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What to Eat in Egypt
Owen Pearson, Leaf Group
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Although Egypt typically conjures up images of towering pyramids, ancient cultures and expansive deserts, the sights of this country only make up part of a trip to Egypt. While in Egypt, sampling the local cuisine can provide a more complete experience. Several types of food are common throughout this country.
Koshari, which is a blend of macaroni, lentils and rice, is commonly served throughout Egypt, as is ful medames, a dish made of mashed fava beans. Several Egyptian entrees -- such as stuffed grape leaves or felafel, which is ground chickpeas formed into balls and deep-fried -- mirror entrees common throughout the Mediterranean. Baked eggplant mixed with crushed garlic is also a traditional Egyptian entree.
Shish Kebab
Shish kebab, or skewered meats, are widely available from Egyptian roadside food stands and restaurants. Lamb is the most common type of meat used in shish kebab, although some versions contain chicken, particularly in tourist areas. Throughout Egypt, shish kebab are frequently served with tahini sauce, pita bread and a salad made of tomatoes and greens.
Baba ghannouj, a dip made from roasted eggplant, cumin, chickpeas, lemon juice and olive oil, is typically served with pita bread throughout Egypt. This dip is usually flavored with garlic, black pepper and salt. Entrees also commonly come with tahini salad, a condiment made with ground sesame seeds, vinegar, lemon juice, parsley, cumin and olive oil. Another common accompaniment is macarona bechamel, a dish made of macaroni and bechamel sauce topped with onions and minced lamb.
Egyptian desserts are typically less sweet than Western versions; however, trying desserts during your trip will complete your Egyptian culinary experience. Desserts typically consist of unsweetened dough mixed with nuts, dates or figs. Keshik, a yogurt pudding flavored with chicken stock and fried onions, is a typical example of an Egyptian savory dessert.
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Owen Pearson is a freelance writer who began writing professionally in 2001, focusing on nutritional and health topics. After selling abstract art online for five years, Pearson published a nonfiction book detailing the process of building a successful online art business. Pearson obtained a bachelor's degree in art from the University of Rio Grande in 1997.
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Indiana Hospital Association
As a leader and advocate for Indiana hospitals, Indiana Hospital Association (IHA) has many responsibilities. It gives a voice and representation to hospitals across the state. It provides a connection to other healthcare organizations and the business community. It also educates the public on important health issues in Indiana.
Juggling these responsibilities is a lot of work, and IHA needed a partner with the right combination of marketing and healthcare industry knowledge to support them. That’s where we step in.
An important part of IHA’s work is educating the public on important health issues, including a campaign around Sepsis Awareness Month in September.
Sepsis is a dangerous reaction that can happen in response to an infection. It is more common than heart attacks and claims the lives of nearly half the people who get it. Despite this, only 47% of Americans have heard of sepsis, and fewer understand its severity or warning signs.
We helped IHA and their partner, the Indiana Patient Safety Center (IPSC) plan a statewide awareness campaign. The campaign sought to educate hospitals, regional patient safety coalitions and the public on sepsis symptoms, risk factors and prevention. Ultimately, the goal was to save lives.
Campaign Branding
We worked with IHA and IPSC, to design a visual brand unique to the sepsis campaign. Distinct from both the IHA and IPSC brands, the "See it. Stop it. Survive it." campaign brand was geared toward creating broad appeal. It's focus was on the message rather than the sponsoring parties.
The campaign starkly presented facts and statistics in uncluttered graphics paired with emotionally driven imagery. A red ribbon unfolded throughout each piece, creating a common thread.
The visual brand governed the design of social media posts, digital ads, outdoor ads, a landing page, posters and signage, t-shirts, and more.
The Survive Sepsis landing page housed sepsis facts, answered common questions and shared real stories, all to prompt people to learn and get involved. Over the month-long push, more than 11,500 people visited the site, spending an average of four and a half minutes there — and sometimes as many as ten. These session times indicate that people found the page content useful and were willing to spend time engaging with it.
Digital, social and outdoor ads
The right mix of paid advertising was important in getting in front of a diverse audience. We developed a comprehensive digital ad plan, including programmatic display ads targeted to Indiana adults, alongside a paid Facebook advertising campaign. We also provided artwork and guidelines for regional coalitions, which led to 16 billboard placements throughout the state.
Member toolkits
From the start, we knew that member hospitals would be vital for reaching the public but would need some guidance. To help them, we put together toolkits complete with FAQs, images for social media, posters, and more.
The toolkits served a dual purpose: first, they made it easy for member hospitals to participate, and second, they made sure that IHA and all its members were sending the same, consistent message.
Toolkits provided for:
3,000 IHA members
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Programmatic display ads:
Over 1.3 million impressions in one month
22% increase in Click-Through Rate (CTR) vs previous year's campaign
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Facebook ads:
Over 11,000 link clicks driving users to the Survive Sepsis landing page
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400% increase over industry average CTR
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Special Newsletter: Deals, Sales, Contests, & More
April 1, 2011 • Newsletter, Sponsored
Because everybody loves a bargain: This is a special newsletter devoted to sales and deals, with descriptions by the sponsors. As always, click on the blue text for more information.
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Tribeca favorite Thalassa offers a menu of modern Greek and Mediterranean dishes featuring fresh seafood and organic produce. The restaurant was awarded 3 stars by Forbes, and it’s the recipient of the Wine Spectator Award of Excellence. Join us Sunday evenings for Athenian Taverna Nights: Enjoy a three-course prix fixe tasting menu for $35, with live Greek instrumental music and no corkage fee. 179 Franklin, 212-941-7661, thalassanyc.com.
Mind Over Matter is how New York does fitness. Contact us now for 20% off one-on-one in-home sessions in Personal Training, Pilates, Yoga, or Massage. We also have a concentration in prenatal and postpartum fitness. Whether in your home, office, or even outdoors, MOM trainers are equipped with the skills to turn any existing space into your own private health club. Offer valid until April 30.
BABESTA THREADS
Mention Tribeca Citizen and get 15% off your next purchase at Babesta Threads, 66 W. Broadway. Babesta is a funky kids’ boutique online (babesta.com) with two locations in Tribeca (56 Warren and 66 W. Broadway), selling Threads, Cribz, Wheels, Gear, Toys, Tunes, and more. We cater to independent spirits who want cool stuff and personal service. Like us on Facebook for the latest news, events, and specials: facebook.com/babesta. Offer expires May 1, 2011.
MAXDELIVERY
MaxDelivery.com makes daily shopping fun and easy by offering a wide range of products and delivering them in under an hour. You’ll find everything from wine to DVDs to drugstore items to specialty brands and supermarket products. Get $25 off* any order $100+. (Use code TBCIT; expires Apr. 30.) Delivery is always free for orders over $75 (just $2.95 below $75). *Wine and liquor are sold by Artisan Wines and are not eligible for promotion.
G/K FRAMING
Goldfeder/Kahan Framing Group is offering a special promotion (see above) for the month of April. At G/K Framing, we pride ourselves on our meticulous care: Whether you have an Impressionist oil painting, vintage poster, or precious family heirloom photo, you can count on G/K’s critical conservation advice and design to make this the best framing experience you have had. 169 Hudson, between Vestry and Laight; promotion may not be combined with other certificates/sales.
WORTH STREET VETERINARY CENTER
Looking for a better veterinary hospital? Come visit the Worth Street Veterinary Center, where our dedicated staff is passionate about providing the best possible care for your pet. At our AAHA-accredited clinic, our compassionate medical team practices the highest standard of veterinary medicine. Come see us and receive $50 off of your first exam. Offer valid through May 1. To schedule an appointment, call us at 212-257-6900 and reference this ad.
Buy a ticket for Taste of Tribeca—which benefits P.S. 150 and P.S. 234—between April 1 and April 3 and you’ll be entered into a drawing to win a Taste of Tribeca T-shirt. (Use the code CitizenTaste.) Five winners may choose a T-shirt—co-designed by Don Zinzell and Pixie Yates—at the Taste merchandise table. This year’s event is Saturday, May 21, 11:30 a.m.–3 p.m.; tickets purchased before May 8 are just $35. Photo ©2010 Robert A. Ripps.
BLUEPRINTCLEANSE
Attention juicers! BluePrintCleanse, the hugely popular line of freshly pressed fruit and vegetable juices, is now available for individual purchase at Whole Foods Market in Tribeca. In celebration of its arrival in the neighborhood, BPC is offering a free three-day cleanse for one lucky winner ($195 value). To enter, please email fans@blueprintcleanse.com by April 5, and include Tribeca Citizen in the subject line. Note: Participants will be automatically entered into the BPC mailing list.
DA MIKELE—SIGNATURE FOOD BY LUZZO’S
Join us every night from 4 to 7 p.m. at Da Mikele for the ultimate Italian Aperitivo, a casual way to meet up with friends or a date and socialize, relax, and nibble as dinner approaches. This beloved Italian tradition, brought to Tribeca by Da Mikele, features a rich variety of complimentary sfizi—Italian appetizers and snacks—paired with Italian wine or cocktails. Da Mikele—Signature Food by Luzzo’s, 275 Church (at White); 212-925-8800, damikele.com.
Interested in advertising in the deals newsletter? Email tribecacitizen@gmail.com to be notified about the next opportunity.
Tags: Babesta Threads, BluePrintCleanse, Da Mikele, Goldfeder/Kahan Framing Group, MaxDelivery, Mind Over Matter, Taste of Tribeca, Thalassa, Worth Street Veterinary Center
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Junior senators Gauri Seth and Ryan Johnson announce candidacies for TCU President
Nick Golden
Two junior Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senators, Gauri Seth and Ryan Johnson, announced their candidacies for TCU Senate President last night, setting the stage for the first competitive race TCU presidential race since 2014. Both senators’ campaigns released Facebook pages, “Go for Gauri” and “Ryan Johnson for TCU President,” with their respective statements and links to campaign websites.
Johnson, who served as trustee representative before being elected to a first term as a Senator on Tuesday, emphasized student involvement in reforming campus, employing a slogan that reads “Reinvent. Reform. Together.” Johnson’s website includes a range of issue areas such as “Student Group and Club Sports Funding,” “Housing” and “Diversity and Inclusion,” among others.
“Over the next few days I will be asking for your votes, because I truly believe that together we can transform our Senate, student groups and our school to become spaces for community and inclusivity,” his statement read. “From an on-campus pub to renewed travel funding, from housing policy to sustainability, we can and will have a lasting impact when we reach — together.”
Seth, who has been a Senator since her first year at Tufts, served as Senate parliamentarian during her sophomore year and TCU Vice President over the last two semesters, according to her campaign website. Alongside her background, Seth’s website includes a policy platform on issue areas such as “Housing,” “Identity, Inclusion and Support” and “Financial Aid and On-Campus Employment,” among other items.
“I’ve been on the TCU Senate since my first year here at Tufts. Being on Senate has allowed me to see the multitude of issues students on our campus face, and I have been actively working to confront many of these problems every day,” her statement read. “I am certain that I am the candidate who will bring a powerful combination of experience and initiative to the job.”
A forum will be held for students to interact with both candidates on Wednesday, April 20, before elections the next day, Thursday, April 21, according to the TCU Elections Commission (ECOM)
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Russian MFA spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. Photo: mid.ru
This looks like russophobia and paranoia, Russian MFA says to Finland
Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova comments on Finnish concern about Russian land acquisitions in border areas.
In a press conference on Thursday, Zakharova said the concern expressed by Finnish security police Supo is «close to paranoia».
«The ones who stir up this russophobia do not seem to be aware of the fact that such kind of never-ending intimidation of one’s population ultimately will give create problems: sooner or later it will turn into a mania», Sakharova underlined, a transcript from the MFA reads.
«I simply do not know how it is possible to live with such a constant feeling of fear».
The MFA spokeswoman commented on a question from a journalist about Russian land acquisitions in Finnish border areas. The Finnish security police believes the properties potentially could be used by Russian military forces in case of a conflict.
Supo’s assessment was included in a report provided to Parliament’s Administration Committee in September, Yle reports. The report refer to Russia’s “hybrid warfare” tactics in the prelude to the invasion and annexation of Crimea, the Finnish broadcaster informs.
The report was followed by an assessment of the Finnish Defense Ministry.
The Finnish government is currently in the process of introducing legislation to protect critical areas in Finland and a report is due early 2017.
Defence Ministry has begun looking into property deals involving land and other real estate thought to be critical to Finnish security. The research is part of the current government’s programme to introduce legislation to protect critical areas in Finland.
Public servants will be reviewing transactions as well as the option to intervene by way of legislation. In terms of national security, the most important areas include road networks, the electricity grid and military posts.
In the future, public servants could be reviewing transactions and given the opportunity to intervene by way of legislation. In terms of national security, the most important areas include road networks, the electricity grid and military posts, Yle reports.
Currently Finnish laws place no limits on the amount of land that can be sold to foreigners.
United against Russia’s aggression
«This will clearly not make our relationship better», says MFA spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
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Jaron, Frankie Ballard, Grascals + More Reveal 2011 Resolutions
Alanna Conaway
AP/frankieballard.com
Exercise more and eat less -- that may be the most common New Year's resolution, but that's not exactly what we heard when we asked about the resolutions of some of country's brightest stars! Here are a few of our favorite celebrity plans for 2011:
Jaron and the Long Road to Love: "To end the long road to love."
Frankie Ballard: "To pray more and play guitar more!"
Stephen Barker Liles (Love and Theft): "To eat healthier, sing louder and hang out with Chris Young more."
Jeff Bates: "To be the best father I can possibly be to my daughter."
Sunny Sweeney: "I think I'm going to cut back on some of the language I use sometimes."
Troy Olsen: "To eat more beef, drink more good wine, and listen to more Buck Owens!"
Joanna Smith: "To love more, stress less and write the best song I've ever written!"
Trent Willmon: "To judge others and myself less harshly, to remind myself that if I see something I don't like in someone else it is because it's present in my own life, and to try to not drop the F-bomb anymore!"
Brantley Gilbert: "I'd like to spend a lot more time with my mother, my grandmother, my family and my friends back home."
Keith Burns (Burns & Poe): "To learn Spanish, so I know what they are saying about me at [Nashville restaurant] Las Palmas."
Leslie Harter (The Harters): "To live everyday like it's my last!"
Mike Harter (The Harters): "To keep in better touch with old friends."
Scott Harter (The Harters): "No resolution for me; I don't like letting myself down."
Trailer Choir: "To make and eat more homemade macaroni salad (mayonnaise-based, not mustard-based) with family and friends, and to drink a cold beer with as many country music loving fans as we can at every Trailer Choir show; estimated 6. 8 million cold beers. Holla!"
Julie Roberts: "I would like to live in the moment more. Enjoy the journey of life, laugh a lot and smile even more! Also, I'd like to pay my student loans on time!"
Daryle Singletary: "Well, as always, to go on a diet. [laughs] But on a more serious note, my resolution is to be the best father and husband that God wants me to be."
Brad Cotter: "To finally jump on the social-networking bandwagon. I'm actually going to log onto my Facebook page and Twitter page more than once every other month or so! [laughs]"
Roger Creager: "To not make more New Year's resolutions: less disappointment in February. Or, plan B, sing a duet with Taylor Swift; it's going to be a rough February!"
Adam Craig (Adam Craig Band): "To try to appreciate every moment of everyday, try to connect better with our fans and audience, not take anything for granted."
Brian Smith (Adam Craig Band): "I want to make time for more fishing!"
Elaine Roy (The Roys): "To be more grateful, to give back and of course to continue to exercise and eat right."
Lee Roy (The Roys): "Eat better and give back as much as I can to help others."
Jamie Johnson (The Grascals): "I am going to make more family time and not hold the world on my shoulders!"
Kristin Scott Benson (The Grascals): "I hope to be a more mature Christian and pray effectively for my family and friends."
Terry Eldredge (The Grascals): "Be good to my family, neighbors and fans. That way I'll always have good family, neighbors and fans."
Jeremy Abshire (The Grascals): "Peace on Earth and good will towards man and woman."
Terry Smith (The Grascals): "To work more fish into my diet, just for the halibut."
Danny Roberts (The Grascals): "I'm just going to try to be the best dad and husband I can."
Matt Gary: "Keeping my head down, my eye on the ball and my nose to the grindstone, all the while remembering to make time to enjoy the little things: my family, friends, fans, golf, fishing and snowboarding!"
Duane Propes (Little Texas): "To bust the myth that nice guys finish last."
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St. Olaf Choir brings luster and individuality to wide range of music
By Wynne Delacoma
The St. Olaf Choir performed Saturday night at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago.
There’s a pleasant little mystery at the heart of many good choral concerts. How can a (usually) large group of singers make a (usually) imposing space like a cathedral or a concert hall seem so intimate?
The audience that filled Chicago’s Fourth Presbyterian Church Saturday night to hear the St. Olaf Choir from Northfield, Minnesota had the happy task of contemplating that question. An a cappella group of 75 young men and women from St. Olaf’s College, a small liberal arts school affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church, the choir tours regularly and Chicago is always one of their stops. (They return to the area Feb. 14 for a concert at Northwestern University’s Pick-Staiger Concert Hall.)
Saturday’s audience, many of them alumni, knew they could expect good things. The 103-year old choir, led for the past 25 years by Anton Armstrong, is ranked among the country’s premiere choral groups.
But the range of St. Olaf’s repertoire and their sumptuous sound was still surprising. And the intimate atmosphere the choir established in Fourth Presbyterian’s soaring, Gothic space was exhilarating.
The concert’s repertoire ranged from William Byrd and Bach to Bernstein and two world premieres. The choir’s sound was lustrous, its round tones and soft-edged phrasing never becoming too plushy. The vocal blend was seamless. Sopranos sounded as full-bodied as the basses, and the singing was fresh, lithe and flexible.
Highlights among the 19 pieces included Bach’s motet Furchte dich nicht (BWV 228). This is a cheerful, bouncy piece, the Lord reassuring the human race that he will never leave them. The choir’s various sections tossed Bach’s piquant phrases back and forth with youthful agility. Phrases were crisp and the energy infectious.
Both of the world premieres, With What Shall I Come by Rosephayne Powell and Flight Song by Kim Andre Arnesen, had smooth, pop-like melodic outlines, though Powell’s song swung into slightly jazz-flavored territory. Past Life Memories by New Zealand composer Sarah Hopkins was intriguingly strange. Inspired by Australian aboriginal music, the wordless piece melted into vocal overtones that sounded more like flutes than human voices. Charles Gray, playing both violin and viola in four pieces, including With What Shall I Come, added a bright, tensile thread to the musical texture.
Armstrong and his singers used two seemingly minor technical effects to heighten their connection with the audience. Most choirs, especially ones specializing in classical or sacred repertoire, stand stock still. But the St. Olaf singers swayed gently from side to side. They didn’t necessarily move in time to the music and each row of singers swayed in the opposite direction to the row in front of them. The effect was soothing, like watching a wheat field rippled by warm, leisurely breezes. The potentially distracting device sent a powerful message. These singers were individual human beings, not a well-polished music machine.
The other device involved the choir’s sound. Whether the text was Latin, German or English, the singers hurled crisp consonants into Fourth Presbyterian’s resonant space. Their hard Cs crackled, their Ts were full bite and juice. Amid the sumptuous wash of open vowels, those consonants caught our attention. Like well-chosen words in a lively conversation, they were tiny jolts of energy that drew us in.
On Saturday morning Fourth Presbyterian was the site of Ernie Banks’ funeral. With their concert Saturday night the St. Olaf Choir echoed the optimism and hope in the future so typical of the Cubs’ legendary star. It was reassuring to hear young singers bringing fresh life to the ancient art of choral music.
The St. Olaf Choir’s winter tour continues through February 16. stolaf.edu
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Corey Cadby withdraws from the 2018 Grand Slam of Darts!
COREY CADBY has withdrawn from the 2018 bwin Grand Slam of Darts, opening up a potential qualification for Polish star Krzysztof Ratajski.
The former World Youth Champion had qualified for the Grand Slam of Darts after reaching the UK Open final earlier this year, where he lost to Gary Anderson.
Cadby had made his Grand Slam of Darts debut in 2017, where he went out in the Group Stage in Wolverhampton.
The Australian’s withdrawal means Ratajski now moves into a provisional qualification place for this year’s event, after winning back-to-back Players Championship events earlier in October.
Players have a final chance to secure automatic qualification in this weekend’s bwin World Series of Darts Finals in Vienna.
However, if the two finalists from that event are already qualified for the Grand Slam, then Poland’s Ratajski would be in line to make his Grand Slam debut.
Eight players will also come through the last-chance qualifier for PDC Tour Card Holders on November 5.
The bwin Grand Slam of Darts will be held from November 10-18 at the Aldersley Leisure Village.
2018 bwin Grand Slam of Darts
PDC Representatives – Current Provisional Qualifiers: (invited in the following order up to a maximum of 16 players)
2017/18 PDC World Champion; ROB CROSS – 1
2017 Grand Slam Champion; MICHAEL VAN GERWEN – 2
2018 Premier League Champion; (Michael van Gerwen)
2018 World Matchplay Champion; GARY ANDERSON – 3
2018 World Grand Prix Champion; (Michael van Gerwen)
2017 World Youth Champion; DIMITRI VAN DEN BERGH – 4
2018 Masters Champion; (Michael van Gerwen)
2018 UK Open Champion; (Gary Anderson)
2018 European Champion; JAMES WADE – 5
2017 Players Champion; (Michael van Gerwen)
2018 Champions League Champion; (Gary Anderson)
2018 World Series of Darts Finals Champion;
2018 World Cup winners; (Michael van Gerwen) & RAYMOND VAN BARNEVELD – 6
2017/18 PDC World Championship runner-up; (Phil Taylor)
2017 Grand Slam runner-up; PETER WRIGHT – 7
2018 Premier League runner-up; MICHAEL SMITH – 8
2018 World Matchplay runner-up; MENSUR SULJOVIC – 9
2018 World Grand Prix runner-up; (Peter Wright)
2017 World Youth Championship runner-up; JOSH PAYNE – 10
2018 Masters runner-up; (Raymond van Barneveld)
2018 UK Open runner-up; (COREY CADBY – withdrawn)
2018 European Championship runner-up; SIMON WHITLOCK – 11
2017 Players Championship runner-up; JONNY CLAYTON – 12
2018 Champions League runner-up; (Peter Wright)
2018 World Series of Darts Finals runner-up;
2018 World Cup runners-up (2 players with the highest individual taking preference if only one spot available) (Peter Wright & Gary Anderson)
This list can produce a maximum of 28 players. If it produces more than 16 players, they shall be taken in order as listed above and no further players shall qualify automatically.
If it produces fewer than 16 places then additional places shall be filled from the reserve list in the following order:
2018 European Tour winners: GERWYN PRICE – 13, IAN WHITE – 14, MAX HOPP – 15
2018 Players Championship winners: KRZYSZTOF RATAJSKI – 16, MERVYN KING, JEFFREY DE ZWAAN, DANNY NOPPERT, MICKEY MANSELL, NATHAN ASPINALL
2018 UK Open Qualifier winners (No non-qualified players)
Players shall be separated within the reserve list first by the number of Events in each category they have won and then by their position in the PDC main Order of Merit on the cut-off date.
BDO Representatives:
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2018 Lakeside Championship runner-up – MARK MCGEENEY
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According to New York architect Victor Vitterlein, “The only path forward is to harness solar, wind and water for power and to use the power of computers to design, build and maintain homes.” The good news is that the technology that will make the homes of the future possible is already available today.
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Reboot is an eco-friendly futuristic dwelling designed by Vitterlein that utilizes wind turbines to power batteries that serve as the power supply. It’s elliptical glass elevator provides a view of its smooth outer curves and the changeable floor plan. The structure includes a built-in water treatment plant to purify the rainwater collected in special drains above the windows.
The Heliotrope in Freiburg Germany is the first home that generates more power than it uses. A multi-directional solar array follows the sun’s movements. Among the high-tech luxuries powered by solar energy in this home is a floor warmth system. Solar arrays aren’t the only energy-saving devices on the rooftop. A rainwater collection and filtration system ensures that water is used as efficiently as possible.
Architect Chad Mitchell participated in a project called Weave Housing, which utilizes design to create pockets of shade that reduces cooling costs. The shade pockets also serve as balconies for residents. The project was undertaken in response to the need for high-quality, affordable, energy efficient, multi-family housing.
Perhaps the most futuristic home design is the Wolke 7, designed by Timon Sager, which is a sky home. The home itself dangles from two cables attached to two zeppelins that escort it on its air travels. Sager believes that “…current concepts of home stand for the opposite of freedom” and are “built on a foundation in a single location and they are all about being static and safe rather than free and adventurous.”
While these opulent mansions contain some amazing features, technology in architecture is also being extended to even tiny apartments. Designers at Consexto, a Portuguese architectural firm, created movable walls which allow residents of small apartments to alter the size of the rooms according to the activities they are participating in and the number of people present.
The majority of today’s smart home technology depends on a reliable high-speed internet connection. Older tech like ADSL is stepping aside, and new, better ways to connect are here, like Google Fiber and NBN (former is still in its infancy, while the latter is available in all major urban areas of Australia). In an age of hacking and identity theft, some of the smartest home technologies are advanced security systems that protect users’ passwords and other vital information. Bitdefender, an antivirus manufacturer, plans to unveil their new Bitdefender Box at the end of this year. This new device serves as both a home network security appliance and a secure Wi-Fi router. In addition to protecting your computer system from malware, it will also be able to analyze network traffic and identify intrusions.
Voice-activated smart home technologies like Amazon Echo that can control lights, play music, and even answer questions have proven to be extremely popular. That popularity makes it highly likely that the Kuri Robot, set to hit the market in time for Christmas of 2017, will prove to be equally popular. The robot is equipped with capacitive touch sensors, an HD camera with livestream capabilities, gestural mechanics, four sensitive microphones, and two 2 speakers. An electric motor is recharged with a charging pad. It’s powerful processors and mapping sensors are capable of both facial and speech recognition. Kuri can be programmed to recognize and alert you when something is out of the ordinary within your home environment—as well as find your misplaced car keys. It can even read you an audiobook bedtime story. At a cost of just $699, a family robot may soon become the norm.
Although voice-activated devices are currently enjoying unprecedented popularity, gesture-controlled devices may be the wave of the future. Fibaro and Bixi are two companies investing in research and development of similar devices controlled by gestures, which they believe will be even more intuitive and easier for consumers to use. In the future, smart home technology will harness the power of the internet of things to an even greater degree to establish more secure connections between all the various aspects of our lives. Fortunately, these technologies are simplifying life and giving us more time to strengthen our connections with one another.
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Bradford Dillman in a scene from the film ‘Circle Of Deception’, 1960. (Photo by 20th Century-Fox/Getty Images)
Untroubled good looks, faraway poise & self-control, with a sartyrial smile and brushed-aside sophistication – that’s Bradford Dillman
Bradford Dillman is one of those ubiquitous & versatile actors who you find popping up just about everywhere, and whenever I either see him in the credits or think about some of his performances, I am immediately happified by his presence in my mind and on screen. It’s this familiarity that signposts for me whatever upcoming diversion I’m in store for, will be something memorable indeed.
He’s been cast as a saint, a psychopath, elite ivy league intellectuals with an edge, unconventional scientists, military figures, droll and prickly individualists, clueless bureaucrats, or drunken malcontents and he’s got a sort of cool that is wholly appealing.
Bradford Dillman was omni-present starting out on the stage, and major motion pictures at the end of the 50s and by the 1960s he began his foray into popular episodic television series and appeared in a slew of unique made for television movies throughout the 1970s and 80s, with the addition of major motion picture releases through to the 90s. His work, intersecting many different genres from melodramas,historical dramas, thrillers, science fiction and horror.
There are a few actors of the 1960s & 70s decades that cause that same sense of blissed out flutters in my heart — that is of course if you’re as nostalgic about those days of classic cinema and television as I am. I get that feeling when I see actors like Stuart Whitman, Dean Stockwell, Roy Thinnes, Scott Marlow, Warren Oates, James Coburn, Lee Grant David Janssen, Michael Parks, Barbara Parkins, Joanna Pettet ,Joan Hackett , Sheree North, Diana Sands, Piper Laurie, Susan Oliver and Diane Baker. I have a fanciful worship for the actors who were busy working in those decades, who weren’t Hollywood starlets or male heart throbs yet they possessed a realness, likability, a certain individual knack and raw sex-appeal.
Bradford Dillman was born in San Francisco in 1930 to a prominent local family. During the war he was sent to The Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut. At Hotchkiss, senior year he played Hamlet. At Yale he studied English Literature and performed in amateur theatrical productions and worked at the Playhouse in Connecticut. Dillman served in the US Marines in Korea (1951-1953) and made a pact that he’d give himself five years to succeed as an actor before he called it quits. Lucky for us, he didn’t wind up in finance the way he father wanted him to.
Actor Bradford Dillman (Photo by John Springer Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)
Dillman enrolled and studied at the Actors Studio, he spent several seasons apprenticing with the Sharon Connecticut Playhouse before making his professional acting debut in an adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarecrow” in 1953 with fellow Studio students Eli Wallach and James Dean. Dillman referred to Dean as ‘a wacky kid’ but ‘very gifted’.
He only appeared in two shows in October 1962 of The Fun Couple in 1957 with Dyan Cannon and Jane Fonda before the play closed in New York only after two days.
We lost Bradford Dillman last year in January 2018. I was so saddened to hear the news. And I missed the chance to tribute his work then, but now that his birthday is here, I feel like celebrating his life rather than mourning his death, so it’s just as well.
Bradford Dillman wrote an autobiography called Are You Anybody? An Actor’s Life, published in 1997 with a (foreword by Suzy Parker) in which he downplays the prolific contribution he made to film and television and acting in general. Though Dillman didn’t always hold a high opinion of some of the work he was involved in, appearing in such a vast assortment of projects, he always came across as upbeat and invested in the role.
“Bradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony, theatrical name, so I kept it.”
[about his career] “I’m not bitter, though. I’ve had a wonderful life. I married the most beautiful woman in the world. Together we raised six children, each remarkable in his or her own way and every one a responsible citizen. I was fortunate to work in a profession where I looked forward to going to work every day. I was rewarded with modest success. The work sent me to places all over the world I’d never been able to afford visiting otherwise. I keep busy and I’m happy. And there are a few good films out there that I might be remembered for.”
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The Women of Alfred Hitchock’s Hour (1962-1965)
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Concerto Sinostro- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour- Seven Exceptional Episodes
Alfred Hitchcock the television years: 8 indelible episodes!
There were 93 EPISODES in the series.
“GOOD EVENING… “
Hitchcock: “To be quite honest, I am not interested in content at all. I don’t give a damn what the film is about. I am more interested in how to handle the material to create an emotion in an audience.”
As a child of the 60s, as soon as the emblematic theme song and opening credits started to play, I would feel chills running up my spine. I remember the reruns were still broadcast late at night, I understood that each story had something foul afoot, a shadow of the uncanny loomed over my tiny shoulders and the room filled up with a sinister quiver. Even with it’s smart-alecky delivery and Hitchcock’s well placed tongue-in-cheek humor to offset some of the more gruesome aspects of the show, I couldn’t wait til 10pm and the idea of watching a dreadfully good mystery even for such a young impressionable mind as my own! The timpani as intermezzo between each thrilling scene to raise the goose bumps and keep the heart pounding!
Alfred Hitchcock transported his brand of cheeky suspense narratives from the big screen to the advent of the intimate living-room television experience of the 60s where tv stations were fertile with playhouse theater melodramas, stage play-esque stories featuring some of the most emotive and original character actors who’s careers were vibrant with possibility.
Using some of the most well known mystery writers, seriously cutting edge and unorthodox directors, and the best actors who could bring forth the most nuanced performances from the riveting scripts.
The show premiered on Thursday, September 20, 1962 from 10pm-11pm on CBS. It ran opposite Alcoa Premier Theater on ABC and The Andy Williams Show on NBC. from 1963 -1964 it moved to Friday nites and then from 1964-1965 it found it’s slot on Monday nites opposite Ben Casey on ABC.
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour ranks among the top fifty longest-running series in television history!
Robert Bloch talks about his years working with Hitch, starting out on the program in 1959. He was summoned to Shamley Productions office and offered an assignment to write a script based on Frank Mace’s story “The Cukoo Clock.” Bloch began adapting his own published stories along side the other writers on staff. Bloch’s work was only dramatized by other writers when his commitment with the competing anthology show wasn’t calling for his time. That show was Boris Karloff’s Thriller. Bloch recalls producer and part of the creative team Joan Harrison as a remarkable lady who went from secretary to screenwriter to independent producer with a unique vision.
Norman Lloyd had a certain style of speech and mannerism which might designate him an Englishman when in fact–he was born in Jersey City, New Jersey! Starting out as an unbelievably talented actor who worked several times with Hitchcock in film. Lloyd played Fry in Hitch’s Saboteur 1942, & Mr. Garmes in Spellbound 1945.
Lloyd had been blacklisted and hadn’t been able to work in television for four or five years.
“Around 1955 they got Hitchcock to say he’d do television which was a big thing. And in ’57 the order for the half hour show was amplified, with a new series called Suspicion. I think Suspicion had many shows. Hour shows. And MCA took ten of them. New York took ten and so forth. And with the ten he was adding on they used to do 39 half hour shows a series. It was his producer Joan Harrison, is how I really learned how to be a producer. Divine. She was beautiful, exquisitely dressed, in perfect taste for the set. She was divine. She was a writer for him, and she was now his producer. And they needed someone else to come in an help her because of the quantity of the work not for the half hours, but now the hour. So she and Hitch decided, they wanted me to do it. Cause I also knew Joan very well. And so they presented my name… however… And this was told to me by Alan Miller who headed television at MCA, he came back, Alan Miller from the network and says ‘there seems to be a problem about Lloyd’ and Hitch said, ‘I want him!’ that was the end of the blacklist!” -Norman Lloyd
“Hitch was a world-figure. He was a man of great humor, had a very definite view of the world. He saw the world a certain way and we have as a result what is known as the Hitchcock film. It became the Hitchcock story, so to speak, almost like an Edgar Allen Poe story.” Directors try to imitate him but they never get the mixture right. Only Hitch had the mixture of the romance, the suspense, the humor, the twists” -Norman Lloyd
Joan Harrison started out as Hitchcock’s secretary, began reading scripts, writing synopses, and actually contributing to the scripts. She followed Hitchcock to Hollywood in 1939 working as his assistant and then was hired by MGM in 1941 as a scriptwriter. In 1943 she became a producer for Universal Studios. To her film credits, she produced some of the most compelling film noir/ mysteries. One of my personal favorites, Phantom Lady 1944 and then… The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry 1945, Nocturne 1946 They Won’t Believe Me 1947, Ride the Pink Horse 1947, Eye Witness 1950, and Circle of Danger 1951.
Director Robert Siodmak, producer Joan Harrison, Ella Raines and Franchot Tone on the set of Phantom Lady 1944
Executive Producers on the show, Norman Lloyd and Joan Harrison are partly what made the series so enigmatic. Producers included Herbert Coleman, Robert Douglas, David Friedkin, Gordon Hessler, Roland Kibbee and David Lowell Rich.
The cinematographers who worked on various episodes included Stanley Cortez, Benjamin Kline, Lionel Linden, William Margulies, Richard Rawlings, John L. Russell and John F. Warren. With art direction by John J Lloyd and Martin Obzina.
The magnificent musical contributions were offered by Hitchcock veteran Bernard Herrmann and a personal favorite of mine, Lyn Murray, whose stirring melodies recycle themselves in several of the most poignant episodes. The brilliant and prolific Pete Rugolo can be heard as well as Stanley Wilson.
Florence Bush was the hairstylist for the show, and she was very active during the 60s! You’ll spot her name listed in the credits on so many television programs of that era. Including Leave it to Beaver and Hitchcock’s film Psycho!
THE DIRECTORS- Bernard Girard, John Brahm, Alan Crosland Jr., Alf Kjellin, Norman Lloyd, Sydney Pollack, Jerry Hopper, Joseph Pevney, Leonard Horn, Jack Smight, Charles F. Haas, David Lowell Rich, James Sheldon, Herschel Daugherty, Robert Douglas, Joseph Newman, Harvey Hart, Laslo Benedek, William Whitney, Leo Penn, Harry Morgan, Philip Leacock, Lewis Teague, Arnold Laven, David Friedkin, James H. Brown, Alex March, Herbert Coleman, William Friedkin and Alfred Hitchcock…
THE WRITERS –Ray Bradbury, Robert Bloch, Henry Slesar, Cornell Woolrich, Richard Matheson, Gilbert Ralston, Clark Howard, Richard Deming, Morton S. Fine, David Friedkin, Lewis Davidson, Larry M Harris, James Bridges, Selwyn Jepson, Andrew Benedict, Anthony Terpiloff, Avram Davidson, Alfred Hayes, James Holding, Helen Nielsen, Arthur A Ross, Stanley Abbott, Lee Kalcheim, Ethel Lina White, Oscar Millard, James Yaffe, Andre Maurois, Clyde Ware, Davis Grubb, Nigel Elliston, John Wyndham, Harlan Ellison, Robert Branson, C.B Gilford, Francis Gwaltney, Harold Swanton, Margaret Manners, William Fay, S.B. Hough, Emily Neff, Barré Lyndon, Jack Ritchie, Alvin Sargent, Hugh Wheeler, Veronica Parker Jones, Boris Sobelman, Joel Murcott, Margaret Millar, Richard Levinson, William Link, Thomas H Cannon Jr., Randall Hood, Gabrielle Upton, Robert Westerby, Miriam Allen DeFord, William D Gordon, John Collier, James Parish, Kenneth Fearing, Robert Gould, Robert Arthur, William Fay, George Bellak, Robert Twohy, Leigh Brackett, Frederick Dannay, Manfred Lee, Mann Rubin, Douglas Warner, Henry Kane, Alec Coppel, Amber Dean, Lou Rambeau, Edith Pargeter, Charles Beaumont, Francis Didelot, Celia Fremlin, Roland Kibbee, Lukas Heller, Elizabeth Hely, Rebecca West, Richard Fielder, Nicholas Blake, Lee Erwin, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Julian Symons, John Bingham, V.S.Pritchett, John D MacDonald, John Garden, Andrew Garve, Marc Brandell, Patricia Highsmith, Samuel Rogers, Oliver H. P. Garrett
Writer Robert Bloch- was a contributor to many of the shows spine chilling narratives!
Hitchcock first managed to develop an anthology series that drew from his magazine and radio stories of the macabre, suspenseful, crime drama and cheeky thriller, often lensed with a noir style. This show was of course Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Eventually in order to compete with the growing market of 50 minute teleplays, like Playhouse 90, Boris Karloff’s Thriller, The Twilight Zone etc, Hitchcock changed his format to meet an hours worth of programming, still employing Hitch’s classic introductory droll prologue. And where Karloff’s Thriller painted the stories with a more macabre brush stroke, Hitchcock’s anthology show presented these criminal acts in two parts in a most ironic and irreverent manner…
According to John McCarty, Hitchcock made the shift from half hour show to the hour format without much issue. “When we had a half-hour show, we could do short stories…{…} Now, in an hour, we have to go to novels.” His staff read through thousands of crime novels to find the right script. Yet frequently it became necessary to utilize a short story and expand it, in order to fill out the hour.
While Boris Karloff’s Thriller was pervasive with it’s stories of the macabre and the uncanny, Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone with it’s more sociological morality with a heavy science fiction spin, Alfred Hitchcock maintained an ironic lens on very suspense/crime oriented material that kept the focus on human nature as perilous. He always provided the same sort of ‘twist’ at the end as in it’s pithy precedent Alfred Hitchcock Presents!
While Alfred Hitchcock Presents might have provided a shorter more enlivened ride to the turn of plot because it had to deliver the lightning in a more synoptic amount of time, the hour format allowed for more psychological background, with room to build the character study of the players involved.
Alfred Hitchcock is still the larger-than-life, Aesopsian voice of modern crime-infused with foul deeds springing from human nature and the darker sides of the mortal mind and how far it can reach when working under a compulsion, obsession or pathology. His vision created some of the most compelling little dramas for a ’60s audience to digest, still relevant after all these years.
Hitchcock’s brand of humor was dry and witty, ironic and fablist. Drawing from some of the finest mystery writers of the day, his little tour-de force dramatizations showcased some of the best examples of theatre and acting even on the small screen. His first show which gave us a 25 minute sequence that the series featured premiered on October 2, 1955 after Alfred Hitchcock had been directing mesmerizing films for over three decades!
“GOOD EVENING…..”
The iconic opening title sequence for the show has become unforgettably imposed in our psyches and in popular culture, as the simplistic yet mirthful intro possesses the camera fading upon an easily recognizable caricature of Hitchcock’s porcine yet endearing profile. Set against one of the most memorable musical themes written by Charles Gounod’s– the piece is called Funeral March of a Marionette. A type of adult nursery song that tickles the funny bone’s comparable curious bone… the one that gets triggered when there’s a marvelous mystery afoot! The theme– suggested by Hitchcock’s musical collaborator, the brilliant Bernard Hermann.
As if it couldn’t get any more smashingly wicked and alluring, Hitchcock himself takes shape behind the silhouette from the right of screen, then in grand theatrical style walks center stage to eclipse the drawing. He commences with his nightly, “Good evening…” and we are in for an irresistibly gripping treat!
The opening set of each episode, Hitchcock is given props against an empty stage. At times he himself becomes the prop, or main focal point where he imparts either sage elucidation, comical warning or sardonic advice. A witty prelude to the evening’s tale or just a frivolous bit of shenanigans to put one in the mood for the evening’s program. As he drolly introduces the night’s story, his monologues were conceived of by James B Allardice. Many of his missives took shots at the sponsors, spoofing the popular American fixation on commercials and commercialism.
Always at the end of the show, Hitchcock would re-appear to lead the audience out of the evening’s events. To either enlighten them on the aftermath of a story, the scenes they did not see, and to reassure us that the criminals featured did get their comeuppance. To tie up any loose ends within the question of morality’s swift hand.
Originally 25 minutes per episode, the series was expanded to 50 minutes in 1962. The show was then renamed The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. Hitchcock directed 17 of the 268 filmed episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
Hitchcock did direct one of the hour long episodes called “I Saw the Whole Thing” starring John Forsyth who is accused of hit and run, while several witnesses swear they saw him leave the scene of the accident.
Here is how the show was syndicated back in the 60s:
Sunday at 9:30-10 p.m. on CBS: October 2, 1955—September 1960
Tuesday at 8:30-9 p.m. on NBC: September 1960—September 1962
Thursday at 10-11 p.m. on CBS: September—December 1962
Friday at 9:30-10:30 p.m.on CBS: January— September 1963
Friday at 10-11 p.m. on CBS: September 1963—September 1964
Monday at 10-11 p.m. on NBC: October 1964—September 1965
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, lasted three seasons from September 1962 to June 1965, There were 93 episodes in total. Alfred Hitchcock Presents had a total of 268 episodes.
Hitchcock directed two episodes of Presents that were nominated for Emmy Awards–“The Case of Mr. Pelham (1955) and one of the most popular stories with it’s fabulous dark humor, “Lamb to the Slaughter” (1958) starring Barbara Bel Geddes.
The episode that won an Emmy Award was one of my particular favorites as it is both poignant and eerie, “The Glass Eye” (1957) starring Jessica Tandy, Tom Conway and Billy Barty. Robert Stevens won for his direction.
Cinematographer John L. Russell’s incredible shots of Jessica Tandy in The Glass Eye
“An Unlocked Window” (1965) is one of the most starkly intense and transgressive in nature of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and won an Edgar Award for James Bridges writing in 1966. The episode stars Dana Wynter and Louise Latham, both wonderful unsung actresses!
Dana Wynter and T.C. Jones in An Unlocked Window–nurses in peril oh my!
Louise Latham in An Unlocked Window
THE ACTRESSES— Martha Hyer, Vera Miles, Patricia Breslin, Angie Dickinson, Carol Lynley, Carmen Phillips, Isobel Elsom, Charity Grace, Susan Oliver, Kathleen Nolan, Peggy McCay, Adele Mara, Lola Albright, Dee Hartford, Gena Rowlands, Jayne Mansfield, Dina Merrill, Patricia Collinge, Jan Sterling, Elizabeth Allen, Anne Francis, Ruth Roman, Gladys Cooper, Inger Stevens, Zohra Lampert, Diana Hyland, Joan Fontaine, Irene Tedrow, Sarah Marshall, Nancy Kelly, Betty Field, Katherine Squire, Martine Bartlett, Phyllis Thaxter, Natalie Trundy, Linda Christian, Laraine Day, Anna Lee, Lois Nettleton, Madlyn Rhue, Patricia Donahue, Diana Dors, Claire Griswold, Mary LaRoche, Virginia Gregg, Anne Baxter, Jacqueline Scott, Sondra Blake, Ruth McDevitt, Katharine Ross, Patricia Barry, Jane Withers, Joyce Jameson, Teresa Wright, Linda Lawson, Jean Hale, Mildred Dunnock, Felicia Farr, Kim Hunter, Collin Wilcox, Jane Darwell, Jocelyn Brando, Joan Hackett, Gloria Swanson, Lynn Loring, Pat Crowley, Juanita Moore, Naomi Stevens, Marjorie Bennett, Jessica Walter, Gia Scala, Joanna Moore, Kathie Browne, Ethel Griffies, Sharon Farrell, Nancy Kovack, Barbara Barrie, Doris Lloyd, Lillian Gish, Maggie McNamara, Josie Lloyd, Tisha Sterling, Ann Sothern, Patricia Medina, Elsa Lanchester, Jeannette Nolan, Ellen Corby, Julie London, Margaret Leighton, Lilia Skala, Olive Deering, Kathryn Hays, Dana Wynter, Louise Latham, Sally Kellerman, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Fay Bainter, Jane Wyatt, June Lockhart, Colleen Dewhurst…
MY SELECTED EPISODES THAT FEATURE THE HITCHCOCK LADIES OF THE EVENING!….
DON’T LOOK BEHIND YOU (9/27/62) – VERA MILES as Daphne
Vera Miles as Daphne and devilishly handsome Jeff Hunter in Don’t Look Behind You
Fear grips the campus and Vera Miles… Abraham Sofaer watches Daphne go out into the dangerous night woods
Directed by John Brahm, written by Barré Lyndon (The War of the Worlds 1953) Based on Samuel Rogers novel co-stars Jeffrey Hunter, Abraham Sofaer, Dick Sargent, Alf Kjellin, Mary Scott, Madge Kennedy.
A small college campus is gripped by fear when a maniac is on the loose. Two young female students are slaughtered while walking home through the surrounding nefarious night time woods. All eyes are on several members of the faculty, though the police have no clues to go on. Alf Kjellin plays Edwin Volck an intense pianist/composer who seems very tightly wound, especially around women. Handsome Jeffrey Hunter is Harold the psychology professor who dabbles in abnormal behavior. Harold convinces his fiancée Daphne (the lovely Vera Miles) to act as bait to lure the killer out. Vera Miles is always possessed of a smart and inquisitive sensuality. In this episode she’s perfect as an academic who doesn’t shy from the idea of hunting a serial killer.
Harold-“Daphne, I know this man’s secret. I’ve studied these people, I know how they think!”
Daphne-“It’s frightening sometimes… how you know people.”
CAPTIVE AUDIENCE (10/18/62) –ANGIE DICKINSON as Janet West
Actors Ed Nelson and Arnold Moss listen to the recordings sent by the plagued Warren Barrow. Is he a murderer?
Angie Dickinson is the seductress and James Mason the tormented man
This episode is directed by actor turned director Alf Kjellin, based on the teleplay by Richard Levinson and William Link of Columbo! from a story by John Bingham.
James Mason plays mystery writer Warren Barrow a pseudonym he uses to contact his publisher with a series of tape recordings describing what is either the outline for his latest murder mystery or the details of an actual murder he himself is planning to commit. Barrow describes a relationship with an alluring woman named Janet West (the sexy Angie Dickinson) who wants Warren to kill her husband so they can be together. Ed Nelson plays another writer Tom Keller whom the publisher Victor Hartman (Arnold Moss) asks to review the tapes with him in order to help determine whether the impending murder is real or fictional. Angie Dickinson is so perfect as Janet West, the femme fatale Warren Barrow can’t resist.
Janet West- “You know there’s one part of the Bible I know by heart. I saw unto the sun, that the race is not too swift nor the battle too strong, but time and chance happen to them all. Means you can be as clever as you like but you gotta have luck. You gotta work for it and grab it when it comes. I was very poor when I was young. Very poor…”
FINAL VOW (10/25/62) –CAROL LYNLEY as Sister Pamela
“Oh sister not tears again… you’ve cried a whole river these past weeks”-Sister Jem
Directed by Norman Lloyd, story and teleplay by mystery writer Henry Slesar (Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone, Two on a Guillotine 1965, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. 1966, Batman 1966, Run For Your Life ’66-67 Circle of Fear 1972, McMillan & Wife 1974, Tales of the Unexpected 1981-1984) co-starring Clu Gulager Isobel Elsom Carmine Phillips, Charity Grace.
Carol Lynley is Sister Pamela who on the eve of taking her final vows has a crisis of faith. Sister Pamela fears that she might just be hiding from the world. The Reverend Mother (Isobel Elsom) sends Pamela and Sister Jem (Charity Grace) on a mission to collect a valuable statue of Saint Francis that is being donated to the convent by reformed gangster William Downey (R.G. Armstrong).
On the way back to the convent, the lovely young novice is fooled by slick hoodlum/loser Jimmy Bresson (Clu Galager who is terrific at being smarmy) who stalks train stations stealing bags. Pamela is filled with guilt having let down her dying mentor Sister Lydia (Sara Taft) She leaves the order and submerges herself in the sleazy jungle where Jimmy works and socializes in order to find the statue and redeem herself. Lynley is another underrated actress who delivers an extremely poignant performance as a girl at the crossroads of her life. She has an endearing innocent beauty that is genuine and charismatic.
Sister Pamela-“Sorry Sister Jem, I have only myself to blame.”
Sister Jem-“You’re not thinking of… what we spoke of the other day?”
Sister Pamela-“I haven’t been thinking of anything Sister. I’ve tried not to think.”
Sister Jem-“Have you prayed?”
Sister Pamela-“Sister… I’ve prayed for humility and obedience. But there was no answer in my heart Sister Jem… only silence!
ANNABEL (11/1/62)– SUSAN OLIVER as Annabel Delaney
“you’ve been pretending so long… you don’t know what’s real and what isn’t”-Annabel
Annabel-“David, what is my picture doing here? David who lives here?”
Directed by Paul Henreid, written by Robert Bloch, novel by Patricia Highsmith (she wrote the original story for Hitchcock’s Strangers On a Train 1951) costarring Dean Stockwell, Kathleen Nolan, Gary Cockrell, Hank Brandt, Bert Remsen.
Dense browed Dean Stockwell plays research chemist David Kelsey who is hopelessly in love and obsessively fixated on Annabel (the wonderful Susan Oliver). But Annabel is married Gerald Delaney (Hank Brandt) Kelsey assumes a phony identity William Newmaster and pursues Annabel with a blind devotion that is downright creepy. He purchases a beautiful home that he has filled like a shrine to his great love, a place tucked away in the country where they can sojourn in their own private world. Trouble is Annabel isn’t in on the romance. But David isn’t taking no for an answer. Added to the web of obsessive love is the fact that Linda Brennan (Kathleen Nolan) is as fixated on David as he is on Annabel. What a mess!
BONFIRE (12/13/62)–DINA MERRILL as Nora & PATRICIA COLLINGE as Naomi Freshwater
Directed by Joseph Pevney teleplay William D Gordon and Alfred Hayes based on a story by V.S.Pritchett as published in The New Yorker and co-starring Peter Falk in one of his most impressive roles as the psychotic revivalist Robert Evans.
Falk plays a fire and brimstone fanatic who yearns for his own church and will kill in order to achieve his life’s dream. First he woos Patricia Collinge (The Little Foxes 1941, Shadow of a Doubt 1943, The Nuns Story 1959) as the wealthy Naomi Freshwater, murdering her one night in order to take over her large house he claims she promised to him in order to help him build his tabernacle. The scene is quite disturbing and fierce. a well done scene that predates many psycho-sexual narratives to follow.
When her niece, the world traveling Laura (Dina Merrill) comes to get her aunts things in order, Robert begins to romance her with the same bombastic fervor as he did her aunt Naomi. As Robert discloses his past to Laura, she discovers that he might have killed his first wife as well and that he has visions of his calling to be a great evangelist. Evans is a deranged ego-maniacal woman hater who mistakes his visions of glory for the need to be in control!
Robbie-“Sure the whole world is filled with problems Miss Naomi. We’ve all got to puzzle over what we’re supposed to think. None of us. There’s nobody that’s gotta puzzle over what we’re supposed to do!”
Naomi-“Oh that’s so clear to me Robbie, you know what to do and you do it… I feel so free! No more aches and pains.”
Robert- “Burn it… burn it. Take your whole past and burn it out there in that fire pit. Start a new life with me” Laura- “I don’t have your faith in new lives Robert.” Robert-“But I told you once… I’ve got the faith.”
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED (1/11/63)– ANN FRANCIS as Eve Raydon & RUTH ROMAN as Addie
Mrs Raydon (Gladys Cooper) ” I think he’s dead you’ve always wanted this to happen. You’ve done this to him. You’ve killed him!”
Directed by Jack Smight with a teleplay by Henry Slesar, based on the story by Mary Belloc Lowndes who wrote the novelette The Lodger, which was the inspiration for Hitchcock’s first suspense film in 1927 and of course the version with Jack Palance in 1953 called The Man in the Attic.
One of my favorite episodes due to the presence of Ann Francis as Eve Raydon and Ruth Roman as her companion Adelaide ‘Addie’ Strain. Eve is framed as a jezebel by her nasty vicious old mother in law.The storyline has a definite undertone of lesbian desire, akin to Lillian Hellman’s A Children’s Hour. Eve is married to a stuffed shirt named Howard ( Gene Lyons–the commissioner -Ironside) who resents Addie’s presence and is still tied to his mommy’s (the great Gladys Cooper Rebecca 1940, Now, Voyager 1942, The Song of Bernadette 1943) apron strings. Howard fires Addie who has been hanging around Eve in the position as ‘maid’ who also happens to have a little boy name Gilly who breaks a valuable antique sending Howard into a rage and prompting him to fire her. Addie who is desperate to stay with her mistress, poisons Howard’s night time glass of milk by spiking it with some K9 liniment. But Eve is accused of the murder instead and her intolerable mother-in-law is all too happy to see her pay for the crime. co-starring Michael Strong as defense attorney Malloy, Stephen Dunn as Jack Wentworth, Tim O’Connor as Prosecutor Halstead.
Addy talks to Eve about Howard finally firing her-“He means it this time… things could have been so different!”
Addy Strain to Molloy- “I can’t believe that all this is happening it’s all that woman’s fault. That awful old woman… Mrs Raydon. She hates Eve. She’s always hated her. She hates Eve just because she married her son. That’s why she accused Eve of killing him.”
A TANGLED WEB (1/25/63)– ZOHRA LAMPERT as Marie
Gertrude Flynn as Ethel Chesterman “I heard you David. You’re going to marry the maid. At least this afternoon you’re going to marry the maid. My wedding present to you will be my absence.”
Marie-“Your eyes shine in the dark David. I think you are part Cat”. David –“A tiger a leopard ready to pounce.” Marie-“I’m going to have to get a wonderful cage to put you in.” David-“Nobody is going to put me in a cage!! Marie-“Stop David you’re hurting me…”
Directed by Alf Kjellin, with a teleplay by writer/director James Bridges (When Michael Calls 1972, The China Syndrome 1979) based on a story by Nicholas Blake.
Zohra Lampert plays Marie a naÏve french maid who runs off with the wealthy son David (Robert Redford) who is actually a compulsive cat burgler/jewel thief. David’s wealthy mother throws a few coins at them to buy a toaster, goes to Europe and changes the locks on the door. And so for money David runs to his partner in crime Karl.And so begins a queer struggle with David’s odd accomplice, a flamboyant wig designer Karl Gault played to the hilt by Barry Morse.
David cannot change the way he is, although he is truly in love with Marie he only knows how to steal and scheme. Karl falls in love with Marie creating the immortal triangle. In order to get his rival out of the way, Karl creates an elaborate ruse in order to trap David in a robbery gone wrong and have him arrested for the murder of a guard. Co-starring Gertrude Flynn as David’s mother Ethel Chesterman.
Marie-“Your eyes shine in the dark David… I think you are part cat.”
THE PARAGON (2/8/63) – JOAN FONTAINE as Alice Pemberton
John-“Alice have you ever read any fairy tales? There’s one about a princess. She was very beautiful. She lived in a beautiful castle. Had a beautiful garden. But her fairy godmother warned her not to do one thing. There was a particular flower in that garden that she wasn’t to pick. If she did… she’d lose everything. Her beauty, her castle… everything. Alice– “I don’t get the point”. John –“Alice princess… don’t touch that flower please” Alice- “oh please don’t be silly they only write fairy stories to keep children out of mischief.”
Directed by Jack Smight with a teleplay by Alfred Hayes and a story by Rebecca West. The Paragon allows screen legend Joan Fontaine to give what I feel is perhaps one of the most extraordinary performances of her career. As the infuriating perfectionist who meddles in everyone’s lives Alice Pemberton married to the beaten down John Pemberton played by the always wonderful Gary Merrill.
John loves his wife but is beginning to feel the strain from years of Alice’s intruding and dictating moral codes and her ideals to anyone within reach even the maid Ethel played with fabulous scorn by Irene Tedrow. All her friends and relatives cringe at the sight of Alice, for they know she will inject some sort of righteous advice and admonition. Alice is like a child who cannot see the damage she has done, or how she hurts the people around her. She believes that she is helping to improve themselves, though she alienates herself instead. John urges with a tender yet firm clue that she must stop her behavior before it’s too late. Even relating a fairy tale to her with a warning… Alice is very much like a character in a fable who does not heed the warnings or the signs that she is tempting the shadows to converge upon her!
THE LONELY HOURS (3/8/63)– NANCY KELLY as Mrs. J. A. Williams / Vera Brandon & GENA ROWLANDS as Louise Henderson
Vera-“Michael and I are leaving now Mrs Henderson, I’m taking him home with me. Oh I am sorry for you because I think in your own way, you’ve grown really fond of my baby. But you see Michael is my child. I’ve known that from the very beginning….”
Directed by Jack Smight with a teleplay by William D Gordon based on a story by Celia Fremlin.
Louise (Gena Rowlands) is a busy mother of two precocious young girls Jennifer Gillespie (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? young Jane) and a small infant boy. She rents the room upstairs to the mysterious Vera Bradley (Nancy Kelly) who is supposedly working on her thesis paper, but in fact has her eyes on Louise’s baby boy. She secrets him off each day to another room she is renting, that she has decorated for the little guy. She also calls him Michael. The child looks more like Vera as he has dark curly hair and both Louise and her husband are blonde. Is Vera there to steal the boy and claim him as her own? This is an extremely taut and well acted little story. The performances by both Kelly and Rowlands are stellar. The interplay between the two women brought me to tears, it was so poignantly played without being melodramatic or contrived. A truly heart wrenching experience, especially for fans of these fine actresses as well as one of the most effectively dramatic of all the episodes. Also watch for an appearance by the wonderful Juanita Moore as Mrs. McFarland and Joyce Van Patten as best friend Grace.
THE STAR JUROR (3/15/63) BETTY FIELD as Jenny Davies
Dean Jagger tries to quiet Jennifer West after he tries to steal more than a kiss from the town hussy Alice.
Betty Field plays George’s flakey nagging wife.
Slamming the fridge door and shuffling her feet.Jenny confronts George’s peculiar behavior on the jury Jenny – “Would the star juror care to give me some justification for his behavior. George- “what behavior?” Jenny-“ What behavior! The behavior that has brought down ridicule and scandal over our heads!” George-“ What you talkin’ bout Jenny? Jenny- “Have you gone deaf and blind?… Unplug your ears… open your eyes! George Davies the most respected highly thought of citizen in this town protecting this infidel, this murderer… No wonder you get indigestion.”
Directed by Herschel Daugherty with a teleplay by James Bridges and story by Francis Didelot
Although this is very much Dean Jagger’s vehicle, Betty Field who is a wonderful actress stands out as the blowsy, whiney wife to George Davies, who becomes so aroused by the town hussy Alice (Jennifer West) while out at the lake during a picnic. When she rebuffs his advances he strangles her and allows her boyfriend JJ Fenton (Will Hutchins) to take the rap for her murder. JJ has been known to knock Alice around, and soon the town is out for his blood. But the guilt of what he has done, drives George to try and defend JJ to exasperating results. This is a quirky dark comedic episode that just seems to want to be kind to George. The show also co-stars Martine Bartlett as Flossie and the wonderful Crahan Denton as Sheriff Walter Watson who just won’t take George’s confessions serious.
THE LONG SILENCE (3/22/63)- PHYLLIS THAXTER as Nora Cory Manson
Nora’s inner monologue- “In heaven’s name Jean, don’t leave us here alone.”
Directed by Robert Douglas with a teleplay by William D. Gordon & Charles Beaumont based on a story by Hilda Lawrence.
Michael Rennie plays a con man Ralph Manson who marries Nora, (Phyllis Thaxter) for her money. When he screws up an elaborate scheme to embezzle funds from the bank, trying to pin it on her eldest son, he accidentally kills the boy. While trying to make it look like the young man hangs himself, Nora stumbles unto this horrific deed she winds up taking a fall down the stairs that paralyzes her and leaves her in an apparent catatonic state. Which is good for Ralph, as he needs this witness to be silent. But Nora, might not stay silent for long… The well crafted suspense yarn utilizes Nora’s inner monologue to help guide us through the tense narrative cues. This is such a tautly played suspense piece as Nora is conscious of her husbands murderous nature, and his desperation to keep Nora quiet. It;s only a matter of time before he finds of way of making it look like she dies of natural causes. Enter the pretty Natalie Trundy as her attending nurse Jean Dekker who senses something is wrong and stays close by! This one’s a nail biter!
THE DARK POOL–(5/3/63) LOIS NETTLETON as Dianne Castillejo & MADLYN RHUE as Consuela Sandino
Dianne-“Oh Nanny it’s wrong, I didn’t think he’d blame you” Nanny-“The important thing is that he isn’t blaming you” Dianne– “Oh I’m letting you be hurt and I can’t do that.. I didn’t think he’d react this way. Nanny I”m going to tell him the truth” Nanny-“What are ya going to tell him. That you were with the baby holding a drink!” Dianne-“But you’re not the guilty one, he mustn’t blame you Nanny-“Dear in the past when things went badly you know what happened. You don’t want that now You promised him that you’d give it up. Oh when the baby was here it was better… but better’s not what you promised!”
Lois Nettleton as Dianne and Doris Lloyd as Nurse Andrina Gibbs
Consuela- “She feels guilty, she feels responsible for the baby’s death. and the drinking helps her to forgot. so we’ll see that she continues to drink. And when the bottle is all gone. We’ll get more Vodka. Or whiskey or what ever she likes. She can hide it from Victor for a while I suppose. But he will find out-And then he’ll be terribly hurt. and disappointed in her. He’ll need help and sympathy from someone else!”
Directed by Jack Smight with a teleplay by Alec Coppel and William D. Gordon, based on a story by William D. Gordon.
Lois Nettleton plays Dianne Castillejo who adopts a little boy, who drowns in their swimming pool while she is sitting out in the sun with a coctail. Dianne is a recovering alcoholic and there is a question as to whether she was intoxicated when the tragic accident occurred. Dianne is visited by a mysterious woman, (Madlyn Rhue) Consuela Sandino who claims to be the little boys birth mother. She proceeds to blackmail Dianne about the circumstances of the little boys death. She convinces Dianne to allow to her stay in the house as a guest being an old school friend. Here she plans on helping Dianne submerge herself in booze so she’ll pay out loads of money and eventually have to be taken away to a sanatorium where she can then work on the handsome (Anthony George) Victor. Co-starring Doris Lloyd as Nanny.
RUN FOR DOOM 5/17/63 DIANA DORS as Nickie Carole
John Gavin as Dr. Don Reed and Tom Skerritt as friend Dr. Frank Farmer… Don is just smitten.
scott brady as Nickies stand by boyfriend Bill
Nickie-singing Just One of Those Things-“so goodbye dear and amen… Bill- “Where you going?” Nickie-“Maybe California. You know I came back just to have a look at you. You got real weak eyes Bill. Here’s hoping we meet now and then.” Bill- “But you haven’t asked me to come along “Nickie-“Well I came here thinking I’d have to, but I don’t need you anymore the boomerang’s broken baby’ Bill-“You wanna bet!” Nickie “Uhuh, It was great fun, but it was just one of those things.”
Directed by Bernard Girard with a teleplay by James Bridges and a story by Henry Kane.
Doctor Don Reed (John Gavin) falls head over heels for a sexy night club singer, the slinky Nickie Carole,(Diana Dors) who is just no good. Both his father and Nickie’s own band leader boyfriend try to warn Don. Nickie accepts Don’s proposal of marriage, and then his father drops dead after hearing the news. The newlyweds use the inheritance money to take a honeymoon cruise, in which Don stumbles upon his bride getting all snuggly with another passenger. In a rage, Don causes the man to fall overboard. Of course Nickie urges Don to keep his mouth shut. And he is now a murderer. Soon after Nickie grows tired of Don, as her old lover Bill warned would happen, and this hard edged old boyfriend (Scott Brady) Bill Floyd of the Bill Floyd Trio shows up in the picture again… What will happen to this dangerous triangle of lust and obsession…
THE SECOND SEASON!
A HOME AWAY FROM HOME (9/27/63) CLAIRE GRISWOLD as Natalie Rivers
Natalie-“I understand, they’re patients aren’t they? Permissive therapy?” Dr. Fennick-“Yes that’s it exactly. A new method, an experiment. I wanted to prove that my patients would act normally if treated like normal human beings.”
Sarah-“Oh I feel fine doctor just fine. I always feel fine talking to you.” Dr Fennick-“That’s what I’m here for’ Sarah-“Yes I know but… what am I here for? Beatrice Kay as Sarah Sanders the aging film star.
inmates Virginia Gregg as Miss Gibson and Ronald Long as The Major
The real doctors are locked up in the attic!
the deranged Ray Milland as Dr. Fennick who menaces Natalie (Claire Griswold ) in Home away from Home- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Virginia Gregg as Miss Gibson-“The doctors told everyone about you. I know they’re just CRAZY to meet you!!!”
Directed by Herschel Daugherty with a teleplay based on his story by Robert Bloch from Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine.
This is one of those great ‘the inmates have taken over the asylum’ narratives starring Ray Milland. Milland plays Dr. Fenwick a mentally disturbed doctor who believes in role playing as a therapeutic means to unlocking a patients identity crisis and finding happiness. After he kills the director of the sanitarium, he assumes his identity! of course. He locks away the staff in the attic and allows the inmates to pick roles that would suit their desires. Things are going pretty well until the directors niece Claire shows up to visit her uncle. At least she has never seen her uncle before so she quickly assumes that Milland is who he says he is. Unfortunately Claire discovers the dead body of her real uncle and urges Fennick to call the police. Uh oh! What mayhem will ensue.
There are great little parts by Virginia Gregg as Miss Gibson roleplaying the nurse, Connie Gilchrist as Martha, Mary La Roche as Ruth… and Beatrice Kay as Sarah Sanders!
A NICE TOUCH 10/4/63 ANNE BAXTER as Janice Brandt
That’s actor Harry Townes lying dead under that shiny star pillow…
Janice referring to Larry (George Segal) –“He’s the kind of man who could make you do anything… anything at all…”
This episode is directed by Joseph Pevney with a teleplay by Mann Rubin
George Segal plays the young ambition actor who wins over casting agent Anne Baxter as Janice Brandt. Janice falls deeply in love with Larry the cocky and short tempered actor with whom she gets a screen test for in Hollywood and turns him into an upcoming male lead.
She has given up everything for this strong willed actor, her career, even sacrificing her marriage.
While back in New York, Janice calls Larry desperately telling him that her ex-husband Ed (Harry Townes) has tracked her down completely drunk and is now unconscious on the floor. Larry calming coaches Janice into finishing off the job by smothering him with a pillow, so she can finally be free and join him in Hollywood… But is that all there is to it?
TERROR AT NORTHFIELD (10/11/63) JACQUELINE SCOTT as Susan Marsh & Katherine Squire as Mrs La Font
Sheriff Will- “You can’t think of anyone at all who might have had a grudge against Frenchie?” Katherine Squire as Mrs La Font- “Only one person Will, Myself. He was my son, I loved him … there was no harm in him he never hurt anyone but he was lazy. He would not accept responsibility. That’s why he wanted me at the restaurant so I could do all the work of running it, while he’d play Frenchie La Font for the public. I used to get so angry with him. So angry… (crying)
The creepy custodian of the library terrorized poor Susan with his tales of working the slaughterhouses
Directed by Harvey Hart with a teleplay by Leigh Brackett, and a story by Ellery Queen
In Northfield, a rural community in northern California a teenage boy Tommy Cooley is found brutally murdered. His father R.G. Armstrong, who is a religious fanatic goes on a mission to avenge his boy’s murder. There is only one piece of evidence, a broken off part of the car’s headlight found a the murder scene. First, believing that he is getting signs from God, he murders Frenchie La Font (Dennis Patrick) the person who owned the car. Then the car falls into the hands of an elderly librarian who considered purchasing the car and might have had access to it. The residents of Northfield become terrorized by the events and demand that (Dick York) Sheriff Will Pearce do something about it. Jacqueline Scott who plays Susan March a librarian and the Sheriff’s girlfriend is now the one who wound up with La Font’s car. Cooley now suspects her. He is on a mission from the lord to avenge his sons death. Will Susan be next? Co-stars Katherine Squire as Mrs.La Font who turns out a tremendous performance as the mother of a good for nothing son who winds up being the victim of Cooley’s wrath.
THE DIVIDING WALL (12/6/63) KATHERINE ROSS as Carol Brandt
Carol-“You don’t talk much do you?” Terry-“I guess not” Carol –“Is the rest of your family like that? Quiet I mean? Terry- I don’t know. I don’t even know who they were. I was raised in a county home” Carol- “You mean like an Orphanage? Terry “Now what else could it mean? I’m sorry maybe we oughta start back, it’s a long way” Carol -“We can take the subway Terry –“I wanna walk-you wanna take the subway go ahead if that’s the way you feel about it “Carol-“why did you come with me?” Terry– “I didn’t mean it like that. It’s just that it’s the rush hour now…. Look I gotta thing about being closed up in places is all.” Carol- “Claustrophobia?” Terry- “yeah” Carol- “So does Mr Calucci… He was a prisoner of war” Terry– “I was a prisoner once… No war though.” Carol –“You mean the home.” “Terry- “Home reformatory, state prison, take your pick. Anything else you’d like to know? Carol– “Some date huh?” Terry-Bet you don’t have any boyfriends like me.” Carol-” I don’t have any boyfriends”Terry– “come on” Carol- “I haven’t dated since high school.” Terry- “Girl like you why not? Carol-“what do you know about me?” Terry– “I could learn.”
Directed by Bernard Girard (Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round 1966, The Mad Room 1969) with a teleplay by Joel Murcott based on a story by George Bellak.
Three paroled ex-convicts stage a heist but inadvertently unleash radioactive cobalt on a small urban city street. Actors Chris Robinson, Norman Fell and James Gregory who are now garage mechanics decide to rob the payroll office. When they can’t crack open the safe, they take it to their garage, which is adjoined to the little shop next store run by Carol.
Terry who is acutely claustrophobic (Chris Robinson) begins a romance with Carol, as he struggles between self preservations and his sense of humanity and love for this beautiful young woman. Katherine Ross is a particularly seductive pixie in this episode. Ross’ presence brings an element of realism and humanist equilibrium to the very nihilist tone of the story.
GOOD-BYE, GEORGE (12/13/63) PATRICIA BARRY is Lana Layne / Rosemary ‘Peaches’ Cassidy
Lana/Peaches-“You and snakebite are among the very few things that fail me in that respect.”
Directed by Robert Stevens with a teleplay by William Fay and story by Robert Arthur.
This is one of the more cheeky mystery installments of the show, and Patricia Barry is just superb as the brassy dame with a secret past who’s looking out for number one. The night she wins the Oscar, movie star Lana Layne is visited by her old ex-convict husband George (Stubby Kaye), who, she thought had died in a prison fight. Rosemary ‘Peaches’ Cassidy had married the bum when she was only seventeen and didn’t know any better. But George has plans of letting Lana remain his wife, since she’s so successful and wealthy, and if they did get divorced she’d owe him half of anything that was hers. She wants to marry handsome manager Harry Lawrence (Robert Culp). Lana clocks George on the head and accidentally kills him. Now Lana and Harry must try to hide the body while finding a place to have their honeymoon, assailed by gossip columnist Baila French (Alice Pearce- Bewitched’s neurotic neighbor Gladys Kravitz). It’s a comedy of errors!
HOW TO GET RID OF YOUR WIFE (12/20/63) JANE WITHERS as Edith Swinney
Rosie “You’ve had a narrow escape. Well life’s given you another chance. And you should take it… You should free yourself. When something’s over it’s over” The always delightful Joyce Jameson as Rosie Feather the ‘dancer’
Directed by Alf Kjellin story and teleplay by Robert Gould
Withers plays Edith Swinney the consummate nagging harpy who dominates her husband’s Gerald’s (Bob Newhart) mundane life. Gerald concocts a very elaborate plan to drive Edith mad using paranoia as he digs a grave like hole for a fish tank, leaving empty boxes of rat poison around the kitchen. Edith is so convinced that Gerald is out to kill her that she shares her fears with her friends and neighbors. Gerald purchases a pair of rats from a pet shop and plants them in the kitchen. She falls for the bait and puts rat poisoning in his cocoa making it look like murder made to look like suicide. She calls the police the next morning, but they find a very alive Gerald. Edith is arrested for attempted murder… but is that the end of the story. Joyce Jameson stars as dancer Rosie Feather, always fabulous, perhaps playing the featherbrained blonde bombshell –but always endearing!
THREE WIVES TOO MANY (1/3/64) TERESA WRIGHT as Marion Brown
Marion Brown tells her husband- “You been a bigamist 4 times. Now you can stay alive with me or be dead away from me!”
Directed by Joseph Newman with a teleplay by Arthur Ross and story by Kenneth Fearing.
Dan Duryea is a gambler and a proud bigamist name Raymond Brown. He truly loves his wife… I mean all four of them. But something is going quite wrong. One by one his wealthy meal tickets are all turning up dead. At first it appears that they are suicides. But the police start to suspect Brown of murder. Marion, (Teresa Wright) has been the long time dutiful wife who has waited and suffered through heart ache to finally have her philandering husband all to herself. Could she be the one who is bumping off all of Ray’s wives? Wright takes a much different approach from the gentle farm wife Stella and shows herself off to be quite resourceful when holding onto a philandering husband!
BEYOND THE SEA OF DEATH (1/24/64/) DIANA HYLAND as Grace Renford & MILDRED DUNNOCK as Minnie Briggs
Grace Renford- “All men are rotten aren’t they Minnie, as soon as they’re interested in me they’re no good!
Aunt Minnie-“If he’s a doctor at all he should be giving out pills not talking to dead people!”
Directed by Alf Kjellin with a teleplay by Alfred Hayes and William Gordon. Story by Miriam Allen de Ford.
Grace Renford (the haunting Diana Hyland) plays a wealthy and beautiful socialite who longs to meet the man of her dreams. Someone who will love her for who she is and not the money and status that is her legacy. The lonely Grace answers an ad in a spiritualist magazine where she begins to correspond with a young man named Keith Holloway (Jeremy Slate).
He is an engineer who does his work in Bolivia, or so he says. When he comes to the states to meet Grace for the first time, she has rented a modest apartment and pretends that she is just an ordinary working class girl. Minnie (Mildred Dunnock) acts as guardian to the lost waif, and knows something isn’t quite right with this man. But when Grace and Keith get engaged, she tells him about her true identity. Keith insists that he is not interested in her money, and that he has his own business ventures in Bolivia. Keith returns to South America, planning on having Grace join him soon. But Grace gets a telegram saying that he has been killed in a mining accident.
Sent into the world of spreading grief, Grace turns to spiritualism and mysticism to find a way to contact her lost love. Thus appears Dr.Shankara (Abraham Sofaer) who can connect Grace with her dead love. Wanting to shed her worldly goods, she gives away her possessions to the Dr and his temple. But Minnie suspects that Keith is very much alive and that a scam has been going on with the doctor for years. Minnie tries to intervene with disastrous results!
NIGHT CALLER (1/31/64) FELICIA FARR as Marcia Fowler
Roy- “A string of men friends all the time Mrs Fowler, a string of men friends, a string of men friends all the time ssh don’t tell anybody Roy this is your Uncle Joe from Kokomo Roy, why don’t you go outside in the yard for a little Roy huh!… {…} There’s a smell of death around women like you. Death and corruption. You corrupt people the way you go on all the time. So you better cut it out you understand that” Marcia Fowler-“Get away from me you’re out of your mind. Nobody would blame me now if I shot you now with your filthy phone calls, breaking in here like this. How exciting am I now with a gun pointing at you?”
Directed by Alf Kjellin with a teleplay by Robert Westerby & Gabrielle Upton based on Upton’s story.
Felicia Farr plays the sexy Marcia Fowler who accuses the neighborhood thug Roy Bullock (Bruce Dern) of not only playing peeping tom, but sexually harassing her. Roy is a tightly wound teen filled with angst and rage and could possibly be a psychopath while we’re at it. He denies it, when confronted by Marcia’s husband. (David White)
Marcia does appear to be self-absorbed, neglecting to pay enough attention to her stepson. But when the obscene phone calls begin, Marcia convinces her hubby to confront Roy about it, who tells him she’s just looking for attention. When Roy Fowler goes away on a business trip he challenges Marcia calling her a tease and a lousy wife and mother, the way his own mother had failed. Okay, so the angry boy has mother issues. Things get out of hand when Marcia begins to feel threatened and takes out a gun. But is everything as it seems!
THE EVIL OF ADELAIDE WINTERS (2/7/64)– KIM HUNTER as Adelaide Winters
Directed by Laslo Benedek with a story and teleplay by Arthur Ross
Kim Hunter is stunning as a ruthless woman who has no conscience and borders on the sociopathic. At the end of WWII, Adelaide exploits the grief and loss of surviving members of family to act as a spiritual medium. She earns a nice living by taking money from these grieving people, claiming to ease their suffering by connecting them with their lost loved ones. Gene Lyons plays Adelaide’s bunko buddy Robert who helps set up the patsies for the taking.
The is nothing more heinous than bilking grieving families of soldiers killed in battle out of their money pretending that she can communicate with them.
Enter the wealthy widower Edward Porter (John Larkin) who has just lost his son in the war. Adelaide convinces him to join her in a séance. Desperately lonely and longing for his son’s return Edward begins to come around and embrace Adelaide’s powers. Edward has also fallen in love with Adelaide and wishes the three of them to be together…!
Robert (Gene Lyons)- “I taught you everything there is to know about this racket..” Adelaide “Profession Robert.” Robert – “That’s what you’d like to pretend, but it is a racket, a swindle a con game as any I ever did.” Adelaide-“ I only obtain the more crude aspects of the profession from you.” Robert-“Everything and I want you to stop pushing me around.” Adelaide-“You taught me a series of Halloween tricks. Carnival mumbo jumbo… I made it pay.” Robert –“They’re still carny tricks.” Adelaide-“Science!” Robert- ‘And you took them from me…”
BEAST IN VIEW 3/20/64– JOAN HACKETT as Helen Clarvoe
Directed by Joseph Newman with a teleplay by James Bridges and a story by Margaret Millar (Rose’s Last Summer-Boris Karloff’s Thriller starring Mary Astor).
Joan Hackett, (The Group 1966) a very underrated actress of the 60s & 70s plays Helen Clarvoe a woman who is being tormented by phone calls from a menacing woman named Dorothy who is threatening her life. Kevin McCarthy is lawyer Paul Blackshear who agrees to investigate and track the maniacal Dorothy down. The crazy woman blames Helen for the break up of her wedding engagement. Paul finds a photographer for whom Dorothy recently posed, though she has destroyed any negatives and photos of herself. Then the photographer is murdered! While in the midst of his investigation, Paul receives a frantic call from Helen that Dorothy has broken into her apartment and is holding her at gunpoint!
BEHIND THE LOCKED DOOR( 3/27/64)– GLORIA SWANSON as Mrs. Daniels
Mrs. Daniels-“No Dave… this is your home now!”
Directed by Robert Douglas with a teleplay by Henry Slesar and Joel Murcott. Story by Slesar.
When Dave Snowden (James MacArthur) and his new bride Bonnie (the lovely and underrated Lynn Loring) visit the estate owned by Bonnie’s late father, Dave finds a mysterious locked door and surmises that there must be something of value hidden there. Bonnie tells her mother (Gloria Swanson) that they’ve just been married, who instantly assumes that Dave is after her inheritance. Mrs.Daniels tries to give the young man money to go away and annul the marriage. Dave is hungry for money and gets Bonnie to go along with a plan for her to fake a suicide attempt by overdosing on sleeping pills. This they hope will get the mother’s sympathy. Things go badly when a child hood illness leaves Bonnie allergic to sleeping pills. The climax is stunning as the great ironic natural law of justice is served. Swanson is marvelous as always as the elegant and protective Mrs Daniels!
THE GENTLEMAN CALLER (4/10/64) RUTH McDEVITT as Miss Emmy Wright
Miss Emmy Rice –“I was just thinking of how awful it is when people are so mean to each other. That’s one thing when you get to be seventy five, you see clearer than anything else. How mean people are to each other.”
Directed by Joseph Newman with a teleplay by James Bridges and story by Veronica Johns.
The delightful Ruth McDevitt plays Miss Emmy Wright, an elderly lady who sits in the park and is befriended by Gerald Musgrove (Roddy McDowall) who with his wife have just successfully robbed $100,000 but need a good place to hide the doe ’til the heat is off.
Emmy is a known pack rat, who invites the couple over to her cluttered and quirky place for many social dinners. Gerald gets the bright idea of stashing the loot inside the old dust covered magazines that Emmy has collected over the years. Gerald also convinces Emmy to draw up a will leaving him the beneficiary so that they can later kill her off and claim the clutter that holds their stolen cash. This is a dark comedic episode with stellar performances by both McDevitt playing off McDowell’s usual droll manner. Co-starring Juanita Moore as Mrs. Jones and Naomi Stevens as Mrs Goldy.
THE ORDEAL OF MRS. SNOW (4/14/64) PATRICIA COLLINGE as Adelaide Snow
Directed by Robert Stevens with a teleplay by Alvin Sargent and story by Patrick Quentin.
Patricia Collinge is one of my favorite character actors. Here she turns in quite a moving performance as a woman trapped in a safe with timing running out. And in this episode I’m particularly fond of her doting on her two siamese cats, being a staunch advocate for cats and someone who shares their home with let’s say a variety of pussycats, a siamese rescue being just one of them!
In The Ordeal of Mrs Snow Aunt Adelaide Snow is at the mercy of her scheming niece’s husband Bruce (Don Chastain) who is afraid that auntie will go to the police about his check forging. While away on a weekend vacation, he locks Mrs. Snow inside the bank vault in her house, hoping she’ll suffocate and it will look like an accident. But he has also locked one of her cats inside as well. Thank god, because these little felines are very smart indeed. Mrs Snow’s niece Lorna, (Jessica Walter) tries to call her aunt, worried that something is wrong, not realizing what her sneaky murderous husband has done… Don’t worry, the cats come to the rescue! Also co-staring George Macready as Adelaide’s dear friend Hillary Prine.
THE SECOND VERDICT (5/29/64) SHARON FARRELL as Melanie Rydell
Directed by Lewis Teague with a teleplay by Alfred Hayes and a story by Henry Slesar.
Sharon Farrell plays the seductive Melanie Rydell who doesn’t intentionally get men chasing after her. But her psychotic husband Lew Rydell (Frank Gorshin) gets off on a murder charge after Ned Murray (Martin Landau) successful gets him an innocent verdict. To Ned’s horror he learns that Lew is in fact a hot headed jealous nutcase who was guilty of murder and is now accusing him of going after his sexy wife. Ned is conflicted by law, but wants to bring this loaded canon to justice but can’t get him prosecuted for the same crime twice. He solicits the help of an old gangster friend who owes him one, but realizes that he has inadvertently put a hit out on the unstable Lew.
ISABEL (6/5/64) BARBARA BARRIE is Isabel Smith
Directed by Alf Kjellin Teleplay by William Fay and Henry Slesar, from a story by S.B. Hough.
Again, the highly underrated Barbara Barrie, who has always given her all in any performance, notably several of The Naked City. Here she plays a very timid and unstable single woman, (I will not use the word spinster here, though most analysis makes use of the word, I find it offensive) Isabel wrongly accuses Howard Clemens (Bradford Dillman) of sexual assault. Howard Clemens is sentenced to two years in prison for the crime he didn’t commit. Once he is released, the first thing he does is steal a large amount of money. $13,000 which is the amount he would have drawn as a salary had he not been thrown in jail.
He comes back to the same town where Isabel teaches, and opens up a record shop. He purposefully manages to bump into Isabel until he finally gains her confidence. Eventually the pair become engaged. While on their honeymoon, Howard tampers with the fuel ignition switch on the boat which will cause the boat to explode. He tells Isabel to take the boat out alone. A bit later he hears the blast and is finally satisfied that he has gotten his revenge on her at last.
BODY IN THE BARN (7/3/64) LILLIAN GISH as Bessie Carnby
Directed by Joseph Newman (The Outcasts of Poker Flats 1952, The Human Jungle 1954, This Island Earth 1955, The Twilight Zone ’63-’64) with a teleplay by Harold Swanton and story by Margaret Manners.
I’ve written about this marvelous episode for Movie Silently’s The Gish Sisters Blogathon! Here Lillian Gish plays the sassy Bessie who lives with her daughter Camilla (Maggie McNamara) Bessie is a staple of the town, and when her handyman falls to his death because of the arrogance of her neighbor Samantha Wilkins (Patricia Cutts-The Tingler 1959) and her whipped husband Henry (Peter Lind Hayes) Bessie goes on a mission to try and bridge the feud with the couple by inviting them over for supper.
Samantha refuses to break bread with the Carnbys, but Henry starts to insinuate himself into Bessie and Camilla’s life. One night Henry disappears and Bessie sees Samantha digging a hole in the barn. She accuses the woman of murder and eventually Samantha is executed for killing her husband. But… Henry unexpectedly returns, claiming to have been on a long sea voyage not able to hear about his wife’s trial. Bessie suspects that Henry has staged the whole thing and begins to feel terrible guilt about what she has done. Will she be able to rectify the awful mistake she has made and bring Henry to justice?
Bessie-“To bring to the light of day the two lies that together make a truth. “
CHANGE OF ADDRESS (10/12/64) PHYLLIS THAXTER as Elsa Hollands
Elsa –“There’s something wrong with this house, I lye awake at night and I can feel it. There’s is something wrong with this house Something we don’t know about.”
Elsa-“That’s the girl I saw at the beach, she’s lovely” Keith- “What I want, what I really want. What I’m sure as sitting here want… uhhh.” Elsa –“Keith it may be, it just very well may be I want the same thing”. Keith- “What are you talking about baby? what you were talking about… Elsa-“how we rid ourselves of each other… and when! Me of you and you of me.”
Michael Blodgett and Tisha Sterling do some mod dancing in Change of Address
Elsa… do you really need to go down to the basement to see what your adolescent husband wants to show you? Can’t you guess!!!!
Directed by David Friedkin with a teleplay by Morton Fine and David Friedkin and a story by Andrew Benedict.
Elsa Hollands (Phyllis Thaxter) hates the new beach house. Keith Hollands (Arthur Kennedy) refuses to grow older, and chases after the local beach hottie Tisha Sterling. The house gives Elsa the chills, and it doesn’t help that Keith starts digging a hole in the basement floor that he claims is for the new boiler. Elsa and Keith keep clashing over the strain in their marriage. She just wants to go back to her old apartment and senses something terribly wrong with the damp place.
While Keith is playing around with the young blonde beauty, Elsa contacts the ex-owner’s wife to discourage her from selling, and perhaps finds out the truth about the place. When Keith can’t take Elsa’s complaints anymore, finding her an obstruction into his world of new found vitamins, jumping jacks, young beach bunnies, hair dye, turtle necks, late nites out at the disco dancing along side the dreamy blued eyed Michael Blodgett, he kills her and buries her in that nice big hole he’s been digging. But will Elsa’s investigation come back to bite Keith in those awfully ugly jogging shorts?
WATER’S EDGE (10/19/64) –ANN SOTHERN as Helen Cox
Helen-“Funny you dreaming’ about me and here we are. Life’s a big surprise.”
Directed by Bernard Girard with a teleplay by Alfred Hayes and a story by the great Robert Bloch!
Rusty Connors (John Cassavetes) is newly released from prison. While in prison his mate Mike Krause (Rayford Barnes) talks incessantly about the perfect blonde he left behind. Krause dies in prison, and so while Rusty gets out he decides to look up this gorgeous dish that was married to his former cellmate. Krause had been in prison for robbery and murder, but neither the money nor the body of his partner have ever been found. Could Krause’s wife Helen know where the loot is stashed?
Rusty comes to find Helen (Ann Sothern) slinging hash at a greasy spoon, but she is far from the pin up that Mike Krause crooned about. Still Rusty plays up to her, thinking that she can lead him to the stolen money. The pair form a tumultuous sexual relationship, both greedy to find the hidden cash. Which they stumble onto in an abandoned boat house infested with starving rats. The two might just turn on each other, but you’ll have to see the episode and find out for yourself! This is a macabre and gritty story by the master of the suspense genre Robert Bloch author of Psycho…
LONELY PLACE (11/15/64) TERESA WRIGHT as Stella
Stella “I”m scared of Jesse… You scared of him too. You scared too. talking don’t help Emery I heard you talking to Jessie in the orchard. You told him you married me to have someone to feed ya. Is that why we ain’t ever have any children?”
Directed by Harvey Hart with a teleplay by Francis Gwaltney and a story by G.B Gilford
Teresa Wright is outstanding as poor Stella, married to a horrible dolt of a husband who doesn’t appreciate her. Emory (Pat Buttram is a weak and unloving bumpkin who owns a peach farm. This is a dark Americana tale about a quiet woman named Stella who suffers in silence but has a few joys, like the love of animals, in particular her little pet squirrel. One day an ominous drifter asks if he can work the farm for a bit. Bruce Dern plays Jesse, in a role that surpasses so many of the psychopaths he’s had opportunity to play. Jesse has a particular viciousness that is spine tingling. While he helps harvest the peach crop, he secretly torments Stella with his fondness for his sharp knife. Stella feels threatened but her husband acts clueless, while at times we see that he is very aware of what is going on, he just chooses not to intervene out of cowardice. The episode is perhaps one of the most psychologically enthralling, and it’s climax will leave you breathless. The performances are absolutely stunning. Just as frightening as any modern thriller on the screen today! And Wright turns in a performance that tugs at your heart with so many levels of emotional reflection as a woman trapped by her circumstances. John F. Warren’s cinematography portrays a rural hinterland that is otherworldly and melancholy.
MISADVENTURE (12/7/64) LOLA ALBRIGHT as Eva Martin
Eva-“You crying? You are crying Ha! What do you’ve got to cry about? If anybody’s gonna cry it should be me. Although I must say… You are a most unusual gas man!”
Directed by Joseph Newman with a story and teleplay by Lewis Davidson.
Eva (Lola Albright) is an adulterous wife to unsuspecting businessman (George Kennedy) who is a penny pincher though he is quite well to do. One day a mysterious stranger (Barry Nelson) manages to work his way into the house by claiming to be the gas man. He acts very peculiar, until finally he gets her into bed. Colin convinces Eva that it would be easy to kill her husband… This zany and interesting episode has a lot of twists so I won’t give anything away! Just watch for great performances by Nelson and in particular the lovely Lola Albright who can do comedic mystery thrillers with ease!
TRIUMPH (12/14/64)– JEANETTE NOLAN as Mary Fitzgibbons
Mary-“You are a vain man.” Brother Thomas- “A minor vice.” Mary-“There is no such thing as a minor vice.” Brother Thomas “trimming a mustache harms no one.” Mary-“It’s so difficult for you to be the kind of missionary you should be.” Brother Thomas- “I have a good reputation.” Mary-“Because I have made sure of it.” Brother Thomas–“yes you have.” Mary-“you begrudge me that recognition.” Brother Thomas-“I’m the first to admit it.” Mary-“I have loved you.”
Mary- “I don’t know if I still do. I’ve had to forget my needs and devote myself to your work.”
Directed by Harvey Hart with a teleplay by Arthur Ross and story by Robert Branson.
This is a particularly intense addition to The Alfred Hitchcock Hour due to the fine performances by Ed Begley and one of my favorites Jeanette Nolan. Nolan plays Mary the enigmatic wife to a missionary medical man (Begley). The strong woman behind the man so to speak. Begley plays Brother Thomas Fitzgibbons who in actuality is an incompetent surgeon living in a primal world in the rugged terrain of India. Mary is ambitious and wants all the glory for her and her weak husband. When Tom Simcox and Maggie Pierce –Brother John Sprague and his wife Lucy come to help the mission, Mary fears they will expose the truth about Brother Thomas’ work, as well as usurp their position there. Oh what a tangled web we weave. Nolan almost reignites her Lady Macbeth with her role as the conniving and treacherous Mary Fitzgibbons– Her silver tongued laments as always put her at the top of my favorite character actors!
WHERE THE WOODBINE TWINETH (1/11/65)– MARGARET LEIGHTON as Nell Snyder & JUANITA MOORE as Suse
“would you like to meet Mingo when she comes? She’s not very big. She’s big enough to live in a bird cage and big enough to have a frog for a horse!”
“Do you believe me about Mingo?”
Eva-“Is it dark where daddy is?”-Nell ” I hope not… I don’t know.” -Eva “Numa knows… Mingo says it’s brighter than day!… they have bumble bees there too.”-Nell- “Who’s Mingo honey?”-Eva- “My best friend!”
This is one of Alfred Hitchcock Hour’s most supernatural of tales that breaks the mold of the crime/suspense drama. Along with The Sign of Satan, The Monkey’s Paw, and The Magic Shop by H.G Wells. Where the Woodbine Twineth could have fit nicely into Boris Karloff’s Thriller anthology series. A haunting tale that will stay with you for a long time. Margaret Leighton is mesmerizing as Aunt Nell, a woman who just cant embrace her little niece’s wild imaginative tales. I’ve recently become acquainted with Leighton’s work and have fallen in love with the actress!
Directed by Alf Kjellin with a teleplay by James Bridges and a story by Davis Grubb (wrote Night of the Hunter, The Cheyenne Social Club and a few short stories for Rod Serling’s Night Gallery 1971.
Leighton is marvelous as she coldly, rigidly lacks understanding of her recently orphaned niece who talks about fey people who live under the davenport and visit her at night. When Eve comes to live with the elderly Mississippi riverboat Captain Snyder, her grandfather, her aunt Nell just can’t break through.
Nell just believes the child to be willful and lazy trying to blame things on her imaginary friends like Mr. Peppercorn and Mingo… Aunt Nell just can’t handle the role of caretaker to a wily and free spirited child and begins to crack under the pressure. The conflict becomes very real when Nell challenges Eva at every turn.
When Eva (Eileen Baral) gets a wonderful Creole doll she names Numa from her riverboat King grandfather, tensions ignite and Nell comes face to face with the mystical world where the woodbine twineth. A nether region between life, death and the realms you cannot see with the naked eye. To balance out the constant struggle between the suffering Nell and the precocious Eva, is the calming and level headed presence of Juanita Moore as Suse, who understands Eva and is more like a mother to the young girl than Nell can possibly manifest from her rigid identity.
Nell is obsessed with controlling Eva, and catching her at lies. She fears the child’s freedom, and resents how happy she can be. When she hears Eva chatting and playing with Numa, the doll grandfather had given Nell suspects that it is a child from the neighborhood.
Eva warns that if Nell takes Numa away, Eva will have to trade places with Numa and go to dwell “Where the Woodbine Twineth.”
But obstinate Aunt Nell defies Eva and puts Numa on top of the player piano, Eva steals Numa away and runs into the woods. Suddenly in an eerie haunting manner the player piano mysteriously starts up by itself. Nell desperate stumbles onto Eva in the backyard playing with a little black girl –they are dancing.
Nell chases the girl away, warning her to stay away but then Eva disappears. When Nell finds a doll in Numa’s box it looks exactly like a porcelain version of little Eva, Nell realizes that the magic was real and that she has lost her little niece forever to the ether world beyond the trees… A changeling in her place, never to return.
One of my all time favorite episodes. Just effectively creepy yet magical stuff… with a haunting quality that lingers…
FINAL PERFORMANCE (1/18/65) SHARON FARRELL as Rosie
This piece directed by John Brahm from a teleplay by Clyde Ware & Lee Kalcheim. (Let’s Scare Jessica To Death 1971, All in the Family 1972) is a story based on Robert Bloch.
Roger Perry plays Cliff Allen a television writer on his way to Hollywood who picks up a pretty hitchhiker named Rosie.(Sharon Farrell) Later Rosie accuses Cliff of abducting her when he is stopped by the local police. Of course Cliff denies the charges but the sheriff orders him to come back to town with him. Cliff’s car breaks down, and so he is forced to stay over in a very run down motel.
Off the beaten path Motels already smack of creepy so as you can imagine when it turns out that it is run by a washed up vaudeville actor name Rudolph Bitzner or Rudolph the Great ( great –for what you’ll find out! )
Rudolph is played by the wonderful Franchot Tone, who dreams of a comeback someday, and Rosie is the daughter of his dead wife who used to be his partner. Now Rosie not only works at the cafe/motel, but she’s being groomed to be part of the comeback act.
Rosie sneaks off to apologize to Cliff for lying but she is terrified of Rudolph who is forcing her to marry him once she turns 18 which is in a few days. Cliff agrees to help Rosie escape once his car is fixed. But when he goes to her cabin she is not there. Rudolph convinces him to sit out in the audience and watch his great comeback act with Rosie before he leaves for Hollywood.
One of the most subtly grotesque and atmospheric relics of the early 60s before psycho-sexual cinema hit the proverbial fan!
I won’t give it away, you must see this macabre and eerie instillation in The Alfred Hitchcock Hour collection.
ONE OF THE FAMILY (2/8/65) LILIA SKALA plays Nurse Frieda Schmidt
Directed by Joseph Pevney with a teleplay by Oscar Millard (Angel Face 1952, Dead Ringer 1964) and William Bast. Based on a story by James Yaffe
Dexter and Joyce Daily (Jeremy Slate and Kathryn Hays) hire Dexter’s old German nanny named Frieda (the inimitable Lilia Skala) to come and take care of their newborn baby boy. She did such a good job with Dexter when he was just a tot. But Joyce becomes suspicious when she hears a radio broadcast about a nurse who is wanted in the poisoning death of an infant in San Francisco. Frieda does have some peculiar ways, but Joyce goes as far as to contact the murdered baby’s aunt played by Olive Deering. Christine Callendar only confirms Joyce’s greatest fears that Frieda is the one the police are looking for and that she is a dangerous baby killer!
AN UNLOCKED WINDOW (2/15/65) DANA WYNTER as Stella & LOUISE LATHAM as Maude Isles
As Maude’s husband reads the newspaper about the recent strangulation murders –she comments-“I read a book about a man who only killed trombone players, he beat them to death with their own trombones.”
Directed by Joseph Newman with a teleplay by James Bridges and story by Ethel Lina White
Stella Crosson (Dana Wynter) is the nurse to an invalid heart patient (John Kerr) Stella needs help and is very happy to get some relief when Nurse Betty Ames (T.C. Jones) shows up to help. The large house is also inhabited by an alcoholic housekeeper Maude played by the wonderful Louise Latham. The night is fret filled with storms and the news has reported that a maniacal nurse killer is on the loose! Oh, and the power has gone out, so they’re all in the dark.
Maude sends her husband out in the storm to get some medicine, and Stella goes around the house locking all the windows and doors. Except she fails to secure one that is in the creepy basement. The shocking ending will catch you off guard.
THOU STILL UNRAVISHED BRIDE 3/22/65–SALLY KELLERMAN as Sally Benner
Directed by David Friedkin with a teleplay by Morton Fine and David Friedkin and story by Avram Davidson
American Sally Benner is soon to marry London policeman Tommy Bonn (Ron Randall) While on a transatlantic cruise they announce their engagement, but four hours before they are to be wed, Sally has pangs of doubt and goes out into the London fog. There have been a series of murders and her family grow weary for her safety. Tommy and his partner Stephen Leslie (Michael Pate) go in search of Sally.
They eventually stumble on an odd young man named Edward Clarke (David Carradine) who they suspect might be the strangler, and with the description of the woman he confesses to murdering they fear Sally’s fate. The episode also stars Kent Smith and Edith Atwater as Sally’s parents. This episode is very atmospheric and Kellerman as usual does a wonderful job of manifesting a languid sensuality and longing that hangs like dew on the petal.
POWER OF ATTORNEY (4/5/65) GERALDINE FITZGERALD as Agatha Tomlin & FAY BAINTER as May Caulfield
Directed by Harvey Hart with a teleplay by James Bridges and story by Selwyn Jepson (Stage Fright! 1950)
Richard Johnson is a smooth con artist Jarvis Smith posing as a stock expert who insinuates himself into the lives of the wealthy Mary Caulfield and suspicious companion Agatha. It’s always wonderful to see Geraldine Fitzgerald in any performance, here it is no exception. She has an elegant and stayed sensibility that can be as poignant as it is sophisticated. She works well against Fay Bainter who is always enigmatic like a fine bit of silverware that is timeless and sturdy. Johnson sheds his kindly Dr Marquay (The Haunting) persona here and plays the perfect cad. Jarvis eventually romances Agatha and takes over the handling of Mary’s sizable fortune, pretending that he is investing it for her. When it comes to light what Jarvis has done, the drama becomes a taut little mystery melodrama.
THE SECOND WIFE 4/26/65 JUNE LOCKHART as Martha
Directed by Joseph Newman with a teleplay by Robert Bloch from a story by Richard Deming
June Lockhart plays Martha Peters. Martha has answered a lonely hearts and becomes a mail order bride she finally meets Luke Hunter (John Anderson) a miserly reserved sort of man who seems to have no joy in his life. Married once before, his first wife was a mail order bride as well who died under mysterious circumstances. When Luke goes to visit his relatives, Martha’s fears begin to build when she finds a coffin shaped box hidden in the garage. She also hears her husband digging all night down in the locked cellar.
Suddenly Luke insists that they go on vacation for the Christmas Holidays, and urges her to start packing so they can go visit his relatives. Before they leave the house, Luke unlocks the cellar door and insists that Martha go downstairs and see what he’s been working on!
NIGHT FEVER (5/3/65) COLLEEN DEWHURST as Nurse Ellen Hatch
Directed by Herbert Coleman with a teleplay by Gilbert Ralston and story by Clark Howard, this is a stand out story, with a sublime performance by the always compelling Dewhurst.
Here Dewhurst plays a very compassionate nurse Ellen Hatch who is taking care of a cop-killer Jerry Walsh (Tom Simcox) on his way to death row. Jerry manages to melt Ellen’s tough yet kind exterior and lure her into believing that he’s fallen in love with her so that she can help engineer his escape.
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← Comics. Photo: John Claridge, text Tim Turnbull (3/5)
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Comics. Photo John Claridge, text Garry Lyons (2/5)
Posted: June 21, 2011 | Author: thelondoncolumn | Filed under: Performers | Tags: ENSA, Frankie and Tommy, Tommy Cooper, Variety entertainers |Comments Off on Comics. Photo John Claridge, text Garry Lyons (2/5)
Tommy Cooper, Thames Television Studios, 1967. Photo © John Claridge.
On Tommy Cooper by Garry Lyons:
FRANKIE:
It’s all for you, isn’t it, Tommy? All the time – even offstage – you’re thinking: how can I get noticed? How can I get a gag out of this? You’d piss in the gutter to make a drain laugh, wouldn’t you? You’d shoot your granny for half a titter.
TOMMY:
You leave that gutter out of this.
These lines are a characteristic interchange from the two eponymous comics in my play Frankie and Tommy. Frankie is my dad aged 23, as I re-imagined him. His oppo is none other than Tommy Cooper. The play tells the story of their brief and ill-fated double-act, entertaining the troops in Cairo in 1946.
It was commissioned by John Godber for the 21st anniversary of Hull Truck Theatre Company, and premiered at the Edinburgh Festival in 1992. It caused a bit of a stir. I didn’t see my play as an exposé of a celebrity so much as a bitter-sweet Everyman tale about lost opportunities and faded dreams. For me, the story was a universal one about the shadow cast over youthful illusions by a brief, fleeting brush with true genius. It was about lost opportunity, and coming to terms with one’s failures and mediocrity.
The play is like a variety show Amadeus, with my dad as Salieri and Cooper as Mozart. It’s as much a professional tribute to Cooper’s stage brilliance as it is an unveiling of Cooper the man. It was an attempt to show the fez-wearing buffoon in all his perfectionist complexity, an artist in whom emotional inadequacy was the spur that drove his hyper-nervous and shambolically skilful act – an act full of fumbled magic tricks and painful wordplay acting as armour-plated defence mechanisms from too much inquiry into the inner self.
The invented dialogue of Frankie and Tommy – which owes a lot to Morecambe and Wise, Barker and Corbett and similar duos – is full of puns and evasions in which Cooper constantly undercuts a serious point with a wisecrack or non sequitur. It’s the technique of the inveterate joker who can’t bear to face reality, yet in dodging it not only makes us laugh but often presents us with an even more profound truth.
Perhaps, in the end, that is the enduring force of Cooper’s humour. He wasn’t, as some have claimed, the first ‘alternative comedian’. There was nothing politically anti-establishment about his mainstream, commercial television style. But it was certainly subversive in the way it used ineptitude as comic strategy, satirising the empty slickness of much light entertainment and reminding us that at heart we’re all fools within.
… for The London Column. © Garry Lyons 2011.
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There Once Was a Girl
Cara DuBois December 11, 2015
Recommended Reading: “There Once Was a Girl” by Katy Waldman at Slate. “Anorexia is the mental health equivalent of the red shoes that make you dance until you die. It is a performance—of femininity, of damage, of power—that turns into a prison.”
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Consider the Chapter
Kaulie Lewis November 2, 2014
“What does the chapter’s beginnings reveal about the way our books and stories are still put together?” Nicholas Dames answers with an essay in The New Yorker.
Good Grief!
Brian Etling September 14, 2015
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, and now is as good a time as any to revisit R. Sikoryak’s Good ol’ Gregor Brown. Our own Matt Seidel’s essay on The Metamorphosis is perfect for those craving more Kafka.
Brian Etling
TLS Best Books of the Year
Garth Risk Hallberg November 30, 2009
The Times Literary Supplement offers “Best Books of 2009” picks from a smattering of contributors, including Julian Barnes and Ali Smith.
Garth Risk Hallberg
Thomas Beckwith May 13, 2014
Jason Epstein on How Publishing Works
Ujala Sehgal February 9, 2011
“Far more than any other medium, books contain civilizations, the ongoing conversation between present and past. Without this conversation we are lost. But books are also a business….” Jason Epstein explains how publishing works—and why, increasingly, it doesn’t, at the New York Review of Books. (via)
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It’s Official: U.S. Poet Laureate Signs In
Ariana Valderrama September 16, 2017
The United States of Poetry
Carolyn Quimby June 10, 2018
Poetry readership among U.S. adults is the highest it’s been in 15 years—with young adult readership (among 18-24 year olds) nearly doubling—according to the National Endowment for the Arts’ 2017 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA). (For what it’s worth: The Millions has always loved poetry).
Carolyn Quimby
Out with the Books, In with the People
Matthew Schantz July 16, 2012 | 2
Libraries, if they hope to survive in the digital age, should do away with physical books and become sites of physical interaction instead, argues David A. Bell. For a starkly contrasting opinion, see Charles Petersen’s critique of the NYPL’s plans to do just what Bell recommends.
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Универсальный англо-русский словарь
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Универсальный англо-русский словарь. Академик.ру. 2011.
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News from Guatemala: October 31, 2016
"No one has ever become
poor by giving."
Registration for 2017
Trips in Full Swing!
Xela AID's first volunteer trip of the year is right around the corner and we want YOU to join us. Come teach English, build, do art projects with children, work with our medical team or undertake another project that takes advantage of your skills. A single volunteer week could change a life forever — including your own. Signing up today takes just a few clicks!
9 days -$1480 – Trip Details (PDF)
Open to the public and welcoming William Jewell College (WJC) students and faculty.
Leaders Patrick and Lori Bunton. Contact.
If you have an interest in science and technology, healthcare and nursing, or if this trip is scheduled at the right time for you, then join us! The current central themes are Solar Power, Light and Optics, and Women’s Studies and Nursing. But no matter what your passion, there is a place for you to serve. Four Ph.D. Faculty will be on this trip including two Physics faculty, an Astronomer, and a Philosopher (Women’s Studies). Lori Bunton, a Community Health Nurse, will also be leading the trip to work on projects in the Xela AID clinic. “We can work with you to prepare an educational enrichment experience for the youth that is based on your background and interests. Or join with us on one of the topics we are already planning. It will be an exciting week that you don't want to miss,” said Patrick Bunton, trip leader and professor at WJC. Volunteers will have the opportunity to work with professors and students from the prestigious WJC to learn electronics, solar power, and optics to complete projects that benefit the San Martín community.
Caption: Daniela Marin, WJC student, constructing a solar-rechargeable lantern with a local Mayan student.
13 days - $1862 - Trip Details (PDF)
Open to the public.
Leaders Sue Rikalo and Dr. Steve Kent. Contact.
Join Xela AID on its first foray into a week-long Spanish course. Get a week of intensive, one-on-one Spanish training in exciting Antigua, the historic capital of Guatemala, and stay at a comfortable old Spanish-style villa. Then, practice your Spanish during a week of service, sharing your skills in the scenic highlands village of San Martín Chiquíto near Quetzaltenango. “Dr. Steve and I designed a trip that balances lots of time exploring the beautiful UNESCO World Heritage city of Antigua with meaningful projects in the village of San Martin Chiquito. We would love you to join us and will do our best to make this one of the most meaningful experiences of your life!” said Sue Rikalo, trip leader. During down time in Antigua, enjoy a variety of planned activities including a Guatemalan cooking class, a photography walking tour, zip lining or visiting neighboring cities.
Caption: Volunteer Bill Matthews during a Spanish lesson with his teacher Gabi.
New Dates! August 26 - September 3, 2017
9 days - $1519 – Trip Details (PDF)
Leaders Mel Dinkel and Leslie Baer Dinkel.
In the village of San Martín Chiquito, use your skills and talents and work side by side with children and families who speak Mám, the local indigenous language. You can lead a project using your professional or personal expertise to help make a positive impact on the lives of families in Guatemala or assist in a project designed and led by Xela AID staff. For R&R, we’ll explore beautiful Antigua and enjoy two exciting days at the luxurious Casa Del Mundo, located on the shores of Lake Atitlan. Fun R&R activities include a visit to chocolate and jade museums and the Mayan ruins at Iximche, kayaking, zip lining, hiking or volcano hiking for the adventurous, and lounging by the hotel hot tub and pool at the lake. Says trip leader Mel Dinkel, “This work changed my life, and I believe it will bring new meaning to yours.”
Caption: Volunteer Nick Pappas leading a hair-cutting service project.
2018 Volunteer Trips
Fall 2018: Contribute to the “San Martín Thrive WASH Initiative,” an Avalon Rotary-sponsored program to bring clean water and improved sanitation and hygiene to impact Mayan villages in the Highlands of Guatemala.
Open to Rotary Members.
To sign up for a trip now, please visit Volunteering>Service Trips on our website HERE
Trips fill fast, so if you wish to join us, please reserve your space early!
For more information about our Xela AID Volunteer Service Trip experience, please contact Ali Wesley at Alicia@xelaaid.org
We look forward to sharing an adventure with you that will not only enrich your life, but will have tremendous positive impact on those we serve.
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Next Up: Xela AID's January 2017 Trip
January 5-18, 2017
13 days - $1989 – Trip Details (PDF)
Open to public, OLLI members and with credit available from CSUF.
Leaders Mel Dinkel and Leslie Baer Dinkel. Contact
Get to know members of San Martín’s Mayan community on a personal level and use your skills to make a positive difference! Volunteers will be matched with young adults in the San Martín through our “Buddy Program” and will experience Guatemalan culture through their eyes. “This was such a rich and rewarding experience! I learned so much from Xela AID and the people of San Martín,” said Delaney McNamara, CSUF student volunteer, 2015. Volunteers will have the incredible opportunity to lead projects and work side by side with community members. Includes R&R in both historical Antigua and breathtaking Lake Atitlan. Activities available during down time include volcano hiking, lounging by the pool or hot tub, shopping, zip lining or kayaking.
Caption: Volunteer Donna Gottlieb teaches English at Xela AID headquarters.
Healing and Helping
In March of this year, Xela AID Board Member Leon Kaplan fought for his life after a heart attack. He turned this frightening event into an educational scholarship for a hopeful young girl! Here’s how.
Leon was driving his car on a day like any other when he was stricken with the attack.
“I don’t remember how I stopped the car or how I ended up in the middle of the street,” he says. “I was told by the Los Angeles Fire Department that someone had called 911 and performed CPR on me until the paramedics arrived, but they wouldn’t give me the name.”
Without the help of that good Samaritan, Leon would not have survived.
Upon leaving the hospital, Leon was determined to find and thank his anonymous hero. He drove to the intersection where the event had taken place, and posted signs asking for the person who’d saved him to contact him. After a first failed attempt, he visited the intersection again. At a home nearby, he met Ashley and Samantha, two women who’d helped the mystery person to perform CPR under intense, trying circumstances.
Leon was so touched after hearing the story of his near death that he began to do some intensive investigating. He managed to find the record of the phone number for the 911 call that saved his life. The number belonged to Susie Powell, a legal assistant from Hollywood and former English teacher.
Leon and Susie met over lunch and bonded over their shared interests in educating youth. Leon sponsors a child for school through Xela AID’s Work Study Scholarship Program. He asked Susie if, as a "thank you" for her heroism, he could sponsor another child in her name. “She was thrilled by the idea and immediately agreed,” Leon recalls.
Maria Socorro Gomez Mendez was thrilled, too, upon learning that she’d been sponsored, and in fact, will now get to fulfill her dream of becoming a teacher—like Susie, who is now a hero in two lives.
Many children in Guatemala are in desperate need of education in order to pull themselves out of poverty and become self-reliant. Currently, in rural Guatemala, only 1 in every 10 children will make it to high school! Students in Xela AID’s programs beat the odds, with more than 80% graduating high school!
Like Leon and Susie, you can help children like Maria go to school and fulfill their dreams.
To sponsor a child’s education click HERE.
Children and Volunteers
Work Together to Protect Vision
Colleen Dodds, a Xela AID Board Member Emeritus, has been supporting Xela AID’s mission for more than two decades. She and partner Karen Edwards founded the Optometry mission program. Last winter, Colleen did a presentation focused on Xela AID’s optometry program at St. Andrew Elementary School in Ontario, Canada. This is where her daughter Darlene Kingstone teaches.
Colleen spoke passionately about how people in San Martin don’t have access to sunglasses and how dangerous that can be for their vision. This is because most people in San Martín work long, arduous hours farming under the bright sun with no protection from UV rays.
“I have felt for years that our first-world children have no idea of the poverty that exists in the lives of other children who are their age,” says Colleen. “So I decided to educate and also allow for some small manageable donations from some of the children who will be the adults of tomorrow.”
The young students were so moved by Colleen’s presentation that they decided to take action. In fact, the kids gathered and donated over 200 pairs of sunglasses!
Colleen participated in a Xela AID volunteer service trip this summer, fitting people with reading glasses. Colleen and the optometry team also personally fitted the children’s donated sunglasses to people in need.
“It was a very emotional event, as it was the first time many of the people served had ever owned a pair of sunglasses!” Colleen explains.
Xela AID thanks Colleen, Darlene, and the teachers, principal and students of St. Andrew Elementary for their work and commitment to protecting the vision of children and families in San Martín.
Caption: New sunglasses for young boys and girls from San Martín, Guatemala.
For more photos celebrating the St. Andrew Elementary School donation click HERE.
Thank you for your interest and support!
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MPs join criticism of Labour’s anti-Semitism code
Anthony Sinclair 5th July 2018
Campaigners and some Labour MPs have criticised the party’s new code of conduct on anti-Semitism.
The code states that “anti-Semitism is racism. It is unacceptable in our party and in wider society”.
But it does not sign up in full to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of anti-Semitism.
Labour MPs Chuka Umunna, Liz Kendall and Anna Turley are among those criticising the omission.
Mr Umunna tweeted he was “utterly appalled”:
Our values dictate that we treat all groups the same and yet, again and again, we see examples of the Jewish community being treated differently to other groups by the Labour Party. This is discrimination, pure and simple, and it is totally unacceptable.
— Chuka Umunna (@ChukaUmunna) July 5, 2018
While Ms Turley tweeted:
The Jewish Leadership Council and the Board of Deputies of British Jews said in a joint statement that it was “impossible to understand” why Labour had not adopted the IHRA definition in full – as the UK Jewish community, governments and local councils had done.
Labour’s code, which was approved by a sub-committee of its National Executive Committee, came about after the 2016 Chakrabarti inquiry into anti-Semitism. It does endorse the IHRA’s working definition of anti-Semitism and includes behaviours it lists as likely to be regarded as anti-Semitic – but leaves out four examples:
Accusing Jewish people of being more loyal to Israel than their home country
Claiming that Israel’s existence as a state is a racist endeavour
Requiring higher standards of behaviour from Israel than other nations
Comparing contemporary Israeli policies to those of the Nazis
In their joint statement, Jonathan Goldstein of the Jewish Leadership Council and Marie van der Zyl of the Board of Deputies said it was “for Jews to determine themselves what anti-Semitism is”.
How the Labour anti-Semitism saga unfolded
Corbyn apologises for ‘hurt’ caused by anti-Semitism in Labour
The Labour Against Anti-Semitism campaign described it as a “toothless document” adding: “The Labour Party already has very little credibility left as the anti-racist body it has always claimed to be. The formal adoption of this document would see any remaining credibility lost, perhaps permanently.”
But a spokesman for the Labour Party said: “These are the most detailed and comprehensive guidelines on anti-Semitism adopted by any political party in this country.”
“They draw on the IHRA examples and other sources to provide practical examples of anti-Semitism which can be applied to complaints cases and used in political education programmes to foster deeper understanding of anti-Semitism among members.”
Mr Umunna and Ms Turley are not the only Labour MPs to criticise the code. Bassetlaw MP John Mann tweeted:
While Leicester West MP Liz Kendall said on Twitter:
The 2016 Chakrabarti report found Labour was not overrun by anti-Semitism but noted an “occasionally toxic atmosphere”.
Leader Jeremy Corbyn said in March that he recognised that anti-Semitism had “surfaced” in the party and said he was “sincerely sorry for the pain which has been caused” and pledged to “redouble my efforts” to tackle it, after Jewish groups accused him of not doing enough.
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Oliver Hart and the nature of the firm
Kevin Bryan 01 November 2016
Oliver Hart has been jointly awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences with Bengt Holmström “for their contributions to contract theory”. This column outlines his contributions to our understanding of the nature of the firm.
Oliver Hart, Nobel laureate
Maija Halonen-Akatwijuka
Bengt Holmström and the black box of the firm
Kevin Bryan
A fundamental point about Oliver Hart, co-recipient of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences with Bengt Holmström, is that nearly all of his recent work ignores the theory of the firm for which he is most famous – that of ‘residual control rights’. He has changed his beliefs, and his research agenda, so radically not simply because of the whims of age or the pressures of politics, but rather because of the impact of a devastatingly clever, and devastatingly esoteric, argument made by the 2007 and 2014 Nobel laureates Eric Maskin and Jean Tirole. To understand Hart’s contributions then, it is necessary to take a brief sojourn through the history of the branch of economics known as the theory of the firm.
The fundamental strangeness of firms goes back to 1991 Nobel laureate Ronald Coase. We have wonderful theorems from 2007 Nobel laureate Leonid Hurwicz, among others, about how competitive market prices coordinate activity efficiently even when individuals only have very limited information about how various things can be produced by an economy.
A pencil somehow involves graphite being mined, forests being explored and exploited, rubber being harvested and produced, the raw materials brought to a factory where a machine puts the pencil together, ships and trains bringing the pencil to retail stores – and yet this decentralised activity produces a pencil costing ten cents. This is the case even though not a single individual anywhere in the world knows how all of those processes up the supply chain operate. It appears that markets are an amazing mechanism for coordinating economic activity.
Yet as Coase pointed out, a huge amount of economic activity (including the majority of international trade; see Atalay et al 2014) is not coordinated via the market, but rather through top-down communist-style bureaucracies called firms. Why on earth do these persistent organisations exist at all? When should firms merge and when should they divest themselves of their parts? These questions make up the theory of the firm.
Coase’s early answer is that something called transaction costs exist, and that they are particularly high outside the firm. That is, market transactions are not free. Firm size is determined at the point where the problems of bureaucracy within the firm overwhelm the benefits of reducing transaction costs from regular transactions.
There are two major problems here. First, who knows what a ‘transaction cost’ or a ‘bureaucratic cost’ is, and why they differ across organizational forms: the explanation borders on tautology.
Second, as a wonderful paper by Alchian and Demsetz (1972) points out, there is no reason we should assume firms have some special ability to direct or punish their workers. If your supplier does something you don’t like, you can keep them on, or fire them, or renegotiate. If your in-house department does something you don’t like, you can keep them on, or fire them, or renegotiate. The problem of providing suitable incentives – the contracting problem – does not simply disappear because some activity is brought within the boundary of the firm.
Oliver Williamson, the 2009 Nobel laureate joint with Elinor Ostrom, has a more formal transaction cost theory: some relationships generate joint rents higher than could be generated if we split ways, unforeseen things occur that make us want to renegotiate our contract, and the cost of that renegotiation may be lower if workers or suppliers are internal to a firm. ‘Unforeseen things’ may include anything that cannot be measured ex post by a court or other mediator, since that is ultimately who would enforce any contract. It is not that everyday activities have different transaction costs, but that the negotiations that produce contracts themselves are easier to handle in a more persistent relationship.
As in Coase, the question of why firms do not simply grow to an enormous size is largely dealt with by off-hand references to ‘bureaucratic costs’ whose nature is largely informal. Though informal, the idea that something like transaction costs might matter seemed intuitive and had some empirical support. Firms are larger in the developing world because weaker legal systems means more ‘unforeseen things’ will occur outside the scope of a contract, hence the differential costs of holdup or renegotiation inside and outside the firm are first order when deciding on firm size.
That said, the Alchian-Demsetz critique, and the question of what a ‘bureaucratic cost’ is, are worrying. And as Eric van den Steen (2010) points out, can anyone who has tried to order paper through their procurement office versus just popping into an office supply store really believe that the reason firms exist is to lessen the cost of intra-firm activities?
Asset ownership and incomplete contracts
Grossman and Hart (1986) instead argue that the distinction that really makes a firm a firm is that it owns assets. Why does ownership matter? They retain the idea that contracts may be incomplete – at some point, I will disagree with my suppliers, or my workers, or my branch manager, about what should be done, either because a state of the world has arrived not covered by our contract, or because it is in our first-best mutual interest to renegotiate that contract.
They retain the idea that there are relationship-specific rents, so I care about maintaining this particular relationship. But rather than rely on transaction costs, they simply point out that the owner of the asset is in a much better bargaining position when this disagreement occurs. Therefore, the owner of the asset will get a bigger percentage of rents after renegotiation. Hence the person who owns an asset should be the one whose incentive to improve the value of the asset is most sensitive to that future split of rents.
Baker and Hubbard (2004) provide a nice empirical example: when on-board computers to monitor how long-haul trucks were driven began to diffuse, ownership of those trucks shifted from owner-operators to trucking firms. Before the computer, if the trucking firm owns the truck, it is hard to contract on how hard the truck will be driven or how poorly it will be treated by the driver. If the driver owns the truck, it is hard to contract on how much effort the trucking firm dispatcher will exert ensuring the truck isn’t sitting empty for days, or following a particularly efficient route.
The computer solves the first problem, meaning that only the trucking firm is taking actions relevant to the joint relationship that are highly likely to be affected by whether they own the truck or not. In Grossman and Hart’s ‘residual control rights’ theory, then, the introduction of the computer should mean the truck ought, post-computer, be owned by the trucking firm. If these residual control rights are unimportant – there is no relationship-specific rent and no incompleteness in contracting – then the ability to shop around for the best relationship is more valuable than the control rights provided by asset ownership.
Hart and Moore (1990) extend this basic model to the case where there are many assets and many firms, suggesting critically that sole ownership of assets that are highly complementary in production is optimal. Asset ownership affects outside options when the contract is incomplete by changing bargaining power, and splitting ownership of complementary assets gives multiple agents weak bargaining power and hence little incentive to invest in maintaining the quality of, or improving, the assets. Hart et al. (1997) provide a great example of residual control rights applied to the question of why governments should run prisons but not garbage collection.
(A brief aside: note the role that bargaining power plays in all of Hart’s theories. We do not have a ‘perfect’ – in a sense that can be made formal – model of bargaining, and Hart tends to use bargaining solutions from cooperative game theory like the Shapley value. After Lloyd Shapley’s Nobel prize alongside Alvin Roth in 2012, this makes multiple prizes heavily influenced by cooperative games applied to unexpected problems. Perhaps the theory of cooperative games ought still be taught with vigour in PhD programmes.)
Other theories of the firm
There are, of course, many other theories of the firm. The idea that firms in some industries are big because there are large fixed costs to enter at the minimum efficient scale goes back to Marshall. The agency theory of the firm going back at least to Jensen and Meckling (1976) focuses on the problem of providing incentives for workers within a firm actually to profit-maximise; Holmström and Milgrom’s multitasking paper (1991) is a great example of this, with tasks being split across firms so as to allow some types of workers to be given high-powered incentives and others flat salaries.
More recent work by Bob Gibbons, Rebecca Henderson, Jon Levin and others on relational contracting discusses how the nexus of self-enforcing beliefs about how hard work today translates into rewards tomorrow can substitute for formal contracts, and how the credibility of these ‘relational contracts’ can vary across firms and depend on their history.
Each of these theories of the firm has empirical support in certain circumstances. But a striking blow was dealt at the end of the twentieth century to all theories that rely on the incompleteness or non-verifiability of contracts by a brilliant paper by Maskin and Tirole (1999). Theories relying on incomplete contracts generally just hand-waved that there are always events which are unforeseeable ex ante or impossible to verify in court ex post, and hence there will always scope for disagreement about what to do when those events occur.
But as Maskin and Tirole correctly point out, agents don’t care about anything in these unforeseeable/unverifiable states except for what the states imply about the mutual valuations of carrying on with a relationship. Therefore, every ‘incomplete contract’ should just involve the parties deciding in advance that if a state of the world arrives where you value keeping our relationship in that state at 12 and I value it at 10, then we should split that joint value of 22 at whatever level induces optimal actions today. Do this same ex ante contracting for all future profit levels, and we are done. Of course, there is still the problem of ensuring incentive compatibility: why would the agents tell the truth about their valuations when that unforeseen event occurs?
Maskin and Tirole show a (somewhat convoluted yet incredibly clever) mechanism that induces truthful revelation of private value by each agent. Taking the model’s insight seriously but the exact mechanism less seriously, the paper basically suggests that incomplete contracts don’t matter if we can truthfully figure out ex post who values our relationship at what amount, and there are many real-world institutions such as mediators who do precisely that. If as Maskin and Tirole prove (and Maskin describes more simply in a short note in 2002), incomplete contracts aren’t a real problem, we are back to square one: why have persistent organisations called firms?
Why firms exist
What to do? Some theorists have tried to fight off Maskin and Tirole by suggesting that their precise mechanism is not terribly robust to, for example, assumptions about higher-order beliefs (for example, Aghion et al 2012). But these quibbles do not contradict the far more basic insight of Maskin and Tirole: that situations we think of empirically as ‘hard to describe’ or ‘unlikely to occur or be foreseen’ are not sufficient to justify the relevance of incomplete contracts unless we also have some reason to think that all mechanisms that split rent on the basis of future profit, such as a mediator, are unavailable. Note that real world contracts regularly include provisions that ex ante describe how contractual disagreement ex post should be handled.
Hart’s response, and this is both clear from his CV and from his recent papers and presentations, is to ditch incompleteness as the fundamental reason firms exist. Hart and Moore (2006, 2007) are very clear:
“Although the incomplete contracts literature has generated some useful insights about firm boundaries, it has some shortcomings. Three that seem particularly important to us are the following. First, the emphasis on noncontractible ex ante investments seems overplayed: although such investments are surely important, it is hard to believe that they are the sole drivers of organizational form. Second, and related, the approach is ill suited to studying the internal organization of firms, a topic of great interest and importance. The reason is that the Coasian renegotiation perspective suggests that the relevant parties will sit down together ex post and bargain to an efficient outcome using side payments: given this, it is hard to see why authority, hierarchy, delegation, or indeed anything apart from asset ownership matters. Finally, the approach has some foundational weaknesses [pointed out by Maskin and Tirole 1999].”
To my knowledge, Oliver Hart has written zero papers since Maskin-Tirole was published that attempt to explain any policy or empirical fact on the basis of residual control rights and their necessary incomplete contracts. Instead, he has been primarily working on theories which depend on reference points, a behavioural idea that when disagreements occur between parties, the ex ante contracts are useful because they suggest ‘fair’ divisions of rent, and induce shading and other destructive actions when those divisions are not given. These behavioural agents may very well disagree about what the ex ante contract means for ‘fairness’ ex post.
The primary result is that flexible contracts (for example, contracts that deliberately leave lots of incompleteness) can adjust easily to changes in the world but will induce spiteful shading by at least one agent, while rigid contracts do not permit this shading but do cause parties to pursue suboptimal actions in some states of the world.
This perspective has been applied by Hart to many questions over the past decade, such as why it can be credible to delegate decision-making authority to agents: if you try to seize it back, the agent will feel aggrieved and will shade effort (Hart and Holmström 2010). These responses are hard, or perhaps impossible, to justify when agents are perfectly rational, and of course the Maskin-Tirole critique would apply if agents were purely rational.
So where does all this leave us concerning the initial problem of why firms exist in a sea of decentralised markets? We have many clever ideas, suitable for particular contexts, but still do not have a believable, logically ironclad theory.
A perfect theory of the firm would need to be able to explain why firms are the size they are, why they own what they do, why they are organised as they are, why they persist over time, and why inter-firm incentives look the way they do. It almost certainly would need its mechanisms to work if we assumed all agents were highly, or perfectly, rational – foolishness is not a good justification for institutions employed by millions of organisations.
Since patterns of asset ownership are fundamental, it needs to go well beyond the type of hand-waving that makes up many ‘resource’ type theories. (Firms exist because they create a corporate culture! Firms exist because some firms just are better at doing X and can’t be replicated! These are outcomes, not explanations.)
Coase, Williamson, and Ostrom are correct that there exist reasons why the costs of maintaining relationships – transaction costs – endogenously differ within and outside firms. And Hart is correct in focusing our attention on how asset ownership and decision-making authority affects incentives to invest. But these theories even in their most endogenous form cannot do everything we want a theory of the firm to accomplish.
Perhaps reputation – and hence relational contracts – plays a fundamental role, and therefore the nexus of conflicting incentives among agents within an organisation must as well. But we still lack the precise theoretical insight to clear up this muddle, and give us a straightforward explanation for why we seem to need ‘little communist bureaucracies’ to assist our otherwise decentralised and almost magical market system.
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Atalay, E, A Hortacsu, and C Syverson (2014), ‘Vertical Integration and Input Flows’, American Economic Review 104(4): 1120-48.
Baker, G, and T Hubbard (2004), ‘Contractibility and Asset Ownership: On-board Computers and Governance in US Trucking’, Quarterly Journal of Economics 119(4): 1443-79.
Grossman, S, and O Hart (1986), ‘The Costs and Benefits of Ownership: A Theory of Vertical and Lateral Integration’, Journal of Political Economy 94(4): 691-719.
Hart, O, and B Holmström (2010), ‘A Theory of Firm Scope’, Quarterly Journal of Economics 125(2): 483-513.
Hart, O, and J Moore (1990) ‘Property Rights and the Nature of the Firm’, Journal of Political Economy 98(6): 1119-58.
Hart, O, and J Moore (2006), ‘Contracts as Reference Points’, Quarterly Journal of Economics 123(1): 1-48.
Hart, O, and J Moore (2007), ‘Incomplete Contracts and Ownership: Some New Thoughts’, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings: 182-86.
Hart, O, A Shleifer, and R Vishny (1997) ‘The Proper Scope of Government: Theory and an Application to Prisons’, Quarterly Journal of Economics 112(4): 1127-61.
Jensen, M, and W Meckling (1976), ‘Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs, and Ownership Structure’, Journal of Financial Economics 3(4): 305-60.
Maskin, E (2002), ‘On indescribable Contingencies and Incomplete Contracts’, European Economic Review 46: 725-33.
Maskin, E, and J Tirole (1999), ‘Unforeseen Contingencies and Incomplete Contracts’, Review of Economic Studies 66: 83-114.
Milgrom, P, and B Holmström (1991), ‘Multitask Principal-Agent Analyses: Incentive Contracts, Asset Ownership, and Job Design’, Journal of Law Economics and Organization 7(Special Issue): 24-52
Van den Steen, E (2010), ‘Interpersonal Authority in a Theory of the Firm’, American Economic Review 100(1): 466-90.
Topics: Frontiers of economic research Industrial organisation
Tags: Nobel Prize, Bengt Holmström, contract theory, nature of the firm
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Lip-sync video app Dubsmash is now a messaging service
by Abhimanyu Ghoshal — in Apps
Credit: Dubsmash
If you’ve spent any time at all on social networks, you’ll most likely have come across a Dubsmash clip featuring front-cam video of someone lip-syncing over music or a popular movie dialogue.
The Berlin-based firm now wants to get its users to spend more time with its service instead of heading off to Facebook and Twitter. Version 2 of Dubsmash for iOS and Android lets people message each other with lip-sync videos, called ‘dubs’, right within the app, in private one-on-one chats as well as group conversations.
You can also add a dub to your profile and discover new sounds easily, thanks to the revamped interface.
Co-founder and CEO Jonas Drueppel said, “Since releasing Dubsmash, we’ve seen people use dubs like they use emojis, and there are many times when a short video message is the perfect way to express yourself.”
While it’s hard to imagine people communicating with each other through dubs alone, it’s possible that the app will get users into the habit of chatting by way of short video clips. That broader use case might well see Dubsmash stick around longer than a passing fad.
Dubsmash’s latest version is now available for iOS and Android.
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Homesex
I Lost My V-Card to a Corpse
October 31, 2016 pittifulnews college, comedy, corpses, halloween, humor, satire, sex, skeletons, spooky
By Megan Klein
One look at those long bony legs and lusting lips, and I wanted to bone. Like straight up bone this beautiful corpse I accidentally dug up. I know what you’re thinking: “Megan, why don’t you get a real boyfriend like everyone else?”
Well first off, I don’t want a boyfriend. I’m a cool gal that knows how to hang. Having a boyfriend is totally overrated when I need to be discovering ME– my interests, my passions, what makes me tick. I need to date myself right now. I’m not saying that if you have a boyfriend your life is totally and completely over, but you do have a lot of restrictions. If that works for you, then great! But I sure love the freedom of being able to wake up in the morning and know I have my whole day ahead of me free of the distraction of love. I can gracefully accept cat-calls, play video games, and even wear the kinds of shoes I want. All free from mutual caring and consideration by an S.O.
So when Skele-boy texted me, “You wanna hang?” I thought, this is my chance to lose my v-card to someone who doesn’t love me. That way, I never have to worry about catching the feelings plague. So I did it. And holy guacamole. We banged in his coffin until sunrise. We were cuddling, and he said, “Hey, can you go home?” So I did. An old lady ghost jealously glared at me while I gathered my clothes and promptly climbed out from his grave. What a hater. I am a strong, independent woman who is learning that life is about loving yourself, and knowing that boys will break your heart, but if you take out your heart and force them to eat it, they can’t hurt you.
Halloween Sex Tips
October 30, 2016 pittifulnews college, comedy, corpses, halloween, humor, pumpkin, satire, sex, sex tips
By Critter Fink
Empty a pumpkin out
Layer the guts in a 9X13 pan
Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees
Bake the pumpkin guts for 10-13 minutes or until golden orange
Carve a penis shaped hole in the side of the pumpkin
Put the fully baked pumpkin guts back into the pumpkin
Put your penis into the hole
Feel the burns from the extremely hot guts surround your member
Fuck the shit out of that pumpkin
Go to the hospital to get your second and third degree burns treated
Give your number to the first nurse you see
Wait three days
She will not have texted you in this time
Find out where she lives
Bring the pumpkin that you originally fucked
Put the pumpkin on her front porch
Break into her home
Murder her
Take her corpse home because you are now married
Empty out the innards in her body
Put them in a 9X13 pan, lightly greased
Bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown
Stuff her torso fill of the now
Enjoy having a warm body in your bed again
Return to her home because you forgot your pumpkin you goof!
The police are there and you tell them you just need your pumpkin
Literally seven people saw you dragging the corpse out
Double check that the oven is off
The police will bring you to jail
You are now serving life in prison
Learn how to be a bottom bitch in prison
Get craaaazy good at giving head
Find a drug kingpin to be your zaddy
So if you want a cute and casual way to put some Halloween fun into you sex life this is the plan for you!
Professor Sleeps with Student to Raise Rate My Professors Score
October 10, 2016 pittifulnews college, comedy, humor, Professor, rate my professors, satire, scandal, sex
By Leo Corman
Pitt professor Joseph Schmoe has become the subject of significant controversy after news surfaced today that he had sex with one of his students in an attempt to raise his subpar rating on the popular website RateMyProfessors.com.
According to Schmoe, it all began last year when, against his better judgment, he looked up his own Rate My Professors score. “I was absolutely taken aback. Sure, maybe I’m not the best professor out there,” said Schmoe, visibly distressed. “Maybe I’m not the easiest, or the friendliest, or the most attractive, but Jesus Christ, I’m a college professor, not your Hooters waitress. And 1.2? 1.2! I know damn well that I’m not a 1.2!”
It wasn’t just the low overall rating, by far the worst in his department, that upset Schmoe, but the content of the students’ comments as well: “I read through all 127 student ratings, and many were simply ridiculous. ‘Talks too much.’ It’s a lecture, what the hell am I supposed to do? Should I just stand there and stare at you? ‘Know-it-all.’ Really? You want a professor that doesn’t know anything? That’s what you’d prefer? ‘Looks like Herbert from Family Guy.’ That’s completely irrelevant, and I do not! I’m 35 years old, and there’s absolutely no resemblance whatsoever!”
Schmoe says he felt helpless. “I just wanted one honest, fair rating, one that reflects what I deserve for all the effort I’ve put in, and it seemed like I had no way of getting that. I have way too much integrity to go online and falsify my own rating … so I decided to sleep with that girl in the hope that she might give me a good rating. Was it a smart idea? No. Will I lose my job? Probably. Did she give me a good rating? Last time I checked, she has not. Honestly, I’d give the whole experience a 1.2/5.”
When asked about the incident, Schmoe’s wife, Jean, said, “I just feel sorry for that poor girl. I mean, you think Joe is bad at teaching – just wait until you have to sleep with him.”
May 10, 2016 pittifulnews college, comedy, frankenstein, funny, ghosts, humor, monsters, satire, sex, sexual, slenderman, slime, vampires
By Holly Stavarski
Every time you watch a horror movie you wrack your brain trying to answer the age old question, “Would I fuck this monster?” Don’t let this get in your way of enjoying a movie again! I’ve already thought about it for you, and your answer lies here in this comprehensive list of Most Fuckable Monsters.
5. Ghosts
The ghosts depicted in horror movies are all usually on the Least Fuckable Monsters list because they are always some asshole demon that is out to kill the family that just bought the creepy farmhouse in the woods. But if you’ve never had one yank you out of bed by your ankle in the middle of the night and slam you up against the ceiling then boy oh boy are you not doing it right. Ghosts are the ultimate lovers if you like it rough and terrifying. Though this may not sound like they deserve their spot near the top of this list, then you are forgetting that there is always a possibility that the ghost could be Patrick Swayze and you can reenact that sexy pottery scene from the hit movie “Ghost.”
4. Slenderman
They don’t call him slender for nothing! But don’t let that discourage any of you size queens. He has multiple tentacles that he employs when he is aroused. Imagine the possibilities! If tentacles aren’t your thing, wait until he sucks you into the realm of darkness that is accompanied by the sweet sounds of children’s screams. He will have you squealing with delight!
3. Vampires
When people hear the word ‘vampire’ they think of the sparkly, romanticized version of the creatures that appear in the “Twilight” saga. Unfortunately the tweens that fell in love with Edward Cullen are missing out. Vampires as depicted in old Eastern European folktale are ancient creatures with translucent skin, scraggly unkempt hair, beady black eyes, and long fingernails – a look exponentially sexier than a 25-year-old British actor. If not for their ghoulish appearance, perhaps you may be drawn in by their ability to hypnotize and seduce you into dark, erotic adventures. And what is even more sexy is that they don’t let ‘that time of the month’ get in the way!
2. Frankenstein
The idea of multiple reanimated corpses mashed together to form one body is unappealing to some people, but don’t knock it until you’ve tried it. The clumsiness of foreign parts that don’t belong to that brain will give you varying feelings of pleasure and will always leave you guessing what’s next. Not to mention that those cold limbs are coursing with enough electricity to leave a tingle up your spine.
1. Slimer
I know what some of you may be thinking, “Isn’t that the mischievous ghost from the Ghostbusters series and wouldn’t that mean he should be categorized with the other ghosts?” Yes, but you’re wrong. Slimer is not a ghost, he is a sex GOD. If you have seen him going to town on any food that is left laying around then you know how well he is going to ravage that pussy/bussy. And not to be too technical, but Slimer is made of pure ectoplasm, so he is always wet and ready to go.
Things I Wish I’d Known About College
April 25, 2016 December 12, 2016 pittifulnews college, dorms, drunk, freshman, news, satire, sex
By I.S. Mills
Some incoming freshmen feel adequately prepared for their first college experience just by relying on university orientations and the advice of friends and parents. But I would have loved to know some of the things I know now when I was a rising freshman. That’s why I’ve compiled a brief list of information to pass on to the freshmen of 2016.
1) Don’t Even Bother Packing Your Heels
You will wear your heels to class one time, and blisters you incur from this occasion will remind you to never walk to upper campus in anything but Sketchers with orthopedic insoles ever again.
2) Eels in the Soda Fountains
Picture this: you’re hankering for some SoBe™ Yumberry Pomegranate Lifewater™, but what comes out is solid and toothy. Don’t worry, everyone gets freaked out the first time they find a few juvenile morays at the bottom of their cup, but you’ll get used to it. (Just avoid the Mountain Dew- that comes with electric eels).
3) No Sunglasses
This one really surprised me. I had no idea that absolutely no sunglasses are allowed at college before I moved in. In fact, a security guard confiscated my Ray Bans before letting me into the bathrooms in Chevron on the first day of classes. Don’t make the same mistake I did!
4) The Centipedes
Boy howdy, are there a lot of centipedes here! Thousands, maybe millions!
5) Importance of Eye Contact
Sure, your high school teachers probably mentioned eye contact during presentations once or twice, but it’s super important to college professors. To be safe, I make eye contact with my professors whenever I enter or exit a room. If you wear glasses, be sure to take them off beforehand so the glass doesn’t get in the way of the surface of your eyeball rotating wetly against your professor’s. I wouldn’t recommend contacts, because they can fall out during the “ocular kiss.”
Pittiful Profiles
April 1, 2016 pittifulnews bat, college, dan, dead, humor, news, pitt, pittsburgh, profile, satire, sex
You’ve seen The Pitt News Silhouettes highlighting University students, professors, staff who are doing amazing and interesting things on and off campus. Here at The Pittiful News, we would like to give a nod to those members of the community who are a little too extraordinary.
Check out The Pitt News Silhouettes here to learn more about friends and neighbors. Keep reading to learn about your enemies.
Dead Light Bulb Spotter
By BD Wahlberg
“I calls ‘em as I see’s ‘em,” says Alex Turner, proudly indicating a long fluorescent tube as it flickers its last. “That’s what we call a death rattle in the biz. And by the biz, I mean the official business of figuring out which of the light bulbs are dead around this big old campus so that the guys at the top can come in and change ‘em.”
Lifting up a classroom ceiling tile, Turner explained, “Now, you might think this one’s dead ‘cause it’s not on, but in fact…” Turner pushed it slightly. “It’s actually just out of place. An NNTP. No. Need. To. Panic.”
Bat-Student
By Hannah Lynn
“Stop doing this profile on me I’m honestly not Batman,” said Pitt Junior Bruce Wayne. “My parents are from Transylvania and had never even heard of the character when they named me. I am a different Bruce Wayne,” he said before wrapping himself in his cloak and shuffling off into the night to solve crime and think about his dead parents.
“NO! No. NONE of that is true” Bruce Wayne yelled. But give him a break, his parents are dead.
by Dan Smith
He is a cool guy.
Ivana Ivanova
“I never thought being so dead would make me so feel alive,” Ivana Ivanova, an apparition, says while gently stroking her ghost cat. She carefully adjusts the collar on her bright yellow blouse, which highlights her pale and translucent features. “I like yellow, it reminds me of flowers and highlighters and ducks.”
A junior, Ivana is always meticulous in naming the things she enjoys. “I like water bottles, especially clear ones, and the way they reflect the yellow-ish light of the library,” she giggles. “See?” She says with a smile. “Yellow!”
As a philosophy major minoring in Canadian and Slovenian Art and Technology with a certificate in the Religious Studies of Wallabies, she enjoys diversity in her subjects, something she attributes to her parents always teaching her to, “follow her non-existent heart.”
Growing up in Pripyat, Ukraine, Ivana and her family became literal ghosts in the Chernobyl Disaster of 1986. Ukraine was a harsh place to live in after the accident. “My parents were farmers and dog-walkers, and had to make the switch to only growing and eating nuclear toxins and radioactive waste. We only ate radioactive waste because it became the only food our ghost organs could digest. My favorite food is radioactive french fries with nuclear cheese,” said Ivanova.
She traded in the comfort food of radioactive waste for Primanti Bros. “I technically moved to America ten years ago. My family moved to California where they became underwater basket weavers. They started a lucrative, international business, where they regularly funneled baskets and drug money, and through this where they were able to send me to the only private school for ghosts on the west coast. I was very lucky. They taught me so much about what it means to follow your passions.”
As for adjusting to life on the east coast, Ivana says, “Dating is hard. My last boyfriend was a zombie, and he only dated me because he couldn’t eat me. He said I was too ‘toxic’ for him. Whatever that means. He’s dead to me now,” she said.
A kind spirit, she plans on one day working for the U.N, and teaching art therapy to underprivileged wallabies in an orphanage she plans to build in Tanzania.
Editor’s note: In a previous version of this article, The Pittiful News reported that Ivana murdered an entire village of children accidentally. The Pittiful News also reported that Ivana’s parents were skilled rappers before the accident. This is inaccurate. The Pittiful News also reported her boyfriend was a cultist leader involved with Church of the Subgenius. The Pittiful News also reported Ivana’s favorite pastime is stalking Criss Angel. The Pittiful News regrets these errors.
By Ilya Yashin
Big man Jack go school, read much, play hard. Book bottle pen are Jack and shoes computer grades are Jack, research and sleep and soup are Jack as well. All school is Jack.
“I hike two mile five mile three mile to Pitt,” said Jack from over here and there. “Jack big strong man rip soft pink flesh crush bone bring pride like antlers back to Pitt.” Jack loves big food, bold song, fine sleep, stern dog, play game, play two game, four game, win sick stuff.
Tough guy that Jack, good kid, polite and suave beat trees bare fists go raw with blood bark Jack scream like bear and beat tree still. Earth, lightning roar when Jack go boom! crash down on homework, quizzes, papers, tests. Good man and strong, Jack sparkling muscle mass, Jack neural pathways sizzling math, equations, quotes, good grades.
“Good kid that Jack, Bill, Laura, Sam, but mostly Jack,” his uncle sister parent said, so nicely said like mellow spring. “I know him well, he done good things, go college good make momma proud, that Jack be mountain of a man, brain temple of a student.”
Jack true Pitt man, he said, the only one, the hope pride model. He be good kid, go football game, go rally, go parade, march, protest, dining hall. He start five club, one club, two club, make campus funner better fix the lamppost, table, fence.
“I fixed the lamppost, table fence,” he said. “I’m Jack, big strong man Jack, smart wondrous festive student Jack so good at words math puzzles tests,” said Jack. “Jack be a man so good he’s good as none who be so bad they’re worse than Jack.”
Checkmate Champion
By I.S Mills
Junior physics student Jack Inghoff captures kings and confronts controversy
Jack leans over his chessboard, head resting on his right fist.
“I definitely know this move. I just need a second,” he assures us.
With his well-fitted khakis, tailored suit jacket, and surprisingly toned upper arms, Jack Inghoff might seem like someone who’s always had it all. But it took a lot for this 20-year-old to become Pitt’s chess prodigy.
“I don’t really know what you’re talking about. I mean, I have ADHD, but I’m pretty well medicated. I don’t think it’s ever really affected my chess,” he claims.
Jack is being modest. The Pittiful News knows all about Inghoff’s difficulties with his given name. With a name so similar to every preteen boy’s favorite pastime, it’s no wonder Inghoff has tried to distance himself from it: He goes by “J. Inghoff” during matches.
“That’s just how they put the names up on the scoreboard. Everyone’s is like that,” the wunderkind claims. “Can we talk about chess now?”
In order to survive vicious grade school bullying and endless workplace mockery, Jack Inghoff has erected a wall of denial too sturdy for the Pittiful News to break down in one brief interview. When we ask him why his parents hated him so much as a newborn, he looks at us askance.
“My dad’s name is also John. I’m John II, so they decided to call me Jack to tell us apart,” he says defensively, worrying a castle in his left hand. “And I can see what you’re typing, by the way. It’s not a ‘castle’ it’s a rook.”
The Pittiful News can only imagine what a touchy subject this is for Inghoff the younger, who was probably referred to with an up-and-down motion of the fist at the pelvis for most of his adult life. We try using this motion to see if he responds to it.
“You know what, I’m done. This is over,” Jack decides, tossing pawns and horses into their velvet storage sack.
“And it’s called a knight, for fuck’s sake.”
You can catch Jack in action at the 36th annual Greater Allegheny Chess Tournament this June, where he will compete against CMU’s reigning chess pro, Matt Sterbading.
Jacob Bartley
By Riley Weber
The time is 6:58 PM on a Tuesday night. Jacob Bartley sits in his Sociology class, with his eyes not on the powerpoint, but the clock. 6:59, his stomach starts to rumble with anticipation, it’s almost time. Seated at the back of the class, he begins salivating. 7:00, finally! Snack time. Jacob reaches into his backpack and pulls out a warm thermos and a spoon. He can finally indulge in his favorite treat: a nice warm mug of delicious, homemade gravy. Jacob is the president three years running of the Pitt Gravy Connoisseurs, a club devoted to the creation and sampling of several types of gravy. The club is composed of three members, and was founded by Jacob in 2013.
Jacob is proud of his hobby, and happily explains the reason for the club’s existence to anybody he meets. “I always loved gravy as a kid. My mom made it all the time, sometimes just for me. When I got here, I was shocked there wasn’t some sort of association devoted to the godly sauce.” Despite his love for gravy, Jacob often catches a lot of flak for his tastes. Several of his professors have asked him why he eats gravy during class, and a few have even asked him to refrain from eating in their lectures. “It’s another reason I formed this club. Not only as a group of people with similar interests, but as a type of support group. Not everyone understands our passion, so we help each other through problems. Just the other week, I got broken up with after finally confessing to my girlfriend my love for gravy.”
We spoke to the ex-girlfriend, who simply told us, “Yeah, ew, right? What the fuck?” The Pitt Gravy Connoisseurs meet every Thursday night in the Schenley Café rain or shine, and Bartley encourages any Gravy enthusiasts, big or small, to attend.
Sam’s Mom
Don’t pretend you haven’t seen Sam’s mom on campus. She’s the one talking to Sam’s professors before and after class, persuading them to postpone deadlines for her son, regrade his tests with his unique sensitivity in mind, and reminding him to take his vitamins. The lady with a water test kit trotting in front of Sam to check the water in each drinking fountain before he dares take a sip. The woman passing out his short bio and contact info to all attractive girls on his way to class? That’s her.
“I just don’t think that my boy is ready for the difficulties of an independent life in college, even after the 18 years I’ve spent raising him with utmost care and comfort,” Sam’s mom said, adding that the world is such a dangerous place and she doesn’t want something non-good to happen to Sam. “From the time I decided not to vaccinate him, so as to help him develop natural immunity to diseases, chemtrails, pesticides, and the deadly dihydrogen monoxide that the government is poisoning us with, and all through his childhood of home schooling in a padded room with no TV, Internet, or sunlight, I’ve always found the wisdom and love to be the best mom possible.”
Sam’s mom has been living in an apartment a block away from Sam’s dorm since his freshman year. She spent all of her retirement savings to make one of the apartment’s two rooms an exact replica of Sam’s room at home, in case he ever got homesick. She uses the GPS tracker hidden near Sam’s heart to go to frat houses and parties with him to ensure his safety. “I always make sure that the alcohol and weed he might use are organic and pesticide-free,” she said, “and I stealthily test all the ladies in the house for STD’s and traces of consumed GMO’s.”
Being Sam’s mom isn’t easy. Besides telling off professors and TA’s for every non-positive comment about Sam’s work and sending anonymous and convincing death threats to anyone who makes fun of Sam, she says she sometimes has to defend her motherly protection against criticisms from haters who think they know how to be a good mother.
“When someone tells me I’m doing something wrong, I just shake my head and say, ‘Nope,’” Sam’s mom said, adding that her insightful argument always works. “I just stare at them indignantly and say, ‘Uh-uh. No-no-no-no-NO! No way, Jose, nope, nuh-uh. Like, noooo waaaaaay, nope.’”
Anna Kexüynoz’ael
By Milo Davis
Anna, or as her friends sometimes call her, Kexüynoz’ael The Great and Horrible, would at first appear to most as your average Pitt student. With her backpack, blood-red hide, and Pitt t-shirt, Anna feels right at home levitating around campus. The campus appreciates her vaguely ominous presence too, as Anna is thoroughly engaged in several student groups. From the Black Sheep to the Cult of Cthulhu, Anna demonstrates an almost uncanny knack for leadership.
Those who know her describe her personality as being so captivating that it’s like she just motions her hands and casts a few hexes and people follow. Anna’s ability to rally her peers is put to good use as pursues philanthropic activities, such as raising money for charity and cleaning up around the community. “I just really want to make the world a better place for when the Dark One rises from his slumber.”
In her rare moments of free time, Anna enjoys pouring her black heart into her poetry. Those that have had the great pleasure of being enveloped by her masterful words tend to describe the experience as deep, mystical, and utterly unforgettable, no matter how many hours you spend screaming in a vain attempt to expel the voices from your head. “It wasn’t until I was 16, when I went to my first poetry slam, that I realized how much I loved poetry. But none of that truly matters, for soon it shall be the end of times.”
Anna has big plans for the future. She plans to rule as queen of this dimension after allowing the demon lord Z̈̋̔a̿̽ͭ͆ͯ̒l̝̝̳̿̾g̢͈̱̞͙̫̰̟̓͗̔͆̈o̫̺̳̥̒͊̀ to sodomize her upon a pentagram marked field drenched with the blood of the innocent. “Fire will rain down from the sky and his vile horde shall emerge from the underworld and overtake all there is and all there ever will be. There can be no escape, only doom.” Anna’s words then suddenly transitioned into an indiscernible string resonant growls, but we’re pretty sure that before leaving us by bursting into a mass of smoke and locusts that she whispered “Trump 2016.”
Ian Tobits
A connoisseur of small and unwanted “trash,” Ian Tobits has taken the art of collecting to a new level.
“My collections are my most prized possessions,” says Tobits as he begins to describe the many items that fill the many jars that have taken up his already small Lothrop Hall dorm room.
The University of Pittsburgh junior began collecting in the summer after his freshman year.
“At the end of the spring semester, I waited patiently for my family to come and move me out, but they never did. No one from the University stopped by to check and see if the room had been emptied. Everyone forgot about me.” Over that summer, Tobits began to fill the void in his heart by taking in small items that most people would throw away. Scavenging the dumpsters, Tobits would pick through garbage bags with a fine toothed comb to find cool looking fruity pebbles, toe nail clippings, and hairs that people had found in food.
“Those items interested me the most, because I could never understand why someone would throw them away much like I was. Why did they throw me away?” Already spending most of his time alone, collecting became such a time consuming hobby that he did not have time to make connections with new people. That is when his collecting went to the next level.
“I was shocked when I realized how much time I had been spending by myself, but instead of dwelling on it, I decided to make it into a hobby. Now I collect the moments I spend alone.”
Due to the fact that Tobits has not left his room since July 18, 2014, corresponding with others via AIM, he has calculated that he has collected approximately 897,120 moments alone. “I am quite proud of this accomplishment. Most people have too many friends or loved ones to spend 623 days without seeing, smelling, or touching another human being.”
Tobits hopes that he can continue this collecting late in life, but says that what he plans on collecting may change as soon as he can figure out a way to properly harvest his tears.
You would’ve been pretty pleased with yourself, your present life and past decisions, if not for Better You lurking around the campus, in spaces that hold your shame and failure and regret.
“You can hide from yourself but you can’t hide from me,” Better You said from behind that C you got on your transcript out of sheer laziness. “Guess who got a 4.0 without cheating or bullshitting, and a full scholarship, and those grants and awards you totally could’ve received but didn’t give a crap about, and who read all those kickass books you only wanted to read? That’s me. It could’ve been you, but it’s me.”
While not hanging out with the cool friends you were always too busy to spend time with or with that crush you never had the guts to ask out, Better You likes to spend time in the gym you’ve always been meaning to go to and at the part-time job Better You genuinely loves, which you would’ve loved, too, but didn’t get because you never bothered to gain the prerequisite experience or to apply early.
“I’ve learned to cope with all my frustrations and anxieties so well that I feel sorry for you for being such a nervous maladjusted wreck and not even trying to learn to improve your psychological well-being,” Better You said, eating a fancy dinner you can’t afford with your crappy minimum-wage job and parents who give you no cash because you still haven’t made up with them after that fight. “And guess whose fault it is that you’re not me?”
Better You is a non-traditional student. Instead of being confined to a single body like a lame-o, Better You lives in bits and pieces all around you, in various forms of happiness, success, and fulfillment of your friends and acquaintances that you could’ve attained but didn’t.
Next time you see Better You, at least nod in acknowledgement.
“Just don’t think that you can actually become me,” Better You laughed. “If you could, you already would’ve.”
Stone, the Panther
You’ve all heard of Roc the Panther, but you probably don’t know his brother, Stone.
“Of course, it’s hard to believe we could possibly be related at this point, me a 43-year-old, unemployed loser living in my parents’ den, and Roc the handsome, successful star,” admitted Stone with a sigh. “We couldn’t be less alike.”
While Roc taking pictures with kids and giving out high-fives, Stone is watching Cartoon Network and taking bong hits. You wouldn’t think it to look at the pudgy feline now, but at one point in his life, Stone had a lot going for him.
“I had a steady job, a girlfriend, I kept away from drugs … I had my life together. My dream, though, had always been to be a mascot for Pitt, my beloved alma mater.” When there was finally an opening, Stone pounced on the opportunity, but so did his overachieving younger brother, Roc. “My older brother, Mineral, and youngest brother, Pebble, also applied, but that cute little kitten wasn’t ready for that kind of pressure, and Mineral just sounds terrible as a mascot name.”
The search came down to Roc and Stone, and they chose Roc.
“Why? What made Roc so damn special? Why was he better than me? Was it the pretentious lack of a ‘k’ in his name? I could throw a t-shirt just as far. I had a winning smile. I could clap and jump and stimulate crowd excitement through my own infectious energy just as well. I would have been a great mascot! Roc could have done anything with his life. He was always the favorite child in the Panther family, the 4.0 student, the captain of every sports team … I was just an average animal with one simple dream, and he took that from me.”
In this instance, the cat did not land on its feet. Following his rejection, Stone fell into a spiral of depression, drugs, and apathy. “My girlfriend dumped me; I lost my job; eventually, humiliatingly, I had to move back in with my parents, where I’ve been ever since”. His family tried to be supportive, but they could never understand how much being the Pitt mascot had meant to him.
“I haven’t spoken to Roc in years. I guess he’s so busy hanging out with all the cheerleaders and football players that he doesn’t have time for me anymore. I can’t blame him—I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near a sorry shell of a cat like me. So next time you’re watching a Pitt game, and you see my brother dancing around, think of me, and how much I’d give to be where he is right now. Think of dreams crushed beneath a furry paw.”
Dirty Jeff
By Ossia Dwyer
A fixture of campus since 1987, Dirty Jeff has been opening students’ mind to space travel and government conspiracies at the laundromat for over 20 years. He got his start at Pitt as a student in the mathematics department.
“Is that what they told you? I wasn’t a student I was a test subject for the surfactants lab. They got rid of the monkeys and started using humans to test their lotions and potions. I led the rebellion to overcome our Fascist leaders.”
After his time at the University ended, he found his new home in a local South Oakland laundromat.
“My old buddy Gary, who was actually half alien and half wizard but used his powers for good, used to own this place. He let me tutor these asshole kids whenever I wanted and I’ve never left. These people need me to pass on the secrets of the world. The moon landing was filmed in the Consol Energy Center. The statue of Richard Caliguiri wakes up and dances when there is a full moon.”
He believes that his presence at the laundromat is what keeps the kids coming in week after week.
“People’s minds are made of hot water and my knowledge is like an instant pudding packet ready to whisk up a brain in their tiny noggin cases. Without me how would people know that aliens crawl out of iPhone chargers and into our blood streams?”
“Oh, let me guess you think that you were born with people skin. Wake up people! Our skin is manufactured in China so that the government can see what television shows we are watching. And when we die they use it to make floppy disks. People are living longer and we have less floppy disks. Coincidence or correlation?”
Ryan Subsequen
As a history and political science double-major heavily involved in local politics, Ryan Subsequen knows the value of a wide variety of opinions and points of view circulating in the free marketplace of ideas. His personal motto is summarized in a quote by Ryan Subsequen: “It is essential to progress that you consider everyone’s opinion, no matter who they are, as long as it agrees with yours.”
“It’s a crucial, integral part of who I am and who I want to become,” Subsequen said of the quote, which he described as “brilliant” and “thought-provoking.” “Many close-minded people prefer to stay in their comfortable ideological echo chambers, but that’s a dead end. History shows that we owe many great things to the people who were brave enough to listen to all kinds of opinions coming from all different kinds of people, as long as they could interpret the opinions in such a way that they could agree with them.”
Paying close attention to world politics and online discussions of important issues, Subsequen came to the conclusion that discussions, especially political ones, are often stymied and derailed when someone’s opinion is dismissed because of some aspect of their identity. He believes that this tendency stems from prejudices and is always counterproductive.
“It’s so stupid, the way people sometimes dismiss out of hand what others have to say based on who they are,” he said. “Regardless of your race, gender, sexuality, socioeconomic status, nationality, ethnicity, political orientation, and any type of ideology you hold, as long as your opinion even remotely agrees with mine, I believe it is worth hearing and seriously considering.”
Subsequen believes that although we all agree that it’s bad to hold onto any opinion firmly and blindly, no matter what it is, it’s absurd to expect someone to change their opinion to one they disagree with. “So why bother wasting time considering it?” he said. “It’s like being a vegetarian and going to a steakhouse for lunch. It just doesn’t make sense to me.”
Nothing Newsworthy Happened Tuesday
March 31, 2016 pittifulnews college, dorms, news, satire, sex
By Will Connor
The Pittiful News regretfully reports that nothing particularly notable happened last Tuesday, so we have no groundbreaking stories to report. However, it is our duty to provide the most important information. We’ve brought you the latest gossip and tidbits straight from the chatty people two rows in front of you in lecture.
Steve and Michelle got into another fight Monday night and Michelle called Hannah in tears, but they must have made up because they were holding hands two hours ago.
Jake got busted for possession… again.
Savannah and Sydney have been spending a lot of time together lately. Mia thinks they’re dating, but James “swore they’re both straight, but were crying the whole time.”
Katie’s goldfish died. How tragic.
George hooked up with Andrew’s ex girlfriend over the weekend, and now Andrew’s telling people he’s “gonna fight George.” George could not be reached for comment.
Mark came out to Angela as bisexual. This makes the total number of friends he’s come out to seven and number of complete strangers he’s trying to impress on Tinder 15.
Keith got sucked into some new video game and has been staying up listening to soundtrack remixes for the last week and a half.
David asked Macy out on Sunday, but then called her the day after and said he wasn’t ready for a relationship. He then asked if Macy wanted to do a casual-exclusive thing. She really liked him, but had to just leave. The nerve of the guy.
John did something too horrible to print.
Luke did something really shitty while blackout drunk and pissed off Kelly, who now won’t talk to him. This has naturally driven Luke to drink more.
Kyle did something we totally could have printed, but we forgot what it was.
Ben is still asleep.
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7 News Stories from 2008 that PROVE Hillary Started Obama ‘Birtherism’ – Media is LYING!
By Rusty | Featured Contributor | September 16, 2016 2:08PM
It is impossible to overstate the level of hypocrisy emanating from Hillary Clinton when it comes to the latest birther controversy.
In an effort to divert eyes and minds from Clinton’s sagging poll numbers and troubling health matters, leftists in her campaign and the media have been pushing an old ‘birther’ controversy. A controversy they claim began with Donald Trump.
The Democrat presidential candidate herself even had the hubris to demand an apology from Trump.
“Barack Obama was born in America, plain and simple,” she railed. “And Donald Trump owes him and the American people an apology.”
Clinton even went so far as to claim Trump’s ‘birther’ claims were based on racism.
“For five years, he has led the birther movement to delegitimize our first black president,” she claimed. “His campaign was founded on this outrageous lie.”
“There is no erasing it in history,” Clinton added.
Unfortunately for her, there is no erasing it from her history.
Hillary Clinton is the founder of the movement that questioned Barack Obama’s birthplace. She can practically be referred to as the mother of the birther movement.
The following is a list of 7 times that Hillary Clinton – not Donald Trump – was shown to have started the Obama birther controversy…
Penn Strategy Memo
Let’s start at the beginning, shall we? Meet Mark Penn, chief political strategist for Hillary’s unsuccessful presidential bid in 2008. A strategy memo released by Penn in March of 2007 contains the following statement: “I cannot imagine America electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and in his values.”
Penn would later suggest that the Clinton camp target Senator Obama’s “lack of American roots.”
You can view a portion of that memo and see exactly how Hillary’s campaign team plotted to expose Obama’s ‘lack of American roots’ below.
Obama’s Somali Garb
In 2008, Maggie Williams, Clinton’s campaign manager at the time, had to issue a statement regarding allegations that a staffer had circulated a picture of Senator Obama wearing traditional ‘Somali garb.’
Notably, Williams did not refute the claim, and instead argued that the photo was not controversial in any way.
“If Barack Obama’s campaign wants to suggest that a photo of him wearing traditional Somali clothing is divisive, they should be ashamed,” she stated.
One has to wonder if the Clinton would feel the same way today if Trump’s staff was caught circulating that same image.
Doubled Down
Clinton spokesman, Mo Elleithee, again couldn’t deny that anyone on Hillary’s staff had sent out the Somali clothing image, instead suggesting that it’d be impossible to determine with a staff of “over 700 people.”
Elleithee added, “We don’t think there’s anything wrong with this photo.”
He also blasted Obama for suggesting that the image should be controversial.
“We think it is wrong for the Obama campaign to say that this is divisive photo,” he said. “It’s not a divisive photo.”
Politico Finds the Truth
In 2011, responding to a New York Times poll that suggested Republicans believed Obama was born overseas, Politico decided to do some digging on the origins of such an idea. They found that the entire concept started with the Clinton campaign in 2008, with supporters looking for any way they could to stop Obama from winning the nomination.
“The answer lies in Democratic, not Republican politics, and in the bitter, exhausting spring of 2008,” an article by Ben Smith and Byron Tau reads. “At the time, the Democratic presidential primary was slipping away from Hillary Clinton and some of her most passionate supporters grasped for something, anything that would deal a final reversal to Barack Obama.”
Smith and Tau also found that the Clinton supporters began circulating an anonymous email questioning Obama’s citizenship in the Spring of 2008.
“Barack Obama’s mother was living in Kenya with his Arab-African father late in her pregnancy. She was not allowed to travel by plane then, so Barack Obama was born there and his mother then took him to Hawaii to register his birth,” asserted one chain email that surfaced on the urban legend site Snopes.com in April 2008.
More Rumors Started by Clinton Staffers
Not only does this Slate article from 2008 address the Somali dress issue, but it reminds readers that staffers for Hillary’s campaign had begun circulating rumors that Obama was actually a Muslim.
“But the more fitting precedent was set by other Hillary Clinton staffers earlier in the campaign,” Slate reported, adding that two employees had been forced to resign “after they proliferated rumors that Obama was a Muslim.”
Former Democrat Senator Bob Kerrey
Clinton surrogate and former Senator Bob Kerrey took some heat during the 2008 campaign for calling Obama by his full name and following that up with suggestions that he is Muslim.
Kerrey’s comments led to Hardball’s Chris Matthews inadvertently admitting that Hillary had started the rumors that Obama was born in Indonesia. Watch …
Even MSNBC Acknowledged That Birtherism Started With Clinton
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough blasted Hillary for having the audacity to denounce Trump for wavering on the ‘Obama as Muslim’ issue when everyone knew “it all started with her.”
Mediaite reported:
Host Joe Scarborough called Clinton’s attack on Trump “rich,” saying, “For Hillary Clinton to come out and criticize anybody for spreading the rumors about Barack Obama, when it all started…”
“On 60 Minutes,” co-host Mika Brzezinski agreed, referring to an interview in which Clinton said Obama was a Christian “as far as I know.”
“It all started with her and her campaign passing things around in the Democratic primary; rich,” Scarborough continued. “Now, the Republicans are wrong for doing what they’re doing. This started with Hillary Clinton, and it was spread by the Clinton team in 2008.”
Next time Clinton claims that President Obama is owed an apology over birthplace rumors because “there is no erasing it in history,” she would do well to look in the mirror.
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Judge Dredd vs Zombies: Cynical
Should gamers and games journalists take mobile games seriously? I think so. After all, the Pokémon series began on mobile and continues to enjoy its popularity by adapting to new mobile outlets. Mobile games hold a special place as being easy to pick up, fast to play, and most importantly, addictively engaging. That brings us to 2012’s Judge Dredd vs Zombies, a game which never really hits the mark on any of those three elements.
I almost feel guilty because I love Judge Dredd, (I even made a Typing of the Dead mod for Judge Dredd), but I’ve never really liked the official Judge Dredd games. Countdown to Sector 106 is OK in that it relied more on text and story than gameplay and while Dredd vs Death had a great opening, tone, and made you feel like a judge early on, its late game petered off into a generic sci-fi shooter. Meanwhile, Judge Dredd vs Zombies hardly feels like a Judge Dredd game at all. Before we get into that, let’s talk about the gameplay. Continue reading →
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Nicaragua » About Nicaragua » News Headlines » Masaya opens Folklore Museum
Masaya opens Folklore Museum
Ariadna Ramos | Oct 18, 2012
Folk dancers at the Museums oppening. | Photographer: Ariadna Ramos
Authorities did the opening of the interesting museum and provided information about development route.
The official opening of a Folklore Museum -located in the crafts market- was done in Masaya, as part of the Colonial Route and the Volcano Route. The museum seeks to preserve the culture, legends and traditions of this city. The event was held on October 15th, at a event organized by the town hall, the Nicaraguan Tourism Institute (INTUR) and the Nicaraguan Institute of Culture (INC).
Felix Trejos, the major of Masaya, thanked the Government of Spain for financing the Colonial and Volcano Route, directed specifically to the tourism sector. This route is mainly a development and promotion program, with various elements that were not specified during the event.
According to what was announced, the Spanish government trained 11 entrepreneurs, to provide a quality service. Also 23 local guides were trained to lead future tourist on the most important points of the city; also at 23 maids received this training to improve service at hotels.
Folklore Museum
The idea of a museum, also founded by Spain, was created from the 80’s, when Manuel Silva and his wife María Auxiliadora Valle were interested in preserve Masaya’s cultural traditions. Since last Monday the museum has been opened to the public.
On this museum, visitors can see the different costumes used during the celebrations of the city, and Nicaraguan traditional music, instruments and hand crafts. The cost to enter the museum is C$5 for students, C$10 for Nicaraguans and U$2 for foreigners.
Masaya is known for being one of the cities that has more folkloric expressions in the country, so it has been considered ‘’the folkloric capital of Nicaragua’’. María Auxiliadora Valle, also known as Chilo Verde, is a leading folklorist and professor of folkloric dances of Masaya.
Official ribbon cutting by INTUR and INC presidents, the major and the Spanish ambassador.
Translated by Cynthia Cordero
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Packing List: If You’re Going to Europe, Bring Your Own Toilet Paper
by Gary Leff on October 4, 2015
Via uggboy at Inside Flyer, in advance of today’s New York Jets vs. Miami Dolphins game in London the packing and preparation was meticulous.
The Jets packed 350 rolls of toilet paper.
Or order 350 rolls of toilet paper to replace the thinner version used in England.
“Some may say that’s a little over the top or whatnot, but it didn’t really cost that much, so why not?” Degerness said. “We’re basically trying to replicate everything that we’re doing here over there.”
It turns out this was the idea of a team intern that has ‘been to London many times’ so knows,
‘the toilet paper pin London is] very thin because their plumbing isn’t as good’.
“So, the intern informed the operations staff, and the Jets ordered 350 rolls of toilet paper for the hotel and the stadium.”
Last month there was a discussion on the blog about why hotels (even in the US) use cheap toilet paper. The primary thinking was to avoid clogs, so it’s apparently the same on both sides of the Atlantic (perhaps reinforcing the ‘special relationship‘ between the US and UK).
But in my experience European toilet paper is far worse than American toilet paper, even accounting for hotels trying avoid guest erors trying to put too much in without flushing.
Toilet paper is clearly more bountiful in the US than the rest of the world. Here it’s even been known to fall from the sky.
Some Venezuela hotels have asked guests to bring their own toilet paper, but that’s the result of shortages not quality per se.
Plumbing definitely matters, during the Sochi Olympics guests were advised not to flush…
Of course no one has toilet paper that’s as great as as EVA Air’s.
robert weisberg says:
I had paper in Germany last week that literally would pass for paper towels here.. I make no joke. The paper was like a single ply paper towel roll. Of course I had my own paper. You could clean the windows with this stuff.
I was at Park Hyatt Vendome last week and their toilet paper was like sandpaper. I should have brought my Charmin Ultra Soft rolls.
Xandrios says:
Regarding the ” dont flush” thing – that is the case in most of the world. I’m surprised that a well-traveled person like yourself finds that newsworthy.
Only in the US, western Europe (not east nor south!) and (maybe?) parts of Asia allow paper to be flushed.
JohnB says:
I know lots of people who bring their own “TP”, Because they are allergic to perfumes, dyes, and bleaches (they are used to make TP white). They bring it with them everywhere they travel!
mbh says:
I find tp in Europe hit or miss, but without question Asia is the worst.
But, who the hell (other than NFL teams) has room in their luggage for tp?!
And what’s with “no flush?” This is the first I’ve ever heard of that!
blacksheep says:
In many parts of China there is no TP. And often where there is, it’s used and then not flushed, but put into the waste basket. I’ve seen this often, even in the New Shanghai Expo Center.
But it’s hard to beat the UK in the 60’s. TP in public and airport rest rooms were basically wax paper. No possibility of being absorbent.
When I first came to the UK in the early 80s, the paper in public toilets was indeed thin, brown and waxy. In government-owned buildings such as museums, it was even printed with “Property of Her Majesty’s Government.” (Like anyone would want to steal it!) I haven’t seen that kind of paper in at least 20 years, though.
Farnorthtrader says:
As far as the paper being thin for the plumbing in London, pretty sure that is not the reason. We manage US properties for UK owners and they can’t figure out why there are so many clogs in the U.S. They tell us that you could flush a baby and not clog the toilet in the UK
LOL. Most ridiculous story I’ve read in a long time. Go to Waitrose and buy a premium brand ‘double ply deluxe’ whatever. Really, packing 350 rolls is absurd. You can buy whatever quality your a*** desires here.
@Farnorthtrader It is true, in my experience, that British plumbing is quite robust. I think it had to be, to handle that waxed paper they used to use! These days many of the fancier hotels in London use a type of thick toilet paper that is almost like paper towel material. I would hate to see how my low-flow toilets in the US would handle that stuff.
I would love it if the tp in my office building in the us didn’t turn into fairy dust as soon as you touch it.
Staying at the Hilton across from Wembley right now. No problems with the toilet paper, but my wife wants to send me with a roll for next time anyway.
As far as poor plumbing that means throwing used TP in the trash, I’ve seen that in a number of places. You don’t have to go across the pond, as I encountered it just recently in Guatemala City.
I’ll never forget the TP that I had to use (and pay for by the square, of course) at a public toilet in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1992. That stuff was brown and literally looked as though it had just been sliced off a tree.
jamesb2147 says:
I’ve seen Admirals Club lounges with that same “turns into fairy dust” paper, and that’s kind of a shame (and silly, because when you get so thin, people just use more to compensate).
Ive never been somewhere where you cant flush toilet paper and ive been to eastern Europe, se asia, china, s america, australia. Maybe in the middle east?
Nadia Forbes says:
Is anyone interested in importing toilet paper to Europe? Get in touch with me please.
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Canada Water interactive 3D consultation app
On behalf of British Land
Since March 2014, there has been an ongoing community consultation process to look at the future of the Canada Water Masterplan area. This includes redevelopment of the SE16 Printworks Site (formerly known as Harmsworth Quays), the Surrey Quays Shopping Centre Site and most recently the Surrey Quays Leisure Park Site.
British Land is working with Southwark Council to bring forward a mixed-use development for the Canada Water Masterplan, as part of a new town centre for the area. Allies & Morrison are the masterplanners and have been developing initial ideas, informed at every stage by the input and feedback from the community consultation process.
We presented an innovative and pioneering way of testing and showcasing the multiple masterplanning options for the site. As a result, our digital interactive 3D communications tool, VUITNOW, formed the primary 3D engagement tool in their community consultation about the redevelopment proposals for Canada Water. In February 2016 British Land held Draft Masterplan exhibitions to share the emerging plans to help inform how they develop over the coming months, with the primary focus being our interactive touchtable, with which the development team could demonstrate the draft masterplan in the context of the wider area, overlaying key information to help communicate the many facets of this multi-million pound project.
Whilst computer generated still and flythroughs have long been the preferred route to illustrate developments, as people become more sophisticated in their technology usage, so too are their expectations when it comes to stakeholder engagement through to construction and marketing. Our 3D digital consultation tools were therefore recognised as a new way to showcase development in an easily digestible way, with greater emphasis on personal preference and the individual’s chosen route to looking at the development proposals.
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The Ghost of Henry Clay
In other Rand Paul news:
Having recently read a biography of Henry Clay, and currently slogging through a history of the Whigs, I am naturally fascinated by an argument going on between two of my favorite fellow political writers, TNR’s Brian Beutler and Slate‘s Dave Weigel, over what exactly Mitch McConnell meant in calling Paul “the most credible candidate for president of the United States since Henry Clay.”
Buetler thinks this may have been a backhanded compliment at best or perhaps the “nerdiest attack in political history” (as the header to his piece suggests):
Clay is McConnell’s hero. Admiration for Clay is perhaps the only thing McConnell has in common with Nancy Pelosi.
Rand Paul shares no such affinity. Clay was the “Great Compromiser.” On that abstract score at least, Paul hails from the tradition of John C. Calhoun, not of Henry Clay, even though ironically he now sits at Clay’s (and McConnell’s) old desk in the Senate. Paul broadsided Clay in his maiden Senate floor speech in February 2011—an unexpected heresy from a freshman politician from Kentucky, which was probably actually directed at McConnell (who keeps a portrait of Clay in his Senate office) rather than at random history buffs who might’ve been watching C-SPAN at the time. It was the legislative equivalent of a subtweet. In the middle of Paul’s speech, McConnell walked off the Senate floor.
Also, Clay lost the presidency three times. Viewed in the light of all that history, I think there might be more to McConnell’s comparison than meets the eye.
Weigel, however, views McConnell’s Clay tribute as a recognition of Paul’s ideological evolution, and adds some more perspective to Paul’s maiden speech:
If you haven’t read Paul’s maiden speech in a while—and really, what’s been keeping you?—he contrasted Henry Clay negatively with his cousin, the abolitionist Cassius Clay. “Henry Clay’s life story is, at best, a mixed message,” explained Paul. “Henry Clay’s great compromise was over slavery. One could argue that he rose above sectional strife to carve out compromise after compromise trying to ward off civil war. Or one could argue that his compromises were morally wrong and may have even encouraged war, that his compromises meant the acceptance during his 50 years of public life of not only slavery, but the slave trade itself. In the name of compromise, Clay was by most accounts not a cruel master, but a master nonetheless of 48 slaves. He supported the fugitive slave law until his death. He compromised on the extension of slavery into new states. He was the deciding vote in the House to extend slavery into Arkansas….”
McConnell idolizes Clay, and since 2011, when Paul made that speech, he has slowly walked away from his image as an uncompromising Tea Party candidate, into a more comfortable and warmly covered image as a bridge-building civil liberties advocate.
Maybe McConnell was trying to slip one past a room of Republicans. Or maybe he meant it. I’m in the “meant it” camp, and mark this as a telling and aspirational compliment to a politician that McConnell has an understanding with.
I dunno. It would be characteristic of the highly cynical Mr. McConnell to have meant this as both a compliment and an insult, sort of like the chronic tippler congratulating the self-righteous teetotaller on his first drinking binge. The most common take on Henry Clay is that his lust for the presidency ruined what was otherwise a brilliant career–and ultimately robbed him of the prize he so desperately wanted. Rand Paul is running for president (or if not, then performing an extraordinarily convincing dry run) at an even more precocious stage of his political career than Clay’s first bid for the White House in 1824. Who knows what compromises or flip-flops he might eventually embrace if he’s frustrated as many times as was Henry Clay?
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WBEN Buffalo Business Report - Wednesday, December 19th 2018
Randy Bushover
Buffalo Business News
Northtown Automotive Companies has announced the acquisition of Jaguar Buffalo. It's Northtown's 19th automotive dealership - and it will operate at 8135 Main Street in Williamsville combining with the existing Porsche Buffalo, Land Rover Buffalo and Volvo Cars of Buffalo Automotive complex. There are pans for Jaguar Buffalo to open a standalone facility at a future date.
The NFTA is moving forward with plans for the redevelopment of the historic DL&W Terminal. According to Business First, the NFTA has issued requests for proposals to the development community, with bids due back by February 19th. A developer could be selected by late spring.
Merchants Insurance Group recently introduced MIGPay, a new “pay-as-you-go” billing and payment program. Merchants hails it as a way to make it easier for agents and policyholders to process workers’ compensation payments.
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates has been invited to design Buffalo’s largest waterfront park - the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Centennial Park - formerly LaSalle Park.
Northtown Automotive Companies; NFTA; Merchants Insurance Group; Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates
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The Rome Affair by Karen Swan
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categories: Noteworthy Book Releases, Book Review, Women's Fiction, Contemporary Romance, 10/10
Title: The Rome Affair
Author: Karen Swan
Published by Pan Macmillan on May 2, 2017
Genres: Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction
Source: Publishers Group Canada
Book Rating: 10/10
Another compulsive, page-turning novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Paris Secret.
The glamorous capital city of Italy is brought to startling life in The Rome Affair, a compelling summer novel by Karen Swan.
1974 and Elena Damiani lives a gilded life. Born to wealth and a noted beauty, no door is closed to her, no man can resist her. At twenty-six, she is already onto her third husband when she meets her love match. But he is the one man she can never have, and all the beauty and money in the world can’t change it.
2017 and Francesca Hackett is living la dolce vita in Rome, leading tourist groups around the Eternal City and forgetting the ghosts she left behind in London. When she finds a stolen designer handbag in her dustbin and returns it, she is brought into the orbit of her grand neighbour who lives across the piazza – famed socialite Viscontessa Elena dei Damiani Pignatelli della Mirandola. Though the purse is stolen, Elena greets the return of the bag with exultation for it contains an unopened letter written by her husband on his deathbed, twelve years earlier.
Mutually intrigued by each other, the two women agree to collaborate on a project, with Cesca interviewing Elena for her memoirs. As summer unfurls, Elena tells her sensational stories, leaving Cesca in her thrall. But when a priceless diamond ring found in an ancient tunnel below the city streets is ascribed to Elena, Cesca begins to suspect a shocking secret at the heart of Elena’s life.
Brilliantly clever, mesmerizing, and unequivocally unputdownable!
This is an absorbing, enigmatic tale about all-consuming love; the lengths we will go for it and the unimaginable and limitless things we will do in the name of it.
It is predominantly set in the idyllic city of Rome and takes us into the lives of the rich and glamorous and reminds us that not everything is always as it seems and behind the majestic palaces, priceless jewels and designer clothes often lives a lot of loneliness, deception, sex, temptation, secrets, scandals, heartbreak and tragedy.
The prose is expressive, vivid and flawless. The characters are multi-layered, sympathetic and unique. And the plot is a wondrous travel guide to the city of Rome itself, the culture, the history, the food; as well as an intriguing mystery, an emotional drama and a beautiful love story.
Karen Swan’s books always entertain me, beguile me and transport me to another time and place and immerse me so thoroughly into the feelings, lives, and stories of her characters that I never want to leave and this novel is no exception. I loved this story and I can honestly tell you I will be patiently or not so patiently be eagerly awaiting her next novel.
If you haven’t checked out my review for Karen Swan’s previous title “The Paris Secret”, you can find it out HERE, and if you haven’t read anything by Karen Swan before you’re definitely missing out!
The first paperback will be available on May 2, 2017 and other editions will be available shortly thereafter.
Thank you to Karen Swan and PGC Books for providing me with a copy in exchange for an honest review.
About Karen Swan
Karen Swan began her career in fashion journalism before giving it all up to raise her three children and a puppy, and to pursue her ambition of becoming a writer. She lives in the forest outside Sussex, England, writing her books in a treehouse overlooking the Downs.
An internationally bestselling author, her numerous books include The Rome Affair, The Paris Secret, Christmas Under the Stars, and The Christmas Secret.
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Gordon & MacPhail Unveils Another 70-Year-Old Single Malt
October 2, 2017 – Gordon & MacPhail already has the world’s oldest single malt Scotch Whisky on the family-owned firm’s 122-year-old resumé – a 75-year-old Mortlach single cask released in 2015, along with two 70-year-old bottlings from Mortlach and Glenlivet. Now, Gordon & MacPhail has added a second 70-year-old Glenlivet single cask to that vintage lineup with the release of Private Collection Glenlivet 1943. Just 40 bespoke decanters will be available worldwide, with a recommended retail price of £30,000 GBP ($39,780 USD) each.
“While it’s not the oldest whisky in the world, it is obviously incredibly special due to its place in time,” Gordon & MacPhail director Stephen Rankin told WhiskyCast’s Mark Gillespie in a telephone interview. “It was distilled on the 14th of January in 1943, at a time when the world was a completely different place…it was a place of uncertainty, a place of risk, and every decision was key.” One of those decisions was the British government’s move to ration barley supplies for the war effort, which forced most of Scotland’s distilleries to close in 1941 and 1942. Glenlivet was one of the final distilleries to remain open until it closed for the duration of the war in the spring of 1943 after its supply of grain ran out.
The cask comes from Gordon & MacPhail’s own inventory of barrels it has had filled with new make spirit at many of Scotland’s historic distilleries for decades, and that played a key role in its survival over the decades. The wartime closings meant distillers and blenders faced a shortage of aged whisky from that period during the 1950’s and 1960’s, and many companies blew through their stocks of mature whisky to meet the post-war demand.
“For anything to have lasted beyond the demands of the industry into the 60’s would have been almost unheard of,” Rankin said. His great-grandfather, John Urquhart, had originally arranged for this first-fill Sherry cask to be filled at Glenlivet as part of a parcel of Gordon & MacPhail casks, and it was stored in a warehouse at the distillery until 1967, when Rankin’s grandfather had it moved to the company’s own warehouse in Elgin, Scotland. Rankin, part of the family’s fourth generation to work at Gordon & MacPhail, selected the cask for bottling in 2013 and had the barrel emptied into an inert container for storage until today’s release.
Unlike many extremely old casks, in which the alcoholic strength of the whisky has declined to a point dangerously close to the legal minimum of 40% ABV (after which it can no longer be bottled as whisky), the whisky in Cask 121 retained much of its strength, and was bottled at 49.1% ABV. “It’s still got the wonderful structure of the spirit, but there’s still a wonderful complexity that’s been driven from the oak,” Rankin said.
While this bottling represents the last of Gordon & MacPhail’s casks of whisky distilled in 1943, that does not necessarily mean the end of the company’s pre-WWII whisky stocks. Rankin declined to be specific about the company’s inventory, but said the family is “privileged to be the custodians and curators of an outstanding range of great aged whiskies.”
The Private Collection Glenlivet 1943 will be available through select whisky specialist retailers worldwide, along with Gordon & MacPhail’s own retail shop in Elgin. Buyers there will have the opportunity to receive a exclusive tasting of the whisky from a 1cl sample bottle in the shop’s private tasting room.
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Daniels Sharpsmart Wins Gold For "Go Green" Advertising
Daniels Sharpsmart received two Gold awards in this year's Go Green Advertising Competition.
(1888PressRelease) March 27, 2012 - CHICAGO - Daniels Sharpsmart Inc., the world's largest provider of reusable systems for sharps disposal and the second largest company in the medical waste disposal industry in the United States, received two Gold awards in this year's Go Green Advertising Competition. Daniels Sharpsmart was recognized for its design of their company website at http://danielsinternational.com/ and its "Single vs. Reusable" flyer.
"Being eco-friendly is a relevant topic for businesses today - and certainly here at Daniels Sharpsmart," said David Skinner, Vice President of Daniels Sharpsmart. "It's vital that our products are not only safer for healthcare professionals, but also for the environment."
The Go Green Advertising Awards is the nation's premier advertising awards program that exclusively recognizes companies for outstanding creativity in advertising while being more conscientious towards our environment.
"It was a privilege to have the number of organizations and agencies that participated in this year's awards program. The entries this year exceeded all expectations for quality and excellence in green advertising," said Melinda Lucas, Go Green Advertising Awards Program Coordinator.
All entries in the Go Green Advertising Awards were reviewed and judged by a diverse panel of marketing experts, who, after scoring each entry, selected only the top 15 percent in the nation for recognition of excellence. All promotional materials that were produced using sustainable and/or green advertising efforts in 2010 were eligible to enter.
For more information on the Go Green Advertising Awards, please visit http://goagreenawards.com/.
About Daniels Sharpsmart
Daniels Sharpsmart Inc., the world's largest provider of reusable systems for sharps disposal and the second largest company in the medical waste disposal industry in the United States. The Sharpsmart system was launched in 1999 and is the most widely researched sharps containment system in the world, the only system to have peer-reviewed confirmation of sharps injury reduction and the only system in which all container models meet the tests required by the European Agreement (AFG) on Transport of Dangerous Goods. The company's innovative Sharpsmart system is used in health care facilities in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. For more information, please visit http://danielsinternational.com/.
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G-L-O-R-I-A! California Court says to use different tests for different IC misclassification claims
If someone were to ask whether you like the song, “Gloria,” you’d be right to ask, “Which version?”
There’s the version written by Van Morrison and recorded by his band Them, later covered by Patti Smith, The Doors, and a gaggle of others. That’s the version that goes, “G-L-O-R-I-A, Gloooooria!” (I’m gonna shout it out every day.)
Then there’s the version recorded by Laura Branigan in 1982, originally written in Italian by Umberto Tozzi. (Fun fact!) You know that one — “You’re always on the run now. Running after somebody, you gotta get him somehow.”
Of course the right answer is that you prefer the first version, but my point is that there are multiple versions of “Gloria.” Same name, different song.
This is the same approach California courts seem to be taking with the state’s test for Independent Contractor vs. Employee. Same question, different tests. Many of you will recall the April 2018 Dynamex decision, in which the California Supreme Court adopted a strict ABC Test for determining whether a worker is an employee under California’s Industrial Wage Orders.
But the Dynamex decision did not address whether the new ABC Test would be used to determine whether someone is a contractor or an employee under California’s other state labor laws. Now we know.
The answer, according to a California Court of Appeal decision last week, is that there’s room for both “G-L-O-R-I-A” and “You’re always on the run now.” (You’re welcome, Laura Branigan.)
In last week’s case, called Garcia v. Border Transportation Group, the court considered an eight-count complaint brought by a taxicab driver who had been treated as an independent contractor. The driver claimed he should have been treated as an employee and that various state laws, which apply only to employees, were not followed. The court ruled that different tests apply to different claims.
The Court ruled that the claims brought under California’s Industrial Wage Orders had to be evaluated under the Dynamex ABC Test and, for these claims, the driver had to be considered an employee. The claims subject to the Dynamex test were the claims alleging unpaid wages, failure to pay minimum wage, failure to provide meal and rest periods, failure to furnish itemized wage statements, and the unfair competition (UCL) claims arising out of the wage order violations.
On the other hand, the driver’s claims for wrongful termination in violation of public policy, waiting time penalties, and the UCL claims stemming from these allegations had to be evaluated under the more traditional S.G. Borello balancing test, which includes elements of a Right to Control Test but incorporates other factors too, making it a hybrid test. Under the S.G. Borello standard, the Court ruled that the driver was properly classified as an independent contractor. (The plaintiff alleged failure to pay overtime too. Typically, overtime claims are governed by the Industrial Wage Orders, but the overtime rules do not apply to taxicab drivers.)
For those who like score cards, here is a list showing (a) the claims that were filed, and (b) which test must be used to determine Independent Contractor vs. Employee under each claim, according to the Garcia case. I have color-coded the claims because it looks pretty:
1. Wrongful termination in violation of public policy. (Lab. Code, §§ 923 [employees may organize], 6310 [retaliation for an OSHA complaint], 6400 [duty to provide a safe work environment], 1102.5 [whistleblower protection].) S.G. Borello balancing test
2. Unpaid wages under the wage order. (Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, § 11090.) Dynamex ABC Test
3. Failure to pay minimum wage. (Lab. Code, §§ 1182.12 [minimum wage], 1194 [right of action], 1194.2 [liquidated damages], 1197 [duty to pay minimum wage].) Dynamex ABC Test
4. Failure to pay overtime. (Lab. Code, §§ 510 [overtime], 1194 [right of action].) – Not applicable
5. Failure to provide meal and rest breaks. (Lab. Code, §§ 226.7 [rest periods], 512 [meal breaks].) Dynamex ABC Test
6. Failure to furnish accurate wage statements. (Lab. Code, §§ 226 [wage statements], 226.3 [civil penalties], 2699 [PAGA penalties].) Dynamex ABC Test
7. Waiting time penalties. (Lab. Code, §§ 201−202 [wages and leave due upon departure], 203 [penalties].) S.G. Borello balancing test
8. Unfair competition (UCL), based on the foregoing violations. (Bus. & Prof. Code, § 17200 et seq.; Lab. Code, § 2699 [PAGA penalties].) Dynamex ABC Test for the alleged violations of the wage order; S.G. Borello balancing test for the other claims
That’s the state of the law at this moment, but of course the California Supreme Court could weigh in again later as to whether S.G. Borello should still be used at all.
The explanation given in the Garcia case, though, for why the different tests should be used for different claims makes perfect sense. The definition of employee in Dynamex is broader than in the other statutes, as the California Supreme Court explained in the Dynamex decision.
So there you have it. Different definition of employee, different tests.
Shout it out all night!
Shout it out every day!
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Iowa National Guard Adjutant General Retiring in May
Posted 7:06 am, March 29, 2019, by Staff Writer
Major General Tim Orr (WHO-HD)
JOHNSTON, Iowa — A decade of leadership at the Iowa National Guard will come to an end in May.
Major General Tim Orr announced his retirement Thursday.
Orr has served as Adjutant General of the Iowa National Guard since being appointed by then-governor Chet Culver in 2009, but his career in the military dates back to 1978. He enlisted in the Iowa National Guard while still a senior at Boone High School.
“I have been extremely fortunate and honored to serve alongside some of the finest Soldiers and Airmen our country has to offer,” Orr said. “They have made the organization what it is today and I will never forget it.”
Brigadier General Stephen Osborn is set to take over as interim adjutant general. The Davenport native has over 30 years of military service and currently serves as the director of the Iowa National Guard Joint Staff.
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Furniture For Outdoors
Updated July 09, 2019 by Gabrielle Taylor
The 10 Best Hammock Chair Stands
We spent 24 hours on research, videography, and editing, to review the top selections for this wiki. Few things are more relaxing than swinging in your favorite hammock chair, but if you don't want to attach a chain to the roof of your covered patio or a nearby tree, you're going to need a stand. Our list includes durable options in a variety of sizes and styles suitable for both indoor and outdoor use, so whether you prefer to lounge by the pool or next to the fireplace, we've got you covered. When users buy our independently chosen editorial picks, we may earn commissions to support our work. Skip to the best hammock chair stand on Amazon.
10. Great Deal Furniture Daisy
Ideal for those who prefer a natural look, the Great Deal Furniture Daisy is handcrafted from larch wood, which is resistant to water and rotting, so it should be able to stand up to the elements. It may be a bit pricey, but it's built to last for years.
Handsome teak oil finish
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A bit difficult to assemble
9. Zupapa Heavy Duty
The Zupapa Heavy Duty comes with a rug to protect your floors from scratches, plus eight pegs you can use to stake it into the ground for outdoor use. It also includes a steel hook that snaps closed and has interlocking teeth to prevent accidental opening.
360-degree welding at joints
Backed by a lifetime warranty
May be too short for sky chairs
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8. Sorbus Arc
Both sturdy and elegant, the Sorbus Arc has a wide, well-balanced base with a low profile that won't bump the bottom of your seat. Its curved shape is perfect for tucking into a corner of your living room, backyard, or patio.
Made from powder-coated steel
Finish scratches easily
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7. Yogabody Hanging Kit
The extra-large Yogabody Hanging Kit can hold swings of almost any size, and has an impressive weight capacity of 600 pounds. With a height of nearly ten feet, you won't have to worry about your chair dragging on the ground, and it's great for aerial fitness, too.
Remains stable on uneven surfaces
Durable aluminum alloy construction
Does not include straps or hooks
YOGABODY
6. Hammaka Hitch
The Hammaka Hitch allows you to kick back and relax anywhere your travels take you. It mounts to the back of your truck or RV, making it a great companion for camping and fishing, or for tailgating before a concert or sporting event.
Holds 2 chairs or 1 large hammock
Each arm supports 300 pounds
Compatible with all 2-inch receivers
Hammaka
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5. Khanh Trinh Indoor Outdoor
The Khanh Trinh Indoor Outdoor is a versatile frame that can hold a swing, a punching bag, or a yoga hammock, and you can also use it as a pull-up bar or to perform hanging stretches for your lower back. It folds up for compact storage, too.
Height adjustable from 72-93 inches
Nonslip rubber pads on base
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4. Sorbus Tripod
Featuring a wide base and a steel frame, the Sorbus Tripod is sturdy and stable. Its snap-button joints are easy to lock into place, and it comes with all the hardware you need to put it together, plus an S-hook and a hanging chain.
Accommodates most chair styles
Weight capacity of 330 pounds
Legs connect for added strength
3. FDW C Stand
The FDW C Stand rotates nearly 360 degrees, so you can easily adjust your position, and the X-shaped base helps to keep it balanced. Its powder-coated finish is resistant to rusting and can stand up to just about any weather conditions.
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2. Byer of Maine Palmera
If you're short on space, consider the Byer of Maine Palmera, which has a much smaller footprint than many other models. Its narrow base is supported by a chain that can be attached to a wall or beam, but it will require you to drill two holes in the mounting surface.
Sturdy all-steel frame
Affordably priced
Can be disconnected when not in use
1. Giantex Adjustable
With a maximum height of 98-1/2 inches, the Giantex Adjustable will accommodate taller users and larger chairs than many others. The frame has a support leg on each side for stability, along with four nonslip mats to hold it in place.
Allows 360-degree rotation
Safety hook locks closed
Corrosion-resistant finish
Giantex
Simple, functional, and reasonably priced, the Giantex Adjustable has a height range of 78-1/2 to 98-1/2 inches. Its safety hook automatically closes and has interlocking teeth to prevent it from coming unhooked by accident. The FDW C Stand has an X-shaped base for balance and stability that takes up less space than most arc-style stands. It's made from solid steel with a rust-resistant powder coating, and it's easy to assemble in just a few minutes with the included hardware. The Sorbus Tripod is wide enough to accommodate most saucer and cocoon-style chairs, and its three legs connect in the center for added stability.
Ideal for indoor use, the Byer of Maine Palmera has a slender, T-shaped base that can be pushed up against the wall when you're not using it. The only downside is that you'll have to drill two holes into the mounting surface to attach the chain, which may not be allowed in many rental properties.
The Khanh Trinh Indoor Outdoor is useful for both fitness and leisure activities. You can use it to hang chairs, swings, and punching bags, as a pull-up bar, or for hanging stretches for your back and shoulders. It's made from a strong steel alloy that's designed to remain stable, even when you're swinging or exercising, and it folds up to save space when not in use. The Yogabody Hanging Kit is another versatile option that's big enough for just about any chair or swing, and its 9.8-foot height also makes it suitable for a yoga trapeze, olympic rings, and other aerial fitness equipment. It's extremely strong with a weight capacity of 600 pounds, and unlike many others, it works well on uneven surfaces, like grass. It can be used indoors, but it's very large, so most users will probably prefer to keep it outside.
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Last updated on July 09, 2019 by Gabrielle Taylor
Originally from a tiny town in Virginia, Gabrielle moved to Los Angeles for a marketing internship at a well-known Hollywood public relations firm and was shocked to find that she loves the West Coast. She spent two years as a writer and editor for a large DIY/tutorial startup, where she wrote extensively about technology, security, lifestyle, and home improvement. A self-professed skincare nerd, she’s well-versed in numerous ingredients and methods, including both Western and Asian products. She is an avid home cook who has whiled away thousands of hours cooking and obsessively researching all things related to food and food science. Her time in the kitchen has also had the curious side effect of making her an expert at fending off attempted food thievery by her lazy boxer dog.
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L’Etape South
L’Etape West
Trek Bike Hire
Tarbert / Ennistymon
Tarbert to Ennistymon via Killimor Ferry, KIlrush, Loop Head and Kilkee
Tour Price: May – €995:00 | June – €1,195:00 | July – €1,195:00 | August – €1,295:00 | September – €995:00
STAGE DETAILS
Today’s stage starts with a short spin out of the village of Tarbert to pick up the ferry across the mighty River Shannon. On arrival into Killimor we are into county Clare and heading for some of the most scenic locations on the Wild Atlantic Way.
The route takes us through the picturesque town of KIlrush as we travel towards Loop Head. This is coastal cycling at its best, with the majestic Loop Head lighthouse forming an amazing backdrop for this section of the stage.
We’ll stop for lunch in Keating’s of Kilbaha where our cyclists always get a warm welcome and enjoy a glorious bowl of seafood chowder to set them up for the rest of the day. The final stretch of this stage sees us head 30km the road to a coffee stop in Kilkee and then onwards to our overnight stop in the seaside town of Lahinch. The proximity of the beach to the centre of the town makes a swim in the Atlantic as the perfect end to a great day on the bike.
Daily Itinerary
07:00 – Breakfast
08:30 – Early Group Departs. Average speed 25 – 28 Kmph
09:30 – Late Group Departs. Average speed 28 Kmph +
12:00 – Official Etape Lunch Stop
15:00 – Completion of the Stage
18:00 – Evening Dinner
Stage 5 West: Cahirciveen / Dingle
Stage 6 West: Dingle / Tarbert
Stage 7 West: Tarbert / Ennistymon
Stage 8 West: Ennistymon / Galway
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Stage 8. Galway / Clifden
Galway to Clifden via Spiddal, Kilkieran, Cashel, Roundstone, Ballyconneely
Elemental and wild, every part of the Wild Atlantic Way makes for a beautiful cycle and this stage of the Bay Coast is no different. Setting off from Galway you will make your way over relatively flat terrain through the stunning seaside village of Spiddal, where you can breathe in the Irish language and culture. Its gothic church, stone pier, sandy beaches and Burren views make it stand out along what is a spectacular coastline.
You’ll be rewarded with an extra leisurely lunch at Coyne’s Bar & Bistro in Kilkieran (77km), a local favourite. Following the coast road again to the picturesque 19th-century coastal village of Roundstone is a real treat with great road surface, quiet roads and unrivaled scenery. But don’t be fooled, the headwind in the wilds of Connemara can be a serious challenge!
On leaving Roundstone behind it’s a 23km spin through the village of Ballyconneely to Clifden, our Host Town for the evening.
Stage 7. Ennistymon / Galway
Ennistymon to Galway via Cliffs of Moher, Ballyvaughan, Kinvara
The flattest stage of the cycle means it isn’t too physically challenging, but the rewards are just as rich. Starting from the surfer’s nirvana of Lahinch on the incredible Cliff Coast, you will wind your way along sweeping roads and rugged and enveloping landscape, taking in some of the country’s greatest natural wonders. Stretching from the Atlantic coast to Kinvara in County Galway, you will have views of the Burren, a remarkable 1,500ha of ancient limestone pavement, hazel scrub, woodland, springs and cliffs.
Atop one of just two short climbs on this cycle you will come upon the infamous Cliffs of Moher at 8km, one of the Wild Atlantic Way’s 15 Signature Discovery Points. The arresting panoramas from these 214m high cliffs on a clear day include the Aran Islands, the Dingle Peninsula and Loop Head.
You will continue along the unspoilt coastline, passing Black Head (38km) and on to Ballyvaughan (47km). This section is one of the highlights of the tour, and relatively unknown even among Irish cyclists. You will stop for lunch on the edge of the Unesco Burren region, with wonderful views across Galway Bay. After lunch it’s a relatively easy cycle along good road surface on the way to and through the vibrant and historically significant city of Galway, our base for the night.
Stage 6. Tralee / Ennistymon
Tralee to Ennistymon via Ballyheighue, Tarbert, Kilrush, Kilbaha, Kilkee, Spanish Point
Today’s route takes us out of Tralee towards beautiful Banna Stand and the village of Ballyheigue, Ballylongford and the village of Tarbert, close to where the counties of Kerry, Clare and Limerick meet. Boarding the ferry, take a quick break from the bike to cross Ireland’s largest river, the Shannon.
Cycling on through a flat section of West Clare, its 30km to the bustling town of Kilrush our lunch stop for today.
After lunch it’s back onto the bike heading out to Loop Head and taking in the stunning Kilkee Cliffs and onwards to the coastal town of Kilkee.
A well-deserved coffee & cake break at the Diamond Café in Kilkee and then continuing the final stretch of today’s stage, a 42km spin along the coast to Ennistymon our Host town for the night.
Stage 1. Cahirciveen / Dingle
Cahirciveen to Dingle via Inch and Slea Head
Today’s first stage of the Wild Atlantic L’Etape sees the route take us on the final section of the wonderful Ring of Kerry.
The coastal scenery on your left is absolutely breath – taking and as we swing left onto the Dingle Peninsula we will reach our lunch stop at Sammy’s Bar and Restaurant overlooking Inch Strand.
The beautiful beach below often leads to some of our cyclists taking the opportunity of a swim in the Atlantic before tackling into the second half of today’s ride.
On leaving Inch the peleton heads on towards Dingle.
Overlooking Dingle Bay, this is a bustling harbour town and on arriving here for the first time we’ll pass through the town and take on the loop route around Slea Head.
The scenery here is stunning with views out towards the Blasket Islands and the road takes us back into the town which will be our base for the night.
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Stage 4. Sneem / Dingle
Sneem to Dingle Via Ring of Kerry, Waterville, Skellig Ring, Portmagee, Inch
One of the true highlights of the Wild Atlantic Way, this stretch along the Southern Peninsulas will stay with you long after your cycle has ended. Leaving beautiful Sneem behind, you’ll head out onto the iconic Ring of Kerry, passing through Caherdaniel before taking on the majestic Coomakista Pass, with sweeping views of Derrynane Bay and the Skelligs your reward for tackling the challenging 5km climb.
On this ascent, you’ll peak just twice at 5% elevation, maintaining a healthy 3-4% elsewhere. Downhill, the coastal haven of Waterville, one-time holiday haunt of comedy legend Charlie Chaplin, awaits, with plenty of spectacular views of the Atlantic Ocean.
Leaving Waterville behind and it’s off to the Skellig Ring, one of Lonely Planet’s Top Regions for 2017 and an easygoing ride all the way to Ballinskelligs, where the road begins once more to rise at 3-4% elevation, spiking sharply to 8.3% at the top, providing dazzling views of Skellig Michael and Puffin Island offshore.
Next, it’s up and over the Coomanaspic Pass, with incredible views over both sides of the peninsula. Heading all the way downhill through Portmagee and on towards our lunch stop in Cahirciveen.
After lunch we’re back on the road and heading for the wonderful town of Dingle. Our route takes us through Glenbeigh and Killorglan, before heading onto the famous Dingle Peninsula and the final stretch of the day, passing Inch Beach and into Dingle, our base for the night
Stage 3. Bantry / Sneem
Glengarriff to Sneem via the Ring of Beara, Allihies and Kenmare
On leaving Bantry, your route will take you through Glengarriff taking a left turn on to the Ring of Beara for 112km. As you loop around the beautiful peninsula past several Natural Heritage Areas and after 51km we stop in the bustling Castletownbere , after coffee we take on a few challenging climbs you’ll stop for lunch at Helen’s in the small village of Killmackillogue.
Taking you from County Cork into the Kingdom of County Kerry during the afternoon, after a few short ascents you’ll be rewarded with the gorgeous views across Kenmare Bay
With Kenmare Bay and the stunning Ring of Kerry within sight, our final 51km leads through the thriving Heritage Town of Kenmare towards our final destination of Sneem.
Stage 2. Skibbereen / Bantry
Skibbereen to Glengarriff via Schull, Mizen Head, Durrus, Sheeps Head
After some much-needed rest, it’s time to rise and shine for a truly spectacular day atop your trusty two wheels, experiencing the freshest Atlantic air. Fuel up with a hearty breakfast in the fishing village of Skibbereen before hitting the coastal road, striking out for Ireland’s most southerly point at Mizen Head, one of the Wild Atlantic Way’s 15 Signature Discovery Points and an unmissable sight to see. Along the way, take in the picturesque towns and villages of Ballydehob, Schull, Goleen and Barleycove, with its sandy Blue Flag beach stretching out before you.
From Mizen Head, you’ll journey up the northern flank of the headland, where you can drink in the exceptional views across to Sheep’s Head before winding gently towards Durrus, home of the famous farmhouse cheese and the perfect place to stop for a bite to eat. Then it’s onward to Kilcrohane where the challenging 2km Sheep’s Head climb, with 11% final elevation, awaits. Catch your breath just before the summit at Finn MacCool’s seat, before beginning the long, steep descent into Bantry with fabulous views across Bantry Bay towards the Beara Peninsula. On to Bantry where we will overnight at the Maritime Hotel.
Stage 1. Kinsale / Skibbereen
Kinsale to Skibbereen via Old Head, Courtmacsherry, Seven Heads, Glandore, Union Hall.
Kick off your first day in the saddle from Kinsale westward to dramatic Old Head, a Wild Atlantic Way Signature Discovery Point where the 17th-century lighthouse still keeps watch over the crashing waves. Warm up the legs as you pedal over a few easy hills, taking in the already striking scenery of the Haven Coast for just a taste of what’s to come.
Keeping the Atlantic to your left, you’ll travel along the beautiful coast road through Timoleague, idyllic Courtmacsherry and the Seven Heads Peninsula.
It’s off down the back roads through inviting towns and villages toward Glandore, where the unspoilt waters of Glandore Harbour invite you to pause and enjoy lunch.
With just over 27km to go on your journey, take an easy spin through some of serene West Cork’s most rural areas to the finish line, where you can reward your first day’s journey with a hearty dinner in the vibrant riverside town of Skibbereen. Once your energy is restored, don’t miss the signal tower overlooking the harbour, where you can capture views of Skerkin Island and Cape Clear. Take a deep breath, rejoice in your achievement and enjoy the Wild Atlantic Way.
Note’s: Parking in Kinsale
There are four (4) main large car parks in Kinsale
Main Town Car Park, (pay and display) Pier Road, Kinsale Sat Nav: 51.7051609,-8.5221269
Church Square Car Park (Free), Church Square, Kinsale Sat Nav: 51.7062634,-8.5258832
Town Car Park (Free, closed summer months), Pier Road, Kinsale Sat Nav: 51.7042369,-8.5208339
New Road Car Park (Free), Kinsale Sat Nav: 51.7096994,-8.5197419. This car park is suitable for coaches, tour bus and motor-home parking.
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Breakthrough Multiple Sclerosis medication is ‘..
Breakthrough Multiple Sclerosis medication is ‘an important step forward’
Michael McLaren
Greg Huntmultiple sclerosis
Those affected by Multiple Sclerosis are set to save $54,000 a year after a ‘breakthrough’ drug was listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).
From January 1, the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) medication Mavenclad will cost $40.30 a script or $6.50 for concessional patients.
Clinical trials for the drug show MS symptoms dissipated within a month of treatment.
“So for many, this really is a Christmas miracle,” says Michael McLaren.
Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt says “it really is an important step forward”.
“The estimate is that about 6200 Australians will have access to and benefit from Mavenclad,” he tells Michael.
“It is one of these breakthrough medicines.”
The minister says in some cases, there could be a reversal of symptoms.
“It’s not a cure but it’s an incredibly important treatment.”
Click PLAY below to hear the full interview
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It's time to talk about alternatives to carbon pricing
By Gareth Bryant
Photo: The early transition to an ETS is a continuation of the Gillard's flawed approach to climate policy. (Mick Tsikas: Reuters)
With Kevin Rudd announcing plans to introduce the floating carbon price system early, now is the time to critically examine the EU model. We must avoid Europe's mistakes, writes Gareth Bryant.
Kevin Rudd's plan to "terminate" the carbon tax is just the latest in a series of moves beginning under Julia Gillard aimed at hollowing out Australian climate policy of everything but its shaky and frail market skeleton.
Some parts of the climate movement and the Greens were captured by the market logic of emissions trading, but it was the full suite of measures in the Clean Energy Future package that secured most of their support. However, by accepting the need for a carbon price as the Federal Government's primary response to global warming, Labor was given space to introduce polluter-friendly reforms that have left advocates for climate action flat-footed.
Rudd has made it clear that his primary intention is to reduce costs for households and industry, but the expected price crash to around $6 per tonne will not be driven by the move to a floating price as such, which was planned for 2015 in any case. It is the result of the decision made when Gillard was prime minister - supported by the Greens - to link with the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), and most importantly, to abandon the carbon floor price of $15 per tonne.
Gillard dropped the carbon floor price and linked to the EU ETS following pressure from industry lobby groups to reduce costs for big business. When the changes were announced in August last year, it was clear that the EU ETS was again facing a systemic oversupply of carbon permits. Parliamentary deadlock on all but the most ineffective reforms within the EU as well as the ongoing economic crisis had effectively guaranteed a low carbon price until at least 2020.
The move was accompanied by cuts to other measures from the carbon price package. Energy efficiency initiatives to local councils and community organisations delivered under the Low Carbon Communities program were wound back. The Contracts for Closure policy, which would have seen the Government spend - in many ways unjustifiably - money to phase-out some of the most polluting coal-fired power stations, was ended before it even began.
Rudd is claiming that his first major policy announcement since again becoming Prime Minister will at once reduce cost of living pressures, offset budgetary impacts and save the climate. In truth the early transition to an ETS is a continuation of the Gillard's flawed approach to climate policy.
Further additional measures, including the Biodiversity Fund and the Clean Technology Program, have been hit to pay for the transition to carbon trading. More happily, handouts that gave windfall profits to coal-fired generators and funding to carbon capture and storage will also be reduced. Not that this means the Government is stepping back - they are notably retaining generous compensation arrangements to the steel and aluminium industries.
It does indicate, though, that the Government's claims about the climate impacts of the scheme are dubious. Contrary to Climate Change Minster Mark Butler's comments on the environmental integrity of emissions trading, the experience of the EU ETS points towards serious dangers in leaving the pathway to a safe climate in the hands of corporate polluters and financial markets.
In its first few years when carbon prices reached up to 30 euros per tonne, the EU ETS only managed to encourage a switch from existing coal to existing gas capacity, rather than investment in renewable energy. Since then, prices have crashed to as low as zero, causing marginal improvements to give way to the cancelling out of emissions reductions driven by Europe's renewables and energy efficiency targets.
This means that at a time when even the conservative International Energy Agency is calling for two-thirds of fossil fuels to be kept in the ground to avoid 2 degrees of warming, the EU ETS has actually been locking in fossil fuels and increasing carbon pollution. China's first pilot scheme in the city of Shenzhen - used by Rudd to sell the transition - is set to follow a similar fate, having been projected to be oversupplied with carbon permits before trading commenced last month.
The successes of Australia's carbon price in reducing emissions in the electricity sector have also been overstated and we are now set to replicate the problems experienced in Europe.
Each of the changes to the Clean Energy Future package since the introduction of the carbon price has represented a backward step for climate policy. But because they have taken place within the accepted market framework, the climate movement and the Greens have been wedged and unable to hold Labor to account.
Let's hope that advocates for action on climate change see this latest move as the end of the road for market-dominated responses to global warming, so we can avoid Europe's mistakes and start talking about alternatives to carbon pricing.
Gareth Bryant is a PhD student in Political Economy at the University of Sydney. His research focuses on Australian and European climate policy. View his full profile here.
Topics: climate-change, emissions-trading, environment, government-and-politics, federal-elections, federal-government
Comments for this story are closed.
greenspider:
The problem seems to be one that we've had for decades, if not centuries. The world treats economics as more important than science.
Physical science was predicting our present global climate change in the '50s, but very few economists predicted the global finance crisis from even weeks away, to say nothing of actually working out a solution that doesn't involve creating even more debt, thus prolonging the crisis.
There is also a one-eyed view about the importance of the greenhouse effect of carbon emissions. Certainly it IS an extreme problem, but there are other anthropogenic changes to be considered as well. For example, clearing of forests reduces rainfall. Soil salinity means we have to clear more land to grow sufficient crops. Increasing urbanisation and paving over larger areas of land and sewerage work takes more rain away from the ground water. Failure to introduce sensible town planning, rather than just talking about it at election time.
But worst of all is the politicisation of climate change, being used simply as a tool by a small handful of the selfish to get into power, rather than treating it as the global problem it really is. In the past many countries have had the concept of a "war cabinet" composed of the best minds regardless of political persuasion. We need that kind of thinking now, on a world wide scale. But no doubt narrow-minded ideology driven by economic imperatives will triumph.
Dr B S Goh:
Hi greenspider. You sound like a fellow scientist interested in real and cost effective solutions to reduce the worst effects of global warming.
I like to share with you some views as an scientist who had worked on ecological and food problems for many years.
Firstly it is a shame that some Australian politicians have turned the fight against global warming into a tool to gain votes. In the case of carbon tax by ALP last year it put off about 70% of the people at the time of its introduction.
As I see it the key factors to note are: (i) Australia is a very high cost country (ii) we are very well endowed with coal resources and (iii) we have low density population with a certain life style.
Given these factors we should forget about any actions within our borders. Most people immediately react to this concept and say I am immoral. Precisely I am not interested in morality and feel good or bad emotions but in cost effective strategies. Using moral arguments if they are valid and essential it would mean that Australia should have the proven ONE CHILD policy to fight the No 1 global problem, the exploding global human population.
Thus as I see it we should not have illusions of effective actions like carbon tax or ETS in Australia which increase costs in Australia with no meaningful measurable outcomes as Australia total CO2 emission is less than 1.5% of global total and NOT increasing much compared with the naughty nations China and India.
As I see it we should spend a few billion dollars a year in Joint R&D in nuclear energy with the naughty nations China and India to make nuclear energy and more effective. We should note that we can benefit directly from this as we have ample deposits of uranium and thorium. We should also note that France had a good record with nuclear energy and 80% of its electricity is generated by nuclear energy.
Jason:
Too many issues with the waste from uranium. Scientists should be making the case for thorium, and the Australian government should be funding research as a priority.
Baska:
There is a tremendous lot of nonsense spoken about thorium as a nuclear fuel. It is by no means the panacea that some people try to make out
Rusty:
Very very well said - your comment, as an analogy to a Carbon Tax/ETS, that Australia should also have a one child policy to be in lockstep with China hits the target. Over population is completely analogous to global CO2 emissions. Some countries emit more CO2 in total than others whilst some countries have more people than others. If Australia had no people living here or no carbon emissions - the resulting difference to global population growth or CO2 emissions growth would almost be ZERO.
sdrawkcaB:
And just to be fair, China should have a policy whereby its citizens increase their emissions by a factor of three so they can be the same as us. Should also include India would be reasonably entitled to increase by a factor of 12
Sceptical Sam:
Rusty, that old nonsense that it's all about population belongs back in the Club of Rome and with the Eugenicists. The research shows that CO2 increase has more to do with levels of consumption with less than 20% of the world's population being responsible for more than 80% of CO2 output.
Of course, that presupposes that CO2 is the primary driver of global warming. The evidence is becoming clear that it isn't. The IPCC's models have been falsified. There has been no warming for 16 years (23 by some data sets) and a clear indication that we are entering a cooling phase.
The science needs a new hypothesis because the CAGW one is no longer being supported by the empirical evidence.
GC:
Nuclear energy is not a viable or environmentally sensible choice compared to coal or gas fired power stations. If Fukushima and Chernobyl have done anything at all, it should be that nuclear power should be phased out.
As far as Australian energy requirements, we have some of the largest gas reserves on the planet. The technology is very efficient and relatively cheap and well understood. While I think CAGW is a furphy, gas power would reduce the CO2 emissions and reduce power costs.
Finally, the utility companies have missed the boat on solar power. They could have set up their own solar panel business, and installed solar systems on all Australian houses and charged the house for it, and be getting any power back for free to sell to commercial customers.
The Carbon Tax and an ETS should be repealed and are only to preserve rivers of cash sent to the UK financial sector via credits. If you doubt that statement, look up point carbon and then go to the Treasury carbon tax site to find out how much tax would be going overseas from Australia over the next 35 years. That would be your money as every taxpayer in Australia are getting hit, despite the propaganda from the Greens. I mean, why do the Greens want to increase federal taxation by 12% (45 Billion) overall? Isn't $400 Billion in federal tax receipts enough? Greens and Labor - making everyone poor!
SEG:
Thorium reactors, perhaps. Uranium reactors are a fools path.
ron:
While many of your points may be valid, Australia should not neglect its responsibility.
Australia is a relatively wealthy country, and as such can afford as a nation to use economic incentives (or dis-incentives) to address environment issues.
It would also be hypocritical for us to advise other countries to change when we will not take action ourselves.
We all contribute, and as a nation our per capita pollution is one of the world's highest. This is not just for CO2 emissions, but pollution in general. Our land fill waste (which contributes to CO2) is a result of heavy consumerism. If we can afford to consume we should also pay for dealing with the pollution that results.
Lets not forget how much of what we consume was manufactured in China or India or other cheap labour country.
GrumpyOldMan:
The problem with your conclusions are that Australia cannot continue to act as if it is not part of a global community. To argue as you have that Australia should do nothing about CO2 emissions when we have far higher emissions per capita that either China or India, and that we should chastise 'naughty' countries for emitting CO2 from the coal we happily sell them to maintain our high cost life style, is nothing more than rank arrogance and hypocricy. And that is exactly how it will be seen by our neighbours.
And as for helping developing nations to develop nuclear energy, when many of them do not yet have the political stability or professional standards to ensure safe operation or the disposal of nuckear wastes, is just asking for trouble in the future. Even Japan managed to stuff up by locating nuclear plants on a coast subject to tsunamis and then failed to operate them safely. The solution for developing countries is to maximise their use of locally available renewable energy, and to help them develop sustainable economies based on those locally available renewable sources.
It is also futile to expect that any attempt to limit population growth by legal means will be effective. The only way to solve the population problem is to educate the women and skill them up to do meaningful things besides having more and more kids. And then making social and economic conditions such that the energy/resources 'footprint' of all people is a light as possible.
TN:
Scientists also predicted global cooling a few decades back, green-spider.
@TN,
Your point please?
Global cooling, like global warming, is global climate "change". This was the word I used. Change was predicted, change has happened.
Magpie:
Mate, anyone can say "I'm a scientist, and I predict X!" And the media will probably love you.
That's not how science works. A long time ago there were two fringe theories - one that the planet was going into an ice age, and one that we were going to warm. Both were attacked - it's a perfectly decent career in science to debunk false theories.
But one of those theories found support through theory and evidence, and one was shown conclusively to be nonsense. That's how science works: big ideas get tested, and the ones that are wrong get chucked. To this day, if anyone could disprove global warming, they'd be rich and famous (or as rich and famous as a scientist can get). It'd make their career. Everyone would love to do that. It hasn't happened, becuase reality doesn't care what we'd love.
This idea that the few people wrongly predicting cooling someone invalidates all of science is silly. Science worked! It showed a nonsense theory to be nonsense, and a correct theory to be correct.
It's like going to a teacher who marked one answer wrong, and one right, and complaining that they lack consistency. It doesn't make any sense.
MT_Syd:
Not quite TN.
In the 70's a small number of scientists published papers that predicted global cooling. These made headline news as the US experienced some very cold weather at that time. However, the majority of climate science published at that time predicted warming - but it was not interesting to journalists and never reached the public consciousness
The issueis that few outside of the life sciences understand that ecology underpinns economy. Once this is understood then the course of action to protect the economy becomes obvious....protect the environment.
Daveb:
We are at a stage in human existence where short time economics issues are more important than longer time ecological issues. When in reality they are interdependent.
Many of the environmental problems we are facing today, and into the long future, are associated with this short term economics dominant worldview driving how we live and are governed.
This occurs in our form of economic democracy where big business has more influence and says over day to day governance of our nation and its future than we the people have.
In this economic democracy context the capitalism v socialism or left v right arguments are a bit scary as they are mainly about s rearranging the problems to fix the problems.
We the Australian public are not having local and national conversations about what sustainable futures means to us and the role we individually, as communities, as a nation and as global citizens have in connecting to such a future.
I believe we need to rethink our economic view of democracy and moved towards a more ecological view of democracy where ecology and economy are seen, practiced and governanced as one. Thereby future generations are included in today?s decision making and rivers have ?rights?.
Alison Cann:
Kevin Rudd has a plan to "terminate" the carbon tax.
This is the latest in a series of moves to win the election that has not been called but is in the pipeline this year before November 30.
We are all on the edge of our seats waiting for this termination before the announcement. The air is electric.
robert:
Kevin doesn't like elections because the average punter gets a chance pass judgement on him,his government,Labor and the whole rotten structure.
AGB:
Finally, a critique of the dogma surrounding climate change mitigation.
Like science, debate in economics must be free and ultimately driven evidence.
Yes, but unfortunately the science has been ignored for too long. Instead we've had the "it's a hoax" tin foil hat brigade dominating our media and politics.
JohnM:
Empirical evidence - you do know what that is, don't you? - shows that CO2 has negiligible impact on temperature.
A recent report from the CSIRO said that the world's deserts were shrinking and the planet was visibly greener.
That's the real science, not some fantasy science from flawed climate models.
Logically the only thing to do with an ETS is to completely abandon it.
Lisa Meredith:
Dear JohnM,
You say: Empirical evidence - you do know what that is, don't you? - shows that CO2 has negiligible impact on temperature.
Can you explain precisely, at the subatomic level, what is going on and how CO2 behaves as you understand it, so we can see where you are coming from?
Exactly what is the behaviour of CO2 from an empirical perspective?
Can you also explain exactly how there is an impact on temperature, even though it is negligible?
I hope you can see that answering these questions gives you the opportunity to illustrate your knowledge, explain your reasoning and help us to understand your point of view.
I'm perfectly aware of the nature of CO2 at the subatomic level and how energy saturation leads to the logarithmic and relationship between theoretical CO2 increase and temperature increase.
That relationship says, to put it simply, the first 50ppm of CO2 caused X warming, the next 50ppm causes further warming but less than an X increase.
The ultimate empirical evidence lies with the observed temperature, which after all was the basis for the claim that mankind was causing warming, which by definition is a temperature increase. For the last 17 years there's been no statistically significant warming DESPITE all the extra CO2. The only sensible interpretation of this is that CO2 has less impact than supposed (negligible?) or that natural forces play a far greater part than have been assumed, which logically means that any form of carbon pricing, as a means of reducing CO2, simply cannot be justified.
CO2 doesnt exist at a subatomic level. It is a molecule composed of three atoms, one carbon and 2 oxygens
leave the science to the experts
Reinhard:
John, just once I would like to see you reference findings from a scientific report and not embellish them to death
"In Australia, our native vegetation is superbly adapted to surviving in arid environments and it consequently uses water very efficiently," Dr Donohue said. "Australian vegetation seems quite sensitive to CO2 fertilisation."
http://www.csiro.au/Portals/Media/Deserts-greening-from-rising-CO2.aspx
Yup. that discusses the Sahara desert boundaries really well. Go look at the article in The Register. It says "the world's deserts".
Sorry, let me quote from the report in The Register where it quotes someone from CSIRO - ""We found a strong link between the rise in atmospheric CO2 concentrations and a greening that?s been observed across many of the world?s arid environments," explains Dr Randall Donohue of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia's national science agency."
Note the words "world's arid environment".
Don't accuse me of embellishing when that's what you're doing.
Wow, stunning level of ignorance. Physics clearly demonstrates that greenhouse gases have an impact on temperature by retarding certain light (heat) wavelengths radiating back out to space.
Sure you can cheery pick data from a CSIRO report, however some parts of the planet may become greener and some will become more arid. Your point? You a prpbably also confused about the difference between climate and weather.
Are you aware that previous predictions from climate models are now observable reality. The models got it right and are becoming more sophisticated as computing power inproves and data resources increase. If anything the modelling has proven its worth and accuracy. Even worse the modelling would seem to have erred on the conservative.
Logically the only thing to do is to invest heavily in renewable energy technology and ride the economic boom that this will produce into the future.
Come on you wonderful conservative brains, there is nothing to be scared of here (well, other than catastphic climate change and the misery of your offspring), just a wee little change...please don't panic. How about applying some of the innate conservative caution to protecting our only life support system, surely that is the only logical thing to do.
@JohnM
I think you'll find very few scientists refer simply to "global warming" ... they refer to "global climate change", warming is one side of the climate change coin. Cooling is equally a problem.
CO2 is not necessarily the only agent of climate change, but it is certainly one which we can actually do something about, not just whinge. Putting your head in the sand exposes your backside to a very severe kicking.
Uh.... what? For CO2 to have a negligible effect on temperature, you'd have to re-write fundamental laws of physics.
Sir, you're going to win a Nobel Prize for this! Congrats! BRAVO! If you'll just share your evidence then I'd be very happy to nominate you.
PointAtClowns:
You should try to get better understanding of climate change ->
http://www.csiro.au/en/Outcomes/Climate/Understanding.aspx
The current 'debate' is polarised and crude: that we have the mainstream climate scientists on the one hand, and the nutty deniers/vested interests on the other.
The current data set suggests the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle.
But don't take my word for it: The Economist's 'Climate Science: A sensitive matter' (google it - it's freely available online) provides an excellent summary of the latest developments.
While the current data set is small (spanning some 15 years) it does represent the very best we have. It also clearly suggests many orthodox climate scientists and their models have overstated the problem.
AGB: The Economist article is relying on a small number of papers that suggest the numbers may be lower - but a good rule of thumb is science is that novel findings are almost always wrong. Sadly the media loves novel findings and love to report on them.
The papers mentioned in the article are yet to be confirmed, and are flatly contradicted by a LOT of other papers. Until the scientific community gets its teeth into these results, I really don't think a journalist's interpretation is much use. Not so say that nothing will come of it - maybe they're onto somehting - but, like I said: novel results are almost always wrong.
The 'debate' so far has been polarised and crude: on the one side we have mainstream climate science and on the other, the nutty conservatives/vested interests.
The current data set suggests the truth most likely lies somewhere in the middle.
But don't take my word for it. The Economist's 'Climate science: A sensitive matter' (google it - it's freely available online) offers a great summary of recent developments. While the current data set is relatively small (spanning some 15 years), it suggests many climate scientists and their models are likey overstating the problem. No, we can't yet draw any firm conclusions, but it does suggest the science - as well as the economics of mitigation - are not quite as settled as previously argued.
"its a hoax" tin foil hat brigade.
Yes Laura - and we have fundamental alarmists (who don't know how long it takes the earth to travel around the sun) telling everyone the sky is falling because Al Gore said so. He also said the centre of the earth was a million degrees! So who's the tin foil hat wearer?
CO2 ppm is rising - no doubt about that. It's effect on climate variation? Negligible. The BOM climate data sets are very clear on that. Anyone can check them out for themselves rather than believe what alarmists say.
rumpole2:
Why not just legislate carbon reductions and let the market figure out the best way to achieve this ?
Why not have an election so we can decide for a change!
The Jones Crusher:
"Why not have an election so we can decide for a change!"
A recent comprehensive survey revealed that two thirds of Australians believe that Global Warming is a serious issue and that something should be done about it. Those same people will also vote at the next election. Of course, the hierarchy of needs might mean that they are more worried about boat people than they are about the global climate being irreparably damaged...
And the overwhelming majority of Australians don't want a carbon tax or an ETS which is still a carbon tax so I repeat,why not just have an election?
Agree totally. The EU experience with its ETS has been a failure. Remember about 20 years ago when we had daily reporting of the pollution level over Sydney and the brown haze over the city. I understand that regulation of vehicle emissions was largely responsible for the clean up.
Tax Me:
Peter, you quote the EU experience. Perhaps a more sobering example is the Chicago Carbon Exchange. Funded with the assistance of the US Government. The market fell over in 2011 when the traded price slumped to usd $0.07c.
This what the New York Times said on 3rd January, 2011:
"Though celebrated by climate activists at its launch in 2003, CCX became plagued by a flood of credits from offset project generators that collapsed the CFI market, sending exchange prices to a nickel per unit. Highlighting this collapse, many in the U.S. carbon trading community openly questioned the legitimacy of the system itself, putting founder Richard Sandor and his team on the defensive at periodic carbon market conferences held in Washington, D.C., and New York.
So when the new parent company IntercontinentalExchange announced the end of mandatory CFI trading by member companies in October, much of the media reacted with quasi obituaries for CCX itself. Coming as it did on the heels of failed climate legislation in Congress, a fiasco at international climate change negotiations in Copenhagen, Denmark, and the collapse in the price for allowances under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), CCX's closure seemed to confirm the death of the very concept of cap and trade itself."
And when one looks at the founders behind the CCX, a healthy scepticism should be maintained as to the money making behind such schemes. Names such as Goldman Sachs and Al Gore via his private business interests.
rumpole,
You are totally correct - we once had an EPA that ensured pollution of air and water and soil was monitored and any breaches were prosecuted by the EPA in court with heavy and punitive fines.
We removed lead in our petrol (a wonderful thing especially for inner city children) simply through legislation and enforcement.
As such there is absolutely no need for a price or market mechanism and in fact such mechanisms only work if EVERYONE (including every country) is in the market and must operate within the market - which will never happen. Even the existing ETS have so many loopholes, credits and exceptions that they don't work.
So what would you suggest Rusty?
Collectively sticking our heads in a bucket of sand and hoping the boogey man goes away?
Inaction is not a sensible or logiccal option. The inaction of others is not a valid excuse to do nothing but it is an oportunity to garner the benefits of pioneering and to demonstrate leadership.
Perhaps, just perhaps if we were early adopters and developers of technology and encouraged our nations national treasures of scientists and engineers to develop new technologies, processes and paradigms we would benefit greatly into the future both economically, socially and environmentally.
Wake up Australia, shake off the shackles of the ignorant, misinformed, fearful and foolish...its time to shine!
"Why not just legislate carbon reductions and let the market figure out the best way to achieve this ?"
There are already market mechanisms in place to reduce carbon emissions because the input used to create the emissions is energy and energy costs money. The issue over the last 100+ years is that the cost of energy has been very cheap. It has allowed for the industrialisation of the planet and cheap goods, but has also resulted in an increasing global temperature.
Sooner or later we will have to pay the ferryman.
Billy Bob Hall:
"...but has also resulted in an increasing global temperature."
Anthropogenic Co2 emissions from industrialization have done no such thing. Such an effect anthropogenic CO2 has never been measured.
Watch it! A statement of empirical facts has little place here.
pilotyoda:
97% of the world's scientists would disagree with those that don't think that human activity has caused the increase in global warming.
Many of the other 3% had been hijacked by industry funding to show what industry wanted.
Do the deniers know something that millions of scientists don't?
Diskobolus:
The problem of this dubious governments theoretical flawed poorly implemented stratagem, emissions taxing schema, is that there could be an obvious upside for the labor mob view of its shrinking world. Once the destruction of the manufacturing base of the country is completed under labor stewardship it could very likely result in Union membership to increase significantly.
Due to the forward thinking deal, Bob hawk has organized with Labor sponsored, Gina's mining sites. Nice award Bob! you looked surprised with the camera at the award, the medal ? rather clumsy and embarrassed...? Then you started to blabber a bit upon being received in Japan. Highest honor ever to an Australian or was it the camera that bothered you...?
Another upside could be the destruction of the green political party, that silly well meaning face of this dodgy Rud government.
From 2007, with very little supporting evidence, Garnaut and the Treasury always urged a 'market' not a tax, and of course the 'market' had to link to the European 'market'.
This religious conviction has cost Labor dear, but it has done nothing to reduce the power of the priests.
To seriously reduce carbon dioxide, you need to look at source and its egress. Source includes human beings, so population control is key eg one child policy in China, condoms in Philippines and India, monogamy in Saudi Arabia, etc, reduce weight and mass of people in western counties where obesity is at 40%.
To remove carbon dioxide, you need the trees which use it for food, plant more trees and preserve natural forests eg. The Amazons.
This is immediately useful and Impact the environment quickly.
You cannot pretend population control and reducing bulk/ weight is important as these are human related and can be easily implemented if there is a will.
Carbon trading etc, is just a game of monopoly, a smoke signal, to allow some entrepreneurs to make some buck. Keep it simple please.
Citizen Ssmith:
Methane is 14 times more efficient than carbon dioxide as a green house gas and there are immense quantities of methane trappend in the permafrost of the Russian and Canadian tundra. Warm up the tundra and...watch the fun.
The overwhelming majority of excesss CO2 is from burining fossil fuels. You can even run the isotope tests yourself, at home, to check. That's the cool thing about science - you don't need to take anyone's word for it!
Alfie:
The Coalition already has a viable alternative:
Dump the tax.
Yes yes, and don't forget their other brilliant policy, "stop the goats!".
...which is what Rudd is doing...?
Ray Manta:
A good analysis of how legislation and market frameworks can be twisted by gamesmanship aimed at wedging your opponents and diluting the proper intentions while still claiming to be clean. We see the same tactics everywhere that the word "sustainable" is wilfully misused. Even the Japanese scientific whaling program is apparently aimed at researching sustainability.
Another example is the global influence of US mega-corporation Monsanto on our choice of crops, which is already having dire consequences in Africa. At least Europe has shown more foresight than other agricultural regions by resisting the Monsanto scourge. It is good news that Monsanto has stopped trying to get its GM crops into European soils. But what about Australia?
I think people who support paying taxes on hot air should be allowed to they should line up on Sundays and after an hour or so of preaching they can make there donation in the plate that is handed around and those that think it is a load of, don't have to contribute if they don't want to.P S the gatherings can be any day on night they like for those that aren't available to contribute on Sundays.
ardy:
If you are studying the effects of climate policy and you have any grasp on reality then the key thing is to have an alternate energy solution that is at least as cost competitive and reliable as what you want to throw out.
The answer unfortunately is that you don't. Solar and Wind will not perform at the same $ per Kwh and are unreliable. The only way it stands up is with ridiculous govt. hand outs.
When you have some alternate technology please come back and try again as the reality is dawning, even in our own boy scouts head, that he would be committing economic and political suicide to shut down all coal fired generators.
Where is the plan to change over to re-newables and what is the cost? Initial and ongoing...
The only solution is unacceptable to the ideologues here and the government, and that is nuclear.
If you add the cost of climate change to the cost per kw/h, coal comes out quite a lot worse than existing renewables.
...but I agree with you re: nuclear. Especially for Australia - extremely geologically stable, plenty of uranium, highly skilled work force. It's perfect.
/shrug
wobbles:
Why not introduce some form of national energy rationing, set a total permissible ceiling and allocate a periodic quota for each individual?
GJA:
Yes, rolling brown-outs or even blackouts would be so much better than just a tax or market solution to reducing emissions.
Stock up on glow sticks now.
And the difference that Kyoto or the European ETS made to global average temperature was what exactly? A couple of millionths of a degree or was it less?
17 years of CO2 emissions. No increase in average global temperature. What does that tell you??
Where on earth do you get the idea it?s not increasing?
Look, if you remove the insanely hot year at 1998 ? just take it out ? you?ll see a very clear progression, year after year. The temperature going up.
But somehow, by putting that really HOT year into the mix, people think it somehow show?s we?re NOT warming. How on earth does that make sense? You?re using an exceptionally HOT year to say we?re NOT warming! That?s just dopey.
The trend is very, very clear. It?s right in line with IPCC projections (actually at the high end). How people can put their head in the sand and pretend it isn?t happening is beyond me.
it tells me that most of the energy has been absorbed by the oceans (which is measurable)
that a decade is not long enough to discern a long term trend
that the last decade has been the warmest ever
Cherna:
Gareth. I sure would like to know how Rudd proposes to legislate the termination of the carbon tax without support from the Greens and the Coalition? Let alone win the election before he could even try.
Like everything Rudd does it's all huff puff spin and more spin ; when is it commentators will start to say it like it is?
First: Does anyone recall how quickly Rudd07 abandoned what he termed the greatest moral challenge of our lives? And now he wants us to believe him. I listened to him the first time round but having been caught once there is no chance of me ever trusting him again.
Second: To me it seems that Rudd is fighting the legacy of the Gillard carbon tax. That makes some sense as he hates her to such a degree as to consider her the real opposition, so he?ll oppose all that Gillard has achieved. So far we have the Gonski on the chopping block along with the scrapping of the Carbon Tax in favour of another tax by way of an emission trading scheme. But what galls most is that he is replacing one tax with another whilst failing to tell us it will end up over $300 per tonne according to treasury modelling. Yes, the same treasury he relies on for this spin on budget savings? There you go Gareth good reasons to trust this man? I think not!
Third: His own side called him a psychopath, a control freak that refused to delegate, in fact this was escalated to an abusive control freak, and others called him a megalomaniac, so much so that Labor MP's with integrity resigned before serving under Rudd. Other Labor MP's stated categorically they would never serve under Rudd; hypocrisy and expedience abounds when it comes to Labor as we find few MP's stuck to their word and the majority, like Shorten, Macklin ? who lacked integrity went back on their word.
Fourth: His own side declared that Rudd07 was a total dud and had him politically knifed. It was shear expedience on the part of Labor to save a sinking ship and it turned out they actually lost the election in 2010 because of Rudd?s sabotage? Hindsight indicates Gillard was a worse dud so in a repeat of 2010 Labor has done a reverse assassination and re-installed the original Dud/Rudd07. We are now asked to vote for Rudd and trust he has changed?
Does anyone seriously believe that a thinking voter would vote for Rudd/Labor with the possibility he will once more lead Labor. Rudd thinks we should forget all the above along with forgetting the disasters defined by his asylum seeker policy, mining tax mess, backflip on action on climate change?
Most of us will not forget!
Jacob:
Any reductions in emissions are more likely due to consumers reducing electricity consumption in the face of the GFC (and unemployment in Europe) and sharply rising prices imposed by rapacious and now largely foreign-owned energy companies, and to the transfer of polluting industries to China.
If Europe was still producing most of its manufactures itself, or took into account emissions associated with offshoring this, and Australia were to take into account the burning of exported coal, there is no reduction in emissions. Coal basins planned to be developed in Australia, such as Galilee, will dwarf any supposed emissions reductions.
As the atmosphere does not care where the emissions come from, the whole trading system seems to be fraudulent, but no more fraudulent than that of other governments and probably less so. Lip service is the order of the day. It has not worked in Europe, as the author shows.
But for green zealots and other ideologues, it is the ideology and image that counts, it is more important for them to feel morally superior than what it is to take effective action. This is shown by their attitude to nuclear (and really, do you expect us to believe that waste disposal cannot be done in Australia, with the huge areas of sparsely populated and geologically stable country we have?) and their false claims about renewables.
Now there's a solution: build a waste dump a square mile wide and deep in the middle of the country. Then spend twenty or thirty years building the power plants whose waste will fill it. Of course, in twenty or thirty years it may be a little late for nuclear plants to offset the emissions we produce in the meantime, but never mind that for now. Let's think about what will happen to all that waste piled in under Uluru, or wherever you've worked out it should go. Do we have any data on that? How many tons of strontium etc with half-lives of centuries cooking away will we have? How will we keep it from reaching critical mass? What happens if it leaks?
At least you get the "morally superior" smugness of having done something.
France produces 80% of it power by nuclear and has no issues. China has made enormous technical improvements to recycling to minimise ultimate waste. Also spent enormous funds on research to reduce construction costs and meltdown risk factors. About time that we had a serious non emotional debate about replacing our dirty coal fired power stations. Then we can merrily expand exports of our coal to be burnt in other countries but "feel good" that we are contributing to CO2 worldwide reductions which of course is total nonsense.
Whatever else you might think about Jacob's comments you should get your facts straight about the volume of waste produced by nuclear power plants.
A typical large power nuclear power plant will produce around 25 tonnes of high level nuclear waste each year, the spent fuel. You can fit that in your single car garage.
During his first term in office, KRudd declared that he wanted to see 20% of all power produced renewably, and *shock-horror* actually DID something to make it possible. Six years later, in the dead of winter, my household yesterday produced 160% of its requirements.
Jacob, not only do I feel morally superior, but I'm in a financially AND environmentally superior position as well, thanks in part to KRudd's foresight.
I'm not talking about what he might do in future, but what he has actually achieved. Good on you KRudd!!!
It's a pity negativity and greed like yours can't be put to good use to benefit mankind instead of whingeing and carping.
As for nuclear energy, the fact is that when I installed my first set of solar panels, it cost in the vicinity of $18,000 (in 2009). It's turned out to be so successful I've installed another similar system at a cost of under $5,000 (without needing ANY government assistance). If this trend continues (and why shouldn't it) by the time Australia's first nuclear power plant is commissioned, ( in 14 years according to John Howard), many of the "conventional" power generating utilities will be suffering the same fate as in Western Australia currently. They'll have to be amending their costings to take into account the loss of income from home-generated power, in effect imposing a levy on domestic power generators. Nuclear will need even more taxpayer subsidisation than it already receives.
DTripp:
The human condition appears to be to shoot itself in the foot through its inability to share power between people, so there's a constant internal war and nothing gets done about the climate. Our political systems are just not evolved enough for national co-operation, let alone global action. I think we might have to go back to the drawing board - maybe 20,000 years or so ago and try again.
GraemeF:
I agree with Tony Abbott in that a 'simple tax' is best. That way all revenue can be used for productive purposes not pissed away in bonuses to Wall Street manipulators.
A trading scheme worked very well for the reduction of sulphur particles but the 'markets' have gone insane with the greed is good mindset.
Carbon Tax and a Financial Transactions Tax.
Firstly we must avoid federal ALP's mistakes before worrying about European mistakes.
Ankelbita:
Why just focus on carbon pollution? What is really needed in a tax on all pollution. A source of revenue, a brake on consumption, a benefit for environment, and a job creator.
You seem misinformed. "carbon pollution" has nothing to do with CO2 emissions.
- Carbon is NOT carbon dioxide
- Carbon dioxide is no more a pollutant than water is.
R. Ambrose Raven:
Get rid of this fixation with money costs and the consequent obsession with carbon taxes and emissions trading. After all, even though the bumbling stumbling carbon trading/emissions scheme we have has cost a large amount of money for minimal impact, the political reaction has forced even further weakening of this aspect of the effort to moderate greenhouse gas emissions.
Climate change is very much a scientific and technological issue, in which money can be no more than a measure of value for seeking the best compromises. Scientific, technical, and social approaches ? in other words, regulation - are the only ones that can provide sensible measures of targets, performance and impact.
One of Australia?s Chief Scientists warned, for instance, that energy, water and carbon budgets are being dealt with separately by policymakers, even though all were linked . This is another example.
Because in one and only one respect the thuggery of denialists is correct ? it will cost us. We tend to use the cheapest and easiest options first, for exactly those reasons. It can fairly be assumed that we are currently using the cheapest and easiest energy options, so using less of them means using a more costly replacement. It may cost $370 billion to completely replace current electricity production from hydrocarbons with renewables.
It is because mainstream economics is actually a deeply flawed and biased ideology that we actually need to get rid of this fixation with money costs and the consequent obsession with carbon taxes and emissions trading. Properly done (a big caveat with today?s incompetent politicians and dismembered ?public service?) direct action properly directed has an important role.
Attempting to make financial solutions fit environmental problems, whether through using tax-funded ?incentives? or a carbon levy, or emissions trading, is very consistently costly, wasteful, inherently regressive, often ineffective, and worst of all, steadily reduces our options as successively worse crises hit. Sometimes the most energy-efficient domestic technologies and appliances aren't available; often people won?t know which is best. The only ? albeit important - merit of a carbon price is that it is forcing us to face up to the need to choose.
No Australian Chief Scientist in recent history has had any background and experience in science matters. Further, do you really think that a CS would be appointed if they strongly disagreed with the government on what the government claims is a very important matter?
Steeden:
How come when Howard AND Abbott introduced their ETS back in 2007 not once did they refer to it as a "Carbon Tax"...Mr Abbott can you explain that?
Terry:
Having no confidence that a Carbon floating price would do anything but make some rich people richer and a lot of poor people poorer, I was interested in what the author wanted instead.
I went and looked at the alternatives to which the author provided a link. These are the headings:
Working toward a European ban on fracking projects.
Phasing out public subsidies for fossil fuel development and use
Supporting a full phase-out of fossil fuel use
Halting the negotiation of free trade agreements and Bilateral Investment Treaties
Supporting small-scale, locally-owned and governed sustainable energy initiatives
Supporting structural changes in consumption and production
In other words, legislate, ban and subsidise.
A double whammy to any economy. Cripple output and raise taxes to prop up unprofitable "approved" projects.
Good luck taking that to any voter.
PS What does "supporting structural changes in consumption" actually mean? Rationing? I don't think I want to know.
Dump Market Philosophy:
Sure. But why only about carbon pricing?
Let us dump "Market Based" competition based policies in other areas too.
They do not deliver for poor. Exactly as Market driven Carbon Pricing is hurting the rich more than the poor.
HotFrog:
Many thanks Gareth for your insightful and thought provoking analysis, the efficacy of market mechisms in achieving even their stated policy goals deserves far more scrutiny.
However the bigger question that needs to inform this debate is what is the science really saying about the adequacy of the targets, or climate policy goals, in achieving the objective of staying within the 2 degrees warming 'guardrail', beyond which maintenance of complex civilisation as we know it is very likely to become extremely problematic.
A strong and convincing case is being made by leading authorities such as Prof Kevin Anderson of the Tyndall Centre and University of Manchester that what is currently being proposed and done falls far short of what the physics of climatology demands. While arguably a necessary part of the policy response to the climate emergency, this important view holds that market mechanisms, of any kind, are far from sufficient to achieve the deep and urgent cuts that must be achieved if we and our kids are to have any chance of avoiding the worst impacts of climate change.
How we can rise to this challenge, and provide sorely lacking international leadership to drive the imperative concerted reponse needs to become the central focus of the Australian climate policy debate.
On the basis of the free market forces and lack of government vision, I am looking to invest in the property market in the form of palatial houseboats. You can moor them above your submerged property.
sk:
Split our energy market into 2 - CO2 and non-CO2 power generation. Aim for zero CO2 power generation by year 2100 in increments of 10 years. So by 2010, 10% of our energy needs must come from non CO2 portion, by 2020, 20% of our energy needs must come from non CO2 generation and so on. Let market forces who will be the supplier in each generation market segment. Scrap ETS as the nature of ETS does not guarantee emissions will definitely reduce over time because the price of carbon is not guarantee to rise steadily over time.
"The successes of Australia's carbon price in reducing emissions in the electricity sector have also been overstated." No evidence, no basis for the claim -- not even an example of overstatement. Either tell me more, or I treat this as empty rhetoric.
Giles:
Any market established to trade in derivatives (that is what these instruments are) is prone to its participants putting the profit motive first. They are in the market to make money, reduce risk or hedge their exposure not save the world.
Look at the experience with the sub prime mortgage derivatives in the US. Some blame that particular trade for the GFC. Of course its participants would just say that they were spreading the risk around inresponse to Clinton's demand that they lend to poor people.
You should always be suspicious of left wing government's interference in such markets.
MJLC:
"Let's hope that advocates for action on climate change see this latest move as the end of the road for market-dominated responses to global warming, so we can avoid Europe's mistakes and start talking about alternatives to carbon pricing"
Let's rather hope instead that advocates for action on climate change one day understand (a) wise people take what they can get when they can, and use that as a stepping-off point for increasing their gains over time, (b) it's far easier to renovate an existing home than to construct a new one from scratch, and (c) that adopting the position of "my way or the highway" is how highways come to get built.
Personally, I doubt it.
Ozchucky:
Thank you Gareth,
Yes, I understand that the economics is all a bit too hard.
Yes, I understand that the opportunities for finger pointing and "I will do something when you do something" excuses are endless.
Yes, I understand that in Australia, all the politicians with their hands on the greenhouse gas levers are scientifically clueless and gutless.
But if we do not find a way to deal with global warming, global warming will deal with us, and more so our children and grandchildren.
We all have to look after the planet we have. Last time I looked, all the other planets in the neighbourhood were less habitable than this one.
Harquebus:
Politicians are starting to realise that "renewables" or "clean energy generators" return less energy than was used to manufacture them. If they could replace themselves and then some, our energy problems would be solved. EROEI. As the cost of energy increases, so will the cost of manufacturing them. This dog will forever be chasing its tail and losing ground.
No party or politician is even contemplating what is required. If there was less people, there would be energy and infrastructure to spare. This pursuit of perpetual economic and population growth is madness. Peak oil mates, peak oil.
1: Forget economics. It is "fatally" flawed. It has poisoned us all, polluted the planet, does not factor physics or the environment and is what has got us into this mess in the first place.
2: Implement national and encourage international populating reduction strategies. One way or another, warfare, famine or disease, nature will drag us back to sustainable levels.
3: Properly manage our finite resources which, are currently being pillaged.
4: Reduce consumption using quotas and not with unfair taxation. We can not shop our way to sustainability and those that spend the most pollute the most.
5: Plant lots and lots of trees. Massive scale reforestation will help the climate, rainfall and be a valuable renewable resource for future generations.
Oh, and forget about that fracking myth. It has its origins in the Pickens Plan and is a Ponzi scheme.
It's not just "carbon" which is the worry. Just Google the word "transpiration" and you immediately see that trees are a very important part of the rain cycle. You take away the trees, the rain disappears.
http://www.watercorporation.com.au/water-supply-and-services/rainfall-and-dams
Between 1911 and 1974 the average annual inflow of rain into the streams and dams around Perth was 338 GigaLitres. From 2004 to 2012 the average has dropped to 65.8 GL. This coincided with the clearing of land for agricultural purposes. Perth now relies for its water 31% dams, 46% groundwater and 23% desalination.
Where is the economic benefit in this situation?
Markets are complex and ineffective. And are open to rorting and generate profites to polluters.
A straight tax is best. To make it fair it should also be applied to imports (like the GST) unless they have originated from a carbon-taxed source. Those countries that tax carbon return some of the money to business in the form of reduced payrol tax or other taxes, making further employment a good option for them.. The business can then become more profitable by reducing their carbon footprint. Those that don't improve will have their goods and services at a small disadvantage price wise and socially while those that do become more profitable.
To paraphrase an old saying: "When all of the rivers and seas are polluted and the animals become scarce and the land infertile, you will discover you cannot eat money".
Andy:
I?d be happier if we spent 4 billion on innovation rather bureaucracy. Invent our way out of this problem and provide a real long term solution. If we made renewable energy cheaper than polluting energy people wouldn?t even consider buying polluting energy. Forcing up the price polluting energy doesn?t mean we?ll use less of it.
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The Marketing Data Scientist Exists, Just not in Title
By Amy Koski| 2019-03-12T10:10:38-04:00 February 20th, 2019|Analytics and Business Intelligence, Featured Articles, Intent, Marketing and Sales|Comments Off on The Marketing Data Scientist Exists, Just not in Title
Recent years have seen the rise of automated marketing operations, insights, and data analysis. Marketing and Sales organizations are using data from new sources in innovative ways to holistically inform and improve their performance and conversion rates.
These first- and third-party data sources are largely captured and categorized by algorithms augmented by artificial intelligence, natural-language processing, and machine learning.
And contrary to popular fears, the robots haven’t taken over yet, which highlights the reality that there have been business analysts, data scientists, and marketers making sense of these new data streams and intelligence.
In a recent article on martechadvisor.com, author Daniel Raskin predicted that real-time data analysis will become so central to the marketing function that the marketing data scientist profession will emerge and become cemented in the marketing function.
Marketing Data Scientists Abound
Some practitioners consider the marketing data scientist profession to be beyond nascent.
Michael Lock, Aberdeen’s senior vice president of research, argues that the vast majority of an organization’s data processing and analysis is done for the purpose of marketing.
Michael Lock
Whether an organization approaches data science as an art or a discipline, the output is “inextricably linked to marketing,” Lock said.
The business analyst role has existed for decades. Many organizations already structure that position within the marketing function because business analysts (who Lock figures are branding themselves as data scientists these days) are analyzing data to open up new markets, determine which products are worth developing, and predict how products will perform and which features will resonate with users.
The work business analysts and data scientists do now is “inherently marketing-driven the vast majority of the time,” Lock said.
The idea of the emerging marketing data scientist role isn’t so much a question of “is there a future in it?” he said, but instead, an argument of “how much of the present is already taken up by data science applied toward marketing purposes — and my sense is that a lot of it is.”
Data Science vs. Marketing Data Science
As for the future of the data scientist role, there will be times when the job isn’t tied into marketing.
At organizations such as manufacturers who deliver unfinished or partially finished goods to other manufacturers, their marketing efforts are not high on the list of organizational priorities. At such an outfit, data scientists will continue to focus on optimizing the product supply chain and new product development process.
At high-tech giants like Oracle, IBM, SAP, or Microsoft, the ability to identify new customers and sell to them is core to the business model, and that responsibility falls under the purview of marketing. So, the majority of their data science efforts are going to be tied to marketing.
“Those companies are gigantic marketing machines,” Lock said. “For any organization that has a significant portion of their budget tied to marketing, you can bet that a large element of data science is going to be applied to those marketing efforts.”
Smaller organizations that lack a current budget allocation for data science need not fret, because user-friendly business intelligence and analytics solutions have proliferated the market.
Rather than trying to hire an expensive data science resource, small- and mid-sized businesses can instead invest in tech that can give “citizen data scientists” the ability to search and identify correlations and buyer intent in their data, Lock said.
The Future of the Marketing Data Scientist
According to Lock, the way that data science is evolving is aligning it to be geared towards marketing, to a large extent.
“With the exception of companies that are purely operational, or almost entirely operational (where data science is going to be applied towards the optimization of supply chain management or whatever it might be), it’s going to have a high degree of relevance in marketing. The connection between the two isn’t going anywhere,” Lock said.
The future of the marketing data scientist may be nothing more than a more accurate title.
About the Author: Amy Koski
Amy Koski is a content marketing and editing consultant. Her path to consultant was circuitous, spanning roles such as content marketing manager at Aberdeen's Waltham HQ, content optimization specialist, IT news & features producer, copywriter, and regional newspaper stringer. Amy is located in Sacramento, Calif.
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CHANGING DEMANDS
SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TOOLS
Sustainable organizations? Start with sustainable procurement
The sustainable procurement trend places new demands on chief procurement officers and requires more effective cross-company collaboration.
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During the past decade, chief procurement officers have seen their agendas increasingly influenced by issues of sustainability—the environmental, social and corporate governance initiatives by which organizations seek to achieve excellence today while providing for the needs of future generations.
Sustainable procurement has risen to become a top priority among companies for several reasons. One important reason is the more intense attention being paid to brand reputations. Although there might be a short-term gain to be had by cutting corners from a social or environmental perspective, markets and consumers may punish companies whose brands let them down. With problems ranging from tainted milk supplies to toxic materials that end up in children’s toys, many companies in recent years have been penalized for failing to enforce sustainable principles at the heart of what they procure and how they procure it.
But beyond reputational risk factors alone, companies are also finding a host of practical benefits that result from a closer focus on sustainable procurement. One benefit comes from the necessity of dealing with the challenges posed by diminished supplies of raw materials—from agricultural items and metals to energy and water. This attention can drive both efficiency and innovation.
This article explores several distinct aspects of how sustainability is affecting the role of the procurement function. The initial section looks at the ongoing evolution of sustainable procurement. A second highlights the increased role of procurement as a tool for social and economic development. Finally, we look at the growing importance of cross-company collaboration as a means to drive a new generation of innovative procurement strategies.
Over the past decade, an increasingly large proportion of procurement teams have taken steps to update their purchasing criteria and guidelines as a means to more strongly emphasize supply and manufacturing factors beyond the basics of cost and quality. According to a biennial benchmark from HEC-EcoVadis, sustainable procurement in 2003 was a Top 10 priority among just 40 percent of firms; in 2011, it was a Top 5 priority at more than 90 percent of firms.
This focus on sustainable procurement is extending into a diverse range of areas—from developing a deeper understanding of how existing materials can be recycled and reused, to reducing sourcing requirements, to pursuing deeper supplier partnerships that drive innovation.
Few companies are more deeply engaged at the intersection of procurement and sustainability than Nestlé, the global food giant. For years, the company has been developing sustainable procurement practices, including a detailed supplier code. This focus on sustainability has been driven in particular by Nestlé’s desire to gain a deeper understanding and knowledge of its food supply chain—from “farm to fork,” as Chief Procurement Officer Kevin Petrie terms it.
Over time, this focus has led to an increasingly close relationship with suppliers, working together on issues ranging from water management and nutrition to using procurement for rural development.
What is driving Nestlé and other companies toward more focus on sustainable procurement? One answer is improving risk management capabilities—risks to customers and, as noted earlier, to a company’s brand. A sustainability lens can screen out suppliers that may pose reputational risks, such as a manufacturer that uses toxic materials in its products or a supply chain partner publicly exposed as exploiting child labor.
Regulation is another driver. High-tech companies, for example, have long faced demands for the safe disposal of electronic goods, which, in turn, has affected their procurement policies.
Evolving consumer preferences are another key factor. As Nestlé’s Petrie puts it, “The ability to touch more consumers, and the fact that consumers now have greater ability to voice concerns about the value chain and to demand full transparency on that, has really brought to life this area of sustainable procurement.”
A final driver has to do with the fact that institutional investors are increasingly considering sustainable procurement factors as part of their assessments of a company’s medium- to long-term prospects for return on equity. A growing number of global investment funds are including specific sustainability-related metrics in their portfolio allocations.
These factors add new demands and pressures that the procurement organizations will increasingly need to deal with. To meet those challenges, chief procurement officers are drawing on a range of tools and systems. Supplier codes of conduct and self-assessments, now widely implemented, were useful first steps, but complex supplier networks and growing sustainability requirements are demanding more sophisticated approaches. These approaches can range from tougher supplier scorecards, to databases that capture more granular supplier information, to more involved total cost models that incorporate sustainability criteria.
For organizations that operate in emerging markets or that deal with suppliers stretching across such markets, there is a growing realization of the role that their procurement budgets can play in boosting social and economic development at the local level. Many organizations are realizing that their purchasing power can be a more effective tool for development than the purely philanthropic gestures of old.
This approach to more sustainable development holds great potential, for society and for businesses.
As Anglo American’s chief executive officer, Cynthia Caroll, has noted, diverting just 1 percent of her company’s procurement spending to disadvantaged local sources would constitute a financial boon dwarfing most state aid budgets in regions such as Africa. That spending would simultaneously help Anglo American find new sources of supply, especially for agricultural or mineral inputs. In other words, expanding into less developed countries—thereby opting to work with smaller, less formal suppliers—can help develop new markets and local competencies.
It needs to be said, however, that sustainable development can raise numerous implementation challenges for procurement. For example, dealing with smaller suppliers that often use less formal practices can add administrative burdens and increase the need for more and better training and oversight.
To implement more sustainable practices, the chief procurement officer needs to collaborate deeply with existing partners as well as with new ones. This collaboration is important because it can improve existing operations and can also be a major source of innovation for the procurement function.
Cooperation and collaboration can also be a means of addressing resource limitations and spiraling costs. For example, the chief procurement officer of a metals and manufacturing company faces stiff challenges in obtaining adequate supplies of essential raw materials. This challenge is pushing his organization’s procurement function to collaborate more closely with both internal operational teams and external suppliers to find new technologies that require fewer or less costly raw materials for the same production output.
Nestlé’s Kevin Petrie highlights how better collaboration can change the role of procurement within a business, especially as the company adjusts to a world with more constrained supplies of critical resources. “As this happens,” Petrie says, “procurement needs to be a strategic partner with the business to ensure that the supply we need holds steady.” With greater price volatility in most markets and with pressure from consumers and regulators to achieve more supply chain transparency, the strategic role of procurement is increasing.
A major challenge in stepping up to these new responsibilities, however, relates to talent and competencies, especially in terms of the available skills within the procurement function to drive new kinds of collaborations.
Cooperative initiatives demand specific and often different skillsets, which can be in short supply even in large firms, let alone smaller ones. As such, procurement leaders need to consider how they can build a new generation of skills-development capabilities. Sustainability presents a major opportunity to move procurement into newer, more complex areas, such as product design, but this will be feasible only if the company has the requisite skills to support that move.
At many organizations, the procurement function has become a key driver of sustainability-based purchasing and partnering policies. Requirements definitions have become more wide-ranging, looking beyond just price and availability to incorporate factors such as standards compliance and resilience to supply chain disruptions. Codes of conduct and policies are increasingly covering what the company buys and who it works with. Sustainability issues are placing new demands on chief procurement officers and their teams. This new and more strategic role for procurement requires changes in systems and processes, new considerations about the scope of procurement and its required skills, and new ways of collaborating across the supply ecosystem.
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Managing Director of Accenture Strategy and Sustainability Services
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Sustainability Supply Chain Lead of Accenture Sustainability Services
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Managing Director of Accenture Sourcing and Procurement Business Services
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Accenture's Chief Procurement Officer
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Paul Caruso
Paul Caruso (drummer)
Paul Caruso (1920-2001) was a criminal defense attorney in Los Angeles, California. He served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II.
Paul Caruso was admitted to practice law in August 1953 following graduation from the Columbus University School of Law in Washington DC (now the Columbus School of Law of the Catholic University of America). He obtained a veteran's waiver for admission to the California Bar.
Caruso later represented war hero and actor Audie Murphy on a charge of trying to kill a Burbank dog trainer who Murphy claimed brutalized the dog and made advances towards Murphy's girlfriend. Caruso has also represented Charles Manson follower Susan Atkins, Eddie Nash—who was accused of four Laurel Canyon slayings—and TV sports reporter Stan Duke, who was charged in the gunshot slaying of radio commentator Averill Berman.
Caruso was the founding president of the Italian American Lawyers Assn. in Los Angeles.
Caruso had five children, and his eldest son, Carey Caruso, still runs his father's practice.
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Paul Caruso (1 June 1955 - 3 May 2006) was a drummer who played for the Boston band The Atlantics.
Paul joined the Atlantics in 1979, as a replacement for Ray 'Boy' Fernandes, and played on the group's best selling record Lonelyhearts. He co-produced and played a drum instrumental on the song "Mercy" from Joe Perry's album Joe Perry which was nominated for a Grammy. He also appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien as a drummer for Perry roughly a year before his death. Caruso was also an engineer on two Aerosmith albums, Just Push Play in 2001 and Honkin' on Bobo in 2004.
He collapsed and died aged 50 at his home in Kingston. He was survived by his wife, Susan, and two sons, Christian and Zachary.
↑ Obituary on the Boston Globe website
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maybe baby, just the way you walk
is shaking all the leaves out of the trees
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teeth and lips and hair run wild yeh
surely this has brought me to my knees
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yes Lord, I'm down -- I'm down upon my knees
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(TNS). Tribune News Service. International Budget for Saturday, July 13, 2019. Updated at 0000 UTC (8 p.m. U.S. EDT Friday). Additional news stories, including full U.S. coverage, appear on the MCT-NEWS-BJT and MCT-NEWSFEATURES-BJT. ^WORLD NEWS< ... The Robert F ... ^R ... "It's been widely felt throughout the Seattle area," said Paul Caruso, a USGS geophysicist ... ....
4.6 earthquake shakes Seattle region overnight
Finger Lakes Times 12 Jul 2019
"It's been widely felt throughout the Seattle area," said Paul Caruso, a USGS geophysicist ... Caruso said the earthquake was the product of a thrust fault, in which one side of a fault pushes upward in relation to its opposite side. Thrust faults are common in the Cascade Range, Caruso said ... It's not impossible, but it's small." ... And it was only a 4.4 ... ....
Dancing rules in this year's Utah Festival Opera productions of 'Newsies,' 'West Side Story' and ...
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Paul Waldron Michael Ballam as Enrico Caruso and Stefan Espinosa as Mario Fantini in Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre's production of "Bravo, Caruso!" Paul Waldron Michael Ballam as Enrico Caruso and Stefan Espinosa as Mario Fantini in Utah Festival Opera and Musical ......
California has had 3,000 earthquakes in the last week, but none was the big one that experts say is 'overdue'
Southern California has seen a series of strong earthquakes. A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck on July 4, followed by a magnitude 5.4 quake in the same region less than 24 hours after ... N. We're still waiting for the big one ... "Paul Caruso, a geophysicist with teh US Geological Survey (USGS), told PBS News ... 'A very energetic sequence' ... 96% chance ... {{}}. ....
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CALIFORNIA — A powerful magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit the US state of California on Friday, a day after the strongest quake in the region in 25 years ... Thursday’s quake during America’s Independence Day celebrations was the largest in Southern California since the 1994 magnitude 6.6 Northridge earthquake, USGS geophysicist Paul Caruso said ... ....
Some damage reported after powerful 7.1 quake hits Southern California
Yahoo Daily News 06 Jul 2019
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Some building damage was reported after the U.S ... Thursday's quake during America's Independence Day celebrations was the largest in Southern California since the 1994 magnitude 6.6 Northridge earthquake, USGS geophysicist Paul Caruso said ... (Reporting by Bill Tarrant, Steve Gorman and Alex Dobuzinskis; Editing by Paul Tait). ....
California earthquake is a reminder that the Big One lurks
The Philadelphia Tribune 06 Jul 2019
SAN FRANCISCO — For those near the epicenter of the earthquake that struck Southern California on Thursday, the ground jolted so violently that it bounced them off their feet ... Paul Caruso, a geophysicist with the U.S ... “We are not changing our forecast for the San Andreas,” Caruso said ... Susan Hough, a seismologist with the USGS, said Friday’s 4.07 a.m....
7.1 magnitude powerful aftershock hits Southern California
International Business Times 06 Jul 2019
The quake hit the town of Ridgecrest on the edge of Death Valley National Park 202 km (125 miles) northeast of Los Angeles ... No unmet needs currently." ... Thursday's quake during America's Independence Day celebrations was the largest in Southern California since the 1994 magnitude 6.6 Northridge earthquake, USGS geophysicist Paul Caruso said ... ....
Some damage reported after powerful 7.1 earthquake, aftershocks rock Southern California
DNA India 06 Jul 2019
The quake hit the town of Ridgecrest on the edge of Death Valley National Park 202 km (125 miles) northeast of Los Angeles ... Thursday's quake during America's Independence Day celebrations was the largest in Southern California since the 1994 magnitude 6.6 Northridge earthquake, USGS geophysicist Paul Caruso said ... ....
Magnitude 7.1 earthquake recorded in California
Deccan Herald 06 Jul 2019
Some building damage was reported after the U.S ... It was also measured at 7.1 by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Agency ... No unmet needs currently." ... Thursday's quake during America's Independence Day celebrations was the largest in Southern California since the 1994 magnitude 6.6 Northridge earthquake, USGS geophysicist Paul Caruso said ...
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To what extent were Tudor rebellions caused by factionalism
Faction within the Tudor dynasty has been seen as pernicious by many historians; Christopher Haigh argues that faction fighting in the counties and at Court was certainly disruptive. Writing about Elizabeth I, he comments on how sources of factional conflict are thought to have tested her political skills, and, as she lost control in the 1590s, to have contributed towards the slide to disaster. On the other hand, it has been reasonably argued that faction was a necessary phenomenon for active and energetic government. Paul Thomas argues that although it did pose a danger, faction returned to its role as an engine of politics, noting how the core of council and administration remained remarkably consistent at least until 1589.Evidence of the threat posed by faction begins in the fifteenth century where weak kingship and challenges to the succession had led to the rapid turnover of factions and rulers; Simnel and Warbeck’s rebellion were both politically motivated due to Yorkist and Lancastrian faction. Sir Geoffrey Elton endorses this view, saying ‘the northern risings represent the effort of a defeated Court faction’. Haigh argues the importance of the threat factions posed to central government; in Wales and the Marches the repercussions of courtly faction fighting undermined the authority of the ‘provincial governor’, Pembroke, which damaged the fabric of county government. However, in terms of the outcomes of rebellion, Elton argues that fear of anarchy overrode all faction and even Norfolk proved implacable in his opposition to it, saying ‘Loyalty and obedience to the king, the guardian of peace and order and the symbol of the state, dominated everything’.Paul Thomas acknowledges faction as a potential threat, but one of little consequence: he argues that in the absence of organised parties, the main requirement was that successful factions should stay successful long enough to provide stability, continuity and effectiveness. The ‘strong’ rule of Henry VII and his son until 1540 had seen faction kept within bounds, and so, when faction overthrew Wolsey from 1529 to 1530, its victory was short lived. Thomas Cromwell’s promotion from Wolsey’s own household and his grasp of many of the essentials of the Cardinal’s rule ensured stability. Once Cromwell was himself overthrown in 1540, the king seemed all too willing to allow conservative and radical or Catholic and Protestant factions to compete openly without lasting victory for either. These accounts suggest that faction was an engine to politics rather than a danger to it, and both Henry VIII and Elizabeth (both widely considered successful monarchs) advocated it. Penry Williams upholds this view and suggests that, despite some resistance to taxation and some troubles caused by the ambitions of Essex, government was effective in difficult circumstances and its ends were achieved.However, Elizabeth advocated faction, and under her rule it posed a greater danger: under the influence of Camden, Naunton and Neale, historians have seen the politics of Elizabethan Court in terms of bitter struggles between antagonistic factions competing for the control of patronage and policy. Haigh notes that factionalism has been a much-used weapon in the revisionist armoury – employed to explain many troubles within Parliaments – and most accounts of Elizabethan Court have tended to emphasize factional strife and a vicious atmosphere of place-seeking and competition surrounding the queen.However, he argues that much of the evidence for factional strife has been drawn from the 1590s and by no means reflects the reality of previous decades. The Courts were never completely free from conflict, but such conflict was less the product of faction among courtiers than of disputes between queen, councillors and intimates. Simon Adams also questions the importance of faction; he doubts whether the conflicts between Cecil and Leicester really existed, and denies that Court politics were organised in factions at all. These accounts propose that faction needs to more closely defined. Haigh suggests that the bitter disputes between Leicester and Essex have been wrongly termed factional, as ‘most of their relations were quite amicable… [and] there was never a Sussex faction of any size’.Ultimately, there was an element of both similarity and continuity in the period as most of the rebellions were politically motivated – starting with Warbeck’s rebellion in 1491 until the end of the period with Essex’s rebellion in 1601 – and political motivation always involved faction. This displays the clear political motives present across the period, which is an arguably unique consistency. Religious grievances, for example, were not present throughout the Tudor reign; it was only due to reformation in 1532 that religion became a factor that linked the previously disparate groups together. Both the consistency and frequency of the impact factionalism had on rebellion therefore suggest it was undeniably important in causing it.
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Accidental Ecosystems
Three books that connect invasive species, preservation and human interference with natural selection.
Reviewed by: Andrew Reeves
Categories: Traditional Knowledge - Restoration - Resilience - Research - Reclamation - Habitat Protection - Conservation
The New Wild / Fred Pearce
After Preservation / B. Minteer and S. Pyne
Invasive Species in a Globalized World / R. Keller, M. Cadotte and G. Sanford
The Belarus government created the Polesie State Radiation Ecological Reserve in Belarus in the aftermath of humanity’s worst nuclear power calamity at Chernobyl. After a massive radioactive cloud descended on the forests, farmlands and villages dotting the landscape, almost 2,200 square kilometres were set aside in 1988 to protect wildlife. The idea of “wildlife protection” within a radioactive zone is darkly humorous: preservation of an ecosystem denuded of life by humanity’s most cataclysmic technology. The public’s prevailing view of Polesie is as a “post-apocalyptic wilderness,” populated by irradiated monsters or devoid entirely of life. One wagers that few would bother defending such a defiled landscape as if it were the natural equal of Yosemite or Banff.
Enter Fred Pearce. The New Wild, the latest offering from the veteran British journalist, shows Pearce turning a sympathetic eye to species and places where he believes nature is putting on a clinic of resiliency. Occasionally, this leaves him a lonely defender of detested invasive species – the brown tree snake in Guam, for example, or zebra mussels in the Great Lakes. This cheerleading is also scaled up for refashioned ecosystems like Polesie. “Radioactive wolves patrol the streets,” he writes optimistically, while “wild boars root in the cesium-soaked soils” past “strontium-stuffed mushrooms” lining cooling ponds of the Chernobyl plant, now suffused with contaminated catfish. Yet far from the post-apocalyptic hellscape many imagine, species not dependent on humans for survival have rebounded in the zone to levels greater than when humans were around. Our abandoned infrastructure, absent of people, has created suitable homes for badgers in cellars, wild boars in sheds, owls and kestrels nesting in empty apartment towers. Bears have arrived, Pearce writes, co-existing alongside Belarus’s largest lynx population. Uniquely, this microworld without us, a novel ecosystem if there ever was one, has become an ideal 21st century habitat.
Don’t misunderstand – “nobody in their right mind would want more such places,” Pearce writes of Polesie – but its recovery, without human intervention, points a way toward what he (all too often) calls “the new wild.” Hence the book’s title. Traditional notions of conservation encourage a rigid, doctrinaire adherence to old customs of little use when dealing with modern environmental challenges from climate change, rapid urbanization, pollution, agricultural intensification and invasive species. “Dynamism and change are the norm in nature,” Pearce writes. “Ecosystems that are unchanging may be in trouble.” When he surveys conservation’s current state, Pearce is struck by how tightly the established guard clings to “old certainties” and “mythical pristine ecosystems” that no longer exist, if they ever did. Wake up, he implores: We define nature too narrowly and must let ecosystems rewild in their own way.
In many ways, The New Wild is the latest in a growing body of non-fiction attempting to reprogram our collective brains, often hard-wired to demonize novel ecosystems and discredit the potential benefits of invasives. American environmental writer Emma Marris’ 2013 book Rambunctious Garden took mainstream the idea that “exotic-dominated ecosystems [that] still look like trash to most ecologists” are worthwhile natural spaces. She spoke for a small but vocal sector of invasion biologists who believe that invasives can be vital to their new homes – stabilizing eroding soil or providing food and habitat for native fauna. Alien species often take the blame for larger problems caused by pollution and environmental decline: Tamarisk in California or Nile perch in East Africa’s Lake Victoria took advantage of existing environmental crises, Pearce writes. Less instigator and more opportunist, if we care to assign human motives.
Conservationist thinking is shifting, Marris believes. She’s not alone. After Preservation: Saving American Nature in the Age of Humans is a dialogue from celebrated environmental writers on what, exactly, preservationists are vigilantly trying to preserve. Can the American preservationist ideal survive American desires for suburban, two-car families? Should it survive in its current form? Preservation today is caught in the crossfire, attacked for the unacceptable economic sacrifices it may engender and by “post-preservationist” environmentalists who want humans to embrace our world-shaping powers. Environmental ethicist Ben A. Minteer and historian Stephen J. Pyne, who edited the volume from their positions at Arizona State University, brought together an eclectic mix of traditional and contemporary thinkers to debate the Anthropocene and what it means for nature preservation.
In After Preservation, Marris argues that “messy nature,” which welcomes “invasive” species, is gaining acceptability among ecologists, conservationists and the general public. Railway ditches, parking lots, traffic islands, post-industrial sites – all can be wild in their own way. If that means that ecosystems and the species in them aren’t as pretty or “wild” as we’d like? Too bad. That is a cultural problem, not an ecological one. Another cultural problem with the Anthropocene is our arrogance in assuming humanity can effectively control nature, Marris writes. We try, but that doesn’t mean we’re especially good at it. Besides, “people ... running around talking about how humans ‘control’ and ‘dominate’ the planet can sound like assholes,” Marris writes. It’s a stark moment of humour in a book on ecological restoration, but the point is well taken. We do, as she rightly contends, lack humility. Yet this hubris doesn’t absolve humanity of responsibility to improve how we manage the Earth, immodest as it seems. Humans have harmed more ecosystems than we’ve helped, and, in Marris’ reckoning, “we owe it to them to improve our scientific understanding … so we can ensure their continued persistence.”
It’s obvious not all agree. In a separate chapter, Dave Foreman, author of Take Back Conservation, lashes out at Marris and others whom he derisively calls “Anthropoceniacs.” Their support of humankind’s control of nature will leave the Earth as little more than Frankenstein’s lab. Humans aren’t meant to be so much as we merely happened to be, Foreman argues. So what gives us the right to continue our whole Earth-altering ways? The very need for wilderness areas – like the Polesie Reserve – is our “meek acknowledgement” that our dominion over Earth is wanting.
While After Preservation occasionally sticks its head in the clouds of environmental philosophy, Invasive Species in a Globalized World, from Loyola University ecologist Reuben P. Keller and University of Toronto biologist Marc W. Cadotte, has sewn deep roots in policy and invasive species management. Cane toads in Australia, Asian carp in America and grey squirrels in England – Keller and Cadotte’s book, edited with environmental writer Glenn Sandiford, helps bridge the gap between ecologists, economists and legal scholars sharing similar anxieties over invasive species regulation and its absence. These professional cross-purposes have stymied effective administration of challenges that, as the book’s title suggests, are worsening in a globalized world. While the 1988 zebra mussel invasion of the Great Lakes and the attendant media coverage brought greater public awareness to the ecological risks of globalization, it has not resulted in a transformation of policy. We know prevention is cheaper and more effective than eradication and yet, around the world, there are few regulations on ballast water, and no stringent port inspections, international standards or penalties to deter the intentional (or unwitting) spread of aliens.
While Pearce and many authors in After Preservation believe the crusade against invasives is more noise than science, Invasive Species in a Globalized World lends policy making and scientific heft to the “rhetorical contest” between Pearce and those who believe humans must protect native species and ecosystems from invasives at any cost. “Invasive-species policy needs unifying,” Keller et al. argue, suggesting a triage system to assess which species pose the greatest global risk in order to act before problems surpass existing meagre controls.
Human activity has profoundly shaped every corner of the globe. In a warming climate, whole ecosystems are shifting in search of familiar climes, taking countless species with them. Can we undo the harm we’ve caused? Is there value to the changes we’ve wrought? These books add to the ongoing conversation about if and how humanity should mould our planet. Yet we live in a time when previously unaccounted-for drivers of ecosystem change are shifting environmental realities faster than we can measure them. We’re left stumbling to “save” natural spaces existing nowhere but in our minds. Perhaps invasive-species policy does need unifying, but around a new model embracing the best of the preservationist ideal along with the cold pragmatism of modern conservationist thought. There’s a place for Fred Pearce in that debate.
The New Wild: Why Invasive Species Will Be Nature’s Salvation by Fred Pearce, Boston: Beacon Press, July 2015, 272 pages.
After Preservation: Saving American Nature in the Age of Humans edited by B. Minteer and S. Pyne, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 240 pages.
Invasive Species in a Globalized World: Ecological, Social & Legal Perspectives on Policy edited by R. Keller, M. Cadotte and G. Sandiford, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 416 pages.
Andrew Reeves is the Editor-in-Chief of Alternatives Journal. Overrun, his book about Asian carp in North America, will be published in Spring 2019 by ECW Press. His work has also appeared in the Globe & Mail, Spacing and Corporate Knights. Follow him on Twitter.
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Nish Dish: Nourishing the Community
The House that Becky Built
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New Music: GEA – Snow
Finland’s GEA wears her Nordic background with pride and ease on Snow, which comes from her current EP. One listen to the mystic majesty of the song and you’ll be glad she did.
With her intimate, warm vocals and the epic feel to the arrangement, Snow can’t help but seduce you with its Scandinavian charms. The stirring piano intro and the folk-infused strings mingle with a gently chiming, then booming melody draw you in, inviting favourable comparisons with the music of Anna Varney. You feel like you should be listening to this by torchlight on a bewintered beach, but chilling to it in the comfort on your own home will do just fine.
GEA says the track was partially inspired by hearing Agnes Obel for the first time, with the artists music opening new vistas and creating new ideas of her own. As for those that hear hints of Game of Thrones in Snow? GEA says she has never seen the programme!
Snow and its parent EP of the same name are streaming now on Spotify – for more details you can check out GEA’s Twitter, Instagram and Facebook accounts.
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Tennessee Valley Cemetery Relocation Files, 1933-1990
Ancestry.com. Tennessee Valley Cemetery Relocation Files, 1933-1990 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
Tennessee Valley Authority. Resource Group. Cemetery Relocation Files, 1933–1990. NAI ID: 656399. Records of the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1918–2000, Record Group 142. The National Archives at Atlanta, Georgia.
About Tennessee Valley Cemetery Relocation Files, 1933-1990
The Tennessee River Valley was in many places prone to flooding and was hard hit economically during the Depression years. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was established in 1933 with the goals of alleviating flooding problems, generating affordable electricity, facilitating better river navigation, manufacturing fertilizer, and bolstering local economies.
While there were many benefits, thousands of people, cemeteries, and other institutions had to be relocated from places that were to be flooded to make way for dams and hydroelectric power plants. This collection includes grave removal records from cemeteries that were in the path of projects.
In this collection, you'll find a variety of forms related to the removal and relocation of headstones and remains from affected cemeteries. Grave removal records include the order of removal, disinterment report, transportation record, and the certificate of reburial. Details may include the original location of the grave, name of the deceased, date and cause of death, name and address of the nearest relative, location where the remains were reburied, condition of the remains, and date of reburial. You may find a detailed description of the headstone in some records and possibly a photograph. You may also find maps and lists of interments, correspondence related to the various cemeteries, and other documents with similar information.
Locations mentioned in this collection include:
Cedar Creek, Alabama
Nottely, Georgia
Gilbertsville, Kentucky
Guntersville, Kentucky
Land Between the Lakes, Kentucky
[Unnamed], Kentucky
Chatuge, North Carolina
Fontana, North Carolina
Hiwassee, North Carolina
Johnsonville, North Carolina
Bear Creek, Tennessee
Bellefonte, Alabama
Boone, Tennessee
Bull Run, Tennessee
Cherokee, Tennessee
Chickamauga, Tennessee
Douglas, Tennessee
Fort Loudon, Tennessee
Gallatin, Tennessee
Nickajack, Tennessee
Normandy, Tennessee
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South Holston, Tennessee
Tellico, Tennessee
Tims Ford, Tennessee
Watauga, Tennessee
Watts Bar, Tennessee
Wheeler, Tennessee
[unnamed], Tennessee
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1940 United States Federal Census
The 1940 United States Federal Census is the largest census released to date and the most recent census available for public access. The census gives us a glimpse into the lives of Americans in 1940, with details about a household’s occupants that include birthplaces, occupations, education, citizenship, and income.
U.S. Enumeration District Maps and Descriptions, 1940
This database contains Enumeration District maps and their descriptions for the 1940 US Census.
Atlanta, Georgia, Oakland Cemetery Records, 1773-1999
Headstone inscriptions from Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia
All Birth, Marriage & Death in the Card Catalogue
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Crunchyroll Adds Sweet Blue Flowers & Ristorante Paradiso
Posted by Samantha Ferreira | Jan 12, 2016 | News Reporting |
Tags: aoi hana, crunchyroll, nozomi entertainment, ristorante paradiso, streaming, sweet blue flowers
Two touching tales hit Crunchyroll today!
Earlier today, Crunchyroll announced that they added a pair of titles to their digital platform. Ristorante Paradiso and Sweet Blue Flowers (Aoi Hana) are both available to all members in the United States and Canada.
Ristorante Paradiso is a 2009 slice-of-life romance that’s based on Natsume Ono’s manga of the same name. The series was directed by Mitsuko Kase (SaiKano, Young Black Jack) at David Production. Itsuko Takeda (The Galaxy Railways, Level E) provided character designs for the project, while Shinichi Inotsume (Hayate the Combat Butler, Yona of the Dawn) filled the triple role of series composition, screenplay writer, and scriptwriter.
Crunchyroll describes the series as follows:
Rome, Italy. When she was a child, Nicoletta was taken in by her grandmother so that her mother could remarry. Now grown up, she leaves everything in the countryside behind to visit her mother and her mother’s second husband, a ristorante owner. To her surprise, her stepfather did not know his wife had a daughter! Delicious food and dreamy gentlemen await at the ristorante, casetta dell’orso. For everyone who works there, a tender connection to the hearts of each visitor is spun, and the curtain raises on a story about these first-rate Italian gentlemen in spectacles.
Sweet Blue Flowers is a 2009 drama based on Takako Shimura’s manga of the same name. Kenichi Kasai(Bakuman, Honey and Clover) helmed the project at J.C. Staff, with Masayuki Onji (Aria the Avvenire, Cromartie High School) in charge of character designs. Fumihiko Takayama(Gunparade March) was tasked with series composition.
Crunchyroll describes Sweet Blue Flowers as follows:
Fumi Manjoume enters Kamakura’s accelerated high school – Matsuoka All-Girls High School. While waiting at the Kamakura station on the day of her entrance ceremony, she runs into an old childhood friend whom she had not seen in 10 years: Akira Okudaira. As their friendship is rekindled and they start falling back into the rhythm of friends again, it starts a delicate love story…
Both titles were released in North America by Nozomi Entertainment.
Crunchyroll also announced that streams for Lock & Logic and Divine Gate are now available for users in Spain and Portugal.
Source: Crunchyroll
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Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (File photo)
Court rejects Nawaz Sharif's bail plea on medical grounds
Islamabad [Pakistan], Jun 20 (ANI): The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday rejected a petition seeking suspension of the sentence of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in the Al Azizia Steel Mills case on medical grounds.
Sharif's counsel Khawaja Haris Ahmed informed a two-member bench, comprising Justice Amir Farooq and Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kiyani, that the former prime minister was seeking suspension of sentence and subsequent release for medical reasons, Dawn reported.
Haris argued that "more than 60 per cent health condition of the former premier is in danger" and that he needs further treatment.
He added that treatment was also essential to reduce the mental stress Sharif was facing in jail.
When Justice Kiyani asked Haris if doctors had declared that Sharif's cure was not possible in the country, the counsel replied in the affirmative, adding that the former premier's health condition was deteriorating day by day.
Haris also told the court that Sharif was suffering from diabetes and heart issues. He added that Sharif needs an attendant round the clock to ensure that his blood sugar level remains normal.
Harris told Dawn that he had already informed that Court that Sharif's medical tests were carried out during the six-week relief period. Now that Sharif's diseases have been diagnosed, he needs treatment, the counsel added.
Meanwhile, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) prosecutor Jahanzaib Bharwana in his arguments had said that Sharif had already been given six weeks for medical treatment.
On May 20, Sharif had filed in the IHC a fresh petition seeking release from Kot Lakhpat jail on medical grounds in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills case.
The petition sought suspension of Sharif`s seven-year sentence and subsequent grant of post-arrest bail on medical grounds. Citing medical reports, it further claimed that Sharif's condition was critical and he required a stress-free environment for his cardiac treatment that could prove to be life-threatening.
Earlier in May, the Supreme Court had rejected Sharif`s review petition seeking bail on medical grounds and permission to go abroad for treatment and ordered him to surrender before the court as soon as his bail period ended.
On Dec 24 last year, an accountability court had convicted Sharif in the Al-Azizia Reference case, with a prison sentence of seven years and a fine of Rs1.5 billion and USD 25 million. (ANI)
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‘Attachment parenting babble’ can destroy marriages
John Rosemond
In a recent column, I referred to “attachment parenting babble,” which is to say, I called a spade a spade. The column in question concerned parents whose three children had been sleeping with them for eight years. In one night, these parents ended the arrangement. They did so by simply telling the kids that co-sleeping was over. They did not explain themselves or ask the kids to please “cooperate.” Nor were they especially sensitive to the children’s feelings. In fact, they really didn’t care whether the kids liked the new bedtime policy or not. Since then, the kids have carried on as if nothing happened, which in and of itself is testament to the blatant falsehoods of - here I go again - attachment parenting babble.
Anyway, some people have since expressed their disdain for my disdain of attachment parenting. I forgive these folks for having been taken in by the babble; after all, some of the people dispensing it have impressive capital letters after their names and impressive academic credentials from places like Notre Dame. They are best-selling authors, pediatricians and directors of places with names like mother-baby sleep laboratories. They encourage mothers to “wear” their babies for up to a year, breast-feed until the third birthday, and basically devote every fiber of their beings to their kids, which is to say, said moms usually begin acting as if their husbands are characters in dimly-remembered past lives.
Attachment parenting babble qualifies as babble because there is no good science with which to support it. To be perfectly fair, there are people who run attachment parenting “laboratories” who would say they are doing good science, and I’m sure they believe they are. However, by “good” I mean research conducted by impartial people. The folks in question are not impartial; therefore, what they are doing does not qualify as good science.
I am not impartial either. I have heard many horror stories from parents who bought into the babble and then, several months to several years into the attachment parenting process, greatly regretted the decision. A good number of these parents have told me it was the worst decision they ever made; some have described attachment-mother groups as cults, and some have told me that the decision to buy into the babble led to divorce court. In the latter instance, most of the reporters are ex-husbands.
These many testimonies have led me to conclude that attachment parenting causes the mother to surrender her life to her child’s supposed needs, none of which are needs at all. The proof lies in the fact that research done by truly impartial people has found that attachment parenting produces no measurable gains in the children in question. I also conclude that it’s very bad for marriages and that couples who would say that it’s good - and I’ve yet to run into any - are way, way up that river in Egypt.
A number of attachment mothers have told me that attachment parenting is the most “natural” way to go. My question then becomes, “If it’s so natural, and if it makes mothers so happy, then why the support groups?”
I don’t need a support group to be gluten-free, eat no processed food and drink mostly water.
You can follow family psychologist John Rosemond on his website at www.johnrosemond.com.
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Pastel Abstraction, Blue
Alicia Sterling Beach
"Soft planes and flowing patterns suggest both large, architectural and landscape forms while delicate, ink lines delineate planes that compress the forms into little worlds of competing, dancing, 'mini-scapes' of colorful, flat shapes. This tension activates an imaginary, magical, shape-shifting world, that invites us playfully, like music that both keeps a beat, yet slips by."
- Alicia Beach
Prints are produced on demand on either acrylic plexi or giclee fine art paper in a variety of sizes here in the United States. High quality print reproductions for your home or office designed by artists living with homelessness or disabilitiesilities.
“Making art has saved my sanity and my life, as it helps me recover my truest self. Past trauma kept me disassociated from my body, inner-child-self, identity, self-worth, and self-empowerment. The painfulness of that separation, without a creative outlet, leads to mental illness, addiction, and isolation, and an estrangement from Mother Earth. Art heals these afflictions, where consumerism exacerbates them. As a wasteful, consumer culture, it is imperative that we continue to support the arts and arts education, and art which enlightens. A Godly, artistic expression is sacred evidence of the faithful spirit rising above the trauma-inflicted, human condition. ”
Alicia was born in Caracas, Venezuela and lived between the U.S. and Brazil, where her parents resided. She experienced an accident as a young child which left her with movement issues. She has spent the majority of her adult life coping with chronic pain from degenerative chronic osteoporosis in addition to PTSD. She has also experienced homelessness as a result.
Alicia hopes to be an advocate for people who are living with homelessness and disabilities, some of which may appear “hidden” to an outside observer. She writes: “Ironically, I live with a disability that is degenerative, and I always have to stay active to avoid pain setting in. I appear highly functional, and my appearances in no way reflect the realities of my everyday quality of life. I’ve had to ignore the pain a lot, but sometimes it catches up with me emotionally.”
Alicia Sterling Beach has always used art as a way toward enhanced meaning and beauty in her world. She uses materials such as watercolor, colored pencils, and soft pastels which offer her a wide-ranging color palette to bring forth the delicacy of light. Through drawing, abstraction and her symmetrical themes, she intends to create harmony and balance while releasing her creativity.
Alicia loves to laugh and bring joy to those around her through comedy. She enjoys spending time at the ocean, gardening, acting, singing and - when not in physical pain - dancing.
Alicia has earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the University of California, Irvine. She has exhibited extensively and dreams that one day her art will be in major museum collections. She is thrilled to have her art for sale on ArtLifting and to share her work and story with a larger audience.
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Green Diamonds
Harmonic Abstraction
Lavender Landscape Abstraction
Pastel Abstraction, Lavender
Red Figure Abstraction
Red Landscape Abstraction
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I really think democracy around the world is being stress tested right now."
Paul Ryan Former Speaker, US House of Representatives; Director, Fox Corporation
Paul Ryan Talks Trade, Immigration, and the 2020 Election
Paul Ryan may no longer be a member of Congress but he's still paying attention to the issues. The former Speaker of the US House retired in January. In this interview with Judy Woodruff, anchor and managing editor of "PBS NewsHour," Ryan talks about immigration, the upcoming presidential election, and why he agrees with President Trump about trade and China. Their conversation was held June 23, 2019 at the Aspen Ideas Festival. The views and opinions of the podcast guests are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Aspen Institute.
Former Speaker, US House of Representatives; Director, Fox Corporation
Anchor and Managing Editor, "PBS News Hour"
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Is Social Media Threatening the American Idea?
James Madison would be horrified to see how social media has helped unleash populist passions.
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How Democracy Gets Restored
How can Americans restore their confidence in their government?
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Who are you? That question has become ever more complicated over the last decade of scientific discovery. Our genomes show signs of ancestry from Neanderthals and other extinct hominins, not to mention the genetic fossils of ancient viruses. Our bodies are home to trillions of bacteria and other microbes that sculpt our organs, train our immune systems, digest our food, and influence our minds. Our brains are made up of about 80 billion neurons in 100 trillion connections. Scientists are mapping the brain in molecular detail, but their maps are raising more questions than answers. Join science writers Carl Zimmer and Ed Yong as they chat about what it even means to be an individual in the era of modern biology, while trying not to have an existential crisis on stage.
Carl Zimmer
Matter Columnist, The New York Times; Science Writing Teacher, Yale Un...
General Mills Presents: From Fido to Fur Baby — Our Pets’ Role in the Family
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Expressions of interest for APRA Fund consultation groups
We have recently undertaken a review of external consultation and governance arrangements. A number of groups were established to provide governance and oversight of the SuperStream program of work. Now that the original intent of the SuperStream program of work has been delivered, it is timely to shift focus to the operation of the super system extending beyond its interactions with SuperStream and reflecting the maturity and intersecting work across the system.
We recognise the importance of maintaining a productive relationship between the ATO and the superannuation industry as we partner in the design and operation of the super system.
As part of the review, a membership refresh for the Superannuation Administration Group (SAG) (previously the Superannuation Administration Stakeholder Group) and Superannuation Data Standard Technical Group (SDSTG) (previously the SuperStream Technical Committee) will be undertaken.
We are seeking expressions of interest from representatives of the super industry to be members of these groups.
The purpose of the SAG is to identify and resolve administrative matters impacting the super system in operation and identify opportunities to improve the client experience or make the operations or administration of superannuation more efficient or effective.
The SDSTG will provide recommendations to us and industry which will assist in managing the technical and change aspects of the data standard. This will involve active management of high priority issues and have a defined formal process for evaluation and escalation of issues and risks to the Superannuation System Reference Group.
Membership will be limited to around 15 attendees for each group with no more than one representative from any organisation. Tenure of membership is for a period of 12 months.
Expectations of members
Members will be required to:
actively participate in discussions and contribute to the work of the group including timely response to action items
bring relevant knowledge and expertise of the subject matter, either from own experience or by canvassing the organisation they represent
bring emerging issues impacting stakeholders to the attention of the group for appropriate consideration
communicate with their organisation’s members the outcomes of the group’s meetings (as applicable).
The expression of interest forms are available via the Superannuation Community on Let’s Talk as per links below. You will need to complete the relevant form for each group that you would like to register your interest in becoming a member of.
As membership is restricted to one representative per organisation we expect your organisation to have co-ordinated prior to submitting an expression of interest. Applications will close 5.00pm AEST 1 July 2019.
Complete expression of interest forms by 5.00pm AEST 1 July 2019.
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The Ones We Trust
Written By: Kimberly Belle
Narrated By: Hillary Huber
Publisher: Harlequin Audio
A moving and evocative exploration of grief and guilt in the wake of one family's devastating loss
When former DC journalist Abigail Wolff attempts to rehabilitate her career, she finds herself at the heart of a US army cover-up involving the death of a soldier in Afghanistanwith unspeakable emotional consequences for one family. As the story of what happened comes to light, Abigail will do anything to write it.
The more evidence she stumbles upon in the case, the fewer people it seems she can trust, including her own father, a retired army general. And she certainly never expected to fall in love with the slain soldier's brother, Gabe, a bitter man struggling to hold his family together. The investigation eventually leads her to an impossible choice, one of unrelenting sacrifice to protect those she loves.
Beyond the buried truths and betrayals, questions of family loyalty and redemption, Abigail's search is, most of all, a desperate grasp at carrying on and copingand seeking hope in the impossible.
Ones We Trust
by Kimberly Belle
This title is due for release on July 28, 2015.
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The western ground parrot is one of four endemic parrots threatened by beak and feather disease – it's estimated fewer than 140 remain in the wild. IMAGE CREDIT: Jennene Riggs
New weapon against virus killing Australia’s endangered parrots
By Jared Richards | October 5, 2016
Findings announced this week could be the beginning of a cure for the disease threatening four endangered native parrots.
RESEARCHERS ARE ONE step closer to a vaccine for the virus that causes beak and feather disease, often fatal to Australian parrots. A paper published on Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications details how an Australian-led research team have uncovered the molecular makeup of the virus, a vital step in formulating a vaccine against it.
The breakthrough comes after years of research which began in 2009, led by scientists from Charles Sturt University’s Wagga Wagga campus. “We now have a unique way of thinking about the virus and how it self-assembles,” says Professor Jade Forwood, lead author and one of the university’s biochemists. “We know at the atomic level the structure of the virus and how it fits together.”
Other institutions involved in the discovery include the Australian Synchrotron in Victoria and Monash University, as well as the National Microbiology Centre and the Autonomous University of Madrid, both in Spain.
It’s promising news for conservationists as beak and feather disease, also known as psittacine circoviral disease, is one of the main threats to four endangered native parrots: the Norfolk parakeet (Cyanoramphus cookii), the swift parrot (Lathamus discolor), the western ground parrot (Pezoporus flaviventris) and the orange-bellied parrot (Neophema chrysogaster).
How beak and feather disease works
The virus attacks cells related to feathers and beaks; victims lose their feathers and their beaks soften, threatening them with death from starvation. The disease has been a major hurdle for conservation efforts as the disease can return years after seemingly having been thwarted in both wild and captive communities, suggesting the virus survives for long periods in tree hollows and potential nesting sites.
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Of particular concern is the critically endangered orange-bellied parrot. Migrating each winter from Tasmania’s south-west coast to coastal Victoria and South Australia, the parrot’s population is dwindling in the face of coastal developments on salt marshes, the bird’s traditional foraging ground.
Beak and feather disease makes conservation efforts a special challenge, says experts. Following a 2014 outbreak, Emertius Professor Barry Baker, chair of the National Orange-bellied Parrot Recovery Team, estimates a wild population of fewer than 30 parrots today.
He describes the affliction as an “an awful disease… Young birds with the virus are particularly susceptible and stand little chance of survival in the wild.”
“Another outbreak of the disease in the wild would be a disaster,” he adds. “So the ability to vaccinate would be a leap forward in parrot conservation, also benefitting captive populations and our ability to release to the wild.”
By understanding the molecular structure of the virus, the study has isolated the two proteins it produces. The next step will be experimenting how to cut off these proteins, thereby creating a vaccine.
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HyreCar Appoints Former Tesla CIO to Board of Directors
Screenshot via Hyrecar.
HyreCar today announced that it has appointed Jay Vijayan to its board of directors, effective April 25.
Vijayan brings over two decades of technology platform, product development, and leadership experience to the HyreCar Board of Directors. He is currently the founder & CEO of Tekion Corp., a Silicon Valley startup that is disrupting and transforming the business applications and automotive retail experience.
Prior to founding Tekion, Vijayan was the chief information officer of Tesla, Inc., from 2012 to 2016, where he and his team ground-up built and scaled Tesla's digital and information platform and systems, fueling the company’s hyper-growth phase. Prior to joining Tesla, he led the business applications development group for VMware Inc., during its significant accelerated growth phase when VMware scaled revenues from approximately $700 million in 2007 to nearly $4 billion in 2012. Prior to VMware, Vijayan led product development teams at Oracle for over seven years.
Vijayan is known for building simple and highly scalable technology platforms and solutions that transform, scale businesses, and enable operational efficiency. He also serves on the board of NIC.
“I understand the need and potential for a robust rideshare marketplace that brings significant value for all stakeholders of this ecosystem," Vijayan said in a statement. "After meeting with the HyreCar team, I quickly realized HyreCar’s tremendous and unique value proposition for this need and the team’s potential to deliver. I am thrilled for the opportunity to help guide the company on its journey.”
Related: HyreCar Appoints Leader for OEM, Share Mobility Initiatives
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The more we learn about south Phoenix light rail, the more we oppose it
Politicians aren't listening to our concerns about light rail in south Phoenix. The Building a Better Phoenix Act would take them directly to voters.
The more we learn about south Phoenix light rail, the more we oppose it Politicians aren't listening to our concerns about light rail in south Phoenix. The Building a Better Phoenix Act would take them directly to voters. Check out this story on azcentral.com: https://azc.cc/2xOK6iZ
Jade Contreras and Byron Waldrep, opinion contributors Published 6:07 a.m. MT Sept. 26, 2018
Opinion: Politicians aren't listening to our concerns about light rail in south Phoenix. The Building a Better Phoenix Act would take them directly to voters.
The grassroots "4 Lanes or No Train" group has asked the City Council to change or cancel its light rail plans(Photo: Nicholas Serpa/The Republic)
It has been 17 months since our group, 4 Lanes or No Train, organized to oppose the light rail project along Central Avenue in south Phoenix. Coming together to oppose the project wasn’t easy. No one in our group has any experience in politics, and we weren’t even sure how we could express our concerns.
What we did know was that no one told us the negative effects light rail would have on the south Phoenix community. It was never mentioned by the city in any of the literature proposing the expansion of light rail in Proposition 104 that:
The proposed light rail line would reduce Central Avenue from four lanes to two.
Construction of the light rail line would take at least four years to complete, a timeline that will force many of us into bankruptcy or to relocate.
The completed project will restrict access to businesses along Central Avenue.
These were just some of our immediate concerns. As we learned more about light rail, we discovered its exorbitant cost (more than $140 million per mile) and that it offers slower transit service than our current bus system.
Politicians are trying to deceive you
Protesters rally against Phoenix light-rail extension
A dozen protesters rallied on Central Avenue in south Phoenix to demonstrate their opposition to the proposed six-mile light-rail extension Nathan J. Fish/The Republic
A dozen protestors rallied on Central Avenue in south Phoenix to demonstrate their opposition to the proposed six-mile light-rail extension Nathan J. Fish/The Republic
We also found out that we are not alone. As more facts have emerged, light rail expansion is now opposed by residents and community groups throughout the city.
More than 5,000 residents in May signed our petition opposing the south Phoenix project and asked the city council to reconsider. We held packed community meetings where residents were overwhelmingly against the project. But instead of listening to our concerns, the politicians and special interests that profit from light rail have doubled down on their deceit.
Contrary to lies being told by politicians, Valley Metro and rich special interests, we are not being led by the Koch brothers or any other group. It is incredibly insulting that the politicians making these false attacks in newspapers and on TV have never even bothered to meet with us or attend our community forums.
CONGRESSMAN: Don't let special interests derail south Phoenix light rail
They attack our motives without ever addressing the concerns that we have raised or even looking at us face to face. This is probably to avoid scrutiny that these same elected officials have received hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years in campaign contributions from contractors and developers who will financially benefit from light rail.
That is the master that they serve, not the residents of south Phoenix.
Why we want to send this to the ballot
Since city hall has ignored our concerns and is determined to railroad south Phoenix, our group decided to propose an initiative that will give voters the opportunity to decide the future of the light rail.
The Building a Better Phoenix Act is simple: Instead of spending our tax dollars on the disastrous expansion of light rail, the money would be used for much needed infrastructure improvements throughout the city.
Ending the expansion of light rail will free up billions that can be spent on fixing city streets and sidewalks, expanding bus and Dial-a-Ride service, improving lighting and other much needed transportation projects. And to ensure that residents can’t be manipulated in the future, a citizens transportation committee will be tasked with soliciting public input and reviewing all future transportation expenditures made by the city.
MORE: Who is paying for pro- and anti-light rail campaigns?
Building a Better Phoenix is committed to exposing the truth about light rail and giving Phoenix residents a better choice. We have also decided that our committee will not accept one dollar from the Koch brothers or any affiliate group to pay for the 20,510 signatures needed to qualify for the ballot. This likely won’t end the lies about our group, but it is a decision that we feel strongly about.
This will be an uphill climb, but we are motivated and will not back down to the greedy politicians, contractors and special interests that want to ruin our community. The destructive expansion of light rail must be stopped.
Jade Contreras and Byron Waldrep are the chairman and treasurer for Building a Better Phoenix. Contreras is a student from south Phoenix and Waldrep is a manager of a south Phoenix eatery. Reach them at southmountain4lanesnotrain@gmail.com.
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Why we're looking for more diverse opinions
Diane Douglas's latest rant is just sick
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L-1 Visas Valid Longer than Petition, Avoiding Renewals
The U.S. Department of State issued a revised regulation allowing consular offices to issue L-1 visas for intracompany transferees with validity period longer than the underlying petition approval and up to the "reciprocity limit" for the worker's nationality (5 years, for many countries), avoiding need for initial visa renewals. This conforms the law to current practice in many countries for blanket L visas, but it is a big step forward for workers with individual L petitions.
In the past, the regulation on its face limited L-1 visa validity to the petition expiration date. USCIS limits the duration of individual L-1 petitions to three years initially and to two years for extensions. Thus, L-1 visas were limited to that same date. Now, L-1 visas can be issued up to the period that the State Department lists for the worker's country based on how that country treats U.S. intracompany transferees going to that country ("reciprocity limit"), published on a DOS website page. The maximum reciprocity limit for any country is 5 years (60 months), which is in place for most developed countries.
L-1 workers with individual petitions should specifically ask for L-1 visas valid for the reciprocity limit, pointing to the new regulation (and the DOS instructions to consulates surely soon to be issued and published). Port officers still will limit the worker's admission to the petition expiration date (usually annotated on the visa as "PED"), but when the employer obtains the first extension of an individual L-1 petition, the worker with five year visa validity will not need to obtain a new visa on the next international trip, saving significant inconvenience.
The reciprocity limit is less than 5 years and even less than three years for many countries (i.e., Brazil, China, and Russia two years; Mexico one year), and citizens of those countries will continue to experience the inconvenience of repeated visa applications for international travel despite a longer petition validity.
Even before the recent regulation change, many consulates already issued blanket visas for the reciprocity limit, based on informal DOS instruction. Now that the regulation has changed, that practice should continue and spread to other consulates in countries with 60 month reciprocity limits.
Employers and workers should remember that the "reciprocity" limit is a function of the country of citizenship of the worker and family member, not where the worker is applying for the visa. And a family member who is a citizen of a different country than the L-1 worker may receive a visa valid for shorter than the worker if the family member's country's reciprocity limit is shorter than the worker.
Baker Donelson's Immigration Group facilitates international business through the assignment of key personnel. We use the Blanket L-1 program wherever possible to reduce costs and delays in transfers. We set up technological systems with human resources departments of large companies to streamline the immigration processing even more. We provide real-time status reports over the internet. We coordinate reassignments, assignments of U.S. workers to foreign affiliates, and large groups of workers being transferred in. We help businesses evaluate, minimize, and prepare for the immigration impact of a prospective business transaction before it takes place (when given the opportunity). Our attorneys work personally with transferring managers to ensure their comfort level with the process. We help smaller and newer international businesses find ways to demonstrate the substantial nature of their plans and new operations to enable immigration approval. In combination with our full-service law firm's other practice groups, we help international human resource managers coordinate the innumerable considerations and technicalities that accompany a worker's international assignment, including immigration, benefits, tax, contracts, and employment law.
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Give only strictly pertinent references
Brief review of the subject
Materials and method:
Should be very clear mentioning study design, place and period
The selection criteria of the study population including controls (if any)
The methods and the apparatus used in the research
The procedure of the study in such a detail so that other workers can reproduce the results
Statistical procedure should be briefly and comprehensively addressed. Specify the computer software used (if any) along with version.
Presented in logical sequence in the text, tables and illustrations
Described without comment
Supplemented by concise textual description of the data presented in table and figures only where it is necessary
Tables should be simple, self explanatory and supplement, not duplicate the text
They should be numbered consecutively with roman numerical (I, II, III, IV, etc.) in order of text
If abbreviations are to be used, they should be explained in footnotes
Captions should in bold (Table I: ------)
All illustrations must be numbered and cited in the text
Print photograph of each illustration should be submitted
Figures and photographs:
Should be used only where data cannot be expressed in any other form
Numbered in Arabic (1,2,3,etc.)
Captions should in bold (Fig 1: ------)
Photomicrographs should indicate the magnification, internal scale and the method of staining.
Legends for figures:
Legends must be informative and comprehensive without reference to the text. Legends should be in similar font and style as in text.
Should reflect the authors comment on the results and to relate them to those of other authors.
The relevance to experimental research or clinical practice should contain well-founded arguments.
Individuals, organizations or bodies may be acknowledged in the article and may include -
Name (or a list) of funding bodies and name of the organization(s) and individual(s) with their consent.
Must be numbered consecutively in the order in which they are mentioned in the text.
Should be identified in the text by superscript in Arabic numerical (1,2,etc).
Should use the form of references in Vancouver style adopted by US National Library of
Medicine and used in Index Medicine and used in Index medicus.
Some mostly needed examples are given below
1. Standard journal article
List the first six authors followed by et al.
Halpern SD, Ubel PA, Caplan AL. Solid-organ transplantation in HIV-infected patients. N Engl J Med. 2002 Jul 25;347(4):284-87.
2. Organization as author
Diabetes Prevention Program Research Group. Hypertension, insulin, and proinsulin in participants with impaired glucose tolerance. Hypertension. 2002;40(5):679-86.
3. Volume with supplement
Geraud G, Spierings EL, Keywood C. Tolerability and safety of frovatriptan with short- and long-term use for treatment of migraine and in comparison with sumatriptan. Headache. 2002;42 Suppl 2:S93-9.
4. Issue with supplement
Glauser TA. Integrating clinical trial data into clinical practice. Neurology. 2002;58(12 Suppl 7):S6-12.
1. Personal author(s)
Murray PR, Rosenthal KS, Kobayashi GS, Pfaller MA. Medical microbiology. 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby; 2002.
2. Editor(s)/compiler(s) as author
Gilstrap LC, Cunningham FG, VanDorsten JP, editors. Operative obstetrics. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2002.
3. Author(s) and editor(s)
Breedlove GK, Schorfheide AM. Adolescent pregnancy. 2nd ed. Wieczorek RR, editor. White Plains (NY): March of Dimes Education Services; 2001.
4. Chapter in a book
Meltzer PS, Kallioniemi A, Trent JM. Chromosome alterations in human solid tumors. In: Vogelstein B, Kinzler KW, editors. The genetic basis of human cancer. New York: McGraw-Hill; 2002. p. 93-113.
Harnden P, Joffe JK, Jones WG, editors. Germ cell tumours V. Proceedings of the 5th Germ Cell Tumour Conference; 2001 Sep 13-15; Leeds, UK. New York: Springer; 2002.
Scientific or technical report
Akutsu T. Total heart replacement device. Bethesda MD: National Institutes of Health, National Heart and Lung Institute; 1974 Apr. Report No.: AFRLSRBLTR020123.
Borkowski MM. Infant sleep and feeding: a telephone survey of Hispanic Americans [thesis/dissertation]. Michigan: Central Michigan University; 2002.
Unpublished Material
Tian D, Araki H, Stahl E, Bergelson J, Kreitman M. Signature of balancing selection in Arabidopsis. Science. In press.
Electronic Material
1. Journal article on the Internet
Abood S. Quality improvement initiative in nursing homes: the ANA acts in an advisory role. Am J Nurs [Internet]. 2002 Jun [cited 2002 Aug 12];102(6). Available from: http://www.nursingworld.org/AJN/2002/june/Wawatch.htmArticle.
2. Homepage/Web site
Cancer-Pain.org [Internet]. New York: Association of Cancer Online Resources [updated 2002 May 16; cited 2002 Jul 9]. Available from: http://www.cancer-pain.org/.
Manuscript submission:
Two typed copies (hard copies) of the article and one soft copy on a CD / DVD processed in MS Word should be submitted to the executive editor. Manuscripts must be accompanied by a covering letter with a statement that the manuscript has been read, approved and signed by all authors. Alternatively, manuscripts may also be submitted electronically via email to the executive editor where corresponding author is liable for the consent of coauthors. Scanned authorization letter must be provided by the principal author on demand. If the work has been conducted abroad the manuscript must be accompanied by a certificate from the institute head.
Editorial process:
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AT&T to pay $105M cramming penalty
Mike Cetera
October 9, 2014 in Personal Finance
You didn’t want or need those flirting tips that kept popping up on your cell phone.
But you paid for them unwittingly anyway.
Now you may be due a cut of a record $105 million penalty AT&T has agreed to pay to settle claims it billed customers for services provided by third-party vendors that those customers never asked for.
The Federal Trade Commission alleged AT&T billed hundreds of millions of dollars in unauthorized charges — typically in amounts of $9.99 a month — for ringtones, celebrity gossip, horoscopes and other subscriptions provided by outside companies. AT&T then kept at least 35 percent of the charges it imposed, according to the FTC complaint.
The practice known as mobile cramming is pervasive, a U.S. Senate committee found earlier this year. And the federal government is getting wise to it after consumers began expressing outrage. (AT&T customer service, for example, logged some 1.3 million complaints over a single year.)
In addition to AT&T, the FTC sued wireless provider T-Mobile in July, alleging it too participated in cramming, billing customers millions of dollars for unwanted services and then burying the charges in opaque terms on their monthly statement.
The federal government said AT&T also concealed its charges, making it near impossible for customers to decode what they were being charged for. The fees often were listed as “AT&T Monthly Subscriptions.”
As part of the settlement, AT&T agreed to pay $80 million to the FTC, some of which will go toward customer refunds. The company also will pay $25 million in penalties divided between state and federal government agencies.
Seeking a refund
AT&T is required to notify current customers who received unauthorized charges. The FTC may contact former customers.
If you believe you were hit with some of these unauthorized charges, you can submit a refund claim at www.ftc.gov/att or call 877-819-9692. All claims must be filed by May 1, 2015.
Going forward, customers must give consent before AT&T can add third-party charges to a billing statement, under terms of the agreement. Customers also will be informed of any charges separate of the bill.
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Encounter with the first small drift ice from the Weddell Sea
Until just before nightfall, we didn’t experience any major changes in conditions, wind or sea. Europa still sails close-hauled on starboard tack following the slowly backing westerly winds on a course that gradually is arcing to the South, far to the East of the South Orkneys. Before lunch the 35 to 40kn disappeared from the wind meter display, easing down gradually to 20 to 25kn, blowing from the West. While the sun started shining amongst the clouds that masked it the whole morning, also the sea state also abated slightly, making life on board more comfortable. Under this new situation is tempting to set more canvas, but in the wheelhouse hovers the question in the air if we actually need to sail that fast on the course that we can currently keep. That will bring us further south instead of towards the SW where South Orkney Islands lay.
The water temperature dropped to below 0ºC, unusually cold for the time of the year and region where we are sailing. Europa still braves the Furious Fifties latitudes in the morning, but having said that, we already cross into the Screaming Sixties later during the day. A latitude that welcomed us with easing sailing conditions. At the end it is decided to hoist more canvas, and the middle staysails join the lower ones, courses, topsails, fore topmast staysail, inner jib and spanker. For a couple of hours Europa can keep this configuration until the wind picks up again just before dinner-time. With that, the sea state worsens one more time. Rolling and heavy heeling will accompany us for the rest of the journey. Time to strike and furl them once more. Desmond is left hanging in its gear thinking of a possible wind change that never happened. The freezing water temperature sure indicates our proximity to the pack ice and icebergs that fill the Weddell Sea. There, a clockwise oceanic current, known as the Weddell Sea Gyre, running along its coasts drives the cold water and the drifting ice next to the Eastern coasts of Antarctic Peninsula and from there on a NE-ly direction, often embracing
South Orkney Islands and adjacent waters. Following our course straight towards the South while sailing the strong winds at a good speed, over waters at below zero temperatures, we feel uneasy about soon running soon into those pack ice and iceberg waters during the few dark hours of the night. On top of that, the forecasted SW-ly winds that would allow us to sail on a NW-ly direction seem to be delayed or not adjusted to the reality of the W-ly winds we are experiencing. And indeed, before midnight several bergy bits and growlers started popping up amongst the breaking waves, this, together with the dimming light of the late hours of the day, made particularly difficult to properly spot them. In the horizon icebergs show up, menacing our way south during the night. In more than 30kn of wind, Europa sails straight into all this at about 7kn, but soon it is decided to wear the ship and turn around. Hands are called on deck to give a hand bracing all the way around sharp on port tack, not before clewing up the courses, taking away the spanker and dekzwabber. Once the ship pass the stern through the wind and heads North, all those sails are set again.
The distance covered during the last 24h, and before turning around has been 128nm, meaning that in the evening we find ourselves 175nm in almost a straight line East of South Orkney Islands.
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5 live's Octoberfest 2012: Sheffield
Post categories: 5 live Sport, 606, Adrian Van Klaveren, Breakfast, Colin Murray, Fighting Talk, Mark Kermode, Nicky Campbell, Octoberfest, Rachel Burden, Richard Bacon, Shelagh Fogarty, Simon Mayo, Stephen Nolan, Twitter, audience debates, festival, football, phone-in, presenters, social media
Adrian Van-Klaveren | 09:27 UK time, Monday, 20 August 2012
One of the things we try to do at 5 live is to get out and about as much as possible - to big events like the Olympics and Paralympics, to the scene of major news stories and sporting events but also to places where we can do some surprising and different programmes and meet our listeners. That's why we will be heading to Sheffield from 11 to 13 October for Octoberfest 2012 - a free three-day festival, featuring what should be an exciting programme of live broadcasts and events across the city.
In partnership with BBC Radio Sheffield and other BBC parts of the BBC including CBeebies, Radio 3 and 6 Music, we'll be offering an eclectic mix of news and sport programming, audience debates and interactive activities.
Some of the our biggest names including Nicky Campbell, Shelagh Fogarty, Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode, Stephen Nolan, Robbie Savage and Colin Murray will be on hand to lead the discussions and to get involved with the action.
One highlight of the festival will be '5 live Aside', which will see the station attempting to break the Guinness World Record for the most amount of players in a 5-a-side exhibition football match during a 24-hour period. We will be hoping to beat the current record, which stands at 441, with proceeds from the challenge going to BBC Children In Need. The world record attempt will take place from 2pm Friday 12 October to 2pm Saturday 13 October and will be completed under the watchful eye of a Guinness World Records adjudicator, who will be on hand to verify the team's success.
Also confirmed in the schedule are a live audience broadcast of Fighting Talk hosted by Colin Murray; 606 with Robbie Savage and Jason Roberts leading the nation's biggest football phone-in; Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode's Film Review; and Al Murray presenting 7 Day Sunday.
This is the third time we've taken 5 live on the road in this way and it's our most ambitious festival yet. We've chosen Sheffield because of the range of programme possibilities it offers for both news and sport and because it's a place where we think we can do a lot more to spread the message of what 5 live offers.
So as well as what we do on-air, anyone who can get to Sheffield will be able to come along to the 5 live activity 'Igloo', which will be located in Tudor Square and will feature a whole host of activities for visitors of all ages to enjoy. With the help of local media students, the igloo will give you the chance to try your hand at being a radio presenter, football commentator or TV weather presenter. In collaboration with Sheffield Hallam University, visitors can also test their own sporting potential; it'll be a great chance to find out whether you have the potential to be an Olympic Gold Medallist or perhaps just to find out if you have the natural ability to join your local running club.
We'll be giving more details about Octoberfest 2012 nearer the time along with information about how to apply for the free ticketed events. In the meantime, you can join the conversation on Twitter using #Octoberfest via @bbc5live.
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Comment number 1.
At 10:34 20th Aug 2012, Debs wrote:
so pleased to hear the Octoberfest is coming to Sheffield ! - R5 is my absolute favourite radio station and can't wait to see what's happenning in the igloo!
Complain about this comment (Comment number 1)
At 11:24 20th Aug 2012, mistered5 wrote:
Speaking as somebody from Yorkshire, it suits me to have a live event in Sheffield. However, I'd like to know the editorial reasons why these live festivals all seem to occur in the north. If it's because of a fear of being Londoncentric, there are other places in the south of England!
I'd also say it's a sad indictment of the station that Five Live is becoming if Colin Murray & Robbie Savage are being trumpeted the 'biggest names' on the station.
At 11:49 20th Aug 2012, carrie wrote:
I texted the Breakfast programme as soon as Shelagh announced this.
Hull - Newcastle - Sheffield. All miles from Birmingham, Cardiff, Exeter, Norwich, dare I say more? Sheffield is supposed to have some link with the 5 Live move north so I don't see why they get this treatment and not Bristol, for example.
5 Live powers that be appear to hate everywhere else but the north so much, yet they mostly still choose to live in Olympicland.
Can we extract a promise for Octoberfest 2013 that it takes place in, oh, I don't know, Southampton? Just have a think about it please AVK.
At 12:01 20th Aug 2012, Rebelbrum wrote:
"Our biggest names" says Van-Klaveren.
Time was when it would have been "senior broadcasters" or "best talent". Radio 5 Live continues its slow transformation into TalkSport Lite.
At 15:30 20th Aug 2012, Davi Evans wrote:
It's always quite sad when there are more negative than positive comments to an article but oh well.
I think it's great- Sheffield has had a fantastic year sportwise with Jess Ennis's success, the Olympics/Paralympics being headed by Sheffield's own Lord Coe as well as the fantastic nail baiting conclusion to the League One season that saw the two Sheffield football teams battling each other for promotion before Sheffield Wednesday did the deed and now start the new campaign in the Championship. Also for the English Institute of Sport which many people may not have heard of but it's in Sheffield and has top class facilites for various sports used by many inc Jess Ennis pre Olympics.
I'm sure Octoberfest will be great and as a Sheffielder now living in London, I will be tuning in all weekend to sample what should be a great weekend of programmes from the wonderful Steel City.
Frankly Davi from Sheffield, the amount of information you included in your post, which most people interested in sport already know, proves my point that the Octoberfest should go somewhere else where we do not know the ins and outs of what is happening. I don't even feel my post was negative, I think it is incredibly positive that I am seeking to spread the 5 Live message to the regions that for so long have been totally ignored by the station. (Apart from two short visits during the 2010 elections and that was to the south west.)
At 07:30 24th Aug 2012, Jackstumps wrote:
Interesting that as soon as the Non League Show blog started to criticise one of its presenters Five Live closes it for comments. Sometimes the truth hurts folks.
The Five Live scheduling comedians in full flow. Johnny Vaughan and Robbie Savage. You couldn't make it up. The Chuckle brother know more than those two.
At 18:54 25th Aug 2012, Binkie wrote:
Jack....nothing changes at 5live, sounds like that pairing has got Sony Award Winners written all over it.
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Manchester United coach Mark Dempsey to fly home after falling ill on tour
By Simon Stone
From the section Man Utd
Mark Dempsey (centre) with Mike Phelan and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
Manchester United coach Mark Dempsey is to fly home after he fell ill and was admitted to hospital on the club's pre-season tour of Australia on Friday.
Dempsey, 55, will be discharged following treatment - and United said that, because of the "intensity" of the tour, "we have decided together it's best for him to return home".
The Red Devils are on a four-match, 18-day pre-season tour of Australia, Singapore and China.
They beat Perth Glory 2-0 on Saturday.
United next play Leeds United on 17 July, before flying to Singapore for a game against Inter Milan on 20 July.
The trip finishes with a game against Premier League rivals Tottenham in Shanghai on 25 July.
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Home > About us > News & Events > Beach Baker London Office expands into historic Beak Street
Beach Baker London Office expands into historic Beak Street
Beach Baker Ltd, expert recruitment consultancy for the real estate, programme and project management sectors, is expanding its London presence with its relocation to a new, larger office space in the historical Beak Street.
The new office move has allowed Beach Baker to strengthen its business and enabled the London based team to expand further. Beak Street, named after the Queen’s Messenger Thomas Beak in 1680, is situated in a prime Soho location and just around the corner from Carnaby Street and Golden Square. The London office is well placed for business meetings and close proximity to both Piccadilly Circus and Oxford Circus Station
Following the relocation, the company has strengthened its expertise in London with the hiring of three new, highly experienced recruitment consultants including Archie Hirson, Principal Consultant, Jordan Gladstone, Senior Consultant and Craig Welsh, Senior Consultant.
Commenting on the move, Fred Hicks Beach, Director said “We are really pleased that we have found such a great space to accommodate the growth of the London team so close to our old office in Soho Square. We really wanted to limit the impact of the relocation on our employees and clients alike, and Beak Street is the ideal location for us to expand our presence in the City.”
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BioPak’s vision is a world without waste. Through its compost service, BioPak hopes to offer a circular economy solution that treats foodservice packaging and food scraps as resources, not waste.
BioPak is working with cafés and restaurants to spread awareness of its simple composting solution and encourage a behavioural change around packaging and waste.
In December 2017, the foodservice packaging company began studying waste, where it was going, and what it was doing to the environment. From its surprising research, BioPak found the foodservice and hospitality sector sends more than 900,000 tonnes of organic waste to landfill.
BioPak started speaking with café owners about the amount of waste they were producing and how its compost service could help manage that waste.
As a result, 18 months ago BioPak launched its compost service, designed to close the loop and divert waste from landfill.
“Compostable packaging is the most logical solution for cafés and restaurants. It allows food waste, along with the packaging, to be disposed of in one bin. We have created a simple solution that is easy and cost effective for any café to implement,” says Gary Smith, BioPak CEO.
The BioPak Compost Service collects compostable cups and lids, packaging, food scraps, and organic waste in the same bin. Working with its composting partners, it then transforms the materials into nutrient-rich compost in eight to 12 weeks.
“We felt compelled to close the loop and leverage organic recycling, a solution that is already available. We are not reinventing the wheel – we are simply connecting the waste collection contractors with the commercial compost facilities to provide them with a valuable feedstock for their business,” Gary says.
BioPak’s goal is to reduce the environmental impact of single-use disposable packaging using circular economy principles. Gary says the amount of food waste being sent to landfill and plastics ending up in our oceans is contributing to global warming and damaging ecosystems on a scale that has never been seen before.
“The back of house operations in cafés and restaurants generate a significant volume of organic waste. The real problem is most of that waste currently ends up in landfill, where it releases greenhouse gasses that contribute to global warming. Now, it can be converted into compost used to regenerate and return valuable nutrients to the soil,” Gary says.
He adds that the early days of launching BioPak’s composting service weren’t smooth, as local councils were unwilling to provide support or funding. Eventually, they collaborated with independent waste collection contractors and industrial compost facilities that could take organic material and convert it into compost.
“We started in Sydney where we worked with a local organic waste collection company and a compost partner in Wollongong. Initially, we only serviced 100 postcodes. Twelve months later, the service is available to more than 2200 postcodes, is in almost every major metropolitan city, and has more than 300 cafés signed up,” Gary says.
“Composting organic, plant-based products diverts organic materials from landfill and reduces emissions. The composters are happy with the high quality material they receive from us in the form of food scraps that are rich in nutrients. What was once waste is now a value-add product in the form of compost that improves the quality of the soil and reduces the foodservice industries carbon footprint and overall environmental impact.”
BioPak offers plant-based compostable single-use packaging designed for a circular economy as an alternative to conventional plastic foodservice packaging derived from fossil resources. This includes packaging made from rapidly renewable sustainably sourced materials that are non-toxic throughout their lifecycle. Its products are certified carbon neutral and can be composted after use.
“Our vision is to develop a closed loop circular solution that diverts valuable resources from landfill, to be reused and repurposed, and make it available to everybody,” Gary says.
For more information, visit www.biopak.com.au
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Buy a Breezer, Get Free Roadside Assistance!
For Release July 17, 2003:
Better World Contact: Mitch Rofsky, 503 546 1114
Breezer Contact: John Doidge, 415 339 8917
Transportation for a Healthy Planet
Roadside Assistance Insurance Travel
Better World Club and Breezer announce partnership:
North America's first Bicycle Roadside Assistance
with purchase of Town and Range Breezers
(Portland, OR) -- July 17, 2003 -- Breezer, North America's transportation bicycle company, and Better World Club, North America's environmentally friendly roadside assistance company, have teamed up to make transportation by bicycle even more convenient. The partnership means that new purchasers of Breezer Town and Range bicycles can receive a one-year Bicycle Roadside Assistance membership FREE: a $39.95 value.
"Roadside assistance as a standard feature of a new car purchase is increasingly common," said Better World Club President Mitch Rofsky. "But this option has never been available to bicycle purchasers-until today. Better World Club, known for promoting a balanced transportation system, couldn't be more pleased that this feature is being pioneered by a company known for its transportation bicycles."
This unparalleled offer is available to U.S. and Canadian buyers of Breezer Town and Range bikes who are age 16 or over and who purchase their new bikes between July 17 and December 31, 2003. These buyers will automatically be enrolled in the Bicycle Roadside Assistance program when they register their Breezer warranties. Said Breezer designer Joe Breeze, "We are delighted to be collaborating with Better World Club on this breakthrough program. It makes sense for Breezer owners to receive this benefit, as we advance the bicycle as a timesaving, healthy transportation choice."
In addition to the special promotion, Better World Club is offering a 15% reduction in the price of its bicycle and auto memberships to all Breezer owners and Club Breezer members. Breezer transportation bike owners automatically become members of Club Breezer when they register their bikes. The Better World Club 15% discount is the first of a planned series of benefits to Club Breezer members, providing even greater long-term value to owners of Breezer transportation bicycles.
Better World Club Bicycle Roadside Assistance program includes:
-Two service calls per year, including roadside assistance of up to 30 miles in total.
-Discounts on hotels, restaurants, and other travel services as provided to Better World Club auto members.
-Better World's Travel Cool! program: discounts on green hotels, eco-travel, and hybrid car rentals, and Better World's distinctive Carbon Offset program, which enables travelers to fight global warming.
Also available are bicycle and automobile coverage in one membership. Even the most dedicated bicycle transportation advocates agree it is sometimes advantageous to travel by car. A purchaser of a new Breezer will be able to add on a Better World Auto membership for auto roadside assistance services, at the price of $15.00 (for up to 5 miles of towing), or $30.00 (for up to 100 miles of towing).
More information can be found at the Better World Club website, www.betterworldclub.com, and the Breezer website, www.breezerbikes.com. Information can also be found at any Breezer dealership across North America.
About Better World Club
Portland,OR-based Better World Club is the only socially responsible, environmentally friendly roadside assistance and travel club in the country that's working to help clean up the environment. The company acts as an advocate on behalf of consumers and demonstrates its social and environmental commitment by donating 1% of annual revenues toward environmental cleanup efforts and by providing unique eco-friendly travel alternatives.
Cost for a basic auto membership in the Better World Club begins at $49.95 a year. A Better World Club auto member can obtain the additional bicycle service for $15.00, incorporating the service into the four service calls received annually. To become a member of the Better World Club or for more information, call 866-238-1137 or visit www.betterworldclub.com.
About Breezer
Joe Breeze is credited with building the first modern-day mountain bikes 25 years ago. Today, his Breezer transportation bicycles are specifically designed and fully equipped to serve as everyday vehicles. The target audience includes current cyclists and people who desire time-saving physical activity and have yet to discover the joys and benefits of riding a bike for errands or work. The Breezer mission is multi-fold: to benefit individual and environmental health; to improve quality of life in communities; to work in a positive, peaceful way toward energy independence; and to provide a fun-filled way for people to get around. Sausalito, CA-based Breezer has committed at least 5% of its annual profits to support bicycle advocacy.
Breezer transportation-ready bicycles range in price from $499 to $749 for the fully equipped Town bikes, and from $729 to $949 for the Range bikes. Three Compact folding bikes range in price from $399 to $699. For more information about Breezer and Club Breezer, visit www.breezerbikes.com or call 415 339 8917.
Interesting Bicycle Facts You Should Know:
The most popular vehicle in the world is the bicycle. There are about 1.4 billion bicycles, and 340 million cars. In the United States, the average commute trip (for all modes) has increased from 8.5 miles in 1983 to 11.6 miles in 1995. More than 82 percent of US trips of five miles or less are made by motor vehicle. Trips of five miles or less are well within the range of bicycles, yet in the US only 1.3 percent of such trips are made by bicycle. About 75 percent of US trips of one mile or less are made by motor vehicle. And, about 16 million bicycles are sold in the US each year.
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Hair cut raises £2,000 for breast patients
A Royal Bournemouth Hospital women’s health consultant has raised over £2,000 for Bournemouth Hospital Charity after having her hair cut on Facebook Live.
Miss Ishrak Hamo, Consultant Oncoplastic Surgeon at Royal Bournemouth Hospital, had 21 inches of her beloved black locks snipped by a former patient Tracey Verrall to help raise funds for new equipment for breast cancer patients.
Miss Hamo, who practises in the Jigsaw Building of the Royal Bournemouth Hospital, made her sacrifice for the sake of her patients.
“I have donated my hair to make real hair wigs for cancer patients because they are often most devastated with the ramifications of receiving cancer treatment, namely losing their hair,” explains Miss Hamo.
As well as donating the hair, Miss Hamo has raised over £2,000 towards breast cancer projects within her department with a number of former patients donating via her JustGiving page.
Local hairdresser Tracey Verrall, who had the honour of cutting the hair, met Miss Hamo whilst undergoing treatment for breast cancer at the Hospital.
Having worked as a hairdresser for 30 years and faced cancer treatment herself, Tracey says she can appreciate how it feels as a cancer patient to experience the unpleasant side effects of treatment.
“I lost my hair through chemo and then I lost my hair through radiotherapy,” explains Tracey.
“Losing my hair taught me how to treat people with cancer. When you have someone in the salon who’s going through it, then you can share how they’re feeling.”
Anyone wishing to donate towards Miss Hamo’s cause can do so through her JustGiving page.
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Viewpoint: Payment disparity is causing healthcare costs to swell — 5 takeaways
Written by Angie Stewart | May 09, 2019 | Print | Email
Variation in how procedures are reimbursed creates wasteful spending and drives up costs across the U.S., according to Richard Slusky, who shared his viewpoint on HealthAffairs.
Five takeaways:
1. There is significant variation in prices paid for the same procedure. For instance, in 2011, commercial payments for a colonoscopy in New Jersey ranged from $200 in a physician's office to about $3,750 in a hospital.
2. On average, four large national insurers paid 147 percent of Medicare in Miami, according to a 2010 study. Those same four insurers paid 210 percent of Medicare in San Francisco. In some cases, hospitals received more than seven times the amount Medicare paid for outpatient services.
3. Payment variations may be a result of providers' market power over commercial payers. Another theory is that health systems charge private insurers more to recoup losses from public payers.
4. In any case, "This variability and complexity in how healthcare services are reimbursed suggests that billions of dollars in payments to healthcare providers have little or no relationship to the underlying value or cost of those services, adds significant, unnecessary costs to the healthcare market, and makes price comparisons difficult for consumers," Mr. Slusky said.
5. Mr. Slusky proposed a solution: using current Medicare methodology as a framework to determine uniform payment rates for all healthcare services. He suggested establishing a regulatory body that would analyze payment rates and establish limits on payers' reimbursement for certain services. This proposal wouldn't involve eliminating private insurers or increasing costs for public insurers, Mr. Slusky said.
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Paloma Faith wardrobe malfunction at O2 Apollo in Manchester
Paloma Faith almost suffered an embarrassing wardrobe malfunction when her dress dropped down to show a little too much cleavage in front of crowds of screaming fans this week.
Paloma Faith, 27, performed at the O2 Apollo in Manchester, UK, as part of her tour on Wednesday night.
She wore a tight fitting yellow dress which left little to the imagination as she moved around as part of her dance routine.
Paloma Faith styled her red hair into a wild do with a white blonde section at the front.
She performed in her typically quirky style and waved her arms above her head and contorted her body as she sung.
The musician is likely to be enjoying her success as a solo artist but her career could have been very different if she had agreed to one of late singer Amy Winehouse’s requests.
Paloma Faith almost suffered an embarrassing wardrobe malfunction when her dress dropped down to show a little too much cleavage
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Atlantic Perspectives
Places, Spirits and Heritage
Edited by Markus Balkenhol, Ruy Llera Blanes, and Ramon Sarró
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“Offers very timely ethnographic explorations of contemporary configurations of the black Atlantic and its endless possibilities, reinventions, rerouting and rerooting… It should be of immense value for graduate students and established scholars in a variety of fields in the humanities and social sciences.” • Jean Muteba Rahier, Florida International University
Focusing on mobility, religion, and belonging, the volume contributes to transatlantic anthropology and history by bringing together religion, cultural heritage and placemaking in the Atlantic world. The entanglements of these domains are ethnographically scrutinized to perceive the connections and disconnections of specific places which, despite a common history, are today very different in terms of secular regimes and the presence of religion in the public sphere. Ideally suited to a variety of scholars and students in different fields, Atlantic Perspectives will lead to new debates and conversations throughout the fields of anthropology, religion and history.
Markus Balkenhol is an anthropologist at the Meertens Institute (Amsterdam) who has done fieldwork in Suriname and the Netherlands. He works on issues of colonialism, race, citizenship, cultural heritage, and religion. He has published articles in Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, African Diaspora, and Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and is co-editor of the forthcoming book The Secular Sacred. Emotions of Belonging and the Perils of Nation and Religion in Western Europe.
Ruy Llera Blanes is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the School of Global Studies of the University of Gothenburg. His current research site is Angola, where he is working on the topics of religion, mobility, politics, temporalities, and knowledge. His publications include A Prophetic Trajectory. Ideologies of Place, Time and Belonging in an Angolan Religious Movement (2014) and the volume The Social Life of Spirits (2013, edited with Diana Espírito Santo). He is also co-editor of the journal Advances in Research: Religion and Society.
Ramon Sarró is an Associate Professor at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford. He has conducted fieldwork in Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola and Portugal on prophetic movements and their legacies. He has published many articles and is the author of the monograph The Politics of Religious Change on the Upper Guinea Coast: Iconoclasm Done and Undone (2009).
Subject: Religion General Anthropology
BISAC: REL084000 RELIGION/Religion, Politics & State; SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural
BIC: HRA Religion: general; JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
Introduction: Ethnographic Perspectives on the Atlantic
Markus Balkenhol, Ruy Llera Blanes, and Ramon Sarró
Chapter 1. Silent Histories: Deadly Chinos and the Memorialization of a Chinese Imaginary through Afro-Cuban Religions
Diana Espíríto Santo
Chapter 2. Of Revelation and Re-Creation: Christian Miracles and African Traditions in the Atlantic
Roger Sansi
Chapter 3. Peruvian Israelites: Territorial Narratives and Religious Connections across the Atlantic
Carmen González Hacha
Chapter 4. Defending What’s Ours: Asserting Land Rights through Popular Catholicism in a Brazilian Quilombo
Katerina Chatzikidi
Chapter 5. Emergent Atlantics: Black Evangelicals’ Quest for a New Moral Geography in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
Bruno Reinhardt
Chapter 6. The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in Portugal: Avoiding Stigmas and Building Bridges
Claudia Swatowiski
Chapter 7. Our Lady of Fátima in Brazil, Iemanjá in Portugal: Afro-Brazilian Religions across the Atlantic
Clara Saraiva
Chapter 8. Eight Movements and a Coda on the Baroque Atlantic
Mattijs van de Port
Chapter 9. The Spirit(s) of New Orleans: Community Healing through Commemoration
Roos Dorsman
Chapter 10. Imaging the African Diaspora: Cultural Heritage, Religion, and Belonging in the Netherlands
Markus Balkenhol
Chapter 11. Places of No History in Angola
Ruy Llera Blanes
Chapter 12. Slavery Histories from the Hinterland: Making Indigenous Heritage Landscapes in Western Burkina Faso
Laurence Douny
Chapter 13. A Prophetic Enclave: Religious Heritage and Environmental History in Northern Angola
Ramon Sarró and Marina Temudo
Conclusion: From the Atlantic Point of View: Some Concluding Thoughts
Ramon Sarró
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Panic and chaos at the Toronto Eaton Centre after stabbings
Toronto is reeling today in the wake of three separate violent incidents in and around the downtown core during Monday afternoon's Raptors Championship celebrations.
At least four people were taken to hospital yesterday after two stabbing incidents in and around the CF Toronto Eaton Centre, according to police.
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The first incident, closer to Yonge-Dundas Square, saw three people stabbed inside the mall, all of them sustaining non-life-threatening injuries.
A second stabbing incident at the Eaton Centre near Bay Street saw one person transported to hospital with life-threatening injuries around 2:30 p.m.
Police did not immediately determine whether or not the stabbings were related, but they — and Eaton Centre employees — took every precaution to ensure that mall patrons were safe as chaos broke out.
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"My young brother and I were just about to step out of the Eaton Centre on the Queen Street side when we were swarmed by guards and police telling us to run," says witness Michelle Gorkunberg.
"Immediately all the storefronts were shutting down, people were running and crying. I saw a few loose sandals in the suddenly eerily empty Eaton Centre."
With stores on lockdown, many shoppers took refuge with retail workers in back rooms.
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Gorkunberg and other witnesses described a chaotic scene in which shoppers tried to flee north to Dundas Station, which was shut down.
Instead, a guard helped dozens of citizens into an underground employee tunnel to wait for roughly 20 minutes until they felt safe enough to exit the mall, which was evacuated for about half an hour.
"Was inside the Eaton Centre food court when panic broke out," wrote Sarah Krichel. "Reports say it was a stabbing but the moments hiding under a table were absolutely terrifying. People were running, screaming and crying. I had no idea what was going to happen."
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Meanwhile, hundreds of people had gathered at the nearby Nathan Phillips Square for a post-parade rally to cheer on the Toronto Raptors in light of their first ever NBA Championship win.
Police say that a shooting broke out near the square's southeast corner during the rally at approximately 3:45 p.m., injuring at least four people.
Officers made three arrests and recovered two firearms in relation to the shooting. TPS is now appealing to witnesses for photo and video footage from the scene.
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Suffice it to say, the situation was a mess — and fans were disappointed.
"One of my cousins was nearly trampled on while running away from gunshots at NPS," wrote one Twitter user. "Another had to hide in a store at the Eaton Centre to escape a horde fleeing a stabbing. Win an American championship, celebrate like an American city?"
Michelle Gorkunberg
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David Bowie: A Life by Dylan Jones
Dylan Jones's engrossing, magisterial biography of David Bowie is unlike any Bowie story ever written. Drawn from over 180 interviews with friends, rivals, lovers, and collaborators, some of whom have never before spoken about their relationship with Bowie, this oral history weaves a hypnotic spell as it unfolds the story of a remarkable rise to stardom and an unparalleled artistic path.
Tracing Bowie's life from the English suburbs to London to New York to Los Angeles, Berlin, and beyond, its collective voices describe a man profoundly shaped by his relationship with his schizophrenic half-brother Terry; an intuitive artist who could absorb influences through intense relationships and yet drop people cold when they were no longer of use; and a social creature equally comfortable partying with John Lennon and dining with Frank Sinatra.
By turns insightful and deliciously gossipy, David Bowie is as intimate a portrait as may ever be drawn. It sparks with admiration and grievances, lust and envy, as the speakers bring you into studios and bedrooms they shared with Bowie, and onto stages and film sets, opening corners of his mind and experience that transform our understanding of both artist and art. Including illuminating, never-before-seen material from Bowie himself, drawn from a series of Jones's interviews with him across two decades, David Bowie is an epic, unforgettable cocktail-party conversation about a man whose enigmatic shapeshifting and irrepressible creativity produced one of the most sprawling, fascinating lives of our time.
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Singapore office property costly as new towers vie for tenants
Thu, Jun 18, 2015 - 9:47 AM
Singapore's office market is expensive compared with Australia and Japan because of a space glut and slowing rental growth, according to Union Investment, Germany's largest fund manager.
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[SINGAPORE] Singapore's office market is expensive compared with Australia and Japan because of a space glut and slowing rental growth, according to Union Investment, Germany's largest fund manager.
"It's positive because of the quality of assets, maturity of assets, transparency of markets for practical reasons, but for economic returns it's less attractive at this point in time," Eric Cheah, Union's Asia-Pacific head of investment management, said in an interview in the city-state.
Union Investment, which has one office asset in Singapore, is increasing its bets on central district offices in Australia and Japan instead, MrCheah said.
Singapore's office rents peaked in the first quarter as economic growth shows signs of tapering, according to Cushman & Wakefield Inc. Grade A office rents in the central business district could slide 14 per cent over the next two years to S$9.12 per square foot per month from S$10.60 per square foot, Cushman estimates.
Rents in the city's central business district jumped 14 percent in 2014, posting the biggest increase in the region, according to Jones Lang LaSalle Inc.
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Overseas sales unexpectedly fell for the first time in three months in May, signaling a weakening growth outlook for the export-dependent nation. Consumer prices prices declined for a sixth straight month in April and employment contracted last quarter for the first time since 2009.
Some landlords are considering selling their properties. BlackRock Inc, the world's largest asset manager, said it has received expressions of interest for Singapore's Asia Square Tower 1 and could get more than S$4 billion for the building whose tenants include Citigroup Inc. The fund hopes to close the deal by the end of the year, he said.
BlackRock may also look to sell Asia Square Tower 2, Greg Lapham, a real estate managing director at the firm, said in an interview at the Real Estate Investment World conference in Singapore on Wednesday.
Keppel Land Ltd's investment company is also planning to sell its 50 per cent stake in Capital Square, a 16-story building in Singapore's financial district.
The divestments will come as supply increases. Over the next four years, 8 million square feet of office space and more than 3 three million square feet of business park space will become available, according to Cushman.
"The Singapore office user has never been so spoiled for choice; the question that investors are grappling with is what will trigger growth in the medium term to drive take-up of this huge supply," said Singapore-based Priyaranjan Kumar, regional executive director of capital markets at Cushman.
Tokyo, Sydney, London, New York, San Francisco and Boston currently offer either better spreads or clearer evidence of near-term growth, Kumar said.
The Singapore government's control of land supply will keep rents from surging, Mr Cheah said.
"There is an element of policy risk in Singapore in terms of its pro-business support to keep rentals in check so they don't get to too high levels," Cheah said. "There is the opportunity for them to just release more sites so they can keep a certain ceiling on rentals." Union Investment, which oversees 240 billion euros (S$360.7 billion) globally with about 29 billion euros in real estate assets, plans to double its property investments in the Asia- Pacific region to 2 billion euros over the next three to five years, Mr Cheah said.
The fund has 10 properties in Tokyo and may look for office assets in Osaka, he said. It will also scout for opportunities in Australia where it currently has one asset in Brisbane in Queensland state, he said.
"We will always keep an eye on Singapore, but from a returns perspective there is not that much opportunity around," Mr Cheah said.
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Insurer accounting standard draft contains “fundamental” changes for Canadian insurers: PwC
November 23, 2010 by Canadian Underwriter
The most recent International Accounting Standards Board draft contains fundamental changes that would alter existing Canadian P&C valuation methods and the way that insurers’ income is presented, PricewaterhouseCooper’s said in its Fall 2010 Insurance Review.
The proposals are the result of the IASB and the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s joint efforts to develop a single converged insurance accounting standard.
The “fundamental” changes proposed by the new standard include a new measurement model for insurance contracts that would replace the existing Canadian P&C actuarial valuation methods.
Also, a markedly different income presentation focuses on changes in margins and estimates instead of the more familiar premiums and claims line items, PwC said in the article, Insurance contracts – fundamental accounting changes proposed.
The current measurement model includes an explicit risk adjustment for the effects of uncertainty about the timing and amount of future cash flows.
“This adjustment is the maximum amount the issuer would pay to be relieved of the risk that the ultimate cash flows exceed those expected,” the article says.
The inclusion of an explicit risk adjustment has been a controversial issue, PwC reported.
The new draft limits the permitted techniques to calculate this adjustment.
“The residual margin eliminates any initial gain on the contract. It is not subsequently re-measured but is released in a systematic way over the coverage period. Any initial loss on a contract is recognized immediately in profit or loss.”
The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has not yet proposed an effective date of implementation or whether the resultant standard will be available for early adoption. This is expected after Canadian insurers have transitioned to IFRS in 2011.
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You are here: Home / Analysts / Descartes' acquisition of Apterra gets thumbs up at Cantor Fitzgerald
Descartes' acquisition of Apterra gets thumbs up at Cantor Fitzgerald
October 13, 2016 by Nick Waddell
Descartes CEO Ed Ryan.
Descartes Systems Group’s (TSX:DSG) tuck-in acquisition of Apterra is a solid pickup, says Cantor Fitzgerald Canada analyst Ralph Garcea.
This morning, Descartes announced it had acquired the U.S.-based Apterra, a provider of cloud-based business-to-business supply chain integration solutions for (U.S.) $5.8-million. An earn out based on revenue target could hike the price by as much as $1.6 million.
“Our Global Logistics Network helps isolate customers from the complexities of different protocols, semantics and end-user requirements for managing and transmitting electronic supply chain data and documents,” said CEO Ed Ryan. “By adding Appterra’s technology and services to our business, our customers will have access to broader data integration capabilities for standardizing and automating buy-side and sell-side processes. Equally, Appterra’s customers will now join Descartes’ logistics community, presenting additional opportunities for trading partners to collect and share logistics data earlier in the business process.”
Garcea estimates that Apterra does more than $3-million annually in revenue and has more than 40 employees. He says he views the acquisition as very complementary and immediately scalable.
“We remind investors Descartes’ Global Logistics Network (GLN) has 13,500+ customers worldwide, processes 4.5B+ messages/yr and manages 30M+ routes/yr,” says the analyst. “We believe Appterra will be directly integrated into the GLN and synergies realised immediately. Appterra’s SaaS model is also complimentary to Descartes’ revenue model and will add to its recurring revenue stream.”
In a research update to clients today, Garcea maintained his “Buy” rating and one year price target of US$26.00/C$32.50 on Descartes Systems Group, implying a return of 28 per cent at the time of publication.
Garcea thinks Descartes will post Adjusted EBIDA of $71.2-million on revenue of $202-5-million in fiscal 2017, numbers he expects will climb to EBITDA of $88.2-million on a topline of $241.9-million the following year.
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December 13, 2010 / Caribbean
Hands off Turks and Caicos: CARICOM
By Bert Wilkinson
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Guyana: ROW OVER BRITISH WARNING
Caribbean leaders, through retiring Secretary General Edwin Carrington, have again called for Britain to abandon direct rule in the Turks and Caicos Islands, saying its continued insistence on administering the daily affairs of its colony runs counter to the rules of good governance.
Carrington said, as he received credentials of Paul Brummel, Britain’s new high commissioner to regional trade bloc at the weekend, that the region remains upset with London for taking away constitutional governance from the Turks in mid-2009, as he called for the constitutional restoration for one of CARICOM’s associate members.
“CARICOM contends that those objectives of Her Majesty’s government cannot be met by the continued effective disenfranchisement of the Turks and Caicos islanders or by the denial of their inalienable right to shape their own future,” he said in prepared remarks at the Guyana-based regional headquarters released overnight.
“Direct rule is totally at odds with the development of good governance, including improved fiscal and administrative management, in the Turks and Caicos Islands,” he said.
Citing runaway corruption, alleged illegal sale of the islands’ precious little land area to foreign friends and mismanagement in general, Britain withdrew control of daily island affairs from the local government and sent its own representative to run the island chain, saying it needed to restore order to the tourist paradise in the north Caribbean.
But even as he communicated the region’s position to Brummel, Carrington also used the opportunity to appeal to the David Cameron Administration to review the controversial air passenger (APD) travel ticket increase that is hurting travel to the region.
The region has found itself in the same tax bracket as Hawaii and Vancouver, both of which are about 7,000 miles from London, compared to 4,000 or about eight hours flying to the Caribbean, because the seat tax is calculated from capital to capital rather than actual flying distance.
So it is not more expensive to travel to the Caribbean than to the farthest American or Canadian city. Britain has so far refused to back away from its decision in the past year to increase air ticket rates.
“What we mainly ask is that it should not be discriminatory in its effect against our countries, intentionally or otherwise. It is difficult for Caribbean countries to accept that visitors travelling from London to the Caribbean, must pay an emission duty on their ticket much higher than that paid by visitors travelling to Hawaii or Vancouver not that much less,” the CARICOM secretary general pointed out, saying economies are “seriously threatened” by this development.
Updated 4:50 pm, July 9, 2018:
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A drone operator helps to retrieve a drone after photographing over Hart Island in New York, April 29, 2018. Canada’s prison service has earmarked $6 million for electronic systems to prevent tiny drones from dropping illegal drugs, cellphones or other contraband into the yards of institutions. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Seth Wenig, File
Federal prisons taking aim at special deliveries from the sky
Correctional Service of Canada tries to prevent tiny drones from dropping illegal drugs
Prison wardens are usually preoccupied with keeping people inside their walls. Now six Canadian prisons are taking steps to shoo away some pesky, flying visitors.
The Correctional Service of Canada has earmarked $6 million for electronic systems to prevent tiny drones from dropping illegal drugs, cellphones or other contraband into the yards of its institutions.
The prison service is alarmed by cases of small, easily purchased flying devices delivering forbidden items weighing up to five kilograms to prisoners from the air.
In one case, the service intercepted a drone-carried package containing $26,500 worth of drugs and tobacco at medium-security Matsqui Institution in British Columbia just before Christmas 2017.
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The service fears the camera-equipped copters could also be used in illicit surveillance operations to glean intelligence that might help with escapes.
In addition, it wants to be able to catch anyone on the ground attempting to just throw a package of contraband over a perimeter fence.
It is seeking a contractor to supply, install and test intrusion-detection systems as well as provide training on how to operate and maintain them.
The systems will be evaluated in a pilot project over the next four years at six prisons: Mission in B.C., Stony Mountain in Manitoba, Cowansville and Donnacona in Quebec, Collins Bay in Ontario, and Dorchester in New Brunswick.
A report will then provide recommendations on next steps with respect to a cross-country rollout, said Correctional Service spokeswoman Esther Mailhot.
Detecting drugs and other contraband is an “ongoing and challenging task” despite practices including searches of offenders, visitors, employees, cells, and vehicles, sometimes using ion scanners and detector dogs, Mailhot said.
“CSC continues to research and introduce new technology as it becomes available to better facilitate the detection of contraband, including drone detection,” she said. “Preventing the introduction of contraband and reducing the use of illicit substances by offenders in correctional institutions is a priority for us.”
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Federal solicitation documents describing the project say initial research conducted with the help of the National Research Council indicates a radar-based detection system represents the “most mature technology” for intercepting drones. However, it is possible to jam radar systems.
The chosen setup should warn the operator of the presence of an approaching drone at “as great a distance from the perimeter of the institution as possible” to give staff time to mount a response, the documents say.
The prison service also wants the system to:
— Detect an intruder approaching the fence to do a “throw-over”;
— Automatically identify detected targets, such as a person, car, bird or drone, based on characteristics and behaviour;
— Provide a means for staff to see, even at night, where a drone drops its payload and be able to identify nearby people;
— Support a means of allowing friendly drones to be used without generating nuisance alarms.
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Take That's Gary Barlow to perform at Yorkshire gig for Help For Heroes
Eliot Kennedy and Gary Barlow
Graham Walker, Commercial Content Editor
Published: 10:09 Updated: 23:59 Tuesday 25 October 2016
Take That superstar Gary Barlow today announced he will join songwriting pal Eliot Kennedy to perform at the Jo Heselden-Edwards' Hidden Wounds album launch for Help For Heroes.
The spectacular charity concert will see him on a star-studded bill singing under the iconic Vulcan bomber in its hangar at Doncaster Sheffield Airport on Saturday, November 12. Tickets here hiddenwoundsconcert.com
It will help launch the singing career of Jo Heselden-Edwards - daughter of tragic Leeds entrepreneur Jimi Heselden, who saved thousands of lives after developing the Concertainer ‘blast wall’ used to build military defences, including Camp Bastion, in Afghanistan.
Former miner Jimi grew up on a Leeds council estate, became a millionaire and gave millions to charities, including Help For Heroes, before the 62-year-old died in a freak accident in 2010 riding a Segway, after buying the company.
Sheffield songwriter producer Eliot, who has worked with The Spice Girls, Take That, Bryan Adams and many more, has now produced Jo's debut album, also called Hidden Wounds, highlighting a branch of Help For Heroes and in her dad's memory.
Today Eliot told how his songwriting pal Gary Barlow wants to support the fundraiser especially after the two performed to troops together at Camp Bastion.
Eliot, who first worked with the Take That star on chart-topping Everything Changes and has been most recently Broadway musicals with him, including Finding Neverland, said: "I'm thrilled that Gary has managed to re-organise his diary especially to do this and perform with us and others on the night.
"It won't be a full Gary Barlow show, he will just be doing a few songs - and it will be spectacular."
Eliot will also perform some of his own self-penned greatest hits, including the likes of Everything Changes, Picture Of You, Say You’ll Be There and When You’re Gone. There will also be a reunion with St Elmo's Fire rocker John Parr and John Reilly to sing their Women Of Steel song, a tribute to the women who kept the steel mills working during two world wars.
Guests confirmed also include The Puppini Sisters, an Andrews Sisters style close harmony vocal trio, who have appeared on TV shows from Loose Women to Strictly Come Dancing, performed at Glastonbury and recorded Jingle Bells and Frosty the Snowman with Michael Bublé for his Christmas album.
Barnsley indie band Sundance will also get their biggest break to date performing at the event.
Rock legend Bryan Adams and comedy genius Peter Kay have turned up as surprise guests for Eliot's previous charity shows, at Sheffield City Hall.
The Hidden Wounds album and launch event is called Hidden Wounds, after the charity which helps ex-soldiers and those still serving who are living with anxiety, depression, stress, mental illnesses and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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She has recorded some of her favourite pop songs, including Anyone Who Had A Heart and Living Years, plus a new track written with Eliot called Hidden Wounds.
* Tickets for the Hidden Wounds event, including three course meal, on Saturday, November 12, 2016, 7pm to late, are £100. To buy tickets and for full details visit hiddenwoundsconcert.com
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Blocking and Tackling: Protecting Your Enterprise Quarterback
Protecting your enterprise's 'blindside' is means protecting your users.This means not just protecting your user population at the line of scrimmage, or perimeter, but on all sides. From drive-by downloads to phishing fumbles, it all comes down to protecting your most valuable player, the end user. Join (ISC)2 and Invincea on March 22, 2012 at 1:00pm Eastern time for a roundtable discussion on the role of user behavior management and quarantine and how you can protect your blindside, even when you're on the bench.
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Kevin Henry, (ISC)2; Pam Fusco; Anup Ghosh, Invincea; Brandon Dunlap, Brightfly
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Want to be a Better Blue Teamer? Think Like an Attacker! Jul 25 2019 5:00 pm UTC 60 mins
Tarik Saleh, DomainTools; Rob Armstrong, Mathan Cyber Security, LLC; Keith Young, Mont. Co., MD; Brandon Dunlap, Moderator
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
– Sun Tzu.
The ability to understand your adversary is always a good skill for any security practitioner to have. But beyond understanding, one really needs to know how an attacker thinks. This enables better defense and cooperation between “Blue Teams” and “Red Teams”. Join DomainTools and (ISC)² on July 25, 2019 at 1:00PM Eastern for a discussion on defense and protection, how an attacker thinks and goes about breaching your enterprise, and the trend in “Purple Teaming”.
Let’s Work Together! How to Drive SecOps and NetOps Collaboration Jul 18 2019 5:00 pm UTC 60 mins
John Smith, Princ Sales Eng, ExtraHop; Caroline Saxon, Sr Advisor to CIO, TSYS; Glenn Leifheit, Microsoft; B. Dunlap
The siloed, standalone operations of security operations (SecOps) and network operations (NetOps) resulted in teams with their own culture, technologies, processes, skillsets and lexicons. When SecOps and NetOps each have their own tools and workflows, this results in slower detection and response, higher costs and an ineffective use of cybersecurity personnel. Security has also become complex, fast moving and critical to all organizations and it no longer makes sense for the two functions to remain siloed. Join ExtraHop and (ISC)2 on July 18, 2019 at 1:00PM Eastern for a discussion on how to increase collaboration between SecOps and NetOps and the benefits derived from that.
Delivering Security Awareness That Works Recorded: Jun 20 2019 57 mins
Matt Sitelman, Mimecast; Shayla Treadwell, ECS Federal; Ashley Schwartau, Sec. Awa. Co.; Brandon Dunlap
All organizations wrestle with their security awareness programs. It is clear that users need to be part of the solution and not just part of the problem. Many users however see these programs as “gimmicks” and don’t take the training as seriously as the organization would like them to. Security managers are often putting out other fires and can’t devote the time they would like to ongoing awareness training. So what can be done to overcome these issues? Join Mimecast and (ISC)2 on June 20, 2019 at 1PM Eastern for a discussion on the do’s and don’ts of security awareness training and testing, why it’s important to customize training for different groups and how to truly engage your end-users to make them part of your security program. We will also provide tips for gaining management support and building a company-wide culture of security with training as a key component.
AI-Driven EDR - The Machine Age of Information Security Recorded: Jun 13 2019 59 mins
Brian Robison, BlackBerry Cylance; Eric Walters, Burns & McDonnell; Travis Farral, CISO, LEO Cyber Security; B. Dunlap
The historical evidence of rules-based solutions in the Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) has proven that this approach is unable to keep up with the speed of the shifting threatscape. Join BlackBerry Cylance and (ISC)2 on June 13, 2019 at 1:00PM Eastern where we will explore how machine learning and artificial intelligence are closing the OODA (observe–orient–decide–act) loop on the attackers. We’ll also examine how you can gain an advantage over emerging threats, your time to respond and impact of artificial intelligence on security professionals.
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More than 130,000 information security professionals have invested time, determination and resources to attain the CISSP certification. Join (ISC)² members from different regions on May 21, 2019 at 10:00AM Eastern as we discuss what pain points, issues and challenges they encounter in their day-to-day work life, as well as solutions, tips and best practices they have developed along the way. We’ll also examine how the CISSP certification has helped them with their job and career.
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According to a recent Ponemon Institute survey, the average data breach costs $3.8M, up 6.4% from 2017. When it comes to an insider data breach, 95% of IT leaders view this as a concern for their organization (statistic from 2019 Data Breach Survey from Egress Software and Opinions Matters). Employees can put sensitive data at risk by accessing or sharing without permission, just because they are “curious” or intrigued by the content. An insider data breach can be the most damaging, the most expensive and the most difficult to detect and stop. How can an organization deal with these insider data breaches? Join Egress Software and (ISC)² on May 9, 2019, at 1PM Eastern for a wide-ranging discussion on insider data breaches, the malicious and the accidental and what can be done to mitigate such occurrences.
Going Off Script – Code Eats InfoSec Recorded: Apr 11 2019 58 mins
Tarik Saleh, Snr Sec. Engr, DomainTools; Erik von Geldern, CISO, FXCM; Clinton Campbell, CEO & Prin. Consul., Quirktree, LLC
Marc Andreessen famously said “Software is eating the world”, but what about in InfoSec? In the beginning, security practitioners depended on Excel and VB scripts to make sense of their data. Today, machine learning is aiding in the discovery and reporting of insights. As more and more cloud-forward companies are embracing an “infrastructure-as-code” model, what does this mean for the security leaders of tomorrow? Is automation important to your role and to the organization’s infosecurity posture? If so, join DomainTools and (ISC)2 on April 11, 2019 at 1:00PM for a discussion on security automation and how being fluent with programming languages and scripting can expand your knowledge and value to an organization, as well as strategizing for machines to work in harmony with the compliance and risk teams.
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Ferris Bueller famously said, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop to look around once in a while, you could miss it.” With complex data flows now reaching speeds 100G, what are your security tools missing? Can they handle the increased volume of information that’s coming in? By making use of packet brokers, you can get the visibility you need and not miss out on life. Join cPacket Networks and (ISC)2 on March 14, 2019 at 1:00PM for a discussion on packet brokering visibility across the network, the need for pre-egress filtering and how the convergence of NetOps and SecOps can help protect your company’s top-line revenue and productivity.
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According to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2018, 99% of malware, such as ransomware, trojans, and RATs, were delivered via malicious email attachments or via the web. With the vast majority of all security incidents and breaches using email and the web -- and the necessity of these services to your organization’s day-to-day operations -- how can you protect yourself? What are the best practices for defending against these types of threats? What are the best methods of acquiring, deploying and managing these protections? Join Mimecast and (ISC)2 on November 8, 2018 at 1:00PM Eastern for a discussion of these questions and the methods attackers are currently using to accomplish their goals, how attackers are using email and the web against organizations, why email and web security should be considered together and the benefits of cloud delivered security solutions, including improved security efficacy and reduction in overall costs.
The Golden Hour – Cutting the Time of Investigation and Response Recorded: Oct 25 2018 60 mins
Jadee Hanson, CISO, Code42; Andrew Neal, Pres; InfoSec/Compliance, TransPerfect; Greg Braunton, Catholic Health Initiatives
As the time and complexity associated with incident investigations increase, response times become more critical. The longer detection and remediation take, the higher the cost to the business and the greater the risk of a cyberattack expanding across the organization. Organizations have to react with speed and precision. How can an organization reduce the time and effort it takes to investigate and resolve an incident successfully? Join Code42 and (ISC)2 on October 25, 2018 at 1:00PM Eastern for a roundtable discussion on why time matters when conducting an investigation, where gaps may be in the incident response process and how to get the most out of your investigation and response efforts.
Sharpening Your Focus – Gaining Visibility & Managing the Insider Threat Recorded: Sep 13 2018 61 mins
Mayank Choudhary, VP Products, ObserveIT; John Carnes, Spencer Wilcox, PMN Resources; Brandon Dunlap (Moderator)
It’s no secret that limited visibility into user actions keeps cybersecurity professionals up at night. The right level of visibility into user action and access can produce positive insights that enable business results. Additionally, indicators of out of policy activities can stop an insider threat before it becomes a full-blown incident. Research from The Ponemon Institute showed that financial services institutions faced the highest insider threat costs of any other industry (at $12.05 million annually) -- a very concrete reason to address an otherwise invisible problem. Join ObserveIT and (ISC)2 on September 13, 2018 at 1:00PM Eastern for a roundtable discussion on insider threats including the most important components to gaining full cyber visibility: user activity, data activity, and analytics, best practices for managing insider threats and the key question organizations should be asking to mitigate insider threats.
The “Tell” – Identifying Threat Actors with Web Assets Recorded: Aug 30 2018 58 mins
Tim Helming, Director of Product Management, DomainTools; Aamir Lakhani; Andrew Neal, TransPerfect; B Dunlap (Moderator)
While the tools, techniques and procedures that threat actors employ are evolving, these threat actors often take the shortcut of reusing code and files on multiple domains (because it’s easier than setting different ones up each time). It’s these “tells” and habits that can help an organization more quickly identify and deal with a threat, by examining and pivoting through related infrastructure. Join DomainTools and (ISC)2 on August 30, 2018 at 1:00PM Eastern as we learn how to identify these pieces of evidence and how the threat intelligence space is changing, as well as what techniques security practitioners can learn and employ to stay ahead of threat actors.
2018 Security Congress Preview - Professional Development Recorded: Aug 21 2018 55 mins
Sharon Smith, Founder & Princ Consultant, C-Suite Results; Rob Ayoub, Program Dir, IDC; Derrick Butts, Truth Initiative
(ISC)2 will hold its Security Congress 2018 in New Orleans, Oct. 8 – 10. This conference will bring together 2000+ attendees and more than 100 educational sessions. One of the 13 tracks at the conference will focus on Professional Development and the challenges practitioners face advancing their careers, and staying ahead of the latest best practices and strategies with ongoing education. On Aug. 21, 2018 at 1 p.m. Eastern, join (ISC)2 and several speakers who’ll be presenting in the Professional Development track at Security Congress as we preview their sessions and discuss why professional development is so critical to advancing a career and knowledge.
Leveraging Security Automation for Improved Management Recorded: Aug 16 2018 61 mins
Ken Wilson, Dir, Sales Central U.S., Skybox, Michael Roling, CISO, State of MO; Curtis Dukes, CIS; Brandon Dunlap (Moderator)
Security automation technologies can help drive improvements in managing security policies, including their implementation in firewalls and other network devices. However, whether you’re struggling with continuous compliance, auditing and reporting or managing firewall changes, deciding what to automate can be challenging. Join Skybox Security and (ISC)2 on August 16, 2018 at 1:00PM Eastern for a discussion where we’ll examine which automated processes in security policy management deliver the biggest rewards while introducing the least risk to your organization. Areas to be examined include why automation, visibility and context should be the indivisible, foundational components of any security policy management solution, which processes in security policy management are ripe for automation and where human intervention is still valuable. We’ll also explore how to educate security stakeholders in your organization on what’s needed to make automation initiatives a success.
From Reactive to Proactive - Getting the Most Out of Network Traffic Analytics Recorded: Aug 2 2018 57 mins
Jeff Costlow, Dir of Security, ExtraHop; Kristy Westphal, VP, MUFG Union Bank; Melissa Duncan, Sr Sys Sec Eng, Charles Schwab
They say “Packets don’t lie”. Instead of waiting to respond to incidents and anomalies, SecOps teams are using the network to enable proactive measures such as threat hunting, auditing encryption and other suspicious and out-of-policy behaviors existing in the dark alleys of the traffic corridor. Real time network traffic analytics (NTA) tools can help an organization shift from defensive to offensive and cut investigation time, enabling analysts to quickly correlate activities and test hypotheses. Join ExtraHop and (ISC)2 on August 2, 2018 at 1:00PM Eastern as we discuss proactive measures that can work for an organization, what activities to look for and how machine learning can help speed up these efforts.
Regular roundtable discussions on a variety of infosecurity topics.
(ISC)2 hosts regular panel discussions on hot button infosecurity topics featuring thought leaders and visionaries from the industry who answer questions from the audience.
Title: Blocking and Tackling: Protecting Your Enterprise Quarterback
Live at: Mar 22 2012 5:00 pm
Presented by: Kevin Henry, (ISC)2; Pam Fusco; Anup Ghosh, Invincea; Brandon Dunlap, Brightfly
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Chisago County proud to be solar capitol of Minnesota
Metro, MN
This article is an excerpt of a recent story from the Chisago County Press.
There is a solar boom happening in Minnesota, and with the 100 MW North Star Solar project now complete, it’s booming the most in Chisago County, which estimates that about $350,000 in tax revenue will be created by solar projects in the county. The leasing of the land has also put money in farmers’ pockets where soils were not considered to be premium quality. As Chisago County Environmental Services and Zoning Director Kurt Schneider put it, “We are experiencing the planting of a new crop.”
County officials recently shared Chisago County’s experience with solar at a conference of Minnesota counties. Local officials explained Chisago became such a solar energy generating hub (it was dubbed the capital of MN solar) because of a variety of factors. They cited the large electric substation in Lent Township as a major plus in solar developers list of needs for connecting to the electric grid.
Schneider said the county was positioned to welcome solar before he was hired to direct the county department. There was already a level of comfort with solar due to Chisago Lakes Area School District 2144 installing very visible solar collectors atop the middle school. Lindstrom stepped up and put solar power atop its liquor store and city hall. Chisago County’s Household Hazardous Waste Facility, in North Branch, had a solar power array on its rooftop in 2011.
County Administrator Bruce Messelt said it was an honor to speak at the Association of MN Counties conference in December. “The county really stepped up to the plate,” and laid a foundation for solar regulation at the local level. Watch the presentation by clicking here and scrolling to the bottom of the page.
Click here to read the full article >>
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This effort tells the stories of Minnesota municipalities, counties, and schools and the tangible results of their energy-saving efforts to inspire others to take their own actions. See all stories in this series >>
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Nuclear power plans threatened by European commission investigation
Proposed nuclear reactor in Somerset could be delayed by two years if competition directorate launches full-scale investigation
Britain's planned nuclear reactor programme could be delayed for years, and the nation's long-term energy policy thrown into turmoil, as European commission officials launch the first stage of a formal investigation into the use of taxpayer subsidies to support the development.
Joaquín Almunia
EDF aims to strike CfD deal in next three months
EDF is aiming to complete negotiations with the UK government over new nuclear Contracts for Difference (CfDs) by the end of the first quarter of 2013, it confirmed today. The French-owned firm plans to make an investment decision on Hinkley Point C "as soon as possible" after that.
At its annual results presentation, chief executive Henri Proglio said EDF was seeking a 40-year contract for Hinkley Point C. Potential partners had come forward but nothing would be agreed until the contracts were in place and approved by Brussels.
Areva and EDF defend project costs
Areva and EDF, the French nuclear groups, have both defended the cost of new nuclear projects despite the €2bn of extra cost overruns on their flagship next-generation reactor at Flamanville in Normandy.
The news that the reactor, the first built in France for 15 years, is expected to cost €8.5bn rather than the €3.3bn first forecast comes as questions are raised about whether nuclear power remains affordable.
Centrica writes off £200m to quit nuclear power project
British Gas owner Centrica is expected to write off £200m when it pulls out of the country's nuclear new build programme in the new year.
Centrica has the option of taking a 20 per cent stake in building nuclear power stations at Hinkley Point in Somerset and Sizewell in Suffolk alongside French group EDF.
Government to rip up rulebook and subsidise new nuclear plants
The Government is planning to write a "blank cheque" to the nuclear industry by underwriting the cost of new power stations, leading energy academics have claimed in a letter to The Independent.
Under a major policy U-turn being considered by ministers, the taxpayer would be left to cover the cost of budget over-runs or building delays at new nuclear plants. Costly setbacks are almost inevitable with such complex construction projects.
Spanish say adios to UK nuclear
The owner of Scottish Power has pulled out of a multibillion-pound plan to build atomic reactors, dealing a blow to Britain’s faltering nuclear renaissance.
The decision by Iberdrola, the Spanish energy giant, means there is now a question mark over two of the three groups that planned plants. Ministers hoped the trio would build a dozen reactors generating roughly a fifth of Britain’s power over the next 20 years.
Scottish Power
UK regulator says reactor designs have unresolved safety issues
The UK nuclear regulator said Wednesday it expects both the Areva EPR and the Westinghouse AP1000 reactors to have unresolved safety issues when the generic design assessment, or GDA, program completes next year. In a quarterly progress report released Wednesday, the NII said it has potential open issues in 10 out of 18 topical areas on the Areva EPR design review and in 16 out of the 18 topical areas on the Westinghouse AP1000 design.
Repairs to coal plant are hit by nuclear backlog
REPAIRS at British Energy's coal-fired Eggborough power station will be delayed until next year after the company said maintenance of its ageing nuclear power reactors is taking longer than expected.
The nuclear power group, which recently agreed to a £12.5bn marriage with French giant EDF, said maintenance of a unit at Eggborough in North Yorkshire will now happen in the first quarter of next year rather than November.
British Energy
Britain's family uranium is safe in French hands
Vincent de Rivaz, the chief executive of France's EDF Energy, which is now in control of the UK's nuclear energy programme, doesn't laugh when I ask if he has succeeded where Napoleon failed.
"It's not a war," he says, very seriously. "This is an amicable agreement between two companies which will bring good news to everyone involved. Will it bring stability to customers for electricity bills? Yes. Will it bring new jobs? Yes. Will it improve climate change? Yes."
French 'seal nuclear firm takeover'
Nuclear power firm British Energy looks poised to fall into foreign hands after it was reported French power giant EDF has agreed a £12.4 billion takeover of the firm.
The deal is worth 774p a share, the Wall Street Journal said, 9p higher than a rebuffed offer made in July.
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Hudson’s Seafood House on the Docks : Mariculture meets culinary destiny
Author: Kitty Bartell | Photographer: Photography by Anne
The die may have been cast when Andrew Carmines entered his fourth grade science fair with a project that studied the connections between oysters and bacteria. The Hilton Head Island native son was born into the seafood business, and with salt water running through his veins, has been enamored with the ocean his entire life.
As general manager of Hudson’s Seafood House on the Docks on Hilton Head Island’s far northwest shore, Carmines is in the captain’s chair at the iconic culinary epicenter of fresh Lowcountry seafood. Owned by his parents since 1974, Hudson’s’ unparalleled view over Port Royal Sound has not varied much since the 1920s, when J.B. Hudson, Sr. opened Hudson’s Oyster Factory, where mountains of oysters were shucked, packaged in steel-belted barrels, and shipped up the East Coast during the height of Prohibition. All those shucked oyster shells have literally created the foundation on which the restaurant stands today, and on which Carmines is taking the business into the future where mariculture meets environmental responsibility, right alongside delicious seafood.
Pointing at the peninsula of oyster shells beneath his feet, which over time replaced the business’s original foundation of palm pilings, Carmines said, “We’re coming full circle as we’re trying to redevelop the oyster business in a more modern sense. We have very little hard substrate here in our waterways for a wild oyster to attach to start its life. Our plan is to take a lot of the green [discarded] shells out of here from the years and years of eating oysters at Hudson’s, and we will redistribute them into the environment to create a habitat for wild oysters to attach to when they reproduce.”
This is all happening through a collaboration as complex as the weave of a shrimper’s net. Carmines, a committed steward of the area’s water and wildlife, has learned to navigate the licensing and permitting processes put in place by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources and the Army Corps of Engineers. Through his venture, the Shell Ring Oyster Company, Carmines is working hard to develop wild oyster habitats that will eventually produce more of these environmentally beneficial bivalves than Hudson’s could ever use.
Like produce at the farmers market, the seasons dictate when seafood is at its prime—ready to be harvested, caught, and put on a plate. Hudson’s and Carmines have a long and intimate history of knowing what makes seafood great and knowing how to set the stage for a special dining experience.
“Our ecosystem here in South Carolina is extremely delicate, because we have very little fresh water intrusion that can flush out pollution. We need to make sure all of our filtering organisms are in healthy populations. Oysters are pretty vital to our ecosystem, filtering between 20 and 30 gallons of water a day per oyster.”
Working closely with local commercial fishermen, Carmines is also bringing an impressively wide variety of the freshest seafood South Carolina waters can produce to diners at Hudson’s. “We’ve worked with the SCDNR and the federal arm of fish protection, to get licenses we haven’t had in the past that allow us to serve federally protected species like black sea bass, vermillion snapper, certain grouper species, and certain snapper species,” he said. “These fishermen are unable to sell their fish locally unless someone has the purchaser’s license, which we now have. That’s huge. We’re trying to be environmentally responsible and, at the same time, be able to offer great quality product to our customers, which takes a lot more time and energy.”
Like produce at the farmers market, the seasons dictate when seafood is at its prime—ready to be harvested, caught, and put on a plate. Hudson’s and Carmines have a long and intimate history of knowing what makes seafood great and knowing how to set the stage for a special dining experience. As the season turns to fall, and lovely temperate days are settling in for a bit, Carmines says that Hudson’s one-of-a-kind dining deck is prime real estate.
“We’ve really made an effort to create a unique outdoor dining experience. There aren’t any places that I know of on the island where you can sit out over the water and enjoy lunch, dinner, brunch. The brunch is really nice, and the bar is great,” he said.
Sunday brunch at Hudson’s has garnered a regular following, and for newcomers is a delightful discovery. Carmines was inspired to develop an inventive menu to perfectly pair with one of his favorite family traditions. Every Saturday, Carmines, his wife Erin (marketing director) and his two daughters (with another guppy on the way), go out to breakfast to connect before the busy day begins. “That’s a real special time of day for us. I wanted to create that for other people, but do it where they can be out on the water on a Sunday,” Carmines said.
A star of the Sunday brunch menu is the fried oyster benedict with fire-roasted poblano peppers, Canadian bacon, and hollandaise, served with breakfast potatoes or South Carolina stone ground grits. The oysters are served Bienville- and Rockefeller-style, steamed, chargrilled, and raw, and the alligator sausage is an exceptional accompaniment to the variety of eggs, the many benedicts, the seafood selections, pancakes, and the cathead biscuits.
Many of the items on all their menus come from eight-year Hudson’s veteran Isaac, who has been a part of the restaurant’s kitchen family since he was 16. “He’s risen to the top and does some amazing things with food,” Carmines said.
Miss Bessie, has been with Hudson’s since 1972 (their longest-running team member), and makes a lot of the homemade soups, along with all of their desserts. Everything at Hudson’s is made in-house with the freshest ingredients, and sourced as close to their docks as is possible.
Hudson’s’ Happy Hour menu, offered daily from 3 to 6 p.m., is an excellent way to enjoy being out over the water, quenching your thirst with a longneck or lemonade, and enjoying seafood-and-beyond sliders, oysters, steamed shrimp, BBQ shrimp, shrimp tacos and toast, mussels and clams, along with fried pickles and onion rings. Leaning back and settling in for the evening is effortlessly delicious.
Carmines is casting a wide net of environmental awareness and entrepreneurial action; from the sweet shrimp and plump oysters of fall, to the local fin fish of winter, to the favored soft shell crabs of spring, the seasons ebb and flow like the salt water tides that supply life to his harvest. Hudson’s Seafood House on the Docks is fulfilling its culinary destiny.
Hudson’s is located at 1 Hudson Road, Hilton Head Island; please call (843) 681-2772 or visit hudsonsonthedocks.com for more information and to learn about upcoming live entertainment and special events.
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DVD/VCR Combos: Double Your Viewing Fun
by Crutchfield's Loren Barstow
Loren Barstow started at Crutchfield in 1999. After working a few years as a sales advisor, he moved on to become a writer and then an editor. He has written about televisions, Blu-ray players, speakers, and various other audio/video components.
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Looking to replace your older VCR, or add DVD playback to your home theater? A DVD/VCR combo is a sure bet. Not only do you get to record in VHS and watch movies from your collection of videotapes, but you can also view DVD discs, which offer much better picture and sound quality, easier navigation, and often, extra features. You can watch a DVD while you record a TV show to VHS. Most models even include DVD recording capabilities. And hookup is very simple. [Shop for VDV/VCR combos.]
If you already own a DVD player, replacing it with a combination model adds VCR functionality without taking up additional room. And since they give you both functions in one box, combo units are also great for space-challenged areas like a dorm room or bedroom.
DVD/VCR combos deliver double functionality in one space-saving component, and are very easy to set up and use.
A connection for any TV
Got an older TV that's only equipped with an antenna-style RF jack? Some DVD/VCR combos allow you to watch both DVDs and VHS tapes through the RF output. That's a great convenience, since connecting a conventional DVD player via RF usually can't be done without a separate accessory called an RF modulator.
Alternatively, if your TV has composite (RCA) inputs, using them will give you a better-looking picture for both DVD and VHS. Have a TV with higher-quality S-video, component video, or HDMI inputs? Just hook the player to the appropriate jack to enjoy even clearer DVD playback. And if you have an HDTV, today's DVD/VCR combo decks can upconvert DVDs to resolutions up to 1080p via HDMI for a better picture. Some can even upconvert VHS tapes, too.
DVD recorder/VCR combos
These components are perfect for archiving your VHS home movies and TV programs. With the touch of a button, valuable VHS recordings can be saved to durable DVD. DVD recorder/VCR combo decks can also enable you to record TV programs directly to write-once or rewriteable DVDs, so that you can keep them for as long or as little as you likelike (However, these decks cannot record programs in high-definition. Any high-def signal is automatically converted to standard-definition before it's recorded). Many even allow you to archive material from a compatible digital camcorder using an IEEE 1394 jack. For more information, see our DVD recorder shopping guide.
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Dr. Weiss heeded a call to healing. Medical school provided a great foundation in anatomy and physiology, but he quickly saw that conventional thinking and practice has limitations to understand the root causes of illness. It became apparent that many patients’ conditions could not be explained exclusively by labs and imaging and so he made a commitment to dig deeper and to find answers for his patients maximizing his mission to facilitate healing.
After completing a dual residual residency in Family Medicine and Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine he worked at the prestigious Morrison Center in Manhattan and was responsible for the care of many chronically ill patients that the medical system had given up on. He uncovered that the roots of most disease lie in chronic infections, toxic exposure, and unresolved traumas on the levels of mind, body, and spirit.
Although he has many varieties of techniques that can be used, Dr Weiss encourages his patients to not get attached to any particular modality. During visits he often will listen to the innate wisdom of the patient’s body to prioritize the key issues and remedies for resolution. His singular focus is get to the roots of his patient’s maladies and partner with them to resolve the key issues in the quickest, least invasive, and non-toxic way possible. Though two people may have similar symptoms, their root causes may be totally different.
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The week in security: Malware growth leaves Australian CIOs unprepared
David Braue (CSO Online) on 22 April, 2013 16:24
CIOs may only have glimpses of the future of mobile security, but security firm Bitdefender believes one of the recurring issues will be the continued channelling of private information even from paid-for apps in the Android Play app store. That’s a more immediate but no less worrying threat than a targeted Android attack against Uyghur activists, discovered by Kaspersky Lab security analysts and reflective of a growing Android malware profile that’s being addressed by the release of tools like AVG’s free new ‘TuneUp’ app.
Tapping into skilled students’ hacking abilities has become an increasingly popular practice. Melbourne’s Deakin University and Sydney’s Macquarie University, for example, have partnered with Trend Micro to develop and test big-data analysis techniques to better understand the cybersecurity threats facing Australian companies. And the US National Security Agency has tried an interesting approach by pitting its top hackers against university-age security enthusiasts from three top-tier military academies. Whether or not their collective minds will be able to improve the detection of and response to sneaky malware like the new Win32/Nemim.gen!A – which hides key files to avoid detection and analysis – is yet to be seen.
Some security technologies are proving problematic all on their own, with around half of online shoppers often prevented from completing online purchases because they can’t get their security credentials to work. Maybe they need to look at brain-powered passwords, or simply find a better authentication provider in a field that’s become more powerful with the release of a white-label authentication solution for Australian service providers.
Some law-enforcement authorities were suggesting the Find My Mac feature of Apple’s OS X lacks enough information to enable legal recovery of the device, while analysis of a hack of supermarket chain Schnucks found it took the company two weeks to find out how credit and debit card information on up to 2.4 million customers had been compromised.
Another analysis found malware that’s targeting online share trading software, while a new variant of the Gozi banking Trojan infects a computer’s Master Boot Record (MBR) to confound its removal. Aiming to confound malware targeted at financial-services targets, a Cambridge University spinoff has developed a new form of protection against ‘man-in-the-browser’ Trojan attacks, with a mobile device-based visual image security system to improve authentication.
In this and other cases it’s important to keep an open mind: many companies are in denial about the insider threat to data security, a new survey said, with nearly half of UK employers trusting their workers not to steal company information. But you don’t have to be a big business to get compromised: a Symantec study found that cyber-criminals are increasingly targeting vulnerable small businesses as easy prey. Others, though, continue to aim higher – and, as one 21-year-old British hackerand the co-founder of Pirate Bay found out, sometimes getting caught for it.
Caught or not, some attacks are starting to resemble bank heists – which has security experts worried. Many data centre providers are seeking to fill in the gaps with strong security nous, but there’s no need to even go out the door to find potential problems: an analysis of 13 popular home and small-office routers found critical security vulnerabilities.
Doubly so in Australia where, a survey found, CIOs feel broadly unprepared to deal with cyber attacks and aren’t always sure about the best ways to clinch security funding. That’s a problem, since the only way is up: a study from HP’s new HP Security Research (HPSR) organisation found that vulnerabilities were up nearly 20% since last year, while DDoS fighter Prolexic released figures suggesting DDoS attacks are up this year in both number and size. Worse still, many customers are finding network security technologies ineffective, according to a new Ponemon Institute report.
Even gaming machines aren’t free from problems, with one gaming-software developer moving to fix some identified flaws. Yet Oracle eclipsed even that number by shipping 128 patches covering security weaknesses across “hundreds” of its products. A new version of Java included 42 security fixes alone, and changed the way Web-based Java content will be presented inside Web browsers, while a new technical security standard is aiming at higher-level applications with an effort to improve supply-chain safety.
Even as the US government prepared to vote on, and eventually passed, the CISPA cyberthreat bill, one of its sponsors created a social-media storm by suggesting many of the opponents to the law are 14-year-olds in their basements.
Whether or not he’s right, basement-bound 14-year-olds might intuitively be able to answer a question answered by more formal research: how much malware is there, really, on free pornography sites? Some sites are remarkably free from the nasties, although one Russian porn site has been delivering malware that uses victims’ computers to mine bitcoins.
Anti-spam efforts scored a small victory after antispam vendor Cloudmark found that gift-card SMS spam had dropped after action by the US Federal Trade Commission against eight companies.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said cyber-defences will be crucial to ensuring security in the Asian region, while EU regulators were paying attention to open DNS resolvers after last month’s Spamhaus DDoS attacks, which EU security agency ENISA pinned on ISPs having ignored decade-old recommendations on limiting false IP traffic.
Meanwhile, Microsoft moved towards optional two-factor authentication and, announcing that browsers are the biggest security threats to enterprises, is developing a new client-side architecture called Embassies, which is designed to improve Web application security using Internet addresses for external communications.
Speaking of browser security: Apple has kept patching its Java version for the popular Snow Leopard operating system, even as it was revealed the next major version of Java – Java 8 – has been pushed back into the first quarter of 2014.
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Education goes outside the classroom
By Dairy News
In her research project, Tess Blake found water was one of the main drivers for farm feed production.
TESS BLAKE has just spent 12 weeks on work placement in the dairy industry as part of her final year of a Bachelor of Agricultural Science at Charles Sturt University in Wagga Wagga.
Ms Blake’s placement was organised by Murray Dairy and was designed to give her experience across the industry’s service sector, working with agronomists at Advanced Ag and nutritionists at Reid’s Stockfeeds, in addition to the extension staff at Murray Dairy.
Here she shares some of her experiences.
Where do you come from originally?
I am originally from Cobden down in south-west Victoria but am currently studying in Wagga.
What attracted you to agriculture?
I have always been an outdoors and hands-on person. I originally thought I would become a vet but once I started the agriculture degree and all of these alternative career pathways displayed themselves I didn’t even consider transferring at the end of my first year.
What was a highlight of your time at Murray Dairy and why?
The whole experience was fantastic, being able to work with the Murray Dairy team and participate in a variety of workshops was really insightful and I learnt a lot. However, the Young Dairy Network tour to NSW was a major highlight. Getting to meet heaps of new and like-minded people as well as getting to see some of the leading dairy production systems in Australia.
The technological advancements that some of these systems had implemented to be more self-sufficient and sustainable were unbelievable. We were also exposed to other agricultural industries. It was great to see what else is out there and that across industries there are some similar issues in regards to education and training and, of course, water.
Tell us a bit about the project you completed as part of your placement — what did you set out to learn and what did you find?
As part of my studies at CSU I undertook a small research project that saw me interviewing farmers and service providers on a topic of interest specific to dairy farming. I was looking into nutrient management and home-grown feed production. I spoke with five dairy farmers, three service providers and two industry representatives about the changes within dairy systems in the region and where farmers were sourcing information from.
I wanted to learn about nutrient management practices on farm and whether this was a key priority for dairy farmers in northern Victoria. Very early into the interviews, I identified that water was actually the main driver for on-farm feed production. Nutrient management did appear to have room for improvement, but water management and crop diversification to increase the water use efficiency were very clearly the key focus for everyone interviewed.
What advice would you offer other students in agriculture?
Be open-minded and take every opportunity that comes your way. My placement with Murray Dairy has really opened my eyes up to the amount of opportunities out there for young people in agriculture. In order to develop and gain confidence within the industry we need to get ourselves out there, so taking up every opportunity that is on offer is really important.
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IT’S MILKING time at Sarah Chant’s farm in south-west Victoria. The 240-Jersey herd ambles to the herringbone dairy from paddocks at the foot of Warrion Hill, just north of Colac. There’s been a shower of rain, but the sun’s out and...
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Fodder in the bank brings peace of mind
THERE HAVEN’T been too many things in the dairy industry that have made people smile this year but for Patho dairy farmers Chris and Jade Jones, the sight of a 150 m long pit of corn has brought some joy. Of course, the pit didn’t come for free...
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Asia Markets
Asia Pacific markets fall as investors react to China's trade data
Published Sun, Jan 13 2019 6:53 PM EST Updated Mon, Jan 14 2019 2:33 AM EST
Saheli Roy Choudhury
Asia Pacific markets started off the trading week mostly on the back foot as major indexes in South Korea, China, Hong Kong and Singapore tumbled.
Investors reacted to Chinese government data, which revealed China's December exports and imports fell unexpectedly.
Still, China's trade surplus with the U.S. — closely watched amid a bitter trade war between Washington and Beijing — grew 17 percent from a year ago.
Asia Pacific markets started off the trading week mostly on the back foot as China's disappointing trade data spooked investors. Major indexes in South Korea, China, Hong Kong and Singapore tumbled Monday afternoon. The market in Japan is closed for a public holiday.
Shares in Asia were lower after Chinese government data showed that December exports and imports fell unexpectedly, deepening concerns of a slowdown in the world's second-largest economy as Beijing's trade war with the U.S. appeared to be taking a toll.
Louis Kuijs, head of Asia economics at Oxford Economics, said in a note that China's import slowdown was consistent with other signs that growth in the domestic economy was weakening.
"We think overall economic growth slowed further in (fourth-quarter) 2018 and remains under pressure from weaker exports, slow credit growth and cooling real estate activity in (first-half) 2019," Kuijs said.
China's trade surplus with the U.S. — closely watched amid a bitter trade war between Washington and Beijing — grew 17 percent from a year ago. According to Reuters, that's the highest on record dating back to 2006. Still, overall Chinese trade surplus last year was the lowest since 2013, the news agency reported.
The Shanghai composite slipped about 0.7 percent to 2,535.77. The Shenzhen composite declined 0.73 percent to 1,303.75, while the Shenzhen component index fell around 0.86 percent to 7,409.19.
China's central bank set the yuan midpoint at 6.7560 against the dollar before market open — it was the strongest since Jul. 19, 2018, according to financial data provider Wind.
On-shore yuan traded at 6.7649 versus the greenback as of 2:57 p.m. HK/SIN. The People's Bank of China allows the exchange rate to rise or fall 2 percent from the official midpoint rate it sets daily.
In South Korea, the Kospi declined about 11.05 points, or 0.53 percent, to 2,064.52 as some of the tech names struggled.
Samsung Electronics, the world's largest smartphone maker, fell 1.11 percent while its chip-making rival SK Hynix tumbled 4.61 percent. Shares of internet firm Naver fell 3.05 percent.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index was down 1.57 percent while Singapore's Straits Times Index fell 0.53 percent.
In company news, Singapore-listed real estate developer CapitaLand said on Monday it has entered into an agreement to acquire Ascendas-Singbridge. It would make the combined entity Asia's largest diversified real estate group, the company said. Trading of CapitaLand shares were halted ahead of the announcement.
Australia's benchmark reversed early gains to finish near flat as the energy sector declined 0.77 percent.
Meanwhile, the traded at $0.7182 as of 2:55 p.m. HK/SIN, coming off an earlier session high of $0.7217.
The U.S. dollar index, which measures the greenback against a basket of its peers, traded at 95.615 while the , considered a safe haven asset, was at 108.12 to the dollar.
Concerns over an ongoing U.S. government shutdown and worries about an economic slowdown in China could dampen a relatively positive sentiments seen in markets last week.
Sentiment was buoyed by "soothing words" from Fed officials and rising optimism that Beijing and Washington would resolve some of their trade differences before a 90-day moratorium on further U.S. tariff action kicks in, Ray Attrill, head of foreign-exchange strategy at the National Australia Bank, wrote in a morning note.
The "expectation that the Fed is now on hold for the foreseeable future is firmly entrenched in markets," analysts at ANZ Research also said in a Monday note.
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Photos: Hands-on with the Samsung NV40
The Samsung NV40 has full manual control and a smart-touch interface, and now the price is so low we had to rub both our eyes with our fists and do a double-take
Richard Trenholm
November 3, 2008 4:24 AM PST
The Samsung NV40 is one of the cameras debuted at CES way back at the start of the year. Where does the time go, eh? It's a 10.5-megapixel point-and-shoot, and a clever one at that. Samsung's trademark smart-touch controls and full manual control make this still a decent little camera nearly a year on.
Like the rest of the NV range, it certainly still looks good. We think the silver colour scheme is rather bland, but the sleek lines, blue lens ring and dual shoulder dials look great.
The NV40 sports an image-stabilised 5x zoom lens. That's a creditably long zoom, although a 37mm wide angle, equivalent to a 35mm film camera, isn't all that special.
For darker conditions, the NV40 goes up to a maximum of ISO 3,200, and we'll be testing it in our forthcoming review to see how it copes with the resulting noise. If you prefer to keep the flash on, you can choose from red-eye reduction or slow sync.
Other features include face detection, dual image stabilisation and movie mode. This shoots your standard 640x480-pixel VGA clips at 30 frames per second.
Although the NV40 has been superceded in Samsung's catalogue by the all-singing, all-dancing, touchscreen high-definition NV100, it's still a contender. Full manual control in an easy-to-use point-and-shoot usually demands a premium, so at a jaw-dropping £110 online, the Samsung NV40 is a solid-gold bargain. Click 'Continue' to let the NV40 win you over.
The NV40's 64mm (2.5-inch) LCD screen doesn't sound like much to write home about in these days of 76mm displays. But the NV series' screens need space around the edge for the clever smart-touch controls: a series of buttons along either axis that allow you to quickly select options. We love smart touch -- it's intuitive and accessible, and definitely worth getting over the initial learning curve.
At the top of the NV40 there are two control wheels. On the right is the usual mode wheel, including movie mode, automatic, program and manual modes.
In manual mode, the NV40's aperture and shutter speed can be controlled by sliding your finger over the touch-sensitive buttons. This is what makes smart touch so cool, right here.
The other wheel, on the NV40's left shoulder, controls colour options, giving quick access to settings such as retro, forest, cool, calm and classic. We're not entirely sure what the point of all those are, but it's an extra dial to play with and that's all we really care about.
As with other cameras in the Samsung range, the NV40 charges through its USB lead, which connects to this clever USB plug. So if you're running low on fuel while out and about and you don't have your plug, you can connect to a computer to juice up. It's a proprietary USB socket though, so don't forget the lead.
We drowned AirPods, Powerbeats Pro and Galaxy Buds: We sprayed them, dunked them and even put them through the wash to find out which one of these three wireless earphones can handle the most water.
Discuss: Photos: Hands-on with the Samsung NV40
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Summer in Montana
Fashion designer Amy Smilovic of hip US label Tibi shares her tips for the Treasure state, where she went for an off-grid escape
By Fiona Joseph
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Tibi founder Amy Smilovic
Where have you just come back from?
I spent the summer in Montana, which was very different to what I expected. I thought that camping near a river I would really smell the wet earth and that it would be teeming with life. I'm from the South [Georgia] and have spent time on rivers so I expected bugs, frogs, and lots of movement on the ground. I was surprised at how dry it was - almost desert-like, with a nice chill coming off the river. Our tent was literally right on the riverbank so every night we went to sleep and woke up to the amazing sounds of the white waters. There was a bald eagle's nest right above our tent; they would swoop down over the river and let out a really loud call. The river was so loud and active but the noise was so consistent that it was very soothing.
Where did you stay?
The Resort at Paws Up. It's a 37,000-acre working cattle ranch along the Blackfoot River. It really put me in touch with nature again and turned me off from the world; there are no TVs. We actually met people, had conversations. The place draws a very eclectic, interesting crowd.
Where were your favourite places to eat and drink?
The biggest deal in town is to go to The Big Dipper for ice cream. It requires a 30-minute wait in line but it's worth it. I've never seen so many people lined up on a Thursday night at 11pm for ice cream. The flavours were amazing, like dark salted pretzel. We also went to Seeley Lake where the big attraction is the Hungry Bear Steakhouse. Missoula is about 20 minutes away - it's a college town with lots of energy and some fun restaurants. It's been ages since I've been to restaurants where no one had an iPhone on the table. And I don't think I saw one selfie stick. It was very refreshing.
Where are the best shops?
The Resort at Paws Up has an amazing shop - the buyer there has a great eye. The shop sells wares by artisans from different areas that visit regularly for trunk shows. I bought the most amazing hat from Westbrook Maker Hat Company. The hats are handcrafted - people know them from Pharrell fame - the company's based in Venice California and it's very cool. I wore one of my hats every day - to say I became obsessed with them is an understatement. And in the nearby town of Missoula, they had a great surf shop called Strongwater.
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I love the ease and what the west conveys - strength, curiosity, pioneers
What were your best Montana experiences?
We rode bikes everywhere - old-timey numbers straight out of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. I learned how to shoot a bow and arrow. I learned to fly fish and caught a giant trout, we went white-water rafting, on a cattle drive. My kids loved it! We also went jet-skiing on the lake and they really learned how to ride horses and they practised jumping in an arena. Their favourite thing was probably driving real go-karts on a giant racetrack. Every night we would play a mix of perfect campfire songs (Van Morrison, Johnny Cash, Traveling Wilburys) that we created that day.
Did Montana inspire your designs?
It will! I love the ease and what the West conveys - strength, curiosity, pioneers. It's amazing when you're out there and I loved how relaxed everything is. It's certainly not a forced yoga-studio type of relaxation. It's the kind of peacefulness you can only find by being in a wide open space surrounded by nature - and a weak Wi-Fi signal!
What did you pack?
Packing was very simple. I took an old pair of Levi's, something olive and something black. I packed everything with ease in mind. That said, I always like things to still be a bit tailored and refined - for me that means throwing in a few silk sweatshirts and some oversized cosy sweaters for night time. And my plaid shirt from Dries Van Noten found a perfect home in Montana.
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20 Lepta (1959) in aluminum with "ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΟΝ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ". Inside slab by NGC "MS 65 / MINT ERROR - REVERSE STRUCK THRU". (Hellas 187).
10 Drachmas (1959) in nickel with "ΠΑΥΛΟΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΤΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ". Inside slab by PCGS "MS 65". (Hellas 202).
20 drx (1960) in silver with "ΠΑΥΛΟΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΤΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ". Inside slab by PCGS "MS 66". (Hellas 203).
50 Lepta (1962) in copper-nickel with "ΠΑΥΛΟΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΤΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ". Inside slab by PCGS "MS 64 - Serrated Edge". (Hellas 191).
1 Drachma (1962) in copper-nickel with "ΠΑΥΛΟΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΤΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ". Inside slab by NGC "MS 67+". Top grade in both companies. (Hellas 196).
30 Drachmas (1963) in silver (0,835) commemorating Dynasty. Inside slab by PCGS "MS 65". (Hellas 204).
10 Lepta (1965) in aluminum with "ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΟΝ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ". Inside slab by NGC "MS 67 / MINT ERROR - PARTIAL CENTER HOLE". Part from the 1965 Mintstate set. (Part from Hellas M.1).
10 Lepta (1965) in aluminium with "ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΟΝ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ". Inside slab by NGC "PF 68". Top grade in both companies. Part from the official proof set of 1965. (Part from the Hellas M.2 or M.3).
50 Lepta (1965) in copper-nickel with "ΠΑΥΛΟΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΤΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ". Inside slab by PCGS "MS 66". (Part of 1965 Mintstate set, Hellas M.1).
50 Lepta (1965) in copper-nickel with "ΠΑΥΛΟΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΤΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ". Inside slab by NGC "PF 68 CAMEO". Top grade in both companies. Part from the official proof set of 1965. (Part from the Hellas M.2 or M.3).
1 Drachma (1965) in copper-nickel with "ΠΑΥΛΟΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΤΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ". Inside slab by PCGS "MS 67". Top grade in both companies. (Part of 1965 Mintstate set, Hellas M.1).
1 Drachma (1965) in copper-nickel with "ΠΑΥΛΟΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΤΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ". Inside slab by NGC "PF 67 CAMEO". Top grade in NGC. Part from the official proof set of 1965. (Part from the Hellas M.2 or M.3).
2 Drachmas (1965) in copper-nickel with "ΠΑΥΛΟΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΤΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ". Inside slab by PCGS "MS 66" (Part of 1965 Mintstate set, Hellas M.1).
2 Drachmas (1965) in copper-nickel with "ΠΑΥΛΟΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΤΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ". Inside slab by NGC "PF 67". Top grade in both companies. Part from the official proof set of 1965. (Part from the Hellas M.2 or M.3).
5 Drachmas (1965) in copper-nickel with "ΠΑΥΛΟΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΤΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ". Inside slab by PCGS "MS 66". (Part of 1965 Mintstate set, Hellas M.1).
5 Drachmas (1965) in copper-nickel with "ΠΑΥΛΟΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΤΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ". Inside slab by NGC "PF 67 CAMEO". Top grade in both companies. Part from the official proof set of 1965. (Part from the Hellas M.2 or M.3).
10 Drachmas (1965) in nickel with "ΠΑΥΛΟΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΤΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ". Inside slab by PCGS "MS 67". Top grade in NGC. Part from the official Mintstate set of 1965. (Part from Hellas M.1).
10 Drachmas (1965) in nickel with "ΠΑΥΛΟΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΤΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ". Inside slab by NGC "PF 68 CAMEO". Top grade in both companies. (Part of 1965 Proof set, Hellas M.2).
20 Drachmas (1965) in silver with "ΠΑΥΛΟΣ ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΤΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ". Inside slab by NGC "PF 68 ULTRA CAMEO". Top grade in both companies. Part from the official proof set of 1965. (Part from the Hellas M.2 or M.3).
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10 Lepta (1964) (type I) in aluminium with "ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΟΝ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ". Inside slab by PCGS "MS 66". (Hellas 206).
20 lepta (1964) in aluminium with "ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΟΝ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ". Inside slab by NGC "MS 66". (Hellas 211).
30 drx (1964) commemorative coin in silver for the Royal Wedding. Kongsberg Mint. Inside slab by PCGS "MS 65". (Hellas 238).
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H.R.1288 - World War II Merchant Mariner Service Act114th Congress (2015-2016)
Rep. Butterfield, G. K. [D-NC-1] (Introduced 03/04/2015)
House - Veterans' Affairs; Armed Services
House - 08/13/2015 Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel. (All Actions)
Cosponsors (167)
Sponsor: Rep. Butterfield, G. K. [D-NC-1] | Cosponsor statistics: 167 current - includes 1 original
Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]* 03/04/2015
Rep. Wittman, Robert J. [R-VA-1] 03/26/2015
Rep. Meadows, Mark [R-NC-11] 04/14/2015
Rep. Courtney, Joe [D-CT-2] 04/14/2015
Rep. Connolly, Gerald E. [D-VA-11] 04/14/2015
Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7] 04/14/2015
Rep. Johnson, Henry C. "Hank," Jr. [D-GA-4] 04/14/2015
Rep. Hanna, Richard L. [R-NY-22] 04/14/2015
Rep. Rangel, Charles B. [D-NY-13] 04/14/2015
Rep. Price, David E. [D-NC-4] 04/14/2015
Rep. Bordallo, Madeleine Z. [D-GU-At Large] 04/14/2015
Rep. LoBiondo, Frank A. [R-NJ-2] 04/14/2015
Rep. Rohrabacher, Dana [R-CA-48] 04/16/2015
Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-2] 04/16/2015
Rep. Pingree, Chellie [D-ME-1] 04/16/2015
Rep. Honda, Michael M. [D-CA-17] 04/16/2015
Rep. Forbes, J. Randy [R-VA-4] 04/21/2015
Rep. Garamendi, John [D-CA-3] 04/21/2015
Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3] 04/21/2015
Rep. Brady, Robert A. [D-PA-1] 04/21/2015
Rep. Fortenberry, Jeff [R-NE-1] 04/28/2015
Rep. Cartwright, Matt [D-PA-17] 04/28/2015
Rep. Holding, George [R-NC-13] 04/28/2015
Rep. Keating, William R. [D-MA-9] 04/28/2015
Rep. Hudson, Richard [R-NC-8] 04/29/2015
Rep. Herrera Beutler, Jaime [R-WA-3] 04/29/2015
Rep. Rouzer, David [R-NC-7] 05/01/2015
Rep. Pittenger, Robert [R-NC-9] 05/01/2015
Rep. Tonko, Paul [D-NY-20] 06/01/2015
Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-3] 06/02/2015
Rep. Napolitano, Grace F. [D-CA-32] 06/12/2015
Rep. Zeldin, Lee M. [R-NY-1] 06/16/2015
Rep. Hahn, Janice [D-CA-44] 06/23/2015
Rep. Walz, Timothy J. [D-MN-1] 06/23/2015
Rep. Ruppersberger, C. A. Dutch [D-MD-2] 07/08/2015
Rep. Ross, Dennis A. [R-FL-15] 07/08/2015
Rep. Walker, Mark [R-NC-6] 07/08/2015
Rep. Gowdy, Trey [R-SC-4] 07/08/2015
Rep. Deutch, Theodore E. [D-FL-21] 07/08/2015
Rep. Peterson, Collin C. [D-MN-7] 07/08/2015
Rep. Brown, Corrine [D-FL-5] 07/08/2015
Rep. Larsen, Rick [D-WA-2] 07/08/2015
Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large] 07/08/2015
Rep. Farenthold, Blake [R-TX-27] 07/08/2015
Rep. Takai, Mark [D-HI-1] 07/08/2015
Rep. Vargas, Juan [D-CA-51] 07/08/2015
Rep. Massie, Thomas [R-KY-4] 07/08/2015
Rep. Lieu, Ted [D-CA-33] 07/08/2015
Rep. Adams, Alma S. [D-NC-12] 07/08/2015
Rep. Bishop, Sanford D., Jr. [D-GA-2] 07/09/2015
Rep. Blum, Rod [R-IA-1] 07/10/2015
Rep. Ellmers, Renee L. [R-NC-2] 07/10/2015
Rep. Franks, Trent [R-AZ-8] 07/13/2015
Rep. Hunter, Duncan D. [R-CA-50] 07/13/2015
Rep. Carter, Earl L. "Buddy" [R-GA-1] 07/13/2015
Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-17] 07/22/2015
Rep. Duckworth, Tammy [D-IL-8] 07/22/2015
Rep. Chu, Judy [D-CA-27] 07/22/2015
Rep. Maloney, Sean Patrick [D-NY-18] 07/22/2015
Rep. Doyle, Michael F. [D-PA-14] 07/22/2015
Rep. Nolan, Richard M. [D-MN-8] 07/22/2015
Rep. Curbelo, Carlos [R-FL-26] 07/23/2015
Rep. Westmoreland, Lynn A. [R-GA-3] 07/23/2015
Rep. Green, Gene [D-TX-29] 07/29/2015
Rep. Lipinski, Daniel [D-IL-3] 07/29/2015
Rep. Takano, Mark [D-CA-41] 07/29/2015
Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6] 07/29/2015
Rep. Ashford, Brad [D-NE-2] 07/29/2015
Rep. Shimkus, John [R-IL-15] 07/29/2015
Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9] 07/29/2015
Rep. Green, Al [D-TX-9] 07/29/2015
Rep. Smith, Adrian [R-NE-3] 09/08/2015
Rep. Perlmutter, Ed [D-CO-7] 09/08/2015
Rep. Neal, Richard E. [D-MA-1] 09/08/2015
Rep. Larson, John B. [D-CT-1] 09/08/2015
Rep. Amodei, Mark E. [R-NV-2] 09/08/2015
Rep. Clawson, Curt [R-FL-19] 09/08/2015
Rep. Davis, Rodney [R-IL-13] 09/08/2015
Rep. Newhouse, Dan [R-WA-4] 09/08/2015
Rep. Stefanik, Elise M. [R-NY-21] 09/08/2015
Rep. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD-8] 09/08/2015
Rep. Rice, Kathleen M. [D-NY-4] 09/08/2015
Rep. King, Steve [R-IA-4] 09/08/2015
Rep. Lawrence, Brenda L. [D-MI-14] 09/08/2015
Rep. Joyce, David P. [R-OH-14] 09/08/2015
Rep. Fattah, Chaka [D-PA-2] 09/08/2015
Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3] 09/08/2015
Rep. Langevin, James R. [D-RI-2] 09/08/2015
Rep. Himes, James A. [D-CT-4] 09/08/2015
Rep. Tsongas, Niki [D-MA-3] 09/08/2015
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H.R.4198 - Security and Financial Empowerment Act of 2017115th Congress (2017-2018)
Rep. Roybal-Allard, Lucille [D-CA-40] (Introduced 10/31/2017)
House - Education and the Workforce; Financial Services; Ways and Means; Judiciary
House - 10/31/2017 Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Financial Services, Ways and Means, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. (All Actions)
Crime and Law Enforcement
Sponsor: Rep. Roybal-Allard, Lucille [D-CA-40] | Cosponsor statistics: 71 current - includes 16 original
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From rap battles to the Cinesphere getting its groove back, here's what's new at TIFF '17
As with every year at TIFF, you can expect an impressive celebrity roster, but along with the glitz and glamour there will also be a good helping of nostalgia, female empowerment and Canadiana.
Here are 5 things to watch out for at this year's festival
Ali Chiasson · CBC News · Posted: Sep 06, 2017 10:00 AM ET | Last Updated: September 7, 2017
Since May, a crew of IMAX technicians has been retrofitting the old Ontario Place Cinesphere with a new screen and sound system to get it in shape for TIFF screenings. (Tina MacKenzie/CBC News)
As with every year at the Toronto International Film Festival, you can expect an impressive celebrity roster but along with the glitz and glamour, there will also be a good helping of nostalgia, female empowerment and Canadiana.
Get your CanCon on
Through a collaboration between TIFF, Library and Archives Canada, the Cinémathèque Québécoise and Cinematheque in Vancouver, all year, the best in Canadian animation, commercials and documentaries have been available at your fingertips to click through on TIFF's Canada On Screen digital catalogue.
And it's not over yet.
The Canada On Screen programme culminates at the film festival with free screenings of acclaimed Canadian films including Rude, by Jamaican-born, Toronto-raised filmmaker Clement Virgo, Picture of Light, which is about the trials of capturing the aurora borealis on camera and I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, which has been described as a "watershed moment" in Canadian film.
10 TIFF '17 movies that are 'secretly Canadian'
The 1971 film "North Of Superior" will make a homecoming appearance at Cinesphere with a free screening 46 years after it premiered on that very IMAX screen.
A full list of the 150 Canadian features is available on the TIFF website.
Cinesphere makes a comeback
Aside from the odd private screening, the retro, spherical IMAX theatre at the old Ontario Place grounds has sat empty since 2012 when the park officially closed. After five years sitting mostly idle, the cavernous cinema is being re-opened this year for TIFF. 2:09
Aside from the odd private screening, the retro, spherical IMAX theatre at the old Ontario Place grounds has sat empty since 2012 when the park officially closed.
IMAX delivered and installed a brand new, 24-metre by 18-metre state-of-the-art perforated screen this week. (Tina MacKenzie/CBC News)
After five years sitting mostly idle, the cavernous cinema was looking a little rough.
When Jesse Wente, CBC contributor and head of TIFF Cinematheque, sat with other festival officials in the Cinesphere this winter, they felt "the breeze flow through," he said.
Director Christopher Nolan's 'Dunkirk' will also be screened in 70 mm at the Cinesphere during TIFF. (Tina MacKenzie/CBC News)
But when North of Superior was included in the screening lineup this year, he thought the old space was the film's only worthy showcase.
"There are very few purpose-built theatres that were built specifically for IMAX globally." said the self-proclaimed movie-geek.
An IMAX technician dusts off a piece of ventilation equipment inside the aging projector. (Tina MacKenzie/CBC News)
The film's aerial footage shot on IMAX cameras propels the viewing audience overtop sprawling wilderness with the same flying sensation it first did almost 50 years ago.
Although North of Superior has since been digitized, Wente said it was important to screen it in the original 70 mm format.
"It'll have celluloid running before bulb, projecting light through it and showing it up on the big screen," he said.
"With North of Superior I would love for [the audience] to see the dawn of wide-screen format filmmaking."
But nostalgia is only part of the experience. Wente says Sunday's screening is also an opportunity to celebrate the Indigenous land not only in the film, but the very land Cinesphere stands on.
Jesse Wente, head of TIFF Cinematheque, says the film 'North of Superior' is best seen in it's original 70mm format, making Canada's original IMAX theatre, Cinesphere, the worthiest venue at the festival. (Tina MacKenzie/CBC NEWS)
"When we take these films from the past, I think it's interesting to reframe them in terms of the current climate and acknowledge the land and the peoples in ways we wouldn't have when these movies were originally made."
Shuttle buses will take movie-goers to the free Cinesphere screenings, which will include performances by Indigenous artists and a question and answer period with the filmmaker on the last day of the festival.
Rap battle on King Street
An image taken from the film 'Bodied,' written by Canadian rapper Alex Larsen, aka Kid Twist. (TIFF)
A stretch of King Street West shuts down again this year so it can be transformed into an interactive TIFF experience chock-full of food vendors, entertainment and, yes, plenty of selfie opportunities.
But the focal point this year will be the stage at the corner of John Street and Wellington Street. which will be the scene of an epic rap battle between Toronto's own Alex Larsen, aka Kid Twist, and American battle rapper Madness.
The lyrical showdown kicks off the premier of Bodied, described as "a satirical exploration of the world's most artistically brutal sport — battle rapping."
Larsen wrote the screenplay for the film, which is directed by music video visionary Joseph Kahn, and produced by rapper Eminem.
It all goes down on Thursday, Sept. 7 ahead of the Midnight Madness debut at Ryerson Theatre.
Focus on female filmmakers
Every year, a star-studded fundraiser called the TIFF Soiree is held to raise money for future programming and exhibitions.
This year the proceeds from the swanky $350-$750 per-ticket event go toward the Share Her Journey campaign, aimed at boosting the careers of women filmmakers.
Priyanka Chopra will be the guest of honour at the TIFF Soiree, the festival's annual fundraiser. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/Associated Press)
Actor Priyanka Chopra will be the night's guest of honour and will head an on-stage discussion about her career and philanthropy.
TIFF launches initiative to nurture emerging female filmmakers
The goal is to eventually raise $3 million for the Share Her Journey campaign, which will provide production, networking and residency programs for emerging filmmakers.
Half of the films in this year's competitive lineup have female directors.
Fewer films, venues
TIFF downsized its lineup by 20 per cent this year and, unlike previous years, there won't be any screenings at the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema and the Isabel Bader Theatre.
"Everything is a lot more concentrated in the King Street, Yonge Street corridors," explained Kerri Craddock, the festival's director of programming.
TIFF 2017: 13 movies with major buzz coming to Toronto
"A piece of feedback we constantly heard from the international trade media, also our partners in the industry, was that there was often too much choice," she said.
Among their criticism, Craddock said, was that it the festival was hard to get around.
"It gives the films and filmmakers that are here a better experience in terms of finding their audience."
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MMWR News Synopsis for April 19, 2012
Measles — United States, 2011
Human Papillomavirus–Associated Cancers — United States, 2004–2008
Pseudomonas aeruginosa Respiratory Tract Infections in Cardiovascular Surgery Patients Associated with Contaminated Ultrasound Gel Used for Transesophageal Echocardiography — Michigan, December 2011–January 2012
Tracking Progress Toward Global Polio Eradication, 2010–2011
There is a MMWR telebriefing scheduled for April 19, 2012 at 12pm EST for “Measles-United States 2011.â€
1. Measles — United States, 2011
Measles is a highly contagious viral disease that can cause serious complications and death. In the United States, measles elimination (i.e. absence of year round transmission) was declared in 2000. However, measles continues to be imported into the United States from countries where measles is still common. During 2011, 222 measles cases and 17 measles outbreaks were reported to CDC, an increase compared with cases and outbreaks during 2001-2010. Of the 222 cases, 200 (90 percent) were associated with importations and 112 (50 percent) were associated with outbreaks. Measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is highly effective in preventing measles.Among U.S. residents, 85 percent were unvaccinated or had unknown vaccination status and were eligible for MMR vaccination. People need to be up-to-date on MMR and other vaccinations, including when they are preparing to travel internationally to any destination. Unvaccinated people place themselves and others in their communities at risk for measles and its complications.
2. Human Papillomavirus–Associated Cancers — United States, 2004–2008
During 2004-2008, there were an average of 33,369 HPV-associated cancers diagnosed annually; 12,080 among males and 21,290 among females. CDC researchers used data from CDC’s National Program of Cancer Registries and NCI’s Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results program covering 100 percent of the US population. The analysis included cancers in sites and cell types where HPV DNA is most frequently found, including cervix, vulva, vagina, penis, anus and oropharynx. Cervical cancer was the most common of these cancers, with an average of 11,967 cases annually; oropharyngeal cancer was the second most common, with an average of 11,726 cases annually (2,370 among females and 9,356 among males). More than 33,000 cancers occur in sites associated with HPV annually in the US, over 21,000 among females and over 12,000 among males. Of these, CDC estimates nearly 26,000 can be attributed to the virus and many of these may be preventable through use of the HPV vaccine. Two vaccines are available to protect against HPV 16 and 18, the types that cause most cervical and other anogenital cancers as well as some oropharyngeal cancers. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice recommends routine vaccination of females aged 11 or 12 years with 3 doses of either vaccine and routine vaccination of males aged 11 or 12 years with 3 doses of quadrivalent vaccine.
3. Pseudomonas aeruginosa Respiratory Tract Infections in Cardiovascular Surgery Patients Associated with Contaminated Ultrasound Gel Used for Transesophageal Echocardiography — Michigan, December 2011–January 2012
Paul Chittick
Associate Corporate Epidemiologist
Beaumont Health System
From December 9, 2011 to January 20, 2012, a cluster of 16 cases of Pseudmonas aeruginosa respiratory tract infections in cardiovascular surgery patients occurred at Beaumont Health System. An investigation found that contaminated ultrasound transmission gel, other-Sonic (Pharmaceutical Innovations, Inc., Newark, NJ) was the likely source of the outbreak, and that the contamination likely occurred during the time of manufacture, packaging, or shipping. An FDA investigation is ongoing. Sterile ultrasound gel should be used for invasive procedures as well as procedures involving contact with non-intact skin or mucous membranes.
4. Tracking Progress Toward Global Polio Eradication, 2010–2011
To achieve polio eradication, surveillance for acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) is used to identify areas with poliovirus (PV) transmission and those with low reporting where cases might go undetected. During 2010–2011, AFP surveillance was suboptimal in some key countries and unimproved overall. Only 62 percent of countries with circulating wild PV (WPV) met national AFP surveillance performance targets. All three countries with reestablished WPV transmission and 16 of 19 countries with WPV outbreaks had >20 percent of their respective populations living in areas with underperforming surveillance. Genetic characterization of WPV isolates provided evidence that several chains of transmission were missed by surveillance deficiencies. The search for poliovirus circulation requires improvement in some key countries and regions; given the current elevated status of polio eradication as a “programmatic emergency for global public health,” efforts must be taken to improve AFP surveillance quality at all levels within a country to track potential polio transmission and provide timely outbreak response.
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MMWR News Synopsis for September 17, 2015
Influenza Vaccination Coverage Among Health Care Personnel — United States, 2014–15 Influenza Season
Influenza Vaccination Coverage Among Pregnant Women — United States, 2014–15 Influenza Season
Clinical Inquiries Received by CDC Regarding Suspected Ebola Virus Disease in Children — United States, July 9, 2014–January 4, 2015
Update: Influenza Activity – United States and Worldwide, May 24–September 5, 2015
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Health care personnel (HCP) should be vaccinated for flu every flu season to protect themselves, their patients, and their families from seasonal flu. Comprehensive, work-site intervention strategies that include education, promotion, and easy access to vaccination at no cost for multiple days can increase HCP vaccination coverage. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommends that all health-care personnel (HCP) be vaccinated annually against influenza. Vaccination of HCP can reduce influenza-related morbidity and mortality among HCP and their patients. Overall, 77.3 percent of HCP reported receiving an influenza vaccination in the 2014-15 season, similar to the 75.2 percent coverage among HCP reported in the 2013-14 season. Coverage was highest among HCP working in hospitals (90.4 percent) and lowest among HCP working in long-term care (LTC) settings (63.9 percent). Vaccination coverage was 96 percent among HCP with an employer requirement for vaccination. Among HCP without an employer requirement for vaccination, vaccination coverage was higher for HCP working in settings where vaccination was offered on-site at no cost for one day (73.6 percent) or multiple days (83.9 percent) compared with HCP working in settings where vaccination was promoted but not offered on-site (59.5 percent) or not promoted in any manner (44.0 percent).
Flu is more likely to cause severe illness in pregnant women than in women who are not pregnant. Pregnant women with flu also have a greater chance for serious problems for their unborn baby, including premature labor and delivery. Flu vaccination is the first and most important step in protecting against mothers and their unborn babies against the flu. A provider recommendation combined with an offer to administer the flu vaccine at the time of visit remains one of the best ways to increase flu vaccination among pregnant women. Pregnant women and infants are at increased risk for influenza-related complications. The risk of influenza among pregnant women and their infants age <6 months can be reduced by vaccinating pregnant women. During the 2014–15 influenza season, 50.3% of pregnant women were vaccinated before or during pregnancy, similar to the 2013-14 season. Women who received a provider offer of vaccination had substantially higher vaccination coverage than those who did not receive an offer of vaccination. Barriers to vaccination included negative attitudes about safety and efficacy of influenza vaccination and unfounded concern that vaccination would cause influenza. Influenza vaccination coverage among pregnant women increased substantially during the 2009–10 influenza season and the increased coverage was sustained during the 2010–11 through 2013–14 seasons.
Children have unique needs that public health and healthcare providers need to plan for and consider during emergencies. Public health and healthcare providers, while maintaining a high level of vigilance for Ebola among ill pediatric patients, will need to be prepared to provide child-focused care that includes timely diagnosis and treatment of common pediatric illnesses like influenza, as well as Ebola, and reflects overall best practices in supporting children’s psychosocial needs. CDC responded to Ebola-related inquiries for 89 children from July 9, 2014 through January 4, 2015. No children tested positive for Ebola, but many had common illnesses, including malaria and flu. Overall, 33 children had traveled to an Ebola-affected country and 32 children had clinical signs or symptoms that could be consistent with Ebola. Unique concerns arose with these pediatric patients, such as if and how parents should be allowed in an examination room with their child. Records suggest clinical care was delayed for at least five children, either because of difficulty finding a hospital to evaluate a child with signs and symptoms consistent with Ebola or hospital reluctance to perform laboratory tests for illnesses such as malaria and influenza because of concerns about lab contamination.
CDC recommends yearly influenza vaccination for all persons 6 months of age and older without contraindications. Vaccination should begin in October, if possible and continue throughout the influenza season as long as influenza viruses are circulating. While a yearly influenza vaccination is the best way to prevent influenza, prescription antiviral medications can treat influenza illness and are recommended for use in patients who are very sick with influenza or who are sick and at high risk of serious influenzacomplications. Influenza antiviral drugs can lessen duration and severity of illness and help prevent more severe illness. Antiviral drugs work best when started within two days of getting sick. The United States experienced typical low levels of seasonal influenza activity from May 24 to September 5, 2015; and influenza A (H1N1)pdm09, influenza A (H3N2), and influenza B viruses were detected worldwide and were identified sporadically in the United States. Typical seasonal patterns of influenza activity occurred in the Southern Hemisphere. It is not possible to predict which influenza virus will predominate or how severe influenza disease activity will be during the 2015–16 influenza season, nor is it possible to say how effective influenza vaccine will be, however, laboratory analysis of influenza viruses to date suggests that the majority of viruses circulating worldwide in the past few months are similar to the 2015-16 vaccine viruses.
Age-Adjusted Death Rates for Parkinson’s Disease — United States, 2000–2013
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This information was printed from: www.cebc4cw.org/program/the-incredible-years/
The Incredible Years (IY)
Disruptive Behavior Treatment (Child & Adolescent)
1 — Well-Supported by Research Evidence
Parent Training Programs that Address Behavior Problems in Children and Adolescents
Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (Secondary) Programs
Target Population: Parents, teachers, and children
For children/adolescents ages: 4 – 8
For parents/caregivers of children ages: 4 – 8
The Incredible Years is a series of three separate, multifaceted, and developmentally based curricula for parents, teachers, and children. This series is designed to promote emotional and social competence; and to prevent, reduce, and treat behavior and emotional problems in young children. The parent, teacher, and child programs can be used separately or in combination. There are treatment versions of the parent and child programs as well as prevention versions for high-risk populations.
The overall goals of The Incredible Years are split into short-term goals and long-term goals:
Short-Term Goals:
Improved parent-child interactions, building positive relationships and attachment, improved parental functioning, less harsh and more nurturing parenting, and increased parental social support and problem solving
Improved teacher-student relationships, proactive classroom management skills, and strengthened teacher-parent partnerships
Prevention, reduction, and treatment of early onset conduct behaviors and emotional problems
Promotion of child social competence, emotional regulation, positive attributions, academic readiness, and problem solving
Long-Term Goals:
Prevention of conduct disorders, academic underachievement, delinquency, violence, and drug abuse
The essential components of The Incredible Years include:
The Incredible Years BASIC Parent Training Program targets parents of high-risk children and those displaying behavior problems. Highlighted parenting skills include:
How to build strong relationships with children through child-directed play interactions
How to be a social, emotional and academic coach for children
How to provide praise and incentives to build social and academic competency
How to set limits and establish household rules
How to handle misbehavior
The Incredible Years ADVANCE Parent Training Program addresses interpersonal skills such as:
How to effectively communicate with your children and other adults
How to handle stress, anger and depression management issues
How to problem solve between adults
How to help children learn to problem solve
How to provide and receive support
The Incredible Years Child Training Program (Dina Dinosaur Social Skills and Problem-Solving Curriculum) - The Child Training program promotes social competency and reduces conduct problems. Children are trained in four areas:
Emotion Management
How to talk about feelings
How to understand and detect feelings in others
How to self-regulate and manage upsetting feelings
How to talk to and make friends
How to work in teams
How to cooperate and help others
How to effectively communicate
How to follow rules
How to play with others and enter into groups
How to deal with anger
How to solve problems step-by-step
How to be friendly
How to follow school rules
How to stop-look-think-check
The Incredible Years (IY) directly provides services to children/adolescents and addresses the following:
Aggression; conduct problems; social competency problems; attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; internalizing problems such as fears, phobias and somatization (conversion of anxiety into physical symptoms); and children experiencing divorce, abandonment or abuse
The Incredible Years (IY) directly provides services to parents/caregivers and addresses the following:
Negative affect, negative commands, poor parent bonding, and ineffective limit setting
One two-hour session per week (parent and child component); classroom program offered 2-3 times weekly for 60 lessons; teacher sessions can be completed in 5-6 full-day workshops or 18-21 two-hour sessions.
The Basic Parent Training Program is 14 weeks for prevention populations, and 18 - 20 weeks for treatment. The Child Training Program is 18-22 weeks. For treatment version, the Advance Parent Program is recommended as a supplemental program. Basic plus Advance takes 26-30 weeks. The Child Prevention Program is 20 to 30 weeks and may be spaced over two years. The Teachers Program is 5 to 6 full-day workshops spaced over 6 to 8 months.
Delivery Settings
This program is typically conducted in a(n):
Birth Family Home
Community Agency
Community Daily Living Setting
Foster/Kinship Care
Primary Care Medical Setting
The Incredible Years (IY) includes a homework component:
Home activities reinforce principles that are taught during weekly sessions.
The Incredible Years (IY) has materials available in languages other than English:
Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish
For information on which materials are available in these languages, please check on the program's website or contact the program representative (contact information is listed at the bottom of this page).
TV/DVD or Computer with projector
Room for 16 people
Two group leaders for the group, etc.
Master's level (or equivalent) clinicians
Jamila Reid
incredibleyears@incredibleyears.com
Seattle, WA, or on-site
Varies per program
Implementation Information
Pre-Implementation Materials
There are pre-implementation materials to measure organizational or provider readiness for The Incredible Years (IY) as listed below:
There is an agency readiness questionnaire, an Administrator pyramid outlining considerations, a narrative guideline about steps to achieve fidelity, and other materials on the Incredible Years website: http://incredibleyears.com/programs/implementation/.
Formal Support for Implementation
There is formal support available for implementation of The Incredible Years (IY) as listed below:
The following supports are available: phone consultations, Skype consultations, webinars, in person consultation, video reviews, and certification/fidelity check. There is an implementation section on the Incredible Years website: http://incredibleyears.com/programs/implementation/.
Fidelity Measures
There are fidelity measures for The Incredible Years (IY) as listed below:
There are protocol checklists, process checklists, self-evaluations, self-reflection checklists, and more available on the website (http://incredibleyears.com/resources/gl/) or in the leader manuals.
Implementation Guides or Manuals
There are implementation guides or manuals for The Incredible Years (IY) as listed below:
Comprehensive leader manuals are available at http://incredibleyears.com/programs/implementation/.
Research on How to Implement the Program
Research has been conducted on how to implement The Incredible Years (IY) as listed below:
Webster-Stratton, C. H., Reid, M. J., & Marsenich, L. (2014). Improving therapist fidelity during implementation of evidence-based practices: Incredible Years program. Psychiatric Services. Advance Online Publication. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.201200177
Child Welfare Outcomes: Safety and Child/Family Well-Being
A meta-analysis, see citation following, has also been conducted on The Incredible Years though this article is not used for rating and therefore is not summarized:: Menting, A. T., Orobio de Castro, B., & Matthys, W. (2013). Effectiveness of the Incredible Years parent training to modify disruptive and prosocial child behavior: A meta-analytic review. Clinical psychology review, 33(8), 901-913.
When more than 10 research articles have been published in peer-reviewed journals, the CEBC reviews all of the articles as part of the rating process and identifies the 10 most relevant articles, with a focus on randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and controlled studies that have an impact on the rating. The 10 articles chosen for The Incredible Years are summarized below:
*Reid, M. J., Webster-Stratton, C., & Beauchaine, T. P. (2001). Parent training in Head Start: A comparison of program response among African American, Asian American, Caucasian, and Hispanic mothers. Prevention Science, 2(4), 209-227.
Type of Study: Randomized controlled trial
Number of Participants: 634 families provided pre and posttest data. 474 families provided data for the 1-year follow-up.
Age — Children: Mean=55.96 months (approximately 4.66 years)
Race/Ethnicity — Children: 19% African American, 12% Asian American, and 11% Hispanic
Gender — Children: 54% Male and 46% Female
Status — Participants were families with children attending Head Start.
Location/Institution: Puget Sound
Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations)
Randomly assigned to The Incredible Years program group or the control group. Measures were taken at baseline, post-treatment, and 1 year later. Parenting competency and involvement were measured by the Parenting Practices Interview (PPI), Parent Teacher Involvement Questionnaire (parent and teacher version), home observations with the Dyadic Parent Child Interaction Coding System-Revised (DPCICS-R), and the Coder Impression Inventory (CII). Child competencies were measured by the Child Behavior Checklist, Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory (ECBI), Social Competence Scale (parent), and home observation with the DPCICS-R. Mothers were also assessed with the Brief Anger Aggression Questionnaire, the CESD depression scale, and the Assessing Environments III, which provides information on childhood experiences of abusive punishment. Following treatment, mothers were observed to be more positive, less critical, more consistent, and more competent than were control mothers. Differences across ethnic groups did not exceed chance levels.
Length of postintervention follow-up: 1 year.
Baydar, N., Reid, M. J., & Webster-Stratton, C. (2003). The role of mental health factors and program engagement in the effectiveness of a preventive parenting program for Head Start mothers. Child Development, 74(5), 1433-1453.
Number of Participants: Control group: 275, Intervention group: 607
Age — Mean=56 months (approximately 4.67 years)
Race/Ethnicity — Control: 56% Caucasian, 19.2% African American, 13% Hispanic, and 7% Asian/Pacific Islander; Intervention: 60.8% Caucasian, 13.7% African American, 9% Hispanic, and 11% Asian/Pacific Islander
Gender — Children: 53.25% Male
Status — Participants were families enrolled in Head Start centers.
Participants were randomly assigned to one of two groups: A group that received The Incredible Years training or to a control group that did not receive the training. Mothers with mental health risk factors (depression, anger, history of abuse as a child, and substance abuse) exhibited poorer parenting skills than those without risk factors, as measured by the Parenting Practices Interview, Dyadic Parent-Child Interactive Coding System, and Coder Impression Inventory. However, mothers with risk factors engaged with and benefited from the parenting training program at a level comparable to mothers without these risk factors. Program engagement was assessed by number of sessions attended, percentage of homework assignments completed, and the group leader’s rating of engagement. Intervention mothers had lower scores on both harsh/negative parenting and ineffective parenting and higher scores on supportive parenting.
Length of postintervention follow-up: None.
*Reid, M. J., Webster-Stratton, C., & Hammond, N. (2003). Follow-up of children who received the Incredible Years intervention for oppositional-defiant disorder: Maintenance and prediction of two-year outcome. Behavior Therapy, 34, 471–491.
Number of Participants: 159
Age — 4-7 years
Race/Ethnicity — 79% Caucasian
Gender — 90% Male
Status — Participants were parents requesting services at the University of Washington Parenting Clinic; either self-referred or referred by physician or teacher.
Location/Institution: University of Washington Parenting Clinic
This paper presents 2-year follow-up data for a sample of children with oppositional-defiant disorder who were randomly assigned to one of five treatment plans: parent training (PT), parent plus teacher training (PT + TT), child training (CT), child plus teacher training (CT + TT), and parent plus child plus teacher training (PT + CT + TT). Multiple measures were used, including the Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory (ECBI), the Child Behavior Checklist 1.5-5 (CBCL), the Multi-Option Observation System for Experimental Studies (MOOSES) classroom observation coding system, and the Teacher Assessment of School Behavior (TASB). At the 2-year follow-up, approximately 75% of children were functioning in the normal range according to parent and teacher reports. Twenty-five percent of children were classified as treatment nonresponders at home and/or at school. Teacher training added significantly to long-term school outcomes for children who had pervasive behavior problems. Baseline, post, and 1-year follow-up parenting practices distinguished between home treatment responders and nonresponders (parents of nonresponders were more critical and less positive). For children with baseline pervasive home-school problems, baseline maternal parenting and posttreatment marital discord were associated with poor treatment response at home at the 2-year follow-up. In addition, 80% of pervasive children whose mothers were highly critical immediately posttreatment were classified as school nonresponders at the 2-year follow-up.
Length of postintervention follow-up: 2 years.
Reid, M. J., Webster-Stratton, C., & Baydar, N. (2004). Halting the development of conduct problems in Head Start children: The effect of parent training. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 33(2), 279-291.
Number of Participants: 882 children
Age — 5 years or younger
Race/Ethnicity — 51% White, 19% African American, 10% Hispanic, 8% Asian, and 12% mixed or other
Status — Participants were enrolled in Head Start center.
Note: The study uses the same sample as the Baydar, Reid, & Webster-Stratton (2003) study. Participant families were randomly assigned to an intervention group where parents received The Incredible Years parenting program or to a group where the parent received the standard Head Start curriculum. Teachers in the intervention groups also received training on the program content. Data on children’s behavior was obtained through both parent and teacher reports and through independent home observation. Pre and post intervention, children were measured on the Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory (ECBI), an inventory of conduct problems. Data was also obtained from the Dyadic Parent-Child Interactive Coding System which allows recording of behaviors of children with conduct problems and their parents, and the Coder Impression Inventory, which describes parenting style, child affect, and behavior. Mothers and children who had parenting or behavior problems at baseline were also identified. Analyses showed that families with problems at baseline benefited most from the program. Changes in conduct problems were also related to maternal engagement in the program and to mothers’ success in implementing the positive parenting strategies taught in the program.
*Kim, E., Cain, K. C., & Webster-Stratton, C. (2008). The preliminary effect of a parenting program for Korean American mothers: A randomized controlled experimental study. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 45, 1261-1273.
Number of Participants: 29
Age — Children:3-8, Adults: Not specified
Race/Ethnicity — Adults: 100% Females
Gender — Adults: 100% Korean
Status — Participants were first-generation Korean American mothers of young children (3-8 years old).
Location/Institution: Not Specified
The purpose of this study was to pilot-test the effect of the Incredible Years (IY) parenting program among Korean American mothers. First-generation Korean American mothers of young children were randomly assigned to the IY intervention or to a control group. Mothers reported on discipline styles (positive, appropriate, and harsh), level of acculturation, and their child's outcomes (behavioral problems and social competence) at pre-, post-, and 1-year follow-up intervals. Measures included the Parent Practices Interview, Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory, Social Competence Scale, and a modified version of the Acculturation Rating Scale for Mexican Americans-II (ARSMA-II). After completing the program, intervention group mothers significantly increased use of positive discipline as compared to control group mothers. Among intervention group mothers, high acculturated mothers significantly increased appropriate discipline whereas low-acculturated mothers significantly decreased harsh discipline. In the 1-year follow-up, intervention group mothers maintained the significant effect for positive discipline. Limitations include the small sample size and the larger number of drop-outs in the control group.
Length of postintervention follow-up: 12 months.
Bywater, T., Hutchings, J., Daley, D., Whitaker, C., Yeo, S. T., Jones, K.,...Edwards, R. T. (2009). Long-term effectiveness of a parenting intervention in Sure Start services in Wales for children at risk of developing conduct disorder. British Journal of Psychiatry, 195, 318-324.
Age — Children: 36-59 months
Race/Ethnicity — Not Specified
Gender — Not Specified
Status — Participants were parents with children aged 36–59 months at risk of developing conduct disorder.
Location/Institution: 11 communities in North and mid Wales, United Kingdom
This study examined whether the short-term positive effects of a parenting program (The Incredible Years [IY]) were sustained longer term. Parents were randomly assigned to IY (or a wait list control group) and received intervention between baseline and first follow-up. The second and third follow-up (n = 82 and n = 79, respectively) occurred 12 and 18 months after baseline. Measures included the Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory (ECBI), Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), Conners Abbreviated Parent Rating Scale (CAPRS), Kendall Self-Control Rating Scale (SCRS), Parenting Stress Index – Short Form (PSI–SF), and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). The significant parent-reported improvements in primary measures of child behavior, parent behavior, parental stress, and depression gained at follow-up one were maintained to follow-up three, as were improved observed child and parent behaviors. Overall, 63% of children made a minimum significant change on the ECBI Problem Scale between baseline and follow-up (using intention-to-treat data), 54% made a large change, and 39% made a very large change. Child contact with health and social services had reduced at follow-up three. Limitations included the lack of a control group comparison at the 12 and 18 month follow-ups.
Length of postintervention follow-up: Approximately 9 and 15 months.
*Drugli, M. B., Larsson, B., Fossum, S., & Mörch, W. (2010). Five- to six-year outcome and its prediction for children with ODD/CD treated with parent training. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 51(5), 559–566.
Age — Mean=12.1 years follow-up (SD = 1.3)
Race/Ethnicity — Not specified – All but one family in the study were native Norwegians
Status — Participants were children aged 4–8 referred for treatment because of oppositional or conduct problems reported by their parents.
Location/Institution: Two university cities in Norway, Trondheim and Tromsø
In the present study, diagnostic status as outcome and predictors of treatment response were examined in a 5 to 6-year follow-up. Out of 99 children who had been treated in a randomized controlled trial evaluating the effects of The Incredible Years parent training or combined parent training and child treatment program, 54.5% participated in the 5 to 6-year follow-up study. Their diagnostic status was determined with the Kiddie-SADS interview. While all children qualified for a diagnosis of Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)/Conduct Disorder (CD) before treatment, 5-6 years later, two-thirds no longer received such a diagnosis, the same proportion as found at the 1-year follow-up. The most powerful pretreatment predictors of diagnostic status at the 5-6-year follow-up were living with mother only and female gender. At post-treatment, the most powerful predictor was found to be high levels of child externalizing problems. The findings of the study support the maintenance of positive long-term results for young children treated with parent training because of serious conduct problems, and identify characteristics of children and families in need of added support to parent training programs. Limitations include the 54.5% participation rate, the reliance on a formal psychiatric diagnosis of ODD/CD in the child as the outcome measure, and the lack of follow-up with the untreated control group sample.
Length of postintervention follow-up: 5-6 years.
Gardner, F., Hutchings, J., Bywater, T., & Whitaker, C. (2010). Who benefits and how does It work? Moderators and mediators of outcome in an effectiveness Trial of a Parenting Intervention. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology. 39(4), 568-580.
Age — 36-59 months (3-4.9 years)
Status — Participants were children in the targeted neighborhoods who scored above the clinical cutoff on the Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory (ECBI) problem or intensity scale.
Location/Institution: 11 socially disadvantaged neighborhoods in the United Kingdom, in receipt of Government funding as Sure Start areas, identified on the basis of high levels of poverty
This study examined mediators and moderators of change in conduct problems, in a multi-agency randomized trial of The Incredible Years parenting program. Preschoolers at risk for conduct problems (n=153) were randomly assigned to intervention (n=104) and wait-list (n=49) groups. Boys and younger children, and those with more depressed mothers, tended to show greater improvement in conduct problems post-intervention. Other risk factors (i.e., teen or single parenthood, very low income, high initial levels of problem behavior) showed no predictive effects, implying intervention was at least as successful at helping the most disadvantaged families, compared to more advantaged. Mediator analyses found change in positive parenting skill predicted change in conduct problems. Limitations include the small sample size to conduct moderator and mediator analyses.
Length of postintervention follow-up: 3 months.
Webster-Stratton, C., Rinaldi, J., & Reid, J. M. (2011). Long-term outcomes of Incredible Years parenting program: Predictors of adolescent adjustment. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 16(1), 38-46.
Type of Study: One group pre-test post-test study
Age — 3-8 years at intake; 12-19 years (mean=15 years) at follow-up
Status — Participants were self-referred or professionally referred parents of children with child misconduct problems lasting at least six months
Children with early onset conduct problems whose parents received The Incredible Years parent treatment program when they were 3-8 years were contacted and reassessed regarding their social and emotional adjustment 8-12 years later. Assessments included home interviews with parents and teenagers separately; measures included the Child Behavior Checklist 6-18 (CBCL), the Elliott Delinquency Scale, the Revised Children’s Manifest Anxiety Scale, and the Child Depression Inventory. At long-term follow-up, 16% and 12% of the teens were in the clinical range according to mother and father reports respectively on the CBCL externalizing scale, compared to 25% and 10%, immediately posttreatment. Thus, parent reports of externalizing problems were stable or slightly improved over the follow-up period. Adolescent reports indicated that 10% were in the clinical range on internalizing behaviors, 23% had engaged in major delinquent acts, and 46% reported some substance use. Eighteen percent of children had criminal justice system involvement and 42% had elevated levels of externalizing behaviors (mother report). Immediate post-treatment factors predicting negative outcomes (delinquent acts) were maternal reports of behavior problems and observed mother–child coercion, indicating that in families where levels of parent-child coercion are still high post-treatment, further intervention may be warranted to prevent future problems. Limitations include the lack of a control group, the broad age range of youth at the long-term follow-up time point, and a lack of information on interventions received between treatment and the long-term follow-up time point.
Length of postintervention follow-up: 8-12 years.
Bywater, T., Hutchings, J., Linck, P., Whitaker, C., Daley, D., Yeo, S. T., & Edwards, R. T. (2011). Incredible Years parent training support for foster carers in Wales: A multi-centre feasibility study. Child: Care, Health and Development, 37(2), 233–243.
Age — Adults: 28-66 years; Children: 2-16 years
Gender — Children: 24 Males and 22 Females
Status — Participants were foster carers in three local authorities in North and Mid Wales.
Location/Institution: North and Mid Wales, United Kingdom
This study examined the feasibility of delivery and the effectiveness of The Incredible Years (IY) parenting program in supporting foster carers in managing difficult behavior in children in foster care. Foster carers were randomly assigned to the IY intervention or the control group. Measures included the Parenting Scale, Beck Depression Inventory (BDI),Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory (ECBI), and Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). Analyses showed a significant reduction in child problem behavior and improvement in foster carers’ depression levels for intervention families at follow-up, compared with control.
Length of postintervention follow-up: Approximately 12 weeks.
Reid, M. J., & Webster-Stratton, C. (2001). The Incredible Years parent, teacher, and child intervention: Targeting multiple areas of risk for a young child with pervasive conduct problems using a flexible, manualized, treatment program. Journal of Cognitive and Behavior Practice, 8, 377-386.
Webster-Stratton, C., & Reid, M. J. (2004). Strengthening social and emotional competence in young children—The foundation for early school readiness and success Incredible Years classroom social skills and problem-solving curriculum. Infants and Young Children, 17(2), 96–113.
Webster-Stratton, C. & Reid, M. J. (2003). Treating conduct problems and strengthening social and emotional competence in young children: The Dina Dinosaur treatment program. Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 1(3), 130-143.
Agency/Affiliation: The Incredible Years, Inc.
Website: www.incredibleyears.com
Email: incredibleyears@incredibleyears.com
Date Research Evidence Last Reviewed by CEBC: January 2015
Date Program Content Last Reviewed by Program Staff: April 2014
Date Program Originally Loaded onto CEBC: March 2006
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Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Ransomware
Attackers Demand Bitcoin Ransom After Encrypting Data Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • July 11, 2019
A new ransomware strain called eCh0raix is targeting enterprise storage devices sold by QNAP Network by exploiting vulnerabilities in the gear and bypassing weak credentials using brute-force techniques, according to the security firm Anomali.
The ransomware is targeting QNAP's line of enterprise-grade network attached storage devices that are used for file storage and backup because these devices aren't coupled with anti-virus software, Anomali says in a blog.
The file-locking malware first surfaced in late June, when victims reported ransom demands on the BleepingComputer forum thread. The website forum identified the affected storage devices as the QNAP TS-251, QNAP TS-451, QNAP TS-459 Pro II, and the QNAP TS 253B.
The infected systems were not fully patched, and others reported detections of failed login attempts, according to posts on the BleepingComputer forum as well as the Anomali blog.
QNAP is a Taiwan-based storage service company that focuses on network area storage file sharing, virtualization and surveillance applications. In the U.S., the company is believed to have 19,000 publicly facing QNAP devices, which could be susceptible to this particular strain of ransomware, the Anomali researchers note.
QNAP could not be immediately reached for comment.
This is the second time this year that malware has been discovered on QNAP's NAS devices. In February, the company issued a security alert stating that an unknown strain of malware was disabling software updates within its devices, leaving them vulnerable to further attacks.
The new eCh0raix ransomware was written and compiled using the Go programming language, and its source code is composed of a miniscule 400 lines, according to the Anomali research.
The ransomware has been designed to carry out targeted attacks by encrypting file extensions on a network area storage device using AES encryption and by appending the ".encrypt" extension, Anomali reports.
The eCh0raix ransomware has a low detection rate in anti-virus products, the researchers note.
"It is not common for these devices to run anti-virus products, and currently the samples are only detected by two to three products on VirusTotal, which allows the ransomware to run uninhibited," the researchers write in their blog.
In addition, the analysis of the hard-coded encryption keys of the malware samples revealed that the same decryptor would not work for all victims, the blog notes.
Those who were attacked were notified that their data was locked and were directed to make a ransom payment in bitcoin and not to meddle or tamper with the code.
Region of Origin?
In addition, the researchers examined the command-and-control server associated with the ransomware and noted that the malware checks the location of the infected NAS devices for IP addresses in Belarus, Ukraine or Russia and will then exit without further incident if a match is found.
"This technique is common amongst threat actors, particularly when they do not wish to infect users in their home country," according to the Anomali blog.
To protect against these types of attacks, the researchers recommend that organizations restrict external access to QNAP storage devices, ensure the devices are updated with security patches and use strong credentials.
Ransomware Increasing
Ransomware attacks are on the rise, with attackers increasingly targeting government agencies that seem ill-prepared to cope (see: More US Cities Battered by Ransomware).
In several recent cases, including one ransomware attack that hit Lake City, Florida, it appears that these municipal governments did not have adequate backup to help recover once critical files were locked. This resulted in some communities opting to pay a ransom to get the decryption key (see: Second Florida City Pays Up Following Ransomware Attack).
Akshaya Asokan
Asokan is senior correspondent for Information Security Media Group's global news desk. She has previously worked at Analytics India Magazine, The New Indian Express and IDG, where she reported on developments in technology and education.
British Airways Faces Record-Setting $230 Million GDPR Fine
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Newest Dayton recruit will bring ‘size and physicality’ to roster
David Jablonski, Staff Writer
Moulaye Sissoko will be fourth native of Africa to play for Flyers
DAYTON —
Moulaye Sissoko made it official Thursday, one day after the start of the early signing period, signing a national letter of intent with the Dayton Flyers.
Sissoko, a 6-foot-10 forward from Mali in West Africa, attends Lincoln Academy in Suwanee, Ga. He signed his letter in a ceremony at the school. In seven games this season, he has averaged 15.4 points and 10.6 rebounds.
» RELATED: Sissoko described as phenomenal athlete
“The reason why I chose Dayton is I think Dayton will be a good fit for me,” said Sissoko on an Instagram video on the school’s account, “and I think the coaches will take me to the next level.”
Here’s a quick summary of what Sissoko’s signing means for Dayton:
One left: Sissoko, who verbally committed to Dayton in October, becomes the first member of Dayton’s 2019 recruiting class. The Flyers left one scholarship open in 2018 and will have one opening in 2019 with Josh Cunningham playing his final season. That means they still have one scholarship open in the 2019 class.
Star factor: According to 247Sports, Sissoko ranks 328th in the 2019 class. He’s a three-star recruit.
Four of the five high school players to sign with Dayton since the hiring of Anthony Grant — Jalen Crutcher, Dwayne Cohill, Frankie Policelli and Sissoko — have been three-star recruits, according to 247Sports. Obi Toppin, Dayton’s leading scorer through the first two games this season, was a two-star recruit, according to VerbalCommits.com.
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Adding size: With Sissoko on the 2019-20 roster, Dayton will have one player at every height between 6-7 and 6-11, though heights often change when players are measured on campus. There’s Nebraska transfer Jordy Tshimanga (6-11), who’s sitting out this season, Sissoko (6-10), Toppin (6-9), Frankie Policelli (6-8) and Ryan Mikesell (6-7).
Foreign influence: Sissoko joins a short list of African-born players to sign with Dayton. He follows Maurice Beyina (Central African Republic), Stephen Bamigbola (Nigeria) and Makor Shayok (Sudan). His name is pronounced MOO-lie Sis-SOE-koe.
“We’re excited to announce the addition of Moulaye Sissoko to our Dayton basketball family,” Dayton coach Anthony Grant said in a press release. “Moulaye will be the first member of his family to attend university in the United States. He is a high-character young man who will bring size and physicality to our front court. We welcome him to the University of Dayton and our community.”
WEDNESDAY’S GAME
Dayton vs. Butler in Battle 4 Atlantis, 7 p.m., ESPN News, AM 1290 and News 95.7 WHIO
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