his wrists. He stands on prosthetic legs.
Officials have declined to call Petrozzino a suspect but say he is armed and is considered dangerous. He was last seen in his parents' vehicle -- a red 2012 Toyota Camry with Florida tags -- and is thought to be in South Florida.
\"Please note for identification purposes, the physical characteristics of his hands,\" the Sheriff's Office said in an advisory.
CNN affiliate WFTV said Petrozzino, 30, lost portions of his limbs as a child because of bacterial meningitis. The station reported that neighbors said he had recently moved in with his parents after having financial troubles.
Michael Petrozzino worked at Disney World, and Nancy Petrozzino taught second grade for 10 years at Andover Elementary School in Orlando.
\"We're at a loss. She was very well-liked,\" Orange County Public Schools spokeswoman Kathy Marsh said.
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Marmen Quartet perform in Brighton - review
Marmen Quartet (Pic by Marco Borggreve)
Published: 18:40 Thursday 01 November 2018
Review by Richard Amey
Marmen Quartet – Coffee Concert at The Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts (ACCA), Sussex University, Falmer, (11am).
Johannes Marmen, Ricky Gore (violins), Bryony Gibson-Cornish (viola),Steffan Morris (cello). String Quartets by Haydn (1732-1809), in C Op 74 No 1 (1793); Janacek (1854-1928), No 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ (1923); Beethoven (1770-1827), in C#minor Op 131 (1826).
Enlightenment from inside a darkened room. It was given by Johannes Marmen to a large proportion of the Coffee Concerts audience, of whom 205 turned out early on Sunday to hear his young group make their debut in the series.
Such a high figure has not appeared on a previous opening day of a Coffee Concert season at ACCA. We know that this audience likes their string quartets but we can safely doubt that the majority are steeped in Janacek and go around all year whistling his tunes alongside their favourite classical composers Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven or Schubert.
But many of that majority present learned this day at last how to listen to Janacek.
ACCA’s modest-sized concert hall has no outside windows. All light is of human fabrication. The Marmen Quartet took the stage, their female violist in black, with a V-necked evening top and wide trousers; their three men in black suits, patent leather shoes and . . . plain T-shirts. Without a word, they played the masterly first of Haydn’s exciting, London-oriented Opus 74 – very well – and disappeared offstage to short-lived applause.
Were the audience taking their Haydn for granted? Were they still half asleep? Or maybe digesting a sartorial shock? Or suddenly apprehensive about Janacek’s first quartet, which was to follow?
The Marmen returned, this time with Johannes remaining on his feet. After a pregnant pause he spoke to the audience. He described the gruesome story behind the quartet’s composition. Beethoven’s tremendous Kreutzer Sonata, for duo, arrested the Russian writer Tolstoy, inspiring his 1889 novella in which a female pianist is murdered by her over-jealous husband on finding she and her friendly male violinist enjoying practicing the Beethoven alone in the home music room. The husband, acquitted, travels on trains asking forgiveness of passengers.
This much Coffee Concerts programme notes writer Chris Darwin has informed those members of the audience who read them. No shocks here, but Janacek’s 1923 outwardly erratic musical language and mood switching is not bathtub listening.
It is here in the concert because most Coffee Concert quartet concerts include one major 20th century piece, often played second, at about 11.30am. The audience welcome this and, if challenged, enjoy the experience, even if they do not emerge as converts to the music. They like their learning.
Johannes Marmen had begun by remarking how glad he was it was dark inside ACCA because it felt like an evening concert and disguised the fact that (uncomfortably for most performers) it was 11am. He then gave the audience an utterly priceless piece of advice new to many: “This quartet is like an opera”.
Not everyone knows when listening to Janacek that he composed in the rhythm and pattern of speech, and unhelpfully, of course, in a foreign one. His music is literally speaking to us – about whatever Janacek is thinking, imagining, describing or dramatising. Bereft of this knowledge we struggle to comprehend. Armed with it we become fascinated and engaged.
Immediately in the music to which the Marmen were vividly committed, we heard the mutterings, cries, protests, taunts, laments, screams, shudders, smoulderings, and all the other human fireworks in the work’s literal scenario. And this time the applause was prolonged and heartfelt.
The reward was to listen to late Beethoven in his own declared best string quartet. Seven movements for the price of four, yet each sublimely beyond earthly pricing. I wished the Marmen’s fervour for the scherzo theme had held back the tempo that meant here they rather scrabbled at the theme’s devilish diction, but that’s my only quibble and expecting prematurely from them consummate maturity.
Even so, early maturity is strongly present, and if they are a decade younger than, say, the Doric, and another younger than the Castalian, of Coffee Concerts in recent years, here’s a clue why.
The England-based Austrian pianist Alfred Brendel, one of music history’s great performing minds sitting at any instrument, has, at age 87, begun coaching string quartets. It is true and entirely appropriate. Additionally his son Adrian is already an established international ensemble cellist. As a kid he would have had a fantastic practice partner!
The Marmen were one of two quartets Brendel masterclassed early this year. Here in its May edition is how the violinists’ magazine The Strad observed it happening – and how Johannes Marmen afterwards recounted the experience:
http://chamberstudio.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Alfred-Brendel-Strad-article.pdf
After the Coffee Concert I chatted with violist Bryony Gibson Cornish and can report that: Johannes Marmen is Swedish, not German; Ricky Gore is a half-Japanese Briton; Bryony is a New Zealander from Christchurch and Steffan Morris a Welshman from Neath (do they have rugby in common?).
Plus, it is the quartet’s policy to perform with 1st violin and viola front-stage either side of centre (for enhanced ‘stereo’), and with 2nd fiddle and cello upstage to be more ‘inside’ their sound (unlike, as it happens, the way the Doric and the Castalians lay themselves out);
And, yes, Bryony does the complicated plaiting of her long hair on the top of her head entirely by herself. No, not all violists are reluctant to come forward!
Richard Amey
Marmen Quartet picture by Marco Borggreve: Morris, Gibson-Cornish, Marmen, Gore.
Next Coffee Concert – Sunday, November 18 (11am): Jacquin Trio (clarinet, violin/viola, piano). This concert and full Coffee Concert season details:
https://brightondome.org/whats_on/coffee%20concerts/
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Big Flavors, Beautiful Food
By Nik Sharma
"Quite simply beautiful food-wide-ranging, inspiring, and infused with an enlivening and generous sensibility."—Nigella Lawson, author of At My Table
Includes 100 easy-to-cook and delicious recipes:Season by Nik Sharma features delicious and intriguing recipes plus 270 of the most beautiful photographs ever seen in a cookbook. The bold flavors of Indian cooking combine with familiar ingredients and recipes of the American South and California in fresh ways. Rest assured there is nothing intimidating here. Season, like Nik, welcomes everyone to the table!
• The James Beard Nominee 2019 for Best Cookbook Photography.
• Stunning photography brings the dishes and overall experience to life in a charming and enticing way.
• More than a modern Indian cookbook, it walks readers through the range of healthy ingredients, techniques, and cooking with spices including turmeric, saffron, and za'atar in the warm and clear style familiar to fans of Nik's award-winning food blog, A Brown Table.
• This beautiful cookbook will be a go-to for not only exploring the bold flavors and seasoning of Indian cooking, but also to admire the inspiring photographs.
Named Best Cookbook by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, Food Network, Bon Appetit, Food52 (Piglet Finalist), Edible Communities, The BBC, The Independent, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The National Post, and The New Zealand Listener.
Season introduces home cooks to a new way to prepare dishes and think about flavor.
Intriguing and easy recipes include Deviled Eggs with Creamy Tahini and Za'atar, Caprese Salad with Sweet Tamarind Dressing, Steak with Orange Peel and Coriander, Roasted Young Carrots with Sesame, Chili, and Nori, Chat Masala-Grilled Pork Chops, Spicy Chocolate Chip-Hazelnut Cookies, Apple Masala Chai Cake, Pomegranate Moscow Mule, and many more.
Size: 8 x 10 in;
Publication: October 2018
Nik Sharma is the writer, photographer, and recipe developer behind the critically acclaimed blog, A Brown Table. His meteoric rise in the food scene has brought him two IACP Digital Media Awards and a Saveur Best Food Blog Award finalist spot. Nik’s visual food column for the San Francisco Chronicle, A Brown Kitchen, runs weekly in print and online.
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Tragedy triumph rallysafe aims keep motorsport safe
From tragedy to triumph, RallySafe aims to keep motorsport safe
RallySafe managing director, Stephen Sims, had the tragic experience of seeing two friends die in a motorsport accident in a rally race he was participating in - Targa Tasmania - and vowed to help make the industry safer through the use of technology.
Jennifer O'Brien Nov 08th 2018
“I personally was involved in motosport back in the 1980s and 1990s and tragically I lost two friends in an event that I was actually competing in. They were killed in an accident,” he told CIO Australia.
“I believed at that time - in 1998 - that things could be better, but obviously the technology at that time wasn’t available. But it was always in the back of my mind - ‘It would be really nice if we could improve the way things are done as far as relaying information about a major accident in an event in a remote location.’”
Sims believed this accident may have been prevented if there was in some way, communication-wise, to alert the drivers of the situation beforehand.
In that vein, Sims started Tasmanian-based RallySafe back in 2010 with business partner Wayne Maxwell, under the parent company Status Awareness Systems.
Today, RallySafe provides rally management systems that combine sensors and communication platforms into a package for all forms of rallying and off-road motorsport. It provides a range of features in four key areas: safety, timing, tracking and management.
Sims said the business started off small, doing small-scale events in Tasmania and now “seven years later is doing the tracking, timing, safety and results for the world rally championships.”
“We thought we had a good idea. We definitely had the drive, me and my partner. We pushed and pushed. . . Whether we thought we’d get to the level we’re at now, I can’t really say.
"We definitely joked about it and thought I wonder if we ever will. And I personally don’t think it’s ended yet. We’re getting anywhere up to 10 enquiries a day wanting our services in areas we haven’t yet got to."
Today, Sims said RallySafe has already been used by hundreds of events worldwide in many different motorsport types.
The system is capable of supporting many different event types including A-to-A rallies, A-to-B rallies, navigational events, and off-road events.
Early out of the gates
On the tech front, RallySafe recognised early on that legacy, short-range radio frequency (RF) was ill-equipped to handle the expanding needs of rally sports.
Essentially, the technology couldn’t handle challenging terrains or unpredictable weather conditions, and therefore didn’t appreciably decrease vehicle collisions.
RallySafe also recognised the power of IoT technology and is building upon its partnership with Kore - initially struck in 2012 - to help it simplify its strategic technology initiatives - with safety being a primary focus. Kore helps companies plan, deploy and manage IoT solutions.
“Safety is such a huge thing in this day and age and I believe the ability to transmit or supply status of vehicles in a collision as well as other things such as event timing, and being able to have that instantaneous rather than four hours later when the vehicle turns up with the paperwork has a huge impact on the way events are run,” Sims said.
“It has a huge impact on the way people go about competing in events and there’s confidence now because the safety aspect is there and the communication aspect is there. It also means there’s not as much demand for officials and volunteers as there was previously.”
Additionally, Sims said RallySafe needs to provide solutions that meet critical success factors, including regulatory compliance, seamless carrier integration and 24/7 IoT connectivity, reliable vehicle communications and pervasive GPS - and a key reason for why the company has partnered with Kore.
As an example, Sims said the company has worked closely with Kore to decrease the latency and multiple passageways to ensure the messages get through.
“We also moved onto using GPRS or GSM networks to transmit digital data to relay information and we partnered with Kore on that aspect as well because they have that global status and the ability to assist us to work in all of the different countries and continents we work in,” he said.
“Because what we do is safety - it’s important to have a good regular reliable provider and someone that is prepared to assist whenever there’s a need to work through a technical problem and resolve it as quickly as possible.”
Kore vice-president Vince Jager said it’s gratifying the company can be part of a solution that helps the motorsport industry be more efficient and safe.
“People are putting their lives on the line so being able to have an IoT solution that’s been developed in partnership with RallySafe is gratifying.”
He said IoT adoption is increasing across Australia and in a multitude of industries, explaining the company is currently the IoT partner-of-choice for 135 businesses across the country, spanning various industries such as fleet management, healthcare, automotive and insurance.
“It’s growing across everywhere with the new technologies coming through. Traditionally, it was very much based on cellular network - 3G and 4G. 5G is coming. There’s One and multi-band IoT which will enhance battery life on remote products.
“As applications and network facilities become better, and devices become more streamlined and efficient, it’s creeping into every part of life.”
Jager said the tricky part of IoT is putting it all together. “Coming from the idea to the realisation and the actual rollout of the product - you actually have so many elements. You’ve got the idea, you have the solution you want to get to the endgame, but within that there’s so many componentries.
“There is some sort of hardware requirement, some sort of platform you require to do some data analytics, and of course, then there’s the connectivity. The biggest complexity with IoT is putting all of the bits together and finding someone that can help you navigate that area together.”
The next steps for Sims includes a continuation of his work - and further innovation - on the ongoing progression of motorsport safety.
“We always went to what we considered the hardest events to do, which is rally - the ones running in the Himalayas, in Outback China and out in the deserts. Those were always going to be the hardest, but once we learnt how to solve those problems, we believe we can then take that technology back to everyday life.”
The technology he has in mind includes vehicle-to-vehicle collision avoidance technology; fireground safety technology that could monitor the situation via the internet and locate vehicles and alert people; as well as emergency vehicle tracking and safety.
“Anywhere that the type of communications are needed in remote locations or the type of equipment is needed to recognise a status that is not ideal - so a vehicle on its roof, a tractor on its roof or an elderly person that’s fallen down.
"The ability for us to recognise those things and then transmit information automatically means the application is endless.
“There could be a situation where you’ve got a farmer out on a farm that has tipped his 4-wheeler or tractor over and be able to immediately notify, without any human input, that something has gone amiss. These are the sorts of things we’re moving and progressing on with at the moment.”
Sims said he’s proud of the technology adoption thus far - and the positive safety results for the motorsport industry - but he wants to keep pushing ahead.
“The reality is that it’s a dangerous sport and something has got to be there - and the world can never go backwards when there’s technology available to do these things. We can only ever move forward and improve and improve - and use technology to solve the problems that arise.”
Jennifer O'Brien
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But Enough Art, Eat!
Grant Schilling
Exhibition March 31 - April 2 2014
Facilitated by Grant Shilling,
in partnership with Dawn To Dawn Society
With extended gallery hours until 9 pm nightly.
Join us for an Interdisciplinary community project with art, music and talks, starting at 7 pm nightly.
What is the role of an art gallery? Who gets to witness and produce art? Is there an aesthetics to homelessness? But Enough Art, Eat! Is a unique co-production between the Comox Valley Art Gallery and Dawn to Dawn: Action on Homelessness Society set to explore these and many other issues around home, homelessness, the street and art. This three day community outreach event serves as an interdisciplinary forum to inspire community driven discussion and hands-on activities focused on deeply felt issues around nutrition, homelessness, contemporary art practices, graffiti, food production and music.
Dawn to Dawn is a non-profit, residential housing program that makes transitional housing possible in the Comox Valley. Dawn to Dawn provides homeless individuals and families with access to housing that gets them (or keeps them) off the streets. For more information: http://dawntodawn.org/photos-videos/
Grant Shilling is a writer, artist and outreach worker. He has used sport and culture as outreach with diverse populations including the Gaza Surf Club, Maple Pool United street soccer team and skateboarding youth in Ahousaht. He is the author of two books on surfing and has had numerous exhibitions at various galleries including Open Space, the Vancouver Art Gallery and Grunt Gallery. For more info: www.cedarsurf.com and www.surfingwiththedevil.com
GALLERY TALKS:
Monday, March 31 at 7 pm
Reading and Talk by Amber Dawn, author of How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir
Amber Dawn is a writer from Vancouver, Canada. Author of the memoir How Poetry Saved My Life and the Lambda Award-winning novel Sub Rosa, and editor of the anthologies Fist of the Spider Women: Fear and Queer Desire and With A Rough Tongue. Amber Dawn was 2012 winner of the Writers’ Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT writers. Until August 2012, she was director of programming for the Vancouver Queer Film Festival. She currently teaches Speculative Fiction writing at DouglasCollege. http://www.amberdawnwrites.com
Wednesday, April 2 at 7 pm
Maple Pool United Night, facilitated by Matt Rader and Grant Shilling
Tuesday, April 1 at 7 pm
Carving Demonstration and Talk by Randy Frank (Kwagiulth / Salish)
Randy Frank was born in the Comox Valley in 1974. He is the son of Stan & Carol Frank, with ancesters from both Comox and Sechelt. Randy began sketching and drawing designs at an early age, expanding his talents after graduation. He obtained his first formal carving training in 1997 & 1998; Randy first attended a Canoe Building Course with Mervin Childs & Calvin Hunt, and the following year he took a Mask Carving Course with Max Chikite. Randy was drawn into the carvers world and has spent the years expanding his artistic talents carving masks, sculptures, Totems and Traditional Cedar Canoes. https://www.facebook.com/RandyFrankWestCoastCarvings
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In Pictures: 15 things we hate about Java
16 Photos Peter Wayner (InfoWorld)
Slow startup times, null pointers, security flaws -- Java's ongoing success leaves plenty to complain about
15 things we hate about Java We don't really hate Java. It's the best thing that's happened to us. We love its type-checked, belts-and-suspenders world for the stability and ubiquity. But that doesn't mean we can't complain a bit and dish out the snarky, cranky comments, does it? Isn't that why the Internet was invented? Here are 15 complaints about the write once, run mostly everywhere language that Java has become.
Long CamelCase names The idea of gluing together long sentences into variable names by capitalizing the first letters gets old quickly. There's no doubt that it adds a bit of self-documentation to the code but wouldn't it just be easier to read a line that said: i // holds the interest rate before taxes as per regulation 43 instead of: interestRateHoldingVariableAdjusted ForTaxesAsDefinedByRegulation43
Punctuation If there's one major difference between Java and the newcomers, it’s the punctuation. Java programs are filled with curly brackets, semicolons, and parentheses that other languages like Groovy or Ruby do well without. Not that punctuation lovers don’t have a legitimate beef with languages like Python that use arcane white-space rules to signify the same separations between expressions and blocks that punctuation does in Java, but still, most programmers just can't stand the punctuation. They see it as visual noise -- and an opportunity for the compiler to scold and scold again. This disconnect means there may be no easy solution beyond letting some folks use Groovy and others use plain old Java. At least their code can compile into the same JAR.
Open source confusion Is Java open source or not? Just which libraries are open source? Darned if I can be sure even after Google's long skirmish with Oracle. For the most part, Java programmers don't need to worry because the JREs and JDKs are freely available. But in the backs of our minds, there's always the scary feeling that some lawyer will jump out of nowhere and say, “Stop!” Somehow it feels like the legal status makes us all pawns in the battles between IBM, Oracle, and Google.
The Java thread pig farm When Java came along, the threads were lightweight compared to many of the other solutions. They were an easy way to juggle multiple tasks with the same memory space. Now, the folks using Node.js are always sticking their tongue out at the Java server platform and suggesting that the Java thread factory is one big pig farm adding 2MB of fat to the server RAM profile every time someone clicks on a Web link. Somehow, using the Java thread model is never as lightweight as it used to be. (Not that any of us still programming in Java are either, but that doesn't make it easier to live with.)
Intolerably slow startup times Anyone who's tried to create an Android app using Java knows how slowly the simulator code runs on your desktop. That's just the most extreme example of how getting a Java program going is about as hard as getting a teenager to get up early on a Saturday to clean their room. While Java apps can run fairly smoothly once they get going, they start up slower than an overladen 18-wheeler at a red light on an uphill road.
Endless checking for null pointers Is there anything to this complaint? Let me check if it's null before typing any more. Seems fine. Now let me check if my keyboard is still here and hasn't been replaced by something null. It's still here. Now I'll move my fingers and tell you why null testing is a pain. Java requires endless if statements to test whether variables have ended up null; otherwise entire threads crash with NullPointerExceptions. Smartass developers say it's my fault for not checking the input at the beginning, but that's often not possible when creating libraries. If someone picks up this class file in the future, you better check all the variables yet again, because you have no idea how they will reuse it.
Object creation overhead Tossing everything into an object seems like a clean way to program until you realize just how slow it can be to create a Java object. Everyone who really tries to re-engineer code to speed it up begins by tossing aside the object-oriented model as much as possible. Object creation is relatively expensive, and it’s a big reason why some Java code runs so slowly.
Primitive wrappers to use data structures The Java Collections classes and other data structures are nice, but they require you to wrap your basic values in objects to use them. That means a four-byte int turns into a big fat object with all the weight and creation time of an object. Some programmers have written their own data structures with basic primitives to avoid this issue, but it's probably too late for mainstream Java. We're stuck with making the distinction between a four-byte int and an Integer object.
Strings are big, need overhead, and are final Strings are yet another object, but they can't be changed. You better get them right the first time. If you want to change one byte, you've got to create an entirely new object and copy it all over. Plus, they add some overhead, which is fine for tossing around big blocks of text but a real nuisance for small strings. Do you get a choice? Nope. Just be happy that the overhead with the start and stop points comes in handy when you're snipping and concatenating.
No global variables It's a bit disingenuous for programmers to complain about the lack of global variables in Java because they're also quite willing to grouse about the dangers of global variables in other languages like PHP. Still, we're forced to jump through some strange hoops to do much of what global variables will give us. Some people create a Global class and fill it with static variables. Others build singleton objects complete with a getting routine that will always return the one object. This might be tolerable if creating singleton objects weren't so fraught with race conditions and issues about efficiency.
Security flaws Some say it's not fair to blame Java for the fact that it's a big target. Others say that the other platforms have even more security holes and at least the Java engineers tried to build a decent sandbox. Still others say security issues are expected, and at least Oracle publicly announces bug fixes, often in big batches like the 42 security fixes it announced last year. These are all fair points, but they don't make living with Java any easier. Java's popularity means that many hackers will target the JVM. Java's security model means that many programmers will trust the JVM when perhaps they shouldn't trust it so blindly. If only we could believe that the software was perfect.
JVM freeloaders Many languages now compile down to Java bytecode so they can run on any JVM. What better way to draft behind the hard work the Java team does to ensure compatibility and ensure your code can run on a variety of platforms? Clojure, Scala, JRuby, Rhino -- the list goes on and on. This can be an advantage for integrating, say, Ruby with Java, but it inevitably turns into a hassle. Suddenly it's not enough to make sure the Java code compiles with the libraries you've got. Now you've got to worry about N languages running peacefully in the same JVM. When it works, it's a testament to the power of the Java stack, but it can be a headache generator for everyone.
Revisionism Self-improvement is normally an occasion for celebration but in the world of the Java stack, it can also bring confusion and headaches. Should I use the newer StringBuilder class or the older StringBuffer? Or is StringBuilder the older one? Aren't they the same? At least it's easier to remember that the new IO classes, NIO, are newer than the old ones. There are dozens of examples of new and improved techniques that you might want to use, if you can keep everything straight. They keep improving the Java stack, but this only means we need to relearn so many of the idioms that were burned into our brains before.
Unfathomable vastness The huge collection of official Java APIs and not-as-official open source packages from groups like Apache make Java a fertile environment for standing on the shoulders of giants. The only problem is that you can't stand on the shoulders if you don't know they exist. It can take days to work through the various APIs to figure out which is really the best for what you're trying to do. And then the guy in the other cubicle always seems to know something better, a fact that will always be delivered with just the slightest amount of snark at the code review meeting.
Java is everywhere Java is everywhere, they say. It's in cell phones, Blu-ray disks, Hadoop clouds, and desktops. Shouldn't that be a cause to celebrate? Doesn't that mean everyone loves it? Sure! But it also makes it easier to hate because all that success makes it that much harder to keep a handle on it all. It's a full-time job just watching the Java world evolve. Quick, what do you need to fix when you upgrade from 1.6 to 1.7? Which version of the Apache Commons is good enough? It's just not possible to be a Java expert anymore, and that's a tough revelation for those who could be Java experts back when the language appeared.
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Brian Alderman
Opinions expressed by ICN authors are their own.
Brian has specialized in Office 365, SharePoint, and SQL Server integration over the past few years, but his breadth of knowledge also includes Microsoft operating systems and Active Directory. His expertise and passion have taken him around the globe for many speaking engagements and he has authored multiple books.
Brian's certifications include: Microsoft MVP, MCT, MCSE SharePoint Administration, MCSA Office 365 and MCITP: SQL Server Database Administrator. He also has has his PMP certification.
He is also the founder and CEO of MicroTechPoint. You can see Brian’s blogs, publications and his speaking schedule at www.microtechpoint.com, where you will also find links to all of his IT Training videos.
The opinions expressed in this blog are those of Brian Alderman and do not necessarily represent those of IDG Communications, Inc., its parent, subsidiary or affiliated companies.
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Singapore NRI's PBD yatra: great hospitality steeped in Indian tradition
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Ritu Jain Sunday, February 3rd 2019
My plan to attend the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) Convention came by due to my love for travel and seeing new places. The programme of PBD, which included the city of temples Varanasi along with a visit to Kumbh followed by watching the Republic Day parade live sealed my decision to attend.
It was an amazing experience; we had dedicated cars, liaisoning officers, no queues in temples for direct darshan, Indian local food provided including Banarasi Paan, visits to all local attractions. Photo courtesy: Ritu Jain
My most memorable experiences include watching the Ganga Arti, visiting the Ghats, the Baba Vishwanath temple, the place of Buddha’s first sermon - Sarnath, boating on the Holy Ganges and taking a dip in Triveni Sangam (Kumbh-Prayagraj) and watching the Republic Day parade. With such a packed itinerary across three cities in six days, it was only natural that the attendees would get a great return on their investment, both cerebral as well as financial.
The arrangements made by the organisers in terms of food, accommodation, travel etc were impressive, especially given that they had to be juggling inserting a group of Pravasis into two of the largest festival gatherings in the world in two different cities. The security and logistic arrangements alone were sure to be complicated.
With such a packed itinerary across three cities in six days, it was only natural that the attendees would get a great return on their investment, both cerebral as well as financial. Photo courtesy: Ritu Jain
For instance, about 3,000 PBD delegates arrived in Prayagraj in about 80 special AC Volvo buses amidst high security and accommodated in the Indraprastham Tent City, established on the plains of river Ganga and Yamuna to accommodate NRIs. About 5,000 luxury tents were spread over an area of 100 hectares consisting of villas and dormitory style tents in the Arail ghat area. They were equipped with all modern facilities similar to five-star hotels. Facilities liked food courts, restaurants and entertainment centres have been specially designed for pilgrims.
It was an amazing experience; we had dedicated cars, liaisoning officers, no queues in temples for direct darshan, Indian local food provided including Banarasi Paan, visits to all local attractions. The accommodations were superb and hospitality excellent, efficiently arranged and above my expectations.
My most memorable experiences include watching the Ganga Arti. Photo courtesy: Ritu Jain
Now that the PBD is a biennial event, I can hope that the organisers will have the time to make sure future events are as well-organised and memorable as the current one. I'm expecting many more such PBDs for connecting the Indian diaspora to India and their roots so that we are more confident to invest in India and its future and at the same time become more knowledgeable and grateful for our culture and heritage.
To sum up my experience, I would like to praise the amazing effort and hospitality. We were given a warm welcome in the Indian tradition where the 'Guest is equivalent to God'.
I'm expecting many more such PBDs for connecting the Indian diaspora to India and their roots so that we are more confident to invest in India and its future, said Ritu Jain. Photo courtesy: Ritu Jain
We got an opportunity to be blessed in this holy land under the leadership of Prime minister Narendra Modiji. The Modi government has taken many innovative decisions for the betterment of the country like 'Clean India', 'Jan Dhan Scheme', 'Ujwalla Yojna', 'Ayushman Bharat' and 'Clean Ganga Mission' which have had a direct impact at the grassroots level of the country and have enhanced the lives of millions of people in India.
Disclaimer: Opinions expressed in this article are author's personal opinions and do not reflect the views of Connected to India and the management of the company does not assume any responsibility or liability for the article.
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Ritu Jain – Contributor
Ritu Jain Gaurav is founder and Investor of a Digital Transformation Company U2USystems, based out of Singapore. She has more than 20 years of hands-on Project Management experience with US and European MNCs as well as SMEs and her own start-up. She is Masters in Technology (IIT - Roorkee), a certified Project Manager, Agile Transformation & Digital Transformation Technology Consultant. Personally, she loves to travel with an avid interest in heritage, culture, religion and spirituality. She believes in Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, which is a Sanskrit phrase found in Hindu text the Maha Upanishad, which means "the world is one family".
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CoAssets Recaps First Expo for Property & Investing Event in Kuala Lumpur
November 3, 2015 @ 10:22 pm By JD Alois
CoAssets, a real estate crowdfunding platform serving Southeast Asia, has just completed its first Expo for Property, Investing and Crowdfunding (EPIC) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. According to company representatives, the event was a big success as S$ 15 million worth of deals consummated during the conference.
CoAssets (NSX:CAX), stated over 800 delegates participated in the two-day expo, with the number comparable to the EPIC conference held in Singapore earlier in the year. CoAssets explains it is planning to host a number of EPIC events, including in Surabaya, Indonesia in December.
A new feature revealed at EPIC Kuala Lumpur was a start-up alley designed to feature some of the prominent Malaysian and Singapore start-ups. There was also a start-up challenge called Crowdfunding with a Twist, where event attendees were asked to vote for their favourite startup. As part of the challenge, the company that received the most number of votes during the 2-days event would win RM10,000 cash (about $2400).
Some of the Malaysian start-ups that competed for the prize money included Tumpang, Square Social and ITranscend. Singapore based start-ups included ImageCrowd and Carmen Automotive. ParkEasy, a mobile app that helps users find parking spaces in shopping complexes, took first prize.
Getty Goh, co-founder and CEO of CoAssets, said the number and quality of delegates highlighted the curiosity and appetite people have for real estate crowdfunding. “We are very pleased that EPIC was a success,” stated Goh.
Crowdfunding is still in its early stages in the Asia-Pacific region but it is developing rapidly. CoAssets expects to take an “active leadership role in organizing major networking events and being one of the key voices in the discussions around real estate and equity crowdfunding trends”.
CoAssets is one of the first publicly traded investment crowdfunding platforms with a listing on the National Stock Exchange of Australia. The company recently raised $1.7 million with an additional share placement through new and existing shareholders.
EPIC Attendance Doubles as CoAssets Gains S$ 8 Million in Real Estate Crowdfunding Pipeline
Expo for Property Investing & Crowdfunding (EPIC) Shares Event Highlights (Infographic)
CoAssets Announces Plans to Host Stage Inaugural EPIC in Fuzhou, China
CoAssets Real Estate Crowdfunding Platform Updates on Investor Payouts, Expects Amount to Climb to Over S $700,000
CoAssets Hosts “Epic” Expo for Real Estate Crowdfunding in Asia
CoAssets Looks to Expand in Malaysia
CoAssets’ Singapore Domiciled Crowdfunding Deal “Mountbatten Lights” Successfully Raises S$500,000
How do Asian Crowdfunding platforms compare to their Western counterparts?
CoAssets Crowdfunding Platform to List on National Stock Exchange of Australia (NSX)
CoAssets Partners with Linca Group on EPIC China Series
CoAssets Points to Rapid Platform Growth as Users Jump 30% in November Alone
SE Asia Real Estate Platform CoAssets will Launch Crowdfunders Magazine
CoAssets to Host EPIC Singapore 2016 Next Month
CoAssets Expands: Opens Second Singapore Office
CoAssets Appoints Chew Siang Chee As New CIO
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St.James' Place, Cranleigh, Surrey
£995 pcm unfurnished -
A stylish and individual one-bedroom apartment with modern and stylish high-quality fittings and finishes, within a landmark Victorian building overlooking the Common and within a stone’s throw of the village centre
– Individually Designed Kitchen.
• Highly polished kitchen with granite “ivory fantasy” worktop with up-stands.
• A range of integrated appliances including a fan assisted oven, electric induction hob with extractor hood, fully integrated fridge/freezer, washer/dryer.
• Stainless steel sink, mixer tap, fitted chopping board with drainer.
• “Driftwood” effect floor tiling.
– Heritage bathroom suite.
– Fully restored bay windows with replacement double glazed sashes.
– Built in wardrobe cupboard in the bedroom.
– TV/satellite/FM radio/telephone/internet connection to bedroom and living room.
– Entry phone system to the front door.
– Storage cupboard in the entrance lobby area.
– New Gas fired central heating system.
– New electrical wiring with satin chrome sockets, switches and light fittings to all areas.
– Modern fire resistance and sound acoustic materials used throughout.
– Movement detectors in common parts to activate lighting.
– Smoke detection with automatic venting.
– Residential parking permit in St James’s Place, £50 pa.
The property is situated on the corner of St James’s Place, just a short walk from the village centre. It enjoys an enviable outlook over a maple tree-lined avenue and the common and is within a stone’s throw of the cricket pitch.
Cranleigh is said to be the largest village in the country, lying at the foot of the Surrey Hills and therefore a haven for walkers, horse riders and cyclists. The High Street benefits from two independent department stores, M&S food hall and a collection of restaurants and cafés. Cranleigh Arts centre has a full diary of events to suit all tastes. There is also a leisure centre, golf and country club, medical centre and library.
The regional centre of Guildford is 10 miles north, offering further shopping, business and cultural facilities. Road and rail communications are readily accessible with the A3 providing access to central London, the M25 and airports. Mainline services to London Waterloo from 35 minutes.
St.James’ Place, Cranleigh, Surrey
A stylish and individual one-bedroom apartment with modern and stylish high quality fittings and finishes, within a landmark Victorian building overlooking the Common and within a stone's throw of the village centre
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Researchers Reinvent the Wheel for Vehicles of the Future
Shape-Shifting Tires, Digital Driving Assistants Could Enable Safe Driving Over All Kinds of Terrain
Monday, October 29, 2018 - by Byron Spice
NREC has developed a vehicle with wheels that transform into tracks on the fly and a digital assistant that helps drivers find the safest, surest route across steep terrain as part of DARPA's Ground X-Vehicle Technologies program.
Wheels that transform into tracks on the fly and a digital assistant that helps drivers find the safest, surest route across steep terrain — or even does the driving at times — are technologies that could change expectations of what vehicles can do. Both this reinvention of the wheel and creation of a hybrid human/computer driver were accomplished at Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center as part of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program called Ground X-Vehicle Technologies, or GXV-T.
Shape-Changing Wheel Technology Could Do "Amazing Things"
The reconfigurable wheel-track can function as either a wheel or a triangular track to enable vehicles to operate at high speed on roads, or to traverse diverse off-road terrains. It can transform from one mode to the other in less than two seconds while the vehicle is in motion.
"This shape-changing locomotion technology could enable vehicles to tackle a wide array of terrains at surprising speed," said Dimi Apostolopoulos, a CMU Robotics Institute senior systems scientist who led the project at NREC. "Based on the testing we've done so far, we would expect such a vehicle to do amazing things."
DARPA's GVX-T program aims to reduce the need for armor by making combat vehicles faster, more maneuverable and capable of operating in a wide variety of environments. Apostolopoulos said the shape-shifting wheel-track has a number of potential civilian applications as well, including uses in forestry, mining and construction, and heavy equipment.
In testing to date, vehicles equipped with the reconfigurable wheel-track have achieved 50 miles an hour in wheel mode and almost 30 mph in track mode. The device has transformed from wheel mode to track mode at speeds as high as 25 mph and from track mode to wheel mode at speeds of around 12 mph.
The core of the wheel-track concept is to adjust the size of the contact patch — the area of the wheel-track in contact with the ground — based on surface type and wheel loading. By reducing the contact patch on smooth surfaces, it is possible to achieve higher speeds. Increasing the contact patch maximizes traction, much like a snowshoe, and enables the vehicle to maneuver safely on soft soils. Today's Humvees do something similar by increasing tire pressure on smooth, dry surfaces and reducing tire pressure in off-road situations, Apostolopoulos said.
Other groups have done something similar to NREC's reconfigurable wheel-track, though those previous efforts usually have required halting the vehicle to transform from one mode to the other, Apostolopoulos noted. The ability to make these transformations on the fly, he added, is a critical requirement for vehicles that must handle changing terrain at high speed.
The reconfigurable wheel-track has a rubberized tread that sits atop a frame that can change shape. An early version used electric motors to change the shape of the frame, but the researchers soon realized they could transform the shape passively, using the speed of the wheel-track itself to power the shape change, rather than the complicated system of motors.
In its latest manifestation, the spinning wheel is transformed into a track by extending a Y-shaped support, which pushes the frame into a triangular shape. Simultaneously, application of a brake to stop the wheel from spinning causes the transmission to automatically shift from turning the wheel to turning a set of gears that drives the track.
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Cheating Death, Stealing Life: The Eddie Guerrero Story Book Review
Posted on January 11, 2006 by Tony Cottam
Wrestling Book Reviews
Think you know the demons that Eddie Guerrero had to overcome in his tumultuous life? Read this and think again…
From the day he was born, Eddie was destined to become a wrestler. Son of the influential Gory Guerrero, Eddie’s childhood was steeped in wrestling stories – the good and the bad.
Right from page one, you can feel the respect that Eddie had for this business he loved so much. The love for his family dynasty drips from every word on every page. Unlike most WWE ghost-written autobiographies, Eddie’s story is uncompromisingly honest – brutal in some places, especially about his relationships with his family.
It’s elsewhere in Eddie’s life that his honesty is somewhat refreshing – at no point does he try and pardon his behaviour. He realises he made a mess of his life, and doesn’t seek your pity, or your sympathy for it. What does come across is how resilient Eddie was, and how much his family meant to him, as well as his love for God.
All through the book, Eddie’s talks about his relationship with God and how it changed through his years of partying, alcohol and substance abuse and even down to his separation from his wife, Vicki. In comparison to Shawn Michaels’ book, Eddie’s religious leanings are apparent from a very early age; through various crises in his life, his faith either tested him or saved him in his eyes, sometimes both at once.
From the death of his father, the death of his partner Art Barr, his miraculous survival from a horrific car crash, to his self inflicted overdoses and chronic alcoholism, it becomes apparent that the full extent of Eddie’s demons were never fully known to the world – making his recovery from them all the more inspiring and astounding.
His recounting of the incident that led to his dismissal from the WWE first time round leaves you in no doubt, that in his mind, he was at rock bottom, and had to change his life round if he was to survive. His subsequent return to the WWE and ascent to the WWE Championship provides a real high point at the end of the book.
For the wrestling aficionados, all the key points in his grappling career are covered, some in more detail than others. Not surprisingly, WCW gets a roundhouse kick of Eddie style honesty, with most of his bile reserved not for Eric Bischoff, but Kevin Nash.:
“Considering how little talent he had in the ring, Nash is one of the most arrogant people I’ve ever had the displeasure to know. He’d walk right past you and not acknowledge your presence unless he thought there was something he could get out of you.
I don’t say this lightly, but I genuinely feel that Nash is evil.”
It’s one of the few times that Eddie spoke badly of someone in the whole book, another refreshing change from most wrestler’s books – there’s precious little score settling done with other wrestlers.
In the end, what comes across is how little we knew about Eddie’s life. Sure, the drink and drugs problems were common knowledge, but the extent of his addiction is shocking in places; and it wasn’t just physically he struggled – financially, he was declared bankrupt; mentally, he nearly went insane; and most important to Eddie, he was torn apart emotionally.
Eddie’s recovery from all of this and more was a triumph. It’s just a shame that he was taken from us before he could fully be appreciated. His brother Chavo said that when he died, Eddie had finally made his peace with God, something that Eddie touches upon at the end of his book.
There’s more than a few times reading this that you feel the tears welling up in your eyes, but there’s more times when you crack a smile remembering just how damn entertaining Eddie was, and how good at his job he really was – for Eddie, the smiles would have made it all worthwhile.
In an industry where every flash in the pan is hailed as The Next Big Thing, and anyone that’s lasted more than 5 years is hailed as a superstar, the word ‘Legend’ is thrown about all too often. There are few people that could rightly claim that title and carry it without question. Eddie Guerrero was one of those people.
This is a must read for any fan of Eddie Guerrero, or even anyone remotely interested in wrestling. With a royalties going towards the family Eddie cherished so much, it’s a fitting tribute to one of the greats, and as a book, right up there with Mick Foley’s and Dynamite Kid’s as the best wrestling autobiography yet.
Points: 9 / 10
UK: £11.99
USA: $18.20
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Read Google CEO's response to employee sexual harassment protests
Published Thu, Nov 8 2018 11:32 AM EST Updated Thu, Nov 8 2018 6:50 PM EST
Jillian D'Onfro@jillianiles
Google has revamped its sexual harassment policies in the wake of employee protests.
Last Thursday, 20,000 Google employees walked out of their offices around the world in response to a bombshell New York Times report that detailed how the company shielded executives accused of sexual misconduct.
The company has responded to many of the protest organizers' demands, though it will not add an employee representative to Alphabet's board.
Google employees hold signs during a walkout to protest how the tech giant handled sexual misconduct in Mountain View, California, U.S., on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018.
Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images
Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent a memo to employees Thursday detailing changes to its sexual harassment and misconduct policies in the wake of massive protests last week.
More than 20,000 Google employees walked out of their offices Thursday following a bombshell New York Times report that detailed how the company has shielded executives accused of sexual misconduct, with organizers demanding concrete changes like a new system for reporting abuse and an employee representative on the company's board.
"This is an area where we need to continually make progress and are committed to doing so," Pichai wrote in his memo.
Google leadership also held a town-hall style meeting with employees following the publication of Pichai's memo on Thursday.
While the policy changes Pichai outlined fulfill many of the protesters' requirements, they do not include adding an employee representative to Alphabet's board or elevating the chief diversity officer to report directly to the CEO.
Google's plan includes providing more transparency around sexual harassment investigations and outcomes as part of its annual "Investigations Report," revamping its reporting channels for incidents of misconduct, updating and expanding its sexual harassment training and making arbitration optional for sexual harassment claims.
Organizers of the protests had specifically demanded Google put an end to its policy of forced arbitration for sexual misconduct allegations — a practice that prevents employees from taking cases to court and is generally criticized for suppressing victims' stories. Pichai's memo says that while Google "never required confidentiality," employees with harassment or assault claims can now choose whether or not to go through the arbitration process.
Organizers of Google's protests were also deliberate about including contract workers in their original demands. Google said in an additional document detailing changes that it will routinely review contractor and temp worker suppliers to see if they adhere to agreements around the handling of employee complaints. However, the Tech Workers Coalition, which launched a retaliation hotline for Google employees who participated in last week's protest, says that the new policies don't do enough to protect those temp, vendor and contract workers (TVCs).
"TVCs didn't receive this email this morning, and have been excluded from the town-hall," a spokesperson said. "This deliberate slight demonstrates the caste-like system deployed by Google, which fails to protect its workers and our colleagues."
Bloomberg reported that during the first quarter of the year Alphabet had more TVCs than direct employees (of which it had 85,050 at the time). These workers typically make less, pay more for benefits, and lack the job security of direct employees.
The protest's organizers also released a statement saying that while Google made progress towards addressing their demands, they would "not let up" until all of them were met.
"We demand a truly equitable culture, and Google leadership can achieve this by putting employee representation on the board and giving full rights and protections to contract workers, our most vulnerable workers, many of whom are Black and Brown women," employee Stephanie Parker said in that statement.
Here's Pichai's note in its entirety:
At Google we try hard to build a workplace that supports our employees and empowers them to do their best work. As CEO, I take this responsibility very seriously and I'm committed to making the changes we need to improve. Over the past few weeks Google's leaders and I have heard your feedback and have been moved by the stories you've shared.
We recognize that we have not always gotten everything right in the past and we are sincerely sorry for that. It's clear we need to make some changes.
Going forward, we will provide more transparency on how we handle concerns. We'll give better support and care to the people who raise them. And we will double down on our commitment to be a representative, equitable, and respectful workplace.
Today, we're announcing a comprehensive action plan to make progress. It's detailed hereand I encourage everyone to read it. Here are some of the key changes:
We will make arbitration optional for individual sexual harassment and sexual assault claims. Google has never required confidentiality in the arbitration process and arbitration still may be the best path for a number of reasons (e.g. personal privacy) but, we recognize that choice should be up to you.
We will provide more granularity around sexual harassment investigations and outcomes at the company as part of our Investigations Report.
We're revamping the way we handle and look into your concerns in three ways: We're overhauling our reporting channels by bringing them together on one dedicated site and including live support. We will enhance the processes we use to handle concerns—including the ability for Googlers to be accompanied by a support person. And we will offer extra care and resources for Googlers during and after the process. This includes extended counseling and career support,
We will update and expand our mandatory sexual harassment training. From now on if you don't complete your training, you'll receive a one-rating dock in Perf.
We will recommit to our company-wide OKR around diversity, equity and inclusion again in 2019, focused on improving representation—through hiring, progression and retention—and creating a more inclusive culture for everyone. Our Chief Diversity Officer will continue to provide monthly progress updates to me and my leadership team.
I hope you'll take the time to read the full range of actions we're announcing today.
Thank you all for the feedback you've shared with us. This is an area where we need to continually make progress and are committed to doing so. We often hear from Googlers that the best part of working here is other Googlers. Even in difficult times, we are encouraged by the commitment of our colleagues to create a better workplace. That's come through very strongly over the past few weeks.
-Sundar
Google also expanded on Pichai's note with more details about the changes:
Google Commitments on Sexual Misconduct Policies by jillianiles on Scribd
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THE DAY AHEAD: "Wintel" alive and kicking
Larry Dignan
It's just like old times on Wall Street as Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC) and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) are dominating the news. Intel won back Wall Street confidence with an upside surprise and Microsoft's Bill Gates handed the reins to Steve Ballmer.
Shareholders should be pleased with both moves. We don't know how long the Wintel juggernaut will last, but Microsoft and Intel will set the Nasdaq pace at least for a day.
Will the Wintel juggernaut last?
First we'll look at Intel.
Intel cruised past estimates in the fourth quarter with earnings of $2.4 billion, or 69 cents a share, on sales of $8.2 billion. First Call was expecting earnings of 63 cents a share. Average selling prices were solid, product mix was good and margins were strong. Not a lot to complain about.
And the outlook looks pretty good too. Intel officials said revenue would be down slightly in the first quarter, but that's a seasonal thing and investors shouldn't be worried. Intel is likely to benefit from Windows 2000 upgrades.
Intel also said its high-end products are ramping up nicely and the company should be able to handle demand in the first quarter after a few fourth quarter slip-ups.
If you really want to know what Intel thinks about its future, look at capital spending. Intel said capital spending will jump significantly as it adds capacity for new products. Capital spending for 2000 is expected to be about $5 billion, up from $3.4 billion in 1999 as the company spends on new technology. (Translation: Applied Materials (Nasdaq: AMAT) should benefit big time from Intel's spending.)
But more importantly, Intel didn't suffer what would have been a third consecutive earnings miss. Analysts hopped back onto the Intel bandwagon days before the company's earnings. That Wall Street lovefest should last today.
And then there's Microsoft and it's non-news event of the day. When Bill Gates steps down to be "chief software architect" (whatever that is), you'd think Wall Street would fret.
But Gates is handing the reins to Steve Ballmer so analysts are happy. Ballmer wasn't just a number two guy, he was more like a 1a guy.
Ballmer was essentially running Microsoft day-to-day operations anyway so the move wasn't unexpected. Gates also was distancing himself from the CEO role and focusing on product development.
Now Gates gets to cook up Microsoft's next products. And Gates needs to get cracking on some new toys. Microsoft faces threats from broadband, wireless, the Internet and all sorts of new developments. Microsoft is fighting battles everywhere -- Linux is gaining momentum and AOL Time Warner (NYSE: AOL, TWX) wants to dominate broadband.
The timing is a bit curious, however. Gates is stepping out just as reports are surfacing that the Department of Justice wants to break up Microsoft. The DOJ has demonized Gates so maybe a new face is needed at Microsoft.
By stepping away, Gates stays out of the antitrust muck. Ballmer is better suited for the antitrust battle.
Ballmer said it would be "reckless and irresponsible of anybody to try and break up this company."
Gates said the reorganization has nothing to do with the antitrust battle. But consider this: Microsoft is now split into four groups with strong leaders (Paul Maritz, Jim Allchin, Bob Muglia, and Rick Belluzzo). All four could be CEOs if Microsoft is broken into pieces. They just might get their chance.
In any case, Microsoft is in good hands as long as the government doesn't interfere.
Discuss: THE DAY AHEAD: "Wintel" alive and kicking
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Sameer Rao Oct 13, 2016 12:10PM EDT
Journalist Kicked Off Flight for Wearing 'Black Panther' Hat, Upside-Down Flag Tee
Amanda Stevens tweeted about her experience on a United Airlines flight, later telling media that the pilot said her attire made him “uncomfortable.”
Aura Bogado Apr 8, 2015 10:26AM EDT
California's Drivers License for the Undocumented Carries Risks
Immigration advocates have celebrated the passage of California’s AB-60, a law that allows undocumented people to apply for drivers licenses. Still, the process can be lengthy, costly, and under rare circumstances, could lead to arrest.
Seth Freed Wessler Mar 12, 2013 8:48AM EDT
Report: NYPD Spy Program Traumatized Muslim Communities
A new report documents the human impact of the NYPD’s sprawling Muslim surveillance program. Though there’s no evidence that the spying stopped acts of terrorism, the report found that it has stoked fear and mistrust in schools, neighborhoods–and mosques.
Julianne Hing Jul 20, 2012 10:50AM EDT
Few New Mexico Police Agencies Keeping Up With Anti-Bias Policing Law
The review conducted by two groups found that when it came to meeting basic requirements for the law, just two agencies out of the state’s 97 could say they were in compliance
Jorge Rivas Feb 24, 2012 11:19AM EST
Group Files Paperwork to Find Out Who Gave NYPD Money To Spy
The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund has submitted Freedom of Information Law requests to obtain public information regarding the sources of funding for these NYPD initiatives.
Seth Freed Wessler Feb 24, 2012 9:01AM EST
Muslim Students Reeling From Shocking News of NYPD's Spying
On campuses all over the Northeast, horrified students are discovering they were targets of surveillance, simply because they joined a Muslim student group. But domestic religious profiling is now routine for both NPYD and the FBI.
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Interesting Facts About Centipedes
Interesting Facts...
Centipedes:
Centipedes are elongated, with flat, segmented bodies that contain a pair of legs per segment; the most common color of centipedes is brown and reddish orange. The name centipede, which means “100 legs,” can be somewhat misleading: centipedes may have anywhere from 15 to 177 pairs of legs.
House centipedes prefer damp, moisture and dark areas, we can see them in basements, bathrooms, tubes, sinks and closets. Centipedes may enter houses and buildings, but they do not roam during daytime. Centipedes are fast moving, agile and nocturnal animals. Some centipedes have compound eyes containing as many as 200 optical units, others do not have eyes. All centipedes have very poor eyesight and track their prey through the use of touch and smell.
Centipedes are not likely to consume wood. In actuality, arthropods commonly known as wood eating centipedes are millipedes, while millipedes do closely resemble centipedes. Certain centipedes are considered as dangerous but house centipedes can inflict a bite, it is of minor consequence, which are prefer to quickly retreat from danger rather than bite.
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Here’s how Republican Walker Stapleton can win…
Here’s how Republican Walker Stapleton can win the Colorado governor’s race
Conventional wisdom says the election is Jared Polis’ to lose
Hyoung Chang, The Denver Post
State Treasurer Walker Stapleton makes a speech during the Colorado Republican State Assembly at Coors Event Center on April 14, 2018.
By Nic Garcia | ngarcia@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: September 20, 2018 at 11:55 am | UPDATED: September 21, 2018 at 3:52 pm
Walker Stapleton wants to make history this fall and become the state’s second Republican governor in 45 years.
To do it, the state’s two-term treasurer will have to buck state demographic trends and a national mood that both favor Democrats.
Colorado, a swing state in modern history, has been gradually drifting to the left. Since 2014, the last gubernatorial race, the Colorado Democratic Party has added 63,000 voters to its base — Republicans have added just 4,600. In 2016, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton won the state by 5 percentage points. And this year, unaffiliated voters, who were allowed to vote in the state’s primary for the first time, overwhelmingly flocked toward the Democrats.
Those data points, coupled with Democratic voters’ scorn of President Donald Trump, have political observers on both sides of the aisle saying the election is U.S. Rep. Jared Polis’ to lose.
Still, Stapleton can win, Republican pollsters, communication specialists and observers said this week. To do so, they said, three things must happen: Stapleton’s allies must step up with negative ads that make Polis, a wealthy businessman from Boulder, unattractive to enough unaffiliated voters. Stapleton must immediately begin to introduce himself to the general electorate and provide solutions to their problems. And outside groups supporting Stapleton must execute a sophisticated ground game that rebuffs any national “blue wave.”
“These elections are historically close,” said Cinnamon Watson, a Republican communication strategist and co-founder of BluePrint Strategies. “The winner is going to have to break through and really define themselves. The climate is tough out there for Republicans, but I think Colorado has been an independent state, and the voters are willing to listen to the candidates.”
Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jared Polis gets hugs from his supporters as he arrives to accept the nomination for Colorado Governor during his watch party at the Flatiron Ballroom in the Renaissance Boulder Flatiron Hotel on June 26, 2018 in Broomfield.
Sustain attacks against Jared Polis
Since the beginning of his campaign, Stapleton has attacked Polis as being too liberal for Colorado. His charge has been amplified by the Republican Governors Association, which has so far invested $2.9 million, mostly on television ads to attack Polis.
“Colorado is a prime pickup opportunity for Republicans, and you will continue to see the RGA invest in this race,” Jon Thompson, spokesman for the RGA, said in a statement. “Our polling shows this race is a dead heat and will remain competitive until Election Day.”
The message from RGA and other Stapleton backers is that Polis as an out-of-touch millionaire who creates one set of rules but plays by another. They’ve also suggested that his policies — especially his support for universal health care — are too liberal for voters.
The effectiveness of those ads, which included the new term “Radicalifornia,” is unclear.
David Flaherty, a Republican pollster, said the first negative attack ads against Polis after the primary election were “misguided.”
“It’s just not strong enough, it’s just not sustained enough,” he said, adding that more recent attack ads with more specific claims that Polis hasn’t paid taxes and has used an offshore bank account were more likely to resonate with voters. The Denver Post and other fact checkers have found those claims to be misleading or false.
“Ultimately this is a contrast game,” said Kelly Maher, executive director of Compass Colorado, a political nonprofit that advocates for conservative causes. “Jared Polis is far out of the mainstream on a number of issues. He’s trying to paint himself as John Hickenlooper, and he’s not.”
Polis’ campaign has repeatedly rebuffed the GOP’s attacks, including by taking out its own ad attacking the attack ads.
“Stapleton doesn’t have any real ideas or plans to help Coloradans get ahead, and he definitely doesn’t want to talk about his record of failure as treasurer, so he spends his time trying to tear down Jared Polis with a false narrative,” said Eric Walker, spokesman for Colorado’s Democratic Party.
Define Stapleton to the electorate
Stapleton allies’ ads attacking Polis won’t be enough to win him the governor’s mansion. Stapleton, who has won state office twice, still must reintroduce himself to the general electorate and share his solutions to the problems voters care most about.
Republican Walker Stapleton says health care plans as governor would focus on mental health access, cost-cutting
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Is Jared Polis a “Boulder liberal?” Republicans make the case, but his record is more complicated.
Jared Polis, Walker Stapleton face off in a Colorado governor’s race that became testy from the start
That means running positive television ads with money his campaign doesn’t have yet.
“Walker’s campaign needs money,” Flaherty said. “It’s tough for him to get his message out.”
Stapleton, who before being elected state treasurer ran his family’s real estate business, has so far raised about $2.9 million, including $1 million from himself. The Republican’s personal fortune and fundraising chops, which raised eyebrows before the primary election, pale next to the $18 million Polis has spent on the race so far.
“In any other universe,” Maher said, “Walker Stapleton would have the resources to make the case for himself.”
Part of the effort of selling his candidacy must include solutions to the state’s thorniest issues, such as education funding, health care costs and the state’s growing pains. And the people he needs to win over are unaffiliated voters.
Stapleton’s team has begun to issue more detailed policy proposals. Just before Labor Day, Stapleton released a education plan that called for paying teachers more and creating a tax holiday for families during the back-to-school season. On Tuesday, the campaign released its health care platform that would seek to better expand mental health services, rein in Medicaid spending and allow for lower-cost insurance plans, including some providing less coverage.
“We’ll continue to roll out policies that will make life better for Coloradans without taxing them another $100 billion,” said Michael Fortney, Stapleton’s campaign manager.
As for when the campaign’s first positive ads will air? The first week of October.
LOVELAND, CO – SEPTEMBER 10: Rudy Zitti, a former beat cop from Long Island who now works for Americans for Prosperity, goes door-to-door handing out informational flyers and talking to voters in Loveland, September 10, 2014. The combination of intensely competitive races, huge outside spending and Colorado’s election laws that allow for three weeks of voting and same-day registration are making the ground game among the most intense in the country. (Photo by RJ Sangosti, The Denver Post)
The blue wave in response to the Trump administration, local Republicans concede, is real and is a threat to their candidates. Republicans should “pray, pray, pray” for low turnout, Flaherty said.
However, there’s reason to believe Stapleton could be protected from such a nationwide movement. The man Stapleton wants to replace, term-limited Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper, survived two red waves in 2010 and 2014.
“If Colorado gubernatorial races were won and lost on national waves, we’d have Governor Dan Maes, or Governor Bob Beauprez,” Fortney said, referring to Hickenlooper’s Republican opponents.
“Colorado voters are easily able to differentiate between the national wave and federal elections and the governor’s election,” Fortney said. “We’re talking to all Coloradans that are interested in keeping this state great and finding common-sense solutions — and that obviously includes unaffiliated voters and pragmatic Democrats.”
A number of unaffiliated organizations that support Stapleton and conservative issues will help the Republican nominee push back against Democratic enthusiasm on the ground.
“The people making the biggest case for Walker Stapleton are not going to be Walker Stapleton,” Maher said.
This year, Americans For Prosperity, a conservative political nonprofit established by businessman Charles and David Koch, took the unprecedented step of endorsing Stapleton. That endorsement means the network’s supporters will be out knocking on doors attempting to convince unaffiliated voters to support Stapleton.
“It was easy to make the decision that we had to be involved,” said Jesse Mallory, the organization’s state director.
There will also be droves of volunteers walking to defeat a ballot initiative that would prohibit oil and gas drilling from taking place within 2,500 feet of a home, school or park. Observers suggested that effort will bring out Republican and unaffiliated voters who lean right in higher numbers than usual.
Most of those door knocks are likely to take place where crucial unaffiliated voters are clustered, including Jefferson, Arapahoe and Larimer counties.
“There’s a number of unaffiliated voters who haven’t made up their mind,” Watson said. “And it’s game on for both camps. It will come down to the execution of a really good ground game.”
Colorado governor's race
Walker Stapleton
Nic Garcia
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Surviving Winter - how your donations will help thousands of vulnerable people stay warm, sheltered and fed
PUBLISHED: 15:32 20 November 2018 | UPDATED: 16:28 20 November 2018
Surviving Winter will help thousands of elderly and vulnerable people across Norfolk stay warm, sheltered and fed this winter. Picture: Getty Images/iStockphoto/KatarzynaBialasiewicz
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With your help, thousands of people across the county will benefit from a campaign aimed at keeping the elderly and vulnerable warm and cared for this winter.
The Surviving Winter campaign is run by the Norfolk Community Foundation and backed by the EDP and Norwich Evening News
The Surviving Winter campaign, run by the Norfolk Community Foundation and backed by the EDP and Norwich Evening News, is aiming to raise £150,000 to tackle fuel poverty and isolation for those who struggle the most between now and the spring.
The campaign is urging older people who do not need their winter fuel allowance to donate it to those who desperately do, as many are faced with choosing between paying the bills and putting food on the table.
Linda Mathews, is head of charitable services for Age UK Norfolk, said the campaign will also help those are left trapped in their homes in winter.
She added: “If they no longer drive, the thought of walking along a dark or slippery path to the bus stop is enough to stop many from venturing out to the shops or pharmacy.
Norwich Foodbank supports the Surviving Winter campaign. Picture: ANTONY KELLY
“The Surviving Winter campaign will enable us to boost resource to our telephone befriending service so we can keep closer tabs on vulnerable elderly people who may not be ‘in the system’; helping them access the support they need, whether that’s a referral to a lunch club or support paying winter fuel bills.”
As well as working with Age UK Norfolk, Community Foundation is also working with key partners Norwich Foodbank and St Martins Housing Trust to spread the support to the homeless and poverty-stricken families.
Dr Jan Sheldon, chief executive of St Martins, said: “The campaign will help to provide practical support to people who are homeless and rough sleeping when they need it most.
“Having to find somewhere, which may or may not be safe, to try to get a few hours’ sleep and survive a night with temperatures close to freezing sounds like something that was happening hundreds of years ago. Sadly, it is happening right now, in Norfolk.”
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Hannah Worsley, Norwich Foodbank project manager, said the campaign helped to issue 58 fuel vouchers to families, couples and individuals last year.
“This year, we have increased the number of agencies able to make foodbank referrals and issue energy vouchers, so we can reach more people this winter and take away the hard choice of deciding whether to cook or put the heating on,” she added.
To donate, visit the Surviving Winter appeal donation page, or you can make a cheque payable to Norfolk Community Foundation and send it to Norfolk Community Foundation, St. James Mill, Whitefriars, Norwich, NR3 1TN.
For more information about the Norfolk Community Foundation Surviving Winter appeal visit www.norfolkfoundation.com.
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"You could actually do that for a living: draw cars, design cars and get paid for it" says Thomas Ingenlath of Polestar
Amina Amber | 26 April 2019
How I got my job: Thomas Ingenlath studied industrial design but now leads the strategic direction of car brand Polestar. He explains his career progression for the Dezeen Jobs careers guide.
Name: Thomas Ingenlath
Job title: CEO
Company: Polestar
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
Dezeen Jobs: Tell us about what your role at Polestar involves.
Thomas Ingenlath: My role as CEO is to lead the organisation and determine the strategic direction for the company. The broad range of topics I cover every day makes my daily work unpredictable but very exciting.
Dezeen Jobs: What's your career background; have you always worked in the automotive industry?
Thomas Ingenlath: I studied industrial design to start with and that gave me a very good knowledge about the theory of product language. This foundation helped me throughout my career to be well-versed when it came to explaining the designs we were doing. I later specialised to become a car designer, studying at Pforzheim in Germany and then for my Masters at the Royal College of Art in London, studying vehicle design.
My career has been focused on the car industry, starting out as a young designer at Audi I worked on a lot of showcars for the Volkswagen group, for example NOAH and Concept BlueSport. I then led the designs of the Skoda range from Octavia II till Superb II and more recently the Volvo range from XC90 II till today.
The Polestar 2 is a five-door fastback electric car model
Dezeen Jobs: When did you first realise you wanted to work in the automotive industry?
Thomas Ingenlath: From early childhood, I was interested in cars. The technology, the brands, the design – in particular the design! As a little boy I drove around with my little go-kart for hours along the roads, looking at the cars parked in the busy street where we lived and all this stuck to my memory with an incredible level of detail. From then on, the cars from the seventies became my personal heroes.
I remember the first car magazine that I bought at the local newspaper stand. It was like a revelation: there was an article about the design studio of Ford in Cologne and I discovered that indeed there is such a profession as being a car designer. You could actually do that for a living: draw cars, design cars and get paid for it! That was what I wanted to do.
Dezeen Jobs: What do you enjoy most about your job?
Thomas Ingenlath: Life is a lesson, you have learnt it when you're through. So in that sense I embrace my current opportunity by entering a new chapter in my life, doing something I have not done in the last 20 years. I never stop learning – which is really fun. I feel personally responsible for Polestar and I thrive on seeing the brand grow and nurturing it.
Dezeen Jobs: What has been your career highlight so far?
Thomas Ingenlath: Having the opportunity to lead Polestar and launch a new car brand is definitely special. Nevertheless, being part of and having done my bit for Volvo as head of design over the previous years was also extremely rewarding.
Dezeen Jobs: What does a typical day look like to you?
Thomas Ingenlath: In my world, there really is no such thing as a typical day. My daily work is about getting things done and supporting the Polestar team to achieve its objectives.
Polestar Places are creative environments where customers will be able to examine the inner workings of the car
Dezeen Jobs: What qualities do you look for in potential employees?
Thomas Ingenlath: I look for smart people with high energy to make things happen, with individuality. They must be ready for an adventure and should not be afraid to take on unchartered territory, daring to be different.
Dezeen Jobs: What advice would you give your younger self starting off in your career?
Thomas Ingenlath: Don't think about your career – well, don't think about planning it. Just concentrate on living now, doing what you love to do and give it your everything. Never settle for less, always speak up – but be humble at the same time.
Locations: Gothenburg, Sweden
Number of employees: 100-200
Website: www.polestar.com
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Rohingyas panic-stricken as BGB and BGP face off in no man’s land
Abdul Aziz, Cox's Bazar
Published at 10:09 pm March 2nd, 2018
Tensions are running high in the no man’s land between Bangladesh’s Konarpara and Myanmar’s Tambru border points, as heavily armed Myanmar security forces have been deployed there since Thursday. More than 6,500 Rohingya refugees are encircled by armed personnel from both sides. Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) also took position along the border, but the situation so far has not deteriorated, the BGB says. Several senior BGB officials, who asked not to be named, confirmed that fresh troops had arrived at the border area on Friday. BGB, led by the paramilitary force’s 34th battalion Commanding Officer Lt Col Monzurul Hassan Khan, held an emergency flag meeting with its Myanmar counterpart, Border Guard Police (BGP), at Bandarban’s Naikhongchhari on Friday afternoon. However, around 15 minutes before the meeting, six more trucks full of Myanmar army personnel were reportedly deployed at Tambru border.
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Lt Col Monzurul Hassan Khan said: "We are on high alert and monitoring everything. The locals do not have reason to panic.” Dil Mohammad, another leader of the Rohingyas stuck in the no man’s land, told the Dhaka Tribune BGB personnel are now on high alert after the addition deployment from the other side. “Both sides are facing off with each other. We are encircled in the middle of the two heavily armed forces,” Mohammad said. Khaled Hossain, a Rohingya leader, said: “On Wednesday night, the BGP tried to forcefully enter the no man's land but they retreated when the aggrieved Rohingyas began hurling brickbats. In the evening the army personnel fired multiple rounds.” Another Rohingya leader, Arif Uddin said: "After meeting the Divisional Commissioner on February 20, Myanmar authorities agreed to take us back. But now they are trying to push us inside Bangladesh without any reason.” “We do not think they are keen to take us back. We do not trust them,” the leader added. Over 6,500 Rohingya protesters from Tambru’s no man’s land are reportedly among the 8,032 named in the initial repatriation list, which the Bangladesh government handed over to Myanmar last month. Myanmar’s Border Guard Police (BGP) and army men also issued warnings using loudspeakers and asked the Rohingyas to leave the no man’s land – a tactic they have been using over the past months.
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Bangladeshi locals at Gumdum’s Tambru, Konarpara, and other adjacent areas said the military action led them to become tense, and such sudden movement from Myanmar security forces may hamper the repatriation process. Nurul Amin, a Bangladeshi living nearby the border point said: "We are very much worried about the current condition. We are uncertain about further movements from Myanmar troops.” The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has already summoned the newly-appointed Myanmar Ambassador in Dhaka, Lwin Oo, over his country’s military build-up on Thursday afternoon. The Myanmar army and BGP’s move came two days after three Nobel Peace laureates – Shirin Ebadi of Iran, Tawakkol Karman of Yemen, and Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland – visited the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar and Tambru border point from February 25 to 27. More than 700,000 Rohingya refugees have crossed into Bangladesh over the past six months, joining more than 400,000 others who were already living in cramped makeshift camps in Cox’s Bazar.
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The Dice Tower: TDT # 614 - Dice Tower Awards
TDT # 614 - Dice Tower Awards
In this show, we are joined by various contributors to the Dice Tower Network to introduce the Dice Tower Awards for best games of 2018. Awards include best artwork, best components, best new designer, best game from a small publisher, best two player game, best strategy game, most innovative game, best party game, best family game, best expansion, best reprint, and game of the year! Congratulations to all the winners!
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Kidney Specialists of Minnesota
Switchvox unites multi-site medical firm and improves patient-based communications.
Patient service is the number one priority for the 20 medical specialists working for the Kidney Specialists of Minnesota, P.A. (KSM). And in any healthcare setting, especially medical offices, having an effective business communications system is a critical component for caring for and servicing patients. During a recent renovation and expansion of their corporate office, the team at KSM saw an opportunity to replace and upgrade the multiple analog and digital telephone systems they were operating at their three locations in Brooklyn Center, Roseville, and Richfield, MN. After a search that lasted over six months and consisted of multiple demos from big-box business communications providers including Avaya, Cisco, Mitel, and Shoretel, KSM chose Digium’s Switchvox phone system as the most affordable and versatile solution for their patient-based practice.
Consisting of over 80 employees and medical staff, KSM provides medical services to patients throughout Minnesota’s Tri-Cities who suffer from chronic kidney disease, hypertension, diabetic kidney disease, and end-stage renal disease (ESRD). They also care for those who are recovering from kidney transplants or other kidney related illnesses.
“One of the biggest concerns in researching a new phone system was to find a solution that still allowed patients to reach a live person during office hours, and not a computer,” says Brian Steingraber, director of Information Technology (IT) for KSM. “Although price points were certainly a big consideration, the ability to continue personalized communications for our patients while using the automated IVR only after hours and on holidays topped the list of feature requirements in our search.”
The Switchvox Solution
KSM was operating a mishmash of four or five digital and analog telephone systems at their three locations, including three older model Avayas. All of the legacy phone equipment was an expensive maintenance nightmare, according to Steingraber. “We began the research for a new telecommunications system two years ago, but we did not really know what to expect in terms of cost, and we didn’t have a budget set aside for it.”
To help ease the selection and deployment process, Steingraber put in a call to James Finstuen, a communications technology specialist at Ideacom Mid-America. A Digium partner and Minnesota-based reseller. Mid-America offers Switchvox as an ideal Unified Communications (UC) solution for small and mid-sized businesses. Finstuen arranged for a Switchvox demo and overview webinar for the KSM team at the Brooklyn Center location, so they could fully compare Switchvox to Shoretel, Mitel, and the other solutions being considered. “Brian is very tech savvy, and he knew that what KSM wanted to accomplish would require building out their current data network into a MPLS network to accommodate voice communications (VoIP), so there was more involved than just buying a telephone system,” says Finstuen.
“After getting some preliminary pricing on the competing solutions and investigating what was required to build an infrastructure for VoIP, we realized we were looking at about $85,000,” says Steingraber. “Then when our renovation and consolidation project at the corporate offices in Brooklyn Center became a certainty, we found a way to group it in as a line item under that larger budget.”
In addition to patient communications, the list of features and priorities included enterprise SIP to cut down on costly, time-consuming, and complex communications management across their multiple locations. With a single Switchvox appliance at the Brooklyn Center location, KSM could install and maintain local voice trunks without incurring long distance charges among offices, and share call capacity dynamically across the enterprise.
This single integrated hub allowed for 4-digit dialing between their 85 to 90 doctors and employees, and the ability to forward and transfer calls between sites. The solution also had to be simple to use and expandable since KSM foresees the addition of new employees and the possible opening of new locations in the near future.
“We looked at many options and sat through demos with all the big name systems,” says Steingraber. “We even considered a Shoretel Cloud service and a Cisco hosted service, but the more we dug into it, the more we realized it was going to be significantly cheaper up front to go with a premises-based solution. When we went through the Switchvox webinar and demo, the mix of features and price points for that system were definitely the deciding factor.”
Along with support from Ideacom, it took about six months for KSM, to build an MPLS network on the second floor of the multi-tenant office complex they had previously taken over in Brooklyn Center. They redid all the cabling and purchased some POE switches, which would allow for easy changeover from analog to VoIP; and they changed ISP providers.
Steingraber says the implementation of Switchvox went smoothly. They deployed the Switchvox 360 in July 2014, which is designed for up to 400 users needing high performance and high redundancy. They also purchased over 80 Digium high definition D40 phone sets and about 20 D70 executive phones.
“We had a huge challenge finding a phone service provider even after talking to several carriers. We picked one, but the transition has been difficult,” says Steingraber. “We deployed the Switchvox last fall, but just last week we imported new numbers and finished the Richfield and Roseville transition. The delay was due completely to problems with the phone service provider.”
So Easy the Hard Part is Remembering Not to Dial “9”!
Steingraber says even after two years, KSM is still realizing the changes and full capabilities the Switchvox VoIP solution offers.
“The doctors don’t want to give out their private numbers, but they do want the staff to be able to reach them at any time, so we are getting their cellphones set up with Switchvox Mobile so that can happen,” says Steingraber. Since migrating off their legacy phone system, KSM has already experienced a huge gain from efficiency savings. “We went from the smallest changes on our old system taking days, and even weeks to get done, to now being able to add or make changes in minutes and seconds with Switchvox.”
“We don’t have a call center, but we do have a very high call volume with a lot of staff members taking calls. We do not use the automated IVR during business hours, but our receptionist can transfer calls to any location of a specific medical staff member. The system is so simple that to tell you the truth, the hardest part for the staff is getting used to not dialing ‘9’ before they make a call!”
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Hovertravel launches HoverCare NHS staff fares
By Abby Penlington02/05/2019British Isles, Hovertravel, Press Release
Hovertravel’s HoverCare initiative, which promotes better access for all, has launched a new discounted range of fares for all NHS and primary care workers who wish to commute across the Solent.
Loretta Lale, head of commercial at Hovertravel, explains: “We have listened to the local community about the requirement for discounted ticket prices for NHS workers. We want to ensure Hovertravel is the first choice of travel for NHS staff who need to travel to and from the Isle of Wight at short notice, and also to assist the NHS Trust with its recruitment drive.”
As well as a significant 20% reduction on the standard day return price, there are also discounts for NHS staff who wish to buy unlimited travel cards ranging from 1 to 12 months or flexible travel cards ranging from 10 to 250 journeys.
Proof of NHS employment must be shown at the time of purchase and all customers will be given a HoverCare card which can be shown when requested in the terminals.
For more details about Hovertravel’s NHS fare please visit: https://www.hovertravel.co.uk/HoverCare-Concessionary-Travel-Scheme/index.php
Stephen Forster
Creative Director, SRF (Integrated Communications) Ltd
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Read by Kathleen Early
Karin Slaughter Blackstone Publishing 9780062429056
20.00 Hours • 09/29/2015 • Unabridged
Sisters. Strangers. Survivors. More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia’s teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different. Claire is the glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta millionaire. Lydia, a single mother, dates an ex-con and struggles to make ends meet. But neither has recovered from the horror and heartbreak of their shared loss—a devastating wound that’s cruelly ripped open when Claire’s husband is killed. The disappearance of a teenage girl and the murder of a middle-aged man, almost a quarter-century apart: what could connect them? Forming a wary truce, the surviving sisters look to the past to find the truth, unearthing the secrets that destroyed their family all those years ago . . . and uncovering the possibility of redemption, and revenge, where they least expect it. Powerful, poignant, and utterly gripping, packed with indelible characters and unforgettable twists, Pretty Girls is a masterful novel from one of the finest writers working today. Included with this gripping thriller is Karin Slaughter’s chilling short story “Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes.”
New York Times audio bestseller
An Audible.com bestseller
A 2016 International Thriller Writers Award Nominee
An iBooks Bestseller
A 2015 Amazon Best Books of the Year Selection for Mystery, Thriller, & Suspense
A 2016 People’s Choice Award Favorite Book Winner for Crime & Mystery
A Parade Magazine’s Top Books for Entertaining Gift Ideas for Sisters and BFFs
A Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2015 in Mysteries, Thrillers, and Popular Fiction
Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
A BookRiot Pick of Favorite Kidnapping Thrillers
A 2016 RUSA Reading List Winner for Adrenaline
An Indie Next List Pick for October 2015
A 2015 GoodReads Readers’ Choice Best Mystery & Thriller Book Award nominee
Sisters. Strangers. Survivors.
More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia’s teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different. Claire is the glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta millionaire. Lydia, a single mother, dates an ex-con and struggles to make ends meet. But neither has recovered from the horror and heartbreak of their shared loss—a devastating wound that’s cruelly ripped open when Claire’s husband is killed.
The disappearance of a teenage girl and the murder of a middle-aged man, almost a quarter-century apart: what could connect them? Forming a wary truce, the surviving sisters look to the past to find the truth, unearthing the secrets that destroyed their family all those years ago . . . and uncovering the possibility of redemption, and revenge, where they least expect it.
Powerful, poignant, and utterly gripping, packed with indelible characters and unforgettable twists, Pretty Girls is a masterful novel from one of the finest writers working today.
Included with this gripping thriller is Karin Slaughter’s chilling short story “Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes.”
“A hold-your-breath pedal-to-the-metal thriller.” —Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author
“A hell-raising thriller…A genuinely exciting narrative driven by strong-willed female characters.” —New York Times Book Review
“Scary enough to have you checking over your shoulder while you read late into the night, unable to put it down.” —Amazon.com
“Narrator Kathleen Early…uses a hyper-edgy tone, keeping the ghastly descriptions understated, allowing the real horror to emerge. With stunning twists and unpredictable turns, Early’s performance of Slaughter’s chilling novel invents a new word for the OED: ‘unputdownable.’ Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.” —AudioFile
“Packs a heck of a wallop, and while it’s a powerful thriller, it’s also a deft look into a family forced to confront horrific tragedy. Slaughter’s longtime fans will be thrilled. New readers will be hooked on this twisted tale from page one.” —Library Journal (starred review)
“Slaughter shreds your own nerves along with those of the sisters…Slaughter is so uncompromising in following her blood trails to the darkest places imaginable that she makes most of her high-wire competition look pallid, formulaic, or just plain fake.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“This is a complex story that one does not soon forget…It is certainly not for the feint of heart…The reader, Kathleen Early, gives a bravura performance, which greatly adds to the power of the novel.” —Deadly Pleasures
“The fast pace, peppered liberally with shocks and revelations, pulls you in and doesn’t let go. This dark and twisted tale of one family’s devastation is not for the faint of heart, but readers who can take the violence are in for a super thrill ride. This may be the best Slaughter book yet.” —RT Book Reviews (4½ stars, Top Pick!)
“Pretty Girls…is a powerful examination of grief, and thriller fans will get more than their money’s worth.” —Shelf Awareness
Format: Digital Download Format: Digital Rental Format: CD Format: MP3 CD
Available Formats : Digital Download, Digital Rental, CD, MP3 CD
Category: Fiction/Thrillers/Suspense
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Tracks: 37 Tracks: 37 CDs: 16 CDs: 2
Runtime: 20.00
ISBN: 9781504610698 ISBN: 9781504610674 ISBN: 9781504610728 ISBN: 9781504610711
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Why Wayne Rooney’s first ever goal against Arsenal was a watershed moment in history
It's 15 years to the day since Rooney announced himself to world football against the Gunners
By Adam Jones
19th October 2017, 4:19 pm
Updated: 19th October 2017, 5:27 pm
Rarely does a singular moment send such enormous shockwaves through football.
There’s ways of announcing yourself to the world stage, then there’s the way Wayne Rooney did it exactly 15 years ago today.
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A fresh faced Rooney celebrates in 2002
Rooney, then a naive 16-year-old bristling with blood and guts, was a complete unknown entity back in October 2002 when he was introduced as an 80th minute substitute for Tomasz Radzinski.
Against Arsenal – the champions of England.
Cue utter pandemonium ten minutes later.
The Everton youngster beautifully brought down Lee Carsley’s hopeful hoof forward and turned to establish his bearings.
As the Arsenal defenders fatally backed off, Rooney set his sights and curled a sensational strike in off the crossbar past England number one David Seaman.
Rooney curls home one of the most memorable goals in Premier League history
As picture book as goals come.
ITV commentator Clive Tyldesley declared animatedly ‘Remember the name!’ and Rooney emphatically made sure we did.
He was the toast of Merseyside after inspiring that 2-1 win but, as we all know, he wasn’t just a flash in the pan.
The papers hailed him the ‘boy wonder’
Wayne Rooney trains in another pair of beautifully nostalgic Nike boots
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And nobody has come even remotely close to making the kind of resonating impact he has and then fulfilling their potential in the years after.
Federico Macheda scored effectively a title-winning goal for Manchester United against Aston Villa in March 2009 and many had high hopes for the Italian.
Remember the name?
But Macheda was gone from the public eye before you could say ‘loan spell at Birmingham’.
Marcus Rashford has come the closest to replicating Rooney’s heroics but he has a long way to go to prove his worth.
Rooney’s goal was a sign of things to come, moving to Manchester United and elevating himself to the greatest England player of his generation.
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Euro 2004, his partnership with Cristiano Ronaldo, the derby overhead kick, breaking Bobby Charlton’s England and Manchester United records.
All his greatest achievements wouldn’t have been remotely possible without that watershed moment he produced back in 2002.
And at just 16-years-old.
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16, for those of you who need reminding, is GCSE year for English students and the age when you’re legally allowed to buy a national lottery ticket.
Well Rooney more than bought the ticket and won the raffle with that strike 15 years ago, propelling him into footballing stardom.
This weekend, rather fittingly, Everton host Arsenal in a mirror image of that career-defining game after Rooney’s return to his boyhood club in the summer.
Rooney is back where it all began
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Why is the Milky Way blowing bubbles at TWO MILLION miles per hour? Scientists baffled by phenomenon that defies the laws of astrophysics
The 'Fermi Bubbles' look like 30,000-light-year-tall incandescent bulbs
They were created during a massive explosion two million years ago
Scientists have been trying to find out how these mysterious bubbles formed by studying the UV light from a quasar close to the structure
The study found silicon, carbon, and aluminium in the bubbles
This suggests they may have formed by a population of giant stars
Another theory suggests they could have been created by huge jets of accelerated matter blasting out from galaxy's supermassive black hole
By Ellie Zolfagharifard for MailOnline
Published: 08:01 EDT, 6 January 2015 | Updated: 10:24 EDT, 6 January 2015
Two million years ago, a massive eruption in the Milky Way caused gases to bubble out into the universe at two million miles per hour (3.2km/h).
Now, astronomers are beginning to see the aftermath of the explosion: billowing clouds of gas towering 30,000 light-years above and below the plane of our galaxy.
Dubbed 'Fermi Bubbles', these mysterious structures shouldn't exist according to current astronomical theory – and scientists are still unable what caused their outburst.
Hubble probed the light from a distant quasar to study the so-called Fermi Bubbles, The quasar's light passed through one of the bubbles. Imprinted on that light was information about the bubble's speed, composition, and mass. The outflow was produced by a violent event that happened 2 million years ago in our galaxy's core
The enormous structure was discovered five years ago as a gamma-ray glow on the sky in the direction of the galactic centre.
Using the Hubble telescope, Nasa is attempting to find the mass of the material being blown out of our galaxy, which could help determine the cause of the outburst.
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'The outflowing clouds we're seeing are only 25,000 light-years away in our galaxy. We have a front-row seat,' said Andrew Fox of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.
The giant lobes of Fermi Bubbles glow in nearly uniform gamma rays and appear like two 30,000-light-year-tall incandescent bulbs screwed into the centre of the galaxy
'We can study the details of these structures. We can look at how big the bubbles are and can measure how much of the sky they are covering.'
WHY IS THE MILKY WAY BLOWING BUBBLES? THEORIES SO FAR...
There are a number of theories attempting to explain why the Milky Way is blowing these enormous bubbles.
Some scientists believe they could have been created by huge jets of accelerated matter blasting out from the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy.
Or they could have been formed by a population of giant stars, born from the plentiful gas surrounding the black hole, all exploding as supernovae at roughly the same time.
Another theory is that they are the result of collisions between dark matter particles that result in their annihilation, emitting charged particles in the process.
'There are several models that explain them, but none of the models is perfect,' said Dmitry Malyshev, a postdoctoral researcher at the Kavli Institute.
The giant lobes of Fermi Bubbles glow in nearly uniform gamma rays and appear like two 30,000-light-year-tall incandescent bulbs screwed into the centre of the galaxy.
The detection of their high-energy gamma rays suggested that a violent event in the galaxy's core violently launched energised gas into space.
To provide more information about the outflows, Professor Fox looked at the ultraviolet light from a distant quasar - a galaxy with a bright active nucleus - that lies behind the northern bubble.
Imprinted on that light as it travels through the lobe is unique information about the velocity, composition, and temperature of the expanding gas inside the bubble.
The study found silicon, carbon, and aluminium, indicating that the gas is enriched in the heavy elements produced inside stars and represents the ancient remnants of star formation.
It measured the temperature of the gas at approximately 9,700°C (17,500°C), which is much cooler than expected.
'We are seeing cooler gas, perhaps interstellar gas in our galaxy's disk, being swept up into that hot outflow,' Professor Fox explained.
A giant gamma-ray structure was discovered by processing Fermi all-sky data at energies from 1 to 10 billion electron volts, shown here. The dumbbell-shaped feature (centre) emerges from the galactic core and extends 50 degrees north and south from the plane of the Milky Way, in the sky from the constellation Virgo
Because the bubbles are young compared to the age of the galaxy, and believed to be a short-lived phenomenon, they may be evidence for a repeating event in the Milky Way's history.
Whatever the trigger is, it likely occurs episodically, perhaps only when the black hole gobbles up a concentration of material.
'It looks like the outflows are a hiccup,' Professor Fox said. 'There may have been repeated ejections of material that have blown up, and we're catching the latest one.'
The bubbles extend 30,000 light-years across. Hints of the bubbles' edges were first seen in X-rays (blue). The gamma rays mapped by Fermi (shown in magenta) extend much farther from the galaxy's plane
Explosion caused Milky Way to blow bubbles at TWO MILLION mph
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'Chelsea are where they belong': Dennis Wise says Maurizio Sarri should STAY at Stamford Bridge after taking club back into the Champions League
Dennis Wise has backed Maurizio Sarri to keep his job in the Chelsea dugout
The Italian coach helped guide the Blues back into the Champions League
He also won his first trophy in the Europa League and Wise thinks he should stay
Should he leave, Wise believes the best replacement would be Gianfranco Zola
By Peter Rutzler For Mailonline
Chelsea legend Dennis Wise believes Maurizio Sarri should stay at Stamford Bridge after guiding the Blues back into the Champions League.
Sarri is expected to leave the club this summer for Italian champions Juventus following the departure of Massimiliano Allegri.
The Italian coach was subject to fierce criticism by sections of the Blues support but after a series of disappointing results and performances, but he managed to turn Chelsea's season around and crowned it with silverware in Baku on May 29.
And Wise believes Chelsea should give the Italian the benefit of the doubt - and failing that, they should turn to his assistant Gianfranco Zola.
Dennis Wise believes Chelsea should keep faith with current manager Maurizio Sarri (right)
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Wise tweeted on Monday: 'Will be disappointed if Sarri goes.
'Chelsea are back where they belong in the CL and he also won his first trophy.
'The perfect replacement is already there, in Gianfranco Zola, he knows the young & experienced players well, also gained so much experience over the last few years.'
Zola and Wise were team-mates at Stamford Bridge for five years between 1996 and 2001.
Zola and Wise (pictured) were team-mates together for five years at Stamford Bridge
Wise believes Zola's knowledge of the current squad as Sarri's assistant makes him a good pick
They won six trophies together, including two FA Cups and one UEFA Cup Winners' Cup.
Zola linked up with Sarri at the beginning of last season in July 2018, following spells as manager at Cagliari, Birmingham City and more successfully at Watford and West Ham.
The Italian spent three seasons at Upton Park before taking the Hornets into the Championship play-offs in 2013, ultimately losing to Crystal Palace at Wembley.
Dennis Wise says Maurizio Sarri should STAY at Chelsea after securing Champions League qualification
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In this photo provided by Capt. Dave’s Dolphin and Whale Safari, a gray whale is caught in a crab trap off the coast at Dana Point on Saturday. The National Marine Fisheries Service is requesting boaters report any sightings of the tangled whale. Figures released a month earlier showed a record number of whales getting tangled in crabbing gear off the U.S. West Coast. The Center for Biological Diversity cited 71 cases of whales caught in fishing lines off California, Oregon and Washington last year.
By Erika I. Ritchie | eritchie@scng.com | Orange County Register
PUBLISHED: April 3, 2017 at 3:16 am | UPDATED: August 28, 2017 at 5:39 am
Dana Point Rescuers are asking boat captains to be on the lookout for an entangled gray whale that appears to have some sort of metal frame around its head. The whale was last spotted off Orange County heading north.
The whale was first seen two miles south of Dana Point Harbor by Capt. Frank Brennan, of Dana Wharf Sportfishing and Whale Watching, at about 3:30 p.m on Saturday, April 1.
Brennan, who was on a whale-watching trip at the time, saw what appeared to be a metal frame around the animal’s head as he neared San Juan Rock, right off the Headlands. There were also lines attached to the frame, he said.
He alerted the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s marine mammal stranding network coordinator, Justin Viezbicke. He also let Capt. Dave Anderson, of Capt. Dave’s Dolphin Safari, who leads Orange County’s whale disentanglement team and has been involved in dozens of rescues over the years.
“The whale was being evasive because there were so many boats around it,” Brennan said.
Brennan saw the whale a second time off Laguna Beach in about 120 feet of water. He followed it past Main Beach until Anderson could take over at about 6 p.m.
Fishing gear entanglements have been on the rise in the past three years, according to a report released this week by researchers at NOAA. The report found that there were 71 separate cases of entangled whales reported off the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California in 2016.
It was the highest annual total for the West Coast of the United States since NOAA Fisheries started keeping records in 1982.
Anderson relocated the whale just outside Newport Beach Harbor at sunset but did not deploy his tracking buoy because of the unusual way the whale’s head was caught in the trap.
“We felt very uncertain about what damage it would cause to the whale with this unusual entanglement,” Anderson said. “With darkness closing in, we thought it was best to document the last location and hope for the best tomorrow.”
Anderson said he left the whale one mile below the Newport Harbor entrance.
“This is the fourth whale I’ve been involved in trying to rescue in the last two months,” Anderson said.
Viezbicke, NOAA’s California marine mammal stranding coordinator, said the type of gear entangling the whale was something he’s not seen before.
“It’s very troubling,” Viezbicke said. “The tricky part for us is that it’s not just rope. If it really is all metal around the whale, it will be a formidable challenge to get it off. All our gear is used to cut rope.”
Viezbicke said he appreciates the efforts of the Dana Point and Newport Beach boat captains to document and take pictures of the whale.
“We’ll use that to find out where this may have happened,” he said. “The work they are doing to document this is really laying the foundation and opening our eyes to try to prevent these types of things in the future.”
To Rodger Healy, a Capistrano Beach lobster fisherman, photos of the wire frame looked industrial.
“It’s too big to be trap gear,” he said. “It has washers and knuckles on the frame which trappers wouldn’t have because the trap wouldn’t sit flat on the frame. It looks like it could be a rack to suspend oysters or mussels.”
On Sunday morning boat captains continued to look for the entangled whale in Los Angeles County. Dense fog made the search more difficult, Viezbicke said.
But efforts to find it will continue. Boat captains who work along Northern California have been notified, he said.
If you are out on the water and see a whale in distress, call 1-877-SOS-WHALE. The National Marine Fisheries Service also asks that you note:
1. Location of the animal; 2. A detailed description of the color and gauge of rope 3. Location of gear on the whale 4. Color and size of buoys 5. Direction of the whale’s movement, including whether it is solitary or with a group 6. Behavior of the whale, including whether it is surfacing or diving, and the length of dive times 7. Species of whale 8. Size and condition of the whale.
They also ask that you take photos and videos of the entangled whale, which can provide valuable information.
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Home AFRIQUE Zambia bans 'Viagra' energy drink
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Zambia bans ‘Viagra’ energy drink
Power Natural High Energy Drink SX, which is made in Zambia, is not marketed as a sexual aid.
The Zambian authorities have banned an energy drink after a Ugandan man complained it had caused him to have a prolonged erection.
But an investigation by Ugandan health authorities in December found that the beverage contained Sildenafil Citrata – the active ingredient in Viagra.
Since then, news of the drink’s side-effects has boosted its popularity.
Journalist Kennedy Gondwe in Lusaka says there has been increased demand for the soft drink, which is sold in supermarkets and by street vendors across the country.
He says that despite the ban, the drink is still on sale in shops in the capital, Lusaka.
Viagra is the brand name of Sildenafil Citrate, the medication used to treat erectile dysfunction. It is normally only available on prescription.
The drink’s manufacturer, Revin Zambia, has not commented on the ban.
Medical authorities say Viagra should only be available on prescription
Back in January, the company’s general manager, Vikas Kapoor, told the BBC’s Newsday programme that to the best of his knowledge, the energy drink did not contain any drugs.
But the Zambian authorities are unequivocal about the test results, which were announced on Wednesday.
“Results from both Zimbabwe and South Africa correlated with those obtained from the Foods and Drugs Laboratory that indicated a positive presence of Sildenafil Citrate,” a statement from the Zambian authorities quoted by Reuters said.
The Pharmaceutical Society of Zambia said reports about the drink’s “unsuitability” should have been acted upon sooner.
Its head, Jerome Kanyika, told the BBC the ban was “a welcome move but also an embarrassment to us as a country because we had to rely on investigations by other countries”.
Power Natural High Energy Drink SX is exported to other countries in the region, including Uganda, Malawi and Zimbabwe.
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British Literature Macbeth Plays Shakespearean Plays Importance of Soliloquies in Shakespeare's Macbeth
Importance of Soliloquies in Shakespeare's Macbeth
Soliloquy is a literary device used in drama when a character wants to speak to him or herself. The main purpose of soliloquies is to express the feelings, inner thoughts, personality and mind set of the characters. William Shakespeare, the popular Elizabethan dramatist shows his excellence in using soliloquies in dramas. One of his major tragedies Macbeth is the best example for using effective soliloquies. Shakespeare uses the literary device soliloquy as a tool to exhibit the hero and heroine’s mental state to the audience. There is also a little confusion between a soliloquy and a monologue among the readers. Soliloquy is different from a monologue. A monologue is a speech given by a character in the presence of other characters, whereas, the soliloquy is a speech made by a character in
the absence of other characters.
Soliloquies are the heart and soul of Macbeth. The soliloquies of Macbeth are more like interior debates, a fascinating aspect of Macbeth’s motivation. In the very first soliloquy of Macbeth we find him contemplating over the murder of King Duncan and its possible consequences:
“When it is done, then ‘twere well
It were done quickly: If th’ assassination
Could trammel up the consequenees, and catch
With his surcease success……..”
(Act- I, Scene-VII)
The human psyche is always like a butterfly. It will create more impact on others. In the same way, Lady Macbeth’s poisonous words after reading the letter from Macbeth make a great impact on the play.
“Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be
What thou art promised: yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great;
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness should attend it,….” ( Act-I, Scene-V)
Even she knows her husband’s desire on the crown. But he does not want it in
an evil way. Through this soliloquy, the audience comes to know how ruthless and
strong lady she is.
“Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood;
…Come to my woman's breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,….” ( Act-I, Scene-V)
She called the supernatural spirits to unsex her. She is ready to lose her feminine identity to achieve her goal. Fed up with ambition and poisonous words of his wife Macbeth is ready to do the deadly deed with full of fear:
“Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand?” (Act-II, Scene-I)
Ridden in guilt, Macbeth’s imagination conjures up an impalpable image of a bloody dagger which directs him to Duncan’s sleeping chamber.
However, Lady Macbeth thinks a little water will solve their immediate problem; Macbeth knows that is never too easy to erase the blood spot (act of criminality). He says in a superb soliloquy:
“Will all great Neptunes ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine
Making the green one red”. (Act-II, Scene-I)
Just after killing Duncan Macbeth continues to murder his way in the frantic desire for peace of mind enroute evils. Like a true philosopher he now comprehends his present state. Macbeth spinning his dehumanization utters the most poignant soliloquy:
“I have lived long enough. My way of life
Is fall’n into the sere, the yellow leaf…” (Act-V, Scene-III)
After hearing the news of his wife’s death, he responds in low key and bitter. In one of the overly greatest speeches in all of Shakespeare, he accepts the news with a horrifying calm:
“She should have dies hereafter.
out, out, brief candle.
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Signifying nothing.” (Act-V,Scene-V)
This famous speech acknowledges fully the empty mockery his life has become. He realizes how he is duped by false hopes and illusions. Each tomorrows passes into yesterday by befooling man. He compares life to a candle, a walking shadow, a poor player and a tale told by an idiot to expose the utter futility of human life.
A titanic play like Macbeth would never have been so effective on stage without the magnificent soliloquies. Through them, Shakespeare highlights his mastery over the art of dialogue under the facade of a random chronicle play to entertain the Elizabethans.
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Literature liberates and leavens our latent learning with limpid lumina. So myself a lustful literary lacky.
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Facebook Unveils 'Surround 360' Video Capture System
Image credit: GoPro
Angela Moscaritolo
April 13, 2016 3 min read
This story originally appeared on PCMag
Move over, GoPro: Facebook just unveiled its own 360-degree video capture system -- and you can make it yourself.
Designed by the social network, the Facebook Surround 360 video camera and software system is meant to produce spherical, 3-D content. The rig boasts 17 synchronized cameras: 14 along its edge, plus one fish-eye camera at the top and two on the bottom.
Facebook will not be selling this rig; instead the social network plans to release the designs on GitHub this summer. In a Tuesday post, Facebook Engineering Director Brian Cabral said the company is open-sourcing the camera and its software to "accelerate the growth of the 3D-360 ecosystem."
"In designing this camera, we wanted to create a professional-grade end-to-end system that would capture, edit, and render high-quality 3D-360 video," Cabral wrote. "In doing so, we hoped to meaningfully contribute to the 3D-360 camera landscape by creating a system that would enable more VR content producers and artists to start producing 3D-360 video."
When Facebook first started this project, all the existing 3-D-360 video cameras on the market were either proprietary, so the community could not access their designs; available by special request; or simply "unreliable," Cabral wrote. Most, he said, would overheat, plus the rigs weren't sturdy, and stitching had to be done by hand. The Facebook Surround 360 camera, he said, solves these issues.
Facebook's stitching and rendering software, for instance "drastically reduces post-production time," by stitching your content into one seamless video for you. In other words, what used to take weeks to do manually can now be done by Facebook's algorithm overnight.
The system exports 4K, 6K and 8K video for each eye. Facebook said the output file can be viewed on VR headsets like the Oculus Rift and Gear VR, and can, of course, also be shared on its News Feed.
Just don't expect this rig to come cheap. Fast Company reported that it will cost "at least $25,000 to build." That cost could go up to around $30,000, depending on the components you use.
The news comes as Facebook is rolling out a number of new features for its Live video service, including the ability to go live in Facebook groups and events, add filters to your stream, and post varied reactions as a viewer. The new features will be rolling out on iOS and Android "over the coming weeks," so if you don't see them right away just sit tight.
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Anatomy ▶ Head and Neck ▶ Organs ▶ Parotid Gland
Bounds of the Parotid Bed
Parotid Capsule (Or Parotid Sheath)
3 edges
Superior Surface or Base
Superficial Surface
Anteromedial Surface
Posteromedial Surface
Anterior Border
Posterior Border
Medial Border
Structures Present Inside the Parotid Gland
The Facial Nerve
The Retromandibular Vein
The External Carotid Artery
Patey’s Faciovenous Plane
Parotid Duct (Stenson’s Duct)
Surface Anatomy of the Parotid Duct
Nerve Supply
Vascular Supply
Among the 3 pairs of salivary glands, viz. parotid, submandibular and sublingual, the parotid (para = around, otic = ear) gland is the largest. It’s composed just about wholly of serous alveoli. It weighs about 25 grams. It’s lobulated and yellowish brown.
It is location is in the pyramidal fossa, posterior to the ramus of the mandible named retromandibular fossa (parotid bed).
It’s bounded:
Anteriorly: by the posterior border of the ramus of mandible.
Posteriorly: by the mastoid process.
Superiorly: by the external acoustic meatus and posterior part of temporomandibular joint.
Medially: by styloid process.
The parotid bed is lined by muscles, likely to allow it to be soft as under:
Ramus of the mandible is covered by 2 muscles: masseter laterally and the medial pterygoid medially.
Mastoid process is covered by 2 muscles: sternocleidomastoid laterally and posterior belly of digastric muscle medially.
Styloid process is enveloped by 3 slight muscles: styloglossus, stylopharyngeus and stylohyoid.
The parotid gland is too soft to be felt in healthy individual but 1 can identify the bony borders of the parotid bed.
The parotid gland being soft isn’t confined only to the parotid bed but goes beyond it. The extent of parotid gland is as follows: it goes from external auditory meatus above, to the upper part of the carotid triangle below; medially it goes to the styloid process (close to the side wall of pharynx) and wraps around the neck of the mandible. Posteriorly it overlaps the sternocleidomastoid muscle and anteriorly it goes over the masseter for a varying space. A part of the forward extension is frequently detached from the remaining part of the gland and is referred to as accessory parotid gland The accessory parotid gland is located between the zygomatic arch above and the parotid duct below. Several ducts from accessory gland open into the parotid duct.
The parotid gland is enclosed in a fibrous capsule named parotid capsule.
It’s created by the tough investing layer of deep cervical fascia. This fascia divides in the region between the angle of the mandible and mastoid process to enclose the gland. The superficial lamina is thick, powerful, unyielding and adherent to the gland while deep lamina is thin. The superficial lamina combines with the epimysium of masseter to create a thick parotidomasseteric fascia that is connected above to the zygomatic arch. The thin deep lamina is connected to the tympanic plate and styloid process of the temporal bone; it thickens to create stylomandibular ligament, which divides the parotid gland from the submandibular gland.
Infection of the parotid gland: The parotid gland is usually infected by the mumps virus causing inflammation and swelling of the gland (mumps).
The parotid swellings are extremely painful because of unyielding temperament of the parotid capsule, any inflammation or pressure inside the parotid gland will cause acute pain. This is caused by the stretching of the capsule and stimulus of branches of great auricular nerve. The pain is normally exacerbated at meal time when gustatory stimulation to gland results in increased parotid secretion enriching additional turgor inside the capsule. Nevertheless, patient is relieved of pain to some degree after taking meals because of release of secretions. This is viewed regularly in patients suffering from mumps.
The gland resembles a 3-sided pyramid with apex pointed downwards. It presents these features:
An apex
4 surfaces
Posterior.
Medial.
It projects downwards overlapping the posterior belly of digastric muscle and adjoining part of the carotid triangle. The structures appearing via the apex contain:
Cervical branch of the facial nerve.
Anterior and posterior sections of retromandibular vein.
It’s concave and related to the external acoustic meatus and posterior aspect of temporomandibular joint.
These structures appear via it:
Superficial temporal vessels
Auriculotemporal nerve
It’s the largest of the 4 surfaces. It’s covered from superficial to deep by:
Superficial fascia featuring anterior branches of greater auricular nerve, superficial parotid (preauricular) lymph nodes and platysma
Parotid fascia
Deep parotid lymph nodes embedded in the gland
It’s deeply grooved by the posterior border of the ramus of the mandible. It’s related to:
Masseter
Medial pterygoid
Posterior border of the ramus of the mandible
Lateral aspect of the temporomandibular joint
The branches of facial nerve issue on face from underneath the anterior margin of the surface
It’s moulded onto the mastoid and styloid processes and their covering muscles. Hence it’s related to:
Mastoid process, sternocleidomastoid and posterior belly of digastric.
Styloid process and styloid group of muscles.
The styloid process and its muscles divide the gland from internal carotid artery, internal jugular vein and last 4 cranial nerves.
These structures goes into the gland via this surface:
Facial nerve trunk in its upper part
External carotid artery in its lower part
It divides the superficial surface from the anteromedial surface. These structures (from above downwards) come in a radiating manner underneath this border:
Temporal branch of the facial nerve
Zygomatic branch of the facial nerve
Transverse facial vessels
Upper buccal branch of the facial nerve
Parotid duct
Lower buccal branch of the facial nerve
Fringy mandibular branch of the facial nerve
It divides the superficial surface from the posteromedial surface.
These structures appear underneath this border:
Posterior auricular vessels
Posterior auricular branch of the facial nerve
It splits the anteromedial surface from the posteromedial surface. It’s related to the lateral wall of the pharynx.
3 chief structures either in part or in whole traverse the gland and branch inside it. From superficial to deep these are:
Facial nerve.
Retromandibular vein.
External carotid artery.
Some members of the deep parotid lymph nodes and filaments of auriculotemporal nerve are also found inside the gland
The facial nerve is most superficial. It enters the gland via the upper part of the posteromedial surface and breaks up into its terminal branches inside the gland. The branches run horizontally and leave the gland via its anteromedial surface and appear on the face by passing underneath its anterior border.
The 5 terminal branches of the facial nerve radiate like a goose foot via the anterior border of the gland and supply the muscles of facial expression. Such branching pattern of the facial nerve is referred to as pes anserinus.
The retromandibular vein takes up the intermediate zone of the gland and is composed by the unification of the superficial temporal and maxillary veins. It finishes below by splitting into anterior and posterior sections. The anterior section joins the facial vein to create the common facial vein while posterior section joins the posterior auricular vein to create the external jugular vein.
The external carotid artery pierces the lower part of the posteromedial surface to goes into the gland where it inhabits the deep zone of the gland. Inside the gland it breaks up into superficial temporal and maxillary arteries. The transverse facial artery, branch of superficial temporal artery issues via the anterior border of the gland
The parotid gland is split into large superficial and small deep parts or lobes. These lobes are joined by the isthmus of the glandular tissue, so the gland appears H shaped (shaped like a collar stud) in coronal segment. The branches of facial nerve enter forwards via the isthmus. The plane between the superficial and deep lobes where nerves and veins are located has been designated by Patey as faciovenous plane. This plane helps the surgeons to eliminate the parotid tumor without damaging the nerve.
Amalgamated parotid tumor: It’s slow-growing lobulated painless tumor of large superficial part of the parotid gland It’s so called due to its combined histological look. Now it’s called pleomorphic adenoma. After several years of slow benign increase, it might go through a malignant change.
Parotid duct, about 5 cm long, appears from the middle of the anterior border of the gland and opens into the vestibule of the mouth opposite the crown of upper second molar tooth.
The course taken by the duct is as follows: After appearing from the gland, it runs forwards over the masseter between the upper and lower buccal branches of the facial nerve; at the anterior border of masseter, it suddenly turns inwards, practically at 90 ° (first bending) and pierces buccal pad of fat, buccopharyngeal fascia and buccinator muscle.
After piercing the buccinator muscle, the parotid duct runs forwards (second curve) for about 1 cm between it and the buccal mucosa. Eventually, the duct turns medially (third bending) and opens into the vestibule of mouth opposite the crown of upper second molar teeth. This tortuous course of the duct gives a valve-like mechanism to stop the inflation of the duct system of parotid gland during excessive blowing of the mouth as in trumpet blowing.
On the face the parotid duct is represented by the middle third of the line going from lower border of tragus to the midpoint between the ala of the nose and the red margin of the upper lip.
The accessory gland is emptied by a small duct that opens into the upper aspect of the parotid duct.
The probing of the parotid duct is hard due to its tortuous course. The probe is held in the sharp curves of the duct.
The parotid duct is located 1 finger’s breadth below the zygomatic arch and when the teeth are clenched, it might be rolled up and down against the stressed masseter.
The parotid duct being a superficial structure on the face, might be damaged in injuries to the face or might be cut accidentally during surgical procedures on the face.
The parotid duct and its ramifications can be demonstrated radiologically by injecting radio-opaque dye via a fine needle or canula inserted into the mouth of the duct in the vestibule of the oral cavity (parotid sialogram).
Sometimes, calculi (stones) may create in the parotid gland and parotid duct. The calculi lodged in the distal portion of the gland could be taken out by splitting up the duct from its opening in the mouth.
The parotid gland is supplied by the parasympathetic, sympathetic and sensory fibres:
Parasympathetic (secretomotor) supply: It is supplied via auriculotemporal nerve. The preganglionic fibres originate from the inferior salivatory nucleus in the medulla and pass successively via glossopharyngeal nerve, tympanic branch of glossopharyngeal (Jacobson’s nerve), tympanic plexus and lesser petrosal nerve to relay into otic ganglion. Postganglionic fibres originate from the cells of the ganglion and go through the auriculotemporal nerve to furnish the parotid gland. The stimulation of parasympathetic supply creates watery secretion.
Sympathetic supply: It’s originated from sympathetic plexus around external carotid artery created by postganglionic fibres originated from superior cervical sympathetic ganglion. The preganglionic sympathetic fibres originate from the lateral horn of T1 spinal section. The sympathetic fibres are vasomotor and their stimulus creates thick sticky secretion.
Sensory Supply: It’s originated from:
Auriculotemporal nerve.
Great auricular nerve (C2 and C3).
The C2 fibres are sensory to the parotid fascia.
Frey’s syndrome (auriculotemporal nerve syndrome):
Occasionally penetrating wounds of the parotid gland may damage auriculotemporal and great auricular nerves. The auriculotemporal nerve includes parasympathetic (secretomotor), sensory and sympathetic fibres. The great auricular nerve includes sensory and sudomotor fibres. When these nerves are cut, during regeneration the secretomotor fibres grow into endoneurial sheaths of fibres supplying cutaneous receptors for pain, touch and temperature and sympathetic fibres supplying sweat glands and blood vessels. Hence a stimulation meant for salivation evokes cutaneous hyperesthesia, perspiration and flushing. The presenting features of Frey’s syndrome are:
When an individual eats, the ipsilateral cheek (parotid region) becomes red, hot and debilitating. It’s related to beads of perspiration (gustatory sweating).
When someone shaves, there’s cutaneous hyperesthesia in front of the ear.
The arterial supply of parotid gland is originated from the external carotid and superficial temporal arteries.
The venous drainage of parotid gland happens into retromandibular and external jugular veins.
The lymphatics from the parotid gland drain into the superficial and deep parotid lymph nodes, which in turn drain into deep cervical lymph nodes. The superficial parotid nodes are located in the superficial fascia over the gland and deep nodes, deep to parotid capsule. Few members of the group are located in the superficial zone of the parotid gland
The parotid gland is ectodermal in origin. The parotid primordium grows during the 6th week of intrauterine life as a cord of cells by proliferation of ectodermal lining of the vestibule of the mouth near the angle of archaic oral fissure. It grows backwards in the direction of the ear and branches repeatedly. The parotid bud and its branches canalize to create the duct system and acini.
All the salivary glands originate from proliferation of the oral epithelium. Out of the 3 pairs of large salivary glands only parotid glands grow from ectoderm, others (submandibular and sublingual) grow from endoderm.
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Essex coach McGrath draws on positives
PUBLISHED: 12:30 29 June 2018
Essex head coach Anthony McGrath (pic Gavin Ellis/TGS Photo)
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Essex head coach Anthony McGrath looked at the positives after seeing the defending champions draw their match with Somerset at Chelmsford on Thursday.
The visitors were set 319 for victory, after Essex declared at 208-7 in their second innings and wobbled to 116-5 with 90 minutes still to play.
But Somerset captain Tom Abell and Lewis Gregory dug in to see their side to the close without further loss and McGrath sad: “Credit goes to both teams, I think it would have been very easy to play out for a draw. We were looking at results around the country and we wanted to try and force a win.
“Fair declaration, I thought, it gave both teams a chance. You saw Somerset went for it. But ultimately with the pink ball on a flat wicket it didn’t really help both teams. It showed if you wanted to defend on that wicket you could do that.
“It was always a tricky one because you want to dangle a carrot for them to go for it. I thought six an over from the start would make them do that, but you saw that they lost five wickets, and after that we had literally every man around the bat.
“The soft ball just didn’t bounce, and if it had been the red ball (Simon) Harmer would have got more out of the pitch. But it wasn’t to be. I thought it was a good game of cricket, a game which could have petered out to a draw went to the death.”
Essex’s batsmen turned in an improved performance, with captain Ryan ten Doeschate hitting a career-best 173 not out in their first innings 517-5, while Ravi Bopara scored 118 and 58 and Nick Browne added 66 and 75 on his return to the side following injury.
McGrath added: “You’ve got to take criticism when it’s deserved, and our batting has deserved some criticism. But we know when we get runs on the board we are a very difficult team to beat.
“Hopefully that’s on a template how we’re going to go on with our batting for the last six games of the season. Surrey are ahead in the race, all we can do is try and win our games and pull that deficit back.
“After these three games we’ve just had – a great win at Lancs, an awful game against Notts and we played most of the cricket here – I’ll assess this phase we’ve had that we’ve played at 70-80 per cent, if that.
“So I’m hoping we can take this performance on seven or eight weeks into the last six games and really play our best cricket.”
Essex are currently in fourth place, 37 points behind leaders Surrey having played one game more than their London rivals.
They now turn their attention to the Vitality T20 Blast, starting against Sussex Sharks at Chelmsford on Wednesday (6.30pm).
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https://www.ecc.fi/en/current-issues/news/2013/13.3.2013-commission-proposes-new-measures-to-strengthen-air-passenger-rights/
Commission proposes new measures to strengthen air passenger rights
The European Commission today announced a package of measures to ensure that air passengers have new and better rights to information, care and re-routing when they are stranded at the airport. At the same time there will be better complaint procedures and enforcement measures so passengers can actually obtain the rights to which they are entitled.
More information: European Commissions Press Release 13 March 2013
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Fashion Road Test: 4 Women Try Beyoncé's Ivy Park Fitness Collection
We run, jump, stretch, and kick, all for you.
By Nikki Ogunnaike
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Ivy Park, Ivy Park, Ivy Park. You've seen the promo videos, dissected the collection in its entirety—even watched Beyoncé wipe out gracefully on her roller skates in a head-to-toe blue lewk. But is that enough? No. Because as an editor, my mission in life is to make your life easier and answer key questions like "How does it feel?" and "Do you think you can actually work out in it?" So with samples in hand I called on a few friends and had them run, stretch, jump, and kick to show off how the gear really works.
Jessica Palu, Professional Dancer and Indoor Cycling Instructor
Who inspired you to get into fitness? I've led a very active lifestyle for as long as I can remember. As a professional dancer I was always into taking fitness classes, being active, and staying in shape! I've always had a passion for helping people and found a love for teaching when I moved to New York City.
What kind of workouts do you like to do? I do a combination of indoor cycling, barre, boot camps, and dance classes. I do indoor cycling every day and supplement with the other formats.
What's your workout strategy? It really depends on the day and my teaching schedule. If I have to teach in the morning, I like to get in a second workout after teaching, since I am already up and sweating. If I don't have to teach in the morning, I'll try to sleep in and work out in the afternoon or evening.
Do you prefer to work out alone or with a crew? I love working out with a crew. Having other motivated people around me pushes me to workout harder. If people are really into the class and hooting and hollering, I go extra hard.
Name five songs you listen to to get through a hard workout. I'm really into remixes and mash-ups these days. Anything with a good beat. I love Jess Glynne and any of her songs, such as "Hold My Hand" or "Ain't Got Far to Go." Fifth Harmony's "Work From Home" is another great one right now. I've also been really into the Fareoh remix of a song called "Drum Machine" by Big Grams. Finally, "The Sound" by The 1975 is a great song to climb to on a bike.
Share one word to describe how you feel when you're done working out? Accomplished.
Ashleigh Hults, Director, Marketing & Communication at Bandier
Who inspired you to get into fitness? I've danced since I was three years old—through high school and college—and I've always been very active. When I graduated college and worked in finance, I never wanted to go to steak dinners with clients. Instead, I organized workouts at boutique fitness studios around the city.
What kind of workouts do you like to do? Dance and yoga are my two favorite workouts. I normally workout at Bandier's fitness studio (Studio B), which is located on the third floor of our flagship store in New York City's Flatiron. Ten amazing boutique classes are taught there regularly, including "the class" with Taryn Toomey, Yoga for Bad People with Heather Lilleston and Katelin Sisson, Akin's Army with Akin Akman, and even a new jump rope class called "The Rope" with Amanda Kloots. Bari Studio and modelFIT also teach classes there and visiting instructors from around the world host pop-ups. It provides a really unique, well-rounded approach to working out. When I'm traveling I love to use Tracy Anderson's streaming service. Y7 is my favorite yoga studio because of their killer playlists and infrared heat. It's a game changer.
What's your workout strategy? I like to wake up early and take a long walk to start the day. The real workout normally happens in the evening. I love to end my day with a good sweat and to take the time to decompress.
Do you prefer to work out alone or with a crew? I love working out with a crew. Especially with dance, it's fun and motivating to have your friends with you.
Name five songs you listen to to get through a hard workout: "Panda," by Designer, "Hello Bitches" by CL, "6 God" by Drake, "Never Be Like You" by Flume, "Gold" by Kiiara.
Share one word that describes how you feel when you're done working out? Relaxed.
Julie Schott, Senior Beauty and Fitness Editor, ELLE.com
Who inspired you to get into fitness? Rick Owens said this in 2012: "No outfit is going to make you look or feel as good as having a fit body. Buy less clothing and go to the gym instead."
What kind of workouts do you like to do? New York Pilates on the reformer every morning, Nicole Winhoffer's class at Bandier, SoulCycle once a week, Barry's Bootcamp a few times a month (I fell off a treadmill there and I have PTSD).
What's your workout strategy? A morning workout is my mood stabilizer.
Do you prefer to work out alone or with a crew? Both!
Name five songs you listen to to get through a hard workout. Drake's "One Dance," French Montana's "All the Way Up," Lil Uzi's "Top," Future's "Wicked," Travis Scott's "A Team."
Share one word to describe you feel when you're done working out? Aroused!?
Nikki Ogunnaike, Senior Fashion Editor, ELLE.com
Who inspired you to get into fitness? My mom and sister have been my fitness guides through out my life. Liz, my mother, is the most fit person I know. She walks five miles almost every day (thus forcing my father to do the same), practices tai chi, and has most likely lifted more weights than anyone EVER in our hometown gym. Lola, my sister, blessed me with the phrase "I work out for sanity, not vanity," which I've adopted as my own mantra. Saturdays are our Sister Spin Days, where we take classes at Flywheel and then walk and talk for hours around New York City. I acknowledge how basic this sounds, but what can you do.
What kind of workouts do you like to do? I like to mix things up. I was a big runner for a while, and still like to run a race once a year, but now my mission is to get stronger. Classes like Refine Method, Fhitting Room, Raka Fitness With Ngo Okafor, and Barry's Bootcamp help me. Flywheel once a week gives me my music and cardio fix.
What's your workout strategy? I prefer to wake up and work out before anyone else can get to me. That way I can get my attitude and mood right before anyone else has the chance to taint it.
Do you prefer to work out alone or with a crew? Fit Fam for life, man. I work out with a crew of friends and editors and we cheer each other on, boost each other's sprits, and document the entire process on social media.
Name five songs you listen to to get through a hard workout? "Who Run The World (Girls!)" by Beyoncé, "Back to Back" by Drake, "Conqueror" from the Empire soundtrack, "F*ck Up Some Commas" by Future, and "N*ggas in Paris" by Jay Z and Kanye West.
Share one word that describes how you feel when you're done working out. Strong.
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Home » News & Guides » Could a global banking tax save Gordon Brown?
Could a global banking tax save Gordon Brown?
It seems that each and every day sees a new supporter of the proposed worldwide banking tax, otherwise known as the "Tobin tax" or the "Robin Hood tax", but will this new tax actually make it onto the statute books?
While there is still great resistance from the UK banking arena, and the worldwide banking arena, if we see another economic downturn around the world in the short term it is likely the pressure will grow and governments could have the opportunity to force through change. Many people also believe that introduction of a new banking levy around the world could actually save Gordon Brown's career and push him forward as the "international statesman" he so wants to be.
Figures released yesterday indicate a worldwide banking levy could raise upwards of £250 billion a year although quite how this would be spent and who would be in control remains to be seen. If the ongoing push for the introduction of a new levy is not successful in the short term there is a chance it could fade away, at least for the moment, and the banking arena would breathe a massive sigh of relief.
Whether or not it is fair to introduce yet another tax on the banking arena is a matter which is very much open to debate!
Could the EU undue George Osborne's good work?
As George Osborne sets himself to deliver one of the most important speeches of his life, i.e. the emergency budget tomorrow, there is concern that EU interference in member country finances could undo some of his good work. For many years the UK has battled against a growing tide of anti-UK feeling from within the EU with many members believing that the UK is holding back further integration and... Read More
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In a move which is sure to put more pressure on the rest of the UK banking sector it has been revealed that John Varley and Bob Diamond, the two most prominent figures in the Barclays bank operation, have waived their bonuses for 2009. At a time when the bank has put aside nearly £3 billion for staff bonuses it is unclear exactly what bonuses the two executives would have been entitled to, althou... Read More
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22/07/2015 Income Tax and National Insurance could be merged into a single “earnings tax”, as chancellor George Osborne has commissioned a review into the simplification of the tax system. David Gauge, the Financial Secretary to the Treasury initiated the new review into the issue by writing to the Office for Tax Simplification (OTS). In the letter he referred to the parallel tax system... Read More
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Bob Diamond, the boss of Barclays Capital (the investment banking division of Barclays Bank), has sold 1.8 million shares for a cool £5 million. This is in addition to the £27 million he received from the recent sale of the bank's fund management arm and further illustrates why the UK government and the UK regulators appear to be targeting the UK financial arena. At a time when the sector is... Read More
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It has been revealed that a number of high-profile and highly paid presenters at the BBC are officially employed on a freelance basis despite the fact that they are for all intensive and purposes full-time members of staff. It is alleged that a number of these high paid presenters have set up their own private companies into which their income from the BBC is paid in order to take advantage of mor... Read More
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HMD Global launches first Nokia smartphone | Reuters
Fwire Reuters Jan 08, 2017 22:45:04 IST
HELSINKI HMD Global, the Finnish company that owns the rights to use Nokia's brand on mobile phones, announced on Sunday its first smartphone, targeted for Chinese users with a price of 1,699 yuan ($246).The launch marks the first new smartphone carrying the iconic handset name since 2014 when Nokia Oyj chose to sell its entire handset unit to Microsoft.The new device, Nokia 6, runs on Google's Android platform and is manufactured by Foxconn. It will be sold exclusively in China through online retailer JD.com, HMD said."The decision by HMD to launch its first Android smartphone into China is a reflection of the desire to meet the real world needs of consumers in different markets around the world... it is a strategically important market," HMD said in a statement.Nokia was once the world's dominant cellphone maker but missed the shift to smartphones, and then chose Microsoft's Windows operating system for its "Lumia" range.
After the 2014 deal, Microsoft continued selling cheaper basic phones under Nokia's name and Lumia smartphones under its own name, but last year, it largely abandoned both businesses.HMD in December took over the Nokia feature phones business and struck a licensing deal that gave it sole use of the Nokia brand on all phones and tablets for the next decade.
It will pay Nokia royalties for the brand and patents, but Nokia has no direct investment in HMD. Nokia Oyj is currently focused on telecom network equipment business and technology patents.HMD CEO Arto Nummela, who was once responsible for Nokia's sales and product development, told Reuters last month that HMD aims to be one of the key competitive players in the smartphone business where it faces tough competition from Apple, Samsung and dozens of other players.
HMD launched some new Nokia basic phones last month. It said on Sunday it was looking to launch more new products in the first half of the year.($1 = 6.9176 Chinese yuan renminbi) (Reporting by Jussi Rosendahl and Eric Auchard)
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Difference between revisions of "Halifax Old St Paul, Yorkshire Genealogy"
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Halifax Old St Paul, was built as an ecclesiastical parish within Halifax Township in the year 1772. It subdivided the ancient parish of HALIFAX St. John the Baptist), and is partly in the union of Todmorden, but chiefly in that of Halifax, wapentake of Morley, W. riding of York; comprising the market-town and borough of Halifax, the parochial chapelries of Elland and Heptonstall, and the townships of Barkisland, Erringden, Fixby, Hipperholme with Brighouse, Langfield, Midgley, Norland, Ovenden, North and SouthOwram, Rastrick, Rishworth, Shelf, Skircoat, Sowerby, Soyland, Stainland with Old Lindley, Stansfield, Wadsworth, and Warley; the whole containing 130,743 inhabitants, of whom 19,881 are in the town, 42 miles(S. W.) from York, and 197 (N. N. W.) from London. Old St Paul's was destroyed by 1850, and a chapel called New St Paul's built in place of it. <ref>Lewis, Samuel A., ''[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50998 A Topographical Dictionary of England] (1848), pp. 372-379. Adapted. Date accessed: 04 June 2013.</ref> <br>
Halifax Old St Paul, was built as an ecclesiastical parish within Halifax Township in the year 1772. It subdivided the ancient parish of HALIFAX St. John the Baptist), and is partly in the union of Todmorden, but chiefly in that of Halifax, wapentake of Morley, W. riding of York; comprising the market-town and borough of Halifax, the parochial chapelries of Elland and Heptonstall, and the townships of Barkisland, Erringden, Fixby, Hipperholme with Brighouse, Langfield, Midgley, Norland, Ovenden, North and SouthOwram, Rastrick, Rishworth, Shelf, Skircoat, Sowerby, Soyland, Stainland with Old Lindley, Stansfield, Wadsworth, and Warley; the whole containing 130,743 inhabitants, of whom 19,881 are in the town, 42 miles(S. W.) from York, and 197 (N. N. W.) from London. Old St Paul's was destroyed by 1850, and a chapel called New St Paul's built in place of it. <ref>Lewis, Samuel A., ''[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=50998 A Topographical Dictionary of England] (1848), pp. 372-379. Adapted. Date accessed: 04 June 2013.</ref>
England Yorkshire Yorkshire Parishes, A-I West Riding Halifax St Ann in the Grove
2.2.1 Online Records
Halifax Old St Paul, was built as an ecclesiastical parish within Halifax Township in the year 1772. It subdivided the ancient parish of HALIFAX St. John the Baptist), and is partly in the union of Todmorden, but chiefly in that of Halifax, wapentake of Morley, W. riding of York; comprising the market-town and borough of Halifax, the parochial chapelries of Elland and Heptonstall, and the townships of Barkisland, Erringden, Fixby, Hipperholme with Brighouse, Langfield, Midgley, Norland, Ovenden, North and SouthOwram, Rastrick, Rishworth, Shelf, Skircoat, Sowerby, Soyland, Stainland with Old Lindley, Stansfield, Wadsworth, and Warley; the whole containing 130,743 inhabitants, of whom 19,881 are in the town, 42 miles(S. W.) from York, and 197 (N. N. W.) from London. Old St Paul's was destroyed by 1850, and a chapel called New St Paul's built in place of it. [1]
Online Records[edit | edit source]
Online data content from chapelry registers of Halifax Old St Paul may exist at some of the following websites:
AO = Archive.org
FS = FamilySearch.org
ANC = http://www.ancestry.com/ (£)
HATH = HathiTrust.org
JMI = JoinerMarriageIndex.co.uk
HALIFAX OLD ST PAUL CHAPELRY (1772) Online Records Note: It has been determined that numerous FS Crosstone christening entries are attributed incorrectly to Heptonstall Chapelry (which also see), and to which Crosstone was attached at some point in its history. Entries start at least by 1787.
Baptisms Marriages Burials
Indexes Images Indexes Images Indexes Images
FS None
JMI None
ANC (£) None
HATH None
AO None
HALIFAX ST JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH (1538) Online Records
AC 1538-1910 1538-1910 1538-1935 1538-1935 1538-1916 1538-1916
FS 1538-1593,
1720-1847 None 1538-1593,
1720-1837 None Add None
JMI None None 1538-1599 None None None
HEPTONSTALL Chapelry (1593) Online Records
For a full list of all those chapels surrounding Halifax Old St Paul and comprising the whole ancient parish of Halifax St John the Baptist to which it was attached, be certain to see "Church Records" on the Halifax St John the Baptist page.
To find the names of the neighbouring parishes, use England Jurisdictions 1851. In this site, search for the name of the parish, click on the location "pin", click Options and click List contiguous parishes. Contributor: Include here information for parish registers, Bishop’s Transcripts, nonconformist and other types of church records, such as parish chest records. Add the contact information for the office holding the original records. Add links to the Family History Library Catalog showing the film numbers in their collection.
Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Yorkshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.
any additional relevant sites that aren't mentioned above.
Reference[edit | edit source]
↑ Lewis, Samuel A., A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848), pp. 372-379. Adapted. Date accessed: 04 June 2013.
Retrieved from "https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Halifax_Old_St_Paul,_Yorkshire_Genealogy&oldid=1382176"
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Action's Best Bets, Oct. 9
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USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 8:04 a.m. CT Oct. 7, 2016
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The Broken Cinch Saddle Club 60th anniversary party and reunion — 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 16, at the Cow Palace, located at the Fond du Lac County Fairgrounds. Members ranging from 8 to 80 years old will gather for the celebration. Members will share stories from the past. Bring your own “stick horse” and enter the “stick horse” horse show. If you don’t own one, you can borrow one for the afternoon. A lunch stand will be provided. To attend, RSVP by Oct. 9 to Chris Kocos at foxnwinston@hotmail.com.
United Way fundraiser — 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday, Oct. 10, at the City/County Government Center, 160 S. Macy St. Collective Goods, formerly Books Are Fun will be selling an assortment of books, gifts and games. From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. brats, hamburgers and A&W root beer floats will be available. All proceeds will benefit the Fond du Lac Area United Way.
55 Senior Dining Club — 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 11, at Gino's Italian Restaurant, 584 W. Johnson St., Fond du Lac. For information, call Max at 920-269-4180.
Immanuel-Trinity Lutheran Church fall festival, chili supper — 11 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 11, at Immanuel -Trinity Lutheran Church, in the gym, 20 Wisconsin American Drive, Fond du Lac. Chili or hot dogs, dessert and beverage. 920-921-4545.
Hockey and Figure Skating Open House — 5:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 11, at Blue Line Hockey, 550 Fond du Lac Ave., Fond du Lac. Introduction to hockey and figure skating sessions available for boys and girls ages 4 and up. fdlblueline.com.
Preschool Story Time — 10:45 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 11, at Oakfield Public Library, 130 N. Main St., Oakfield. Music, crafts and stories for all ages of pre-school children. Free. 920-583-4552. oakfieldlibrary.org.
Pumpkin Patch Flower Box Painting — 6 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 11, at Macy Place, 82 S. Macy St., Fond du Lac. Paint a pumpkin patch on a cedar flower box. Cost includes materials. 920-254-7887. macyplace82.com.
Books Between Bites — 12:10 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 11, at Salem United Methodist Church, 120 Sheboygan St., Fond du Lac. Free. 920-921-8605.
Learn to figure skate — 5 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 12, at Blue Line Hockey, 550 Fond du Lac Ave., Fond du Lac. Wednesdays to Nov. 9. Free. fdlblueline.com.
Story hour — 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, Oct. 12, at Campbellsport Public Library, 220 N. Helena St., Campbellsport. For preschool children. Free. 920-533-8534. campbellsportlibrary.org.
Adult Coloring at Macy Place — 5 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 12, at Macy Place, 82 S. Macy St., Fond du Lac. Cost includes materials and first beverage. 920-254-7887. www.macyplace82.com.
Evening with Nature Program: Earthquakes in Wisconsin, The Dog That Didn't Bark — 7 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 13, at Ice Age Visitor Center, N2875 State 67, Campbellsport. Speaker: David Hart, hydrogeologist with the Department of Environmental Sciences at UW-Madison. Free. 920-533-8322.
Christmas Card Making Class — 5:45 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 13, at Eden Grill, N7591 Taycheedah Trail, Taycheedah. RSVP one day prior to 920-960-4390. Fee includes ink, paper, Big Shot and accessories. Bring your own adhesives and tools. Cost charged. stampinup.net/esuite/home/christinebertram.
Coloring, Coffee and Conversation — 4:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 13, at Brownsville Public Library, basement, 379 Main St. Brownsville. For adults and teens. Free event. Supplies provided. Basement accessible only by stairs. Free. 920-583-4325. brownsville.lib.wi.us.
Paws to READ — 4:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 13, at Brownsville Public Library, basement, 379 Main St., Brownsville. Youth will read to Kona and Baxter, therapy dogs, for 15-minute time slots. Register at the library. Free. 920-583-4325. brownsville.lib.wi.us.
Halloween Nature Hikes — 6:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 14, at Mauthe Lake Recreation Area, N1490 Fond du Lac County GGG, Campbellsport. Best for ages 5 and up. 60-minute hike. Canceled in event of severe weather. Free with a 2016 Wisconsin State Park Vehicle Admission Sticker. Donations accepted.
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On August 22, 2018 By Janet Joyce
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Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism. By Emily Ogden. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. xiv + 268. $27.50 (paperback), $82.50 (hardcover). by Charles McCrary
It can be a terribly tenuous thing, being modern. It slips. To be a secular liberal subject, a choosing agent, a person in control of faculties and wits, requires diligence. But if you’re ever unsure of your own enlightenment, it can be reassuring to find someone unenlightened. Even Benjamin Franklin, a healthy, wealthy, wise [...]
Beyond Class, Only Commentary: Rereading the Licchavis’ Origin Story in Buddhist Contexts; Charles S. Preston
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Abstract The origin story of the Licchavis, retold in two commentaries on Nikāya texts, has received some scant attention in the modern scholastic record, yet has usually been either cast aside as so much myth or has been recast in thematic or structural studies that align it with other tales of incest, foundling narratives, or origin stories [...]
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Keywords: Islam; women in religion; Muslims in the UK; Salafism; conversion. The topics of women in Islam and Salafism in Europe have garnered considerable attention from researchers, journalists, policy-makers and the wider public recently. Anabel Inge’s book The Making of a Salafi Muslim Woman, which analyses UK-based Salafi Muslim women’s everyday experiences and is [...]
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Portal – Chapter 21
Posted on February 25, 2013 by Drak Bibliophile
Chapter 21.
“Welcome to Europa, General,” Madeline said as he stepped out of Munin.
For a moment, he didn’t answer. He had seen many spectacular and awesome views already on this journey, enough to make him fear at times that he would lose the capacity for wonder. But the sight of mighty Jove looming above the jagged-spiked horizon, looking down upon the small white-shining collection of shelters and the bronze-colored alien shape of the Nebula Storm stopped him in his tracks, filled him once more with an achingly strong feeling of mingled triumph and awe that here his people and those of the IRI had survived, had built, had made this first foothold on a world in the Outer System, under the very eye of deadly, beautiful Jupiter, and he knew that there was much wonder left in the universe.
“I thank you, Madeline,” he said. “I am very glad to be able to come here, to see this world and the base that you have all built together.”
Left on Odin now were Jackie, Horst, Mia, and Anthony. Madeline had come out with the last crew to help fly the Munin back, as it had been universally agreed (before he was even asked) that he should have the opportunity to visit, and she was the only other even vaguely qualified pilot for Munin.
That of course is not quite accurate, the General mused to himself as Madeline and Joe followed him down the ladder. I could fly Munin myself, if the occasion arose. “Where should I expect to stay? Aboard Munin?” The fact that the two were carrying his personal belongings seemed to argue against that idea.
“No, sir, General. You get the vacation suite for the few days you’re staying. We’ve cleared it out for you.”
His initial instinct was to protest, but he certainly liked the idea of a shower, even under low gravity, a great deal, and of a place that seemed able to at least somewhat pretend to be on a safer and more comfortable world. “I am very grateful.”
“Live it up, General!” A.J. Baker said. “The rest of us actually have had a few days there over the past few months. You should’ve had a turn a while back.”
The General did note that the sensor expert’s voice sounded oddly strained. “Are you all right, Mr. Baker?”
“Oh, about as all right as you can expect. Look directly across from you.”
The large circular structure on the far side of the camp showed movement, and Hohenheim understood. “Ah, yes, you are in your gravity practice now.”
“Yep. And still not used to it. You’ll get your chance at that, too. Doc Petra insists.”
“Yes, General. You really should have been brought down earlier,” Petra continued. “There’s no excuse for people not spending some time even in this … feeble gravity field, let alone avoiding the centrifuge now that we have it built.”
“I look forward to it,” he said with a smile. “I have had much time to exercise, of course, but actual weight on my feet is hard to come by.”
He found himself slightly disoriented by that weight, in fact. After many months of weightlessness, the existence of a completely stable frame of reference was highly peculiar, and weight itself felt… wrong. It became clear just how unused he was to this experience when he suddenly tumbled across the ice.
“General! Are you all right?” Madeline Fathom drifted down near him as he began to carefully right himself. “What happened? That didn’t look like an ordinary fall.”
“I am physically unharmed,” he answered, trying to keep the chagrin from his voice. “Somewhat embarrassed, that is all. I must pay more attention to my movements in future, until I re-acquire the habit of gravity.”
“Oh, man,” Joe said. “Of course. You haven’t had even this much ever since the fiasco.”
“No, and I have developed excellent new reflexes for living in constant no-gravity. I stopped concentrating and in mid-stride my body tried to shift to prepare for deceleration against the habitat ahead.”
“Yeah, I guess there’s still a world of difference between zero gravity and one-seventh or eighth, like here,” A.J. remarked. “And a few world’s difference between that and this.”
“Do not overdo it, Mr. Baker,” Petra Masters’ voice was stern. “I know you are proud of maintaining your physical condition and dislike the shifts you have seen, but you will make nothing better for yourself by pushing too far.”
“Yes, Doc. I’ll try to distract myself with that stuff Ares sent us on the monitor designs for the Mars colony.”
Hohenheim raised his eyebrow; the motion did not go unnoticed by Madeline, who was apparently watching his imagery closely. “A.J. designed all the condition monitoring for the Mars Colony, and they’ve been having some problems expanding it. Now that we’ve managed to establish reasonably good contact through Odin, we’re all able to get stuff from back home.” She caught herself. “Well… almost all of us.”
“Hm.” He had actually been doing a great deal of thinking about that. It was hard not to, given that he was aware of the data traffic passing through his vessel and that much of it had initially consisted of heartfelt thanks and greetings from the relatives and friends of his surviving crew and those of Nebula Storm.
They passed through the airlock into Vacation Hotel Europa. He stumbled again in surprise. The interior did indeed seem to be lit by bright, real sunlight pouring through the windows. He caught himself this time, and took some time to slowly remove his helmet.
The air actually smelled… fresh. “How in the world… or perhaps I should say in the worlds… did you manage this?”
“Manage what?” Joe asked, perplexed, then, as he took his helmet off and saw the General sniffing the air, grinned. “Oh, that. Well, keeping the filtration systems up to top standard has of course been one of our top priorities, given that breathing is the first crucial survival necessity. Ours, of course, weren’t as abused as poor Odin’s – we didn’t really have fires, damaged insulation, all that kind of stuff forcing the recyclers and filters to take the insult of that level of aromatics. But it’s really Dan who takes that credit.”
“I just happened to be tracking a lot of the research being done on space environmentals. It’s my job,” Dan protested uncomfortably.” And while we couldn’t get some of the unique filters and supplement cartridges shipped to us that the latest deployment on Phobos Station was using, I was able to get the specs and how they worked – exactly what chemical species had to be removed, and which ones had to be added, and the exact structure of the metamaterials involved in making it all work pretty much automatically. Still wouldn’t have made any difference because I saw it as just theoretical. It was actually Reynolds Jones who pointed out that we were missing a bet.”
“Jones? I’m unfamiliar with the name. Oh, wait a moment. Yes, he was one of the people from Ares who came out to assist you, as it turns out, with the vessel that came to be Nebula Storm?”
“Right. Ren’s one of the best materials science experts around,” Joe confirmed. “And so when we sent him the one report, I mentioned what a shame it was that we couldn’t get one of those filters, and he replied – how’d he put it, A.J.?”
“Heh. He said, in typically polite Ren fashion, ‘It’s a shame that you can’t adapt A.J.’s materials repair dust to work on other materials.’ That’s about as close as Ren ever came to calling us stupid.”
“And we were being stupid. Though I guess the fact we’ve been working on a thousand survival-type things since we crashed is sort of an excuse.”
“We have all been guilty of various forms of stupidity, I suppose,” the General agreed with a smile, finally stepping out of his suit into the startlingly warm air. “But what materials repair was he talking about?”
“Oh, yeah, you wouldn’t know about that. Well, the Nebula Storm wasn’t exactly in launchable condition when we found her, and the biggest single problem was the drive control spines and related circuitry relied on a lot of the RTSC – room-temperature superconductor – stuff we discovered on Phobos,” A.J. explained. “Since all the basic elements were there in mostly the right patterns, I had some Faerie Dust made that was tailored for fixing that kind of thing. Used it to process the stuff back into the proper metamaterial structure. So Ren was just pointing out to us that if I had something capable of doing that, there wasn’t any good reason I couldn’t – with Dan’s help – make it generate the right structure on a filter, if we had all the materials available. It took a few weeks, but it worked. I’m not sure whether we’ll be able to do that to all the key filters in the Odin,” he continued, “but we might. But the one in Vacation Hotel Europa’s special; we sent back to the Japanese, who’d come up with the process, and begged ’em to tell us what to do to give the interior of the place the smell of a seaside cabin. They turned that request around in less than 48 hours.”
“Not too surprising,” Madeline pointed out, hanging the General’s bag inside one of the small closets. “As they have been focused on exploiting the entertainment and vacation aspects of space – and are doing well at it – I suspect they already had that figured out and were using it. The surprising part is that they didn’t charge us something for it.”
“I’ll bet they have,” Helen’s voice said. “Welcome to Europa, General,” she added. “They probably sent us the formula here, and billed Nicholas. And he probably paid the license fee for the patent without argument.”
“You’re probably right,” A.J. said. “And it’d be just like him to not say anything to us about it, either. He’s good people.”
“He is,” agreed the General, along with several of the others.
“Well, General,” Madeline said, “I’ll leave you to get comfortable and relax for a bit. You can have a tour a little later, if you want.”
“I would like that. But if you would be so kind, Ms. Fathom, I would appreciate it if you would stay for a bit. I would like to talk to you privately. Nothing untoward, of course,” he said, looking at Joe.
“General,” Joe said cheerily, “you outweigh her by at least three to one I think, and I’m sure you’re a dangerous man, but I’m perfectly certain that if you did mean anything ‘untoward’, Maddie would break you like a twig. I’ll let you have a Commander’s Conference in this lovely resort center while I go set up the water transfer connection to Munin.”
“Thank you, Mr. Buckley.”
Once Joe had left, Madeline looked at him curiously. “What can I do for you, General?”
Alberich Hohenheim let himself sit slowly in one of the chairs near the artificially-bright windows. “I have been thinking about the current situation – the fact of our likely conflict with the ESDC and any of their allies.”
“I see,” she said, taking a seat of her own. “And you’re wondering if we need to keep your existence a secret any longer.”
He blinked. “You are… a very perceptive woman, Ms. Fathom. Or do you prefer –”
“Fathom in this, which is my professional capacity. I’m only Fathom-Buckley when it’s a social circumstance.”
“Fair enough. Yes, that is indeed the question. I have some family at home, and a large number of friends. Not only are they mourning me, they are undoubtedly now processing my estate. This will be… complicated to unravel when I get back.”
She nodded. “No doubt. And there’s little point in my sending inquiries in that direction; just doing so could trigger suspicions in the wrong quarters.”
“Unless we do drop the mask and let them know I am here,” he said. “I am not married, so it is not as though I have a wife and children living through this – which would make this a vastly harder decision – but I do have a brother and sister, and several nieces and nephews who are very dear to me. I am unwilling to keep putting them through this pain unless it is necessary.”
She studied him for a moment, with an analytical gaze that, he found, actually made him somewhat uncomfortable. A dangerous woman in many ways. It may be that Mr. Buckley is a much more formidable man than he appears, to have won her apparently exclusive affections. “So you want me to confirm that this is necessary, or to say we do not need to continue the charade?”
“I… suppose in a sense. I don’t expect you to make the decision by yourself.”
“General, if you’re waiting for me, I think that means that you already have thoughts on the matter, but were hoping I would make a decision and solve the problem for you.” She shook her head. “You are a commanding officer, a military man who’s made no few decisions in his life. You’re not the sort to not have a clear opinion. And also, why just me?”
“But,” he countered, “I am also human, and there are aspects of this that are very personal. I need to be sure that I am making the right decision, and not being either overly sentimental, or being deliberately hard-hearted in order to avoid sentimentality.
“As to your second question, your husband put it succinctly enough; this is a commanders’ conference. You and I are equals in this mission, and this is a command decision.”
She smiled. “A reasonable response. All right.” She sat back in her chair and thought for a moment.
“General, as I see it, much of the damage of your silence is already done. It has been months. Once we reached the Odin and said nothing, it would be considered an absolute fact that you had perished on your vessel along with most of your crew. At that point, funerals would be held, wills would be probated, all the processes of a death would be set in motion, and most of them would have concluded by now, unless your will and estate were most complex to handle. I would expect that you would in fact have had a very straightforward will.”
“On the other hand, the question is whether there is still any benefit to maintaining silence. We now have deduced good reason to believe that we are not entirely out of danger, and will not be until we have arrived safely at some destination in-system – most likely either Phobos Station or Meru at Earth; I think most projections of likely departure make Ceres an increasingly unlikely destination.”
He waited as she paused, thinking.
Finally Madeline continued. “As the commanding officer of Odin, you have certain unique traits. Perhaps the most important here is that you are a high-ranking military officer, rather than a civilian as are all of the other survivors of Odin. You were Fitzgerald’s commanding officer, and you were directly aware of a number of his actions which led ultimately to this situation. You have the best grasp of the entire sequence of events as it happened aboard the Odin, and you were also the last one to confront the immediate culprit. Your testimony will be – if not absolutely critical – one of the most powerful arguments against our opponents. And while they can obviously anticipate anything that your other surviving crew might say, or that we might say, it is very unlikely they will be assuming a dead man might come back to accuse them. It is also possible,” she went on, “that they may try first to use overrides based on your personal command codes; if so, you can counter those directly.”
“So you are of the opinion that I should remain a dead man for now?” He felt some sense of relief.
“I think that if we were to do otherwise, we’ve then put your friends and family through unnecessary pain. These months of mourning and acceptance will have been a waste of time for no reason. Perhaps it will turn out that hiding your presence has no real effect on the outcome – but if it’s even a small possible effect, I would say that it’s worth it now to keep that ace in the hole.”
He nodded decisively. “I thank you, Madeline. This was the tentative conclusion I had reached, but I was afraid I might have been selfishly justifying these actions.”
“Selfishly?”
He smiled, feeling a touch of embarrassment again. “Yes. You see, I am a man who appreciates dramatics, and I cannot help but feel a great anticipation in revealing my presence in direct accusation when we arrive.”
Madeline laughed, and shook her head. “You’re not the only one that likes dramatics here, General, and I can’t blame you. In fact, I’m sure we all would like to get a chance to see their faces when that happens.” She stood.
He rose to help her with the suit. “I appreciate your willingness to help me see my way clear.”
“My pleasure, General. I –”
Alarms screamed through Vacation Hotel Europa, as they must have been throughout Europa Base, and the artificial projected light vanished, replaced by the actual view outside the windows; Hohenheim watched in shock as the support framework for Athena, the absolutely vital melt-probe, suddenly crumpled under some invisible impact.
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11 Responses to Portal – Chapter 21
If they didn’t have bad luck, they would have no luck at all.
RichardK says:
How accurate would a projectile from earth orbit be? Perhaps a self guided missle set to target Athena’s profile?
If someone could shoot them, all the way from Earth, why would they bother shooting the ice-melting machine?
So they can claim it was an accident. No water equals no fuel for return, and possibly no life support.
ET1swaw aka Rob says:
Didn’t Joe Buckley just go out to work on the water hookup (therefore working with the suggested Athena disaster/target zone)?
The JB/Baen ?curse? finally strikes!!!
We are on chapter 21 already and he’s been disgustingly trouble free IMO!
And AJ (our other trouble magnet) is on the surface working out inside the centrifuge!! Nice placement Ryk!
/Rob
momreads says:
Since the references pile up in different stories, is/was there a real Joe Buckley and whatever happened to him? Where can I find some information?
I love the story.
There is a real person named Joe Buckley and he’s still alive & well.
Joe is a regular on Baen’s Bar and was a beta reader for one of John Ringo’s books.
IIRC Joe made some comments about the book that John disagreed with and believed that Joe was out-of-line (as a beta reader) to make them.
So John re-named a character (who was having a very bad day) Joe Buckley. John only “killed” the character later in the series.
Around the same time, David Weber had a character also named Joe Buckley and for some reason killed that Joe off.
After that several Baen authors (including Eric Flint) decided that they should “kill Joe Buckley”.
Eric & Ryk have just been giving Joe “near death experiences” in this series.
By the way, the real Joe Buckley has been taking both the “near death experiences” and the “killing Joe Buckley” well.
Athena has found something in the ice that didn’t want to be found.
JeffM says:
Or maybe something in the ice found Athena?
Ryk E. Spoor says:
All you doom and gloomers. I’m sure it’s nothing serious.
Robert H. Woodman says:
Yeah, right. Cue the suspenseful music. :-)
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Why Is EU Demanding That Macedonia Change Its Name?
January 5, 2011 Eurasia Review 62 Comments
By Bill Nicholov
“The EU is not involved in changing the identity of people. Identity is something sacred and it should not be negotiable,” according to European Union ambassador Erwan Fouere.
So why is the EU demanding that Macedonia change its name in order to gain membership?
Mr. Fouere was responding to the latest European Commission report that removed references to the Macedonian language and used the term “state language” instead. The United Nations followed suit and removed all references to the Macedonian language. Macedonia had to demand reinstatement.
Greece claims that it wants the Republic of Macedonia to change its name to “prevent confusion” with the province of Macedonia.
Does the EU actually believe this? Then again, it is bailing out Greece after it blatantly lied about its economic situation.
The nonsensical name dispute was initiated by Greece in order to continue its policy of non-recognition and persecution of its large Macedonian minority. Former Greek Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis admitted in 1995,
“My main aim was to convince the Republic [of Macedonia] to declare that there is no Slavomacedonian [using the Greek government’s pejorative term for the Macedonians of Greece] minority in Greece. This was the real key of our difference with Skopje.”
Ironically, Greece now claims that “Macedonia is Greek”, but it was not until 1988, when Greece realized that independence for the Republic of Macedonia was imminent, that it renamed “Northern Greece” to “Macedonia.” Prior to this, Greece’s policy was that Macedonia did not exist. Now its policy is “The more outrageous the lie, the more believable it becomes”.
The question is, does the world believe it? The answer appears to be “no”. 129 countries, including four of the five permanent UN Security Council members, have recognized Macedonia. Now will these countries take the next logical step and denounce the name negotations as an unprincipled intrusion on the constitution of a sovereign nation?
Unfortunately, the United States, which has already recognized Macedonia, is calling for a “compromise”. The US views itself as a leader in spreading democracy and human rights throughout the world. So how does it justify asking a country to change its own name?
The European Union and NATO have taken it one step further. In addition to calling for a “solution”, the EU and NATO are allowing themselves to be handcuffed by Greece’s racist and xenophobic policies. Every NATO member-state supported Macedonia’s membership, yet Greece was permitted to veto it.
According to former US Secretary of State, Lawrence Eagleburger, “The name dispute is unnecessary and unfounded, since Macedonia was called the same in the time of former Yugoslavia and this did not cause any problems then”. He added, “Is there anything more immature and more foolish than ‘blackmailing’ a nation by denying its membership in international organizations, which goal is to preserve the peace and protect their members from aggression of non-members.”
Yet for two decades, the United Nations admission of Macedonia as a member under the “temporary” reference “Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” persists.
If Greece’s “name dispute” with Macedonia made any sense, then where are the calls from the US State of Georgia for the Republic of Georgia to change its name? How about the Belgian province of Luxembourg demanding that Luxembourg change its name?
The first UN mediator for the name dispute, Robin O’Neil, said that “Macedonia must not and will not change its name in order to appease Greece. If Macedonia succumbs to pressures and changes its name, such events will only give more firepower to Greece until it reaches its final goal – Macedonia to vanish from the map.”
Every Macedonian government has continued the ridiculous name negotiations solely to satisfy American and Western European pressure to find a “compromise” with Greece. Instead of capitulating to countries that demand a change to Macedonia’s name and identity, the Macedonian government must immediately end the name negotiations and demand support from these countries.
Bill Nicholov, President
Macedonian Human Rights Movement International
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62 thoughts on “Why Is EU Demanding That Macedonia Change Its Name?”
Ioakimidis
The name is FYROM. The country agreed to the name: the former yugoslav republic of Macedonia – pending resolution with Greece as to the name of the country.
Terry2toes
This article is offencive and racist. I am a Macedonian and everytime the name Macedonia comes up I feel sickened because of this situation. Why should this country be allowed to use the name Macedonia when the UN advised that they could not use this name when they formed a new country. Why does this article only take a one sided racist view on this topic. What about the millions of Greek Macedonians having to sit back while this dubious nation tries to steal our identity. Why are hundreds of the world scholars and historians protesting fyrom’s attempt to usurper Greek Macedonian, Heroes, Symbols, History and Identity.
http://macedonia-evidence.org/
The worlds most renouwned Historians and Schiolars also protest FYROM not just Greece.
Tale Buling
I don’t usually reply to people that have a distorted opinion based on hear say,or served by Gov. propaganda. This time I will make the exception, only to protect the impartial and uninformed good natured innocent readers.
Greek claim that Macedonia and Macedonians are Greek is falsification of history , attack to democracy , decency and civility.
There are volumes of proofs to support this, do to space constraints I will mention few :
The Greek Prime Minister : ” when the big war comes Macedonians will become Greeks or Bulgarians, according to who wins , if Greece wins we will make all of the Greeks” I don’t think comments are needed to this statement.
In the city of Solun ( Thessaloniki ) Greece had a Consulate until less than 100 years ago !! If Macedonia was Greece as claimed why was a consulate needed.
By law enforced by Greek Gov. ALL Macedonian personal names were changed ( by force ) to Greek including the names of dead Macedonians!!! . ALL toponims were changed from their original Macedonian names to Greek !?
From the above examples one can easily conclude the truth.
Up to you to accept it.
Denko Maleski, politician of the FYROM:
“The lack of capability by Macedonists in condition of democracy, also contributes to the vision of their opponents. The creation of the Macedonian nation, for almost half of a century, was done in a condition of single-party dictatorship. In those times, there was no difference between science and ideology, so the Macedonian historiography, unopposed by anybody, comfortably performed a selection of the historic material from which the Macedonian identity was created. There is nothing atypical here for the process of the creation of any modern nation, except when falsification from the type of substitution of the word “Bulgarian” with the word “Macedonian” were made. In a case which that was not possible, the persons from history were proclaimed for Bulgarian agents who crossed into some imaginary pure Macedonian space.
But when we had to encourage the moderate Greek political variant and move into a direction of reconciliation among peoples, our nationalism was modelled according to the Greek one. The direct descendants of Alexander the Great raised the fallen flag on which the constitutional name of the Republic of Macedonia was written and led the people in the final confrontation with the Hellenes (Greeks), the direct descendants of Greek gods. This warlike attitude of the “winners” which was a consequence of the fear of politician from heavy and unpopular compromises had its price. In those years, we lost our capability for strategic dialog. With Greeks? No, with ourselves. Since then, namely, we reach towards some fictional ethnic purity which we seek in the depths of the history and we are angry at those which dare to call us Slavs and our language and culture Slavic!? We are angry when they name us what we -if we have to define ourselves in such categories- are, showing that we are people full with complexes which are ashamed for ourselves. We lost our capability for reasonable judgment, someone shall say, because the past of the Balkans teaches us that to be wise among fools is foolish. Maybe. Maybe the British historians are right when they say that in history one can find confirmation for every modern thesis, so, we could say, also for the one that we are descendants of the Ancient Macedonians…”
(Utrinski Vesnik newspaper, October 16, 2006)
Hello and good evening.I do not want to offend any part of course. The facts are very clear in history.With the Slav invasion in the 6th century, most of the Balkan peoples have been assimilated, the changes in the course of human history have always been, I AM NOT TO TEACH YOU, BECAUSE I SEE THAT JUDGES ONLY FROM YOUR PART AND NOT FROM ALL THE TWO NATIONS. Today’s Macedonians have been here for centuries, mutations have always been there all over the world !!!!!!!!! The fact is that North Greece was until 1988, and then later renamed it in the suburbs of Macedonia. He had no right to negotiate a name of a nation, it is a shame …
Mr. Nicholov is propagating false information.
In 1988, Greece renamed its Ministry of Northern Greece to the Ministry of Macedonia-Thrace. The Greek Province of Macedonia existed prior to 1988 and continues to be called Macedonia.
Dont take my word for it. Investigate it for yourselves.
For additional info, please see
http://www.macedonia-evidence.org where Academics from all over the world (most non-greek) have signed on to a petition refuting the Propaganda of FYROM activists such as Mr. Nicholov.
Hey Nikolaou go show everybody your passport and tell them how MACEDONIAN You are.
dear bill, stop lying and revising history.
Another piece of Macedonian Propaganda full of inacurracies and half-truths.
Which are these so-called “129 countries”?
Why does RoM’s government fear so much that it prevents them from publishing an official list of these countries?
Almost each time a Representantive/Mouthpiece of RoM’s state will refer to the issue, he will give a different number making it apparent to anybody that they are simply lying. If you intend to keep harping the same nonsense at least provide a list with the countries.
Now we have the very same people who have oppressed their own Bulgarian Minority crying about “Human Rights”. How ridiculous!
For decades whoever dared to identify in former Yugoslavia/RoM as Bulgarian, he would face not only losing his job but the worst kind of persecutions, even finding himself jailed/thrown to “Psychiatric Institutions”. The recent issue of Spaska Mitrova is a fine example what Bulgarians in RoM still suffer from RoM’s Nationalistic Regime.
Is there anything more immature and more foolish than having the very same people who have “invented” a falsified History by stealing Bulgarian, Greek, Albanian heroes, all the time have to point so hypocritically the finger elsewhere??
I concede that the name negotiation is ridiculous from the right begining. Decades of brainwashing have resulted to have currently a Macedonian population in RoM full of hatred for its neighbours – especially bulgarians, racism being prevalent and Irredentism wet dreams about territories from neighbouring countries.
A Nationalitic Regime like RoM who cultivate Propaganda, Invented history and Irredentism are in no position to have any meaningful negotiations with anyone.
In answer to your letter’s title “why is EU Demanding that Macedonia Change its name?”. The answer is simple. In 1993, FYROM agreed to the following terms: To use the name FYROM until a resolution to the name was reached, and by doing so, it would then be allowed to join the United Nations. As FYROM accepted this, it was admitted into the UN. The EU has also accepted this agreed undertaking by FYROM. However, as you are well aware, FYROM then went back on its word and adopted Republic of Macedonia and insists on using it.
So, if FYROM wants to join the EU, it needs to adhere to the 1993 agreement. Do I need to stress it any simpler? [and no, I am not a Greek]
The slavs of FYROM have to come to the realisation that stealing the Greek culture to create their own culture based on a lie is fooling the world. Not only that, they are stealing from bulgaria’s identity and Serbia and trying o fool the world.
Francis Wilson
Nobody’s asking Skopje to change its name or identity — just not to steal someone else’s name and identity. If Skopje truly seeks good relations with its neighbours it wouldn’t provoke them. And make no mistake, Skopje isn’t only provoking Greece by building giant statues of Alexander the Great and printing stamps that include Greece’s northern province of Macedonia or by using the symbol of ancient Macedonia unearthed in Pella, northern Greece, it is also provoking Albania, Bulgaria and Serbia. If Skopje thinks that it can better the lot of its people by starting a new First World War or Balkan War it should think again, as at the moment its only friend is Turkey, and we all know why Turkey would want to become friends with Skopje and supply it with military equipment.
Born Macedonian
Dear Francis,
it is so sad to read posts like yours. The only cure for people like you is to come to Macedonia, meet us, the real Macedonians, and try to cionvince us that we are not what we are. Imagine your first neighbor saying that you are not Francis Wilson, and that if you want to be a frined with him/her, you need to become Franko Nobody! How ridiculous of all of you.
But yet, you are all welcome to Macedonia, to speak freely about your frustrations, which is not the case with Greece.
Rainbow party in Greece – supporting allegedly (slavo)macedonian minority in Greece, never received more than 9.000 votes, less than 0,09%, in all elections the last twenty years. That hardly defines a large minority.
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Goce
What the hell is a ‘greek Macedonian’? Why is it that athens never made a fuss about the name prior to Macedonia’s independence? I believe the racists in Athens need to read a book that hasn’t been published in athenialand to see a proper view of history of the Balkans. ‘fyrom’ only exist only in your racist nation, everywhere else in the world we Macedonians from the Republic of Macedonia. That’s the only truth. You greeks being majority Christians, should do as the bible says and love thy neighbor. Merry Christmas to all Macedonians around the world and to all other orthodox Christians who celebrate Christmas today. Поздрав до сите Македонци
‘From the Greeks we took it, to the Greeks we give it back’
Turkish Pasha on the negotiation for the surrender of the city of Thessaloniki.
Greece never made a fuss untill it started seeing Alexander the Great statues raised in FYRoM city squares, stadiums and streets renamed after Greek heroes.
Greece never made a fuss untill it saw maps of FYRoM including Greek provinces.
Greece never madwe a fuss untill it had to stand up and protect its identity from frauds and revisionsts.
Barry Davies
Well the fyrom should take heed of how the most undemocratic govenment in the entire world actually behaves and tell them to go stick it, they will lose all autonomy and their nation will get enveloped in barosso’s empire if they contunue with the idea of joining. There is no benefit to anyone other than corrupt politicians for the eussr to continue, stay away from it if you value your nation and its principles.
Chris Mouzeviris
More propaganda from the FYROM side! If only it was just about the name! FYROM is trying to falsify Greece’s history and heritage, it is propagating against its neighbor and then it demands to become “allies” and belong to the same European family! Would you allow someone like this to be your “ally”? It is not just EU, but also USA as the writer of this article mentions, and even the UN..If the concerns of Greece were wrong, then no one would have stood by its side.
For more please visit my blog (www.eblanademocraticmove.blogspot.com) and read the article “The issue with FYROM” to understand what is really behind the struggle between Greece and FYROM, from the liberation from the Ottoman Empire, the role of the Bulgarians, the Jews, and other minorities of the region, the will of the European powers, the Greek civil war and everything that lead to this until today.
Greetings from Dublin.
Nickov,
What language do you speak?
Answer: Bulgarian.
What is your ethnicity?
Answer: Slavic (Western Bulgarian).
What is the ancient geographical name of your land?
Paoinia (Ancient Macedonia is in Greece)
Something “…ov”
Case closed! neighbour.
MariaMKD
Demanding a name change is not just undemocratic, unprecedented but absurd and chauvinistic act. This is not justifiable in the 21 century. Greece has to stop the cultural genocide and somebody such as the EU have to wake up and start listening instead of, leaning on the Greek side.
Kiro Gligorov, first president of the FYROM:
“We are Slavs who came to this area in the sixth century … we are not descendants of the ancient Macedonians.”
(Foreign Information Service Daily Report, Eastern Europe, February 26, 1992, p. 35)
“We are Macedonians but we are Slav Macedonians. That’s who we are! We have no connection to Alexander the Greek and his Macedonia… Our ancestors came here in the 5th and 6th century AD.”
(Toronto Star, March 15, 1992)
enatGR
The absurd thing about Greeks is that they think Macedonia has changed its constitutional name when it entered UN! Macedonia NEVER changed its name and Greece is still trying to impose a CONSTITUTIONAL name change to the Republic, which is IMPOSSIBLE. The name “Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia” is only for use in the UN and a few other international institutions where Greece has a power of veto. Nobody can obliges countries or people NOT to use the real name of the Republic of Macedonia and of course it is not ILLEGAL to use it. After all, Greece is a member of UN with the name of GREECE while its CONSTITUTIONAL name is HELLAS!!!!! Nobody can prohibit to Greeks or foreigners to use the constitutional name “Hellas” and tell them that they should use the name Greece everywhere and always, because this is the name by which the country entered UN!!!!
Stephen E. Palmer, Robert R. King:
The treatment of “Macedonian” history has the same primary goal as the creation of the “Macedonian” language: to de-Bulgarize the “Macedonians” and create a separate national consciousness.
(“Yugoslav Communism and the Macedonian Question”, 1971)
Gyordan Veselinov, diplomat of the FYROM:
“We are not related to the northern Greeks who produced leaders like Philip and Alexander the Great. We are a Slav people and our language is closely related to Bulgarian. There is some confusion about the identity of the people of my country.”
(Ottawa Citizen, 24 February 1999)
makedonomachos
FYROM Formerly Know as Southern Serbia then VARDARSKA BANOVINA (till 1944) The area occupied by FYROM was know in ancient times as PAEONIANS. CAPITAL: Skopje – It was a Roman colony founded in (81-96 A.D.) know as Scupi
LANGUAGE: Slavic which is related to Bulgarian. ETHNIC: 60%Slav, 33%Albanian. HEROES: Josip Broz Tito the Creator(Croatian), Gotse Delchev(Bulgarian). St Cyril and Methodius(Greeks). INDEPENDENT: Recognised on 8th April 1993 HISTORY Copied from the Greeks and Bulgarians.
Chris Eblana
Can you actually tell me why with the spread of the empire of Alexander the Great, we see the beginning of the HELLENISTIC period in the world of art, architecture and history, and GREEK language was spread from the Balkans to Egypt and India, and not “Macedonian”..?? Why we do not have any evidence of a separate “Macedonian” language and the Greek language became the lingua franca of all the HELLENISTIC states? Honestly people the history shouts out loud and you want to live in la la land…!!
First of all HELLENISTIC is not HELLENIC! Hellenistic is a made-up world to describe the civilization in the period of time AFTER Alexander the Great and during the Roman Empire, to DISTINGUISH it from the Hellenic civilization which was VERY DIFFERENT!
And it is not the Greek language which became the lingua franca but the KOINE! The koine has lots of Greek words in it but also many other words of several other languages and was spoken by many people of different ethnic background and not just by Greeks (Macedonians spoke it , too). As about an ancient Macedonian language there are many testimonies from several historic sources that confirm its existence.
Study real history and not just the old Greek historical political propaganda!
Con T
Even the word KOINE is Greek.
Poor misguided Slav.
The history books I study are not Greek but English.
Would you have us read the history books of the old Yugoslavia or the ones that the Soviet Union gave you.
Like those now non-existent states crumbled as a result of their lies so will yours.
Eugene N. Borza, American historian, expert on Macedon:
“Modern Slavs, both Bulgarians and ‘Macedonians’, cannot establish a link with antiquity, as the Slavs entered the Balkans centuries after the demise of the ancient Macedonian kingdom. Only the most radical Slavic factions—mostly émigrés in the United States, Canada, and Australia—even attempt to establish a connection to antiquity. The twentieth-century development of a ‘Macedonian’ ethnicity, and its recent evolution into independent statehood following the collapse of the Yugoslav state in 1991, has followed a rocky road. In order to survive the vicissitudes of Balkan history and politics, the ‘Macedonians’, who have had no history, need one. They reside in a territory once part of a famous ancient kingdom, which has borne the Macedonian name as a region ever since and was called ‘Macedonia’ for nearly half a century as part of Yugoslavia. And they speak a language now recognized by most linguists outside Bulgaria, Serbia, and Greece as a south Slavic language separate from Slovenian, Serbo-Croatian, and Bulgarian. Their own so-called ‘Macedonian’ ethnicity had evolved for more than a century, and thus it seemed natural and appropriate for them to call the new nation ‘Macedonia’ and to attempt to provide some cultural references to bolster ethnic survival…”
(“Macedonia Redux”, in “The Eye Expanded: life and the arts in Greco-Roman Antiquity”, ed. Frances B Tichener & Richard F. Moorton, University of California Press, 1999)
T.J. Winnifrith, British scholar:
“Macedonia (FYROM) was also an attempt at a multicultural society. Here the fragments are just about holding together, although the cement that binds them is an unreliable mixture of propaganda and myth. The ‘Macedonian’ language has been created, some rather misty history involving Tsar Samuel, probably a Bulgarian, and Alexander the Great, almost certainly a Greek, has been invented, and the name Macedonia has been adopted. Do we destroy these myths or live with them? Apparently these ‘radical Slavic factions’ decided to live with their myths and lies for the constant amusement of the rest of the world!”
(“Shattered Eagles, Balkan Fragments”, Duckworth, 1995)
The only people in Europe with no history are the modern Greeks who where invented by the European philhellenes and made of the diverse population of the Morea region which was re-named as Peloponnese, like in antiquity. Macedonia, from the other end, never changed its name and there is no need to rename it now (though modern Greeks tried to re-name their part of Macedonia in province of Northern Greece, but since 1988 they changed their mind and called it again Macedonia!!!). There is nothing such as a greek nation: the only nation that exists now in Greece is the Greek Orthodox Patriarch Christians who call themselves after the ancient Greeks but all of them have a different and more modern ethnic background (Slavs, Albanians, Gypsies, Turks, etc). And of course, all their modern “greek“ history is fake..They still argue among themselves if they are Moraites, Romii (Romans), Greki or Hellines and the last 20 years Macedonians, too, no matter where are from!!!!!!
Alexander the Great, king of Macedon, 356 BCE – 323 BCE:
“Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you…”
(Alexander’s letter to Persian king Darius in response to a truce plea, as quoted in “Anabasis Alexandri” by Roman historian Arrian, Book II, 14, 4)
Try to read some book not published in FYROM, it will only do you good.
I am a Macedonian who is very proud of my Greek/Hellanistic ancestry. I am so disgusted with you Vardar Slavs for trying to steal my heritage by lying to yourselves and the world by calling yourselves Macedonians. You have been lying to yourselves for so long that you actually believe that you are Macedonians. Do yourselves and the world a favour and admit that you are truly Bulgarians who speak a Bulgarian dialect. This will also help heal the dire tensions with the Albanians who you discrimanate against in your country. Fess up! Why do you think the EU, UN, and USA want you to change your name?…Because they see past the lies your kind is telling. Greece is doing eveything it can to protect the heritageof the many millions of its Macedonians. No one is asking you to change anything that you never really had in the first place. Greeks know this. Bulgarians, Serbians, Albanians, the EU, UN, and USA knows this. You are marginalizing the real Macedonians who originate from Greece by trying to sell yourselves as Macedonians. Shame on you Vardar Slavs! Tell the truth for a change.
christos mouzeviris
enatGR you got to be joking!! The Hellenistic period in art and culture was full Greek! The Ptolemies spoke greek, the KOINE is a Greek dialect! Ask any historian in the world and he/she will confirm you that. Also visit the ancient Macedonian cities of Pella, Vergina, Philippoi and their ruins, the Archaeological Museum in Thessaloniki and Vergina, and if you see any other culture than the Greek, then I might give you the argument. All the findings that are being unearthed show one civilization! A Greek one!
Uneducated Europeans and Americans who visit Greece just to get booze and shunshine, if they actually bothered to learn about the heritage that this part of the world has, this issue would not have dragged so long. You fall for FYROMian propaganda that has been injected in their poor minds by Tito! They have been brainwashed for decades to believe that they got anything to do with ancient Macedonians. They are one of the newest ethnic groups in Europe, and because they have no history of their own they try to steal that of Greece! Better start making your own!
As for the arguments that modern Greeks have nothing to do with the ancient, again, visit the country and explore the heritage. Just because we do not believe in the 12 Gods anymore it does not mean that ancient Greeks simply vanished! No one claims that we are pure descendants of the ancient ancestors, but there is no proof that we are all Turks and Gypsies. That is a racist comment as expected by a Fyromian!
Dennis P. Hupchick, American professor of history:
“The Macedonian nationalists quite simply stole all of Bulgarian historical argument concerning Macedonia, substituting Macedonian for Bulgarian ethnic tags in the story.”
(“Conflict and Chaos in Eastern Europe”, Palgrave Macmillan, 1995)
“The obviously plagiarized historical argument of the Macedonian nationalists for a separate Macedonian ethnicity could be supported only by linguistic reality, and that worked against them until the 1940s. Until a modern Macedonian literary language was mandated by the socialist-led partisan movement from Macedonia in 1944, most outside observers and linguists agreed with the Bulgarians in considering the vernacular spoken by the Macedonian Slavs as a western dialect of Bulgarian.”
Krste Misirkov, Slav-Macedonian philologist and publicist, considered a national hero in FYROM:
“Some will ask why I speak of breaking away from the Bulgarians when in the past we have even called ourselves Bulgarians and when it is generally accepted that unification creates strength, and not separation.”
“And, anyway, what sort of new Macedonian nation can this be when we and our fathers and grandfathers and great-grandfathers have always been called Bulgarians?”
“We are more Bulgarian than those in Bulgaria.”
“We speak a Bulgarian language.
(“On the Macedonian Matters”, Sofia 1903)
Thomas Niles, American diplomat:
For “Macedonia” to be recognized as an independent state, it would be necessary to change its name […] It is historically proven that the Yugoslavian Democracy of Macedonia was created by Stalin, Tito and Dimitrov, aiming at the stealthy removal of a large part of Northern Greece. This Democracy was used during the period 1944-1949 in order to destabilise Greece.
(Statement on the 23rd June 1992 to the SubCommittee of US Congress, Eleutherotypia newspaper, 24 June 1992)
Michael David Rann, Australian politician:
“For many years, since the decade of the ’90s, we have been making efforts so that the name Republic of Macedonia is not recognized, because no nation should steal the history and symbols of another nation […] For all of us who love History, and know History, Macedonia is as Greek as the Acropolis.”
(Eleftherotypia newspaper, May 05, 2007)
Call me as you like
Call me as you like, you are good in that.
Fact 1
History is written by the winner
The Governments are controlled by other global authorities
Aegean Macedonians now lives in Macedonia(fyro Macedonia) and all over the world.
Ask them how they were exiled from Aegean Macedonia.
Most of you never met real Macedonian
You are wasting energy debating, someone else is deciding.
I ll be and I ll stay Macedonian because I was born like that.
Real Macedonian
I notice too many Greeks here calling themselves “Macedonian” to confuse the issue. You are either Greek or Macedonian. You either speak Greek or speak Macedonian. They are not the same aside from the fact that Greece won half of southern Macedonia in the Treaty of Bucharest 98 years ago which doubled its size. They want the antiquity and glory of Macedonia attached to their names. I can’t say I blame them. Macedonia is beautiful, but how do they sleep at night? They lied about their economy, they don’t pay taxes, everything in the world was invented by a Greek according to them. When will the hypocrisy stop? The US is on their side because the Democrats are in office and are supported by the Greeks…and really, the US needs their naval base on Crete. The world is waking up as 2 more countries recognized Macedonia by its constitutional name this week. History is on Macedonia’s side.
See the big Picture
To all the Greek posters: Take a more neutral view of the issue at hand and you will understand the issue better. Greece is a country created in 1832 out of an autochthonous population mixture -of Slavs, Albanians (Arvanites), Wallachians(Vlachs), Franks, Romans, turks and who kbows what else- in the vision of the Philhelenes of 19th century Europe. A vision that has resulted in todays Greeks claiming direct decent from Hercules, Achilles and Pericles. So in light of that I am not alarmed by the claims of the Macedonians. That is par for the course in that region. Even more recently in the 1920’s nearly a million Christians from Turkey (including the Karamanlis) were settled in the Greek province of Macedonia and the people are now claiming to be Macedonian decedants of Alexander the Great.
egejche
Macedonia’s name and identity are her own business. Greeks were handed a large portion of historical Macedonia by the World Powers in 1913 for the first time in world history, but that doesn’t mean they own the history of that land.
The Republic of Macedonia is not North Macedonia because the nation is called Macedonians, and the Macedonian people come from everywhere in historical Macedonian territory, including southern Macedonian towns such as Solun, Kostur, Lerin and Voden.
The Republic of Macedonia is not Slavo anything, because language does not equal national identity. We are communicating in English, but that does not make us Englishmen.
The Republic of Macedonia is the free, independent homeland of the Macedonian nation, and its name will never change, you can bet on it.
Keep up the good work, Bill
Big Mak
The Greek posters love to use western philhellene quotes to prove they are right. Yet they can’t even look to their own family history for any comfort at all.
It’s a well known fact that Lord Byron was very surprised when he came to Athens and discovered that there where no ‘Adonis’ Greeks anywhere. Instead all he found were Albanian speaking peasants, the Arvaniti who had no idea what an Acropolis was. Even Hammond, the ultimate philhellene has clearly stated that the Peloponnese is vastly Albanian.
Also, what about the Latin speaking Vlach’s who dominated in Thessaly and who could be found all over ‘Greece’ and Macedonia? What happened to them? In Macedonia they are a recognized minority with full rights.
Actually a modern Greek is no different than a modern American. Yet Americans don’t claim a linear descendance from the Mia! You are only Greek in nationality. Your ethnic identity however has been willingly exterminated for an adopted one and now you want to do the same to the passive Macedonians ever since acquiring their land in 1913. Macedonians have been through unspeakable and horrible tragedy yet they have survived. They will take back their heritage and their homes in due time.
The western world’s darling Greek nation was created and supported in it’s quest to exterminate Macedonians simply because it was unacceptable to have ‘Slavs’ who would turn to the hated Russians for their sphere of influence threatening western interests in the Mediterranean. There needed to be a buffer and the Avano-Vlach’s were the willing guinea pigs of the west.
The slavic migration theory is a dead theory created at a time when east struggled against west and the world was thought to be 5000 years old. Would anyone care to quote Florin Curta? Just remember our neighbors to the south: The bigger the lie, the bigger the fool one will be when the truth is finally revealed.
Well you don’t like scholarly quotes from non Greeks, just because you don’t agree with them. Maybe you like quotes from officials of the FYROM instead?
Ljubica Acevska, diplomat of the FYROM:
We do not claim to be descendants of Alexander the Great… Greece is Macedonia’s second largest trading partner, and its number one investor. Instead of opting for war, we have chosen the mediation of the United Nations, with talks on the ambassadorial level under Mr. Vance and Mr. Nemitz […] We are Slavs and we speak a Slav language.
(On 22 January 1999, in a speech on the present situation in the Balkans)
Slobodan Casule, politician of the FYROM:
We belong to the same Slav people.
(To the Foreign Minister of Bulgaria, Solomon Pasi, Utrinski Vesnik newspaper, December 29, 2001)
The idea that Alexander the Great belong to us, was at the mind of some outsider political groups only! These groups were insignificant the first years of our independence but the big problem is that the old Balkan Nations have been learned to legitimate themselves through their history. In Balkans, if you want to be recognised as a Nation, you need to have history of 3000 years old. So since you made us to invent a history, we invent it! […] You forced us to the arms of the extreme nationalists who today claim that we are direct descendents of Alexander the Great!
(In an interview for Greek TV channel Mega, November 2006)
To all the fyromian readers..My mother is Greek Macedonian…Her family is of greek stock and indigenous in the village of Epanomi, just outside of Thessaloniki, Greek Macedonia’s capital. Her family came from nowhere else..You are not the only “macedonians” in this world..when are you gonna give up this propaganda..? you are not going to enter either EU or NATO if you continue like this, simply because we can not have “allies” that want to steal our cultural heritage..
there has been always been people of greek stock in Macedonia, in Gevgeli, in Plondiv (Philippoupolis) all the way down to Chalkidiki. The argument that all modern Greeks are descendants of Turks, Slavs and Albanians is racist in based in no valid arguments. That is why EU is not allowing you in, not because of Greece..start clearing the mess in your own country, give the human rights in your own minorities and stop demanding anything from other nations like Greece or Bulgaria..The real reason you are not entering EU is because you are not worth it, not because of Greece’s veto.
how about the Greek, Albanian (30% of the population), Gypsy, Turkish, Bulgarian and Serb minorities in FYROM? Especially the suppressed Greek minority that had to change their surnames into slavic? if you want to go ahead with accusations, bring in on, you have a lot, A LOT of skeletons in your wardrobe too…
Three of my posts are deleted. What kind of a joke is this??
Eurasia ReviewPost author
Your comments are more than welcome, spamming isn’t — which is repeated cut and pasting of comments.
Thanks for the reply. It’s just that I think scholarly quotes on the issue are more reliable than my point of you, that’s all.
point of *view
That may be true, but could try to place the quotes in one comment, rather than in multiple posts, which tags it by our editors as possible spam. Thnx
Take a look here:
370 international classical scholars (historians, archaeologists) dismissing FYROM’s claims on Macedonia.
I looked at the suggested website and the list of 370 “classical scholars”. It is interesting to see that the majority of those names look Greek to me. It would be also interesting to know how many of these “scholars are married to Greeks”. If I am not mistaken Stephen G. Miller is one signer that is married to a Greek.
Tomas Wojt
Modern Greeks should be very careful when judging others on history and ethnicity. Here is a sample of their own ethnicity.
“The Usable Past” – 2003
By K.S Brown & Dr. Yannis Hamilakis
“..As a result of a number of historical factors, much of the rural population in central Greece was Albanian-speaking by the time of the creation of modern Greek state in the 1830s”
“Politics in Modern Greece”,
By Professor Keith R. Legg
“…At the time of independence, the range of local dialects was significant; substantial portions of the population spoke Albanian.”
“Insight Guides Athens Greece Series”
By Martha Ellen Zenfell
“…True Athenians were a relatively small minority even in the Age of Pericles. In a later period, the city was suffering from severe depopulation and was re-stocked with Albanians. At the time of Greek independence in 1834, Athens was a miserable village with a population of only 6,000″
Lucy M. J. Garnett
“Greece of the Hellenes” – 1914
“..It is because Athens, twenty five years ago, was only an Albanian village. The Albanians formed and still form, almost the whole of the population of Attica; and within three leagues of the capital, villages are to be found where Greek is hardly understood.”
“EURYDICE STREET – A Place In Athens”
By Dr Sofka Zinovieff, PhD
“…This preoccupation with Greekness only really began after the War of Independence (1830), when defining what it meant to be Greek became a vital element in creating a new state – Their first capital was the smart little Peloponnesian port Nafplio. It was thought to be far more suitable than the goat-infested ruins and the insignificant, predominantly Turkish-Albanian settlement which existed in 1900-century Athens”
I am sorry Tomas, this is nonsense!! You obviously do not know enough history and you just take from it what it suits you…Have you ever heard about the exchange of populations that took place after the Balkan Wars and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire..?? Almost all Bulgarians, Slavs, Turks and Albanians left Greece, and vice versa, many Greeks were expelled from Turkey, Bulgaria what is today FYROM..It was a tragic and horrible situation that destroyed the region, but it created HOMOGENOUS nations,(by religion, culture and heritage) simply because that was the purpose of such disastrous policy agreed by all the then governments of those new states..
Besides, what European nation can claim “purity”? Mention one. We never said that we are 100% pure descendants of the ancient Greeks, but is a British man of today of some other ancestry, say Indian, African or other European, can not call himself a British man because part of his DNA is other than white anglosaxon British? Do you know how you sound like when you talk about DNA “purity”..?? Yes, that’s it! A Nazi!
The issue is not about the “purity” of a nation, rather the cultural heritage and history. No matter if the Greeks of today are mixed or not, the heritage of ancient Greece and Macedonia goes to them by inheritance! No matter if the Greek citizen that claims that heritage is “pure” Greek, of white skin or darker one, christian, pagan or muslim! Do you understand that?
The name dispute is not about the name, we in Greece call the fyromians “slavomacedonians”, that means macedonians of slavic decent! Do you get it now? Because simply that is what they are, but they are trying to tell us that they are the decendants of the ancient Macedonians, and this is rubbish! They speak a south slavic dialect and as we know the slavs came down to the region 1000 years later than Alexander the Great! Their alphabet is the Cyrillic one, and that was created by two Thessalonican priests more than a millenium after the rise of ancient Macedonia! how this is possible?
We do not object to the name so much rather them using and falsifying our history and heritage! If they dropped all these nonsense this issue would be resolved by now. But they do not. And they are making fool of themselves by claiming ancient Macedonian heritage!
Like all decendants of ancient Greeks, whether they are the Grikos of south Italy, the Cypriot Greeks, the Macedonian Greeks, the Epirotans, the Pontic Greeks, the Thracians, the Thessalians, the Greeks of Alexandria, the Peloponesians, the Cretans, the Islanders of the Aegean, the islanders of the Ionian sea, the Greeks of Asia Minor and the Ionians. We all have the same heritage but also different individual ones, different dialects, customs, music, but we are all united by a pan-Hellenic one. Those who came later in the region like the Vallachs and the Arvanites, they too call themselves Greeks by choice. Perhaps for the same reasons that a Frenchman of Algerian decent calls himself a Frenchman. Can you tell him that he is not? My cousin and one of my aunts are married to two Vallach men, believe me if you tell them that they are not true Greeks, they won’t take it nicely.
And before anyone points the finger to Greece, lets see how “pure” other nations of Europe are! Turkey? You got to be joking!Albania? FYROM? Bulgaria? France? Spain? Italy? Britain? Perhaps the least “mixed” nations are the ones of Scandinavia due to geographical isolation. Now if you like you may continue to base your arguments on “purity” but I will have every right to call you a Nazi, because that is what you are!!
The naming dispute is not just about the name! It involves all those issues that I have mentioned, but also remnants of the Greek civil war, when the Greek communists and their slavomacedonian collaborates were expelled from Greece with the blessings of the Western Powers, simply because they did not want a strong communist influence in Greece, a country that fell under the “West’s” sphere of influence. Those people demand to re enter Greece and ask for their properties back. They are denied, as they were considered traitors of the nation and that is what they are exactly! How can you allow them to come back with such anti-Hellenic attitude and why? Their ancestors were kicked out from Greece and many went to today’s FYROM and other eastern European states. Most of them who left for the ex USSR states were allowed to come back. Fyromians though they are still forbidden! And a good thing too!
for more on this issue please visit my blog and search for the post “The issue with FYROM” (www.eblanademocraticmove.blogspot.com)
a Greek Macedonian
Vasil
The responses of Greeks to this article is exactly why Macedonia should be able to be just Macedonia, what it’s been for thousands of years. Their responses mirror the ludicrous xenophobic position of the Greek goverment, which is anti-Macedonian to its core.
While those that go to “Greek school” don’t seem to understand, the rest of the world accepts a separate Macedonian nation, country, language and culture. Perhaps one day “Greek school” will advance into modern society and accept these realities.
Macedonia (the northern and most populous Greek region) is indeed always been Macedonia for thousands of years. The problem is with the FYROM, the modern Slavic-Albanian country at the north of Macedonia that was Paeonia in antiquity, an enemy of ancient Macedonia and Macedonians, a Greek land and people. Now FYROM is inhabited mainly by Slavs (self-identify as Bulgarians only until the beginning of the 20th century) and Albanians, using a Bulgarian language with Serbian orthography. Citizens of the FYROM are now brainwashed and they think that they can call themselves Macedonia and their language Macedonian even if they have nothing in common with the Greeks what so ever! The problem is not with Greece:…
“The adoption of a compound name with a geographic content and with respect for the distinction between ancient Macedonia and the state of FYROM, would serve both the truth and the present-day needs of the geographic region and of the larger area surrounding it. The Greek interest does indicate the concern of public opinion in the face of intransigent provocations on the part of Skopje that tend -as is evident even in the school textbooks- not only to appropriate but even to monopolise the history, the cultural achievements, the symbols -including the ancient ones-, the monuments, and the personalities that were active in the Macedonian area in the past. It is self-evident that the expression of good will on the part of any Greek government is not sufficient to overcome the fact or the effects of nationalist excesses similar to those that were artfully cultivated during the post-war period.” (Academy of Athens)
…but with FYROM and their ultra nationalistic government that publishes school books with territorial claims against Greeks. Deal with it.
Edward O’Hara, British politician:
“Attention may have been deflected from the danger in that area by the nature of the dispute between Macedonia (FYROM) and Greece, which is seen as being ostensibly over a name, although it amounts to more than that. A name is important as it gives an area an identity. I shall not indulge in a lecture on the ancient identity of the Macedonians and on Philip II of Macedon and Alexander the Great, but the Greeks were historically correct in the campaign that they launched in the early days of the dispute. Understandably, detached outsiders say, “But that is ancient history, isn’t it?” Nor shall I engage in a lecture on the falsification of the history of Slavo-Macedonia since 1944, although that, too, has much hard factual content. I simply remind the House that Tito’s renaming of Vardar Banovina as the Republic of Macedonia in 1944 was a political statement. More than that, it was a territorial claim. It laid claim to territory in Greece and in Bulgaria. Notably, the objective was the warm water port of Salonika on the Aegean. The Greeks fought a bloody civil war on that issue between 1945 and 1949, when we were celebrating the peace that was commemorated as recently as yesterday. Clause 49 of the constitution of the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia enshrines that claim and subsequent propaganda, especially by a political faction, the VMRO, has kept the claim alive ever since.” (House of Commons Hansard Debates for 9 May 1995, Column 601)
“President Kiro Gligorov may argue that he cannot control the publications of political parties, but I believe that the adoption of the sunburst emblem of Vergina, recently discovered in Greek Macedonia on the coffin of Philip II of Macedon, the father of Alexander the Great, is a wilful act of authorisation of that claim. If hon. Members wish to empathise with the strength of feeling about that emblem, it is as though the thistle were stolen from the Scots and adopted by another country. It is an emblem, but it stirs up passions. President Gligorov has mounted an impressive propaganda campaign about that, which has deflected attention from some of the more substantial issues in that earlier dispute and, in great measure, has succeeded in casting the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in the guise of the little victim of the big bully, Greece…
Greece has no territorial dispute with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. It is almost unique in the Balkans in having no such territorial claims on any of its neighbours. Greece has demonstrated its desire to have policies of support and co-operation with its neighbours in that part of the world by its breakthrough in its relationship with Albania, on which both Governments deserve congratulations because thereby another potential flashpoint to the south of the Balkans was damped down. Greece is physically located in the Balkans. It wants nothing more than to achieve a similar relationship with the former Yugoslav republic, but it needs support to do so.
It is no wonder that, in matters of politics in the Balkans, Greece feels misunderstood. It cannot understand why, after it stood alone with the United Kingdom against the forces of fascism between 28 October 1940–Ohi day, as it is still called–and 27 April 1941, when Athens finally fell, its former allies now appear to be taking the part of forces against which it stood, especially when, after the second world war, it endured those further four years of civil war to hold the line against the communist advance to the Aegean. That was done for the United States and for the United Kingdom especially–the world powers of the time–and those Governments objected, in 1944, to Tito’s change of the name of Vardar Banovina.”
(House of Commons Hansard Debates for 9 May 1995, Column 602)
To the previous poster.
History is very clear when you read what professors, Ph.D, academics, authors, statesmen are saying about the ethnic composite of the modern day “Greek”.
In my book, the right to self-determination and international law of human rights, speaks louder than what you and your fellow modern-day Greeks thinks of the citizens of Rep. of Macedonia.
Its been proven that the Greek state has been a multiple offender of human rights, in-particular towards minorities, Turks and Macedonians. In 2009, UN minority report by Gay McDougal stated clearly of the minority rights abuses – The European Court of Human Rights has even convicted (2004) the Greek state for minority rights. So it’s not surprising that modern Greeks, like yourself, would even deny the human rights of other people.
The right to cultural heritage and history is the right to self-determination. You are only allowed to call yourself “Greek” because of the human right to self-determination. And that goes with any other people as well. You’re no exception.
Besides, what makes you think you deserve the cultural heritage and history of ancient Greece?
The land of Greece has been re-stocked with people many times over since 500 AD. The Slavic invasion from 600, or, 700 AD reached all the way down to Peloponnese, which later followed by the Vlach and Albanian invasions from 1000 AD towards 1800-century. In the meantime, the Ottoman invasion (1300-century) brought and re-stocked the land of Greece with Turks.
Your forefathers were most likely ethnic Albanians, Vlachs, Slavs, Turks etc. And yet you talk about “cultural heritage and history” as if you had ethnic belongning to the real Greeks in the ancient times.
I’d say that you were GIVEN this heritage and history from the western powers, ironically from Germany.
To sum it up, here is what some known authors, statesmen and professors write:
“The Body Impolitic”
By Michael Herzfeld, Professor of Harvard
“..Here is the ultimate Greek tragedy: that of a country forced to treat everything familiar at the time of the nation-state’s foundation as ‘foreign’ while importing a culture largely invented – or at least – redesigned by German classicists of the late eighteenth early nineteenth centuries. For many decades, and almost without interruption, Greeks were forced to put aside music, art and language that were deemed too tainted by the ‘oriental’ influences of Ottoman, Arab, Slavic and Albanian culture; to forget the partially Albanian roots of Athens”
“GREECE OLD AND NEW”
William St. Clair
Byron and Greece – Page 161:
“..Most Greeks (Christian Orthodox) did not share Byron’s views and would not have understood his allusions. They did not think of themselves as Greeks at all – and certainly not as Hellenes. They had little sense of nationality in the Western European sense of a nation state like England or France with distinct geographical boundaries, a single language, and uniform culture. They thought of themselves rather as the Orthodox Christian inhabitants of a large multi-racial empire – They were not, for the most part, in the least interested in their ancient ancestors, and they knew very little about them.”
“Modern Greece A Short History”
Author: C.M. Woodhouse
“…Greece included considerably fewer than half of those who regarded themselves as Greeks by virtue of their language,their religion, and (less plausibly) their race – It is a striking fact that the leading defenders of Greek liberty at this time were largely Non-Greek. Koundouriotis was decended from the Albanian invadors of Greece in the 14th century…One of the few leaders who maintained resistance far to the north of the Gulf of Corinth was the Souliote, Marko Botsaris, whos followers were largely Albanian”
(Authors C.M. Woodhouse was a Conservative politician and MP for Oxford from 1959 to 1966 and again from 1970 to 1974. Woodhouse was an expert on Greek affairs. He served most of his time in the War in Greece where his love for this country grew strong. After the conclusion of World War II, Woodhouse served as Second Secretary at the British Embassy in Athens, Greece until 1946, whereupon he returned to Britain. He is the author of 6 books on Greece.)
You really are a good follower of the famous FYROMian propagandist Risto Stefov, who stated once: “Dear Macedonians, one way to defend ourselves from the Greek onslaught and gain back our identity and dignity is to fight back to the level to which the Greeks have reduced us; that is to attack their identity as they have attacked ours. We need prove nothing to them except to expose them as the artificial identity they truly are and to uncover their design to wipe us out in order to usurp our Macedonian heritage.”
Truth is that ethnic Macedonians are Slavs using (even monopolizing!) a Greek name (“Macedonia”) to identify themselves, their land and their language, like it or not…
” ‘Macedonia’ (FYROM) was also an attempt at a multicultural society. Here the fragments are just about holding together, although the cement that binds them is an unreliable mixture of propaganda and myth. The ‘Macedonian’ language has been created, some rather misty history involving Tsar Samuel, probably a Bulgarian, and Alexander the Great, almost certainly a Greek, has been invented, and the name Macedonia has been adopted. […] Do we destroy these myths or live with them? Apparently these ‘radical Slavic factions’ decided to live with their myths and lies for the constant amusement for the rest of the world!”
(T.J. Winnifrith, British academic, “Shattered Eagles, Balkan Fragments”, Duckworth, 1995)
“The legacy of the Greeks is under assault today thus deserves defence and celebration for the simple reason that much of what we are is the result of that brilliant examination of human life first begun by the Greeks; as Jacob Burckhardt says, ‘We see with the eyes of the Greeks and use their phrases when we speak.’
We must listen to the Greeks not because they will give us answers, but because they first identified the questions and problems, and they knew too where the answers must come from: the minds of free human beings who have control over their own lives. And this, finally, is the greatest good we have received from the Greeks: the gift of freedom.”
(Bruce Thornton, US classicist, “Defending the Greeks”, Private Papers, 2005)
when greeks talks about the name they use the ancient period, i have been translating ancient greek text sooo ex. Demosthen didnt like macedonian, Philip II what ancient period people. every ,,smart person,, was killed or run away from that greece which never was a country. some tribes like pirates came from iran with few words and called them greeks or hellens hahha. greece has everythink not greeks. so make u’re economy cause u gonna fall down like Titanic!!!!!!!!!!
@Silvana
You claim to have been translating ancient Greek text. I seriously doubt this based on the low quality of your post. You also seemed to have missed the irony of your claim. Why is the text you are alleged translating written in ancient Greek and not in the Bulgarian dialect the communists renamed “Macedonian”?
Kianglek Tan
It would be good if Macedonia is renamed the ‘Macedon Republic’ and the people ‘Macedonns’ and ‘Macedonnes’. The country will use the ‘Lion flag,’ instead of the Vergina Sun. Then Greece can shut up. If it doesn’t, the ‘Macedon Republic’ wouldn’t even care… Name stays the same, just adapting to context. Problem solved.
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Will Harley-Davidson Resort to This Tactic Again to Make Its Numbers?
The motorcycle maker has resorted to it for the past two years so it may be tempted to do so once more.
Jan 6, 2017 at 2:09PM
With Harley-Davidson (NYSE:HOG) expected to report fourth-quarter and full-year earnings later this month, investors might rightly wonder if the motorcycle manufacturer will once again fall back on some financial gymnastics to make their year-end numbers.
Image source: Pixabay.
Filling up the channel
For two years running, Harley has just managed to squeak over the low end of its shipment guidance threshold. In 2014, it shipped 270,726 bikes worldwide that allowed it to just barely hit its revised guidance of 270,000 to 275,000 motorcycles. It happened again last year when it said it expected to ship between 265,000 and 270,000, but bumped up U.S. shipments in the fourth quarter by 1% so that it ended up shipping 266,382 bikes for the year.
What was notable is that Harley's fourth quarter is historically one of the bike maker's slowest sales periods, and the higher shipments came even as it was experiencing falling sales. It has failed to post a single period of higher sales for eight straight quarters, and there's nothing to suggest they'll be any higher last year than they were in 2015. That is why investors ought to watch what Harley does when it comes to shipments for the period.
Sales for the first three quarters of 2016 are down 1.3% worldwide and down almost 5% in the U.S., but shipments are 0.7% higher. While most of the increase does come from Harley-Davidson's international markets where shipments are up 2% -- in the U.S. shipments are essentially flat as Harley has shipped just 176 fewer bikes over the first nine months -- it's not exactly warranted to push bikes on overseas distributors.
Revenue growth outside the U.S. is slowing so that although sales are up 3.3% year to date internationally, that was mostly the result of first-half results when sales rose more than 4% in each of the first two quarters, but were up only 1% in the third.
Data source: Harley-Davidson quarterly SEC filings.
Fighting for every customer
Harley admits it is confronted with "a fiercely competitive environment and an ongoing weak U.S. industry," and rival Polaris Industries (NYSE:PII) estimates the overall motorcycle industry for bikes 900 cubic centimeters and above was down by high-single-digit percentage rates.
Harley also steadfastly maintains it will still ship between 264,000 and 269,000 motorcycles this year, the midpoint of which is as many bikes as it sold in all of last year. The one thing Harley-Davidson might have going for it is its new Milwaukee-Eight engine, which replaces the Twin Cam, the company's first new engine design in 15 years.
There was rightly a lot of excitement around the introduction of the new power house. Harley noted that although U.S. motorcycle sales fell over 7% in the the third quarter, once it introduced the new Milwaukee-Eight in August on its new 2017 model touring bikes, segment sales climbed higher in September.
Image source: Harley-Davidson.
Touring bike sales jumped 6% from last year to about 23,300 bikes. While touring is Harley's biggest segment, or nearly half of total sales, it still wasn't enough to offset the big drop it experienced in cruisers and smaller bikes. Harley will eventually be adding the Milwaukee-Eight to all of its bikes, the question is whether Harley can sustain the momentum after initial enthusiasm fades. If not, it will have to continue resorting to dodgy tactics like shipping to its dealers more bikes than their lots can handle and their sales warrant.
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Taking its eye off the ball
The real problem with Harley engaging in such practices is that it shows it is more concerned with how it looks to Wall Street than how it can attract more riders to its bikes. Indeed, it's one of the reasons I think the big bike maker should be taken private. Between falling sales, losing market share, and deterioration in its loan portfolio because one of out every five bike buyers is a subprime borrower, it needs to be out of the public eye to address its business problems and not have to worry about whether it is meeting analyst expectations.
Fourth-quarter earnings will show whether Harley-Davidson can turn its business around or if it will keep playing games with the numbers to justify its forecasts.
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Celts can’t handle the Heat
MIAMI (AP) — Luol Deng scored 23 points, James Ennis scored 10 of his 16 in the fourth quarter and the Miami Heat ended a five-game home losing streak with a 100-84 victory over the Boston Celtics on Sunday night.
Norris Cole scored 15 and Mario Chalmers had 11 points and 10 assists for Miami.
Tyler Zeller scored 22 for Boston, which had won three straight. Jeff Green and Kelly Olynyk added 13.
It was the first time in 154 games that Miami didn't have any of its former Big Three -- Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh or LeBron James. Wade sat with a bruised right knee, Bosh missed his fifth straight game with a left calf strain and James now plays for Cleveland, which visits Miami on Christmas.
Boston got the game's first basket, and never led again. Miami scored the next nine points, led by 10 at the half and after Boston got within five early in the third, the Heat went on a 9-0 run to rebuild a 65-51 lead.
Boston was within eight with 5:54 left, but Ennis took care of that with a 3-pointer, then a follow slam on the next Miami possession and the Heat maintained control the rest of the way.
Rookie Marcus Smart got his first start at point guard for Boston, which is still adjusting to life after the trade that sent Rajon Rondo to Dallas and brought Jameer Nelson, Brandan Wright and Jae Crowder to the Celtics.
Not only did all three Celtics newcomers play, but there were times when they were on the court together.
"We're all guessing a little bit, especially with the new guys. ... This is a little bit of an exploratory time for us," Celtics coach Brad Stevens said. "We don't get the chance to do that during practice. We have to do that during games."
The lineup with Smart -- who finished with three points and four assists -- was Boston's fifth of the season.
That's paltry by Miami standards. Wade being out led to yet another new Miami lineup, its fourth straight, ninth in December alone and 13th of the season.
Celtics: Stevens said that as many as 11 Celtics are meriting consideration for starting jobs. "We can't let our depth ... as we figure this out and feel this out, become a detriment," Stevens said. ... Boston was bidding for its first four-game winning streak since November 2013. ... Smart's potentially in good company, since other rookies to start at the point for Boston of late include Rondo, Chauncey Billups, Brian Shaw and Dee Brown.
Heat: F Udonis Haslem made his first three shots, giving him nine straight makes over a three-game span. He was shooting 35 percent before that stretch. ... Bosh hopes to play on Christmas, though the Heat are listing him as day-to-day. ... Reserve C Justin Hamilton missed the second half with a headache, and fellow backup C Hassan Whiteside didn't play after losing two toenails after Friday's game against Washington.
Celtics: At Orlando on Tuesday.
Heat: Host Philadelphia on Tuesday.
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Go & Do
Jonny Lang and JJ Grey at the Casino
One of the most power-packed musical nights of the summer will take place this Sunday when Jonny Lang and JJ Grey & Mofro team up and bring the North Mississippi Allstars along for the ride. Jonny Lang released his first platinum record at 15—an age when many young people are just beginning to play music. What began as a bluesy sound, influenced by electric pioneers like Albert Collins, B. B. King, and Buddy Guy, evolved into a modern R&B style closer to Stevie Wonder and contemporary gospel music. From the days of playing greasy local juke joints to headlining major festivals, JJ Grey remains an unfettered, blissful performer, singing with a blue-collared spirit over the bone-deep grooves of his compositions. His presence before an audience is something startling and immediate, at times a funk rave-up, other times a sort of mass-absolution for the mortal weaknesses that make him and his audience human.
What: Jonny Lang & JJ Grey and MoFro with North Mississippi Allstars
When: 5:30 p.m., doors; 6:30 p.m, show, Sunday, July 14
Where: Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, 169 Ocean Blvd., Hampton
Tickets: $47, $42, $32, $27, $21
More info: Visit www.CasinoBallroom.com for tickets and details
Dover Restaurant Week July 13 to 20
During Dover Restaurant Week, participating restaurants serve up special breakfast, lunch and dinner menus at affordable, fixed prices, all featuring some of the city's tastiest cuisine. Choose from a variety of specially priced meals, including three-course, prix-fixe dinner
menus at either $16.95, $24.95 or $29.95; two-course, prix-fixe lunch menus at $16.95; and varied breakfast menus at some locations.
What: Dover Restaurant Week
When: Runs from July 13 to 20
More info: Visit dovermainstreet.org or e-mail info@dovermainstreet.org or find Dover Dines on Facebook
Missy Anderson coming to Kittery
Missy Anderson and Her One Man Band will be featured in a concert at The Dance Hall in Kittery this weekend. Missy and her accompanist/husband, Heine Andersen, love what they do. Keeping a heavy touring schedule, the tenacious twosome performs as a duo which showcases the couples individual and combined talents. In the absence of other instruments, listeners find a greater appreciation for Missy's gospel-tinged vocals and Heine's Blues and Americana inspired guitar work.
What: Missy Anderson and her One Man Band
When: 8 p.m., Friday, July 12; doors, 7:30 p.m.
Where: The Dance Hall, 7 Walker St., Kittery
Tickets: $16 in advance and $20 at the door and can be purchased at www.thedancehallkittery.org.
More info: Visit www.thedancehallkittery.org
A return engagement
Sidewalk and Steelqueen celebrated the release of their first album "Sweet Trudelane" to a packed room last February. They are returning this month with new music and familiar favorites, so come check out what’s happening with them now. Expect Roots, Rock, Middle Eastern, and a touch of Celtic as well as original music by Tom and Carol and local songwriters. Sidewalk and Steelqueen Band features Carol Coronis and Tom Richter with fiddler extraordinaire EJ Ouellette and master dumbek player Chuck Coronis.
What: Sidewalk and Steelqueen Band in concert
When: 8 p.m., Friday, July 12
Where: Portsmouth Book and Bar, 40 Pleasant St., Portsmouth
More Info: Visit www.bookandbar.com
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Washington Post report on passport crackdown had glaring factual problems, HuffPost finds
By Frank Miles
U.S has top-notch security for entry, but no system is foolproof, experts caution (istock)
The Washington Post’s damning report claiming the Trump administration ramped up efforts to deny passports to some Hispanic people who are U.S. citizens had glaring factual errors, forcing editors to revise the story substantially multiples times, according to a HuffPost report Monday.
“The (Washington) Post withheld key data, mischaracterized information and lobbed an allegation of fraud at a deceased doctor without speaking to his family members, who complained publicly,” HuffPost wrote. “The piece has been substantially altered three times, including Thursday after multiple queries from HuffPost.”
HuffPost reported The Washington Post “cited a number of specific policies to support its allegation of a crackdown” — but “all three practices predate Trump.”
The practices are “supposedly heightened scrutiny of birth certificates signed by midwives suspected of peddling fraudulent documents, supposedly unprecedented passport denials to people born far from the border, and a supposedly new focus on babies delivered by one Texas doctor,” HuffPost wrote.
The website added that The Washington Post’s initial article “lacked statistics, which the State Department initially failed to provide.”
HuffPost published data from the State Department that contradicted the newspaper: “The Post acknowledges receiving the same data two days after publishing the story. But the paper didn’t disclose the new numbers.”
The new report added: “The Post updated the article to note that a smaller percentage of passport applications were denied under Trump ― withholding the numbers showing that the number of people whose applications came under scrutiny at all also declined.”
In a statement to Fox News in August, a State Department spokeswoman blasted The Washington Post over the original story, saying passport denials in these cases actually are at a six-year low after peaking in 2015 during the Obama administration.
“The facts don’t back up the Washington Post’s reporting. This is an irresponsible attempt to create division and stoke fear among American citizens while attempting to inflame tensions over immigration,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said. “Under the Trump Administration, domestic passport denials for so called ‘midwife cases’ are at a 6-year low. The reporting is a political cheap shot.”
When reached for comment Monday night, The Washington Post emailed Fox News the editor’s note included at the top of the story:
“After this story was published on Aug. 29, the State Department issued a statement challenging the accuracy of the article and provided previously unreleased data on passport denials. That information has been added, as was indicated in a Sept. 1 editor’s note. On Sept. 13, the story was updated to include comments from the daughter of Jorge Treviño, who had contacted The Post immediately after the story was published. Additional changes have been made to clarify that an affidavit about Treviño was submitted as part of an Obama-era case and to correct a reference to his profession — he was a general practitioner, not a gynecologist. As was noted in an Aug. 31 correction, the State Department began denying passports during the George W. Bush administration, not the Obama administration.”
Fox News’ Brian Flood and Alex Pappas contributed to this report.
Frank Miles is a reporter and editor covering geopolitics, military, crime, technology and sports for FoxNews.com. His email is Frank.Miles@foxnews.com.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/washington-post-report-on-passport-crackdown-had-glaring-factual-problems-huffpost-finds
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Kane keeps rolling, leads Blackhawks past Devils 5-2
AP Feb 15, 2019 at 12:52a ET
CHICAGO (AP) — According to the numbers, it sure seems Patrick Kane is at the top of his game. However, the star forward thinks he may be able to reach an even higher level.
Kane scored his 34th goal and added two assists to lead Chicago to a 5-2 win over the New Jersey Devils on Thursday night for the Blackhawks‘ eighth victory in nine games.
Kane extended his points streak to 16 games and moved into second in NHL scoring with 85 points. He has 12 goals and 22 assists during the run and also extended his assists streak to 15 games, eclipsing Stan Mikita’s team record set in 1967.
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“Sometimes I feel like I can play better, make better plays, have the puck more out there,” said the 30-year-old Kane, now in his 12th NHL season. “It’s all a work in progress. Nice to produce, though, so keep going here.”
Brandon Saad and Artem Anisimov each had a goal late in third period to break open a tight game and added an assist. Jonathan Toews and Drake Caggiula also scored for the Blackhawks who have climbed back into the fray for a wild-card spot in the Western Conference after a miserable start.
Cam Ward stopped 41 shots, and had to be sharp in the third period to keep the Blackhawks in front after they battled back from an early 2-0 deficit to take a 3-2 lead in the second.
Damon Severson and Travis Zajac scored to give the Devils a 2-0 lead with a little more than three minutes left in the first period before the Blackhawks took over. New Jersey has lost two straight and five of its last six.
Devils goalie Cory Schneider finished with 31 saves to extend his regular-season winless streak to 24 games. He is now 0-17-4 since his last win Dec. 27, 2017.
Schneider has struggled following offseason hip surgery and an abdominal strain in mid-December. The goalie said he felt strong in this one, but regretted giving up goals to Anisimov and Saad 1:39 apart that let Chicago seal the win.
“Just got away from me and us there in a couple-minute stretch there in the third,” Schneider said.
Kane recorded three or more points for the 10th time this season to help Chicago rebound after a 6-3 loss in Boston on Tuesday.
The Devils dominated early in this one, outshooting Chicago 9-2 midway through the first period and testing Ward.
Severson opened the scoring from the right circle 7:14 in. He was wide open and beat Ward on the glove side after taking Brett Seney’s cross-ice pass after Chicago defenseman Erik Gustafsson was checked off the puck.
Zajac’s power-play goal from the slot with 3:18 left in the first made it 2-0. Marcus Johansson fed him from near the goal line to cap a nifty series of quick passes.
Kane scored 1:35 later during a delayed penalty call to cut it to 2-1 and quell the Devils’ momentum. He beat Schneider through a screen from the slot after skating in from the blue line.
“We got a big goal at the end of the first period, gave ourselves a little bit of life,” Chicago coach Jeremy Colliton said. “We won the game in the second.”
Caggiula’s 10th goal 20 seconds into the second tied it. Set up by Kane’s pass in the slot, Caggiula cut into the right circle and fired a rising shot over Schneider’s glove.
Toews’ 26th goal, with 6:48 left in the second, gave Chicago its first lead of the game. Kane carried the puck over the Devils line on the left side, then dished to Slater Koekkoek. Koekkoek skated ahead into the circle and fed a cross-ice pass to Toews as the Chicago captain dashed in uncovered down the right side.
The Devils outshot the Blackhawks 19-8 and dominated for much of third, but Chicago put it away with goals by Anisimov and Saad.
After winning a faceoff in the Devils zone, Anisimov skated to the net and swept in rebound of Gustafssson’s shot from the blue line with about 6 1/2 minutes remaining to make it 4-2. Saad assisted on the play for his 300th point.
“The game’s right in the balance at 3-2 with 6 minutes left,” Devils coach John Hynes said. “That puck can’t get in the net. At that point in the game, we needed better.”
Saad stuffed in a short-handed goal to finish a breakaway 1:39 later.
NOTES: Chicago F Chris Kunitz played in his 1,000th NHL game, and the Blackhawks honored the four-time Stanley Cup winner in a pregame ceremony and with a silver stick. Since the NHL draft was instituted in 1963, the 39-year-old Kunitz is the 32nd undrafted player to reach 1,000 games. … Chicago G Corey Crawford, out since Dec. 16 with his second concussion in two years, took part in the morning skate on Thursday. … Devils C Blake Coleman (upper-body) sat out for a second game.
Devils: At Minnesota on Friday night to play their third game in four nights.
Blackhawks: Host Columbus on Saturday night.
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Dr Michael Levitt MB BS (UWA), FRACS trained as a surgeon in Western Australia before pursuing subspecialty training in colorectal surgery at London’s St Mark’s and Royal Free hospitals. Since 1990 he has worked in WA as a specialist colorectal surgeon. Michael has a particular interest in the management of ‘functional’ bowel disorders – constipation, incontinence and irritable bowel syndrome – and is well known for his approach to treating these conditions. Michael is a member of the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand. He is the Chairman of the Tonkinson Colorectal Cancer Research Fund Advisory Committee, a Director of St John of God Health Care, a member of the Medical Board of WA and Medical Director at Osborne Park Hospital, WA. Read more
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About Settler's Point Elementary
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Gilbert Public Schools 2018–2019 Employees of the Year Winners!
This week Gilbert Public Schools celebrated the many incredible talents and contributions of staff who support and educate our 34,000 students every day. The Employee of the Year Banquet is now in its second year and is designed to recognize outstanding contributions to our students and schools by all employee classifications; certified teachers, support staff, and administrators.
A committee representing all employee classifications reviewed the 115 nominations to create a shortlist of three employees from each category. These nine finalists were then interviewed and submitted an additional application, highlighting their candidacy. The winner in each category was announced Thursday, April 25, 2019, at a special event held at the DoubleTree Hilton in Gilbert, Arizona.
Recognizing all staff roles is a fundamental part of this event as it epitomizes the organizational culture in GPS, acknowledging it takes all employees to educate and support our students Pre-K through 12th grade.
Announcing the 2018–2019 Gilbert Public Schools Employees of the Year Winners:
Chad Fitzgerald
Principal, Canyon Valley High School
"It is a joy to come to work each morning because this is a happy place. The students who thrive here are typically kids who did not see a great deal of success in more traditional, large high schools. As Mr. Fitzgerald's and Canyon Valley's reputations have grown, we have attracted students from other districts across the Valley. Canyon Valley is a school that holds our students accountable in a supportive, safe way. This is because of Chad Fitzgerald."
Lee Meschino
Music Teacher, Islands Elementary
“Lee Meschino regularly inspires students' love of learning through her highly engaging, interactive, relevant lessons. She greets students with a smile and hug, keeps her energy level high, relates their learning of music to careers and their learning in the classroom, and she closes her lessons with the same high energy and positive send off that she greets them with."
Support Staff of the Year
Louise Heeman
Social Worker, Gilbert Elementary
"She is the heart and soul of our school. Louise knows the name of every child, but not only that, she knows about every child. She knows who probably didn't eat breakfast that morning, who is struggling with issues at home, who has a medical condition that is bringing them down, who needs warm clothes for the winter or new shoes, or who is having conflicts with peers. She knows their personalities, their needs, and she sees the best in every child. She genuinely cares for each and every student with every ounce of who she is."
The Gilbert Public Schools Teacher of the Year winner will also be nominated by Gilbert Public Schools for the Arizona Educational Foundation’s (AEF) Teacher of the Year Program. Each year AEF spotlights the contributions of ten outstanding public school teachers throughout Arizona, where one is named the AEF Arizona Teacher of the Year, and represents the state in the National Teacher of the Year competition.
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On the Sunny Side of Life, Puerto Banús
By Gilmar
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A key destination for luxury nautical tourism with over four million visitors a year.
The tourist area known as Puerto Banús is located in the development called Nueva Andalucia, between Marbella and San Pedro de Alcantara. The buildings with an Andalusian aesthetic surround a sports port that has in its warm waters 915 berths on 15 hectares that can host vessels of more than 50 meters of length. It is prepared with everything that a large marina requires, including – among others – boating and diving rentals and services, centralized alarm security systems, and 24 hour surveillance. The annual cost per mooring exceeds four hundred thousand euros for vessels greater than 50 meters, and the daily cost is more than two thousand euros, which places Puerto Banus among the most expensive ports on the Mediterranean Sea, next to the exclusive ports of Portofino, Capri and Porto Cervo in Sardinia.
On May 18, 1970 José Banús held the opening party for the port’s marina. 1,700 guests attended, among them personalities such as Aga Khan; the then Princes of Asturias, don Juan Carlos and Doña Sofia; Princess Grace and Prince Rainier of Monaco; Liza Minelli; the tycoon Aristotle Onassis; Hugh Hefner, the owner of Playboy; Roman Polanski and a long list of others. The party was enlivened by Julio Iglesias, while an ‘army’ of 300 waiters served more than 20 kilos of beluga caviar.
Puerto Banús grew out of the collaboration between the builder José Banús, and the architect, Noldi Schreck, who participated in the design of Beverly Hills. The promoter had developed full-city services focused on wealthy tourists such that the port would be their star project. The project included the construction of several hotels, a casino, a bullring, and two golf courses – one of them designed by Ro- bert Trent Jones – among other facilities. Marbella became the epicenter of luxury tourism.
Don José Banús, his wife Doña Pilar Calvo, and Sánchez de León were regulars at Monte Carlo and provided the key to its success. However, a resort should not only have good support services and an excellent climate, but also had to offer spectacular events. Marbella hosted opera festivals, dinners and parties with the cream of the jet set, and international golf and regatta championships that attracted tourists from all around the world.
The prestige of Puerto Banus was firmly consolidated after the Saudi Royal Family established five lavish palaces that occupied an area of two hundred thousand square meters. But, since its inception, the port has always been a meeting place for personalities of all kinds; artists, athletes, government leaders and business entrepreneurs have made Puerto Banus a key destination for luxury nautical tourism with over four million visitors a year.
Puerto Banus by Day
Surrounded by housing estates where there is room for discretion as well as the ostentatious, Puerto Banus is definitely the showcase for the latter. The most expensive and conspicuous vehicles glide through its streets, and in its port, the most impressive yachts are berthed. Around Ribera Street are the most exclusive fashion brands in the world, such as Dior, Cartier, Missoni, Vuitton, Dolce & Gabba- na, Hermès, Yves Saint Laurent and Loewe, among many others.
At any time of the day you can enjoy the best international cuisine, exclusive services and the most varied events, such as champagne festivals, private chefs, limousines and luxury car rentals, makeup and hairstyling services, wedding arrangements, boat trips, and airport transfers. Each season, beach clubs resound with music and many enjoy their fun and summer days by the beach and in the sea. And, the number of entertainment choices available are plentiful – from art exhibitions to fashion shows. As an example, the Marbella Ocean Club, where we can enjoy famous festivals in their pool overlooking the Mediterranean, incorporates a small legal boutique, a beauty salon, spa, and restaurant
Puerto Banus by Night
After nightfall, Puerto Banus offers a wide variety of entertainment, gastronomy and shopping opportunities to enjoy of the best parties on the southern Mediterranean. Casinos and local bars and night- clubs receive distinguished visitors eager to plunge into its elegant nightlife. According to the prestigious brand ‘The World ́s Finest Clubs’, Marbella now has five: Ocean Club Marbella has joined Club Pangea, Tibu Disco, Funky Budda and the Cavalli Club.
“Unique and particular lifestyle”
Pangea is located in the luxurious terrace of Puerto Banus offering panoramic views, spectacular sunsets, gorgeous cocktails and gourmet aperitifs. Tibu is located in Antonio Banderas Plaza and has impressive decoration. Within walking distance is the Funky Budda where the best summer festivals with the most prestigious DJ ́s and an exquisite clientele are enjoyed and celebrated. Finally, the Cavalli Club Puerto Banus reflects the glamour of the designer and has incomparable events during all seasons. All in all, the visitor can find international celebrities and the glamourous lifestyle so exclusive to the enclave that is Puerto Banus.
Now, in the 21st century, Puerto Banus continues to maintain its image of luxury and first class entertainment which has been so famous for decades. Year after year, aristocrats, artists, the famous, and VIP’s all are, and will be, eager to enjoy its unique and particular lifestyle.
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Monster Machines: This Water Treatment Plant Is Powered By Poop
The Inland Empire's cadre of water treatment plants clean millions of litres of waste water every day. But what to do with all that left over poo? Normally, it's unceremoniously dumped in a local landfill, but at Regional Water Recycling Plant No. 1, that massive pile of crap is put to a better use — making electricity with the largest biogas fuel cell generator in America.
Located in Ontario, California, just east of LA county, Plant No. 1 filters solid waste and sanitises 166 million litres of water per day. The clean water is then used to irrigate city parks while conserving potable water for the Empire's 850,000 residents through conventional sanitation methods. The strained solid waste is then dumped into an anaerobic digester where colonies of bacteria break down the poo into its base chemical components.
Problem is, the bacteria excrete methane while they eat, a leading contributor to global warming. Since the plant can't just vent this greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, it instead uses it to power an onsite 2.8-megawatt fuel cell generator to provide some 60 per cent of the treatment plant's operating energy. Anaergia of Canada installed the generator at no cost to the IEUA last October and will eventually recoup that money by selling the energy that the fuel cell produces back to the utility.
The Ontario fuel cell works just like any other fuel cell, generating electricity via an oxidizing reaction. Electrons stripped from the fuel material — typically hydrogen or hydrocarbons, like methane — create an electric current as they flow from the cell's positive to negative terminals, much like a battery. However, a fuel cell actively produces current (so long as fuel is available), rather than simply store it as a battery does. In addition to electricity, the oxidizing reaction also generates heat and water as by-products. This waste heat generated by the utility's fuel cell is reused, pumped back into the digester to keep the bacteria at their preferred feeding temperature. The system as a whole is exceedingly clean — save for the poopy bits of course — producing little more than electricity and water with 70 per cent efficiency and minimal emissions.
The IEUA hopes to replicate the Ontario plant's success across all six of its district treatment facilities with the goal of becoming fully self-sustaining by 2020.
[Slate, IEUA 1, 2, 3, Wikipedia]
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Gabrielle Glancy
Vera: A Novel
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". . . a queer gem of a book... wonderful, literary, sexy, funny . . , by turns mystifying, hilarious, admirable, and always hard to put down . . ."
Vera is one of CURVE Magazine's
We're not in 1999 anymore. Vera has finally come out.
Pocket Books rejected Vera for being "too literary, on one hand, and too sexy on the other," while Clifford Chase calls it, "A new kind of novel: a love story of ideas, a lyrical romp, a faux mystery with genuine heart.”
Part Don Quixote bubbling dreamer, part reckless detective, the narrator of Vera pilots her way through a murky urban terrain, in search of love and answers. What she discovers, in a 1990’s San Francisco stuck somewhere between AIDS and 9/11, is not what she set out to find.
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Witness Vera's Dazzling Rejections
Absolutely superb, sexy, captivating . . . W.W. Norton & Company
An accomplished and inventive writer who knows what she is doing . . . I would guess there is a readership hungry for this book . . . Henry Holt and Company, Inc.
A very sexy, charming writer . . . Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Glancy's an original, and writes with a great deal of energy and verve. . .Riverhead Books
The narrative voice is fantastic -- strong and funny. This novel deserves attention. Macmillan, U.K.
Vera is a wild ride, and Gabrielle Glancy writes with great energy and heat . . . Knopf
An assured debut . . . Bloomsbury, London
Vera is truly one of the most inventive novels I have ever read . . . Penguin Putnam, Inc.
I have to say -- and you're calling my true colors now -- I think this manuscript sizzles too much for us to take on. Sorry to be such a prude. Houghton Mifflin
I read it all in one sitting last Saturday. Gabrielle Glancy is an enormously talented writer with a wonderful voice. Unfortunately, I think Vera is too literary for us, on one hand, and too sexy on the other. Pocket Books
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Our Best Black Bear Counties
It's true that black bear populations are on the rise in New England, but that's not enough to put a rug on your den wall. These top-producing counties are the place to be if you want to bag a bruin in 2003.
By Bob Humphrey
Another New England black bear hunting season is just around the corner. Bear populations are on the rise throughout the Northeast, and the odds for success have never been higher. Here's a look at where to find your trophy bruin this season:
The Bay State now has more black bears than it can handle. According to biologist Jim Cardoza, Massachusetts now has maximum densities of bears just about everywhere there is suitable habit. The most bears will be found west of the Connecticut River. But "suitable habitat" is defined by biologists, not bears. Some animals are known to be residing as far east as central and northern Worcester County, and young males may range farther east into Middlesex County and south to the Connecticut-Rhode Island borders.
The division's objective is to stabilize the population within available range, but an estimated population of roughly 1,500 animals continues to grow by 8 to 10 percent per year, while the harvest is only growing by about 5 percent per year. Bears were taken from 45 different towns in the five western counties open to bear hunting last year.
To increase your odds for success, the distribution of the bear kill offers a reasonably good guide for where to go. According to MassWildlife calculations, Berkshire County has been the Bay State's perennial leader in bear harvests, and last year led the state with 46 bears taken from 15 towns.
Public-land hunters may want to target some of the county's larger wildlife management areas and state forests. These include Chalet WMA (5,354 acres) in Cheshire, Dalton and Windsor; Fox Den WMA (3,623 acres) in Worthington, Middlefield and Chester; October Mountain State Forest (16,127 acres) in Washington; or Beartown State Forest (10,879 acres) in Monterey.
Also, there has been a continued rise in crop damage complaints, so a phone call to the Western District headquarters at (413) 447-9789 could put hunters in contact with a landowner eager to grant access for bear hunting.
New England's top bear counties offer plenty of public land and ideal conditions for taking a trophy-size bruin. Photo by Vic Attardo
Next highest on the list is Franklin County, where hunters killed 27 bears in 12 different towns last year. Public-land hunters can find plenty of accessible land in Wendell, Erving, Mt. Grace and Warwick state forests. These cover well over 10,000 acres from Wendell north to the New Hampshire border.
Private land opportunities also abound, particularly on farmlands in the northern Connecticut River Valley.
Hampden and Hampshire counties typically account for 15 to 20 bears each per year, many of which come from larger blocks of undeveloped forest or farmlands in the central and southern Connecticut River Valley. Contact the Connecticut Valley District office at (413) 323-7671 for more information.
Massachusetts' 2003 early bear season runs from Sept. 2-20. The late season runs from Nov. 17-22. A permit is required and must be obtained prior to the season. Permits may be obtained from the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, Leverett Saltonstall Building, 100 Cambridge St., Boston, MA 02202; or call (617) 727-3151. Permitted firearms include: rifles of .23 caliber or greater, muzzleloaders of .44 to .775 caliber, bows with a 40-pound pull or greater and revolvers in .357 Magnum and .40 caliber or larger. Handguns are permitted only during the first week. Shotguns are prohibited for bear hunting.
For general information, contact the MDFW Field Headquarters, Westboro, MA 01581; call (508) 792-7220, or visit MassWildlife's Web site at www.state.ma.us/dfwele/dfw.
According to biologist Scott Darling, who chairs the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department's black bear research team, the bruin population in Vermont is estimated at between 3,000 and 3,500 animals and increasing. This fits nicely with Vermont's Bear Management Plan, which still calls for slight increases in the bear population over time. Of course, the Fish and Wildlife Department relies on hunter harvests to ensure that the bear population doesn't grow too fast.
The 2002 harvest was a bit lower than in the previous few years, but Darling noted that bear harvest figures are always sensitive to fall food supplies. Last year's abundant hard mast crop was a factor across northern New England because bears were able to find more food with less effort, reducing their susceptibility to hunting pressure.
That's good news for this year's hunt. Even with a good acorn crop, the preferred beechnuts should be scarce this year (because years of abundant beechnut production are usually followed by a year of reduced productivity), and so the bears will have to travel more to find food, making them easier to find.
Where should hunters go to take advantage of these increased opportunities? According to Darling, the best prospects for harvesting a Vermont bear remain in the Northeast Kingdom and the Green Mountains, which last year accounted for more than half the state's total bear kill. Based on last year's numbers, prospects in the Northeast Kingdom tend to get better as you move eastward across Orleans and northern Caledonia counties into Essex County. This is vast, undeveloped forestland with road access often limited to unimproved logging roads.
Green Mountain National Forest also consists of vast areas of undeveloped land with rugged terrain and limited access. Even better, this is all public land and, with little exception, is open to hunting.
Topographic maps and additional information on hunting in the Green Mountain National Forest are available by contacting the Forest Supervisor's office, 231 North Main St., Rutland, VT 05701; or call (802) 747-6700.
Strongholds in Vermont's northern units include southern Lamoille and eastern Addison counties. That trend also continues eastward and out of the forest into western Orange County. Southern forest districts in Bennington County WMUs N and P have also produced a disproportionate number of the state's hunter-killed bears, and this trend also continues eastward into Windham County. Hunters should not overlook areas where farmland abuts the forest and bears may be inclined to wander out to feed on nearby farm crops.
Vermont's 2003 bear season runs from Sept. 1 through Nov. 19. One b
ear may be taken per year by gun, bow or crossbow by permit. A permit is required for hunting with dogs, and hunting over bait is not allowed.
For more information, contact the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department, 103 South Main St., Waterbury, VT 05671-0501; call (802) 241-3700; or visit the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department's Web site at www.anr.state.vt.us/fw/fwhome.
Last year's Granite State bear kill was down from the previous year. Biologists attributed this drop to a stabilizing bear population and good mast production. However, those stable levels still include plenty of bears, and prospects should be better this year, especially for early-season hunters. Even better news - bear populations are still on the rise in some areas.
The state's best bear-hunting county, based on recent harvest figures, is Grafton County. Some of this is no doubt due to the county's large size. However, even wildlife management units within Grafton County have disproportionately high bear kill numbers compared to the rest of the state. The best opportunities for public-land hunting are in the White Mountain National Forest (WMNF) in the northeastern corner of the county.
Next best are probably Belknap, Strafford and Carroll counties, which encircle Lake Winnipesaukee in south-central New Hampshire. The land here is mostly private, except for the portion of northern Carroll County that is in the WMNF. This area and southern Coos County are also where some of the state's biggest bears come from.
Hunting is permitted in most areas of the White Mountain National Forest except near campgrounds and other developed areas. A permit is required to establish a bait site. For more information, contact the Forest Supervisor, White Mountain National Forest, P.O. Box 638, Laconia, NH 03247; or call (603) 528-8721.
Somewhat surprisingly, northern Coos County is usually low in annual bear kill numbers, yet Sullivan, Merrimack and northern Cheshire counties in southwestern New Hampshire are consistent producers. In fact, this is one area of the state where bear numbers are higher than specific management goals. This is mostly private land, but there are large areas of undeveloped forest with limited road access, key ingredients in the recipe for bear hunting success.
New Hampshire has three hunting seasons that vary by wildlife management unit.
General seasons are established within a time frame of Sept. 1 through early December. Bait hunting is allowed from Sept. 1 through Sept. 28 (depending on region); the hound season runs from Sept. 22 through Nov. 12 (there's no hound season in the Southwest Region), and still-hunting is allowed during the full length of the regional bear season. All bear hunters require a $5 bear tag (in addition to a hunting license). Consult the 2003 New Hampshire Hunting Digest for important additional information.
In addition to a hunting or archery license, a bear license and tag are required. Bears may be taken with the aid of dogs with written permission of the executive director. Bait hunting requires a permit and written landowner permission. One bait is permitted per hunter, except that licensed New Hampshire bear hunting guides may establish up to three baits.
For more information, contact the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, 2 Hazen Dr., Concord, NH 03301; call (603) 271-3421; or visit the department's Web site at www.wildlife.state.nh.us.
Maine is the undisputed leader when it comes to bear hunting in New England. Maine's black bear population is conservatively estimated at 23,000.
"We may have more bears on the ground than we've ever had," said Randy Cross, Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife's bear biologist. Last year, Maine hunters took 3,512 black bears, and this year's harvest is expected to be even higher.
Biologists are not overly concerned with the high kill. Citing research that he and others have been conducting for several decades, Cross speculates that the state could now sustain an annual kill of up to 4,000 bears. The main reason is beechnuts. Maine's bear harvest fluctuates annually, apparently in concert with the beechnut crop. In even-numbered years the early-season kill tends to be lighter and the late-season kill is heavier during heavy mast years, although the late-season harvest is mostly incidental to deer hunting and relatively fewer bears are taken.
This year, an expected scarcity of beechnuts should send bears wandering farther in search of food, making them more susceptible to early-season bait hunters, who typically take the majority of the annual kill. The bears also tend to den earlier when food is unavailable, meaning fewer animals will be taken during the late season.
Bears are well distributed over much of Maine, but northern and eastern counties tend to account for most of the kill. The most bears are taken annually in Aroostook County, which is Maine's largest and northernmost county. Most of this land is privately owned by timber companies and most of it is open to hunting. Many timber companies require a permit to establish bait sites, and some charge a fee.
Many townships in these northern counties also have some parcels of Public Reserved Lands (PRL) that are open to hunting. A permit is required to establish bait sites in these areas, too. The Maine Bureau of Public Lands charges a nominal fee for the privilege.
The Deboullie Unit encompasses 22,000 acres near the northern tip of Maine's border with Canada. The Eagle Lake Unit spans roughly 23,000 acres east of the town of Eagle Lake.
The 20,000-acre Round Pond Unit is one of a few PRLs within the North Maine Woods, an organization that manages recreation on nearly 3 million acres in northern Maine. To access the NMW, visitors must pass through a checkpoint and pay the required day-use or camping fees, which are used to defray the costs of managing public access and maintaining recreational facilities. The North Maine Woods office can be contacted at (207) 435-6213
The next best options for a Maine black bear hunt are the three counties that lie to the south: Somerset, Penobscot and Piscataquis. Again, timber companies own most of the land with a few notable exceptions. One is the 43,000-acre Nahmakanta Unit, the largest in the public reserved lands system. Also in this region is the 13,500-acre Little Moose Unit west of Greenville, one of the North Country's more popular jumping-off spots. A third area is the 10,000-acre Scraggly Lake Unit northeast of Baxter State Park in northern Penobscot County.
Washington County also has a dense bear population and contains a mix of working forestlands and vast blueberry barrens, which offer a rare opportunity for spot-and-stalk hunting. Public-land hunters can investigate the 14,000-acre Donnell Pond Unit, which is approximately 12 miles east of Ellsworth in Hancock County.
On the Hancock-Washington county line about 70 miles northeast of Bangor, the Duck Lake Unit covers more than 27,000 acres of forest on gently rolling terrain.
Maine offers bear hunters a variety of options in a season that spans approximately three months. The general season runs from Aug. 25 through Nov. 29 this year. Within this is a bait season (Aug. 25 through Sept. 20) and a dog season (Sept. 8 through Oct. 31). In addition to a hunting license, a special bear-hunting permit is required to hunt for bears during these seasons. During the open firearms season on deer, hunters with a general big-game license may take a bear. Non-residents hunting with dogs must employ and hunt with a Maine guide.
For general hunting and license information, contact the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, 284 State St., Augusta, Maine 04333; call (207) 287-5248; or access the MDIFW's Web site at www.mefishwildlife.com.
For information on guides and outfitters, contact the MDIFW's Public Affairs office at (207) 287-8000; the Maine Office of Tourism at (800) 533-9595; or the Maine Professional Guides Association, P.O. Box 336, Augusta, Maine 04332, call (207) 549-5631 or visit their Web site at www.maineguides.org
For more information on Public Reserved Lands, including maps, contact the Maine Department of Conservation, Bureau of Parks and Lands, 22 State House Station, Augusta, Maine 04333-0022; call (207) 287-3821 or access the Web site at www.state.me.us/doc/parks.
A good map is a must, especially for the unguided bear hunter. DeLorme offers an Atlas and Gazetteer for each of the New England states. These books are invaluable for locating roads, trails, waterways and other features. They also identify many of the state's public lands and campgrounds. Contact DeLorme at 2 DeLorme Dr., Yarmouth, Maine 04096; call (800) 452-5931; or visit the DeLorme Web site at www.delorme.com.
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Last Year's 'Young' Bucks
Last season was one when younger hunters harvested some outstanding deer in Alabama. Here's a look at three of those.
By Zack Glover
I was approached a couple of years ago to consider writing the ultimate book about hunting monster whitetail bucks. My files are bulging with stories and photographs of North America's finest whitetails, and you'd think - and indeed the publisher thought - that compiling the best would be child's play.
I never wrote that book. The publisher envisioned dozens of chapters filled with hardcore how-to-shoot-monster-deer stories. His dreams were shattered when I told him that 90 percent or more of the world's biggest bucks simply got caught in the wrong place at the right time.
I have page after page of proof that it isn't what you know, how long you've known it, or even where you hunt. When it comes to taking real trophy bucks, you need a big dose of luck!
"Nobody wants to read that," he said.
I disagree, of course. Knowing that a record-book buck could be around the next bend, regardless of where I'm hunting, keeps me in the game. Such stories should offer hope to novice and veteran hunters alike.
That said, sit back and enjoy this trio of tales from the 2003 season, which wasn't a particularly great year for Alabama deer hunters - at least, those who could point to their years of experience in the woodlands.
Three of the most unusual bucks collected during the Heart of Dixie's 2003 hunting seasons fell to the guns of young, inexperienced hunters. The largest, an 18-pointer that made it into at least one record book, was a Tuscaloosa kid's first buck. The boy shot it within minutes of downing a fat doe for the freezer. Also, a 17-point specimen was taken in Escambia County, one of the last places in this state where one would expect to see such a critter. And the last of this trio was a 13-pointer with an unusual "unicorn" antler sprouting from its forehead. It was also taken by a nimrod.
Their stories might not offer any lessons beyond the importance of making a shot count. But they do offer hope and, for me, fond memories of youth!
Cody Crawford downed his 18-point buck while hunting with his grandfather, Don Clements, on Dec. 26, 2003. Photo courtesy of Don Clements
CHRISTMAS-GIFT BUCK
"Pop, please make it stop."
Afraid that speaking aloud would literally rouse the dead, the boy's plea was barely a whisper. Though he had long forgotten the doe he had shot a half-hour earlier in the green field to his left, 9-year-old Cody Crawford's eyes never strayed from the fallen buck in a similar field to the left.
The shooting house occupied by Cody and his granddad sat at the junction of two food plots on the property of an uncle in Hale County. An acrid, yet unnoticed, smell of gun smoke hung in the air. A couple of spent .243 cartridges were lying on the plywood floor.
Like the Red Sea under Moses' gnarly staff, the grin on the face of Don Clements was spreading - threatening to sever his chin from the rest of his face. Try as he might, even Don's firm grip could not make his grandson's leg stop shaking.
Clements, however, was much less concerned than his grandson. He was drinking in the scene and sensation like an absorbent paper towel lapping up a spill. This was Cody's first buck, and it was going nowhere fast. Nor was the forgotten doe, which Cody shot about 3:45 p.m. after Don gave him the go-ahead.
The decision to remain in the stand in case a buck showed was a good one. A half-hour later, another doe entered the left green field. Don told his grandson it was OK to look at the deer through his riflescope, but not to shoot it.
While Cody was mesmerized by the doe, Don noticed a second deer - a buck - stick its head out of the clearcut from which the doe had emerged.
"I told Cody, 'Look about 30 yards to the left of that doe,' and he did," Don recounted. "He lit up then and said, 'Pop, that's a buck!'
"I didn't think it was going to step into the field, even though I'm pretty sure it was there to keep an eye on that doe," Clements resumed. "So I told Cody to take his time like we've practiced and take the shot."
The head-on shot sounded, and the deer fell right there.
Cody was a nervous wreck afterward. He had shot at a buck before, but they hadn't found it. He was sure that this one was going to get away from him somehow.
"Cody's leg was just shaking," Don said, laughing as he recalled the scene. "I had to put my hand on it to stop it. He wanted me to take the gun and shoot it again if it got up, but I told him that it wasn't going to happen."
"I couldn't help it," Cody explained. "My leg just started twitching. It was twitching when we were getting out of the shooting house, too. It didn't stop until we walked over to my buck."
Getting a first buck is one heck of a Christmas present - Cody shot his the day after Christmas - but this gift wore no ordinary bow.
Although they had been staring at the deer for several minutes after the shot, it wasn't until they reached it that they realized how big it really was. When the buck fell, the impressive left side of the rack was on the ground. All they could see until they were standing beside it was the right side, which was only half as big.
"I knew it was a good one. The mass was obvious," Don said. "But we couldn't believe it when we saw it up close."
"It looked kind of like an 8-pointer," Cody chimed in. "It was about 75 to 100 yards away. It just looked like a normal buck to me.
"When we got there and looked at it, I thought I'd shot a 12-pointer," the youngster added.
When Clements pulled out his cell phone, called Cody's stepfather and announced that the boy had killed a 17-pointer, Cody had but one word.
"What?' he gasped.
Turns out, Clements' evaluation was also low, requiring the addition of another point. Cody's was one of the biggest whitetails felled in Alabama during the 2003 season. While record-keeping organizations do not record a hunter's age, it might well be the largest buck ever harvested in this state by someone so young.
he rack is a mainframe 3x3 with 10 abnormal points on the left and another couple on the right - 18 scorable points in all. If the right side had been equal to the left, the rack would have pushed 200 inches. As it is, nearly 93 of the total 169 gross inches are on that strangely configured left side.
The buck was one of four deer that Cody took during his third hunting season. He shot his first at age 7 and took another the following year.
"Boy, deer hunting is a lot more fun than shooting possums," Cody said, beaming.
GRANDDADDY OF THEM ALL
Even in the dim glow of the truck's overhead cab light, Richard Coleman could see the rivulets of sweat sliding down his son's glistening brow. He might have seen the broad smile even without the light, if he'd been paying closer attention.
Thirteen-year-old Tyler was out of breath as well. Not content to wait for his dad to pull up to the food plot amid the planted pines, he had just run a quarter of a mile, bursting-at-the-seams eager to share the news.
Probably shot a coon, Richard thought as the boy climbed in beside him.
"I shot a 20-something-pointer!" Tyler blurted.
"Sure you did," his dad responded.
Escambia County might have lots of whitetails, but not big ones. Certainly not bucks sprouting 20 plus points in their racks. In fact, a 10-pointer would be enough buck to justify a town meeting.
However prone to exaggeration Tyler might be, he didn't miscount by much. When a stunned father and his son got through twisting the 18 1/2-inch wide rack this way and that, they agreed it had 17 points. That it tipped the scales at 182 pounds was equally as outstanding, as it is uncommon to find such a heavy deer in Alabama's southernmost reaches.
"He didn't believe me until we got up to it," Tyler said, grinning. "After that, he said that it was the biggest deer he'd ever seen."
Obviously, it was also the biggest the 7th-grader at Flomaton Middle School had ever laid eyes on. It was only the second buck he'd shot since he started hunting.
Had it not been for instinct, the new addition to the family's den wall would bear Richard's name instead of Tyler's.
"My daddy was supposed to hunt that food plot that evening, but I talked him out of it," Tyler said. "I just had a feeling. Every time I'd hunted there before, I always heard deer while I was walking out after dark."
It was the Friday after Thanksgiving, and Tyler and Richard ended up hunting separate food plots. The land they lease in Escambia County is mostly covered with pine plantations, so they plant green fields for the deer.
The pea patch on which Tyler sat covered about 1 1/2 acres. His stilted shooting house backed up to the edge of the plot and was about 16 to 18 feet high. The boy was inside by 4:30 p.m.
Right before dark, while he was glassing the food plot, Tyler heard deer approaching. He looked out the side window and saw not one, but two bucks walking together. Their white racks seemed identical.
Since daylight was fading fast, Tyler didn't spend a whole lot of time ogling the antlers. He quickly decided that the buck closest to him was the one he wanted.
"I knew they were bucks. But I was too nervous to think," he said. "I just knew I'd better shoot one before they ran off or something."
After the shot, Tyler watched only one buck bound away, its tail high. His cheek was still glued to the stock of the .30-30 rifle.
The youngster descended several minutes later, dug out his flashlight and walked over to where he'd last seen the deer that hadn't run off. His heart sank when he couldn't find it, but he discovered soon enough that he was looking in the wrong place. As he frantically waved his flashlight, the beam passed over the fallen animal's bright underside.
"Man," he later told his grandfather, "I got the granddaddy of them all!"
Indeed, he had. The buck's rack sported 17 points, in a basic 5x5 spread, with two extra ones on the left and five on the right.
THE 13th POINT
"Urrrrrrrrp, urrrrrrrrp, urrrrrrrrp."
Eyes the size of coasters, 11-year-old Anderson Casey whipped his head toward the source of the sound. It was close, almost right on top of him.
He had been watching a doe, now standing in the open after having passed within 30 feet of the bottom rung of his metal ladder stand. Barely 25 yards behind her, a buck took shape, grunting almost continuously as it followed.
"That's the first time I ever heard a deer grunt in my life," he admitted. "But there was no mistaking it. It was loud!"
Anderson was hunting alone that day. In fact, the 2003 season was his first to venture afield without an adult. Nobody was there to tell him what he was hearing. But still, he knew.
The boy was supposed to accompany a friend on that balmy afternoon of Jan. 15, but the buddy did not call to confirm. Perhaps sensing his son's disappointment, Decker Casey offered to drive Anderson to one of seven ladder stands overlooking food plots on the 100 acres behind their Montgomery County home. By 4:15, the young hunter was almost 18 feet aloft, watching a long dove field and a nearby turnip patch.
A half-hour later is when the doe passed almost within spitting distance of Anderson's oak tree en route to the field. Then the youngster heard the buck before he ever saw it.
The size of the rack registered immediately. No need to scrutinize it. When the buck was only 15 yards away, Anderson squeezed the trigger on his .243 and watched, stunned, as the deer took off running instead of falling. Though later determined to have been hit squarely in the heart, the whitetail decided not to stick around for a second dose.
Anderson fired again as it ran.
The buck covered a mere 35 yards before collapsing. Though gravity had claimed it, Anderson - who wasn't about to chance its getting up and leaving - shot it twice more for insurance.
"I don't remember what I thought," he said. "I just knew the deer had a big rack, and I didn't want it to get away!"
Though Anderson had taken three bucks in his short career as a hunter, none were anywhere near this big. After running over to the deer and glancing only briefly at it, barely long enough to count 12 points, the boy ran almost a mile back home to shar
e the news with his dad.
It was still daylight when father and son reached the downed buck. Only then did Anderson notice the point, No. 13, protruding not from the rack itself, but from the buck's forehead.
Beyond the rarity of this condition, little has been written about "unicorn" bucks. In two decades of collecting information about Alabama's best and weirdest whitetails, I have come across two other unicorns. In one case, the third antler grew on the side of the face, near the buck's eye. In the other, the buck had been hit in the muzzle by an arrow, and the antler grew where the broadhead was still embedded in its skull.
Biologists know that antler growth is connected to the presence of the same tissue - periosteum - that covers the standard pedicels, or stalks, from which antlers grow. Scientists have even grafted the tissue onto all parts of deer - including legs - and grown antler.
How that tissue got from the pedicels to other parts of a wild deer's skull is unknown, but biologists believe genetics might have as much a role as any natural accident.
Young Anderson, by the way, doesn't care. He thinks his buck is pretty cool!
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The Must-Visit Places of Turkey
Having the diversity by merging Asia and Europe makes Turkey one of the must-visit countries around the world. Not only hosting four seasons that natural beauties to visit each season by combining blue and green perfectly but also showing the architecture, art, history in the buildings that are heritages from the past -being the home to many civilizations for centuries.
Turkey is important for combining different cultures, religions, and people of various ethnicities. Especially the time when Christianity was about to spread, the missionary Pavlus’ tries concluded as a result of the Seven Churches during the Roman Empire, including Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamon, Sardes,
Philadelphia, Laodikeia, and Thyateira.
It is impossible to explain each place to go when you visit Turkey for sure, but we summarized the most important and the best places you should definitely discover while your stay in Turkey.
Istanbul is the best-known city in Turkey, also the largest one. Offering the well-preserved architectural beauties and being located along between the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea, Istanbul is where the West meets the East, both geographically and culturally. Affected by the Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman Empires, Istanbul reflects a multicultural sight worth visiting. It is proved that you will enjoy all the experiences you have in Istanbul, seeing the Bosphorus, the Grand Bazaar, the Hagia Sophia and many more streets, mosques, museum, and many more. You should also try the Turkish cuisine having a various range of foods and drinks.
Gallipoli is a seaport having great importance both by historical relevance and hosting remarkable battles, the Trojan War and the Battle of Canakkale –during World War I-. Gallipoli Battlefields, Brighton Beach, Chunuk Bair New Zealander Memorial, Kabatepe War Museum, Lone Pine Australian Memorial, Ancient City of Troy and The Temple of Athena are the most important historic places to see.
Cappadocia is known by the stunning “fairy chimneys” rock formations. There are hundreds of these astounding formations which rise from the ground. And they are interspersed with the homes and the villages. The chimneys are unique because some of them have been transformed into churches that are decorated magnificently with underground cities and homes throughout the region of Cappadocia. You may have seen the balloons’ pictures everywhere, it is exactly the amazing bird’s eye view in balloon tours of Cappadocia. The best thing is that you really do not need to watch from the air, you can easily see the fairytale landscape only by watching from the ground.
Ephesus is an ancient site and Europe’s most complete classical metropolis in Aegean Turkey. Being one of the largest cities in Roman Empire and boasting the Temple of Artemis (one of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World), ruins of Ephesus are well-preserved and contained inside a large archaeological site. The massive Theatre, the eye-brightening Celsus Library and the Temple of Hadrian make Ephesus have the huge tourist attractions.
Pamukkale is famous for being a spa center, especially during the Roman times. Being a World Heritage site of UNESCO, Pamukkale has the travertines and limestones having calcium and hydrogen carbonate meaning the contribution to health. And it is how Pamukkale has its whiteness and the pools.
Antalya is a vibrant and large city on the Mediterranean where both local and international tourists come to visit every year. On one hand, the gorgeous beaches for swimming and other watersports and lush green mountains for climbing and camping. On the other hand, amazing ancient ruins making you feel and smell the old times’ history. Kaleiçi, Old Quarter, Roman Gates and the Clock Tower are the most famous places to visit in this beautiful city.
Useful information about system in Turkey
Currency Regulation
There is no limit on the amount of foreign currency that may be brought into Turkey, but not more than 55,000 worth of Turkish currency may be brought into or taken out of the country.
Exchange slips
The exchange slips for the conversion of foreign currency into Turkish lira should be kept, since you may be required to show these when reconverting your Turkish lira back into foreign currency, and when taking souvenirs out of the country (to prove that they have been purchased with legally exchanged foreign currency).
On Entry
The following items may be brought into the country duty free personal effects of the tourist.
One TV, one color pocket TV (maximum 16 cm screen), one TV-tape-radio combination, one video recording camera and 5 video cassettes (blank); 5 records, 5 tape cassettes or compact discs, one video player, cine-projector (8 mm) and 10 rolls of film (blank), one slide projector, one pocket computer (maximum main memory capacity Ram 128k. Byte), electronic playing devices (without cassette - keyboard), one transistor radio and portable radio - tape player (its specification to be determined by the Ministry of Finance and Customs), one Walkman or pocket tape recorder, one portable compact disc player, binoculars (one pair, except night binoculars), harmonica, mandolin, flageolet, flute, guitar, and accordion (only one of each type, maximum 3 musical instruments).
personal sports equipment, necessary medical items, bicycle, baby buggy, toys, 200 cigarettes and 50 cigars. 200 grams of tobacco and 200 cigarette papers, or 50 grams of chewing tobacco or 200 grams of pipe tobacco, or 200 grams of snuff (In addition to the above allowances, it is possible to purchase 400 cigarettes, 100 cigars, and 500 grams of pipe tobacco from the Turkish Duty Free Shops upon entering the country), 1.5kg. coffee, 1.5kg. instant coffee, 500 grams of tea, 1 kilo chocolate and 1 kilo sweets, 5 (100 cc) or 7 (70 cc) bottles of wines and/or spirits, five bottles of perfume (120 ml max. each), one portable typewriter, one camera with 5 rolls of film, first aid, and spare parts for the car, other items necessary during the journey.
Valuable items and all items with a value of over $ 15,000 must be registered in the owner's passport upon entering Turkey, for control upon exit.
Antiques brought into the country must be registered in the owner's passport to avoid difficulties on exit.
Sharp instruments (including camping knives) and weapons may not be brought into the country without special permission.
The bringing into the country, trade, and consumption of marijuana and all other narcotics is strictly forbidden and subject to heavy punishment.
Gifts, not exceeding 500 DM in value and not for trading purposes, may be brought into the country duty free. In addition, gifts not exceeding 500 OM in value may be posted to Turkey duty free, if the date stamped by the sending post office falls one month before, or one month after the following holidays: Seker Bayrami, Kurban Bayrami, Christmas, and New Year's.
Cellular Telephones entering the country must be accompanied by a certification form showing ownership. Ownership must be documented in the passport of the owner and will be checked on entry and exit. For more information contact the Ministry of transportation, General Directorate at Tel: (312) 212 35 72 - 212 60 10 (10 lines), Fax: (312) 221 32 26 or write to Ulastirma Bakanligi Telsiz Gn. Md. Emek - Ankara.
On exit
Gifts and souvenirs: for a new carpet, a proof of purchase; for old items, a certificate from a directorate of a museum is necessary. Exporting antiques from Turkey is forbidden.
Valuable personal items can only be taken out of the country providing they have been registered in the owner's passport upon entry, or providing they can show they have been purchased with legally exchanged currency.
Minerals may only be exported from the country with a special document obtained from the MTA (General Directorate of Mining Exploration and Research). Etudler Dairesi 06520, Ankara. Phone: +90 312 287 3430 /1622, Fax: +90 312 285 4271
You Can Receive a Tax Refund for the Goods You Purchased In Turkey!
Refunds will be made to travelers who do not reside in Turkey.
All goods (including food and drinks) are included in the refunds with the exclusion of services rendered.
The minimum amount of purchase that qualifies for refund is 100.TRY
Retailers that qualify for tax refunds must be "authorized for refund." These retailers must display a permit received from their respective tax office.
The retailer will make four copies of the receipt for your refund, three of which will be received by the purchaser. If photocopies of the receipt are received the retailer must sign and stamp the copies to validate them. If you prefer the refund to be made by check, a Tax-free Shopping Check for the amount to be refunded to the customer must be given along with the receipt.
For the purchaser to benefit from this exemption he must leave the country within three months with the goods purchased showing them to Turkish customs officials along with the appropriate receipts and! or check.
There are four ways to receive your refund:
If the retailer gives you a check it can be cashed at a bank in the customs area at the airport. If it is not possible to cash the check upon departure or if you do not wish to cash it then, .e customer must, within one month, send a copy of the receipt showing that the goods have left the country to the retailer who will, within ten days upon receiving the receipt, send a bank transfer to the purchaser's hank or address.
If the certified receipt and check are brought back to the retailer on a subsequent visit thin one-month of the date of customs certification, the refund can be made directly to the purchaser.
Retailers may directly refund the amount to trustworthy customers upon purchase.
The refund may be made by the organization of those companies that are authorized to make tax refunds.
Additional information: Ministry of Finance and Tax Dept. General Directorate, (Maliye Bakanligi, Gelirler Genel Mudurlugu) KDV Subesi 06100, Ulus - Ankara
Phone: +90 312 310 3880 / 725 - 728 - 735, Fax: +90 312 311 4510
Tourist Health
Turkish Tourist Health Society (Turizm Sagligi Dernegi-Hacettepe Universitesi Tip Fakultesi Plastik ve Rekonstrüktif Cerrahi Ana Bilim Dali, Sihhiye 06100 ANKARA
Phone: +90 312 311 9393 - 310 98 08) performs the functions below, to provide the travelers in the entire country, mainly in the touristic regions, with proper
to secure food hygiene
to prevent environmental pollution
to ensure hygiene and healthy working-conditions in touristic establishments.
Health Regulations for Pets
For those who wish to bring domestic animals into the country the following are required:
Pets have to be 3 months and older
An International Certificate of Health issued within 15 days before the travel
The Identification Card
Vaccination Card
If you have an official certificate, you may bring one cat, one bird, one dog and 10 aquarium fish into the country. To get information for the importation of pets, please see the Consular Services.
Motorist Rules
Those who wish to enter the country with their vans, minibuses, automobiles, station wagons, bicycles, motorcycles, motorbikes, sidecars, buses, motor coaches, trailers, caravans or other transport vehicles, will have to provide the following documentations:
Passport.
International driving license.
Car license (document where all details related to the car and the owner's name are registered). If it is somebody else's vehicle a power of attorney should be provided.
International green card (Insurance card). The TR sign should be visible.
Transit book "Carnet de passage" (for those who want to proceed to the Middle East).
The vehicle can be brought into Turkey for up to 6 Months. The owner should declare on the opposite form, the date of departure at the border gate and should absolutely ve the country at the date declared. If for any important reason the staying period has to be ended, it is necessary to apply to;
The Turkish Touring and Automobile Club (Turkiye Turing ve Otomobil Kurumu) 1. Sanayi Sitesi Yani, 4.Levent, Istanbul, Phone: +90 212 282 8140 (7 lines).
The General Directorate of Customs (Gümrükler Genel Mudurlugu), Ulus Ankara
Phone: +90 312 310 3880, 310 3818, Fax: +90 312 311 1346, before the end of the period declared.
In Case of Acciden
The accident should be reported to the police or gendarme. That report has to be certified by the nearest local authority. The owner should apply to the customs authority with his passport and report.
If the vehicle can be repaired, it is necessary to inform the customs authority first and take the vehicle to a garage. If the vehicle is not repairable and if the owner wishes to leave the country without his vehicle, he has to deliver it to the nearest customs office, and the registration of his vehicle on his passport will be cancelled. (Only after the cancellation can the owner of the vehicle leave the country.)
Following an accident, you can phone:
Trafik Polisi (Traffic Police), Phone: 154
Jandarma (Gendarme), Phone: 156
For more information, contact the Touring and Automobile Association of Turkey.
Formalities for Private Yacht Owners
Yachts require a Transit Log and may remain in Turkish waters for up to two years maintenance or for wintering. There are certain ports licensed by the Ministry of Tourist the storage of yachts for a period of two to five years. For further information and regulations contact the marina concerned.
Upon arriving in Turkish waters, yachts should immediately go for control of the ship to the nearest port of entry which are as follows: Iskenderun, Botas (Adana), Mersin, Tasucu, Anamur, Alanya, Antalya, Kemer, Finike, Kas, Fethiye, Marmaris, Datça, Bodrum, Güllük Didim, Kusadasi, Çesme, Izmir, Dikili, Ayvalik, Akçay, Çanakkale, Bandirma, Tekirdag, Istanbul, Zonguldak, Sinop, Samsun, Ordu, Giresun, Trabzon, Rize, Hopa.
Port Formalities
All the required information concerning the yacht, yachtsmen, members, intended route, passports, customs declarations, health clearance, and any obligatory matters must be entered in the Transit Log.
The Transit Log is to be completed by the captain of a yacht under a foreign flag or amateur sailor acting as captain of the vessel.
The Transit Log is completed upon first entering a Turkish port and, generally, it is necessary to contact the Harbor Authority before leaving. For information on tax-free fuel, contact the Marina Harbor Office.
If you have a certificate from the Tourism Ministry Yacht Harbor, you may take petrol at no charge, provided you possess an official marina license.
Formalities for Private Plane Owners
When coming to Turkey, international air routes should be followed. Private planes may stay for up to three months in Turkey with tourist status, but for longer periods permission should be obtained from;
The General Directorate of Customs (Gumrukler Genel Mudurlugu), Ulus Ankara
Phone: +90 312 310 3880, 310 3818, Fax: +90 312 311 1346
The airports of Ankara, Adana, Istanbul, Izmir, Antalya, Trabzon and Dalaman have ties for private planes. It is also possible to hire planes and helicopters in Turkey.
For further information, apply to:
The Civil Aviation Department of the Ministry of Transport (Ulastirma Bakanligi, Havacilik Gen. Müd.). Bosna-Hersek Cad., No: 5 - 06338 - Emek, Ankara.
Phone: +90 312 212 6730, Fax: +90 312 2124684, TIx : 44659 Ga-tr.
Diving for purposes of sport, with proper equipment and in non-restricted areas, is permitted. Foreign divers should have official documentation of their specifics and training and must be accompanied, when diving, by a licensed Turkish guide.
The limit for diving with diving gear is 30 meters. For educational purposes, this limit is extended to 42 meters. Dives exceeding 30 meters must be carried out with proper diving and medical equipment. In order to protect Turkish archaeological and cultural values. It is strictly forbidden to transport Turkish antiquities or natural specimens.
Turkish post-offices are easily recognized by their black PTT letters on a yellow background. Major post offices are open from 8:00 a.m. till 12:00 p.m., Monday/Saturday, and 9:00 a.m. till 7:00 p.m., Sunday. Small post-offices have the same hours as the government offices.
Postal charges vary for different services depending on destination. Post restante letters should be addressed "postrestant" to the central post-office Merkez Postanesi, in the town of your choice. You have to show your identification card to collect your letters.
All PTT branches have the facilities to exchange money at the current international exchange rates, as well as international postal orders and travelers' cheques. There is also an express postal service (APS) operating to 90 countries for letters , documents and small packages. A wide variety of special stamps are available in all PTT centers for philatelists.
To phone from PTT telephone booths, which are extensively found in all areas; telephone cards , and tokens (";jeton") in three sizes are used. Local, inter-city and international calls can be made from all PTT offices. Besides these main offices there are also mobile PTT services in the touristic areas. For the area codes of major cities and touristic areas in Turkey, please see the "Area Codes" list. Foreign countries area codes are indicated in the International Telephone Codes list.
Some important service numbers are:
112 Emergency
110 Fire
118 Unknown Numbers
161 PTT Information
Monday-Friday (8:30-12:30), (13:30-17:30)
Saturday-Sunday (closed)
Monday-Friday (8:30-12-00), (13:30-17:00)
Monday-Saturday (9:30-13:00), (14:00-19:00)
Sunday (closed)
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Y'know, this is all a bit futile. Mebbes it's a reflection of my own lousy taste but there isn't one list I've seen above that doesn't contain at least a couple of bands/artists I actually like. It's all horses for courses anyway, innit? Plus I detect more than a hint of what's hip not to like in certain lists. Let's face it, some bands are always going to be uncool irrespective of whether they are or were any good. What, for example, was ever wrong with It Bites other than the fact that they straddled the divide between prog and pop so effectively that they ultimately appealed to neither's admirers? C'mon, dudes - while we live in a nation that bears a cunt like Robbie Williams as its biggest celebrity talent then I'm sure we can find more deserving subjects of our hate than It Bites or even bloody Genesis for that matter. Save your venom for Willams and his manufactured, hyped-up ilk and leave real bands out of it, whether or not you rate 'em.
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June 21, 2010 By Rob Powell
Whilst the England team falters at the World Cup in South Africa, sports fans may instead find something to cheer at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships which gets under way this afternoon. If the fortnight-long tennis tournament - which organisers promise will be vuvuzela free - inspires you to pick up a racquet, here's our guide to local tennis courts and facilities.
Greenwich Park, Greenwich SE10
Greenwich Park has six tennis courts (and a hut) at the rather grand sounding Greenwich Park Tennis Centre. The courts are perfectly adequate, but at £9 per hour for adults at peak time, they are probably the most expensive pay and play courts in the area - the price is probably justified by location rather than facilities on offer.
Ranger's Courts, Chesterfield Walk, SE10
These three courts, behind Chesterfield Walk, are in the grounds of the Ranger's House and are leased to Greenwich Council. The courts are attractive and pleasant to play on. Each individual court is fenced off so you'll spend less time chasing after stray balls, and they have a nice secluded feel because of the high wall that runs around the perimeter. Courts should be booked in advance by calling 020 8858 1692 and the cost of playing is £7.30 per hour.
Eltham Park South, Glenesk Road, SE9
There's four good tennis courts on a macadam surface which is well marked out. There's also two table tennis courts and a cafe just next to the courts if you have time to spare after your match. For part of the week, the courts are used by the Greenwich City Tennis Club. There's a number of grass courts which are made ready for the Summer, too. It's a nice idea to have some grass courts but I tried them recently, and even when they were freshly prepared, they weren't good enough to play a proper match on but they are probably fun for a knockabout and the surface is less taxing on your knees.
Maryon Park, SE7
Maryon Park in Charlton has two macadam surface tennis courts. I've yet to go and try these ones myself but they're definitely on my to-do list.
Plumstead Common, Se18
Four nicely surfaced courts which are free to use at Plumstead Common. The courts are, unfortunately, on an ever-so-slightly noticeable slope and the run off area between a couple of the courts seems a little on the slim side but these are good local courts which get well used.
Hornfair Park, SE18
I played here once recently and don't plan to return any time soon. A bout of rain a day or so before I played had created something of a muddy bog - not unlike the Bog of Eternal Stench in Labyrinth, in fact - in one corner from which it took a brave soul to try to retrieve a ball. There was dog's mess and moss on the courts and my tennis partner got scratched on the face by a bit of stray wire hanging off the gate which had been used to make an ad-hoc latch.
If rain halts play, it's worth knowing that there's some pretty smart indoor courts available to the public over at Bromley Lawn Tennis Club which is just outside the town centre.
As well as these public courts, there's also plenty of clubs in the area to consider such as Shooters Hill LTC in Eaglesfield Road and the Open Door Tennis Club in Kidbrooke Grove. If you want to find hitting partners without joining a club, check out the London Tennis website which lets you find players near you at a similar standard for league or friendly matches.
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Dom says
Great reviews of these tennis courts. I’m compiling a directory of tennis courts in London, on my fitness site Fitness4London, if anyone wants a large selection of courts arranged by postcode area.
The individually caged courts at Ranger’s courts sound great – I wish all courts had this. Would transform the match experience.
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What's the Difference Between Baking Soda and Baking Powder?
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Both baking soda and baking powder are crucial ingredients when it comes to cooking "quick rise" baked goods like pancakes and muffins, but they're actually both quite different products. So what exactly is the difference between them?
The way that baking soda and baking powder make foods rise involves some chemistry, but it isn't actually too complicated. Baking soda is comprised entirely of sodium bicarbonate, which is a base that releases carbon dioxide when exposed to an acid like vinegar or buttermilk. These bubbles of carbon dioxide are what gurgles up from inside a grade-school science fair "volcano" when baking soda interacts with vinegar. If those bubbles happen to get trapped inside a baked good, it will rise too; this process is called "chemical leavening" (as opposed to biological leavening via yeast or physical leavening via steam).But the baking soda-acid reaction happens immediately, which isn't ideal for many baking recipes. If you're making cookies and all the CO2 bubbles have dissipated by the time you put the pan in the oven, you're gonna have some flat cookies. This is where baking powder comes into play.All baking powder contains baking soda, but it also contains two additional chemicals: monocalcium phosphate (which releases CO2 when exposed to water, especially helpful when a recipe doesn't call for anything acidic) and sodium acid pyrophosphate or sodium aluminum sulfate (which release CO2 when exposed to heat). So if you use baking powder, your baked good won't only rise when it's exposed to an acid; it'll also rise when exposed to water, and it'll continue to rise even more when the batter is put into the pan or oven; that's why baking powder is referred to as "double acting." As the batter continues to cook, the bubbles will "set," and voila: a perfectly risen cupcake, like the ones served at these bakeries.
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House Republicans cancel October session to campaign for midterms
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House Republicans announced Friday they were canceling all votes for October and leaving for home, recessing with two weeks left on their October schedule to provide candidates with more time to campaign before the midterm elections.
The announcement, widely expected and typical of the House in an election year, came from Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). He said the House would reconvene again on Nov. 13.
The change in plans comes as House Republicans, who are defending dozens of vulnerable seats this cycle, have been anxious to get back on the campaign trail this fall.
This week, lawmakers wrapped up work on a number of major pieces of legislation — including a package to keep the government open — as well as passed a spate of GOP messaging bills this week.
But lawmakers did not come to an agreement on a farm bill to reauthorize the nation’s food and agriculture programs, which expire Sept. 30, meaning they will likely lapse.
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Gaming with Doc - Nintendo Lite
Nintendo has used the latest “Direct” to announce what we all knew was coming, a new Nintendo Switch Lite that is compact and lightweight, making it easy to take on the go!
This dedicated handheld device lets you play all Nintendo Switch games that support handheld mode and will be available on the 20th of September this year.
It’s missing some of the features of the main console in that it won’t connect to a TV and the controllers are built into the frame of the console so you can’t remove them. You’ll need to buy additional joy-cons to be able to play some games that require motion control.
It will be available in three different colours Grey, Yellow and Turquoise. https://www.nintendo.com/switch/lite/
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Considering you can get the main console for around $399 (and even cheaper at some retailers) it seems like a ridiculously steep price for considerably less.
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August Weather Averages for Cancun, Mexico
What's the weather like in Cancun in August
August is usually the hottest month of the year for Cancun. And even though it falls within the middle of the hurricane season, only two hurricanes have hit Cancun in the last 30 years – Gilbert on September 15th 1988 and Wilma on October 21st 2005 – so the chances of one hitting during your August holiday is extremely unlikely. If you want to play it as safe as possible, visit C...
Low Temperature 25°C 77°F
Sunshine Hours 11 hrs
Rainfall 181 mm
Cancun Weather for August 2019
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August is usually the hottest month of the year for Cancun. And even though it falls within the middle of the hurricane season, only two hurricanes have hit Cancun in the last 30 years – Gilbert on September 15th 1988 and Wilma on October 21st 2005 – so the chances of one hitting during your August holiday is extremely unlikely. If you want to play it as safe as possible, visit Cancun at the start of August, since the chances of hurricanes hitting increases as the month develops.
During August, the average temperature for the resort is the same as it was in June and July - 28°C/82°F, created by average highs of 34°C/93°F in the heat of the day and average lows of 25°C/77°F in the coolest part of the night. Daily averages fluctuate between 28°C/82°F and 29°C/84°F throughout the month, with 25 days of the month exceeding temperatures of 32°C/90°C and every day exceeding 27°C/80°F.
The first two weeks of the month see more daily averages of 29°C/84°F than 28°C/82°F, making it the hottest time to visit. In recent times, the hottest August temperature Cancun has ever experienced is 37°C/99°F, whilst the coldest August temperature the resort has ever experienced is 20°C/68°F.
In August, Cancun receives more rainfall than it does in July, although it's still less than the resort experiences in September, which is the wettest month of the year. When rain does fall in Cancun during the hurricane season, it's very intense and is over as quickly as it begun. The likelihood of rainfall occurring at this time of year steadily increases as the month develops, starting at 21% on August 1st and reaching 28% by August 31st.
At this time of year, the resort is subject to an average of 181mm/7 inches of precipitation which is spread out over 6 wet days. Fortunately, these 6 wet days will rarely be consecutive. The most common forms of rainfall to occur during this month are moderate rain (which happens on 44% of days with rainfall), light rain (35%) and thunderstorms (16%).
Across the month, Cancun enjoys an average of 11 hours of sunshine every day, along with median cloud coverage which very slightly increases as the month progresses. Cloud coverage starts at 63% on August 1st and rises up to 66% by August 31st. On an average day, the sky is clear/mostly clear 24% of the time, partly clear 29% and cloudy/overcast 38%.
In Cancun, the sea is always warm enough for swimming, whichever month you choose to visit. In August, the average sea temperature for the waters around the resort is 29°C/84°F. With temperatures this high, the sea can often feel hotter hotel swimming pools.
Humidity is intense in Cancun in August and it will feel hot and sticky practically every day. The relative humidity for the resort during this month ranges between 60% (mildly humid) and 98% (very humid), rarely falling below 52% (mildly humid) or reaching as high as 100% (very humid).
During an average August in Cancun, typical wind speeds vary between 0 m/s (calm) and 6 m/s (moderate breeze) rarely going above 8 m/s (fresh breeze). The highest average wind speed of 3 m/s (light breeze) happens around August 11th, when the average daily maximum is 6 m/s (moderate breeze). The lowest average wind speed of 3 m/s (light breeze) happens around Augus
Hotels for Cancun in August
Crown Paradise Club
When it comes to family-friendly all-inclusive accommodation in Cancun, it's tough to beat Crown Paradise Club. Boasting a prime location on the resort's white sandy beach, this hotel offers a huge range of children's facilities, including the Kids' Paradise Programme with activities for children aged 4-12, kids' themed parties, baby programmes for babies 18 months to three years, mini golf, swimming pools, games room and water park with nine slides, pirate ship, castle and water fountains. For adults, there are water sports at the nearby beach, golf, evening entertainment, tennis courts, multi-purpose sports courts, swimming pool games, gym and spa which offers salon treatments, facials, body treatments, massages and hydrotherapy.
The all-inclusive programme includes seven restaurants which serve everything from sushi and tempura dishes to French specialities and Mexican classics. Accommodation comes in the form of 336 standard rooms, 102 standard plus rooms, 24 family rooms, 113 special category suites and nine honeymoon suites, all of which have sea views. Each unit features cable TV, mini fridge stocked daily, coffeemaker, air conditioning, paid WiFi access and full bathroom with tub and shower. The honeymoon suites are the most luxurious room category and boast a double Jacuzzi on the terrace and a free lagoon cruise.
Grand Park Royal Cancun Caribe
Grand Park Royal Cancun Caribe is another great choice for all-inclusive accommodation in Cancun. This hotel claims to be the most extravagant all-inclusive hotel in the resort and is comprised of 311 luxury guestrooms and suites decorated with placid ocean tones with sea views, cable TV, air conditioning, coffeemaker and full bathroom with shower and tub. A deluxe room with garden view is the most basic and affordable accommodation choice, whilst the villa master suite is the most luxurious and boasts a mini pool terrace, marble floors and personalised butler service. The all-inclusive programme covers 11 different bars and restaurants, plus never-ending in-room mini bar, non-motorised water sports, running track, gym access, two swimming pools, Jacuzzis, Balinese beds, snorkel tour and nightly entertainment.
Cancun Clipper Club
For something more affordable, check out Cancun Clipper Club. Situated in front of the Cancun Convention Centre, within easy walking distance of the beach, plus many restaurants and shopping malls, this hotel is decorated with white-washed walls, brightly coloured accessories and typical wooden furniture in the traditional Mexican way. Guests can choose between studios, suites and standard rooms, all of which come with views of the Nichupte Lagoon, and some of which include a basic kitchenette. Onsite services and facilities include swimming pool with swim-up bar, tennis court, basketball court, kids playground, jogging track, beach club, beauty parlour, car park and Ray's Palapa Restaurant which is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
GR Solaris
GR Solaris is ideal for holidaymakers who want to be in the centre of all the action. Located in Cancun's Hotel Zone directly on the beach, this well-respected hotel offers 300 deluxe rooms, panoramic view rooms and ocean view rooms with Jacuzzi, each of which is decorated with typical Mexican décor and features cable TV, air conditioning and terrace or balcony with sea or Nichupte Lagoon views. Onsite dining options include four restaurants (two international buffets, one themed restaurant and one deli) and three bars (one swim-up bar, one snack bar and one lobby bar).
There's loads of night time entertainment on offer, including welcome parties, Mexican nights, casino nights, Caribbean nights, karaoke sessions, magic shows and themed decade parties, plus a kids' club with lots of child-friendly entertainment. There's also an onsite spa with mud body wraps, natural face masks and holistic treatments, plus swimming pools, one adults-only pool with Jacuzzi and free WiFi access in the lobby.
Fiesta Inn Cancun Las Americas Hotel
For something more basic and affordable, consider staying at Fiesta Inn Cancun Las Americas Hotel. Located in Downtown Cancun, just 0.2 miles from the Dubai Palace Casino, this hotel has 152 guestrooms, divided between superior double rooms, superior twin rooms, junior suites and handicapped rooms. Each guestroom is decorated in a minimalist, business style with work desk, coffeemaker, free WiFi access, air conditioning, cable TV and full bathroom. Within the hotel you'll find La Isla restaurant open 24-hours a day, outdoor swimming pool with lap lanes, fitness centre, laundry services and indoor parking for an extra cost.
Beaches for August for Cancun
Playa Marlin
Make the most of the hot summer weather by spending the day at Playa Marlin, located on the resort's eastern side. The eastern cost of Cancun is affected by strong winds and waves a lot more than the northern side is, so it's no surprise that Playa Marlin is best known for its choppy waves. Although these waves can make swimming difficult and sometimes dangerous, they create the optimum conditions for parasailing, body boarding and kitesurfing. The sand here is fine and white with no rocky patches and it stretches on so far that it will never feel crowded - even during the busy summer season. There are toilet facilities, parasols and sunbeds to rent, as well as an on duty lifeguard. If you want something to eat or drink, you can head to one of the hotels, bars or restaurants which line the promenade.
Playa Tortugas
Playa Tortugas is perfect for beachgoers looking for a beach with a lively, party atmosphere. This beach is one of the smallest in the resort and is made up of a crescent-shaped golden sandy bay flanked on one side by a pier that you can dive or bungee off. Because this beach is protected on one side by a pier and a harbour on the other, the water is never rough, making swimming and snorkelling perfectly safe at all times. Playa Tortugas is the launching point for diving on the Great Mesoamerican reef which stretches for 725km between Cancun and Honduras. The currents can sometimes be particularly strong close to the reef, so it's only a recommended dive site for intermediate divers. You'll find a volleyball court on the beach, plus sun loungers, parasols and a restaurant bar that serves typical Mexican cuisine.
Restaurants and Bars for Cancun in August
Savio's Bistro
If you're in the mood for Italian food, look no further than Savio's Bistro. Here you'll find an extensive menu with seafood, fish and meat-based dishes, as well as risotto, pasta, pizza, soups and salads. There is also a lengthy children's menu available, with many Mexican and European options.
Bovino's Churrascaria
For the best grilled meat in Cancun, visit Bovino's Churrascaria. An authentic Brazilian steakhouse, this eatery invites diners to relax at the table whilst their server delivers skewers laden with various quality cuts throughout the evening until you've had your fill. If you're still feeling peckish, there is also a wide variety of desserts available, such as tarts, cakes and ice cream.
The Blue Gecko
The Blue Gecko is a small, quirky taco bar popular with locals and visitors alike. Found along the Zona Hotelera, this venue can get rather lively but always a friendly and safe environment. As well as incredibly delicious and zesty tacos, The Blue Gecko offers an impressive range of drinks, including beers, wine, spirits and cocktails, all of which are very affordable. The cocktails can be made refreshingly frozen, and always with fresh fruit.
Congo Bar
One of the most popular clubs in Cancun, Congo Bar makes for a top night out. Here you can purchase an all-inclusive drinks ticket at the beginning of the night or opt to pay for drinks as you go along. The resident DJs play a great selection of music, with popular favourites from the 80s and 90s up until the best tunes of today.
Things to Do in Cancun in August
Temple of the Warriors
Temple of the Warriors is a large stepped pyramid set within the Chichen Itza Park. It's comprised of four platforms surrounded by 200 columns and features over 300 carvings of soldiers dressed for battle. At the top of the pyramid, you can see a statue of Chac Mool protecting the entrance to the temple. The Temple of the Warriors is open from 8am until 5.30pm every day and is laid out like an open-air museum, full of unique photo opportunities. If you want to get the most out of your visit, it's recommended that you join a guided tour, otherwise you might not know what you're looking at.
Avenida Tulum
If you're looking for somewhere to pick up a souvenir or buy some gifts for friends and family back home, be sure to stop by Avenida Tulum. Here you'll find kiosks, shops and boutiques selling everything from traditional clothing, artisan jewellery, intricate ceramic works, Mexican food, designer goods and perfumes. There are also some supermarkets where you can pick up essentials. If you're not comfortable exploring the area on your own, you can sign up for a guided tour online before you go.
August events in Cancun
La Fiesta de Playa
11th August 2019 to 13th August 2019
La Fiesta de Playa takes place in the middle of the month, with plenty of activities to join in with, including parties, barbecues, music concerts, competitions and cultural activities held at the stretch of beach between Punta Cancún and Punta Nizuc.
Cancun Music Festival
31st August 2019 to 2nd September 2019
Cancun Music Festival takes place on Labour Day weekend at Moon Palace Golf & Spa Resort. The hugely popular event sees thousands of people from all over the world travel to enjoy some of the best Jazz and R&B artists on the scene, as well as a number of local artists from Cancun. In 2014 the headlining acts were Eric Roberson and Algebra Blessett.
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Labour Day Weekend
The US Labour Day Weekend is a huge holiday celebrated throughout Cancun. Over the course of three days, almost all hotels, bars and nightclubs throw amazing parties with all sorts of activities and events. In 2014 Dreams Riviera Cancun Resort & Spa celebrated with a beach party complete with BBQ, games and beachside Olympics.
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Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Complaints fall at Yeovil FT
PERFORMANCE: Yeovil District Hospital Foundation Trust saw a 13 per cent fall in the number of formal complaints received in 2011-12 comparted with the prevoius year.
A report to July’s board said the equivalent of one complaint had been received for every 855 patient attendances compared with one per 735 in 2010-11. Just two complaints went to the health service ombudsman for a second stage review.
The emergency department recieved the most complaints (19 per cent) followed by outpatients (14 per cent). Of the remaining complaints 16 per cent were classed as “complex” relating to more than one department.
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Yeovil District Hospital Foundation Trust is set to roll out an app developed by artificial intelligence firm DeepMind, after signing a five year contract with the Google owned company.
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Items tagged:
Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL)
We have 18 items tagged with ‘Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL)’.
Four challenges to powering local economies
There has been remarkable advances in energy access for rural households. But building the wider economy requires energy services that power new jobs and enterprises
12 September 2016 | Blog | Energy
Crucial role of civil society in campaigning for universal energy access
IIED senior researcher Sarah Best focused on the important role of civil society organisations (CSOs) can play in advancing universal energy access when she spoke at the Royal Geographical Society in London.
16 March 2016 | News | Energy
What will speed up the micro-grid revolution?
For investors to have greater confidence in micro-grid electricity generation, more attention needs to be paid to ensuring technology operates well in rural communities
24 November 2015 | Blog | Energy
Understanding the SDGs: powering Goal Seven
IIED senior researcher Ben Garside says the Sustainable Development Goal on energy will be a powerful driver for development
24 September 2015 | News | Energy
Feeding into energy access: data-driven funding
Data on rural electricity use in unconnected parts of the world could support new ways of funding renewable technologies, providing access to those who need it most
14 July 2015 | Blog | Energy
What should a no-carbon democracy look like?
Halting planetary warming is fundamental. But as we find safe and affordable solutions to our future society's energy needs, how could we build a world that is more equal and more democratic?
13 July 2015 | Blog | Climate change
Public and private sectors: delivering energy access for people living in poverty
Representatives from the private and public sectors will meet this week in Brussels to discuss innovations in financing and supporting energy services for people living in poverty, as part of the European Development Days (EDD).
4 June 2015 | News | Energy
Sharing the load: who pays for energy access?
Finance for off-grid energy is increasing – the big challenge is working out how best to blend public and private investment to deliver energy services for poor communities
29 May 2015 | Blog | Energy
IIED at European Development Days 2015
IIED researchers and partners will run sessions on economic incentives for fisheries management and delivering energy for poor communities at this year's European Development Days (EDD15) in Brussels. Dr Essam Mohammed, senior researcher in IIED's fisheries team, will moderate a high-level presentation on economic incentives for fisheries management in Bangladesh, and IIED senior researcher Sarah Best will participate in a session on energy access for poor communities
18 May 2015 | News | Energy
Civil society coalition calls for inclusive Sustainable Energy for All agenda
At the second annual UN Sustainable Energy for All Forum (SE4ALL), held in New York 18-22 May, a group of 26 civil society organisations (CSOs) from around the world are calling for the SE4ALL initiative to ensure civil society can participate effectively in national and regional decision-making processes
How can we finance sustainable energy for all?
Leading politicians and thinkers are being urged to make sustainable energy available to all. Achieving this goal requires research in how people and communities use energy and how sustainable energy can be financed
15 December 2014 | Blog | Energy
Transforming energy access: a conversation with Kandeh Yumkella
What will it take to deliver modern energy services to the poor – particularly those in rural Africa who need decentralised energy? What are the barriers to transformative change and what opportunities should be seized today?
Ensuring an Energy Sustainable Development Goal delivers for poor people and the planet
In late February, discussions over the post-2015 development agenda reached a milestone. The co-Chairs of the Open Working Group (OWG), the body tasked with preparing a Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) proposal for consideration by the UN General Assembly in September 2014, issued a "Focus Areas Document".
25 March 2014 | Blog | Energy
CAFOD/IIED show context is key to sustainable energy for all
Universal energy access is a laudable aim, but attempts to achieve it must take on board local contexts and sensitivities, say Sarah Wykes and Ben Garside.
Energy delivery models that work for people living in poverty
Access to modern, safe, affordable and sustainable energy is increasingly recognised as crucial for development. Designing the delivery of energy services that can meet the needs and wants of end-users, in particular those of men and women living in poverty, is a complex task that requires a range of skills (technical, managerial and financial) and cooperation between multiple stakeholders. Equally, scaling up services successfully requires adapting delivery models to different local contexts rather than simple replication or a “one size fits all” approach.
13 September 2013 | Article | Energy
How can business help boost access to energy for those who need it most?
From crowdfunding platforms to development banks, the private sector can have a big impact in low-income energy markets.
7 June 2013 | Blog | Energy
New research series kicks off with look at energy delivery models
What are the barriers to engaging small-scale producers and low-income consumers, and how can private sector interventions be improved to reach the poorest?
What is the Sustainable Energy for All Initiative?
The UN’s Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) initiative, launched in 2012, aims to improve the lives of the poorest and most vulnerable people by ensuring universal access to modern energy services, increasing the share of renewable energy sources around the world, and improving energy efficiency.
26 October 2012 | Article | Energy
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Walsh and Mullins insist stable's dip in form is not a concern at Closutton
Ruby Walsh. Photo: Sportsfile
Michael Verney
Ruby Walsh and Patrick Mullins are not concerned by the inconsistency of Willie Mullins' yard and expect the wheel to turn as many of his Closutton string shake off the cobwebs and get a run under their belt after an unusually dry spell.
https://www.independent.ie/sport/horse-racing/walsh-and-mullins-insist-stables-dip-in-form-is-not-a-concern-at-closutton-37716531.html
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Despite already accumulating a shade over €3 million in prize money this season and leading the Irish trainers' championship from rival Gordon Elliott by just over €550,000, Mullins' runners have been in patchy form. Mullins has had 27 losing favourites since Christmas with many finishing well out of contention - he has had six winning hotpots during that time - but Walsh is not panicking.
"A lot of them are only having their first run. They should have been running in November but they couldn't because of the ground.
"Some of them ran at Christmas but I wouldn't be worried," Walsh said at launch of the 2019 Thyestes Chase in Gowran Park.
The trainer's son Patrick agreed that there isn't any great need for concern with the Dublin Racing Festival in early February and the Cheltenham Festival eight weeks away.
"I think we had this worry this time last year so no I think it's far enough away... I think a few of our horses at Christmas needed the run which usually they wouldn't. You'd rather have them undercooked at Christmas rather than overcooked," Mullins said.
"Everything is with a view to Cheltenham and Punchestown, so no I don't think we're going to start worrying yet.
"The weather has changed the lay-out of the season. A lot of our horses are a run or two behind where they should be at this stage but they're just going to have to go."
Walsh laments the fact that many marquee equine names - including Pat Kelly's Gold Cup favourite Presenting Percy - have had to stay on the sidelines as the wait for soft ground continues but he acknowledges that little can be done.
"You're under pressure in the sense that you have a yard full of horses that you can't run to earn prize money. There's good races going by but the season will still only be as long as it is. There's no races to run them in May, June and July even if it does rain," Walsh said.
"It's frustrating in that horses aren't going to get to run as often as they would but you're not in any worry about anything else other than they're not going to have as many runs as they usually would have."
The abject performance of Tornado Flyer in the Grade One Lawlor's of Naas Novice Hurdle ten days ago was a "complete mystery" to Mullins but the Punchestown Festival Champion Bumper winner is already back in full work and will be seen again "sooner rather than later".
Champion Hurdle hopeful Laurina - as low as 3/1 second favourite behind reigning champion Buveur D'Air - is another which has been hindered by the dry weather.
It's up in the air whether the exciting mare will make another appearance before heading to the Cotswolds with Mullins admitting that little was learned after her Sandown rout earlier this month.
"Did it tell us anything for the Champion Hurdle? Not really, which is disappointing.
"With a horse like her you'd love to have a bit more experience, she's only ran against mares and novice mares so there's a huge step up in class there," Mullins said.
"Everyone loves potential. People prefer potential over hard evidence but if you go back and look at her performance in Cheltenham last year, then I'd hope her price is right."
Sharjah (9/1) is another Champion Hurdle candidate after victory in last month's Ryanair Hurdle but watered ground on the opening day of the Festival would be "a slight concern".
Lakemilan can deliver in Killarney showdown
A mixed card kicks off the Killarney July Festival, with Frankie Dettori's arrival on Wednesday set to be the highlight of the week at the picturesque Kerry venue.
Golden girl Derwin secures European crown
Louise Parkes Kate Derwin, from Athlone, Co Westmeath, became only the fourth Irish rider in the 60-year history of the Junior European Showjumping Championships to win gold in a nail-biting finish at Zuidwolde, Holland.
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Wayne Bailey We had one of those great racing stories on Tuesday when See Double You won a handicap hurdle at Roscommon at the grand old age of 16. I read somewhere it was the oldest winner in Ireland since The Ladys Master won a Tipperary Handicap Chase at that age in 1987, and Tuesday's victory was filled with emotion for trainer...
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Event Organiser: ICE
Working with natural processes – the evidence behind Natural Flood Management, Cardiff
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Dr Lydia Burgess-Gamble (Environment Agency) will be talking about the evidence behind Natural Flood Management. This event is organised by CIWEM Welsh branch and supported by ICE Wales Cymru. Members and non-members welcome.
There has been much research on Working with Natural Processes (WWNP) to reduce flood risk, but it has never been synthesised into one location, meaning that it has been hard for flood risk managers to access up-to-date information on it and to fully understand its potential benefits.
To address this gap, we have undertaken 3 interlinked projects which make up the WWNP evidence base, these projects were launched in October 2017.
The presentation will give an overview of the project as a whole covering the:
Evidence Directory which summarises the effectiveness of WWNP measures from a FCRM perspective as well as their wider ecosystem service benefits. It also includes: a detailed literature review; 65 case study examples; 14 one-page summaries of each measure; and guidance on monitoring
Maps which can be used with key partners to help think about the types of measure that may work in a catchment and where to potentially locate them.
Research gaps that still need to be addressed to move this form of FCRM into the mainstream.
Cost for the event is FREE and intended for professional/educational purposes. Refreshments will be available (on a first come first served basis). This event is open to non-members.
Tracey Dunford
Dr Lydia Burgess-Gamble (Environment Agency)
Lydia started working in the water industry 18 years ago when she undertook a PhD investigating River Restoration project appraisal and monitoring procedures at Queen Mary College, London. She has now been at the Environment Agency for over 15 years in a wide range of Flood Risk Management roles but always with an interest in managing flood risk whilst improving the environment for people and wildlife.
For the last 5 years she has been working in a Flood Risk Research team as a Principal Scientist leading projects on Working with Natural Processes to reduce flood risk. In this role she has developed a Research framework which defines high priority areas of research in this field, and she has also project managed a suite of projects to develop the Evidence Base for Natural Flood Management. She has also worked with NERC to establish the recent Natural Flood Management Research call.
Jeremy Parr (Natural Resources Wales)
Cardiff School of Engineering
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Flood Defences and Control
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Inuvika Announces Release of OVD Enterprise 2.4.0
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Toronto, Canada – Inuvika Inc. announced version 2.4.0 of OVD Enterprise is now available for download. OVD Enterprise delivers virtualized Windows and Linux applications from private or public clouds to any device, without the cost and complexity of VDI solutions.
OVD Enterprise 2.4.0 focuses on stability, performance, and enterprise deployment. It also improves reporting services and simplifies installation. The release includes maintenance fixes as well as all previously released updates for OVD. For more details, refer to the OVD 2.4.0 Release Notes .
OVD Enterprise 2.4.0 is sold through our Subscription Program and will immediately be made available through Inuvika’s global network of Reseller and Hosting Partners. Visit https://inuvika.com/partners to find an Inuvika authorized partner in your area.
Subscription plans are available in one, two, or three year terms and do not require additional up-front licensing fees. Pricing is based on the number of concurrent users, with pricing incentives based on volume. Plans include maintenance and support, as well as access to all product updates released during the term of the plan.
The best way to experience OVD Enterprise is by requesting a Free Trial or online demo.
About Inuvika
Inuvika is a Canadian company with offices in Toronto, Vancouver, and Caen, France; and a partner network in 27 countries. Inuvika OVD is a virtualized application delivery platform that is easy to manage through a single web admin console. It allows users to access both Linux and Windows apps together from a single user interface on any device and operating system. Users can access their virtualized app environments through an HTML5-compliant web browser, or from native clients available for Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, and Android.
Contact: info@inuvika.com
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All Business Report
GlaxoSmithKline chairperson to step down as drugmaker splits
International / 22 January 2019, 4:00pm / Reuters
GlaxoSmithKline chairperson Philip Hampton will step down after more than three and a half years in the role, as Britain’s biggest drugmaker prepares to split its business into two. Photo: AP
INTERNATIONAL – GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) chairperson Philip Hampton will step down after more than three and a half years in the role, as Britain’s biggest drugmaker prepares to split its business into two.
The announcement comes a month after GSK’s chief executive Emma Walmsley announced her boldest plans yet – to split the company into two businesses – one for prescription drugs and vaccines, the other for over-the-counter products.
Walmsley, who took the helm in 2017, announced in December that GSK and Pfizer would combine their consumer health businesses in a joint venture with sales of £9.8 billion (R176bn), 68 percent owned by the British company, in an all-equity transaction.
“Following the announcement of our deal with Pfizer and the intended separation of the new consumer business, I believe this is the right moment to step down and allow a new Chair to oversee this process through to its conclusion over the next few years,” Hampton said in a statement.
Hampton, aged 65, was paid £700 000, of which he elected to take 25 percent in GSK shares, according to the company’s 2017 annual report.
He took the top job at GSK at a testing time – just after a profit warning in 2014 due to weak sales of its core respiratory drugs.
The Briton was tasked with helping steer the drugmaker back to sustainable growth. Shares of GSK have, however, remained flat after peaking about 17 percent during his tenure.
They were little changed in early trading on Monday.
GSK, whose consumer products include Sensodyne toothpaste and Panadol painkillers, has lagged rivals in recent years in producing multibillion-dollar blockbusters and it largely sat out a spate of dealmaking by rivals under previous chief executive Andrew Witty.
Seeking to reassure investors of its financial strength, GSK extended its guarantee on the dividend by stating it expected to pay unchanged dividends of 80 pence per share for 2019.
Before joining GSK, Hampton was chairman of Royal Bank of Scotland Group and J Sainsbury.
He was parachuted in to help rescue RBS following its 45 billion pounds bailout during the financial crisis and led the bank through a turbulent period of transition.
GSK, which has been looking to buy early-stage assets and partner with companies, said it had started the search for a successor.
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Case Study: Duvha – EMDAS
Eskom is a state owned enterprise in South Africa and is involved in the electricity supply industry from generation, transmission through to distribution and sales. Eskom’s Duvha Power Station is situated in Witbank, Mpumalanga, and is one of the 11 Base Load Stations with an installed capacity of 3,600 MW with an average production of 22,798 GWh over the last three years.
The energy produced should be accurately and reliably measured and reported on and all metering data should be auditable and comply with regulatory requirements. Eskom employs metering, measurement and an EMDAS (Energy Metering and Data Acquisition System) at the generation plants to fulfill this requirement.
Each power station has its own individual needs as there may be legacy equipment and systems already in place. It may not be in the plant’s best interest to replace all legacy devices and several aspects should be reviewed for the change-over process and requirements between systems. Topics for consideration include:
New EMDAS Eskom Standard
Metering best practices
Bus communication architecture
Equipment life expectancy
Effective use of available equipment and infrastructure
Outage schedules for installation of new equipment
IT/OT Interfacing
System Ownership within Eskom
Duvha Power Station had an outdated EMDAS, including the metering and measurement equipment. The system had to be upgraded according to the latest architecture and guidelines within Eskom.
Challenges and limitations discovered during the project implementation included lack of updated documentation, risks associated with the integration of existing hardware pulses and the temporary use of hardware for interfacing to legacy hardwired systems for the duration of the change-over process.
The Solution:
iST (Integrators of Systems Technology) offered Duvha Power Station an EMDAS covering both historical data reporting and real-time visualisation of power generated or consumed in the plant. This solution had been designed around the metering best practices accumulated in iST’s experience in metering of over 30 years in this specialised field.
Our device agnostic approach and integration skillsets enable us to directly interface to a variety of metering devices or other 3rd party systems, depending on the best-fit solution for the client. Our current supported device list is provided below and new device drivers are added as their market uptake viably increases:
Actaris
Blue Star A2000
EDMI Meter
Elster Kent (A1700 & A1140 & AS1440 & A1160 & Waveflow)
Energy Intellect VM Series
Enermax & Enermax+
GE SM Series
Landis & Gyr
Power Logic ION
Iskra (MT372 & MT831)
Schneider PM3000 Series
Synapses LM1AMR
Unitrack DM50
Due to the age of the hardware at Duvha it was required to redesign the metering and measurement systems in conjunction with the new EMDAS for Units 1 to 6, station boards, HV Yard and other supplies at Duvha Power Station.
iST’s EMDAS solution at Duvha consists of two identical servers, both loaded with the same software packages namely ecWIN™ and Schneider Electric’s Struxureware Power Monitoring Expert. A third server acts as a Data Server pushing data to Eskom’s Phoenix system for visibility at National Control from where the electrical network is managed. This server is located in a protected network as depicted in figure below. The challenges and limitations mentioned previously motivated the decision to deploy the new EMDAS with a file exchange interface to the old EMDAS.
Each of the EMDAS servers acts independently to provide fully redundant system operation. In the event of one server failing, the EMDAS system as a whole will remain operational. The software from both servers will simultaneously connect to the meters to collect the real-time and logged data via Ethernet and RS485. This implementation of communication redundancy has been possible through the use of advanced power metering product, namely the ION8800 meter. Where existing hardware is utilized, the communication architecture restrictions should be considered.
The solution deployed addressed the requirements for an EMDAS system applying the latest available technology and future proofing the EMDAS system at Duvha.
The picture below shows the real-time monitoring for each unit and Station Boards, including single line diagrams with power, voltage, currents and power factors from each metering point.
The picture below shows the real-time reading accuracy comparisons. The analogue transducers are utilised for control and should be verified to timeously identify any possible corrective actions required.
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Top Brazilian University Accepts iTEP for Grad Programs
The University of São Paulo is a top 5 university in Brazil with a rich history and a high level of prestige in the country. Two USP graduate programs now accept iTEP scores for proof of English proficiency for admissions: The Drugs and Medicines Post-Graduation Program, and Professional Master Program in Civil Engineering.
Cátia Kajihara, executive director of iTEP’s Brazilian distributor, MK Consultoria em Idiomas, says these USP programs were attracted to iTEP’s ease of use and flexibility. “They like it is an international test available on demand, and that iTEP offers students a lower price,” she says. “They also like the detailed score reports and quick-turnaround for scoring.” iTEP is scheduled on demand at more than 700 test centers around the world–including two in the city of São Paulo.
“It’s an honor for iTEP to be accepted at what is essentially an Ivy League school in Brazil,” says iTEP International President Jemal Idris. “We set out to create a world-class, top-of-the-line English assessment tool, and we consider it a major success when institutions of this caliber join our growing list of partner schools around the world.” iTEP is accepted by over 800 institutions globally.
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“POLI-USP has great importance in the scientific and academic fields in Brazil,” says Kajihara. “Its graduates have occupied prominent positions in public service and industry, including mayors and governors of São Paulo.” POLI has 4500 undergraduate students and 2500 graduate students.
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JORDAN SET FOR TAEKWONDO GRAND PRIX
Jordan will look to continue their excellent year in Taekwondo with a successful start to the new Taekwondo Grand Prix season.
More than 250 fighters from 53 countries have arrived in Rome, Italy, with Jordan set to launch its medal bid on Friday through Juliana Al Sadeq (-67kg) and Hamza Qattan (+80kg).
Al Sadeq has moved up to 11th in the world and will meet Brazil's Melina Tetonelli in her opening fight.
Qattan’s world bronze last month has seen him move up to 17th in the rankings and he opens up against Brazil's Maicon Secuera, who won bronze at the Rio 2016 Olympics.
Saleh Sharabati (-80kg) is Jordan’s third member of the squad who will fight later this weekend.
The four-round Grand Prix will move on to Chiba, Sofia and Moscow with vital Olympic qualification points up for grabs.
At last month’s World Championship in Manchester, England, Jordan achieved a silver through Ahmad Abu Ghaush, who is missing Rome to get some more rest, and Qattan’s bronze medal.
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