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Twitter to launch official 'tweet button' this week
By Marc Chacksfield 2010-08-11T07:27:00.222Z Internet
One-click sharing service imminent
Twitter - coming to a website near you
Twitter is planning to roll out its own official tweet button this week, offering a one-click sharing service that can be easily added to websites.
Although similar buttons are already available for sites, they are created by third-party services. Twitter is hoping that its official button will be the most accurate yet, offering precise numbers of those who have retweeted articles online.
Push the button
Twitter hasn't officially announced the service, but Mashable has got its hands on the code and says it already works, but the retweeting aspect of it hasn't been turned on yet.
Twitter is trying to make it as easy as possible to add the code – it is just one line of Javascript that needs to be added to a web page.
Although an official retweet button was always going to come from Twitter, it will be a blow to the third-party services which already offer this.
But Twitter will be hoping that the extras it is offering – attaching your Twitter account to the button, different looks, default text – will entice websites into using the official version.
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Xiaomi's next is an entry-level Redmi smartphone with Android Oreo (Go Edition)
By Siddharth Chauhan 2019-01-25T08:51:28Z Mobile phones
Xiaomi Redmi Go specs leak online
It's no secret that Xiaomi has slowly been developing its own ecosystem through its products and it has got a lot of Mi fans, as they say, over the years. On the software side, Xiaomi keeps it tight with its MIUI which runs across all their smartphones barring a few.
The Chinese electronics manufacturer will soon be adding a new smartphone to their list and this one doesn't come with MIUI. The company's earlier collaborations with Google on Android One program gave us the Mi A-series phone running stock Android.
Xiaomi Philippines has posted a teaser of their upcoming Redmi Go smartphone which allegedly runs on Google's Android Go edition. The Android Go running on the phone in itself is an indication that it is going to be an entry-level smartphone.
A Philippines publication, Revü reported it first from a tip by Von Hector Magdua and revealed all the specs of the upcoming Xiaomi smartphone. The product page for Redmi Go went live on Philippines e-commerce store Lazada and the folks over at Revü were quick to take a snap.
Posted by XiaomiPhilippines on
Xiaomi Redmi Go specs
The Redmi Go runs on Android 8.1 Oreo (Go Edition) out-of-the-box and features a 5-inch HD (1280 x 720 pixels) display. The phone is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 425 chipset and a quad-core Cortex A53 CPU backed by Adreno 308 GPU. There's 1 GB of RAM on board along with 8 GB of storage which is expandable by up to 128GB.
Xiaomi Redmi Go sports an 8MP rear camera which has an f/2.0 aperture accompanied by the LED flash and a 5MP front-facing camera for selfies to go along. The phone has a 3,000mAh battery which should be able to power the phone through the day on normal use.
Xiaomi Redmi Go: Price and availability
There is no word on the official pricing of the phone yet but we expect the phone to be unveiled in a couple of days as it is being heavily teased in the Philippines. Redmi Go could debut in the Philippines first before landing up in other markets such as India and China. Being an entry-level phone running Android Oreo Go edition, we expect the phone to be priced under Rs 5,000 if and when it launches in India.
Also Read: PUBG Mobile 0.11.0 beta brings Resident Evil 2 zombies to an exciting battle royale mode
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Shocker! Huge nest of 5,000 wasps found in British bedroom
31 August 2014, 12:44 am EDT By Jim Algar Tech Times
A British man entering a seldom-used bedroom in the home of his mother got a shock when he discovered thousands of wasps had created a massive nest in the mattress of a bed.
Experts estimated around 5,000 wasps had entered through a window that was left open in the home in Winchester in Hampshire and built the nest by chewing through the bedding, including the mattress, blanket and pillow.
The room, with its open window, hadn't been entered by anyone for months.
Local pest-control expert John Birkett was brought in to deal with the nest.
"I had to put all my protective gear on," he says. "At one stage there must have been 2,000 wasps buzzing around me. If someone had gone in to the room and not known what it was it would have been pretty serious."
Wasps normally use wood they've chewed into a pulp to build their nests, but seemed to have no problems using the resources of the bedroom, chewing an 8-inch hole into the mattress.
Dismantling the nest, which had grown to about 3 feet by 1.5 feet, and killing the wasps with a chemical spray took two hours.
Colonies of wasps reaching their population peak in late summer can contain hundreds of the insects, experts say, and when they build their nests that number can increase to many thousands.
Birkett said the largest nest he'd ever found inside a house's room until now had been about the size of a tennis ball.
"In 45 years I have never seen anything like it," he says.
The size of the nest was probably due to the presence of almost 700 queen wasps inside, Birkett said.
Wasps fall into two general categories, social wasps that build nests and solitary wasps that do not.
The kinds of nests constructed vary depending on species and where they are built.
Wasps can attack and sting humans if disturbed.
Birkett says the danger is real, especially with larger numbers of wasps, and it could have been "extremely dangerous" had the residents of the Winchester house attempted to get rid of the nest by themselves.
Not that the women owner had any thought of doing so, he said.
"The client was terrified," he says.
insects, Wasps, UK
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Urban spiders grow bigger: Arachnophobes beware!
Zombie ants controlled by fungus manipulating brains
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Annual dusty days up day-and-a-half in Khuzestan over 3 decades
TEHRAN — The number of dusty days in southern province of Khuzestan have increased by day-and-a-half over a 30-year period per annum on average, the provincial meteorological organization director has said.
Tehran hosting high-level meeting on disaster information management
TEHRAN — A high-level expert consultation meeting on disaster information management kicked off in Tehran on Tuesday, Mehr news agency reported.
‘Regional cooperation, only way to tackle SDSs’
TEHRAN – Sand and dust storms (SDSs) severely hitting the southern part of the country posing threat to human and environmental well-being, requires the cooperation of neighboring countries to be tackled, head of the international affairs at the Department of Environment (DOE) has said.
By Maryam Qarehgozlou
Meeting on regional co-op for building resilience to disasters opens in Tehran
TEHRAN — An Expert Consultation Meeting on Regional Cooperation for Building Resilience to Slow-Onset Disasters, Including Sand and Dust Storms and Information Management for Cross-Border Disaster in Asia and the Pacific opened in Tehran on Monday.
Ebtekar, Akhtar discuss women’s empowerment in IT sector
TEHRAN – The Iranian vice president for women’s and family affairs Masoumeh Ebtekar and the UN under secretary-general Shamshad Akhtar discussed the role of women in disaster risk reduction and resilience through empowering them in various areas including IT.
APDIM raises hopes of addressing sand and dust storms in Iran
TEHRAN — The Asian and Pacific Centre for the Development of Disaster Information Management (APDIM) can bring hopes for tackling sand and dust storms in Iran.
APDIM to open office in Tehran on Tuesday
TEHRAN - Hamid Pourmohammadi, the deputy head of the Iranian Planning and Budget Organization, said on Monday that the Asian and Pacific Centre for the Development of Disaster Information Management (APDIM) is scheduled to open an office in Tehran on Tuesday.
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Domino's profits sliced by spiralling overseas costs
UK-listed Domino's is the master franchisee for UK and Ireland, with further interests across Europe Credit: Sean Proctor/Bloomberg
Oliver Gill
7 August 2018 • 2:10pm
Retail and Consumer industry
Spiralling overseas costs took a bite out of Domino’s Pizza’s profits as the World Cup saved the company from sluggish demand during the recent heatwave.
Domino’s, which is dominant in the UK but expanding across Europe, admitted its Norwegian roll-out had not gone to plan. Keeping costs under control in the country had been “more of a challenge that we had expected”, chief executive David Wild said.
The company's half-year profit before tax fell 9.7pc to £41.7m on revenue of £259.1m. Shares in Domino's slipped to an 11-month low, falling almost 10pc.
Problems in Norway cost Domino's £2.1m, one of a number of additional charges the company shouldered during the six months to June. It was also...
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McElhinney, Hurricanes shut down Penguins 4-0
By WILL GRAVES AP Sports Writer
Feb 5, 2019 at 9:41 PM Feb 5, 2019 at 10:17 PM
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Curtis McElhinney stopped 23 shots, Brett Pesce and Jordan Martinook scored from way out and Michael Ferland and Andrei Svechnikov poured it on late as the Carolina Hurricanes began a pivotal five-game trip with a 4-0 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Tuesday night.
McElhinney collected his first shutout of the season and ninth of his 11-year career by stuffing Jared McCann and Jake Guentzel with sprawling saves in the first period and never letting up as the Hurricanes picked up two big points as they try to stay in the mix for their first playoff berth in nearly a decade.
Matt Murray made 28 saves for the Penguins but lost for the third time in four starts since the All-Star break. Pittsburgh struggled to generate any consistent offensive pressure against McElhinney while playing without injured star Evgeni Malkin, who missed his third consecutive game with an upper-body injury.
The Penguins began Tuesday tied with Washington for second place in the crowded Metropolitan Division while Carolina sat three points behind Columbus for the second wild-card spot in the jam-packed Eastern Conference with 30 games left to play.
The Panthers have hung around thanks in large part to the steady play of the 35-year-old McElhinney, who improved to 12-6-1 while collecting his first shutout since March 17, 2018, while playing for Toronto.
Pittsburgh tested him early. McCann, acquired in a trade with Florida last week, collected a loose puck in front and darted across the crease. McElhinney went to his belly in an effort to poke check, missed, and then raised his right leg, which stopped McCann’s shot when McCann couldn’t get the puck in the air. He made another big stop on Guentzel later in the period and fended off a shot by Crosby from the left circle with a right pad save.
The Hurricanes didn’t let the reprieve go to waste. Martinook took a drop pass from Jacob Slavin and ripped a wrist shot from the top of the left circle that deflected off the end of Murray’s glove and into the net with 44 seconds left in the first.
Pittsburgh had a chance to tie it when Patric Hornqvist drew a penalty then found himself alone on the door step on the ensuing power play midway through the second period. His wrist shot ended up in McElhinney’s glove. Pesce doubled Carolina’s lead shortly after the penalty expired, letting a shot go from atop the left circle that found its way through traffic — including sprawled Pittsburgh defender Jack Johnson and by Murray 12:58 into the second.
That was enough for McElhinney, who received plenty of help in front of him. The Penguins didn’t even record a shot over the first 10 minutes of the third period and Carolina’s lead was never in doubt. Ferland scored into an empty net with 1:31 left and Svechnikov added one for insurance after Murray returned with 42 seconds remaining.
NOTES: Both teams went 0 for 2 on the power play. ... Referee Brian Pochmara left in the second period with a lower-body injury and did not return. ... Pittsburgh D Justin Schultz skated with his teammates Wednesday morning and is close to a return after fracturing his left leg in Montreal on Oct. 13. ... Pittsburgh C Matt Cullen played in his 1,487th career game, tying Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky for 22nd on the all-time list. Carolina improved 21-1-2 when leading after two periods. ... Hurricanes F Justin Williams played in his 400th game with the club.
Hurricanes: Travel to Buffalo on Thursday to face the Sabres.
Penguins: Begin a three-game road trip on Thursday in Florida against the Panthers.
More AP NHL: https://apnews.com/NHL and https://twitter.com/AP-Sports
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Reversing course, Tom Steyer joins Democratic presidential nominee race
Hamas holds major snap military drill in Gaza
Spokesman for Strip’s interior ministry says exercise meant to simulate how to deal with a ‘sudden security threat,’ check preparedness of terror group’s forces
By TOI staff 9 July 2019, 2:07 pm 1 Edit
Supporters of Hamas attend a rally marking the terror group's founding in Gaza City on December 14, 2015. (Emad Nassar/Flash90)
The Times of Israel liveblogged Tuesday’s events as they happened.
EU urges Iran not to further violate nuclear deal
The European Union is calling on Iran to reverse its decision to enrich uranium to a level above that permitted by an international accord meant to curb its nuclear program and to not take any additional steps that violate the pact.
“We continue to urge Iran not take further measures that undermine the nuclear deal to stop and to reverse all activities that are inconsistent with the JCPOA, including the production of low-enriched uranium,” Reuters quote an EU spokeswoman telling reporters.
Iran announced Monday it had passed a 4.5 percent level of uranium enrichment, above the 3.67% level allowed under the 2015 deal. It has warned it could enrich uranium to higher levels if it does not receive relief from Europe as it its economy is battered by American sanctions that were reimposed after US President Donald Trump pulled out of the accord last year.
Macron’s top adviser in Tehran in bid to save nuclear deal
PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron’s top diplomatic adviser is spending two days in Tehran as part of an urgent bid to deescalate rising tensions with Iran over its unraveling nuclear deal with world powers.
An Elysee Palace official says that adviser Emmanuel Bonne left for Tehran on Tuesday, seeking ways to restart dialogue. The official isn’t authorized to speak publicly on the matter and asks for anonymity.
Macron and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani agreed in a weekend conversation to set a July 15 deadline to solve the current impasse, and ultimately save the 2015 nuclear accord that the US pulled out of last year.
Macron spoke with US President Donald Trump on Monday — the day Iran began enriching uranium beyond the accord’s 3.67% limit, and after breaking the limit on stockpiles.
Egypt seeks Interpol’s help to recover King Tut statue
CAIRO — Egypt says it has asked Interpol to help track down a 3,000-year-old sculpture of the famed boy pharaoh Tutankhamun after Christie’s auctioned it off last week despite Cairo’s objections.
The Britain-based auction house sold the brown quartzite head depicting King Tut for more than 4.7 million pounds ($5.9 million).
Egypt’s National Committee for Antiquities Repatriation said in a statement late Monday that it hired a British law firm to file a lawsuit against Christie’s, saying the auction house did not provide documents proving ownership.
Christie’s has denied any wrongdoing, saying it carried out “extensive due diligence” to verify the provenance of the statue and had “gone beyond what is required to assure legal title.”
The committee also criticized British authorities for not supporting its claim to the sculpture.
Egypt lashes out at Christie's auction house over sale of King Tut sculpture https://t.co/W4owVfJ7tv pic.twitter.com/Nj6LJwNQt7
— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 5, 2019
Man shot to death in Taibe; police investigating
A man is shot to death in the Arab Israeli city of Taibe.
Police have opened an investigation into the incident.
חשד לרצח בטייבה: תיעוד מזירת האירוע @samiaah10 pic.twitter.com/rsL9yKhup8
— חדשות 13 (@newsisrael13) July 9, 2019
Trump calls UK ambassador ‘a very stupid guy’
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump calls the British ambassador to the United States “a very stupid guy,” one day after declaring he would cut contact with the diplomat following a leak of cables describing Trump as “inept.”
“The wacky Ambassador that the U.K. foisted upon the United States is not someone we are thrilled with, a very stupid guy,” Trump wrote in a series of tweets.
The US leader also doubled down in attacking British Prime Minister Theresa May regarding Brexit, saying she “went her own foolish way-was unable to get it done. A disaster!”
The wacky Ambassador that the U.K. foisted upon the United States is not someone we are thrilled with, a very stupid guy. He should speak to his country, and Prime Minister May, about their failed Brexit negotiation, and not be upset with my criticism of how badly it was…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 9, 2019
Most Israelis think small chance Trump peace efforts will lead to deal — survey
A majority of Israelis believe there is only a small chance that US President Donald Trump’s peace efforts will lead to an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, according to a survey released today.
Despite pessimism that last month’s US-led Bahrain conference will produce a peace deal, a majority of Jewish respondents to the Israel Democracy Institute’s monthly Israeli Voice Index believe “economic peace” is key to regional stability, more so than an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank or the signing of a formal diplomatic agreement.
While 55 percent of Israeli Jews think there is a small chance Trump’s peace initiative will end in a deal, that number jumped to 74% among Arab Israelis. Overall, 70% of Israelis think there is a small chance the US efforts will produce an accord.
Netanyahu warns Iran that Israel’s F-35s can reach ‘anywhere in the Middle East’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns Iran that Israel’s F-35 fighter jets can reach “anywhere in the Middle East,” in response to threats by Iranian officials in recent weeks.
“Iran has recently been threatening Israel’s destruction. They should remember that these planes can reach anywhere in the Middle East, including Iran and definitely Syria,” he says, while visiting the Israeli Air Force’s F-35 squadron on the Nevatim air base.
The prime minister appears to be referring to comments made by air force chief Amikam Norkin last year that Israel used the fifth generation fighter jet in operations in the Middle East. At the time, Norkin did not specify in which countries the aircraft had been used.
The F-35 stealth fighter jet is not believed to have an effective range that covers the country of Iran unassisted, though it could conduct operations there with in-air refueling.
WASHINGTON — Tom Steyer, the billionaire investor and activist, said Tuesday he’s joining the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, reversing course after deciding earlier this year that he would forgo a run.
Despite becoming a national voice on the impeachment issue, Steyer makes no mention of it in his campaign announcement. Instead, he says his campaign will focus on reducing the influence of corporations in politics. He also plans to target climate change, which is the focus of the Steyer-backed advocacy group NextGen America. Washington Governor Jay Inslee, another Democratic presidential contender, also has made climate change the central issue of his campaign.
“The other Democratic candidates for President have many great ideas that will absolutely move our country forward, but we won’t be able to get any of those done until we end the hostile corporate takeover of our democracy,” Steyer says in a statement.
Citing issues including climate change and the opioid crisis, Steyer says that in nearly every “major intractable problem, at the back of it, you see a big money interest for whom stopping progress, stopping justice is really important to their bottom line.”
Steyer joins the race three weeks before the next presidential debates, and he could struggle to get a spot on the stage. He likely won’t meet polling requirements to participate but could clear a fundraising threshold.
This is not the first time Steyer has considered running for office. He eyed bids for governor of California in 2018 and the Senate in 2016. His net worth, according to Forbes, is estimated at $1.6 billion.
In this photo from January 9, 2019, billionaire investor and Democratic activist Tom Steyer speaks during a news conference where he announced his decision not to seek the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination at the Statehouse in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
National-religious parties renew electoral alliance, call for others to join
The leaders of the national-religious Jewish Home and National Union parties renew their agreement to run together as the Union of Right-Wing Parties in the upcoming general elections.
Education Minister Rafi Peretz, who heads Jewish Home, and Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich, the National Union leader, call on Itamar Ben Gvir of the extremist Otzma Yehudit party to meet with them ASAP to agree on a joint Knesset run.
Otzma Yehudit was included in the URWP for April’s elections as part of an agreement engineered by Prime Minister Netanyahu, but Peretz is reportedly wary of teaming up with some of the party’s members.
In a joint statement, Smotrich and Peretz say unity among national-religious parties is needed to “in order to maximize our electoral potential and prevent the wasting of votes.”
The two also call on Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked to enter talks on forming a joint list.
Bennett and Shaked bolted Jewish Home before the last elections to form the New Right party, which failed to clear the minimum vote threshold needed to enter the Knesset. Bennett will again run with the New Right in September’s elections, while speculation has swirled over which party Shaked will end up running with.
Jewish Home party leader Rafi Peretz (L) and National Union head Bezalel Smotrich sign an agreement to renew the Union of Right-Wing Parties electoral alliance on July 9, 2019. (Courtesy)
Otzma Yehudit dismisses URWP call for talks on joint run as ‘more media spin’
The extremist Otzma Yehudit party reacts coolly to the Union of Right-Wing Parties call to immediately hold talks on another joint Knesset run, accusing URWP of “more media spin.”
Otzma Yehudit, which ran as part of URWP in April’s elections, accuses the alliance’s Jewish Home faction of violating the terms of their merger agreement and slandering it.
“We have one message: Whoever wants a tie-up doesn’t use and chuck aside,” Otzma Yehudit says in a statement.
The party says it is open to allying with other factions on the right if the mergers are “fair and appropriate.”
From left to right: Otzma Yehudit members Baruch Marzel, Michael Ben Ari, Rabbi Dov Lior and Itamar Ben Gvir at the extremist party’s campaign launch in Jerusalem on July 4, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Top adviser says Trump hasn’t seen Epstein in years
WASHINGTON — A top adviser to US President Donald Trump says Trump hasn’t spoken to or had any contact with billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein in “years and years and years.”
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway says Trump told her on Tuesday that he hasn’t spoken with or seen Epstein in 10 or 15 years. Conway adds that, like everyone else, the Republican president sees the sex trafficking charges against Epstein as “completely unconscionable and obviously criminal. Disgusting.”
Trump told New York magazine in 2002 that he’d known Epstein for 15 years and that Epstein was a “terrific guy” and “a lot of fun to be with.”
Federal prosecutors say Epstein paid underage girls for massages and then molested them at his homes in Florida and New York.
Epstein has pleaded not guilty to the sex trafficking charges.
3 UK Peers quit Labour amid party’s anti-Semitism woes
Three lawmakers resigned from Britain’s Labour party over its spiraling anti-Semitism problem.
David Triesman and Leslie Arnold Turnberg, who are Jewish, and Ara Darzi, who is not, announce on Tuesday their resignation from Labour. They will stay on as independents in the House of Lords, the upper house.
The party is no longer “a safe environment” for Jewish people, Triesman writes in his resignation letter, which came amid growing conflict inside Labour over external scrutiny of the proliferation of anti-Semitic hate in the party’s ranks. “My sad conclusion is that the Labour party is very plainly institutionally anti-Semitic,” he adds.
As “an Armenian survivor of the Armenian genocide,” writes Darzi, in his resignation letter, he has no tolerance for any “discrimination against religion or race.”
Labour under Jeremy Corbyn, a far-left politician who was elected its leader in 2015, is under investigation by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the British government’s watchdog on racism, for its handling of thousands of complaints and incidents involving hate speech and, in some cases, hate crimes.
Hundreds of Labour members, including some 20 lawmakers, have left Labour over what they called tolerance of anti-Semitism.
— JTA
In first, US puts Hezbollah lawmakers on terror blacklist
WASHINGTON — The US Treasury Department places two Hezbollah members of Lebanon’s parliament on its sanctions blacklist today — the first time Washington has taken aim at the Iran-allied terror group’s elected politicians.
The Treasury names MPs Amin Sherri and Muhammad Hasan Ra’d to a terror-related blacklist, saying that Hezbollah uses its parliamentary power to advance its alleged violent activities.
Also placed on the blacklist is Wafiq Safa, a top Hezbollah security official.
“Hezbollah uses its operatives in Lebanon’s parliament to manipulate institutions in support of the terrorist group’s financial and security interests, and to bolster Iran’s malign activities,” says Under Secretary of Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Sigal Mandelker.
Treasury targets Iranian-backed Hizballah officials for exploiting Lebanon’s political and financial system https://t.co/Acj7IBLkXX pic.twitter.com/Ft4WV5YYLj
— Treasury Department (@USTreasury) July 9, 2019
Madonna can sing at Eurovision 2020 despite Palestinian flag stunt, Rotterdam says
AMSTERDAM — If Rotterdam ends up hosting the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest, Madonna can perform.
The Dutch city’s council votes down a motion to ban the pop star from the contest over her use of a Palestinian flag on stage in Israel at the competition in May. The motion was proposed by a member of the staunchly pro-Israel and anti-Muslim Party for Freedom.
Last week’s draft motion described the Palestinian flag as “a symbol for the rejection of Israel,” and cited growing anti-Semitism in Rotterdam. It did not mention the fact that the singer’s performance in Tel Aviv also featured an Israeli flag.
Hidde van Koningsveld, the head of the pro-Israel CiJo group, notes the omission on Twitter and calls the draft motion “nonsensical.”
Of the City Council’s 45 members, 37 vote against the proposal by Maurice Meeuwissen, chairman of the Party for Freedom.
During Madonna’s performance in Tel Aviv, despite Eurovision’s policy banning political statements, dancers at one point wore Israeli and Palestinian flags. It was construed by many as a plea for peace.
The Netherlands won the 2019 contest and therefore will host the 2020 edition, though organizers have not yet determined in which municipality.
Minister said to liken intermarriage among US Jews to a ‘second Holocaust’
Education Minister Rafi Peretz compared intermarriage among US Jews to a “second Holocaust,” Axios reports.
Peretz made the comments last week during a cabinet meeting, as ministers were briefed by former US diplomat Dennis Ross on Jewish communities in the United States and worldwide, according to the news site.
The report says Peretz said Jewish assimilation around the world, and in the US in particular, was “like a second Holocaust” and that Jews “lost 6 million people” over the last 70 years because of intermarriage.
Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz reportedly rejected Peretz’s comments.
“First we need to stop disregarding and looking down on Jews in America that see themselves as Jews not only religiously, but even more culturally and historically,” Axios quotes Steinitz saying.
Peretz, who heads the national religious Union of Right-Wing Parties, was appointed interim education minister last month.
Education Minister Rafi Peretz arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem on June 30, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
French FM says US ‘gestures of appeasement’ could ease Iran tensions
PARIS — French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian says the US can help encourage dialogue with Iran to ease growing tensions, even though it withdrew from the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran.
Speaking to the French Senate, Le Drian says that Iran’s decision to surpass two accord threshholds, for stockpiling weakly enriched uranium and enriching uranium beyond the 3.67 percent limit, amounts to “a bad reaction to a bad decision,” a reference to the US withdrawal.
France wants to create a “space for dialogue” to de-escalate a potentially dangerous situation, he says, and President Emmanuel Macron spoke both to the Iranian leader and President Donald Trump for that reason.
He says: “The Americans, even if they’re no longer signatories… can make needed gestures of appeasement to open a space of discussion to avoid an uncontrolled escalation, or even an accident.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, right, and his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian, shake hands for journalists at the start of their meeting in Tehran, Iran, on March 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Army releases footage from Gaza cross-border attack tunnel find
The army releases footage from its discovery of a cross-border attack tunnel dug from the Gaza Strip, clarifying that the subterranean passage was an old one and not recently dug.
The Israel Defense Forces also publishes photo from inside the tunnel, which it says is the 18th it has discovered since the 2014 Gaza war.
It says Israeli troops have investigated the tunnel’s route over the past day and will continue to do so.
במהלך עבודות לבניית המכשול התת-קרקעי בגבול רצועת עזה, אותר אתמול תוואי מנהור ישן. כוחות צה״ל חקרו את התוואי במהלך היממה האחרונה וימשיכו במשימה זו. מאז מבצע "צוק איתן" אותרו ונוטרלו 18 מנהרות טרור אשר נחפרו על ידי ארגוני הטרור במטרה לפגוע באזרחי ישראל ובריבונותה pic.twitter.com/yCiqdEHw94
— צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) July 9, 2019
Trump repeats warning Iran ‘better be very careful’
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump again warns Iran over its breach of a uranium enrichment cap.
“Iran is doing a lot of bad things … and they’d better be very careful,” the president tells reporters at the White House.
Trump’s warning — repeating similar remarks he made over the weekend in New Jersey — comes a day after UN inspectors confirmed Tehran had exceeded a uranium enrichment cap set by its landmark 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
Israel helped foil 50 terror attacks worldwide in past 3 years — report
Israeli intelligence helped foil over 50 terror attacks planned by Iran and the Islamic Jihadist group around the world over the past three years, Channel 12 reports.
According to the network, the Mossad and the IDF’s Military Intelligence assisted in thwarting terror attacks in 20 countries, including 12 in Turkey.
The Hamas terror group holds a major snap military exercise in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, a day after the five year anniversary of the 2014 war in the coastal enclave.
The drill reportedly included the closure of all land border crossings to Gaza and the prevention of fishermen from going out to sea.
Hebrew media quotes a spokesman for the Hamas-run interior ministry in Gaza saying the drill was meant to simulate a major security threat to Gaza and check the preparedness of Hamas forces.
The exercise comes a day after Israel announced the discovery of a cross-border attack tunnel from Gaza and two days after the IDF released the findings of an investigation into an operation in Gaza in November that went awry and left a special forces officer dead.
Poll: Likud, Blue and White would each get 30 seats, Liberman still kingmaker
The Kan public broadcaster releases a poll indicating that Israeli’s political gridlock could likely continue after general elections in September.
If elections were held today, the survey said, both the center-left and right-wing blocs would come up short of the 61 Knesset seats needed to form a coalition, with Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu party holding the balance of power.
Liberman has called for a unity government that includes Yisrael Beytenu, Likud, and Blue and White to be formed after the elections. His refusal to join a prospective coalition led by Prime Miniter Netanyahu after April’s elections unless he received a guarantee a bill on ultra-Orthodox enlistment would be passed without changes helped trigger the fresh vote.
Twitter bans ‘dehumanizing’ posts toward religious groups
SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter now prohibits hate speech that targets religious groups by using dehumanizing language, a ban it says may be extended to other categories like race and gender.
The social network already bars hateful language directed at individual religious adherents. It also bans hate speech on the basis of someone’s race, gender and other categories. Tuesday’s change broadens the hate speech rule to forbid likening entire religious groups to subhumans or vermin, without targeting a specific individual.
Twitter, along with YouTube and Facebook, has been under fire for the prevalence of harassment and hate on its service. Twitter’s latest update came after users wrote in thousands of responses when the company asked for suggestions on how to expand its hate speech policies.
The company says it may also ban similar language aimed at other groups such as those defined by gender, race and sexual orientation, but it has not done so yet, sparking criticism from civil rights groups.
Joint in holy matrimony? At many Israeli weddings weed is the new whiskey
Once the chuppah is over and the glass is broken, young newlyweds celebrate with their friends by getting high on the dance floor
Hezbollah leader says Tehran has ability to ‘bombard Israel with ferocity and force,’ claims group has bolstered its arsenal with precision missiles that can reach Eilat
Epstein philanthropy since sex plea included all-girl school
By Bernard Condon and ALI SWENSON
Mark Talisman, champion of key law in fight for Soviet Jewry, dies at 78
TrendsJoint in holy matrimony? At many Israeli weddings weed is the new whiskey
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Mayor David Briley pitches plan to buy nearly 800 acres in Bells Bend for preservation
Nashville would add significant open space to its greenways system in Bells Bend if approved
Mayor David Briley pitches plan to buy nearly 800 acres in Bells Bend for preservation Nashville would add significant open space to its greenways system in Bells Bend if approved Check out this story on Tennessean.com: https://www.tennessean.com/story/money/2019/06/24/greenspace-preservation-bells-bend-graves-farm-old-hickory-road/1549349001/
Sandy Mazza, Nashville Tennessean Published 6:00 p.m. CT June 24, 2019
Bob Strasser speaks about his family farm, Tuesday, May 15, 2018, in Nashville, Tenn. Andrew Nelles, anelles@tennessean.com
Mayor David Briley announced a plan Monday night to buy nearly 800 acres of open space in the Bells Bend area of northwest Nashville.
The $9.3 million purchase of 789 acres about 15 miles from downtown would be paid with funds set aside for new Nashville greenways. Metro Council must first approve the expense this fall.
"Preserving and adding greenspace is vital as our city continues to grow and develop," Briley said. "These nearly 800 acres of farmable land have great potential for food production, sustainability efforts and agritourism."
Mayor David Briley (Photo: Shelley Mays / The Tennessean )
The Bells Bend area still retains a number of family farms despite aggressive development in recent years across the Metro region. In many cases, farmers have transitioned from purely agricultural work to cater to tourists with tours, food tastings, cooking classes and other attractions to stay in business.
The properties off Old Hickory Road include a sod farm on 107 acres owned by Thomas Bros. Grass.
Metro Parks Board will consider support of the plan to pay $1.5 million for the sod farm at its July 2 meeting, which begins at noon at 2565 Park Plaza.
Briley hopes to spend $7.8 million on a 682-acre family farm owned by the Graves family since 1900.
"The Graves had twelve children, ten of whom are still living, and all twelve were raised on the farm," a representative for George Graves and Ann Walker Graves said, in a written statement. "It will be used for a public purpose. They feel (this) will be a great asset to the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County."
Old School Farm is located at 5022 Old Hydes Ferry Pike in the Bells Bend area. (Photo: Nancy Vienneau)
The Graves' farm purchase will be taken up in the fall by the Parks Board and Metro Council.
The rapid loss of open space in Nashville has increasingly driven protests against dense development in recent years.
A 2018 report from the University of Tennessee - Knoxville quantified the value of undeveloped land in the 10-county greater Nashville region. It found that the economic benefits of green spaces are vastly underestimated.
Open spaces increase the value of nearby homes in the area by $15.1 billion, according to "The economic value of open space in the Cumberland Region" report. They also save residents $466 million in health care costs by encouraging physical activity.
But rising land values threaten the roughly 3 million acres of farms, forests, parks, wetlands and other natural lands in the heart of Middle Tennessee – particularly those in and around cities.
Only 15% of open space in the region is protected from development, and 85% of it is privately owned, the report found.
Parks Director Monique Odom said she applauds Briley's plan because it would help relieve pressure from increasingly urbanized neighborhoods.
"With the growth the city is experiencing, the preservation and acquisition of greenspace is critical, and the benefits to our health and ecosystems are enormous," Odom said. "This acquisition is also a big step in helping us to continue our very active mission to provide all areas of the city with an inviting network of parks and greenways that offers an improved quality of life through recreation, conservation and community."
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How to lose a set in 16 minutes? Ask Nick Kyrgios
The 15th seed Nick Kyrgios was one of the dark horses at this year's Wimbledon and he played two rock solid matches to set up a third round meeting with Kei Nishikori, that the Japanese won 6-1 7-6 6-4 in an hour and 37 minutes for the place in the last 16.
The encounter has kicked off just before 19:30 local time on the Court 1 and only a few people thought they could complete the encounter before the darkness. Nishikori had other plans, though, playing one his career-best grass matches to overpower Nick in less than 100 minutes, finishing the job with the last glimpse of sunlight to enter the second week for the third time here at Wimbledon.
Kei did everything right on the court, dropping just 20 points on serve to get broken once from the only break point he gave to Nick, and on the other hand he managed to tame the rival's serve beautifully, winning 36% of the return points to create eight break chances and convert four to seal the deal in straight sets.
As we already said, Kyrgios was focused and determined in the first two rounds and he fought well in sets two and three today but it was the opening set that set the tone for the rest of the match, losing it 6-1 in just 16 minutes! Nishikori grabbed 25 out of 36 points and he was the dominant figure on the court, earning breaks in games two and six and sealing the deal with a hold at love at 5-1 for the best possible start of the match.
The Japanese held in the opening game after three service winners and he broke Nick in game two after four errors from the Aussie who had just one service winner in six points. Nothing changed in game three, Kei brought the game home at love with three winners and we finally saw something from Kyrgios when he held in game four with four winners to put his name on the scoreboard.
Nishikori lost two points on serve in game five but he did enough to move 4-1 ahead and keep the pressure on his rival, who couldn't stand it. Nick hit two double faults in game six to get broken again, firing the last serve at 134 mp/h to send it out from the service field.
Kei completed the set with four winners in game seven and he was a set in front after just 16 minutes, the main reason he managed to win the match before it had to be switched to the Centre Court or scheduled for Monday. To finish the set in 16 minutes the players have to meet certain criteria and Kei and Nick were there to play a quick, flawless tennis with short rallies and with no time wasting between the points.
Kei had 12 winners and just two errors while Nick hit nine winners but also 13 errors, spraying too many loose shots from his forehand and having been reduced to just four service winners. In addition, there were no deuces or long exchanges, with 28 points being completed in the shortest range up to four strokes and the other eight lingering between five and nine shots. The number of shots per point and the winners-errors ratio for both players:
↓ SHOW RESULTS ↓
1. Nishikori (1-0) : 15-0(2) 30-0(4) 40-0(1) 40-15(2) 40-30(3) Game(2)
2. Kyrgios (2-0) : 15-0(7) 15-15(7) 15-30(3) 15-40(3) 30-40(2) Break(3)
3. Nishikori (3-0) : 15-0(4) 30-0(2) 40-0(5) Game(2)
4. Kyrgios (3-1) : 15-0(2) 15-15(5) 30-15(3) 40-15(9) Game(1)
6. Kyrgios (5-1) : 0-15(3) 0-30(6) 15-30(2) 15-40(1) Break(1)
Kei: SW 9 / W 3 / UE / FE 1 / DF 1
Nick: SW 4 / W 5 / UE 7 / FE 4 / DF 2
ALSO READ: ATP Wimbledon: Rafael Nadal and Juan Martin del Potro race into the last 16
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Protean- rich: on the Gerhard Richter catalogue raisonné
The latest volume reveals Gerhard Richter’s variable but not always successful styles
Alexander Adams
30th August 2017 16:12 BST
(c) Gerhard Richter 2016, Foto: Achim Kukulies
The cataloguing of the art of Gerhard Richter (born 1932) has reached the years 1968-76. By this time an established international artist and leading teacher, he began to move away from the collective group activities of his early years. The period was also when Richter started painting series in different styles in fairly quick cycles. Blurred black and white photo paintings were superseded by colour variants, often with landscapes as subjects. At the same time, he was formulating abstract paintings of colour charts, painterly multicolour works and monochrome pieces. Fortunately for the reader, the paintings are listed in their different series as groups, so the sequence of images is not bewilderingly various.
Gerhard Richter: Catalogue Raisonné Volume 2shows Richter at his most Romantic and most austerely modern. Colour paintings of clouds, seascapes and landscapes are mostly derived from his own photographs. They are contemporary Romantic landscapes: plangent, attractive, absent of figures. Sometimes single compositions are combinations of different photographs. The landscapes are flat and resist any Romantic immersion of the viewer in an environment. They are not picture-postcard pretty, but landscapes as seen from car or train window or viewed from a hotel balcony. The paintings have the disappointment of holiday photographs that fail to capture majestic panoramas and instead produce something lacking energy, depth and intensity. In that sense, these are landscapes of the snapshot generation. This is not a failure on Richter’s part but a deliberate choice and an intelligent one.
Richter engaged with the Old Masters by painting versions of Titian’s Annunciation, obscuring the Virgin and angel under a queasy flurry of brushmarks. In later years, he approached Old Masters indirectly by lifting poses and echoing compositions. Another sequence of paintings treats the death of a tourist, mauled by lions. Among the missteps in this period are a number of photo paintings based on double-exposed negatives. These montage images are rarely exhibited. The puzzle is that an artist as astute as Richter thought they could work.
The famous 48 Portraits (1971-72) was Richter’s installation for the German pavilion at the 1972 Venice Biennale. It is a grid of 48 same-size paintings of black and white photo portraits of notable men. As an installation it was effective and memorable; individually, the paintings are uninvolving and visually unpleasant. Richter was aiming for an affectless and seemingly neutral array. Seen alone, the portraits are cursory and—strategic blurring aside—lack clarity. Perhaps Richter needed to take a detached approach to the paintings so as not to jeopardise the overall visual unity, but identical weaknesses are found in his stand-alone portraits.
Photorealism limits practitioners in the variety and emphasis they can use to adjust paintings in aesthetic and naturalistic terms. It is a conceptual approach that is about the relationship between painter and photograph, not painter and depicted subject. Richter’s early portraits fail because close adherence to photographic sources produces bad portraits. 48 Portraits succeeds as a conceptual piece even if it fails as a painting.
So various is Richter’s abstract work (which forms a majority in his output) that it is hard to quantify. Richter’s in-paintings (paint applied to canvas and mixed there until the surface is covered) and grey monochromes (with stippling and visible brushmarks) are process art. Process art is an approach which depends on viewers’ knowledge of the production process, which is as important as the visual content of the work that is—to some degree—arrested at an arbitrary stage.
Richter created large in-paintingswhich were made on multiple canvasesthat were hung together. After being exhibited, the separate canvases were dispersed to various collections. This was an obvious development from Richter’s habit of working in series, especially on sequences of abstract paintings.
The gestural evocations of foliage seem to come from action painting and Art Informel. Giant colour-saturated paintings of lush impasto details depicted in a smoothly photorealist manner are sensual and drily self-referential. The large colour charts with their squares or oblongs of discrete colours arranged in grids are related to hard-edge painting of the era. The colour-chart paintings are randomly selected pixels of colour that subvert the expectations of order and design that we search for in art, yet they are attractive.
One of the least known groups of paintings is of simple geometric forms on canvas surfaces, which cast illusionistic renderings of shadows. They are conceptually elegant and visually satisfying. It is a shame that Richter did not pursue them for more than a few months. One of the drawbacks of Richter’s facility and stylistic variety is that he sometimes abandons an approach before he has thoroughly realised its full potential.
Viewing the grey paintings, one has the impression of a painter working through an idea to the point of ne plus ultra. Where some artists become locked into styles or methods, Richter has had the independence of spirit to be able to move sideways to new ideas. Due to the many underlying linking themes and approaches, Richter’s moves never seem like shallow opportunism or capriciousness. A network of intellectual sinews keeps Richter’s body of work connected.
As with the previous volumes in the catalogue raisonné, this one has introductory essays in English and German but English-only catalogue entries. It contains no discrete bibliography, only bibliographies and exhibition lists as part of entries. It includes sculpture and a handful of drawings alongside paintings, although there are no prints and only one multiple is listed. Illustrations are generous and clear. There are some comparative illustrations, showing works in the studio or exhibition. As usual in the Hatje Cantz series, the volume is impeccably designed, printed and bound.
• Alexander Adams is a British artist and writer. His latest book, London, Winter, is published by Aloes Books
Gerhard Richter: Catalogue Raisonné Volume 2, 1968-76, Nos. 198-388
Dietmar Elger, ed
Hatje Cantz, 656pp, €248 (hb, cased)
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NPR Exec Who Fired Juan Williams Resigns
Resignation comes after NPR completes investigation into the incident, yet NPR insists these are "two separate, distinct pieces of news"
Elspeth Reeve
This article is from the archive of our partner .
The woman who fired Juan Williams from NPR has resigned. Ellen Weiss, now-ex-senior vice president of news, gave Williams the axe via phone after he appeared on Fox News and said he was nervous whenever he saw people dressed in "Muslim garb" on an airplane. NPR just concluded an investigation of the incident, and though it found the firing was legal, Weiss is out and CEO Vivian Schiller will get no bonus for 2010, Mediaite's Mark Joyella reports.
NPR employer faced a great deal of criticism for the firing--especially from conservatives who said it was trying to stifle some opinions with liberal political correctness--including calls to cut its federal funding. Weiss had worked for NPR for 28 years. Williams landed on his feet, receiving a three-year contract with Fox News. Did Weiss deserve to be let go?
A New Ethics Code Is Needed, NPR's board of directors found, according to Fishbowl DC's Matt Dornic. It also needs new policies for journalists appearing in other media outlets, and to "encourage a broad range of viewpoints."
NPR Was Nicer to Weiss Than It Was to Me, Williams said on Fox News, according to NPR's Mark Memmott.
[Williams] accused the organization of trying to 'demean me and make me appear like a lunatic' when he was dismissed, said that NPR--in its statement about Weiss--treated her far better than he was treated, and said that 'the real story is that you can't go around treating people like trash.' Williams compared Schiller's statement about Weiss to propaganda issues by Pravda."
Collateral Damage, The Daily Beast notes. "It looks like Juan Williams took NPR’s senior vice president of news, Ellen Weiss, down with him."
Watch NPR Spin NPR's spokesman told Foster that the investigation and Weiss' resignation were "two distinct pieces of news." Oh really? "I suppose that is ontologically true," National Review's Daniel Foster says. "But are we really meant to believe that the Weiss resignation isn’t related to the conclusion of the review? Weiss fired Williams, and in a release detailing the conclusions of an internal review into that event, in the course of describing disciplinary actions taken in light of it, Weiss’s resignation after nearly 30 years of employment is matter-of-factly announced."
Weird Timing, Gawker's Hamilton Nolan says.
The fact that she fired him over the phone was a mistake. But it seems like a mistake rather minor to end a career over. If NPR itself really felt that she handled it that poorly, it should have asked her to resign when the incident happened, not months later. And if it wanted to wait for the results of the independent review, then one would have assumed that that review would give some reason as to why she should resign. Maybe she just got sick of all the hate mail?
UPDATE: Weiss Had a Pretty Great Reputation, The Atlantic's James Fallows writes. "She has been at NPR since the early 1980s and has held most of the significant news-planning jobs there... It is common knowledge within NPR that when the network was deciding who should fill the senior news job four years ago, some 90% of news staff members, more than 100 people in all, signed a petition recommending that Weiss be chosen -- as she was. ... Is letting her go, for one episode (with Williams), any worse than letting Williams go for one comment on Fox News...? Structurally they might seem the same. But NPR's day-after explanation about Williams was that this was the culmination of years-long disagreements with him about his role as a Fox commentator. I know nothing first-hand about the merits of that explanation; but its essence is different from Weiss's situation, in which one instance of misjudgment appears to trump her reputation and achievement over the decades."
This article is from the archive of our partner The Wire.
Elspeth Reeve is the former politics editor for The Wire.
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The Book Catapult is proud to be the mobile booksellers for the next edition of the literary reading series Last Exit. Join us at You Belong Here (3619 El Cajon Blvd) on Saturday, July 27 at 8:00pm. Reading from their work on that star-studded evening will be Kristen Arnett (Mostly Dead Things), Sarah Rose Etter (The Book of X), Lilliam Rivera (Dealing In Dreams and The Education of Margot Sanchez), Tommy Pico (Junk, Nature Poem, and the forthcoming Feed), and Mike Sakasegawa (host of the “Keep the Channel Open” podcast.)
Last Exit is a new project in San Diego dedicated to showcasing local and visiting writers, providing low-cost workshops and readings to San Diego, and building community through editorial apprenticeships. “San Diego is often overlooked by touring authors promoting their books, “ says founder Julia Dixon Evans, “and I wanted to create a space where local writers could read with these touring authors and bring great literature into the hearts of San Diegans.”
Editor & founder Julia Dixon Evans is the author of the novel How to Set Yourself on Fire (Dzanc Books, 2018). She is Senior Columns Editor for The Coil andNonfiction Editor for Noble / Gas Qrtrly, and writes the weekly Culture Report for Voice of San Diego. More at juliadixonevans.com. Co-editor & Senior Fiction Editor Ryan Bradford is the founding editor of Black Candies, a journal of literary horror and dark fiction. His work can be found in Paper Darts, Hobart, [PANK], Quarterly West and elsewhere, and he is a columnist for San Diego CityBeat.
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The 3 Most Beautiful Scenic Train Routes in Austria
Europe Austria
By James Martin
Walter Geiersperger/Getty Images
The Most Beautiful Journeys Through the Austrian Alps
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Austria is an interesting mountainous country wedged between the Western European countries of Switzerland, Germany, and Italy. It also borders on the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Slovenia.
Mountainous territories offer lots of technical challenge to railroad designers, as well as a high degree of danger to those who work on rail routes. Of course, it is this difficult landscape which produces the most awe-inspiring views from the window of a train car (see the Austria Relief Map below).
The three scenic rail routes described in here were first built in the mid-1800s, a pioneering phase of railroad construction, and represent some of the greatest feats of civil engineering of their time.
Two of the scenic routes, the Semmering and the narrow gauge Mariazellerbahn are in eastern Austria near Vienna, the third, Arlberg, is found in western Austria near Innsbruck. The routes offer fine opportunities for hiking in the summer and skiing in the Winter.
Most Austrian trains are run by the state-operated Österreichische Bundesbahnen (Austrian Federal Railroad or ÖBB). There are nineteen small privately owned railroads operating primarily narrow-gauge lines.
You can buy point-to-point rail tickets and see schedules on Rail Europe. You will also find seasonal specials on rail travel there.
A number of Austria rail passes are available. For the traveler interested in scenic rail journeys, the combined Eurail Austria-Switzerland Pass is probably the most interesting, because Switzerland contains some great scenic railways, including the Bernina Express, the Centovalli Railway, the Glacier Express, and the Wilhelm Tell Express.
Austria is also included in the European East Pass, which includes the Czech Republic and Hungary, as well as the Eurail Germany/Austria Pass.
The Semmering Railroad
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The Semmering Railroad, running between Gloggnitz and the winter resort town of Semmering, passes through some extraordinary Austrian mountain scenery. Built between 1848 and 1854, the Semmering is considered to be one of the greatest feats of civil engineering from this pioneering phase of railway building and was acknowledged by UNESCO World Heritage Center in 1998.
The Semmering railway line is part of the Südbahn railway that runs between Vienna and Graz, continuing on to Maribor, Ljubljana and eventually to Trieste.
Built by the Carl Ritter von Ghega between 1848 and 1854, the scenic Semmering route was quite daring for the time; it had a maximum gradient five times that of previous railways.
What You'll See Along the Semmering Scenic Route
16 viaducts supported by several arches
15 tunnels
The main tunnel, 1,430 meters long, at the time, considered the most famous construction of its kind.
The Semmering railway was listed as a World Cultural Heritage by the UNESCO in 1998.
Rail World Photography offers a fine Photo Tour of the Semmering Scenic Route.
Semmering has long been a mountain health resort, known for its clean air. Winter sports and Summer hiking are the top draws for the town.
The Semmering Railway site: Die Semmeringbahn.
Arlberg Scenic Train Ride
Josef Saurwein/Wikimedia Commons/CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE
After the Semmering route was finished, engineers considered a route through the Arlberg range as part of an England to Egypt route. Construction was started in 1880 and the route finished in 1884--if you had the money, you could now take the Arlberg Orient Express from London to all the way to Bucharest.
The scenic train ride seen on the map above takes you between Innsbruck and the Lake Constance area of Switzerland.
What to Do Along the Arlberg Scenic Train Route
Arlberg is the birthplace of modern Alpine Skiing, so winter sports will top the list. But scenic routes mean the train ride is your primary entertainment.
Skiing at St. Anton (St. Anton offers Austria's largest ski school and perhaps the best skiing for intermediates in the region.
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The Mariazell Railway:Narrow Guage Scenic Route in Eastern Austria
Herbert Ortner, Vienna, Austria/Wikimedia Commons/CC-BY-SA-3.0-migrated
The Mariazell Railway is a narrow gauge track rail route running between the towns of St. Poelten and Mariazell. See this spectacular virtual tour, the Mariazell Railway.
A detailed route description of the Mariazellerbahn Scenic Route, including a detailed route map, is found on Wikipedia.
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Five Works of Hard Science Fiction That Bypass the Gatekeepers
James Davis Nicoll
Mon Dec 17, 2018 10:00am 38 comments 8 Favorites [+]
Hard science fiction: is it actually a coherent subgenre or is it just an arbitrary body of work defined nebulously enough to facilitate gate keeping? On the one hand, I claim to be a fan of the stuff so it sure would be handy if it actually existed. On the other, a lot of works marketed as hard SF have features like psionics, faster than light travel, and an Earth spinning in the wrong direction that seem pretty hard to reconcile with actual science.
Still, I think there’s a gap between hard SF defined so narrowly only Hal Clement could be said to have written it (if we ignore his FTL drives) and hard SF defined so broadly anything qualifies provided the author belongs to the right social circles … that this gap is large enough that examples do exist. Here are five examples of SF works that are, to borrow Marissa Lingen’s definition:
playing with science.
and doing so with a verisimilitude that’s not just plot-enabling handwaving.
Mary Robinette Kowal’s alternate history space colonization epic Lady Astronaut of Mars series (The Calculating Stars, The Fated Sky, The Relentless Moon, and The Derivative Base) is pretty uncontroversially hard SF. The event that kicks the overarching crisis into action, a meteor impact that threatens the terrestrial ecosystem, is straight out of paleontology . The gratuitous racism and sexism against which the protagonist contends is straightforward human sociology (and history). The means used to reach Mars is literal rocket science. The series couldn’t be harder SF if Kowal had a slide rule and a lifetime membership in the British Interplanetary Society.
Before Kowal sent her characters to Mars, there was Maureen F. McHugh’s ambitious China Mountain Zhang, Her 22nd century world is one dominated by China, one where the future is, to borrow a phrase, unevenly distributed. For most people, freedom is possible only if one can avoid official notice. McHugh’s setting is more technologically advanced than ours. For its characters, it is simply their mundane world. Just as our world might seem marvellous to someone from the early 1900s but unremarkable to us.
Lee Killough’s A Voice Out of Ramah may feature some improbable props like interstellar teleportation gates, but the plot itself is driven by biology. Specifically, it’s driven by the question of how it could be that a population exposed to a disease that kills most but not all of the men has failed to select for a population entirely immune to the disease. To the protagonist’s increasing horror, the explanation is quite simple: of course the disease has selected for immunity, but since the people running the society believe limiting men to a small ruling elite is socially beneficial, the powers that be randomly poison most of the boys at puberty. This is revealed near the beginning of the book: the plot centres on the outcome of this revelation.
In Linda Nagata’s The Red series (First Light, The Trials and Going Dark), computer technology transforms warfare. Not only are individual soldiers enhanced, and not only are drones and autonomous weapons important features of the battlefield, but increasingly powerful, insidious algorithms play a growing role in how the new military forces are used. The AI, the Red, is arguably as intelligent as humans although the alien nature of its thought processes makes that difficult to determine. It’s definitely adept at using humans to accomplish its goals, despite the attempts of the puny humans efforts to retain autonomy.
Of course, the best example of hard science fiction to date is Rosemary Kirstein’s Steerswoman series (The Steerswoman, The Outskirters’ Secret, The Lost Steerman, and The Language of Power). What at first appears to be a straightforward fantasy setting, in which wise-woman Rowan finds herself pitted against a community of (generally quite disagreeable) wizards, is soon revealed to be nothing of the sort. In fact, Rowan’s world is far more alien and interesting than most secondary-world fantasies. Rather than a Tolkienian struggle between good and evil as such, the heart of the series is science itself, the process of unravelling the true nature of the world despite all the barriers placed in our way. Those barriers might include the disconnect between human intuition and reality, or an intransigent ruling classes determined to monopolize knowledge. The series is a remarkable one, whose only flaw is the deliberate pace at which new volumes come out: four volumes since 1989.
In the words of Wikipedia editor TexasAndroid, prolific book reviewer and perennial Darwin Award nominee James Davis Nicoll is of “questionable notability.” His work has appeared in Publishers Weekly and Romantic Times as well as on his own websites, James Nicoll Reviews and Young People Read Old SFF (where he is assisted by editor Karen Lofstrom and web person Adrienne L. Travis). He is surprisingly flammable.
Hard Science Fictionhard sfLee KilloughLinda NagataMary Robinette KowalMaureen F. McHughMaureen McHughRosemary KirsteinScience Fiction
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Beach Channel Drive Greenway
Bedminster Hike and Bikeway
State: NJ
Berkshire Valley Management Area Trail
Ballast, Cinder
Bethpage Bikeway
Black River County Park Trail
Black River Wildlife Management Area Trail
Boulevard Trolley Line Path
Briarcliff-Peekskill Trailway
Bronx River Greenway
Calhoun Street Bridge
State: NJ, PA
Capoolong Creek Wildlife Management Area
Cinder, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
Columbia Trail
Cross Island Parkway Trail
D & H Canal & Gravity Railroad Heritage Corridor - Port Jervis Branch Trail
Cinder, Gravel
D & H Canal Park
D & H Canal Trail - Bashakill Wildlife Management Area
Ballast, Cinder, Dirt, Grass
D&L Trail
Asphalt, Ballast, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Gravel
Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park Trail
Asphalt, Crushed Stone, Dirt
East River Greenway
Eastern Parkway Trail
Edgar Felix Memorial Bikeway
Ellen Farrant Memorial Bikeway
Flatbush Avenue Greenway
Forks Township Recreation Trail
Fort Washington Park Greenway
Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk
Freedom Trail Bikeway
Great Valley Trail
Dirt, Grass
Green Brook Multi-Use Trail
Hamburg Mountain Wildlife Management Area
Ballast, Cinder, Dirt
Henry Hudson Trail
Asphalt, Gravel, Sand
Heritage Trail (NY)
Hook Mountain/Nyack Beach Bikeway
Hudson River Greenway
Hutchinson River Greenway
Jack Harrington White Plains Greenway
Woodchips
John Kieran Nature Trail
Dirt, Gravel, Woodchips
Johnson Trolley Line Trail
Asphalt, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
Jones Beach Boardwalk
Jones Point Path
Ballast, Dirt
Joseph B. Clarke Rail Trail
Joseph M. McDade Recreational Trail
Karamac Trail
Cinder, Dirt
Karl Stirner Arts Trail
Kennedy Trail
Kingston Branch Loop Trail
Crushed Stone, Dirt, Gravel
Lake Iliff Trail
Ballast, Cinder, Crushed Stone
Landsdown Trail
Concrete, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Gravel
Lawrence Hopewell Trail
Loantaka Brook Reservation Trail
Manasquan Reservoir Trail
Cinder, Crushed Stone, Dirt
Middlesex Greenway
Morris Canal Greenway
Mosholu-Pelham Greenway
New Springville Greenway
North County Trailway
Ocean Parkway Coastal Greenway
Ocean Parkway Trail
Ogden Mine Railroad Path
Ballast, Cinder, Crushed Stone, Dirt
Old Croton Aqueduct Trail
Crushed Stone, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
Old Erie Path
Old Mine Railroad Trail
Old Putnam Trail
Cinder, Dirt, Grass
Oxford Bikeway
Palmer Township Recreation Trail (Towpath Bike Trail)
Patriots' Path (NJ)
Asphalt, Ballast, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
Paulinskill Valley Trail
Pequest Wildlife Management Area Trail
Ballast, Cinder, Dirt, Gravel
Perth Amboy Harbor Walk
Plainfield Township Recreation Trail
Asphalt, Ballast, Grass, Gravel
Putnam Trailway
Ramsey Bike Path
Randall's Island Park Trails
Randolph Trails
Raymond G. Esposito Memorial Trail
Roosevelt Island Greenway
Saddle River County Park Bike Path
Samuel G. Fisher Mount Ivy Environmental Park
Ballast, Cinder, Dirt, Grass, Woodchips
Sandy Hook Multi-Use Pathway
Shore Parkway Greenway Trail
South County Trailway
Staten Island Greenbelt Multi-Purpose Trail
Stockertown Rail Trail
Sussex Branch Trail
Tallman Mountain State Park Bike Path
Asphalt, Cinder, Dirt
Tatamy Trail
Taylor SteelWorkers Historical Greenway
Timp-Torne Trail
Traction Line Recreation Trail
Trolley Line Trail (NJ)
Union Transportation Trail
Vanderbilt Motor Parkway
West Essex Trail
West Hudson Park Path
Wharton Rail-Trail (part of Patriots' Path)
Wood Duck Nature Trail (Wallkill River NWR)
Ballast, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Grass
Although just a mile long, the Beach Channel Drive Greenway in Queens offers expansive views of Jamaica Bay and the beautiful Marine Parkway Bridge as it traces the border of Jacob Riis Park. On the...
NY 1 mi Asphalt
The 2.8-mile eastern phase of the Bedminster Hike and Bikeway allows pedestrians and cyclists to safely traverse part of Bedminster Township by crossing over I-287 and US 206/202 via a series of three...
NJ 2.6 mi Asphalt
The Berkshire Valley Management Area Trail passes through hardwood forests and affords views of the valley below to the right. Equestrians must have a NJ Wildlife Permit, which is available from NJ...
NJ 2.1 mi Ballast, Cinder
The nicely paved Bethpage Bikeway runs alongside suburban roads for long segments of the route, but it’s much more than a suburban trail. Each on-road suburban stretch is broken up by one of three...
NY 13.4 mi Asphalt
In the mid 1800s Chester, New Jersey, was the home of the iron ore industry; railroads shipped the ore all over the county. With the end of the industry, however, the rail lines were abandoned, turned...
NJ 2.3 mi Dirt
This trail goes through the Black River Wildlife Management area along streambeds and forest. Equestrians must have a NJ Wildlife Permit, which is available from NJ DEP for a fee. The trail follows...
NJ 4 mi Ballast
This 2.1-mile long paved path runs directly adjacent to (about 30-40 feet off of) the Boulevard in Mountain Lakes, NJ, and follows the exact route of a former trolley line operated by the Morris...
NJ 2.5 mi Asphalt, Concrete
The Briarcliff-Peekskill Trailway is a 12-mile linear park that runs from the town of Ossining north to Westchester County's Blue Mountain Reservation in Peekskill. The trail is built on land...
NY 12 mi Asphalt, Dirt, Grass
The Bronx River travels from the mouth of the East River north to the Kensico Dam, providing views of the natural history of the area. Because the trail is under development, there are several gaps...
NY 23.3 mi Asphalt, Concrete
The Calhoun Street Bridge spans 1,274 feet across the Delaware River, connecting Trenton, New Jersey, on its east bank with Morrisville, Pennsylvania, on its west bank. Built in 1884, the intricate...
NJ, PA 0.3 mi Concrete
This pleasant, flat rail-trail parallels Capoolong Creek through the Capoolong Creek Wildlife Management Area for nearly 4 miles. The surface is varied, so the trail is best suited for hiking or...
NJ 3.7 mi Cinder, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
The Columbia Trail has the distinction of being named for a natural gas pipeline that runs beneath it for 15 miles in rural northern New Jersey. The crushed-stone trail rolls along the South Branch of...
NJ 15 mi Crushed Stone
The Cross Island Parkway Trail closely follows its namesake thoroughfare through northeastern Queens. From its northern end, you will soon enter Little Bay Park, which offers lovely views of the...
NY 3.1 mi Asphalt
The City of Port Jervis is the latest community to save a portion of the former D&H Canal and turn it into a greenway for use by residents and visitors. A section of the canal, which is approximately...
NY 1 mi Cinder, Gravel
The D & H Canal towpath is nestled within the 300-acre D & H Canal Park in the New York hamlet of Cuddebackville. The crushed-stone trail, stretching just over a half mile, is one section of a larger...
NY 0.6 mi Crushed Stone
The Bashakill Wildlife Management Area is located on the Orange County-Sullivan County border just south of Wurtsboro, New York. It consists of over 3,000 acres of wetlands and uplands which were...
NY 5.7 mi Ballast, Cinder, Dirt, Grass
Note: This developing route is not yet fully contiguous; please refer to the interactive maps on the websites in the Related Content section. The D&L Trail runs for more than 140 miles through...
PA 142.2 mi Asphalt, Ballast, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Gravel
Spanning more than 70 miles, the Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park Trail is the longest completed multiuse trail in the state and is described by many as the crown jewel of New Jersey trails. A...
NJ 72.8 mi Asphalt, Crushed Stone, Dirt
New York City's East River Greenway offers views of the East River, Queens, Brooklyn, and the iconic bridges that connect these boroughs to Manhattan. The paved pathway traces the waterfront on one...
The Eastern Parkway Trail is a 2-mile route along a tree-lined boulevard in Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood. The path begins at Prospect Park, which houses some of Brooklyn's most popular...
NY 2 mi Asphalt, Concrete
Prepare to be whisked into the past when you take the Edgar Felix Memorial Bikeway. The paved trail follows a short-line railroad corridor from the coastal city of Manasquan to a village at Allaire...
When Jones Beach State Park opened on Long Island’s South Shore in the late 1920s, a series of scenic parkways was built on infill dredged from nearby towns to connect New Yorkers to the new public...
Brooklyn's Flatbush Avenue Greenway parallels its namesake roadway for just over a mile from Marine Parkway Bridge to a connection with the Shore Parkway Greenway Trail. The two trails are part of the...
The Forks Township Recreation Trail follows the an old right-of-way of the former Lehigh & New England Railroad. Starting at the trail's midpoint behind the Riverview Country Club in Easton, you'll...
PA 2 mi Asphalt, Dirt
The Fort Washington Park Greenway brings residents and visitors to Washington Heights right up to the edge of the Hudson. The mile-long trail begins near the pier at the end of Dyckman Street and...
The Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk follows Staten Island's eastern shore from Miller Field -- a recreational area for sports, picnicking and bird watching -- to Fort Wadsworth. Highlights of the...
NY 2.7 mi Boardwalk
Freedom Trail Bikeway will eventually be a 10-mile route linking parks and open spaces throughout South Brunswick Township in northern New Jersey. The trail follows a former rail line through...
NJ 2.6 mi Asphalt, Dirt
The Great Valley Trail, built on the former Lehigh & New England Railroad, offers an unpaved, natural experience through quiet woodlands between the townships of Hampton and Frankford. Although...
NJ 3.5 mi Dirt, Grass
When complete the Green Brook Multi-Use Trail will meander for 7 miles through the communities of Plainfield and North Plainfield, New Jersey. The trail will connect major regional trails and parks as...
NJ 0.25 mi Asphalt
This trail is in an area rich in geological history. Zinc and Iron Ores were transported along this branch from mines in the area that operated for over 200 years. The trail is scenic with a slight...
NJ 3 mi Ballast, Cinder, Dirt
The tree-lined 22.5-mile Henry Hudson Trail is the definition of scenic variety. Traversing both urban and natural environments, the route passes wetlands, streams, fields, and the Garden State...
NJ 22.5 mi Asphalt, Gravel, Sand
Built on the former Erie Railroad main line, the 15-mile Heritage Trail runs through the small Orange County towns of Goshen, Chester, Monroe, and Harriman. The shaded trail runs through different...
NY 15.1 mi Asphalt, Crushed Stone, Dirt
The High Line trail runs 30 feet above the bustling Manhattan streets and sidewalks below, which for trail lovers makes it an attraction in the same league as the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State...
NY 1.5 mi Concrete
While not a "rail-trail," the Hook Mountain/Nyack Beach Bikeway is a very scenic trail along the Hudson River in Rockland County. The southern half of this trail is flat and runs right along the...
NY 4.9 mi Asphalt, Ballast, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Gravel
The Hudson River Greenway (HRG) is one of the most popular places to ride, walk, and jog in New York City. It makes up part of the Manhattan Waterfront Greenway loop, the cross-state Empire State...
The Hudson River Waterfront Walkway is a 1.5 mile walkway along the bank of the Hudson River in Jersey City. The walkway offers stunning views of Manhattan as well as access to a number of ferries and...
NJ 1.5 mi Concrete
The Hutchinson River Greenway offers a convenient alternative to the Hutchinson River Parkway, which it closely follows. Although adjacent to the busy thoroughfare, trees have been planted along the...
NY 2.2 mi Asphalt, Concrete
The Jack Harrington White Plains Greenway was recently renamed to honor a long-time member of the city's conservation board. The trail's corridor follows the former New York, Westchester & Boston...
NY 1.2 mi Woodchips
The John Kieran Nature Trail is a short loop that borders Van Cortlandt Lake and its associated wetlands. It is a wonderful site for bird-watching. The trail also passes several sites of significance...
NY 1 mi Dirt, Gravel, Woodchips
The Johnson Trolley Line has two sections, north and south, which are split by Interstate 95; there is talk of building an overpass to link the two segments. The Trenton-Princeton Traction Company ran...
NJ 1.9 mi Asphalt, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
The Jones Beach Boardwalk traverses Jones Beach State Park, running parallel (and south of) Ocean Parkway. The pleasant pathway offers views of the beach and the ocean. Although bicycles are...
NY 4 mi Boardwalk
The Jones Point Path occupies an abandoned motor vehicle route (old US Route 9W). The path provides bicyclists with a relatively safe bypass to a dangerous section of busy US Route 9W near Bear...
NY 2 mi Ballast, Dirt
You might expect a 4-mile rail-trail that passes through three downtowns to be excessively urban, but the quaint town centers on the Joseph B. Clarke Rail Trail are compact and surrounded by...
The Joseph M. McDade Recreational Trail runs nearly the length of the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River across from New Jersey. The protected...
PA 31.3 mi Crushed Stone
The Karamac Trail is a short walking trail that starts under the Interstate 80 bridge on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River. The trail follows an old railroad right-of-way; there is a railroad...
NJ 1.5 mi Cinder, Dirt
The trail winds along the Bushkill Creek connects the old Simon Silk Mill on 13th Street to Third Street at the base of the stone stairs leading up to Lafayette College. The trail is paved and though...
PA 2.4 mi Asphalt
The Kennedy Trail begins at the northwest corner of the 68-acre campus of John F. Kennedy Catholic High School in Somers. The town, which sits 30 miles from White Plains and 55 miles from New York...
NY 1.7 mi Cinder
The Kingston Branch Loop Trail is a trip up one side and down the other of the scenic tree-lined Delaware and Raritan Canal. The eastern half of the loop follows the bed of the Rocky Hill Railroad and...
NJ 1.75 mi Crushed Stone, Dirt, Gravel
This is the first phase of the proposed Lehigh & Hudson River Rail Trail. The second phase will connect Hillside Park to Kittatinny Valley State Park. It is hoped that there will be an eventual...
NJ 1.1 mi Ballast, Cinder, Crushed Stone
The Landsdown Trail runs 1.8 miles between Lower Landsdown Road and W. Main in Clinton. The trail passes among open fields, woodlands and wetlands and provides access to the South Branch of the...
NJ 1.8 mi Concrete, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Gravel
The Lawrence Hopewell Trail (LHT) offers more than 19 miles of pathway on a developing loop through public and private land in Lawrence and Hopewell Townships, about 5 miles north of Trenton. The...
NJ 19.2 mi Asphalt, Crushed Stone
The system of trails in Loantaka Brook Reservation are open to hikers, cyclists and equestrians, although the trails are marked as to which uses are permitted on each segment. Loantaka Brook...
NJ 7 mi Asphalt, Dirt, Grass
The Manasquan Reservoir Trail is located in the Howell Township and provides a great natural destination in the heart of the town. The trail forms a perimeter loop around the 770 acre reservoir...
NJ 4.8 mi Cinder, Crushed Stone, Dirt
It’s hard to believe that a noisy locomotive once ran through here, given that stillness is a defining characteristic of the Middlesex Greenway. Even when people pour onto the trail from the adjacent...
In the early 1830s the Morris Canal opened across northern New Jersey, from Phillipsburg on the Delaware River to Newark, and later to Jersey City on the Hudson River. It provided a thoroughfare for...
The Mosholu-Pelham Greenway connects several parks and recreational opportunities in New York City's north and central Bronx neighborhoods. A portion of the trail is also part of the growing East...
The New Springville Greenway stretches just over 3 miles, primarily paralleling Richmond Avenue on New York's Staten Island. A highlight of the paved pathway is its proximity to Freshkills Park, a...
The former “Old Put” commuter rail corridor that ran from the Bronx to northern bedroom communities in Westchester and Putnam Counties is popular once again, only this time it’s for people riding...
Like Wantagh State Parkway, Ocean Parkway was built in the postwar 1930s to provide access to the crown jewel of the state park system, Jones Beach State Park. Unlike the former road, however, this...
The Ocean Parkway Trail closely follows its eponymous thoroughfare nearly 5 miles through several Brooklyn neighborhoods, ending only a block from the popular Coney Island boardwalk. Those traveling...
This trail is located in the Mahlon Dickerson Reservation which is a unit of the Morris County Park Commission. The trail follows an abandoned railroad bed through hardwood forests, past ponds, swamps...
NJ 2.7 mi Ballast, Cinder, Crushed Stone, Dirt
At first glance, there’s no evidence that an aqueduct ever existed along the Old Croton Aqueduct Trail. The trail is often a singletrack dirt pathway that winds through communities and trees and...
NY 26.5 mi Crushed Stone, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
The Old Erie Path reveals spectacular views of the Hudson River Valley as the rail-trail rolls along cliffs that border the river’s western shore. Although fairly short, it joins two other...
NY 3 mi Dirt, Gravel
Fahnestock State Park is a relatively undiscovered gems in the New York State Park System. Located a few miles east of Cold Spring Village on Rt. 301 (Main Street), the park jurisdiction was recently...
NY 2.2 mi Dirt
Splayed over 1,146 acres in northwest Bronx, Van Cortlandt Park has a lot going on. The park is New York City's fourth largest and is home to the oldest municipal golf course in America. There are...
NY 1.25 mi Cinder, Dirt, Grass
The Oxford Bikeway is a .9 mile long pave trail constructed on an abandoned railroad right-of-way. The trail can be accessed at three points. To the north the trail ends at Pequest Road, however there...
The Palmer Township Recreation Trail (a.k.a. the Towpath Bike Trail) is a terrific community asset for Palmer and Bethlehem township residents and a great destination for visitors as well. Three modes...
The Patriots' Path covers roughly 35 miles of terrain and is open to mountain biking, horseback riding, cross-country skiing and hiking. The multi-use trails links parks, open space, recreational...
NJ 35 mi Asphalt, Ballast, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Grass, Gravel
The Paulinskill Valley Trail follows a creek by the same name through a section of rural New Jersey with a strong German influence. In fact, the word kill is Dutch for “riverbed or stream channel.”...
NJ 27.1 mi Ballast, Cinder, Dirt, Grass
This trail is much better suited to walking than to biking. It provides excellent access to the Pequest River which is stocked with trout. Not all of the bridges across the river have been decked and...
NJ 4.2 mi Ballast, Cinder, Dirt, Gravel
The Perth Amboy Harbor Walk offers scenic views of the Raritan Bay and Raritan River as it hugs the shoreline of the City of Perth Amboy, founded in 1683 and home to one of the nation's oldest ports....
You’ve heard of the Steel Belt and the Sun Belt. The 6.7-mile Plainfield Township Recreation Trail passes through an area known as the Slate Belt. The quantity and quality of local slate made this...
PA 6.7 mi Asphalt, Ballast, Grass, Gravel
The old New York Central rail line that ran from the Bronx to northern bedroom communities in Westchester and Putnam Counties carried commuters during the workweek, but on the weekends tourists...
The Quarry Trail is currently a 600-foot long unimproved strip of land along what is known as Quarry Road in the Village of Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. The trail links Old Croton Aqueduct State Historic...
NY 0.1 mi Dirt, Grass
The Ramsey Bike Path is a recreational path built on the former Paterson to Suffern trolley line right-of-way. The path extends along a north-south route from one end of Ramsey to the other....
NJ 1 mi Asphalt
Randall's Island Park Trails offer a series of interconnected paved loops on an island in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The park offers a quiet setting, especially enjoyed by runners, with...
NY 8.75 mi Asphalt
The Randolph Trail system covers 16 miles of pathways through five parks, the Clyde Potts Reservoir watershed and 2,000 acres of pristine open space. The trails link schools and neighborhoods and also...
NJ 16 mi Asphalt, Concrete
The Raymond G. Esposito Memorial Trail travels from one end of the village of South Nyack to the other in 1 mile but greatly expands its reach by connecting with the Old Erie Path and a new shared-use...
NY 1 mi Crushed Stone
Roosevelt Island Greenway, a little-known gem in the Big Apple, was named after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1973. To reach this scenic pathway, board New York City’s only aerial tram,...
The Saddle River County Park Bike Path is a beautiful suburban trail that winds alongside the Saddle River. Most of the trail runs through moderately dense suburban development, with residential and...
A former right-of-way of the NY & NJ Railroad. Near historical Mount Ivy which was the center of a Quaker settlement in the 18th century. Hiking along railroad bed and wildlife observation and...
NY 2 mi Ballast, Cinder, Dirt, Grass, Woodchips
The Sandy Hook Multi-Use Pathway travels 8.7 miles alongside the picturesque beaches and historical monuments of the Sandy Hook peninsula. The pathway begins in the Gateway National Recreation Area...
The two diverse sections of the Shore Parkway Greenway Trail blend urban and scenic, offering views of sights ranging from the Statue of Liberty to wildlife refuges. Following the Belt/Shore Parkway,...
NY 13 mi Asphalt, Concrete
The South County Trailway rolls 14.4 miles through one of the most densely populated parts of New York, but its route through pocket woodlots, parks, and golf courses and along riverbanks makes it...
At 2.6 miles, the Staten Island Greenbelt Multi-Purpose Trail offers a nice jaunt for joggers, walkers, and cyclists alike. The crushed-stone path is 6-feet wide and runs from Rockland Avenue to...
Even before the a trail was developed, the residents of Stockertown were enthusiastically walking along the former railroad corridor that cut through the borough. Now, 1.1 miles of packed cinder...
PA 1.1 mi Cinder, Dirt, Grass
The corridor now home to the Sussex Branch Trail was originally the narrow-gauge, mule-drawn Sussex Mine Railroad, which opened in 1851 to haul iron ore from mines in Andover to the Morris Canal....
NJ 18 mi Cinder, Dirt, Grass
Tallman Mountain State Park Bike Path is partially paved and bisects the Tallman Mountain State Park. The route provides a motor-vehicle-free way for bicyclists using US Route 9W to connect with...
NY 2.1 mi Asphalt, Cinder, Dirt
Tatamy Trail begins in West Easton and heads north to Tatamy Borough, primarily along a former railroad corridor. On its southern end, it meets the Palmer Township Recreation Trail, which connects the...
DESCRIPTION: The Created by Union Forge Heritage Association in 2007,Taylor SteelWorkers Historical Greenway is a 7 mile trail that winds its way through High Bridge criss-crossing a number of...
NJ 7 mi Crushed Stone, Dirt, Gravel
Just an hour north of New York City, the Timp-Torne Trail offers a scenic hike through Bear Mountain and Harriman State Parks with panoramic vistas of the Hudson River. The rugged blue-blazed trail...
Running alongside a New Jersey Transit passenger line, the Traction Line Recreation Trail has been around since 1986, when Jersey Central Power & Light donated portions of the land to the Morris...
The Trolley Line Trail is a 2.5 mile paved pathway between Rabbit Hill Road and Penn Lyle Road in West Windsor. The trail is on the right of way of the former Fast Line electric trolley that connected...
The Union Transportation Trail follows the path of the former Pemberton & Hightstown Railroad, which began operating in 1868. The original purpose of the railroad was to allow local farms and dairies...
NJ 9.3 mi Crushed Stone
This trail is the legacy of the first elevated roadway in the United States, constructed by William K. Vanderbilt in 1904. Vanderbilt created the parkway to get to his family’s estate in Long...
The West Essex Trail follows a short distance (just under 3 miles) of the former rail bed of the Caldwell Branch on the old Erie-Lackawanna Railroad. The trail runs between the EssexPassiac county...
NJ 2.84 mi Cinder, Gravel
The paved pathway running through West Hudson Park offers a scenic, tree-lined escape between Harrison and Kearny, NJ. The trail provides access to the park’s stocked lake, water park, athletic...
A short rail trail with two covered bridges occupying a portion of the former Mount Hope Mineral Railroad right-of-way in Wharton, NJ. In the future this trail will be linked with the Rockaway...
The Wood Duck Nature Trail, appropriately named for the secretive duck, was made possible through the hard work and dedication of refuge volunteers. This beautiful trail now extends about 1.5 miles on...
NJ 1.5 mi Ballast, Crushed Stone, Dirt, Grass
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GREAT TRAIL! IF... you start in Goshen
July, 2019 by mhammer323
My son and I traveled from Kingston NY. We went to Harriman to start but there is NO access to the trail from Mary Harriman Park. If you ride out of the park and down the road you can not access the trail because it is blocked off due to a broken bridge and is all grown over in weeds and over growth. We got in our car and went to the beginning of the trail in Goshen where there is a parking lot and the official start of the trail. The trail is great! You take the trail 12.30 (give or take) miles to where a huge fence says "TRAIL ENDS HERE." Therefore this is not a 15 mile trail. It is just over 12 miles one way and over 24 miles round trip. Minus the misinformation at the Harriman end, this was a great trail and I would definitely go back again. It is completely paved!
Nice Trail, wish it were longer
July, 2019 by joann.brereton
I road this trail for the first time this past week. It's nice but way too short! I did take a detour into Piermont which extended it nicely and stopped at the bike friendly Bunbury's.
Baseball and soccer fields, views of Manhattan's east side
July, 2019 by ratret
As of July 2019 the paved surfaces ranged from fair to excellent but were mostly good. Intersecting loops and dead ends provide approximately 12 miles of trails but these were non-continuous secondary to construction blockages. This trailway is scheduled to be completed in the spring of 2020. The trails pass mostly baseball fields, soccer fields, picnic areas and municipal storage lots which give parts of the park an industrial feel. There are several good quality bathrooms attached to snack bars along the trail. The views of east Manhattan and the standing waves in the Hell's gate section of the East River are excellent. On the island you may also pass Icahn Stadium, The New York Police Department Harbor Unit, John McEnroe Tennis Academy, a native plant garden and the Manhattan Psychiatric Center Hospital (formerly known as Blackwell's Island Lunatic Asylum).
Scenic but Hilly
July, 2019 by vikkb34
Parked at the trail head in Millwood & rode North. Did total 35 miles. 17 1/2 one way.Rode into the Putnam railway,as they run into each other.The trail is very scenic.You ride pass some towns. But is hilly & can be challenging ..for some..There are sections that are bumpy.. (tree roots) a lot are marked..just have to pay attention..There are some road crossing..all & all we had a good ride..but don't think this trail is for everyone,not just an easy flat trail.. We had lunch at the Tazza cafe on Rt 133,near where we parked,it was great. Toward the healthy side,loved it..
A small fun adventure
July, 2019 by frank_howl
Before we began we talked to some people at the trail head, and decided to use it to explore the town of Piermont NY which has a nice little downtown and a beautiful pier. About 1/4 mile into the trail there is a dirt path going to the right...went on that until we found a tiny hut labeled 'Piermont' (it is a small museum). Getting advice from a jogger, we went down the steep hills there into town..had coffee at a neat little shop then and eventually found the pier. We had to walk up the steep hills on our return. This was an unexpected adventure, Next time we will do the entire trail.
July, 2019 by expressrun
Best maintained trail I ever rode on. Great places to eat as the trail passes through towns every few miles. Many of the old railroad stations have been turned into eateries. Almost completely flat from end to end. Just a slight grade that’s hardly noticeable. New Jersey does a great job with this trail.
June, 2019 by tundra_tl
Sad. Wanted to take my small dog for a walk here but sign posted no pets.
Full Trail Comments
June, 2019 by taztlz1958
Overall a very positive experience! The trail is quite diverse. We started at the Black Diamond Trailhead near Glen Summit and finally got off at Morrisville with a few interruptions.
Section 1- Glen Summit to Jim Thorpe beautiful downhill easy ride with very nice mostly compacted gravel trails. Jim Thorpe should be renamed Jim Thorne because they are a thorn to get around. Trail closes at bridge and resumes on other side of wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). The town provides no access to connect the trail. We actually drove down to Lehighton and backtracked the trail from Lehighton to the WWTP.
Section 2- Lehighton to Northhampton. This trail was very nice mostly compacted gravel with a few side bar road sections which were low traffic and fairly safe. Trail was well marked and have regular mileage markers. In Lehighton we parked at the Lehigh Canal Park. From there the trail runs along Bridge St. a short section to get across the River. At the T-intersection of Bridge st. the trail loops down and under to the right. Trail sign shows two directions here but down and under is correct. We got off the trail at Northhampton at the Hokendaqua Creek and resumed at Canal Park at East Allentown, we did not try to forge a path through the neighborhoods. To be honest area seemed quite scary.
Section 3 - Canal Park to Delaware St. Park at Easton - This trail was highly varied and sometimes hard to follow as it intertwines with numerous other trails. Surface varied from gravel to dual lane towpath too paved to single path almost mountain bike course. Hybrid bike was perfect for all would not attempt portions on a street bike. The Palmer townships sections were like paved superhighway compared to some sections.
Section 4 - Easton to Morrisville - This trail was also highly varied from wide compacted gravel to narrow single lane gravel or dirt. Trail at times was poorly marked, especially at the Friend of Delaware Canal property on the south side of New Hope. Here the trails ends abruptly at the top of a stairs which would have been a killer if we didn't get stopped. From here you need to walk bikes down the stairs and along the brick sidewalk along mainstreet for about 500 feet, then try to cross mainstreet to enter what looks like an alley which then returns to towpath.
This section abuts many high end properties with buildings right-up-to the trail. Also has many low clearance bridges requiring either dismounting or ducking real low.
Many beautiful sections along the river early on the trail, once the high-end properties start, not much to see.
This section had very few if any mileage markers to speak of
Several small quaint little towns along the way offering many services, access is somewhat limited.
Access to Washington's Crossing Historic Park was nice.
Overall we rode for three days as we had a pick-up ride at the end of each section.
Aside, you can shunt over to the NJ side via a pedestrian/ bike bridge at Lumberville. Trail on the Jersey side was wide and well compacted gravel for most sections except in the towns where it was similar to the PA side. You can cross back to PA at either Bridge St. in Stockton, NJ or Bridge St. in Lambertville, NJ.
Beaches to parks, marshes and urban environments
June, 2019 by ratret
As of June 2019 the paved surfaces ranged from excellent to fair but were mostly good. Branching and intersecting bicycle trails make it very easy to get lost so having a detailed map of the route is essential. Parking at the recommended lot at Orchard Beach costs $8 on weekdays and $10 on weekends so you may want to try street parking near one of the entrance points.
White haven to Washington crossing June2019
June, 2019 by timelder
Trail is in great shape. The only Negative was that their was no signage to help you traverse the incomplete section in Allentown.
perfect easy trail for family
June, 2019 by pharmdwoman
We started at the beginning of the trail on south side at Danforth road and rode all the way to Washington headquarters museum in Morristown. We walked around the grounds of the museum. Next time we’ll reserve tickets for the tour of the Ford Mansion. We made a stop at friendly’s for lunch on the way back, discovered the stairs that lead us up to friendly’s! Pretty awesome. It was an easy ride with our 3 years old.
Wrong information as of 6/19
Little of this trail is paved as of 6/19. Not suitable for road bicycles.
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Scott Barrett 'fortunate' to be All Blacks back up to Sam Whitelock, Brodie Retallick
Crusaders lock Scott Barrett isn't holding any grudges about playing back up to Sam Whitelock and Brodie Retallick in the All Blacks.
In fact, brother Beauden believes he's lucky to play in the same era as the two world-class locks.
Beauden was asked by media today whether Scott, who was sitting next to him, was "unlucky" to play in the same generation as Whitelock and Retallick but the first-five disagreed.
"Scott would say he's fortunate," he said.
"Just to be able to rub shoulders and go out there.. it's a blessing. Although he's behind those two a fair bit, when he does come on he plays well so it's good for the squad."
Scott could see more time in the starting position for the All Blacks after it was revealed following Saturday's win against the Pumas that Retallick will miss six weeks with a rotator cuff shoulder injury.
Blues lock Patrick Tuipulotu has been called into the squad as injury cover.
Beauden Barrett said Scott wouldn’t see it as being unlucky to play in the same era as the two world-class locks. Source: 1 NEWS
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'Bring the Bledisloe back where it belongs' - Eels NRL player lists his goals after signing with Australian Rugby
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Obama adviser: Arms for Ukraine ‘on the table’
21 Nov 2014 12:49 PM | Myroslaw Smorodsky (Administrator)
A top Obama adviser said Wednesday that the administration is considering lethal arms for Ukraine and said he believed it could deter Russia from further aggression against the Eastern European nation. Deputy national security adviser Tony Blinken acknowleged though that the administration has been reluctant to act, fearing that Russia could step up its support for armed separatists.
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"Part of the reason has been that in our judgment, as much as we're able to throw at the Ukrainians in terms of lethal support, unfortunately if the Russians choose to, they will outmatch that easily," Blinken told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at a hearing on his nomination for the No. 2 post at the State Department. "That said, what we've seen in recent days and in recent weeks, including the blatant violation by Russia of the very agreement it's signed, the Minsk accords, [defensive lethal assistance] remains on the table. It's something that we're looking at," he added.
Republican lawmakers are urging the president to consider providing Ukraine with lethal arms, over fears of a new build-up of Russian military forces along its border. The Hill
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President Trump Offered to Officiate Mika and Joe Scarborough’s Wedding
by Jim Hoft June 30, 2017
In August 2016 before the general election Republican candidate Donald Trump tweeted out his disgust of the Morning Joe hosts and threatened to reveal the “real story” of Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski’s relationship.
This came after months of months of criticism the Republican presidential candidate.
Some day, when things calm down, I’ll tell the real story of @JoeNBC and his very insecure long-time girlfriend, @morningmika. Two clowns!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 22, 2016
Trump claimed that he would share information about the personal relationship between the two hosts — the subject of much speculation.
In early May Page Six reported that Mika and Joe were engaged.
Shortly after the announcement President Trump offered to officiate the wedding! (Hah-hah!)
Page Six reported:
President Trump wants to marry Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.
The pair, who Page Six exclusively revealed got engaged this weekend, discussed marriage back in January at the White House — in the presence of the POTUS and Jared Kushner.
Scarborough, 54, told Vanity Fair that Trump, 70, suggested they tie the knot at Mar-A-Lago or the White House.
“That’s when Jared interrupted and said, ‘Hey, you know what? I’ve got my license. I could marry you,’” Scarborough recalled.
Not to be outdone, Scarborough claims that Trump snapped back, “‘Why would you marry them? They could have the president of the United States marry them.’”
Of course that was before President Trump tweeted out this on Thursday.
…to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!
I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came..
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Politics Ontario PCs: Doug Ford ‘not our candidate’
Ontario PCs: Doug Ford ‘not our candidate’
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leader Tim Hudak answers questions from reporters during a press conference related to the gas plants cancellation at Queen's Park Toronto, May 14 2013.
Fernando Morales/The Globe and Mail
Adrian Morrow U.S. Correspondent
Ontario's Progressive Conservatives are distancing themselves from Doug Ford, saying the Toronto city councillor is "not our candidate" as he continues to be embroiled in a drug scandal.
Last month, the Tories reacted enthusiastically when Mr. Ford, the older brother of Mayor Rob Ford, announced he would run for the party in the next provincial election. PC Leader Tim Hudak repeatedly praised the brothers Ford for getting expenses under control at Toronto City Hall.
But now, with Doug Ford facing allegations he was a high-volume hashish dealer in the 1980s and his brother accused of smoking crack cocaine in a home-made video, the party is backing away from its laudatory rhetoric.
"I don't even know the guy. Personally, I've never even met him," said Tory House Leader Jim Wilson, when asked Thursday whether he thought Mr. Ford was a good candidate.
Asked if the party would stand behind Mr. Ford, Mr. Wilson said the decision would be up to the local riding association.
"He's not our candidate. The process will have to be followed," he said. "We're the only political party, as you know, that doesn't parachute candidates one way or the other or handpick them from the leader's office. So regardless of who you are, you'll have to go through the local democratic process."
His words echoed those of other Tories in recent days. They have steered clear of their previous laudatory rhetoric on Mr. Ford, emphasizing instead that, with no election on the horizon, it is not clear whether he will ever run for them.
Mr. Hudak had been cultivating an image very different from the populist, anti-intellectual Fords, portraying himself as a thoughtful, policy-savvy politician. And in the days since the drug scandal broke, PC insiders have tried to distance him from the Fords, insisting that, given Mr. Hudak's different image, the Fords' troubles would not rub off on him.
The Globe and Mail reported last Saturday that Doug Ford and Dave Price, who is now a staffer in the Mayor's office, sold hash in Etobicoke together 30 years ago.
Previously, Gawker and the Toronto Star wrote that they had seen video of Rob Ford appearing to smoke crack.
The Ford brothers have said all of the allegations are not true.
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Immigrants' residents permits: how would they work?
Ministers are looking at plans to restrict access to services for migrants, but have found existing rules are already quite tough
Alan Travis, home affairs editor
Most migrants from outside the EU are already required to have a biometric visa before travelling to Britain. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA Archive/Press Association Ima
The 2 million people from other EU states who live in Britain will be forced to have resident permits or identity cards if David Cameron is to fulfil his pledge to make rules on access to public services for new migrants the toughest in Europe.
But any irony involved in a coalition government that came to power pledging to scrap identity cards introducing a system of foreign residence permits will be lost as the political parties indulge in "a race to the bottom" over immigration.
The need to introduce residence permits to restrict access to public services and welfare benefits for new migrants stems from the simple fact that despite the Home Office's £800m "e-borders" project nobody's passport is stamped with the date they entered Britain.
The repeated refusal of GPs, social housing officers and social security staff to act as immigration officers also means that if more robust residence tests are to be introduced for other EU nationals then an easy and authoritative way is needed of checking how long they have been in the country and what their immigration status is.
Ministers have confirmed that they are looking at plans to take fingerprints and other biometric data to be stored on a card with a photograph and electronic signature from new arrivals from next year.
EU law means that the need to have a residence card will not only apply to Bulgarians and Romanians arriving here but all migrants from other EU states who stay in Britain for longer than three months. Indeed, in the current climate it may well turn out there are more new arrivals from Cyprus than from Bulgaria.
It is not as though the UK is struggling to cope with the largest number of other EU citizens. The latest figures show that Germany has the highest number of foreign citizens with 7.2 million, including 2.6 million from other EU states. Spain is next with 5.7 million, of whom 2.3 million are from other EU states.
In fact, the Eurostat figures show Britain has slipped in recent years from third to fourth place in this particular league table with Italy now in third place with 4.6 million foreign nationals, including 1.3 million from other EU states. The UK has 4.5 million, with 2 million from other EU countries. France has a similar number with 3.8 million foreign citizens, of whom 1.3 million are from other EU states.
The European commission has advised ministers that, contrary to the received wisdom, the free movement directive does not stop them from introducing some quite tough restrictions on new migrants. It allows governments to require new EU migrants to have a mandatory residence "certificate" if they are resident for more than three months. The Home Office announced last month it intended to start charging £55 a head for EU residence certificates. New migrants will have to notify any change of address or change of marital status.
Most migrants from outside the European Union are already required to have a biometric visa linked to a central database before they can travel to Britain. It would become their de facto foreign residence permit if the scheme is introduced for Europeans.
The free movement directive, which has been in force since 2004, allows EU states to require new migrants who want to stay longer than six months to "be in employment or have sufficient resources and sickness benefit not to be a burden on public funds".
This gives ministers quite a lot of room for manoeuvre in changing the current rules, up to and including insisting that migrants have their own private health insurance. The difficulty that ministers have found in recent months is that the existing rules are actually quite tight already. "The problem is that once you scratch the surface it suddenly gets very complicated," said a Downing Street source.
So as soon as Cameron trailed his intention to deny social or council housing to new migrants for up to five years, it was quickly pointed out that local councils already have the power to set their own local residence test, raising doubts about how substantive the proposed change will actually prove.
Similarly, the promise that new EU migrants will lose benefits after six months unless they have "a genuine chance of finding work" is very close to the existing jobcentre rules.
Ministers from across the government have been discussing the detail of these moves for more than six months now. At this rate of progress it could be another six months before detailed legislation is actually presented to parliament.
It would seem that Cameron's repeated high-profile speeches on immigration may have more to do with meeting the political challenge of Ukip than grappling with any alleged problem of benefit or health "tourism".
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Copyright and Licensing - introduction | avoiding problems | FAQs
The IAC Licensing - Copyright Clearance Scheme
1. Copyright law is very complex and although great care has been taken in compiling these notes which are of particular interest to amateurs, neither the IAC nor the compilers accept responsibility for any inaccuracies or misunderstanding that may result from their use.
2. IAC has negotiated special arrangements with the various licensing bodies allowing the use of both Library music and Commercial recordings in members’ sound tracks for their video, film, and audio visual presentations.
3. Copyright is recognised by Acts of Parliament – the main legislation being the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988 and subsequent amendments. The Law is designed to protect the ownership of the work of writers and composers and others to whom the creators of the work have assigned their Rights, as well as the manufacturers of sound recordings and broadcasting authorities.
4. Current legislation extends the protection period to SEVENTY years after the death of the creator and an infringement of its provisions can give rise to legal action.
5. The Rights to be cleared cover:
The Rights of composers and arrangers
The recording from which a sound track is made
The performer(s)
The public performance
6. It is an offence:
To make a recording of Copyright music, even if that recording is not played back
To record, or copy, any recording without the consent of the maker and or performer(s)
To play or reproduce Copyright music in public without the appropriate permissions
Any group of persons including neighbours and friends outside the family circle have been held by the Courts to be PUBLIC.
THE IAC COPYRIGHT CLEARANCE SCHEMES PROTECT MEMBERS FROM THE ABOVE RISKS.
THEY DO NOT COVER THE USE OF COPYRIGHT MUSIC ON THE INTERNET.
7. THE LICENCES
Mechanical Copyright Protection Society (MCPS)
British Phonographic Industry (BPI)
Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL)
IAC LICENCES ARE AVAILABLE ONLY TO:
IAC Members and IAC Affiliated Clubs.
Members of the Royal Photographic Society (MCPS and BPI only)
The Scottish Association of Movie Makers (MCPS and BPI only)
The Photographic Alliance of Great Britain (MCPS and BPI only)
A licence in a club’s name applies only to productions made by the club nominated. It does not cover productions made by individual members on their own behalf. Similarly, licences in the name of an individual clear that person’s work only.
8. SCOPE OF THE LICENCES
The IAC Copyright Clearance Schemes offer licences which cover the use of :
- this being music which has been specially composed and recorded for use by the Radio, Film and Television industries
- recordings purchased through normal retail channels in the United Kingdom including paid-for downloads.
If recordings were purchased abroad then contact MCPS to ascertain that they have been registered in the UK. You will then know if they are covered by our IAC licences or, if not, then where the Copyright may be held.
9. THE LICENSING BODIES
MCPS protects the Rights of the Composer and permits the licensee to record (dub) musical works owned by its members which have previously been released as a sound recording on condition that the recordings are privately used only:
a) For exhibition to friends and relations in private
b) On amateur movie, photographic or video club premises where admission is free or where a charge is made for club funds
c) For public exhibition when such is promoted for the raising of club funds or for bone fide charitable causes
d) For not more than TWO public exhibitions held annually in addition to those in (a) and (b) above
e) For exhibition at annual amateur movie, photographic or video festivals attended by competitors and friends
f) Exhibition to judges in amateur film, photographic or video competitions
g) For inclusion, as clips and short videos, in YouTube - provided there is no financial gain and no commercial advertising is attached. Such clips may be "embedded" in IAC and club websites so long as they are hosted by YouTube.
The licence clears FOR ALL TIME dubbings made within the twelve months of the licence
In normal circumstances the record companies do not permit their commercial products to be re-recorded or dubbed. The BPI licence issued by IAC on their behalf permits the copying of recordings made by leading manufacturers. The BPI licence permits an unlimited number of copies of recordings to be made within the conditions of the licence during one year from its date of issue.
It should be noted that Copyright in the recording is separate from any other Copyright attached to the material recorded. Even if the material is free from any other Copyright the RECORDING itself is Copyright to the recordist or the record manufacturer.
The BPI licence covers the RECORDING PROCESS of all recordings made by leading manufacturers and its conditions are as follows:
a) The original recording used by the licensee must be his/her personal property and purchased through regular retail channels
b) The names of all instrumental groups, bands, orchestras, choruses, solo artists and/or performers shall NOT be identified in subtitles or credits etc.
c) All other Copyrights e.g. Composer, Performer, shall be cleared before the recordings are copied or dubbed
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In addition to the BPI licence, a licence is necessary for the REPRODUCTION IN PUBLIC of sound tracks created from commercial recordings.
The PPL licence also covers the live use of recordings played as background during the entrance and exits of audiences and during intervals as an accompaniment to film, video and audio visual presentations that may not have a pre-recorded soundtrack.
The licence does not cover requirements which may be imposed by local authorities.
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Performers Rights are administered by the Musicians’ Union.
Under the provisions of the Copyright, Designs & Patents Act 1988 the consent of the performers is necessary in relation to the exploitation of their performances including recorded performances.
This is in addition to all clearances and consents that have to be obtained with regard to Composer and Recording Rights.
As from August 2005 it is no longer necessary for IAC members to apply to the Musicians’ Union for performers consent for each incorporation of a sound recording into a project, provided all that is intended with that project is private use and/or exhibition to a non-paying audience.
However, commercial exploitation will still require the prior consent of the Union
In such cases, or if you have any queries, please contact the Media Department of the Musicians’ Union on 020 7840 5556
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in which Copyright music is played. These are quite separate from the Copyright
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(Contact: PRS, Copyright House, 29-33 Berners St, London W1T 3AB)
11. Church Services - Weddings etc
Any music that you video-record may be in copyright. This means that you need specific licences for using it and for giving away or selling copies. The key British music industry bodies have established a Limited Manufature Licence which considerably simplifies the licensing. Details can be found on the PRSforMUSIC website. The licences are bought online which makes the process very quick.
Current costs of the MCPS, BPI and PPL licences for IAC members are less than £8.00 per annum!
All applications for licences should be addressed to:
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THE KAGENCY BUZZ | NEW VENUE ALERT! BECCA COSMETICS, TACO BELL, COLGATE & DJ HESTA PRYNN (copy 02)
Announcing 218 Bowery! A former Michelin-star restaurant turns culinary pop-up.
Becca Bright Eyes. 201 Mulberry becomes Insta-worthy for the beauty brand's new collection.
Taco Bell. 218 Bowery turns into an immersive theater to launch Taco Bell's Nacho Fries.
Colgate. En Ville hosts a Colgate launch party for its new toothpaste campaign.
DJ Hesta Prynn spins for Twitter and Buzzfeed at CES 2018.
A former Michelin-star restaurant, 218 Bowery offers event clients an industrial chic and elegant short-term pop-up location on the edge of Nolita and The Bowery. It is a perfect choice for all types of culinary experiences, from small press events to full blown pop-up restaurants open to the public, as well as film and photo shoots.
The sophisticated venue is well-maintained, retains all of its original furnishings, sleek decor, and all kitchen appliances are in working condition, including the refrigerators, double fryer, and the gas-powered oven and burners. Guests are welcomed by the white marble bar at the restaurant’s entrance and effortlessly flow into the main dining room. Beyond the main dining room, a private dining room awaits with two skylights, that reveal an open kitchen, separated only by a long white marble chef’s table.
The existing tables and chairs can be removed and stored downstairs to customize the experience. Additional back-of-house and storage space exists downstairs along with five restrooms. The venue also retains its MP3-compatible and zoned sound system, as well as lighting on dimmers.
Make-up gurus and beauty lovers from New York City and beyond rushed to the BECCA Cosmetics pop-up shop in SoHo. The beauty brand launched its new Bright Eyes Collection at 201 Mulberry with the expertise of TH Productions. Together, the brand and production agency created Insta-worthy interactive rooms to educate consumers about the collection and also shop the line. Global Style Director, Kerry Cole, was on hand to interact with guests and highlight the products. Additionally, loyal shoppers earned a ticket to meet well-known blogger Marianna Hewitt!
Taco Bell takes over 218 Bowery to cleverly announce its new Nacho Fries launching today at a Taco Bell near you. Our friends at Cyrano Rox fully transformed the former Michelin-star restaurant on the edge of Nolita into an immersive theater experience in-line with the brand’s cinematic ad campaign, “Web of Fries,” featuring Josh Dumel. Watch the thrilling, albeit fictitious movie trailer here and sign up for a tasting – tastings are only TODAY, Thursday, January 25th, until 9pm. Once inside the venue, you can tour set recreations from the movie trailer as well as view it on the “silver screen.”
Selected for its highly visible street presence, branding opportunities, and fully functioning culinary kitchen, 218 Bowery is a natural choice for pop-up culinary experiences of all kinds, as well as film and photo shoots.
Colgate collaborated with Abel + McCallister + Abel at En Ville to produce a launch event for the brand's new campaign, Stain-Less. Located in the heart of the Flatiron District, En Ville is an elegant and fully transformable white-box with optional white furnishings for clients to create a turn-key lounge environments. Producers brought in pops of red throughout the set design and further accented the event with wall mounted vinyl decals.
DJ Hesta Prynn kept the crowd going with two energetic sets for Twitter and Buzzfeed during this year's indomitable CES Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Hesta Prynn herself said the event "was on another level of inspiration" and "it was a true masterclass."
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[PRE ORDER] FACE YOURSELF [Type A] (ALBUM+BLU-RAY] (First Press Limited Edition) (Japan Version)
[PRE ORDER] Release on 2018/04/04 - FREE INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING
On 02/02, Big Hit Entertainment officially announced that the boy group will be making a comeback in Japan with the new album 'Face Yourself'. The new Japanese album will feature a compilation of their hit tracks in Japanese in addition to 2 new tracks.
Prior to its full release in April, BTS unveiled a set of album jacket photos, where the members took on a bad boy look in sporty bomber jackets and sweats.
'Face Yourself' will be coming out on April 4.
BTS (Bangtan Boys) brings the third album in Japan, including their popular hits such as "Chi, Ase, Namida," "Not Today," "Spring Day," "DNA," "MIC Drop (Japanese ver.)," and "Crystal Snow." Also includes two newly-recorded versions of "Best Of Me" and "Go Go (Japanese ver.)" as well as two new songs. This edition includes a bonus Blu-ray, featuring music video(s) and documentary on their 5-day visiting Japan in December 2017, which includes an event at Yokohama Arena. Deluxe sleeve case. Digipack packaging with a 32-page booklet and a sticker sheet. *The video contents are the same with the other edition's. Cover artwork, the 32-page booklet, and the sticker sheet corresponding to the limited editions A and B are different from each other.
CD Tracklist :
1 INTRO : Ringwanderung
2 Best Of Me -Japanese ver.-
3 Blood、Sweat、Tears -Japanese ver.-
4 DNA -Japanese ver.-
5 Not Today -Japanese ver.-
6 MIC Drop -Japanese ver.-
7 Don' t Leave Me
8 Go Go -Japanese ver.-
9 Crystal Snow
10 Spring Day -Japanese ver.-
11 Let Go
12 OUTRO : Crack
First Limited A and B have the same content
Blood Sweat & Tears Music Video
MIC Drop -Japanese ver.- Music Video
MIC Drop -Japanese ver.- Dance Music Video
Japan Documentary 5 Days
「DNA」Live @ Yokohama Arena Event
「MIC Drop」Live @ Yokohama Arena Event
Making of Album Jacket Photos
*All purchases will go towards the Oricon music charts.
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Forum raises awareness
Emily Chalfant
Tim Downer
The informational forum held at Northern Kentucky University last Wednesday to discuss a possible tuition increase proved to be beneficial to both students and the Student Government Association.
Students got answers as to why tuition may increase by as much as 20 percent, and SGA got feedback they could take to the Board of Regents for review.
Students who attended came for various reasons, including the free pizza that was handed out afterward.
Sophomore Travis Rothe, a graphic design and French major, said he attended because he was interested to see what would happen with tuition in the future.
Jennifer Kessler, an undeclared freshman, said she went to the forum to see if her funding would still allow her to attend NKU if the tuition is increased as much as estimated.
“My tuition is paid by student loans, so I wanted to see how I would be affected,” she said.
SGA President Chris Pace began the forum with a brief synopsis of its purpose, the issues to be discussed, and an introduction of the SGA members who would be responding to student questions, including James Pollitt, Josh Ruth and Eric Fegan, SGA executive vice president and tuition committee chair.
Fegan, who Pace called the “budget expert for students,” gave the audience an overview of recent tuition increases, saying students have paid 26 percent more in tuition over the last two years.
He added that with this year’s cuts, tuition could rise 15 percent to 20 percent more.
Students were encouraged to write questions on note cards which were given to Pace, who acted as the moderator for the forum.
Fegan, Pollitt and Ruth alternately answered questions.
Issues raised by students ranged from enrollment and financial aid concerns to whether NKU can still afford the new Student Union and “big name” faculty members such as former Cincinnati mayor Roxanne Qualls.
Fegan said NKU is not the only university facing increases in tuition. For example, Morehead State University will see a 10 percent to 12 percent increase.
Fegan added that all Kentucky higher education schools are seeing increases in the double digits, but NKU is the only school facing increases at or above 20 percent.
Because NKU has already seen a 26 percent increase over the past two years, one student asked why tuition is still on the rise.
Fegan said there is an average increase of 2 percent to 3 percent every year.
“There is no guarantee that tuition will not increase in any year,” he said.
If there is a continued rise in tuition, some students may question whether they can still attend NKU.
“There is the potential to lose students currently enrolled for financial reasons,” Pollitt said.
However, he said there is no way of knowing definitely if NKU will lose enrollment because of a tuition hike.
“I’ll still stay at NKU, but I know a tuition increase will affect my funding,” Kessler said.
Not only could a tuition increase affect financial aid, but Fegan said it could also mean less help for international students and could raise enrollment standards for minority students.
“I do believe it would put minority students at special risk,” he said.
However, Pollitt said there can be some benefit from a tuition increase, such as a better academic education, maintaining low class sizes and keeping full-time faculty on staff.
Students questioned whether it is worth the cost to have Qualls on staff as a visiting professor who receives the salary of a full-time professor.
Ruth said it depends on each person’s outlook, but hiring Qualls may not necessarily be timely.
Fegan added that “roughly $47 million goes toward instruction,” which includes faculty salaries and teaching materials.
As far as inquiry into other spending, some students wanted to know what could be cut, while others asked what else could be added, such as the possibility of Division I sports.
Fegan said when NKU can afford an arena or football team, he would like to see Division I sports.
As for the new Student Union, Pollitt said it is still on schedule for completion for in fall 2007.
Ruth said the university may need to re-evaluate outside spending, because it is “quite difficult” to raise money from outside revenue sources.
He added that some spending “may not be a necessity.”
Michael Tobergta, a SGA senator, said he thinks there is some wasteful spending.
“I feel there are things that can and need to be done with the budget,” he said.
If the university cannot cover the reductions, students wondered where they would get the extra money to cover the cost of a higher tuition.
“Students work full-time and are students full-time, and it’s difficult,” Pollitt said. “Students may have to rely more on financial aid and loans.”
Fegan closed the forum by saying that SGA appreciated the students’ attendance and comments.
“We hope to do something like this again,” he said.
Students who attended said the forum was helpful and they would attend a similar function in the future.
“I think it was good that I went because I’m more informed about what’s going on,” said sophomore Karen Lunn, a marketing major.
She said she was also glad to find out why tuition was raised in the past.
While students said the forum was informative, they did have some suggestions for possible future meetings.
“I would like to see more people outside of NKU answering questions,” Rothe said.
Lunn said she wanted to know more about the changes that could come from the cuts, and other students simply wished there was more time to discuss the issues.
Despite positive reviews from students in attendance, Tobergta said he was “a bit displeased with the turnout” at the forum and would like to see more student involvement, such as participating with TeamNKU.
He said because students will be largely affected by a tuition increase, they should have concerns about Kentucky politics.
“I truly fear for the university because of the cuts,” he said.
For students seeking more answers or wanting to voice more concerns, Ruth encourages them to join TeamNKU on Tuesdays and Thursdays at letter-writing sessions.
There, students will have access to computers, fax machines and telephones to contact local legislators.
TeamNKU also hopes to have a speaker visit the campus monthly to discuss pertinent issues, including congressman Ken Lucas, who visited NKU on Friday.
Lunn said the forum also informed people of the effort to get them to go to the rally in Frankfort that TeamNKU is organizing for Feb. 5.
SGA says they hope for a larger turnout to influence state support for higher education, because more students will now know about the possible consequences the budget cuts will bring.
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NKU Logo will be licensed for sale
Paul Buback
Northern Kentucky University recently hired a marketing firm to have NKU’s marks and logos officially licensed.
This means that vendors outside of NKU will be able to sell NKU products endorsed.
The three-year agreement with Strategic Marketing Affiliates provides the university with a chance to improve school spirit, increase enrollment and heigten interest in the community, according to Deidra Fajack, director of KNU Alumni Programs.
Fajack previously worked at the University of Cincinnati, where she said there was an “amazing difference,” after UC allowed its marks to become officially licensed.
The goals of the agreement include brand building, protection of the marks and revenue generation, according to John Mybeck of SMA.
“In this day of increased competition for new students, it is extremely important for any institution to make sure that their brand is as strong as it can be,” Mybeck said.
“A solid licensing program is an important cog in that marketing wheel.” SMA also serves as the licensing agent for five conferences, including the Big Ten and Mid-Continent Conferences, the Horizon League and 13 other colleges and universities.
“We are tremendously excited about the opportunities that Northern Kentucky presents for us and look forward to working together with university personnel to help them achieve their goals,” Mybeck said.
“We feel very confident that the reputation of NKU coupled with the strong support of their alumni, students and fans will lead to great things for the licensing program.”
Currently, NKU merchandise is hard to find outside of the campus bookstore.
Adam Smith, manager of Cincy Shop at the Florence Mall, said he does get some requests for NKU apparel. Cincy Shop only sells an NKU hat. Smith would be more inclined to stock NKU merchandise. But “the problem is we can’t sell it because we can’t really get to it.”
Al Stigers, owner of “I Love Sports” at Eastgate Mall, said the biggest problem isn’t getting the logo licensed.
Stigers also gets requests for NKU merchandise, but he says the factories that manufacture licensed apparel have production restrictions.
“You can get licensing, but to get the product you have to reach minimums,” Stigers said.
Stigers provided an example using the NKU flag. To sell an NKU flag, the manufacturer must create 144 flags, which can be shipped to the store in monthly increments. The store has to commit to selling 144 flags before ordering the product, or it risks taking a loss.
Mybeck said, “Many times retailers are more likely to bring new items in once there is a perceived demand for the item.”
NKU just needs demand.
“By raising this question to the store managers, we can plant the seed for that retailer to carry NKU merchandise in the future.”
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Top 10: Family of 6 carried out deadly Indonesian church bombings
1. Terror as bombs EXPLODE at THREE Indonesian churches causing MULTIPLE FATALITIES
SUICIDE bombings have caused a number of fatalities at three churches in Indonesia's Surabaya City, Java. The attacks are believed to have been carried out by the Islamic state-inspired group, Jemaah Ansharut Daulah.
Indonesian police have secured a fourth unexploded bomb.
Media reports said at one church, a woman with a younger child and a teenager was being questioned by security when the bomb exploded.
Police have confirmed the explosions all occurred within 10 minutes of each other.
A family of 6 who had returned from Syria, were responsible for the bombing, including young children.
#UPDATE A family of six, including two young girls, were responsible for suicide attacks that killed at least 11 and injured dozens during Sunday church services in Indonesia's city of Surabaya, police chief says pic.twitter.com/yqYcNNiu1Z
— AFP news agency (@AFP) May 13, 2018
2. Islamic State claim their “SOLDIER” responsible for HORRIFIC Paris knife attack
Police scrambled to the scene after an attacker began knifing pedestrians.
Islamic State’s propaganda arm has described the suspect in the attack as one of its “soldiers.”
Pierre Gaudin, a senior official at the Paris Police Prefecture, said: “A person attacked five people in the second district of Paris.
Police intervened immediately.”
Related: Paris knife attack: Killer was born in Russia's Chechnya
The 29-year-old attacker has been identified despite he was not carrying any identification papers.
The man had been previously categorised as “fiche S” by the authorities, a source said, which in France is a list of people who may represent a threat to national security.
Police, which haven't shared the name of the man yet, have been held for questioning the man's parents, a juridicial source told to French media.
The attacker, who killed two people and wounded four more in the busy Opera district yesterday night, is believed to be a French national.
If his Chechen origins were to be confirmed, this would be the first time a terror attack is carried out in France by someone from the southern Russian region of Chechenya.
The man, who reportedly shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest) while stabbing passer-by, may be linked to ISIS, as the terror group said later yesterday night that he was one of their “soldiers”.
New details on the knife attack in central Paris
3. Thousands of Muslims pray in front of Hagia Sophia
Related: Thousands of Muslims perform prayer at Hagia Sophia Museum - daily
Over 2,500 Muslims were at İstanbul’s Hagia Sophia (Ayasofya) Museum in İstanbul early Saturday morning to perform prayer, Greek Kathimerini newspaper reported.
Thousands of worshippers gathered at the UNESCO world heritage site which Turks have increasingly been calling for to be turned back into a mosque – at 4 a.m., the site said.
Once Christianity’s greatest cathedral, the Ayasofya was built in the 6th century under order of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian and stands across the iconic Blue Mosque. The status of the structure, which has been a museum since 1935, has been an ongoing topic of debate, particularly between Greece and Turkey.
Muslim prayer services have been held inside the Hagia Sophia over the years have raised reactions outside Turkey, mainly in Greece.
4. UK: One injured as Kurds clash with police ahead of Erdogan visit
5. Viktor Orbán: “The era of Liberal Democracy has ended!”
Orban asserts that as the world has changed, a Liberal Democracy no longer works and for this reason, Hungary has chosen to move to a Christian Democracy.
6. PM Netanyahu's Remarks at Reception for US Delegation
7. Canada: Pro-Palestine and pro-Israel protesters square off in Toronto
8. Hon. Candice Bergen continues to press Trudeau on his lenient treatment of ISIS returnees
9. IDF gears up for mass Gaza riots, warns that Hamas plans to “massacre” Israelis
Over 100,000 Palestinians expected to take part in “March of Return” protests on Monday; IDF fears hundreds may try to breach border fence, attack nearby Israeli towns.
GAZA BORDER — The Israeli military is gearing up for fierce “March of Return” protests along the Gaza security fence on Monday, with more than 100,000 Palestinians expected to take part, and dire warnings from the IDF that hundreds plan to try breach the fence and carry out a “massacre” of Israeli civilians.
The protests are now set for Monday, to coincide with the move of the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and not on Tuesday’s Nakba Day, as was originally expected.
The Israel Defense Forces expects over 100,000 Palestinians to take part in the mass demonstrations and potentially as many as 200,000, something that would indicate a major victory for the Hamas terrorist group, which rules Gaza and has co-opted for its own ends what were originally slated to be weeks of nonviolent protests.
10. American Muslims accused of Islamophobia
Muslims have a serious Islamophobia problem.
That’s the claim being made by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding which found that 30% of Muslims believe that Muslims are "more prone to negative behavior."
That’s far higher than Jews at 13%, Catholics at 12% and Protestants at 11%.
18% of Muslims, the poll found, believe that Muslims are “more prone to violence”. Only 15% of Jews, 12% of Catholics and 13% of Protestants believe that about Muslims. The only group more likely to believe that Muslims more violent than Muslims are white evangelicals at 23%.
Dalia Mogahed, ISPU’s director of research, blames this on “internalized Islamophobia.” According to her, “Muslims have themselves internalized negative stereotypes about their own community” based on the media. Even though the media covers Muslims far more positively than any other religious group.
Mark Chadwick commented 2018-05-14 20:16:22 -0400
1 Don’t worry Canada we vet our migrants so rest assured that non of these kinds got into our country . Just the odd ISIS fighter . Maybe they can make a app for that . They can call it a terrorapp . So you can know when a terrorist is near .
Maurice Potvin commented 2018-05-14 13:01:22 -0400
Since 9/11 – IN THE NAME OF ISLAM (SATAN): 35,297 Attacks, 228,916 Killed, 308,995 Injured that we know of.
Dirk Kanis commented 2018-05-14 11:07:50 -0400
Ron Joseph, It’s that percentage thing, when to many all hell breaks lose.
Muslims living in peace beside other religions is a myth.
/#1. Breaking News—The same scenario happened today, only another Indonesian family blew up a Police Station killing 10.
Indonesia used to be the world’s example showing that Muslims could live Peacefully along side of other Religions. Not any more!
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Updated Feb. 20, 2017 at 6:28 AM
Uber CEO orders probe into sexual harassment allegations
Former engineer Susan Fowler alleges she was sexually harassed within weeks of joining the company but human resources did not care about the initial instance, or any other one after that.
Stephen Feller
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said Sunday that he was launching an "urgent investigation" into charges a former engineer levied in a blog post that she was denied transfers and job opportunities because of sexism among managers, which human resources officials at the company ignored. Photo by 360b/Shutterstock
Feb. 19 (UPI) -- The chief executive officer of ride-sharing company Uber on Sunday ordered an immediate investigation into allegations of institutional sexual harassment at the company made in a blog post by a former employee.
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick tweeted Sunday, hours after former engineer Susan Fowler's blog post spread online, that he was launching an "urgent investigation" into charges she levied that she was denied transfers and job opportunities because of sexism among managers.
Fowler said she was sexually harassed by a supervisor almost immediately after she started at the company, and was ignored by human resources. Over the course of a year she said she was threatened and sabotaged by management because she complained about the harassment.
Other women at the company have experienced the same thing, Fowler wrote in the post, which she says is why the number of women working at the company dwindled during her 12 months there.
RELATED Uber CEO quits Trump advisory panel over immigration order
"When I joined Uber, the organization I was part of was over 25 percent women," Fowler wrote in the blog post on her website. "By the time I was trying to transfer to another eng organization, this number had dropped down to less than 6 percent. Women were transferring out of the organization, and those who couldn't transfer were quitting or preparing to quit. There were two major reasons for this: There was the organizational chaos, and there was also the sexism within the organization."
2/ I've instructed our CHRO Liane to conduct an urgent investigation. There can be absolutely no place for this kind of behavior at Uber.
— travis kalanick (@travisk) February 20, 2017
RELATED Google's Waymo unveils self-driving car with low-cost sensors
Within a few weeks of training, Fowler alleges her boss propositioned her in a messaging application, telling her he was in an open marriage and looking for a new partner. When Fowler told human resources, bringing them screenshots of the conversation, she said she was told nothing could be done about it, and that it was possible she'd have to deal with some type of backlash for having reported him.
Fowler later attempted to transfer to a different department -- based on her performance reviews, she should have been eligible -- but her managers changed her reviews so she could not transfer, because they were trying to keep women on their teams, she said.
In order to keep her on the team, Fowler said her bosses documented non-existent production problems and other issues, which they said would not affect her.
RELATED Rideshare company Uber to pay $20M for exaggerating drivers' pay
Uber board member Arianna Huffington said on Twitter that an independent investigation into Fowler's allegations is "starting now," based on a conversation she'd already had with Kalanick.
"What [Fowler] describes is abhorrent and against everything Uber stands for and believes in," Kalanick said on Twitter. "Anyone who behaves this way or thinks this is OK will be fired."
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KaDee Strickland Pregnant, Expecting First Child With Jason Behr
By Zach Johnson
KaDee Strickland and Jason Behr are expecting their first child, due in fall 2013. Chelsea Lauren/Getty Images
KaDee Strickland and Jason Behr have a baby on the way! The actress — whose character, Charlotte King, welcomed triplets during the final season of Private Practice — is pregnant with her first child, Strickland's rep tells Us Weekly.
PHOTOS: Stars and their moms
The Fever Pitch actress, 37, and her Breakout Kings husband, 39, will become parents this fall. The actors met on the set of the 2004 movie The Grudge, and Behr popped the question the following year.
PHOTOS: Young Hollywood moms
"It was completely shocking, and it happened on my 30th birthday," Strickland told Glamour of the Roswell star's proposal. "I thought the celebration was for my birthday and had no idea that the flip side of that would be an engagement. Pretty special." The couple tied the knot in Ojai, Calif. in November 2006.
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> Teams & players
> Floriana
> History
Floriana FC
UEFA RANKING 2017/18
UEFA country coefficient 2017/18
2012/13 UEFA Europa League First qualifying round See details 2 0 0 2
2011/12 UEFA Europa League Second qualifying round See details 2 0 0 2
2000 UEFA Intertoto Cup First round 2 0 1 1
1999 UEFA Intertoto Cup Second round 4 1 2 1
1997 UEFA Intertoto Cup Group stage 4 0 0 4
1996/97 UEFA Cup Preliminary round See details 2 0 0 2
1995 UEFA Intertoto Cup r_ 4 0 1 3
1994/95 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Preliminary round 2 0 1 1
1993/94 UEFA Champions League First round See details 4 2 1 1
1992/93 UEFA Cup First round See details 2 0 0 2
1988/89 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup First round 2 0 1 1
1977/78 European Champions Clubs' Cup First round See details 2 0 1 1
1962/63 European Champions Clubs' Cup Preliminary round See details 2 0 0 2
Club record in UEFA competitions
Biggest win:
26/06/1999, Floriana 2-1 Aberystwyth, Corradino
Biggest defeat:
25/09/1962, Ipswich 10-0 Floriana, Ipswich
Appearances in UEFA Champions League: 7
Appearances in UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 10
Appearances in UEFA Europa League: 6
Appearances in UEFA Intertoto Cup: 4
Player with most UEFA appearances: 21
Albert Busuttil ( MLT)
Top scorers in UEFA club competitions: 3
Richard Buhagiar ( MLT)
Tony Cauchi ( MLT)
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Cupid, Moon of Uranus
Cupid is a Moon that orbits round the planet Uranus.
Cupid was discovered on 25 August 2003 by M.R. Showalter and J.J. Lissauer.
The orbital period, i.e. the period it takes to complete an orbit round Uranus is 0.613 days. The figure is also known as the sidereel period. The figure comes from N.A.S.A..
The Equatorial Radius of the object is 18km. The Equatorial Radius is based on the assumption of the Albedo value. The value is the radius in km of the said object at the Equator.
The albedo of the object is 0.07. The Albedo is the amount of radiation that is reflected back into space by the object.
The Semi-Major Axis of the orbit is 74.39, which is the furthest point from the centre to the edge of an elliptical point.
The Mean orbit velocity, that is the speed at which it orbits is 31771.20 km/h. The is the average distance in km of the object is from its parent 74392.00.
The orbital inclination, the angle at which Cupid orbits in relation to the orbital plane is 0.1 degrees. The orbital eccentricity is 0.0013, it is the degree at which Cupid orbits close to a circular (0) orbit as opposed to an elliptical (1) orbit.
Cupid Facts
Orbital Direction Prograde, same as the parents direction
Date of Discovery 25 August 2003
Discoverer M.R. Showalter and J.J. Lissauer
Orbital Period (days) 0.613
Equatorial Radius (km) 18
Albedo 0.07
Semi-Major Axis (10^3 km) 74.39
Mean Orbit Velocity (km/h) 31771.20
Average Orbit Distance (km) 74392.00
Orbital Inclination (degrees) 0.1
Orbital Eccentricity 0.0013
Source(s) https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/uranus-moons/cupid/in-depth/
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/uraniansatfact.html
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You want Italian food...but you want Mexican food. ...But you want Italian food...but you want Mexican food...
The solution? Jalapeno cannolis. Just kidding! That sounds gross.
Instead try this cool tour that will take you through Pilsen, Chicago's oldest Italian neighborhood, AND Little Village, known as "The Mexico of the Midwest." You'll get your fill on both cuisines, and learn a little bit about the food, art, and culture of the area.
The best part? You'll be driven around by a chef who can teach you all about the history, process, and culture behind the delicious eats!
But if that doesn't sound good you could always go back to those jalapeno cannolis... But we don't suggest that.
Note: All food and beverages are included. Craft beer & wine is included for patrons over 21 years of age.
Price $145.00 per guest
Duration / Session 3.5 hours
Rating 12 positive reviews
(out of 13 votes)
JR .
Chicago South Side Food and History Tour February 16, 2017
My wife, son (age 12) and I had the privilege of taking Chef Greg's south side food tour. I cannot overstate the quality of our experience in every aspect. I have never taken the time to write an online review before, and am doing so for Chef-Driven Food Tours, as I cannot recommend it highly enough. Our family lives in a small town in rural Canada. We took five weeks in the autumn of 2016 to visit American cities we had always wanted to see. We took food tours in Chicago, Nashville and San Antonio. This is the one I've felt compelled to (finally) write about, as it had a lasting positive impact on each of us. Greg's extensive experience working as a chef in every conceivable setting from restaurant owner to high-end personal chef has made him extremely knowledgeable about every subject related to this type of tour: Chicago, its neighborhoods, the socio-economic and ethnic makeup of its neighborhoods, and, by extension, the cuisines of each neighborhood. As a chef, his knowledge of food preparation and flavor is first-rate. As a guide, Greg conveys his knowledge in a straight-forward, compelling and engaging manner that truly enhances the experience. He's charismatic and enthusiastic without being over-bearing. We were fortunate to try first-rate soul food, Belizean cuisine, Mexican, and Italian. The restaurant choices were suitably diverse, with impeccable quality and atmosphere. An overused buzzword from food television is particularly appropriate here: authenticity. These were not hipster joints. In the musical sense, the restaurants were not greatest hits, but deep cuts - perhaps the songs that should have been hits that just didn't get the radio play. But most significantly, this was far more than a food tour - it interwove urban history, civil rights, and issues of race that challenged our ideals in a provocative and lasting manner. This wasn't somebody imposing a political viewpoint: we drew our own conclusions from what we saw, openly wrestling with the incongruence of eating some of the best food we've ever had in some of the worst neighborhoods we've ever seen. This is important to note: Greg inspired complete confidence in leading us through areas of Chicago that we now hear compared to the worst war-torn areas of the Middle East. Although there are undoubtedly elements of accuracy to the danger many residents face in Chicago's south side, we never felt at risk; traveling with a 12-year-old, no less. To the contrary, we felt completely safe and extremely fortunate to have experienced the best these neighborhoods have to offer in terms of their food and culture. As a final note, Greg's personal encouragement of our son's interest in food throughout the evening was so kind, and above and beyond anything we expected or experienced on subsequent food tours. Approximately five months after having taken this tour, it still comes up in family conversation at the dinner table, and I expect it will continue to do so down the road. If you're in Chicago, take a chef-driven food tour. In close to 50 years, I've traveled, lived and eaten all over the world - this is simply one of the best things I've ever done.
Jeanne B.
Pilsen Neighborhood Tour December 28, 2016
My husband and I visit Chicago frequently and were looking for something new to do. We decided to try one of the Chef Driven Food Tours. What a great decision. Our chef tour guide, Greg, was excellent. We were the only ones on the tour and although it would have been fun to share these experiences with new people, Greg did a wonderful job. Each food stop focused on a family run Chicago food gem, none of which we had been to before. Being driven allows you to see a number of stops in a fairly short time. Greg asked us if we had a favorite and we could not say because each was so delicious. It was fun to meet the owners in most cases. All were small store front eateries or street food windows. We were almost too full to eat at the last stop, but we managed! Greg also included a lot of history of the neighborhoods, including a stop at the National Museum of Mexican Art. He took us on a driving tour of the 16th St. murals, which we decided we will revisit and take a tour of that area in the future when it's warner weather. Highly recommend!!
Chicago South Side Food and History Tour December 5, 2016
We love doing food tours and have done them all over the country, so I would say we have seen a variety of tours. We met chef Greg right on time, maybe even a little early, and he informed us that we were the second tour and that it was only the two of us. Initially I was a little apprehensive, as we enjoy meeting other people from around the country (and world). I was so mistaken. We basically got a personalized food, culture, and history tour from Greg and hit some awesome places to eat. Greg was very gracious, very intelligent, and just an overall pleasure to have as our guide. This was one of our favorite tours from across the country, and we have done several in Chicago, Miami, San Francisco, San Diego, New Orleans, etc...
Em .
Chicago South Side Food and History Tour November 16, 2016
What a fantastic time my honey and I had on our tour. Chef Greg was our very gracious, friendly, knowledgeable tour guide, and he made our enjoyment a priority. We really felt quite spoiled by him, as he made a last minute change in the itinerary when I expressed a desire to try some authentic Caribbean food, and whisked us off to the south side to a restaurant that was way off of the beaten path. He checked in with us frequently to make sure that we were enjoying the food and the experience, but also gave us some space at each location so that we could enjoy our food privately. All of the restaurants he took us to did not disappoint us, and they were everything he said they would be. We got to see so many interesting sights, murals, President Obama's neighborhood, old blues clubs etc...Everywhere we went he spoke to us of the very interesting history of the neighborhood we were in, talked about the changes it had been through and future expectations. I truly don't know what I enjoyed better, the food (which was absolutely incredible at each stop), or the art/culture/history that we got to see and learn about. On our tour we got to eat soul food, Caribbean food, Mexican food, Polish food, and Italian food! We were also introduced to the owner or chef at each stop, and they were all friendly and welcoming. Each location we stopped, he suggested favorites, but we were free to choose whatever we liked, and as much as we liked. Don't plan on eating the rest of the day after your tour, I promise you will be stuffed. Chef Greg, thank you so very much, we had an amazing time, and we will be back next time we are in town!
R B.
Pilsen Neighborhood Tour October 30, 2016
We did the Pilson Villiage tour. Combines all our favorites...great food, congenial companions, art, educational, all creating a wonderful memory! Greg was an excellent Chef Guide.
Adri J.
Chef Greg did a great job with this tour. The variety of food that was provided kept the tour exciting! The tour is pricey but it's worth the money, for the amount of food you get, the museum that you visit, and of course the experience. I would highly recommend this tour for anyone interested in the Pilsen area. I bought two gifts has a birthday gift and the birthday boy was very satisfied.
Wendy .
This tour was spectacular ! Filled with food, art and so much history that I had never knew, even as a Chicago native! Chef Greg not only took us to some amazing places for food, he shared a wealth of knowledge of history on the neighborhoods! I have lived in Chicago all my life and I learned SOOOO much on this tour. And the food... THE FOOD!!! I may never be able to eat a taco again at a local taquiera! Pilsen is amazing.. so rich with history and culture and food! Thanks , chef greg for introducing me to an amazing part of my city!!
Kevin M.
Chicago South Side Food and History Tour October 8, 2016
What a great concept! On our minimoon and we had chef Greg all to ourselves. The experience overall was really fun. Being our first time to the city, we would not have traveled out to the hidden spots by ourselves. PLENTY OF FOOD! If you decide to do this tour come hungry, ravenous, starving, ready to open up the food chamber in your left leg. Greg did a great job of explaining the city itself and showing us a few non-food highlights like the Rockefeller chapel, wall murals, and Obama's street.
I would totally recommend for a group, and for people who live in Chicago and want to check out some good "hometown" food you've never had before. It's a little pricy but totally unique and a great experience.
After hearing Greg describe the tavern tour to us, I'd like to give it a try next time we are here.
Meredith E.
Pilsen Neighborhood Tour September 29, 2016
This was by far the best decision I made while visiting Chicago. So much amazing food and information. Thank you!!!
Greg H.
Don't waste your money. Unorganized and not worth the price. On the good side we met a nice couple.
Coral H.
Chicago South Side Food and History Tour July 22, 2016
I went on two foodie tours with Chef Greg. The first one was just me and my husband. We were promptly picked up at our hotel and swept off to the South Side where we experienced extremely unique ethnic food. Chef Greg suggested items but we were free to pick out something ourselves. Beverages including alcohol are included. Greg is very knowledgeable about Chicago and history and made the ride fun and educational.
The second foodie tour I arranged for 13 of my friends and myself because I liked the first one so much. My friends and I were attending a conference and this is just what we needed to reconnect.
This time we had a van and a SUV which allowed us to mix and mingle. South side was the destination with some old favorites and some new! In our group we had people with food sensitivities and Chef Greg was able to accommodate everyone. We had a cooler with a fine mix of beverages so we never were lacking. Each tour is approximately 3.5 - 4 hours and there is never a dull moment.
Well worth the price. I highly recommend this tour company. Easy to work with. Clear communication and they are happy to customize for your group.
Leon C.
Pilsen Neighborhood Tour July 2, 2015
My family (my wife, 18 year old daughter, and I) first took the Pilsen tour. We liked it so much we had to experience the Southside as well. Although these tours center on food, they are actually much more than that. Chef Greg knows the neighborhoods intimately. He uses street art to illustrate the culture and the evolution of each area. Chef Greg amazed me with his deep knowledge of the demographics, architecture, history, and social structure of the communities. I could sense him patiently adapting the tour to the interests of the participants. He let us out of the van a couple times on each tour to make photos of some of the intricate street art. We visited sites of interest other than restaurants on both the Pilsen and Southside tours. Each place helped us gain a deeper appreciation of the local culture. Nevertheless, the food was the main attraction. Chef Greg took us to 4 or 5 different restaurants on each tour. You would not likely find these restaurants on your own. Locals eat at these places because they know the food tastes great. The restaurants on these tours don't boast a luxurious ambiance or a Michelin star. They just do one thing: they send out food that will blow out your taste buds with pleasure. I had the best sandwich ever at one stop. It was an Italian beef sub dipped in au jus. I could eat this sandwich every day. Chef Greg shows you how to order and eat like a local. My wife, a tiramisu connoisseur, raved about the authentic, melt in your mouth Italian dessert that marked our last food stop on the Pilsen tour. The culinary highlights of the Southside tour came from a soul food feast and a Caribbean/Central American food paradise. Both tours were wonderful. I hope to experience another one on my next visit to Chicago.
W D.
Chicago South Side Food and History Tour June 22, 2015
Went on the South Side tour with Chef Greg. Did 4 food stops... Pearl's Place has amazing soul food and a great place to try if it your first time having it. The Belizian food at Garfunna Flava was excellent as well... nicely balanced flavors and just the right amount of heat. Went for Italian ice which was extremely refreshing, and the perfect accompaniment to the Italian Beef Sandwich! Chef Greg knows the South Side inside out, and not only were the food stops great, but the history, and the knowledge about the different neighborhoods were extremely interesting. This is something that you would not find anywhere else in the city. Definitely a highlight of my trip!
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Mulumbu's call to switch back on
Midfielder eager to maintain momentum against Stoke
YOUSSOUF Mulumbu has called on his team-mates to ensure the international break does not disrupt Albion’s momentum as they prepare to visit Stoke on Saturday (ko 3pm).
The Baggies’ 1-1 draw with Arsenal made it four Barclays Premier League games unbeaten.
But Steve Clarke has had to wait ten days since then for nine first-team players to return from duty with their countries.
And Mulumbu is eager for Steve Clarke’s 12th-placed men to pick up where they left off, with the DR Congo star using last month’s 2-1 win at Manchester United as the benchmark.
“We need to be steady with our work because the Premier League is a long season, with strong teams,” he said.
“We need to use Old Trafford and the Arsenal game as references and I think that will build up our confidence.
“The international break will probably help those players who felt a little bit of fatigue.
“But for me I would have preferred it not to come because we were in a good period.
“We need to be focused again against Stoke and if we win against Stoke I think we’ll be in a good position in the top half of the table.
“So, we need to reply against Stoke on Saturday to see if we can carry on the momentum.
“I’m really confident.
“I know the guys that have been around have been training really hard all week – and I know the internationals will be focused and ready.
“I hope everyone is going to be fit and ready for the fight on Saturday.”
And Mulumbu is excited to see how the blend of old and new in the Baggies squad continues to develop.
“We knew we had great players come in towards the end of the window, like Sessegnon and Morgan,” he added.
“And players like Matej, who has been helping push us in training.
“We are strong now but I was confident before because we had a good season last season, when we finished eighth.
“We continue to progress with good players.
“We still have our core with Fozzy, Jonas and Gareth McAuley.
“I knew we were going to be strong and that is what we showed at Old Trafford and at home to Arsenal.”
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By Sid Kirchheimer
May 3, 2004 --Taking antioxidant vitamins, a practice done daily by millions of Americans in hopes of preventing heart disease, may actually contribute to it by boosting production of "bad" cholesterol.
New research on rodents shows that high doses of the much ballyhooed antioxidant nutrients -- vitamins C, E, and beta-carotene -- stimulate their liver's production of very low density lipoproteins (VLDL), which convert in the bloodstream to low-density lipoprotein (LDL), the so-called "bad" cholesterol that accumulates along artery walls and leads to atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries.
This suggests that getting doses of antioxidants usually found in vitamin supplements -- but not what is found in food -- may be "potentially harmful" for the heart, says researcher Edward A. Fisher, MD, PhD, director of the Lipid Treatment and Research Center at New York University Medical Center.
"If you're concerned about heart disease, our study offers another reason not to take them," he tells WebMD. "But it's not as simple as whether you should take, or not take, vitamin E or other antioxidants. What our study shows is that in some situations, oxidative stress might be good and in others it is bad."
Until now, "oxidative stress" was considered to be all bad -- the process in which "free radicals," or unstable molecules, damages cells and contribute to scores of disease.
Antioxidants prevent oxidative stress and have been thought to help reduce risk of cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, and other conditions. This is one reason why fruits and vegetables, which are generally rich sources of these nutrients, are universally recommended. But the role of higher-dose vitamin supplements is less established, particularly in preventing heart disease.
Some studies show that antioxidant supplements are helpful. Antioxidants are thought to prevent the changes that turn cholesterol molecules in the blood into substances that can form plaques in artery walls, blocking blood flow. But other studies indicate these supplements may be wasted money because they offer no benefit -- and may even boost heart disease risk.
Antioxidants Boost LDL Cholesterol
In his study, Fisher's team found that vitamin E, a well-known antioxidant, prevented the normal breakdown of fats in rat and mouse liver cells. In other words, these antioxidants prevented the liver from destroying fats such as VLDL, the precursor to "bad" LDL cholesterol. The antioxidants caused more VLDL to be present.
His research, published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, is reportedly the first to link antioxidant vitamins with increased VLDL production. And that's what it makes it important, says one expert.
"The bottom line of this paper is that you shouldn't assume that taking antioxidant vitamins is only going to have beneficial effects on cardiovascular disease," says Ronald M. Krauss, MD, director of atherosclerosis research at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, who was not involved in Fisher's study but wrote an accompanying editorial to it.
"There is no human clinical information -- the research was done on animals -- so this study doesn't offer a recommendation of whether or not you should take antioxidant vitamins," Krauss tells WebMD. "But it provides good background into what may be occurring when one does take antioxidants and help explain some previous findings."
Two years ago, a study of 20,000 people -- already with heart disease risks such as diabetes or blood vessel damage -- showed that taking daily supplements of vitamins C, E, and beta-carotene produced small but noticeable increases in heart disease risk factors such as higher levels of LDL cholesterol and triglycerides, a blood fat linked to heart disease. This study also linked these supplements to lower levels of "good" HDL cholesterol.
"The changes experienced were modest but consistent with mechanisms identified in this paper," Krauss tells WebMD. He says a previous study showed that giving an antioxidant cocktail to people with heart disease reduced the benefits of some cholesterol-lowering drugs.
Last June, after reviewing 15 previous studies involving more than 15,000 people, Cleveland Clinic researchers reported in The Lancet that taking vitamin E did not help prevent heart disease and that taking high levels of beta-carotene supplement actually caused a slight increase in risk of heart attack or stroke. Two weeks later, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force published its own paper in Annals of Internal Medicine showing there was no evidence that antioxidants, or folic acid, protected against heart disease -- and the agency even warned against taking beta-carotene supplements, which have previously been linked to increased lung cancer risk in smokers.
Does this mean that antioxidant supplements should be avoided? Not necessarily, says Krauss.
"There is evidence that supplements are beneficial for other conditions. And there is the suggestion that if you start taking them early in life, before atherosclerosis develops or there are significant signs of heart disease, these vitamins might be protective, rather than waiting until the disease has come into the picture. What this study shows is that despite popular belief that antioxidants are all good, they might have their downside as well, at least as it pertains to heart disease."
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SOURCES: Pan, M. Journal of Clinical Investigation, May 2004; vol 113: pp 1277-1287. U.S. Preventative Services Task Force, Annals of Internal Medicine, July 1, 2003; vol 139: pp 51-55. Vivekananthan, D. The Lancet, June 14, 2003. Heart Protective Study Collaborative Group, The Lancet, July 6, 2002, vol 360: pp 23-33. Edward A. Fisher, MD, PhD, director, Lipid Treatment and Research Center; Leon H. Charney Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine; professor of cell biology, New York University Medical Center, New York. Ronald M. Krauss, MD, director of atherosclerosis research, Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Oakland, Calif.
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For almost two decades Hunter had a mortgage on the NSW Country Rugby Union Championship but with Illawarra ending the Novocastrians' 17-year, XV-a-side reign last year and Central West fresh from a stunning tour of New Zealand, the Blue Bulls look primed to return to the top. Last week's trip to Aotearoa was designed to be the first step in the Blue Bulls' quest for country week glory and there's little doubt they took it, producing two excellent performances to score back-to-back wins over University of Canterbury and then High School Old Boys. Bruising defence was the catalyst for the 17-10 and 19-5 victories, respectively, a massive positive considering off-the-ball work was a big focus for both the women's and men's groups on the week-long, Christchurch-based tour. Naturally those on-field results produced plenty of excitement for the group, but so did a number of off-field experiences, particularly a visit to the Crusaders' Rugby Park HQ, breakfast with Black Ferns prop Phillipa Love and a training session with two-time World Cup winner Melissa Ruscoe. MORE IN RUGBY: Blue Bulls primed to adapt and overcome after impressing on New Zealand tour: Oxley Orange Emus' Amanda Ferguson, who manages the Wallaroos, returned to the playing field on the tour and is the namesake for Central West's women's club competition, went as far as saying the trip was one of her best. "I've been lucky enough to go on a lot of rugby trips around the world and this is up there as one of my highlights," she beamed. "I [was] really excited to be part of the trip, being able to mix with a lot of the younger generation of players both female and male, being able to experience different rugby cultures, it's just been a great week." That's something her Emus teammate Jacky Lyden, who made the trip despite recovering from a knee injury that sadly ruled her out of the ACT Brumbies' 2019 Super W campaign, West Wyalong's Lou McCabe and Bathurst Bulldogs' Mel Waterford all echoed. MORE IN RUGBY: The 30 in 30: What to look out for ahead of a bumper 2019 Central West Rugby season "Going to the Crusaders for that experience behind the scenes … it [was] awesome," Lyden said. "It's something not many of us girls get the opportunity to do and it really shows the next level of rugby, you know, for those aspiring to that level and what it really takes to achieve those goals," McCabe said. "I just totally loved the experience, it's definitely something new but it really brings big camaraderie for all the teams to come together and it's really moving women's rugby towards a new era where we are standing as one with the men." "We had a fantastic week," Waterford added. "It was an amazing trip, we've bonded as a team, it was just a fantastic experience." The tour will also serve Central West well ahead of the sevens championship, they finished fourth in that tournament last year after winning it in 2017. This year's women's country championships have undergone a slight change of format. Last year the sevens tournament was played alongside the men's Caldwell Cup and Richardson Shield competitions, but in 2019 the XV-a-side championship will coincide with those men's equivalents at Tamworth on the June long weekend. The sevens championship is expected to be held separately, and will remain a feeder program for the University of New England’s AON Uni 7s pathway. Central West's women will continue training, as will the men, throughout the next couple of months before naming their squad for country week.
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Central West's on and off-field experience in New Zealand to serve as inspiration for country week bid
Matt Findlay
FANTASTIC: Central West's women celebrate winning both of their tour games, the trip providing a massive boost to their country week preparation. Photo: TOTAL TOURS NZ
For almost two decades Hunter had a mortgage on the NSW Country Rugby Union Championship but with Illawarra ending the Novocastrians' 17-year, XV-a-side reign last year and Central West fresh from a stunning tour of New Zealand, the Blue Bulls look primed to return to the top.
Last week's trip to Aotearoa was designed to be the first step in the Blue Bulls' quest for country week glory and there's little doubt they took it, producing two excellent performances to score back-to-back wins over University of Canterbury and then High School Old Boys.
Bruising defence was the catalyst for the 17-10 and 19-5 victories, respectively, a massive positive considering off-the-ball work was a big focus for both the women's and men's groups on the week-long, Christchurch-based tour.
Naturally those on-field results produced plenty of excitement for the group, but so did a number of off-field experiences, particularly a visit to the Crusaders' Rugby Park HQ, breakfast with Black Ferns prop Phillipa Love and a training session with two-time World Cup winner Melissa Ruscoe.
'Fantastic' New Zealand tour the perfect first step in Bulls' quest for country week glory | photos, videos
"I've been lucky enough to go on a lot of rugby trips around the world and this is up there as one of my highlights".
WATCH: Central West's women reflect on the tour. Video: TOTAL TOURS NZ
MORE IN RUGBY: Blue Bulls primed to adapt and overcome after impressing on New Zealand tour: Oxley
Orange Emus' Amanda Ferguson, who manages the Wallaroos, returned to the playing field on the tour and is the namesake for Central West's women's club competition, went as far as saying the trip was one of her best.
"I've been lucky enough to go on a lot of rugby trips around the world and this is up there as one of my highlights," she beamed.
"I [was] really excited to be part of the trip, being able to mix with a lot of the younger generation of players both female and male, being able to experience different rugby cultures, it's just been a great week."
That's something her Emus teammate Jacky Lyden, who made the trip despite recovering from a knee injury that sadly ruled her out of the ACT Brumbies' 2019 Super W campaign, West Wyalong's Lou McCabe and Bathurst Bulldogs' Mel Waterford all echoed.
DOUBLE TROUBLE: Orange Emus' Milika Tuinakauvadra once again proved just how much potential she has by starring for Central West across the tour. Photo: TOTAL TOURS NZ
MORE IN RUGBY: The 30 in 30: What to look out for ahead of a bumper 2019 Central West Rugby season
"Going to the Crusaders for that experience behind the scenes … it [was] awesome," Lyden said.
"It's something not many of us girls get the opportunity to do and it really shows the next level of rugby, you know, for those aspiring to that level and what it really takes to achieve those goals," McCabe said.
"I just totally loved the experience, it's definitely something new but it really brings big camaraderie for all the teams to come together and it's really moving women's rugby towards a new era where we are standing as one with the men."
WATCH: Highlights of Central West's clash with High School Old Boys. Video: TOTAL TOURS NZ
"We had a fantastic week," Waterford added.
"It was an amazing trip, we've bonded as a team, it was just a fantastic experience."
The tour will also serve Central West well ahead of the sevens championship, they finished fourth in that tournament last year after winning it in 2017.
CRASHING THROUGH: Bathurst Bulldogs' Nicole Schneider busts through the High School Old Boys' defence on Saturday afternoon. Photo: TOTAL TOURS NZ
This year's women's country championships have undergone a slight change of format.
Last year the sevens tournament was played alongside the men's Caldwell Cup and Richardson Shield competitions, but in 2019 the XV-a-side championship will coincide with those men's equivalents at Tamworth on the June long weekend.
The sevens championship is expected to be held separately, and will remain a feeder program for the University of New England’s AON Uni 7s pathway.
Central West's women will continue training, as will the men, throughout the next couple of months before naming their squad for country week.
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Monday 28 Mar 2011 @ 15:03
Highways Agency Carbon Saving Scheme To Be Extended
Motorway lighting will be permanently switched off at three carefully selected sites in the North West to reduce carbon emissions and light pollution,the Highways Agency has announced.
The stretches of motorway have a good safety record and following careful assessment, analysis shows that the lights can be switched off without increasing risks to road user safety.
Under a revised standard for lighting on England's motorways and major A roads introduced in 2007, lights would not be installed at these sites if the existing lighting was due to be replaced - or if the sites were opening as new.
Lighting at the following three locations will be switched off from 29th March 2011:
• On the M58 between Skelmersdale Junction 4 to Orrell Junction 6 (approximately 3.8 miles);
• On the M65 between Dunkenhalgh Park Junction 7 to Burnley Junction 10 (approximately 5.5 miles); and
• On the M66 between Walmersley Junction 1 to Simister Roundabout Junction 4 (approximately 6.6 miles).
The motorway junctions and their approaches will remain lit.
Derek Turner, Director for the Highways Agency, said:
"Since 2009 we've switched lighting off between the hours of Midnight and 5am on 13 carefully selected stretches of motorways and evidence so far indicates that switching off the lights hasn't had an impact on safety. Analysis also suggests that driver behaviour does not appear to have been affected in terms of traffic volumes and speed.
"We are confident we can now begin to permanently switch off motorway lights at certain sites. This is not about wishing to remove all lights from the motorway network. It's about carefully identifying the locations where, under the revised guidelines, we would not consider installing lighting. The money saved could then be used elsewhere on the Strategic Road Network where it would have a more significant safety benefit and potentially save more lives.
"We anticipate achieving an annual reduction in carbon emissions on these three stretches of about 1000 tonnes. Local communities will also benefit from reduced light pollution of the night sky."
The Highways Agency has spoken to emergency services and other stakeholders to ensure they are aware of the switch-off.
Potential future sites for permanent switch off will continue to be assessed.
Issued by the Highways Agency National Press Office. For further information please contact Stuart Thompson on 0207 081 7443. Media enquiries out of hours should be made to the Highways Agency National Press Office (24hrs) on 0207 081 7443.
1. The Highways Agency is an executive agency of the Department for Transport. We manage, maintain and improve England's motorways and other strategic roads on behalf of the Secretary of State.
2. Junctions which are already lit will remain lit throughout the night, even if the lights on the main carriageway are switched off. For a limited time, there will be signs at the roadside to inform drivers that they are entering a switch-off area.
3. The Highways Agency published new design and appraisal Standards for lighting on England's motorways and major A roads in August 2007. The Standard for appraisal (TA49/07) means less new and replacement lighting is justified and installed, and the lighting design standard (TD34/07) sets out specific requirements, such as requiring designs for road lighting that will not emit direct light above the horizontal.
We completely rewrote these Standards and they include changes to policy such as revising the safety benefits of road lighting based on statistical evidence. For motorway links the benefits were revised down from 30% to 10%.
The revised standards have been published and are available at: http://www.standardsforhighways.co.uk/dmrb/index.htm
4. Existing sites where lights are switched off between midnight and 5am:
Site - Length (Motorway miles) M2 J3-4 - 5.3
M4 J7-8/9 - 2.7
M4 J11-12 - 3.0
M27 J7-8 - 2.4
M5 J2-4 - 8
M1 J16 to Watford Gap Services - 6
M6 J21a - J23 - 2.5
M5 J4a - J6 - 10.0
M6 J31- J31a - 2.0
Total Length 56.9
5. Real-time traffic information for England's motorways and other strategic roads is available:
- From the web at www.highways.gov.uk/traffic or www.highways.gov.uk/mobile if using a phone or mobile device.
- By phone from the Highways Agency Information Line on 0300 123 5000 at any time. (Calls to 0300 numbers will cost no more than 5p per minute from a standard BT residential landline. Call charges from other landlines and mobile networks may vary, but will be no more than a standard geographic call and will be included in all inclusive minutes and discount schemes).
- Before using any mobile, find a safe place to park. Never stop on the hard shoulder of a motorway except in an emergency. Make sure it's safe and legal before you call.
- From our Traffic Radio service, available on DAB digital radio and the internet at www.trafficradio.org.uk . To tune into the DAB service, simply press the "scan" button on your radio. The radio will tune into all available channels and you can select the new service by scrolling through the channels until you reach "Traffic Radio".
6. Receive our national and regional press releases by RSS and get the latest headlines straight to your desktop the moment we publish them to our website. Choose to receive a national press feed or one of our regionalised feeds - go to www.highways.gov.uk/rssnews for more information.
Issued by the Highways Agency National Press Office. For further information please contact Stuart Thompson on 02070817443. Media enquiries out of hours should be made to the Highways Agency National Press Office (24hrs) on 0207 081 7443.
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Senator seeks tighter regulations for truckers
By WebMaster - On Jun 22nd 2014 - in Legal Press Release
06/19/2014 // West Palm Beach, Florida, US // JusticeNewsFlash // Justice News Flash // (press release)
New York – A push is being made by U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer to expedite new requirements within the trucking industry. As reported by the Associated Press (AP), following the widely reported fatal accident that critically injured comedian and actor Tracy Morgan, Schumer asked that the U.S. Department of Transportation expedite a requirement for the use of electronic devices for logging the hours of truck drivers.
The requirement would force truck drivers to log the hours they have spent on the road with such devices as opposed to doing so manually, which Schumer suggests would prevent them from falsifying the information.
Schumer is quoted by the AP as stating to a Manhattan news conference, “We know that fatigue is a huge issue in terms of the number of crashes, and you can’t rely on companies to set the rules themselves, because they’re going to be competitive.”
The truck driver in the crash involving Morgan, Kevin Roper, had been working after having not slept in over 24 hours, a complaint alleges.
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“The Prince of Wales has shown great interest in and support for the work of Woodland Heritage for well over a dozen years now, which has helped a small charity like ours to carry much greater weight publicly then our size might normally have allowed”, said Woodland Heritage Co-Founder, Lewis Scott. “One marvellous example was in His Royal Highness’s birthday message to the countryside in ‘Country Life’ last year when in explaining ‘Why we must save our trees’, The Prince made reference to Peter Goodwin, the late-Chairman of Woodland Heritage”.
Woodland Heritage is a founding member of the Action Oak initiative and at an official engagement in July at the Norbury Park Estate in Staffordshire the charity was able to update The Prince of Wales on how its work with Forest Research and several English and Welsh universities was progressing. But the charity has also updated HRH on issues such as tree health and skills within the forestry sector, with the development of a suitably qualified workforce for the future being close to His Royal Highness’s heart too.
“Since 2010, Woodland Heritage has been delighted to be able to recognise the best student attending our Woodland to Workshop courses each year via The Prince of Wales Award, a trophy that His Royal Highness donated and which is a wonderful addition to any young forester’s CV”, said Mr Scott. “Woodland Heritage was particularly honoured to have The Prince of Wales present his trophy to the 2013 winner, Nina Williams; quite a photograph to share with friends and family!”
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The June/July issue of Workspan will soon be hitting computers (and mailboxes)! Look for these compensation- and performance plan-focused topics, among others, in WorldatWork’s award-winning magazine.
STOCK PERFORMANCE PLANS
“A Stock Performance Plan of the Future? Axon’s Plan Tests Employees’ Tolerance for Risk” by Brett Christie, WorldatWork
A lot of companies may talk a good game when it comes to taking extraordinary measures to motivate their workforce, but few align their employees to the CEO’s compensation plan.
Axon CEO Rick Smith and 300-plus employees are swinging for the fences with a bold, risk-reward equity plan. The eXponential Stock Performance Plan (XSPP) that could net Smith $1 billion in restricted stock options if all milestones are reached has changed the way he and his employees think about the business.
“I think the biggest effect it’s had is it made us start looking at long-term goals,” said Bryan Wheeler, Axon’s VP/Head of Records who opted into the XSPP. “Most people tend to be pretty incremental in products, so many more innovative ideas start to come out when you’re working toward something like this.”
The approach of offering a meaningful share ownership opportunity to all employees and future recruits “combines the employee-friendly concepts of broad-based equity plans with rigorous, shareholder-friendly growth criteria,” said Jon Burg, a partner with Aon Equity Services.
“Shining a Light on Innovative Compensation: Is Your Comp Plan Playing It Too Safe?” by Michael Thompson
Company boards are increasingly cautious about creating executive compensation plans that stray too far from traditional norms. The growing expectations of shareholder advisory firms — and more recently, large shareholders — as well as the looming potential for a failed say-on-pay vote, are curbing innovation when these plans are developed or updated. With so much at stake, it’s important that boards are confident that innovative compensation approaches are right for their organizations. This is particularly true for long-term incentive plans (LTIPs).
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis & Co. LLC both exert influence over say-onpay and other corporate governance issues, and institutional shareholders, including BlackRock and State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), are advocating for environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria. ESG is an effective way to measure the strides management is making to advance human capital management (HCM) issues such as gender pay equity and inclusion and diversity policies.
“Global Compensation Considerations” by Derrick P. Neuhauser and Kavita Maharaj
As companies continue to expand internationally, increasing market share, growing profits and developing low-cost production centers have become leading corporate goals. The need for a long-term vision on a global strategy has never been more important — and developing a smart compensation plan to support that strategy is a central component of corporate success.
Companies looking to expand their global footprint must wrap their arms around the complexity and multifaceted nature of compensation and incentive design. All too often, however, we see companies merely replicate their headquartered company policies as they expand. Over time, these policies can create concerns with internal pay equity, adverse performance achievement, retention and, ultimately, profitability.
This article tackles some of the complexities of global pay practices and policies to help you make more informed decisions as you consider international expansion.
“Job Description Precision” by Josh Miller
The question comes in many forms, and we either ask it or answer it all the time:
What do you do for work?
Or the simplest version: What do you do?
The answers tend to vary. For some of us, our title is enough to adequately explain what we do to a stranger. We’re not all that lucky though, and some of us have to be creative to explain what we do in a 30-second soundbite.
Job descriptions are an unpleasant, yet necessary evil in most organizations. I’ve never met anyone who enjoys job descriptions in any way. They aren’t enjoyable to read. They are less enjoyable to write. Yet so many critical activities in organizations rely on good job descriptions.
BENEFITS AND WELL-BEING
“Capturing the Data of Well-Being” by Stephanie N. Rotondo, WorldatWork
In the business world, it’s all about data. Data drives almost every decision made in an organization, even down to selecting which size paper clips to buy.
So what happens when data is more subjective than objective?
When it comes to implementing or continuing well-being programs, companies find themselves in this predicament. While companies can look to certain data points, a fair portion of the data is anecdotal. At that point, the question becomes: How do we prove that this program has value?
“Bringing Up Baby — And Your Organization’s ‘Wow’ Factor” by Mark Athitakis, WorldatWork
After Jennifer Patterson had a baby, she took advantage of a work program that allowed parents to bring their infants to the office for their first six months.
The benefit had a bemusing side effect. “Some people who never had the opportunity to bring their babies to work also enjoy that as a benefit that we have, because it’s really nice to be able to go hold a baby for a few minutes,” said Patterson, human resources director of GL Group, a St. Louis-based educational company. “I was surprised how much time I didn’t actually have with my baby because everybody else wanted to hold her.”
Of course, there are more consequential advantages from such a program for employees, especially women. Beyond the sense of camaraderie and savings on day care-costs, programs such as on-site child care, in vitro fertilization (IVF) coverage and lactation accommodations have played an important role in attracting and retaining workers in an increasingly competitive space.
“Operation Data Protection” by Tom Starner, WorldatWork
Technology in today’s workplace is about, among other things, making life easier for everyone. By using today’s creative tech tools, employees will be more engaged and productive, and corresponding positive bottom-line results will follow — or so the theory goes.
In many ways, tech tools are, in fact, making things easier and producing better results.
Yet when it comes to creating effective technology use policies, making the wrong moves can get in the way of progress, opening a proverbial Pandora’s box of legal and other problems — especially with the exposure of sensitive customer and employee data. With social media, email, instant messaging and other data-rich communications on the rise, experts and human resources leaders say a thoughtful approach to getting it right is essential.
So when it comes to managing employee use of technology at work in an effort to maintain data security, what’s a CHRO to do?
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Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie, Trapped Like a Rat in Mr.Bill's Neighbourhood By Hunter S. Thompson
Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie, Trapped Like a Rat in Mr.Bill's Neighbourhood
by Hunter S. Thompson
The saga of what happens to campaign junkies behind the scenes of a victorious American presidential campaign - their orgies, their despair and their terror. The author exposes the ugly side of politics at election time. Other work by the author includes "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas".
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Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie, Trapped Like a Rat in Mr.Bill's Neighbourhood Summary
"Better than Sex" is famed political analyst Hunter S. Thompson's groundbreaking and escapading saga of what happens to campaign junkies behind the scenes of a victorious American presidential campaign - their orgies, their despair, and finally their terror when they abandon all hope as the forces of darkness close in and make them prisoners in their own White House, where they cry out like doomed animals. As he does in such classics as "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72", "Hell's Angels" and "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", Dr Thompson has again wandered into the savage vortex of political power, and emerged, barely, with this bizarre tale of life within the Belly of the Great American Beast. This book drags you into Mr Bill's Neighbourhood, a world full of fear that stretches from the White House to Hollywood, where power-crazed monsters like Oliver North seize control of a nation and wallow unashamed in a Palace of Power where the only governing ethic is raw lust under a President who Thompson describes as having "the loyalty of a lizard with its tail broken off and the midnight taste of a man who'd double-date with the Revd Jimmy Swaggert". It is an ugly and disillusioning spectacle, one that only the merciful death of Richard M. Nixon explored here in all its glorious symbolism - could defuse.
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Protest organiser arrested as Nigerian Christians call for end to herdsmen killings
March 12, 2018 By World Watch Monitor Nigeria Adamawa, Fulani herdsmen, Nigeria
Mijah Stanley was detained for two days by police in Yola, the capital of Adamawa State, before being released. (Photo: Facebook/Mijah Stanley)
Police in Nigeria’s north-eastern Adamawa State last week arrested the organiser of a protest march against the continued killings of predominantly Christian famers by mainly Muslim Fulani herdsmen.
Mijah Stanley had called on “all pro-democracy and civil rights organisations, faith-based and community-based organisations, as well as other Nigerians” to rally on Wednesday, 7 March.
However, the march never went ahead after police spokesperson S.P. Othman Abubakar warned: “Any person or group of persons found violating the laws of the land will be arrested and prosecuted accordingly.”
Stanley, who was detained for two days and then released, is from the Christian-dominated Demsa Local Government Area, where at least 37 people were recently killed and another 30 injured after an attack by Fulani herdsmen on six communities.
Over 4,000 people were also displaced by the attack, which took place on Tuesday 27 February, affecting the communities of Sabon Pegi, Gwamba, Belanga, Sundi, Gidan Mission and Sallanra-Sankara.
After his release, Stanley told World Watch Monitor: “We cannot continue to watch them to kill our people simple because we are Christians and we do not support their ideologies, religious tenets and political settlements, yet the government is not making a categorical statement and policy regarding the killing.”
Christian areas of the state – such as Demsa, Numan, Girei, Lamurde, and some parts of Shelleng – have suffered a string of attacks since 2016.
The District Head of Gwamba village, Chief Josaih Ayah, said the damage to properties, some of which were burnt down, would cost millions of naira (several thousand dollars).
He also warned that continued insecurity could result in people carrying small arms to protect themselves.
Women and children displaced by Fulani attack in Gidan Mission village. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)
‘Even soldiers don’t have such weapons’
Luka Billa, a resident of Gidan Mission, told World Watch Monitor that a number of people were killed while trying escape by boat across the River Benue and that their bodies were yet to be recovered.
He also said he wondered where the herdsmen got their weapons, as they were far away from the river and still able to kill many people.
“Even our soldiers do not have such sophisticated weapons; it was not surprising that some soldiers came and had to go back for reinforcements,” he said.
The archbishop of the Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria, Most Rev. Musa Panti Filibus, added: “I am compelled to think that the killers, often said to be Fulani herdsmen, defied all security apparatus in the country. This is evident in their well-coordinated and organised attacks on innocent people who are mostly Christians.
“These killers are recalcitrant to the government by virtue of their unstoppable murderous actions. We are yet to hear of any of them being prosecuted according to law.
“Were there no intelligence reports prior to the attacks? Why are these gunmen said to be Fulani herdsmen perpetrating these gruesome acts, yet [there are] no report[s] of arrest[s] or any open trial according to law?
“If they are herdsmen and not sponsored killers, why are they attacking farmers during [the] dry season, when there [is] hardly any farming activity that would cause conflict between farmers and herdsmen? What do they want to achieve by killing innocent people, setting ablaze their homes and carting away with their sources of livelihood.
“May I call on all Nigerians, irrespective of their religions, to stand together in condemning all acts of terrorism.”
Response to attack
The government’s commissioner of Information and Strategy, Ahmed Sajoh, said the government has deployed more soldiers and relief aid to the affected areas and that those responsible will be dealt with severely to serve as a deterrent to others.
A resident of Gwamba, one of the most affected villages, Filimon Omayan, told World Watch Monitor that 20 from his village were massacred and 30 injured, and that the entire village was razed and its residents displaced.
Omayan explained that the assailants, numbering about 50, stormed the village in four Toyota Hilux 4x4s and motorcycles, and began shooting randomly.
He said that letters and phone calls were received from the assailants two weeks before the attack and reported the same to the police division in Gwamba, but that no action was taken.
Police spokesman S.P. Othman Abubakar said a combined team of military and police had found the village burnt down and the residents deserted.
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Briefly, it’s a weekly hour-long radio program devoted to music written for motion pictures. I began doing it back in the late 70’s at the old WQRS when we had scheduled a syndicated movie music show hosted by the composer David Raksin (“Laura” among other scores) which management decided not to run when it turned out the program was not free. Jerry Dellinger, our Music Director at the time, remembered that I was a fan of cinematic music, and asked me if I had enough material in my collection to do a month’s worth of programs so our Program Guide would be more or less accurate. I said “I think so,” and wound up doing the show for about 18 years until 1997.
Later, when WRCJ came into being, Dave Wagner asked me to come on board and mentioned that if things worked out, we might be able to bring the show back here on 90.9 FM- and sure enough, that’s what happened in April of 2007. It is truly a dream come true to be able to do the program again- to be honest, I doubted that I would ever get another opportunity.
The music we play on the show consists mostly of orchestral scores from the early 30’s (the beginning of talking pictures and of background scoring) up to the present (as recently as last week’s new releases), and as I like to point out to people, Film Classics is the only program on WRCJ exclusively devoted to music from the 20th and 21st centuries literally, there’s new material coming out all the time, as well as new recordings of classic scores by the old masters of the genre like Steiner, Korngold, and Herrmann.
Sometimes the show will be devoted to a single score, like “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir”, or sometimes it will follow a theme, like “Submarine Movies.” Generally speaking, we don’t do pop soundtrack compilations or very many musicals.
The theme music for the show, heard at the beginning and end of each program, is the main title sequence from “Since You Went Away” by Max Steiner, which won Steiner his third Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1944.
Joan Stevenson says
Hey Jack, have you ever done a program dedicated to the music of Pino Donaggio? I would really love to hear a selection of his scores.
WorkerB says
Hello Joan, yes actually Jack did do a Pino Donaggio show although that was maybe ten years ago now. Maybe it’s time to do another.
Tim Billo says
Just thought I would drop a note My wife and I have been a fan of yours since WQRS days. I am a movie fan and enjoy “seeing” the movie again through your program Keep on doing what you’re doing We will be listening
Thanks listeners! We will send this along to Jack. He appreciates your loyalty!
Ann Durack says
Love all the Christmas music today. Please let me know the name of the song being played at 6:40 on Jack Goggin’s show. It’s haunting me. Thanks in advance.
Ann Durack
Hello Ann, around that time Jack played “When Christmas Comes To Town” from The Polar Express followed by the soundtrack with narration to “The Snowman” by Howard Blake which you can see here:
https://www.amazon.com/Snowman-Howard-Blake/dp/B0027Z97W8
Thomas Baker says
I always enjoy your show. Sometime I hope you have an entire program of music composed by the great Ennio Morricone. He has written for many great films. I especially like the love theme from “Bugsy” and most of the music from “The Mission”. Exceptional composer.
Thank you Thomas. Jack did an Ennio Morricone show some time ago but he could easily do another one. We’ll see. Selections from “The Mission” always get a good response when we play them.
I heard the most beautiful piece at 6:55 pm tonight, heard that the composer (I think) was someone by the name of Doyle, yet when I tried looking up the name on your playlist, it said George Gershwin. I’m disappointed I won’t even know the name of that melody.
Hello Karen, towards the end of Film Classics Jack played:
The Hulk: The Lonely Man Theme (from the tv show)
Patrick Doyle’s Thor music was earlier in the show but Jack mentioned him at the end. Thanks for listening!
Twinkle Toes says
I’d love it if Jack played the great “Footloose” soundtrack. It rocks!!!
For the last time Mr. Bacon, please, stop requesting that one.
Gee Man says
Hello Jack, I tuned in about 6:15 yesterday and heard a few songs and imagined myself sitting in front of an old tube radio. What were they?
Hello, at that time Jack was playing music from Carol Reed’s noir classic “The Third Man” composed and performed on the zither by Anton Karas. The zither has an interesting sound.
Dave feryus says
I listened to the show on Sunday 7/15. Whst was playing. I was in the car at about 6:10 but couldn’t stay yo gind out.
Hello Dave, at the beginning of the show Jack played James Horner’s music from Aliens (1986). The second half of the show was The Rocketeer (1991).
Anne Grove says
I was not able to hear the full broadcast on Sunday evening 6/17/18. Would you please let me know which Korngold film score it was that you played? It was lovely.
Hello Anne, sorry you missed it. Jack Goggin played the score from “Anthony Adverse”.
Dan Lohman says
With America’s past time starting to heat up, are we going to hear from movies like “Field of Dream” “League of their own” “Pride of the Yankees” etc,etc etc……….
Hello Dan, that’s a possibility. Our Film Classics host Jack Goggin might be interested in doing such a show as well.
Byron says
Thanks for another fine show. I have fond memories of picking this CD up from the record store I worked at when it was released. Like a lot of music buffs I can vividly remember when and where I first heard so many albums. WRCJ and WQRS are a part of many of those memories.
Thanks Byron, we will pass your note along to Jack. Sadly, it’s much harder to find a music store these days.
Terese Edelstein says
A belated thank you for playing Korngold’s wonderful score of “The Prince and the Pauper” this past Sunday. Having just heard his Violin Concerto at the DSO, I found it especially interesting to see how heavily Korngold borrowed from that film score for the violin work. I do so enjoy your show, and try to listen when I can.
With thanks,
Terese Edelstein
Hi Terese, we’re glad you enjoy the show and Jack thanks you!
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Daniel Bryan on his WWE return at Summerslam
Slam Wrestling is featuring an interview with WWE U.S. champion Daniel Bryan discussing his return to the company after being released earlier in the summer.
“When they called me to bring me back, John Laurenitis, the head of talent relations, was adamant that I try to keep as many of my independent bookings as I could. That kind of took me by surprise. It was really cool because I owe a lot to my independent fans and the promoters who booked me, so it was really cool for them to react that way.”
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Lebanon school board member resigns over Facebook comments
Some saw post about President Obama as 'racist'
Updated: 11:03 PM EDT Oct 18, 2012
A Lebanon School Board member has resigned after comments he made about President Barack Obama on Facebook were seen as racist.Richard Mase Sr. talked about his comments with News 8 in an interview."I got excited about the debate on Oct. 3," Mase said.Mase said he became so worked up over something Obama said during the debate, that he took to Facebook and wrote something he said could be construed as "racist.""I was firing off a bunch of comments on Facebook and said something inappropriate," Mase said.Mase would not repeat that comment and the posting no longer appears on his Facebook page, but he did say some of what he wrote about the president."He said something that came right out of the Marxist playbook and I called him a Communist and said he probably should be dead," Mase said.Someone in Lebanon School District saw the Facebook comments and told the school board president.The school board president asked Mase to step down. Mase initially refused, then as pressure mounted, he decided to resign."Everbody on board chewed me out royally and I don't blame them. They all called for my resignation. At first I said 'No,' and then, after thinking about it, I decided I would resign. It was the best thing to do," Mase said.Mase, who runs an oil delivery business, said he does have some regrets."I still regret firing off on Facebook without thinking, but I don't regret feeling what I feel. I do regret what I said," Mase said.Mase was elected to the Lebanon School Board in 2011.The board has 30 days to replace him.
LEBANON, Pa. —
A Lebanon School Board member has resigned after comments he made about President Barack Obama on Facebook were seen as racist.
Richard Mase Sr. talked about his comments with News 8 in an interview.
"I got excited about the debate on Oct. 3," Mase said.
Mase said he became so worked up over something Obama said during the debate, that he took to Facebook and wrote something he said could be construed as "racist."
"I was firing off a bunch of comments on Facebook and said something inappropriate," Mase said.
Mase would not repeat that comment and the posting no longer appears on his Facebook page, but he did say some of what he wrote about the president.
"He said something that came right out of the Marxist playbook and I called him a Communist and said he probably should be dead," Mase said.
Someone in Lebanon School District saw the Facebook comments and told the school board president.
The school board president asked Mase to step down. Mase initially refused, then as pressure mounted, he decided to resign.
"Everbody on board chewed me out royally and I don't blame them. They all called for my resignation. At first I said 'No,' and then, after thinking about it, I decided I would resign. It was the best thing to do," Mase said.
Mase, who runs an oil delivery business, said he does have some regrets.
"I still regret firing off on Facebook without thinking, but I don't regret feeling what I feel. I do regret what I said," Mase said.
Mase was elected to the Lebanon School Board in 2011.
The board has 30 days to replace him.
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Intelligence Community Whistleblower Ombudsman Fired
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Intelligence community whistleblower ombudsman Dan Meyer has been fired. This is a disturbing and problematic move. It is particularly surprising, or perhaps cynically appropriate, that this occurred shortly after members of the intelligence community (IC) met with whistleblower rights organizations earlier this month.
Meyer had significant experience in whistleblower matters with the Department of Defense and served as an ombudsman in the Office of the Intelligence Community Inspector General (OIG).
Andrew Bakaj, also formerly of the OIG, stated, “Dan is a highly respectable individual with a lot of courage.” He added that Meyer advocated for a strong whistleblower program with a “two-fold purpose” of “encourag[ing] folks to come forward with information on a problem that the agencies need to know about,” and as a “mechanism to prevent people from making classified information public.”
Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) wrote to “express deep concern about the Office of Intelligence Community Inspector General.” Senator Grassley has previously asked that all documents be preserved in Meyer’s case.
NWC Executive Director Stephen M. Kohn attended a roundtable discussion with National Security Agency (NSA) Inspector General Robert Storch earlier this month and pointed out the serious deficiencies within the NSA’s current whistleblower law.
Current NSA whistleblower law does not provide for back-pay, lost wages, reinstatement of the whistleblower, statutory attorney fees, or judicial review of administrative decisions. Mr. Kohn advocated for informing whistleblowers of their rights under the False Claim Act and potentially arranging proffer agreements with individuals. The flaws within the NSA’s own whistleblower program apply across-the-board in the IC.
The Meyer firing demonstrates anecdotal evidence that the IC continues to conflate leakers with whistleblowers. Instead of firing intelligence officials for coming forward, they should be praised and rewarded for reporting NSA misconduct. The IC should be promoting people who understand this difference instead of firing them.
Tags: Intelligence Community, Sen. Charles Grassley, Stephen M. Kohn, Whistleblower, Whistleblower Protection, Whistleblower Protections
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Cars We Remember: 1970 Pontiac GTO Ram Air IV owner seeks info on ownership
Jan 21, 2019 at 8:55 AM Jan 21, 2019 at 8:55 AM
Q: Greg I was reading one of your articles on the internet posted in January 2016. The article was about someone that owned a Ram Air IV GTO Judge that you spoke of and then valued the car at just over $200,000.
I own a 1970 Ram Air IV GTO that came from Boyertown Pontiac in Pennsylvania in May 1970. I have owned the Ram Air IV GTO since October 1997 and gave the car a complete frame off restoration.
The GTO originally came in Pepper Green with Sandalwood Interior (it’s now a deep blue). It has the Ram Air IV engine, 4-speed close ratio transmission, floor console, hood mounted tachometer, factory rally gauges, 3.90 limited slip differential, Décor Group which is the wheel open moldings, valance moldings and drip moldings, 8-track tape player, AMFM radio, power disc brakes and manual steering.
I know of the previous three owners but not the first original owner. I believe he went by the nickname of “Dutch.” Dutch traded the GTO in on a new Toyota in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, in 1976 when his family grew and the oil embargo made it difficult to drive this car as a daily driver due the high cost of gasoline.
My question is do you have any connections that could help me track down the first owner?
He may hold some of the key paperwork to my GTO such as the Bill of Sale and Build sheet.
The car has been authenticated by Pontiac Historical Society and I have spoken to other enthusiasts in the Pennsylvania area that knew of my Ram Air IV GTO when Dutch raced it on the street. One person told me the GTO pretty much owned the street and beat many of the Stage 1 Buicks and LS6 Chevelles and other prized muscle cars from that era.
The second, third and fourth owners have all been very kind giving me great historical information on the car and its history. I even spoke to the son of the Pottstown Toyota dealership owner where the GTO was traded in back in 1976 toward a new Toyota. The son, who is now the owner, remembered the car and begged his father to keep it but being a factory drag GTO his father did not allow it. He recalled receiving the title that was then transferred over to the dealership.
The second owner is Dean Muhlenberg. He purchased the GTO off the used car lot in 1976 for $1,400 and kept the car until 1978. I spoke to his father and he recalled the GTO was on the used car lot for almost two weeks sitting outside unprotected.
Dean sold the car to Phil Lavelle who owns a machine shop and kept the GTO until 1996.
Phil and I have talked many times about his 18 years of owning the GTO. Phil has a repair shop in Pennsylvania and is on Facebook.
Phil sold the GTO to Mark Ludvigson in 1997, who lives in Delaware, and I purchased the GTO from Mark on Oct. 31, 1997. I drove the GTO back to Miami carefully and stopped for gas 12 times. With 3.90 gears I believe I got around 12 mpg.
So there is my story. I have been looking for the first owner for years trying to track down any valuable paperwork. I have posted information on the GTO club of Pennsylvania a few years back with no luck. I wish I could run the vehicle identification number (VIN) through the DMV to find out who the first owner was.
- Roger Wydler, Miami
A: Roger first thanks for your well written and researched letter. The best I can do for you is use your letter in my column, which appears nationally on the More Content Now and Gatehouse Media newspaper and internet sites. Perhaps someone will read this column and come up with the name of that first owner you seek. I wish you good luck and if any readers know who this first owner is, they can contact me as I do have the contact number for Roger.
As for your Ram Air IV GTO, it truly is a high dollar classic that is currently valued by NADA Classic Cars at a high retail of $106,650 thanks to the Ram Air IV engine (plus 35 percent) and the 4-speed manual transmission (plus 15 percent). Most important, however, is the fact that only 1,517 Ram Air IV models were ever built during the 1969/1970 years making your car an extremely rare and excellent example of GTO muscle.
Finally, that Judge you read about back in 2016? It’s still listed on NADA at a high retail of $199,795.
Thanks again for your question and I wish I had a magic wand that would allow uncovering the name of the original owner. The best I can do is ask my readers for info and hope that one of them may deliver the “magic wand” with their memory recall of Dutch, the very first owner.
Greg Zyla writes weekly for More Content Now and GateHouse Media. Contact him at greg@gregzyla.com or at 303 Roosevelt St., Sayre, PA 18840.
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Winter Texans enjoy Nuevo Progreso, Mexico annual celebration
Published: Thursday, 29 March 2018 08:24
Written by Carina Brunson
Jim and Roberta Swenson and Judy and Jerry Freitag are couples from the same city in Minnesota and came to enjoy the Winter Tourist Appreciation Day in Progreso, Mexico on March 21.
Winter Texans were the toast of Nuevo Progreso during the 42nd annual Winter Tourist Appreciation Day on March 21.
The appreciation offered by Progreso officials included the selection of a king and queen for the event, Bob and Jody Ferns, who spend the winter season at Siesta Village in Weslaco. The couple was given a pair of Mexican sombreros for crowns along with a sash each proclaiming them the 2018 Winter Texan King and Queen. A plaque and other gifts were presented along with a large bouquet of roses for Jody.
Winter Texan friends from Tropic Winds Resort in Harlingen came for the Nuevo Progreso's Tourist Appreciation Day. Enjoying some beverages are (from left) George Mueller, Loren and Mary Voecks, Rocky Semmelrock and Bill Galliher.
The Ferns said they were surprised by their selection. They learned they had been recommended by their dentist in Progreso. The couple had been going to the border city every year since arriving in the Rio Grande Valley (RGV) in 2004.
The mayor of Nuevo Progreso spoke along with several visiting dignitaries from Texas cities, citing their common interests. A bridge parade had been staged earlier in the morning, marking the commonalty found on both sides of the border.
With the opening ceremonies completed, the cry was “let’s party!” And for this huge crowd of Winter Texans that’s exactly what they seemed to find enjoyable.
Bob and Jody Ferns received sombreros and sashes from the mayor of Nuevo Progreso after being named 2018 King and Queen of the Mexican city's Winter Tourist Appreciation Day on March 21.
Yvonne Thomas, from Minnesota, and Char Salewske, of Iowa, who are both at Tip-O-Texas RV Resort in Pharr, looked to be enjoying the party atmosphere, both wearing flower head wreaths. Thomas, who has been coming to the RGV for six years, likes the peanuts and margaritas at the appreciation day, which she has attended several times. Her best friend, Salewske, mentioned how easy it is to make friends. She and Thomas met at a dance with their husbands.
They both find people really friendly, more than other places in the country where they have stayed. It’s also much less expensive to live in the Valley, they agreed. And there are plenty of activities for meeting people, including the dancing.
Jim and Roberta Swenson, from Minnesota, have been coming to the Valley for 15 years. Jim recounted, “We found it nice on our first visit and said maybe we should buy a place. Two weeks later we had a place.” They live at Siesta Village in Weslaco, down the street from Progreso’s newly crowned king and queen.
They enjoy watching people and the “free stuff” at the event. That is similar to the tastes of their friends Jerry and Judy Freitag, also from the same city in Minnesota, who have been in the Valley for 14 years and stay at Country Sunshine Park in Weslaco. They like the friendly people, plus the great winter weather.
Yvonne Thomas (left) and Char Salewske, from Tip-O-Texas RV Resort in Pharr picked up flower head wreaths to add to the fun of Winter Tourist Day in Progreso, Mexico March 21.
Music is the life of most parties and there was plenty of it at appreciation day. That is what led to the friendship of Judy Minden, of Kansas, and Keith Churchill, of Illinois. The pair who stay at Lamplighter MH & RV Subdivision in Palmview, are involved in the various music jams around the area. Minden plays mandolin and guitar and Churchill is on the keyboard.
Churchill, who has been in the RGV 20 years, loves music and likes it here. Minden, who says she is “a people watcher,” likes the weather and making friends. In the Valley, she can count on music, friends and sunshine. “One of the three is always available.”
Five friends from Tropic Winds Resort in Harlingen, sat around a small table enjoying beverages on the blocked off main street of Progreso and sort of people watching. That included lots of color as entertainers moved past in the crowds toward the stage area, where they performed during much of the day.
George Mueller, who spends summers in both Missouri and Wyoming, has been coming to the RGV for 18 years. He likes seeing people.
Loren and Mary Voecks, from Minnesota have been in the Valley for 10 seasons. They said they enjoy the RGV area, its people and the weather.
Rocky Semmelrock, from Connecticut, has visited for the past eight years. He too likes people and the warm winter weather.
Bill Galliher, from Minnesota, is in his fifth year of coming down. He loves the sun, he said.
From the comments, it appears Winter Texans find the RGV a great place to spend the winter, where the sun beams brightly much of the time, the breezes are usually cooling, it’s easy to meet someone and lots and lots of the merchants and visitors are friendly folk.
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Fundamentals of turbulence
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Turbulent flow is the most commonly encountered type of viscous flow but its theoretical treatment is not as well developed as that for the laminar flow. Turbulent flow can be examined with particular attention paid to mechanism of the momentum and energy transfer.
1 Description of turbulence
2 Time-averaged governing equations for turbulence
Description of turbulence
In turbulent flow, the transport phenomena variables (i.e., u, v, w, T, p, etc.) always vary with time. For example, the magnitude and direction of the instantaneous velocity vector are different from those of the time-averaged velocity. While the instantaneous velocity in a turbulent flow is always time-dependent, the time averaged velocity can be either time-independent or time dependent. For any given location (x, y, z) and time t, the local instantaneous velocity can be expressed as a summation of its mean value and its fluctuation.
See main article" Description of turbulence.
Time-averaged governing equations for turbulence
The transport phenomena equations including the Navier-Stokes and the energy equation are exact for solving the turbulent problem if their complete unsteady forms are solved. In general, this approach is not taken because of complexity and significant computer time requirement. In addition, the turbulent problems, in their gross aspect, are assumed steady state. Time averaging of transport phenomena equations should provide the net effect of the turbulent perturbation.
See main article" Time-averaged governing equations for turbulence.
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The Emotionally Intelligent Office
A book outlining 20 key emotional skills for the workplace created by The School of Life for Business.
Modern businesses place huge emphasis on technical training, yet a lot of what determines the success or failure of an organisation has nothing to do with the traditional 'hard' skills taught at business school, but rather the sophisticated 'soft' skills that are key to emotional maturity.
The Emotionally Intelligent Office introduces us to twenty core emotional skills that can help businesses and individuals to flourish. They range from giving and receiving honest feedback and accepting that it's OK to fail, to addressing jealousies and insecurities within teams. We learn about how our childhoods continue to have an often unhelpful impact on how we deal with colleagues and the best ways we might speak so that others will listen.
This book is informed by the practical work that the Business division of The School of Life carries out, endeavouring to change the culture within organisations around the world by teaching teams the art of emotional intelligence.
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Why Do People Diss Pop Music
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Jul 26, 2017. When you think of German music, what comes to mind is probably:. Schlager is a form of pop so insipid and saccharine that it is possible. people in the Federal Republic got to enjoy all manner of Western. So, even though schlager is categorically awful, do I as a non-German have any right to diss it?
Aug 31, 2018. Last year's critical lashing has inspired some of Eminem's most. The Eminem Show—and rewriting pop music's playbook along the way. “Do you have any idea how much I hate this choppy flow everyone copies though?
Dec 06, 2018 · In the 80s, we had black sexy female singers who everyone (including white people) liked, but Whitney was that All-American Girl who isn’t allowed to be sexy.
Sep 2, 2013. The best diss songs have sparked the most fueled beefs in rap. It turns out that some of our favorite pop stars know a thing or two about taking.
The candy-coated earworm begins with Ally asking, “Why do you look so good in those jeans?” [All the songs from ‘A Star Is Born,’ ranked] “Why Did You Do That?” is at the center of the debate around.
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Mar 10, 2017. Diss records have become a major part of hip-hop and pop music since. to write their songs and see who wrote some really mean things.
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Even my own mother would turn up her nose at my white high school girlfriends. These days she’s much more laid back about my choice in female companionship (age, introspection, and perspective will do that) but she never passed up the opportunity to ask “Why can’t you find a.
Hymns With The Word Blessing What a wonderful blessing! It truly brings thanksgiving to God from heart. Pastor Knapp welcomed our new Learning Center director, Vanessa Mercer, who said a few words. Josh Oberbeck was confirmed. Singer In Zappa Plays Zappa ZAPPA and THE MOTHERS continue to explore rhythmically intricate arrangements and observational absurdities on One Size Fits All. Similar
Jul 20, 2017. Here's him talking about the strong reaction over his recent hit "Galway Girl," which for some reason mixes Irish folk music, pop, and hip-hop.
Fan club. Behind every K-pop group is a dedicated fan club, big or small, and they play a vital role in a group’s success. When a group gets big enough, its fans earn an official fan club name.
"I have pretty strong morals and opinions being in pop music. her diss, Cher Lloyd has since weighed in on the twosome’s feud and admitted she was shocked to learn about the young beauty’s.
Things are coming full circle in 2019 for Glendale-based Latina pop punk quartet Go Betty. “This is something we’ve wanted to do for years and people have been asking us and, quite honestly, I have.
Ten years later, the King of Pop’s estate is thriving. before, and yet people bought the works, people still licensed the works and used them, so why do you want to keep this as a current.
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May 25, 2018. The diss track was accompanied by a fake invoice for $100,000. Both Drake and Pusha T are signed to Universal Music Group labels — the.
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Mar 6, 2017. “I have met only a very few people—and most of these were not. Don't you just hate it, Joel asked his admiring audience, when. He knows pop is rigged, which , somehow, makes him the most honest person in the arena.
Most of the DJ’s music. [pop megastars]. We’ve taken the position, even with the hip-hop stuff we do, to leverage our audience with the core audiences of these artists who are crazy loyal. That.
How do. and people wouldn’t be hearing your music. So I feel like you have to have a lot more than songs. For me, it’s a lot about personality, if you can connect with the audience, y’know? Yeah, I.
*Fragile – 1972 Atlantic* E (Great) Best song: South Side Of The Sky Mr.Rick Wakeman, known as the best session keyboardist in England and who had been recently proclaimed as "Music’s Next Superstar," came onboard and shot Yes’ credibility through the roof.
“OOOUUU” is a cloudy club banger from buzzing Brooklyn rapper Young M.A. The spacey production from U-Dubb allows M.A to showcase her skills—dropping witty punchlines as she flows smoothly.
I’ll start with a disclaimer: I’m an old hip-hop head. I am 30-*coughs and crumples paper while driving under a bridge* years old and I am set in my taste, similar to how white people describe.
Music has that very unique ability to help you express complicated, deep emotions that are often hard to access on your own, which I personally believe is part of the reason why. with pop music,
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Sep 10, 2018. Music feuds: Cardi B, Nicki Minaj and 8 other pairs who do NOT get along. One of those people was Madonna, who thought it was so similar to her 1989 hit. For two artists who became popular around the same time and were only a. Eminem retaliated with his own diss track, Nail in the Coffin, in which.
The influential Apple Music exec first became aware of the 17-year-old pop prodigy a few months. We’re not going to do anything that feel like a trade.’ Part of the reason why we’re reaching so.
Nov 27, 2017. Following a year in which white people took credit for cornrows, hoop. XXL Freshmen list because he was “going in more of a rock/pop/country direction.”. Songs like “Go Flex” are the same mediocre singer-songwriter drivel you can. I hope this doesn't cause hate but if it does, it will validate my point.
It’s a biweekly event that I do with two other DJs. Prior to that (and currently still going) I had Brooklyn Bowl once a month and occasional pop-ups at Kinfolk. I want to start putting music out.
May 08, 2018 · If the headlines of the past decade are any indication, Katy Perry and Taylor Swift might be the pop music feud of this generation. While the pair were once friends (at least, according to their.
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American Power Group Corporation Launches Governmental Affairs Marketing Initiative
Apr 3, 2017 9:00 AM EDT
- APG's Ability To Reduce Harmful Diesel Related Emissions On Class 8 Engines At Forefront Of Campaign -
- Goal Is To Expand Awareness and Eligibility For Federal, California, and State Air Pollution Programs -
LYNNFIELD, Mass., April 03, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- American Power Group Corporation (OTCQB:APGI) today announced the launch of a significant governmental outreach and education initiative.
Dan Goodwin, APG's Vice President of Technical Marketing and Government Affairs, stated, "APG is implementing a multi-faceted strategic communications and government relations initiative with initial focus on the significant and immediate opportunities in the State of California as well those with national implications from Washington, D.C. We have retained Washington, D.C.-based Ogilvy Government Relations ( www.ogilvygr.com) and the California lobbying firm of Gonzalez, Quintana, Hunter & Cruz, LLC ( www.gqhlobby.com). Both firms will help educate key governmental decision makers on the practical application and immediate air quality benefits that APG's proven natural gas dual fuel technology can provide in significantly reducing harmful diesel emissions on high-horsepower diesel engines. APG's dual fuel solution also supports increased consumption of North America's abundant supply of clean-burning domestic natural gas accelerating America's efforts to become energy independent and enhancing our national security."
Mr. Goodwin added, "Leading the effort at Ogilvy for APG's Government Relations effort at the Federal Level and the newest member to APG's newly formed Strategic Advisory Committee is the Honorable Bud Albright, Principal at Ogilvy. Mr. Albright's full bio is on the Ogilvy website, but in summary, he 'has a 30 year distinguished record of government service and has held high ranking positons including Under Secretary at the Department of Energy, Deputy General Counsel at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Deputy Associate Attorney General at the Department of Justice and Staff Director for the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Through all of these positions Mr. Albright has developed a keen understanding of how the political and the policy elements of Washington intersect.'"
Mr. Albright said, "I, along with our Ogilvy team of former senior government and private sector colleagues, look forward to working with American Power Group to help ensure the federal government understands and appreciates the proven environmental and economic benefits that APG's dual fuel technology brings to the table today. We aim to help ensure that the laws and regulations promulgated at the federal level can begin to support, not impede, bringing those benefits to the public. As many have long recognized, meeting our energy and environmental needs will come about through the development of technology and APG's proven industry leading position in dual fuel solutions over the past five years dramatically reduces diesel-related emissions for many of the largest truck engines in operation. This is an exciting technology developed by a company with sound, visionary leaders. It is our commitment at Ogilvy to help bring about whatever change is needed at the federal level to enable APG technology to become the gold standard for high horsepower diesel engine efficiency."
Regarding APG's governmental affairs campaign in California, Will Gonzalez from Gonzalez, Quintana, Hunter, and Cruz LLC stated, "APG's technology, and the timing of their engagement in California policy, is what attracted our firm to the company and their management team. After nearly a decade focused on climate change issues, California policymakers are once again paying attention to the issue of ozone criteria pollution and the significant negative health impact diesel-related emissions from heavy-duty trucks are making on our state's most populous and disadvantaged communities."
Mr. Gonzalez added, "Since engaging with APG, we have exposed top California State and local regulators and legislative leaders to APG's technology, making sure legislation addressing clean air trucking and natural gas takes dual-fuel conversions into account. We are actively engaged in legislative discussions to ensure dual-fuel technologies can be marketed in California and qualify for state funded opportunities."
Lyle Jensen, APG's Chief Executive Officer added, "Through our governmental affair investments, we are gaining bipartisan support at both the federal and state levels once they understand we have an energy efficient technology available today that can, on average, displace 50% of the diesel fuel with clean burning natural gas and realize its associated diesel emission reduction benefits. These emission benefits are on a class of high-horsepower engines that are the #1 producer of NOx in the United States and have no other commercially viable alternative solution. It is only a matter of time before policy and practice come together."
About American Power Group Corporation American Power Group's subsidiary, American Power Group, Inc. provides cost effective products and services that promote the economic and environmental benefits of our alternative fuel and emission reduction technologies. Our patented Turbocharged Natural Gas ® Dual Fuel C onversion Technology is a unique non-invasive software driven solution that converts existing vehicular and stationary diesel engines to run concurrently on diesel and various forms of natural gas including compressed natural gas, liquefied natural gas, conditioned well-head/ditch gas or bio-methane gas with the flexibility to return to 100% diesel fuel operation at any time. Depending on the fuel source and operating profile, our EPA and CARB approved dual fuel conversions seamlessly displace 45% - 65% of diesel fuel with cleaner burning natural gas resulting in measurable reductions in nitrogen oxides (NOx) and other diesel-related emissions. Through our Flare Gas Capture and Recovery Technology, we provide oil and gas producers a flare capture service solution for associated gases produced at their remote and stranded well sites. These producers are under tightening regulatory pressure to capture and liquefy the flared gases at their remote and stranded well sites or face significant oil output reductions. With our proprietary Fueled By Flare™ process technology we can convert these captured gases into natural gas liquids ("NGL") which can be sold as heating fluids, emulsifiers, or be further processed by refiners. In addition, we anticipate our next generation NGL processing systems will have the capability to convert the residual flared methane into pipeline quality natural gas that can be sold for a variety of dedicated and dual fuel vehicular, stationary, industrial and household uses. See additional information at: www.americanpowergroupinc.com
Caution Regarding Forward-Looking Statements and Opinions With the exception of the historical information contained in this release, the matters described herein contain forward-looking statements and opinions, including, but not limited to, statements relating to new markets, development and introduction of new products, and financial and operating projections. These forward-looking statements and opinions are neither promises nor guarantees, but involve risk and uncertainties that may individually or mutually impact the matters herein, and cause actual results, events and performance to differ materially from such forward-looking statements and opinions. These risk factors include, but are not limited to, the fact that, our dual fuel conversion business has lost money in the last seven consecutive fiscal years and our flare gas capture and recovery business has yet to generate measurable revenues, the risk that we may require additional financing to grow our business, the fact that we rely on third parties to manufacture, distribute and install our products, we may encounter difficulties or delays in developing or introducing new products and keeping them on the market, we may encounter lack of product demand and market acceptance for current and future products, we may encounter adverse events or economic conditions, we operate in a competitive market and may experience pricing and other competitive pressures, we are dependent on governmental regulations with respect to emissions, including whether EPA approval will be obtained for future products and additional applications, the risk that we may not be able to protect our intellectual property rights, factors affecting the Company's future income and resulting ability to utilize its NOLs, the fact that our stock is thinly traded and our stock price may be volatile, the fact that we have preferred stock outstanding with substantial preferences over our common stock, the fact that the conversion of the preferred stock and the exercise of stock options and warrants will cause dilution to our shareholders, the fact that we incur substantial costs to operate as a public reporting company and other factors that are detailed from time to time in the Company's SEC reports, including the report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2016 and the Company's quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements and opinions, which speak only as of the date hereof. The Company undertakes no obligation to release publicly the result of any revisions to these forward-looking statements and opinions that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
Investor Relations Contacts:Chuck Coppa, CFOAmerican Power Group Corporation781-224-2411ccoppa@americanpowergroupinc.com Mike PorterPorter, LeVay, & Rose, Inc.212-564-4700mike@plrinvest.com
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Americans have long underestimated China’s entrepreneurs and startup companies due to their association with the State and the Communist Party.
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Americans have long underestimated China’s entrepreneurs and startup companies due to their association with the State and the Communist Party. That mindset needs to change, said Edward Tse, author of China’s Disruptors. 'These companies are fast and agile and they are disrupting businesses not only in China, but in our view they are beginning to get outside of China,' said Tse, who is the founder and CEO of the advisory firm Gao Feng. Tse profiles Chinese technology giants like Alibaba (BABA) founder Jack Ma in his book to illustrate how the country has reversed its long hostility to private enterprise in a mere two decades. Alibaba boasts a $208 billion market capitalization after launching the world’s largest IPO in history in September 2014. He also details the rise of Ma Huateng, also known as 'Pony' Ma, who grew Tencent into the world’s third largest internet company with a market cap of $187 billion. Tse said American investors should also put Lei Jun, CEO of Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi, and Ren Zhengfei on their radar screens next to the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates. Ren Zhengfei is CEO of Huawei Technologies, one of the world's largest suppliers of telecommunications equipment and mobile phones.
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THEY'RE BACK
Killer Clown invasion returns as knifeman in costume shouts ‘run or die’ at boys and masked raiders threaten to shoot Sainsbury’s staff
With Halloween almost a month away, two worrying incidents have emerged related to the eerie fancy dress outfit
By John Shammas
Updated: 20 Sep 2018, 15:26
THE Killer Clown craze is back - with a knifeman shouting "run or die" at two boys and a branch of Sainsbury's being raided by a man in one of the masks.
With Halloween almost a month away, two worrying incidents have emerged related to the eerie fancy dress outfit.
A 'Killer Clown' thug is seen in Prestwich, Greater Manchester, last month during a raid on a Sainsbury's
While the craze began in 2016, it continued into 2017 with pranksters carrying out stunts including gathering outside of schools dressed as clowns to scare kids.
Creepy clown costumes grew in notoriety thanks to Stephen King's horror novel It, which was released in 1986.
Thanks to a recent film adaptation of the book being released, the popularity in crooks and pranksters adapting the disguise has only increased.
And now two new incidents in recent weeks suggests the worrying trend is continuing into 2018.
Dog walker films creepy 'killer clown' near Lanarkshire primary school
In Dartford, Kent, police officers have warned locals to be on their guard after two boys reported being threatened by a thug in a clown costume.
They were cycling near their homes when they claim they were approached by person in a clown costume at about 6pm last Friday evening.
They say a man in the outfit screamed "Run or die!" at them and was holding something "which looked like a knife".
A Kent Police spokeswoman said: "We were called at 6.46pm on September 14th to a report of a person dressed as a clown in Tile Kiln Lane.
It is feared there could be an increase in Killer Clown sightings in the run up to HalloweenCredit: Alamy
Creepy clowns wielding knives and hatchets have previously been seen in the run up to Halloween - this picture was taken in Crawley in 2016Credit: SWNS:South West News Service
Two thugs dressed as clowns wielded machetes and terrorised drivers who stopped at a set of traffic lights in Manchester last yearCredit: Mercury Press
This is where clowns have been spotted across the UK in 2016
"This person was reported to have spoken to two young boys on bicycles. The boys left the area before the incident was reported to the police."
He added: "Patrols in the area were advised of the incident but no person matching the description was seen."
And in Prestwich, Greater Manchester, a Sainsbury's Local was raided by a man wearing a clown mask.
Shop workers told the Manchester Evening News that on August 25 at 10.50pm a gang of thugs told them to open the till or else they would be shot.
Latest creepy clown sighting is most terrifying yet
Not so funny... How killer clown sightings terrorised Britain in 2016 when the craze began
HERE are just some of the chilling UK clown sightings in just one week during the height of the craze in 2016
CHESTER-LE-STREET, Co Durham: A knife-wielding clown pursued four young children, aged 11 and 12, on their way to school.
STRETFORD, Gtr Manchester: Children were left “petrified” by a driver motoring through the streets wearing a clown mask.
GLOUCESTER: Six reports were made of “pranksters” dressed as clowns wielding knives, following people or acting suspiciously.
ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, Gtr Manchester: A man dressed as a clown with an outfit including “a hockey mask and a blood-stained poncho” was captured on camera.
ELLESMERE PORT, Cheshire: Residents reported clowns roaming the streets. Two teenage girls were said to have been chased.
PLYMOUTH: A man posted a video online showing him being confronted at night in the town by a clown armed with a hammer. Meanwhile, multiple reports were received of people dressed as clowns, including one near a school bus. Another incident saw children chased through woodland.
BROTTON, North Yorks: A young girl reported seeing a figure wearing a clown mask and carrying a blade, while a woman and her daughter were followed by a clown while walking late at night.
SUDBURY, Suffolk: “Several people dressed as clowns” chased a boy “younger than a teenager”, according to police.
LIVERPOOL: A man dressed as a clown was seen driving a Ford Transit van through the city centre.
DUNDEE: Cops were called to Finlathen Park after eight youngsters in clown masks were spotted frightening motorists in the area.
SHEFFIELD: A clown was spotted driving around the Hillsborough area using a mobility scooter. Pictures circulated on social media.
PONTELAND, Northumberland: Pupils at Ponteland Middle School were confronted by a man dressed as a clown on the school grounds who chased them across playing fields.
CLACTON, Essex: Two young girls on their way to school were approached by a pair of male clowns in a black van who invited the girls to a birthday party. The girls fled in terror.
CAERNARFON, North Wales: Residents witnessed a clown lurking near a kids’ play centre late at night.
NEWCASTLE: A 13-year-old boy was given a police warning after allegedly dressing as a clown and scaring passers-by. Cops confiscated a knife.
NORTH SHIELDS, Tyne and Wear: Panicked pupils at Thomas More Academy were rushed inside after a figure in a white mask and red wig was seen approaching schoolchildren.
CRAWLEY, Sussex: A clown was pictured standing on a street corner in the night.
MANCHESTER: Two clowns were seen running from bushes and jumping onto cars outside a shopping centre on Sunday evening.
BRACKNELL, Berks: A clown was picture staring into a restaurant full of diners
The craze began in 2016 and has become more popular each yearCredit: AFP or licensors
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Detective Constable Ian Smith, of Greater Manchester Police's Bury division, said: “We have released these images in the hope that somebody can help us identify the two people pictured so that we can speak with them regarding this investigation.
"Although the fact their faces are covered makes it harder to identify them, we are hopeful that people may recognise the clothing they are wearing or their physical features."
It is feared there could be an increase in Killer Clown sightings in the run up to Halloween.
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Swansea’s Ben Cabango could be latest Brit kid to follow Jadon Sancho to Germany with Bayer Leverkusen and Wolfsburg tracking defender
Teenage defender has caught the eye of Bundesliga sides despite being yet to make a first team appearance for Championship club
By Phil Cadden
Updated: 3 Apr 2019, 13:11
BEN CABANGO is the latest Brit star wanted by Bundesliga clubs.
The Swansea starlet, 18, has attracted interest from German duo Bayer Leverkusen and Wolfsburg.
Swansea teenager Ben Cabango is being tracked by Bayer Leverkusen and WolfsburgCredit: Getty Images - Getty
Cabango is under contract with the Welsh side until 2021 but could be snapped up for just £2.5million.
Scouts from Germany have been monitoring Cabango's progress in recent weeks and have been impressed by his performances.
Now Wales under-19 ace Cabango could follow in the footsteps of fellow countryman Rabbi Matondo, who joined Schalke from Manchester City for £11million in January.
While Jadon Sancho's success at Borussia Dortmund has also alerted German clubs to cast an eye over youth football in the UK.
Arsenal youngster Reiss Nelson is another who has made the move to the country and is currently impressing at Hoffenheim.
The defender, who joined Swansea from Cardiff at the age of 14, has captained every side from under-14s to under-23 level.
Cabango, who has been hailed for his physicality and athleticism, had a loan spell with Welsh Premier side The New Saints.
He scored his first senior goal in the Champions League for TNS against Macedonian outfit Shkendija Tetovo in July 2018.
Watch all the Premier League highlights from Tuesday night's matches including Man Utd's shock loss and Fulham being relegated
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The TRADE > News > Buy side > AXA IM to centralise London staff in new Bishopsgate “vertical village”
Buy side October 22, 2018 2:56 PM GMT
AXA IM to centralise London staff in new Bishopsgate “vertical village”
AXA IM to move London-based staff to 22 Bishopsgate in H1 2020 once development project completes.
AXA Investment Managers has confirmed it is to relocate its London-based staff to the under-construction Twentytwo building at 22 Bishopsgate.
The asset manager will centralise staff from its existing locations in 7 Newgate Street and 155 Bishopsgate during the first half of 2020.
“The move will bring together our London-based teams under one roof and this will enable us to improve and update the technology that supports our employees as well to live and breathe our Responsible Investing philosophy given the sustainable credentials of the building,” said Andrea Rossi.
The Twentytwo construction is being managed by AXA IM’s real estate division and has been designed as a “vertical village”, which can accommodate over 12,000 workers and visitors. Work is expected to be completed on the project in late 2019.
Earlier this month BGC Partners announced plans to relocate its UK-based headquarters in London, bringing together two of its current offices in the city – Canary Wharf at 1 Churchill Place and 40 Bank Street – to a new site at 5 Churchill Place.
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Film Studios
UWE Bristol's award winning £9 million Film Studios is home to industry standard production film making, animation and photography facilities for creative industries students.
The building was officially opened in September 2018 by Executive Chairman of ITV and former Chair of Arts Council England, Sir Peter Bazelgette. It is now open to all students based on City Campus including those studying journalism, fine art, illustration and graphic design.
Facilities include a production studio, two large photography studios, stop motion animation and CGI studios, sound recording and Foley sound effects studios, colour grading studios and editing suites.
Learn more about the build through this film created by some of our students.
Best educational building in the West of England
The state-of-the-art facilities in the Film Studios won the Best Educational Building award at the LABC (Local Authority Building Control) West of England Building Excellence Awards 2018, held in Bristol on 13 July.
The LABC awards recognise the very best in construction in England and Wales.
The design of the building blends in with and is sympathetic to the beautiful natural surroundings of the Ashton Court conservation area.
The building borrows form and materials from simple agricultural architecture, brought together in a crisp and contemporary way to reflect the technology-rich and progressive activity within it.
Internally, highly specialised and inwardly-focussed studio and production spaces contrast with a vibrant first floor hub space with full height glazing closely connecting building users with the inspirational historic landscape of the deer park beyond.
The team behind this development are now working on the new Bower Ashton Design Studios, due to open in early 2019.
View a selection of images from the Film Studios opening night.
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Israel, Iran engage in most serious confrontation in Syria
The two rivals have long fought each other through proxies, and with the new exchange each seemed to be sending a warning that a direct clash between them could swiftly escalate.
Israel, Iran engage in most serious confrontation in Syria The two rivals have long fought each other through proxies, and with the new exchange each seemed to be sending a warning that a direct clash between them could swiftly escalate. Check out this story on yorkdispatch.com: https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/2018/05/10/israel-iran-engage-serious-confrontation-syria/34767925/
Zeina Karam and Aron Heller, The Associated Press Published 3:22 p.m. ET May 10, 2018
An Israeli soldier walks in an old military outpost, used for visitors to view the Israeli controlled Golan Heights, near the border with Syria, Thursday, May 10, 2018. Israel says it struck dozens of Iranian targets overnight in response to a rocket barrage on Israeli positions in the Golan Heights. It was the biggest Israeli strike in Syria since the 1973 war. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)(Photo: Ariel Schalit / AP)
BEIRUT — Israeli forces unleashed a heavy bombardment against Iranian military installations in Syria on Thursday in what Israel called retaliation for an Iranian rocket barrage on its positions in the occupied Golan Heights, the most serious military confrontation between the two bitter enemies to date.
“If we get rain, they’ll get a flood,” Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman warned.
The scope of the attacks – which Israel called its largest in Syria since the 1973 Mideast war – raised the specter of a full-fledged war between Iran and Israel in Syria, a conflict that could potentially drag the militant Hezbollah and Lebanon into the mix with devastating effects, although both sides appeared to signal they wanted the confrontation to remain contained, at least for now.
Israel, however, has been emboldened by President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal earlier this week, and the latest escalation seemed to signal a potentially coordinated surge in military activity targeting Iran.
The Israeli military said Thursday it hit nearly all of Iran’s military installations in Syria in response to the overnight Iranian rocket barrage that targeted Israeli front-line military positions in the Golan Heights, a strategic plateau that Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war. It was the first time Israel has directly accused Iran of firing toward Israeli territory.
Iranian media described the Israeli attack as “unprecedented,” but there was no official Iranian comment on Israel’s claims.
Iran has vowed to retaliate for repeated Israeli airstrikes targeting its forces in Syria. But it seemed to carefully calibrate its response by targeting the Golan Heights, which Israel annexed in 1981 in a move that is not internationally recognized, instead of striking Israel proper.
Tehran is wary of a wider military conflagration with Israel that could jeopardize its military achievements in Syria at a time when it is trying to salvage the international nuclear deal and may be limited in its ability to strike back.
The recent clashes reveal the difficulty both sides face in dealing with an unprecedented situation, said Jean-Pierre Filiu, a professor of Middle East studies at Sciences Po, Paris School of International Affairs.
The clashes will eventually likely lead not to further escalation, but to the “consolidation of new ‘red lines’ tacitly endorsed by Israel and Iran,” he said in an analysis written for the Carnegie Middle East Center.
The extent of the damage inflicted by the Israeli airstrikes was not immediately clear.
Israel said among the targets were weapons storage, logistics sites and intelligence centers used by elite Iranian forces in Syria. It also said it destroyed several Syrian air-defense systems after coming under heavy fire and that none of its warplanes were hit.
The Syrian military acknowledged that the strikes destroyed a radar station and an ammunition warehouse, and damaged a number of air defense units. It said three people were killed and two were wounded.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which closely monitors the civil war through sources inside Syria, said 23 fighters, including five Syrian soldiers, were killed. It was not immediately clear if any Iranians were among the dead.
The White House swiftly condemned Iran’s “provocative rocket attacks from Syria against Israeli citizens” and expressed strong support for “Israel’s right to act in self-defense,” while Russia said the Israeli strikes marked a dangerous escalation and urged both Israel and Iran to avoid provoking each other.
In a statement, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said “the Iranian regime’s deployment into Syria of offensive rocket and missile systems aimed at Israel is an unacceptable and highly dangerous development for the entire Middle East.”
Israel has carried out over 100 airstrikes in neighboring Syria since the civil war erupted in 2011, most believed to be aimed at suspected Iranian weapons shipments bound for the Hezbollah militant group.
But in the past few weeks, Israel has shifted to a more direct and public confrontation with Iran, striking at Iranian bases, weapons depots and rocket launchers across Syria, and killing Iranian troops. Israel accuses Tehran of seeking to establish a foothold on its doorstep, something it has vowed never to allow.
Reflecting the scope of the pre-dawn attack, Russia’s military said 28 Israeli jets were involved, striking Iranian and government sites in Syria with 70 missiles. It said half the missiles were shot down.
Speaking at the Herzliya Conference, an annual security gathering north of Tel Aviv, Lieberman said Israel would respond fiercely to any further Iranian actions.
“We will not let Iran turn Syria into a forward base against Israel,” the Israeli defense minister said. “If we get rain, they’ll get a flood. I hope that we ended this chapter and that everyone understood.”
In a statement issued as Israel’s security cabinet met, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the strike sent a “clear message” that “whoever attacks us – we will attack them sevenfold and whoever prepares to attack us – we will act against them first.”
Iranian state television announced the Israeli strikes, sourcing the information to Syria’s state-run SANA news agency, and described the Israeli attack as “unprecedented.”
Israel captured the Golan Heights in the 1967 war and annexed it in 1981. In 1974, Israel and Syria reached a cease-fire and a disengagement deal that froze the conflict lines with the plateau in Israeli hands.
Damascus shook with sounds of explosions just before dawn, and firing by Syrian air defenses over the city was heard for more than five hours.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow sees Thursday’s strikes as a “very alarming development.”
He noted that in contacts with the leadership of both countries, including a meeting Wednesday between Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, “we underlined the necessity of avoiding any actions that might be mutually provocative.”
Russia sent forces to Syria to back President Bashar Assad in 2015. But Israel and Russia have maintained close communications to prevent their air forces from coming into conflict. The pan-Arab Al Hayat newspaper reported Thursday that Russia and Israel were developing an agreement to keep Iran out of southern Syria and allow Syrian government forces to retake the region.
Israel said early Thursday that Iran’s Quds Force fired 20 rockets at Israeli front-line military positions in the Golan Heights. Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, a military spokesman, said four of the rockets were intercepted, while the others fell short of their targets. The incoming attack set off air raid sirens in the Golan.
Conricus said Israel was not looking to escalate the situation but that troops will continue to be on “very high alert.”
“Should there be another Iranian attack, we will be prepared for it,” he said.
The two sides have been on a collision course for months.
In February, Israel shot down what it said was an armed Iranian drone that entered Israeli airspace. Israel responded by attacking anti-aircraft positions in Syria, and an Israeli warplane was shot down during the battle.
Earlier this week, Syrian state media said Israel struck a military outpost near Damascus. The Observatory said the missiles targeted depots and rocket launchers that likely belonged to Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard, killing at least 15 people, including eight Iranians.
Last month, an attack on Syria’s T4 air base in the central Homs province killed seven Iranian military personnel.
Heller reported from Jerusalem. Associated Press writers Sarah El Deeb in Beirut, Albert Aji in Damascus, Vladimir Isachenkov in Moscow and Ian Deitch in Jerusalem contributed to this report.
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What’s all the talk about lending criteria?
If there is one topic that’s top-of-mind for property investors right now, it’s the tightening of lending criteria, and with the Banking Royal Commission ongoing, it’s making even the most successful property investors quiver in their well-heeled boots.
But what’s the reality behind the crackdown on lending and how does it really affect the everyday mum and dad investors out there?
To understand the way forward, it’s important to understand firstly how we got to where we are now. This takes us back to late 2014 when Australia’s banking regulator, Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), and the Council of Financial Regulators, introduced a series of macro prudential policies which have resulted in changes to lending.
‘APRA acted to curb excessive lending and to cool an over-heating housing market, particularly in Sydney and Melbourne,’ DHA’s Chief Economist Dan Carton said.
‘Over the course of the next three or so years APRA’s actions operated to limit mortgage lending with the aim of ensuring the stability of the Australian economy and limit speculation in the residential property market.’
For the everyday investors this meant that it became harder to get a home loan and for others it may have meant that they couldn’t borrow as much as they had previously thought. Other investors have seen their rates rise above those paid by owner-occupiers.’
In a recent speech to economists in Sydney the APRA Chairman said that 13 of the country’s largest banks had passed ‘severe but plausible’ stress tests and that further changes would be marginal.
‘Any tightening from here on is expected to be at the margin as banks seek to get a better handle on borrower expenses, and better visibility of borrower debt commitments,’ APRA chairman Wayne Byres said.
‘Anecdotally, we’ve had some investors pull out of sales as their finance pre-approval has shifted,’ Mr Carton said. ‘But generally the more reliable rental income from the DHA property investment program could be a safer proposition for a lender.’
Investment is subject to conditions of sale. Under the DHA lease, lessors retain some responsibilities and risks, i.e. rent, make-good and market fluctuations. Prospective investors should seek independent advice. See dha.gov.au/lookforward for relevant information. Rent is subject to abatement in limited circumstances.
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Malaria Protein Targets Tumors, Holds Potential In Cancer Treatment
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A particular type of sugar found in the placenta readily attracts a protein produced by mosquito-borne parasites, the best explanation as to why pregnant women are highly susceptible to malaria. More than just about it, researchers were able to relate that finding to cancers - that the same sugar molecule found in most tumors can be a good target to treating these illnesses.
The idea about the placenta and most cancers having the same sugar did not at all surprise other scientists who knew well that both have fast growing cells. Yet the novelty showed up as when researchers from Vancouver and Copenhagen made use of the discovery to design a new approach that effectively blocked the growth of cancer tumors in mice.
"Scientists have spent decades trying to find biochemical similarities between placenta tissue and cancer, but we just didn't have the technology to find it," says project leader Mads Daugaard, senior researcher at the Vancouver Prostate Center of Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, as quoted by EurekAlert.
The malarial protein, called VAR2CSA, has a strong affinity towards binding with the placenta. With that, the researchers believe that such protein would be a good carrier of anticancer drugs to potentially target tumors, Daugaard adds.
In their study, a specific toxin was attached to VAR2CSA and was tested for treatment in various cell lines (normal and cancerous) and on mice which carry any of the three human tumor implants.
In their tests, 95 percent of those cancerous cell lines were effectively suppressed. The drug also showed varying degree of efficacy in mice where a decrease to one-fourth the size was observed with those with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; prostate cancer tumors disappeared in two out of six mice; and five out of six mice were cured of metastatic breast cancer. Moreover, all the mice did not display any adverse side effect and their organs were found undamaged.
"This is an extraordinary finding that paves the way for targeting sugar molecules in pediatric and adulthood human cancer, and our groups are vigorously pursuing this possibility together," highlights Poul Sorensen, co-senior investigator of the study.
With these promising results, the drug is currently under refinement. The drug will soon have its future use in clinical trials which will probably take about three to four years, Medical News Today reports.
The study appears in the journal Cancer Cell.
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Could Red Ray's 4K compression codec revolutionize video playback?
Unless you're a (video) camera freak, you may not know much about Red, a company that has made a string of innovations with its line of digital video cameras that capture 4K footage (i.e.
By Sean Portnoy for Home Theater | April 27, 2009 -- 19:11 GMT (12:11 PDT) | Topic: Hardware
Unless you're a (video) camera freak, you may not know much about Red, a company that has made a string of innovations with its line of digital video cameras that capture 4K footage (i.e., 4096x2160 pixels, or about twice as much resolution as 1080p HD). A good primer on the company is at Wired magazine's Web site. Film directors like Peter Jackson and Steven Soderbergh have used Red cameras (Soderberg, in fact, shot Che with them), which are cheaper to own than many professional film cameras are to rent (including the processing costs).
What does this have to do with home theater? Red's latest innovation is less sexy, but may have a wider impact. The company recently demonstrated its Red Ray video player, which can compress 4K video down to 10Mbps of data (in comparison, uncompressed 4K is 10GBps), which is close to the maximum throughput of an 802.11b wireless network. In other words, if Red's claims turn out to be anywhere close to true, we could move right past Blu-ray and other 1080p video and start thinking of a home theater setup built around 4K. It could be relatively painless to stream 4K video using the Red Ray codec over 802.11g/n or wired networks.
Of course, 4K HDTVs are still not close to reaching market, but Red Ray can downsample 4K video to 1080p and also play Blu-ray and standard DVDs while we wait. Red generally doesn't provide any details about pricing or availability for its products in advance of release, and Red Ray is no exception. In the meantime, it'd be great if the company publicly demonstrated its compression technology online to whet our appetite.
[Via Ars Technica, Engadget]
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Style File - Cate Blanchett
By Lucy Hutchings
THANKS to a career packed with awards and accolades, Cate Blanchett has had plenty of opportunities to hone her red-carpet style - so perhaps its unsurprising that she rarely puts a foot wrong in the sartorial stakes.
With a penchant for directional and sometime off-kilter designs, she often avoids the safe option preferring to experiment with pieces from the likes of Balenciaga, Alexander McQueen, Christopher Kane, Armani and Givenchy. While some actresses can look overwhelmed by structural silhouettes or bold detailing, Blanchett always adds her own individual stamp resulting in her status as a fashion maverick rather than a follower of trends.
Along the path of her much celebrated career, she's not only collected an abundance of awards - an Oscar, Golden Globes and BAFTAs, to name a few - but worn the types of dresses that go down in fashion history; few could forget the lemon Valentino design she collected her Oscar in, or the intricately-embroidered John Galliano for Dior dress she wore to her first Academy Awards.
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She received her first Oscar nomination in 1999, in the Best Actress category for Elizabeth, and attended the ceremony in a dress by John Galliano for Dior Couture. Gwyneth Paltrow won the award for Shakespeare In Love.
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The back of her John Galliano for Dior Couture gown.
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With actor Tom Courtney at the 1999 BAFTA Awards.
She chose a sequin dress by Prada to accompany husband Andrew Upton to the BAFTA Awards.
Wearing a Jean Paul Gaultier dress at the Oscars.
She wore white to attend the American Cinematheque Ball in LA.
Wearing all black at the LA premiere of The Gift.
She wore shades of camel to attend the London premiere of Bandits.
Wearing pinstripe trousers and a matching top at the 2002 Golden Globe Awards.
At the London premiere of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
She wore a Valentino gown to the 2003 Golden Globe Awards.
She attended an Australian Week Dinner in LA wearing a metallic mini dress.
She wore Donna Karan to the 2004 Golden Globe Awards.
Vogue Cover, February 2004
She was photographed by Tesh for her first British Vogue cover - the February 2004 issue.
She attended the Berlin Film Festival premiere of The Missing.
She wore an Alexander McQueen spring/summer 2005 dress to the New York premiere of The Aviator.
She chose a Yves Saint Laurent dress for the London premiere of The Aviator.
For the Paris premiere of The Aviator she wore a dress and jacket by Jean Paul Gaultier.
For the Golden Globes she wore a Jean Paul Gaultier gown.
In a strapless black gown at the SAG Awards.
She collected the 2005 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance in The Aviator wearing a gown by Valentino.
She walked the red carpet at the BAFTA Awards wearing an Armani beaded gown.
Regan Cameron photographed her wearing an Alexander McQueen gown for her second British Vogue cover.
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For the Babel LA premiere she wore a Ralph Lauren gold dress.
She chose an Alexander McQueen gown from the spring/summer 2007 collection for the Golden Globes.
She attended the SAG Awards wearing a Giorgio Armani gold gown.
For the Berlin Film Festival premiere of Notes On A Scandal she wore a gown by Yves Saint Laurent.
For the 2007 Oscars - when she was nominated in the Best Supporting Actress category for Notes on a Scandal - she wore an Armani asymmetric gown.
She attended the 2007 Met Ball Gala - which celebrated the opening of the Poiret: King of Fashion exhibition - wearing a Balenciaga gold fringed gown.
She wore a black cocktail dress to the New York premiere of Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
She wore a gown by Armani Privé for the Elizabeth: The Golden Age premiere during the Rome Film Festival.
She wore a Balenciaga gown to the 2008 SAG Awards.
She wore a Dries Van Noten gown to the Oscars, the year she was nominated in the Best Actress category for Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Marion Cotillard won the award for her performance in La Vie en Rose.
She wore a Giorgio Armani Privé silk organza gown for the premiere of Blindness during the Cannes Film Festival.
She wore a Giorgio Armani gown for the Cannes Film Festival premiere of Indiana Jones: Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
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She attended the opening of Giorgio Armani</a>'s boutique on Via Montenapoleone in Milan with the designer himself.
She was honoured with a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame and wore an Armani Privé outfit for the ceremony.
She wore an Alexander McQueen dress to the LA premiere of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
She wore a dress from Balenciaga's spring/summer 2009 collection for the premiere of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in Sydney.
Patrick Demarchelier photographed her in a Giorgio Armani gown for her third British Vogue cover.
An image from Patrick Demarchelier's accompanying shoot inside the January 2009 issue of Vogue.
She chose a look from the Armani Privé Couture collection to attend the fashion house's ready-to-wear show in Paris.
She wore a dress by Australian designers Romance Was Born to attend the ACMI Screen Gallery at Federation Square in Melbourne.
She wore an Armani Privé gown to a party hosted by the fashion house to welcome the Sydney Theatre Company to New York.
She wore a Giorgio Armani Privé cocktail dress and vintage Van Cleef & Arpels jewellery to the Cannes Film Festival press conference for Robin Hood.
She chose an Alexander McQueen gown for the premiere of Robin Hood at the Cannes Film Festival.
She wore a Givenchy Haute Couture by Riccardao Tisci dress and Van Cleef & Arpels jewellery to the Oscars.
At the IWC Schaffhausen Gala held in Geneva, Switzerland, she wore a Givenchy black dress with Roger Vivier heels.
For the Louis Vuitton Etoile Inauguration Space in Rome she wore a dress from the fashion house's pre-autumn/winter 2012-13 dress.
She wore a spring/summer 2012 Alexander McQueen dress to the AACTA Awards in Sydney.
She arrived at the Met Ball wearing an Alexander McQueen autumn/winter 2012-13 black feathered gown.
She attended a Gotham magazine party in New York wearing a Givenchy pre-spring/summer 2013 monochrome blouse and pencil skirt.
She wore an Antonio Berardi dress to attend the Wellington premiere of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
She wore a backless white Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci spring/summer 2013 dress and carried a white clutch to attend the London premiere of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
She arrived at the second AACTA Awards in Sydney wearing an Armani Privé sequinned scarlet gown with patent black shoes.
She arrived for an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman wearing an Altuzarra dress and Nicholas Kirkwood heels.
She wore a Balenciaga dress to the New York premiere of Blue Jasmine.
She wore a Stella McCartney pre-spring/summer 2014 blazer with Chloe trousers, Roger Vivier sandals and carried a Tod’s bag to board a flight at LAX airport.
She teamed an Alexander McQueen pre-spring/summer 2014 gown with a Roger Vivier clutch for the Blue Jasmine premiere
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She wore a Stella McCartney suit with Roger Vivier heels for an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in New York.
For the Blue Jasmine Sydney premiere she chose a Roksanda Ilincic dress from the autumn/winter 2013 collection.
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BFI Canada Posts Strong Third Quarter
Source: BFI Canada Income Fund
BFI Canada Income Fund Announces Results for the Three and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2007
BFI Canada Income Fund (the "Fund") (TSX:BFC.UN) today reported strong financial results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2007. All amounts are in thousands of Canadian dollars, unless otherwise stated.
"We continued to advance our growth strategy in the third quarter, resulting in a strong financial performance and an asset base that is well-positioned for the future," said Keith Carrigan, Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "We achieved revenue growth of 19.3% in the quarter and 16.6% year to date, which drove EBITDA(A) growth of 18.0% in the quarter and 17.4% year to date. Free cash flow available for distribution(B) increased 23.8% in the quarter and 17.8% year to date, resulting in a payout ratio of 65.1% and 76.2% respectively.
"Our performance can be attributed to solid organic growth in our Canadian and U.S. segments, coupled with our successful acquisition activity. Organic Canadian and U.S. segment revenue growth, which excludes acquisitions and fuel and environmental surcharges, was 11.0% and 9.2% quarter over quarter, respectively, and 12.0% and 7.5%, year over year, respectively. Contributions from recent acquisitions, including Winters Bros. Waste Systems, Inc., represented a substantial portion of our growth in the quarter. During the quarter, we are pleased to have also closed six "tuck-in" acquisitions and entered a new market in Canada. We are committed to continuing to create value for our investors, through both internal and external growth initiatives."
Mr. Carrigan continued, "We would like to extend our appreciation to T. Iain Ronald, a Trustee of the Fund since 2002, who retired effective November 11, 2007. Iain served as the first Non-Executive Chairman of the Fund until 2006. We extend our appreciation to Iain for all of his contributions and his continued support. We would also like to welcome back Douglas W. Knight as a Trustee of the Fund, effective November 11, 2007. Doug previously served as a Trustee of the Fund between April 2002 and January 2005. As President of St. Joseph Media, Inc., Doug brings extensive experience as an entrepreneur and consolidator in the media and publishing sector."
Financial Highlights for the Three and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2007 - Total consolidated revenues increased 19.3% and 16.6% to $238.5 million and $666.3 million.
- Total consolidated revenue growth, excluding the impact of foreign currency translation, was 24.1% and 18.4%.
- Total EBITDA(A) growth, excluding the impact of foreign currency translation, was 22.3% and 19.0%.
- Free cash flow available for distribution(B) increased to $48.0 million and $120.9 million or 23.8% and 17.8%.
- The Fund's payout ratio was 65.1% and 76.2%.
- The Fund's payout ratio excluding the effects of the foreign currency hedge was 67.8% and 78.7%.
Other Highlights for the Three and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2007
- Effective August 31, 2007, the Fund acquired Winters Bros. Waste Systems, Inc. ("Winters Bros."), a leading integrated waste services provider based in New York, for total cash consideration, including estimated acquisition and related costs, of $312,515.
- Concurrent with the closing of the Winters Bros. acquisition, the Fund entered into a third amendment to its Amended and Restated Revolving Credit and Term Loan Agreement. The amendment increases the total available capacity by U.S. $320,000 and brings the total available lending under the U.S. revolving credit facility to U.S. $575,000. Including the accordion feature, total available credit under the U.S. long-term debt facility is U.S. $825,000. With the exception of certain modified financial covenants and the maintenance of interest rate swaps, all significant terms, including but not limited to pricing and maturity, under the U.S. revolving credit facility remain unchanged. As a condition of the amendedU.S. long-term debt facility agreement, the Fund's U.S. $160,000 note receivable ("U.S. notes") from IESI was effectively cancelled through a restructuring.
- Effective August 28, 2007, the Fund received all of the necessary permits for the expansion of its Seneca Meadows landfill. Based on current volumes, management expects the operating life of the site to extend through 2023.
- Effective August 31, 2007, the Fund's Calgary landfill received an operating permit which management expects will allow the site to continue accepting waste through 2010.
- Effective April 5, 2007, the Fund closed a 3,100 trust unit offering at $26.10 per trust unit. In addition, the underwriters exercised their over-allotment option to acquire an additional 465 trust units. The Fund applied the net proceeds from the offering, approximately $87,600, against advances from its U.S. revolving credit facility.
- Effective March 21, 2007, the Fund entered into aSecond Amending Agreement to its Fourth Amended and Restated Credit Agreement. The second amendment increases the total committed Canadian segment credit to $150,000 from $80,000 and the total available credit from this facility, subject to lender consent, to $200,000 from $120,000. The maturity date was extended to May 30, 2011 from June 30, 2010, and the maturity date remains subject to one year extensions.
- Effective March 28, 2007, the Fund entered into a new 15 year agreement for variable rate demand solid waste disposal revenue bonds ("IRBs") in the state of Texas. The IRBs are made available, to a maximum of U.S. $24,000 and are available to fund a portion of landfill construction activities, and equipment, vehicle, and container expenditures in the Fund's Texas operations. The IRBs bear interest at a discount to LIBOR. A portion of the Fund's drawings under this facility was used to repay the Fund's U.S. revolving credit facility with the balance used to finance landfill construction activities, and equipment, vehicle, and container expenditures. At September 30, 2007, approximately U.S. $2,600 of cash was restricted for the purpose of financing future activities and expenditures.
- For the three months ended September 30, 2007, and excluding the acquisition of Winters Bros., the Fund completed one new market acquisition in the Fund's Canadian segment, and completed six "tuck-in" acquisitions. For the nine months ended September 30, 2007, and excluding the acquisition of Winters Bros., the Fund completed two new market acquisitions, in the Fund's Canadian and U.S south segments, and completed 14 "tuck-in" acquisitions. Aggregate cash consideration, excluding the Winters Bros. acquisition, was approximately $12,500 and $47,500, respectively.
- As previously noted, the Trustees continue to actively work with management to review the Fund's corporate structure in light of changes to the taxation of income trusts as it relates to the Fund's continuous improvement and growth strategy.
Summarized Financial Highlights
Three months ended Nine months ended
September 30, September 30,
2007 2007
Revenues September 30, 2006 $ 199,981 $ 571,500
Organic growth and acquisitions
(includes fuel and environmental
surcharges) 48,279 105,422
Foreign currency exchange impact (9,747) (10,594)
% Revenue growth before foreign
currency exchange impact 24.1% 18.4%
Total revenue growth % 19.3% 16.6%
EBITDA(A) September 30, 2006 $ 64,455 $ 175,682
Organic growth and acquisitions 14,349 33,459
Foreign currency exchange impact (2,736) (2,967)
% EBITDA(A) growth before foreign
Total EBITDA(A) growth % 18.0% 17.4%
Free cash flow available for distribution(B) September 30, 2006
$ 38,762 $ 102,574
% Free cash flow available for
distribution(B) growth before foreign
Total free cash flow available
for distribution(B) growth % 23.8% 17.8%
Free cash flow available for
distribution(B) without hedge $ 46,039 $ 116,966
Aggregate distributions declared $ 31,227 $ 92,099
Payout ratio with foreign
currency hedge 65.1% 76.2%
Payout ratio without foreign
Foreign Currency Hedge
A significant portion of the Fund's operating results, maintenance capital and landfill expenditures ("maintenance expenditures"), interest on long-term debt, and cash income taxes reported in Canadian dollars, originate in the U.S. Operating expenses, maintenance expenditures, interest on long-term debt, and cash income taxes originating in the U.S. are settled in U.S. dollars generated from U.S. operations which results in a natural cash flow hedge. A portion of the resultant free cash flow available for distribution(B) is hedged by three single rate hedge agreements through February 2008 to purchase 4,500 Canadian dollars monthly at an average foreign currency exchange rate of approximately $1.222.
(in thousands, except per weighted average trust unit and participating
preferred share ("PPS"))
Three months ended Nine months ended
September 30 September 30
2007 2006 2007 2006
(unaudited) (unaudited) (unaudited) (unaudited)
Revenues $ 238,513 $ 199,981 $ 666,328 $ 571,500
Operating expenses 135,740 111,991 380,258 324,433
Selling, general
and administration
expenses ("SG&A") 26,705 23,535 79,896 71,385
Income before the following
("EBITDA(A)") 76,068 64,455 206,174 175,682
Amortization 41,490 38,587 120,780 110,831
Interest on long-term debt 10,775 8,767 29,140 24,996
Financing costs 6,328 - 7,192 79
Net gain on sale of
capital assets (109) (54) (1,343) (409)
Net loss (gain) on
financial instruments 3,674 3,260 (1,044) (539)
Net foreign exchange
(gain) loss (302) (809) 14,802 6,051
Other expenses - 28 5 187
and non-controlling interest 14,212 14,676 36,642 34,486
Income tax expense 2,147 1,792 2,668 6,566
Non-controlling interest 1,962 2,427 5,680 5,345
Net income $ 10,103 $ 10,457 $ 28,294 $ 22,575
Net income per weighted
average trust unit,
basic & diluted $ 0.18 $ 0.20 $ 0.50 $ 0.42
Trust units and
PPSs outstanding
Weighted average number of
trust units outstanding 57,545 53,617 56,227 53,469
PPSs outstanding 11,161 11,774 11,272 11,922
of trust units and PPSs
outstanding 68,706 65,391 67,499 65,391
Aggregate number of
trust units
and PPSs outstanding 68,706 65,391 68,706 65,391
Maintenance and growth
Maintenance expenditures $ 14,475 $ 13,972 $ 44,886 $ 40,862
Growth capital and landfill
expenditures ("growth
expenditures") 25,210 20,668 58,726 58,817
Total maintenance and
growth expenditures $ 39,685 $ 34,640 $ 103,612 $ 99,679
Operating and free
Cash generated from
operating activities $ 56,360 $ 51,916 $ 138,621 $ 127,515
Free cash flow available
for distribution(B) $ 48,001 $ 38,762 $ 120,858 $ 102,574
for distribution(B) per
trust unit and PPS $ 0.70 $ 0.59 $ 1.79 $ 1.57
Aggregate distributions
declared on weighted average
trust units $ 26,154 $ 23,802 $ 76,723 $ 69,352
Distributions attributable
to non-controlling interest 5,073 5,227 15,376 15,231
declared $ 31,227 $ 29,029 $ 92,099 $ 84,583
declared per weighted
average trust unit and PPS $ 0.45 $ 0.44 $ 1.36 $ 1.29
Management's Discussion
(all amounts are in thousands, except per trust unit, PPS, and foreign currency exchange rate amounts)
Foreign Currency Exchange Rates
The Fund reports its financial results in Canadian dollars, and consequently changes in the foreign currency exchange rate between Canada and the U.S. impacts the translated value of the Fund's U.S. operating results to Canadian dollars. The U.S. segments financial position and operating results have been translated to Canadian dollars applying the following U.S. to Canadian dollar foreign exchange rates:
2007 2006
----------------------------- -------------------------------
Cumulative Cumulative
Current Average average Current Average average
March 31 $ 1.153 $ 1.172 $ 1.172 $ 1.167 $ 1.155 $ 1.155
June 30 $ 1.063 $ 1.098 $ 1.135 $ 1.115 $ 1.122 $ 1.138
September 30 $ 0.996 $ 1.045 $ 1.105 $ 1.115 $ 1.121 $ 1.133
Readers are reminded that a significant portion of the Fund's financial results originate in the U.S. The impact of foreign currency exchange on the Fund's consolidated results is included in the Fund's MD&A for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2007.
Operating Highlights
Three months ended September 30 Nine months ended September 30
2007 2006 $ Change 2007 2006 $ Change
Revenues $ 238,513 $ 199,981 $ 38,532 $ 666,328 $ 571,500 $ 94,828
Canada $ 87,735 $ 76,891 $ 10,844 $ 247,109 $ 213,697 $ 33,412
U.S. south $ 82,278 $ 67,183 $ 15,095 $ 237,211 $ 197,024 $ 40,187
northeast $ 68,500 $ 55,907 $ 12,593 $ 182,008 $ 160,779 $ 21,229
$ 135,740 $ 111,991 $ 23,749 $ 380,258 $ 324,433 $ 55,825
Canada $ 46,022 $ 38,712 $ 7,310 $ 128,743 $ 107,992 $ 20,751
U.S. south $ 51,737 $ 44,302 $ 7,435 $ 152,518 $ 132,003 $ 20,515
northeast $ 37,981 $ 28,977 $ 9,004 $ 98,997 $ 84,438 $ 14,559
SG&A $ 26,705 $ 23,535 $ 3,170 $ 79,896 $ 71,385 $ 8,511
Canada $ 9,826 $ 9,493 $ 333 $ 29,616 $ 27,864 $ 1,752
U.S. south $ 10,487 $ 8,837 $ 1,650 $ 30,960 $ 26,440 $ 4,520
northeast $ 6,392 $ 5,205 $ 1,187 $ 19,320 $ 17,081 $ 2,239
EBITDA(A) $ 76,068 $ 64,455 $ 11,613 $ 206,174 $ 175,682 $ 30,492
Canada $ 31,887 $ 28,686 $ 3,201 $ 88,750 $ 77,841 $ 10,909
U.S. south $ 20,054 $ 14,044 $ 6,010 $ 53,733 $ 38,581 $ 15,152
northeast $ 24,127 $ 21,725 $ 2,402 $ 63,691 $ 59,260 $ 4,431
The discussions to follow are in addition to the impact of foreign currency exchange fluctuations as detailed in the Fund's MD&A for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2007.
Revenues - Three and nine months ended September 30
The increase in consolidated revenues for the three months ended is due in part to organic Canadian and U.S. segment growth, where organic growth excludes the impact of fuel and environmental surcharges, acquisitions, and foreign currency translation. Aggregate growth through acquisition and higher fuel and environmental surcharges also contributed to the period over period change.
The increase in consolidated revenues for the nine months ended is due in part to organic Canadian and U.S. segment growth, defined above. Aggregate growth through acquisition also contributed to the period over period change. The unfavourable impact of foreign currency translation was partially offset by higher fuel and environmental surcharges.
Operating expenses - Three and nine months ended September 30
Higher total disposal and labour costs are attributable to higher collected waste volumes and higher costs to service new and existing customers, contracts, and acquisitions for the three and nine months ended. The balance of the total change for both periods is due principally to higher vehicle operating costs and repairs and maintenance expense partially offset by a decline in insurance expense.
Selling, general and administration expenses - Three and nine months ended September 30
Higher total salaries, including long-term incentive plan ("LTIP") accruals, are the primary reason for the period over period increases. Organic and acquisition growth, coupled with additional sales efforts are the primary reasons for the increases in total salaries. Higher facility and office costs and travel expenditures are the primary reason for the balance of change in both periods.
Free Cash Flow Available for Distribution(B)
Change in calculation
Effective July 6, 2007, the Canadian Securities Administrators ("CSA") amended National Policy 41-201 - Income Trusts and Other Indirect Offerings. Amended policy changes, which includes the concept of maintaining productive capacity, has resulted in a change to the Fund's calculation of free cash flow available for distribution(B). The Fund has historically viewed costs to maintain the productive capacity of its limited life landfills as a cost funded from excess free cash flow available for distribution(C). Accordingly, such amounts have not been included in the Funds determination of free cash flow available for distribution(B). Costs incurred to maintain the productive capacity of landfills are included in the Fund's landfill asset amortization rate per tonne and effective July 6, 2007 the Fund has elected to charge these amounts to the calculation of free cash flow available for distribution(B). The impact of this change is reflected through all free cash flow available for distribution(B) amounts disclosed in this press release.
Costs incurred to develop a replacement or new landfill site are deferred until such time as the replacement site is successfully permitted. Upon successful permitting, these costs are included in the Fund's landfill asset amortization rate per tonne and are charged to free cash flow available for distribution(B).
Free cash flow available for distribution(B) totalled $48,001 and $120,858 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2007 versus $38,762 and $102,574 for the comparative periods, respectively.
Free cash flow available for distribution(B) per weighted average trust unit and PPS for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2007 amounted to $0.70 and $1.79 and is $0.11 and $0.22 higher than the comparative periods, respectively.
Free Cash Flow Available for Distribution(B) - Cash Flow Approach
Three months ended Nine months ended
September 30 September 30
2007 2006 Change 2007 2006 Change
Cash generated
from operating
activities (per
statement of
cash flows) $ 56,360 $ 51,916 $ 4,444 $ 138,621 $ 127,515 $ 11,106
Changes in non-
cash working
capital items (6,182) 1,813 (7,995) 18,356 12,114 6,242
Net change in
landfill closure
and post-
closure costs (2,336) (1,315) (1,021) (7,505) 3,135 (10,640)
expenditures (14,475) (13,972) (503) (44,886) (40,862) (4,024)
gain on settlement
of bond
forward contracts 56 56 - 168 168 -
Financing and
deferred costs
(net of non
-cash portion) 6,297 (91) 6,388 7,093 (418) 7,511
Effect of foreign
currency hedges
to support
distributions 1,962 1,116 846 3,892 2,967 925
Realized foreign
exchange gain (1,374) (761) (613) (2,574) (2,045) (529)
on U.S. notes 7,693 - 7,693 7,693 - 7,693
distribution(B) $ 48,001 $ 38,762 $ 9,239 $ 120,858 $ 102,574 $ 18,284
Free Cash Flow Available for Distribution(B) - Operations Approach
EBITDA(A) $ 76,068 $ 64,455 $ 11,613 $ 206,174 $ 175,682 $ 30,492
capitalized
landfill asset
closure and
post-closure
costs, including
revisions to
estimated cash
flows (2,942) (2,888) (54) (7,845) (6,202) (1,643)
Interest on
long-term debt (10,775) (8,767) (2,008) (29,140) (24,996) (4,144)
bonuses (other
expenses) - (28) 28 (5) (187) 182
taxes (1,893) (1,210) (683) (7,500) (3,996) (3,504)
gain on
settlement of
bond forward
contracts 56 56 - 168 168 -
distribution(B) $ 48,001 $ 38,762 $ 9,239 $ 120,858 $ 102,574 $ 18,284
Maintenance and Growth Expenditures
Three months ended Nine months ended
September 30 September 30
2007 2006 Change 2007 2006 Change
Total $ 39,685 $ 34,640 $ 5,045 $103,612 $ 99,679 $ 3,933
Canada $ 4,111 $ 4,530 $ (419) $ 14,147 $ 13,237 $ 910
U.S. 10,364 9,442 922 30,739 27,625 3,114
Total maintenance $ 14,475 $ 13,972 $ 503 $ 44,886 $ 40,862 $ 4,024
Canada $ 4,498 $ 4,888 $ (390) $ 16,236 $ 19,658 $ (3,422)
U.S. 20,712 15,780 4,932 42,490 39,159 3,331
Total growth $ 25,210$ 20,668$ 4,542$ 58,726$ 58,817 $ (91)
Maintenance and growth expenditures include amounts accrued in respect of capital and landfill assets received for which payment of such amounts remains outstanding at the end of any period or year.
Maintenance Expenditures
For the three months ended September 30, the Canadian segment decline is due in large part to the timing of expenditures and is not attributable to one specific or collective group of expenditure(s) or asset class. The U.S. segment increase is due principally to a larger business base, which is the result of solid organic and acquisition growth, and increasing costs to purchase maintenance capital.
For the nine months ended September 30, the Canadian and U.S. segment increases are due principally to vehicle expenditures. The primary reasons for the increases are consistent with those outlined above for the U.S. segment for the three months ended.
Maintenance expenditures are generally concentrated in the first three quarters of each year, which may result in the declaration and payment of distributions that are in excess of free cash flow available for distribution(B) for these quarters. The Fund's historical cumulative payout ratio is 82.3% from inceptionto September 30, 2007.
Growth Expenditures
The Canadian segment decrease in growth expenditures for the three months ended is due largely to landfill cell construction, relative to consumption, where comparative net consumption exceeded construction. Higher landfill cell construction and municipal contract wins are the primary reasons for the increase in U.S. segment growth expenditures for the three months ended September 30.
Canadian segment residential contract wins which commenced in the nine months ended September 30, 2006 exceeded those that commenced in nine months ended September 30, 2007 resulting in a decline in comparative period over period growth expenditures. The timing of landfill cell construction expenditures and municipal contract wins are the primary reasons for the U.S. segment increase in growth expenditures.
The following table summarizes various details of the Fund's 2007 and 2006 distributions:
Nine months ended September 30
Monthly Annual Total in total
distribution distribution distributions distribut-
per trust per trust and PPS ions and
unit and unit and dividends PPS divi-
Period PPS dividend PPS dividend declared dends
2007 January September $ 0.1515$ 1.8180 $ 92,099 8.9%
2006 August-September $ 0.1515$ 1.8180 $ 19,814
January-July $ 0.1415 $ 1.6980 $ 64,769
Total $ 84,583
Long-term debt
Summarized details of the Fund's long-term debt facilities are as follows:
(not reported as
Facility drawn at on the Current
Available September 30, Consolidated available
lending 2007 Balance Sheets) capacity
facilities -
debentures,
series A $ 47,000 $ 47,000 $ - $ -
series B $ 58,000 $ 58,000 $ - $ -
Revolving
facility $ 150,000 $ 68,000 $ 24,691 $ 57,309
Term loan $ 195,000 $ 195,000 $ - $ -
facility $ 575,000 $ 335,000 $ 158,998 $ 81,002
IRBs $ 104,000 $ 96,500 $ - $ 7,500
Effective August 31, 2007 and concurrent with the closing of the Winters Bros. acquisition, the Fund entered into a third amendment to its Amended and Restated Revolving Credit and Term Loan Agreement. The amendment makes available an additional U.S. $320,000 bringing the total available capacity under the U.S. revolving credit facility to U.S. $575,000. With the exception of certain modified financial covenants and the maintenance of interest rate swaps, all significant terms, including but not limited to pricing and maturity, under the U.S. revolving credit facility remain unchanged. The previous long-term debt facility required IESI to maintain interest rate swaps for not less than 60% of its variable rate interest payable on the term loan, but not more than 50% of the total drawn facility. This condition has been modified and now requires IESI to maintain not less than 40% of total funded debt on a fixed rate basis within 30 days from the third amendment date.
Both the Canadian and U.S. long-term debt facilities have an accordion feature which can increase the available capacity of the Canadian revolving credit facility from $150,000 to $200,000 and can increase the available capacity of the U.S term loan and revolving credit facility from U.S. $770,000, in aggregate, to U.S. $825,000, in aggregate, subject to certain restrictions.
Definitions of EBITDA and free cash flow available for distribution
(A) All references to "EBITDA" in this press release are to "income before the following" on the consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive loss. "Income before the following" excludes some or all of the following: "amortization, interest on long-term debt, financing costs, net gain or loss on sale of capital and landfill assets, net gain or loss on financial instruments, net foreign exchange gain or loss, write-off of deferred financing costs, other expenses, income taxes, and non-controlling interest". EBITDA is a term used by the Fund that does not have a standardized meaning prescribed by Canadian generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP") and is therefore unlikely to be comparable to similar measures used by other issuers. EBITDA is a measure of the Fund's operating profitability, and by definition, excludes certain items as detailed above. These items are viewed by management as either non-cash (in the case of amortization, certain financing costs, write-off of deferred financing costs, net gain or loss on financial instruments, net foreign exchange gain or loss, and future income taxes) or non-operating (in the case of interest on long-term debt, net gain or loss on sale of capital and landfill assets, certain financing costs, other expenses, current income taxes, and non-controlling interest). EBITDA is a useful financial and operating metric for investors as it represents a starting point in the determination of free cash flow available for distribution(B). The underlying reasons for exclusion of each item are as follows:
Amortization -- as a non-cash item amortization has no impact on the determination of free cash flow available for distribution(B).
Interest on long-term debt -- interest on long-term debt is a function of the Fund's debt/equity mix and interest rates; as such, it reflects the treasury/financing activities of the Fund and represents a different class of expense than those included in EBITDA.
Financing costs -- financing costs are a function of the Fund's treasury/financing activities and represents a different class of expense than those included in EBITDA.
Net gain or loss on sale of capital and landfill assets -- the net gain or loss on sale of capital and landfill assets has no impact on the determination of free cash flow available for distribution(B), because the proceeds were either reinvested in other capital assets or used to repay the Fund's revolving credit facility.
Net gain or loss on financial instruments -- as non-cash items, gains or losses on financial instruments have no impact on the determination of free cash flow available for distribution(B).
Net foreign exchange gain or loss -- as non-cash items, foreign exchange gains or losses have no impact on the determination of free cash flow available for distribution(B).
Write-off of deferred financing costs -- as a non-cash item, write-off of deferred financing costs has no impact on the determination of free cash flow available for distribution(B).
Other expenses -- other expenses represent amounts paid to management of the Fund on the closing of the IESI acquisition and are not considered an expense indicative of continuing operations. Accordingly, other expenses represent a different class of expense than those included in EBITDA.
Income taxes -- income taxes are a function of tax laws and rates and are affected by matters which are separate from the daily operations of the Fund.
Non-controlling interest -- non-controlling interest represents a direct non-controlling equity interest in IESI through PPS holdings. Accordingly, non-controlling interest represents a different class of expense than those included in EBITDA.
(B) The Fund has adopted a measurement called "free cash flow available for distribution" to supplement net income as a measure of operating performance. Free cash flow available for distribution is a term which does not have a standardized meaning prescribed by GAAP and is therefore unlikely to be comparable to similar measures used by other issuers. The objective of presenting this non-GAAP measure is to calculate the amount which is available for distribution to trust unitholders and participating preferred shareholders. Participating preferred share holdings are presented as non-controlling interest in the consolidated financial statements of the Fund; however, management of the Fund have elected to include the shareholdings of the participating preferred shareholders in the calculation of free cash flow available for distribution as participating preferred shares receive distributions that are economically equivalent to those received by trust unitholders and participating preferred shares are exchangeable on a one-to-one basis for trust units of the Fund. Details of the calculation are included in the "Other Performance Measures -- Free cash flow available for distribution(B)" section of the Fund's MD&A. Free cash flow available for distribution is not necessarily indicative of cash available to fund cash needs and should not be considered an alternative to cash flow as a measure of liquidity. All references to "free cash flow available for distribution" in this press release have the meaning set out in this note.
(C) Excess free cash flow available for distribution represents the result of free cash flow available for distribution(B) less distributions declared.
This document may contain forward-looking statements relating to the Fund's operations or to the environment in which it operates, which are based on the Fund's operations, estimates, forecasts and projections. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict, or are beyond the Fund's control. A number of important factors could cause actual outcomes and results to differ materially from those expressed in these forward-looking statements. These factors include those set forth in the Fund's Annual Information Form for the period ended December 31, 2006. Consequently, readers should not rely on such forward-looking statements. In addition, these forward-looking statements relate to the date on which they are made. Although the forward-looking statements contained herein are based on what management believes to be reasonable assumptions, the Fund cannot assure unitholders that actual results will be consistent with these forward looking statements, and the Fund disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
The Fund, through its operating subsidiaries, is one of North America's largest full-service waste management companies, providing non-hazardous solid waste collection and disposal services for commercial, industrial, municipal and residential customers in five Canadian provinces and ten states in the United States. The Fund serves over 1.2 million customers with vertically integrated collection and disposal assets. The Fund's Canadian segment operates under the BFI Canada brand and is Canada's second largest full-service waste management company providing integrated non-hazardous solid waste collection and landfill disposal services in the provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec. The Canadian segment operates one and owns and operates four landfills, carries on solid waste collection operations in 20 markets and operates four transfer collection stations, seven material recovery facilities and one landfill gas to energy facility. The Fund's U.S. operations provide integrated non-hazardous solid waste collection and landfill disposal services in two geographic regions: the south, consisting of various service areas in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi and Missouri, and the northeast, consisting of various service areas in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The U.S. south and northeast segments operate in 38 markets and operates 32 transfer stations, 17 landfills and five material recycling facilities. The Fund's units are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol BFC.UN. For more information on the Fund, visit www.bficanada.com.
Management will hold a conference call on November 13, 2007 at 8:30 am (EDT) to discuss results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2007. To access the call, participants should dial 416-644-3417 or 1-800-732-9307 at approximately 8:20 am (EDT). The conference call will also be webcast live at www.bficanada.com and subsequently archived on the BFI Canada website.
A rebroadcast of the call will be available until midnight on November 27, 2007. To access the rebroadcast, dial 416-640-1917 or 1-877-289-8525 and quote the reservation number 21250205#.
BFI CANADA INCOME FUND
September 30, 2007 (unaudited) and December 31, 2006
(in thousands of dollars)
September 30, December 31,
2007 2006
Cash and cash equivalents $ 13,269 $ 9,275
Accounts receivable 124,763 102,350
Due from non-controlling interest - 6,638
Other receivables 782 1,737
Prepaid expenses 18,827 11,665
157,641 131,665
OTHER RECEIVABLES 658 1,517
FUNDED LANDFILL POST-CLOSURE COSTS 5,517 4,142
INTANGIBLES 135,918 77,204
GOODWILL 602,746 481,334
DEFERRED COSTS 9,193 4,051
DEFERRED FINANCING COSTS - 7,015
CAPITAL ASSETS 395,595 322,372
LANDFILL ASSETS 643,850 730,290
OTHER ASSETS 4,603 7,070
FUTURE INCOME TAX ASSETS 3,639 -
$ 1,959,360 $ 1,766,660
Accounts payable $ 51,063 $ 64,284
Accrued charges 62,889 57,318
Distribution payable 10,409 9,907
Income taxes payable 2,232 1,280
Deferred revenues 15,937 10,212
Current portion of long-term debt - 50
Landfill closure and post-closure costs 3,827 5,824
LONG-TERM DEBT 797,182 543,454
LANDFILL CLOSURE AND POST-CLOSURE COSTS 59,762 58,711
OTHER LIABILITIES 8,619 383
FUTURE INCOME TAX LIABILITIES 43,694 31,922
1,055,614 783,345
NON-CONTROLLING INTEREST 254,953 282,026
UNITHOLDERS' EQUITY 648,793 701,289
Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Loss
For the periods ended September 30, 2007 and September 30, 2006
(unaudited - in thousands of dollars, except net income per
trust unit amounts)
Three months ended Nine months ended
2007 2006 2007 2006
REVENUES $ 238,513 $ 199,981 $ 666,328 $ 571,500
OPERATING 135,740 111,991 380,258 324,433
SELLING, GENERAL AND
ADMINISTRATION 26,705 23,535 79,896 71,385
INCOME BEFORE THE FOLLOWING 76,068 64,455 206,174 175,682
AMORTIZATION 41,490 38,587 120,780 110,831
INTEREST ON LONG-TERM DEBT 10,775 8,767 29,140 24,996
FINANCING COSTS 6,328 - 7,192 79
NET GAIN ON SALE OF CAPITAL
ASSETS (109) (54) (1,343) (409)
NET LOSS (GAIN) ON FINANCIAL
INSTRUMENTS 3,674 3,260 (1,044) (539)
NET FOREIGN EXCHANGE (GAIN)
LOSS (302) (809) 14,802 6,051
OTHER EXPENSES - 28 5 187
INCOME BEFORE INCOME TAXES AND
NON-CONTROLLING INTEREST 14,212 14,676 36,642 34,486
INCOME TAX EXPENSE (RECOVERY)
Current 1,893 1,210 7,500 3,996
Future 254 582 (4,832) 2,570
2,147 1,792 2,668 6,566
INCOME BEFORE NON-CONTROLLING
INTEREST 12,065 12,884 33,974 27,920
NON-CONTROLLING INTEREST 1,962 2,427 5,680 5,345
NET INCOME 10,103 10,457 28,294 22,575
OTHER COMPREHENSIVE LOSS
Foreign currency translation
adjustment (41,959) 619 (92,452) (23,823)
COMPREHENSIVE LOSS $ (31,856)$ 11,076 $ (64,158)$ (1,248)
Net income per trust unit,
basic and diluted $ 0.18 $ 0.20 $ 0.50 $ 0.42
trust units outstanding
(thousands), basic 57,545 53,617 56,227 53,469
(thousands), diluted 68,706 65,391 67,499 65,391
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
(unaudited - in thousands of dollars)
Three months ended Nine months ended
2007 2006 2007 2006
NET INFLOW (OUTFLOW) OF CASH
RELATED TO THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES
Net income $ 10,103 $ 10,457 $ 28,294 $ 22,575
Items not affecting cash
Amortization of intangibles 6,260 4,840 16,594 14,565
Amortization of deferred financing
costs - 337 - 1,012
Amortization of capital assets 16,555 14,281 47,996 41,721
Amortization of landfill assets 18,675 19,129 56,190 53,533
Net gain on sale of capital assets (109) (54) (1,343) (409)
Write-off of deferred costs 31 91 99 418
Write-off of deferred financing
costs - - - 79
Accretion of landfill closure and
post-closure costs 806 752 2,367 2,196
Unrealized foreign exchange (gain)
loss (6,621) (48) 9,683 8,096
Future income taxes 254 582 (4,832) 2,570
instruments 3,674 3,260 (1,044) (539)
Non-controlling interest 1,962 2,427 5,680 5,345
Landfill closure and post-closure
expenditures (1,412) (2,325) (2,707) (11,533)
50,178 53,729 156,977 139,629
Changes in non-cash working capital
items 6,182 (1,813) (18,356) (12,114)
Cash generated from operating
activities 56,360 51,916 138,621 127,515
Acquisitions (326,083) (16,050) (363,536) (19,728)
Investment in other receivables - - (400) (1,484)
Proceeds from other receivables 308 313 2,164 1,131
Funded landfill post-closure costs (438) (925) (1,080) (2,123)
Purchase of capital assets (25,244) (19,867) (65,641) (60,195)
Purchase of landfill assets (16,510) (14,736) (42,457) (39,374)
Proceeds from the sale of capital
assets 274 341 1,852 1,141
Investment in deferred costs (3,058) (514) (4,623) (1,118)
Cash utilized in investing
activities (370,751) (51,438) (473,721) (121,750)
Payment of deferred financing costs - (277) - (998)
Proceeds from long-term debt 367,880 71,069 513,636 152,137
Repayment of long-term debt (22,209) (39,386) (171,460) (80,370)
Issuance of trust units, net of
issuance costs - (1) 87,579 (46)
Distributions paid to trust
unitholders and participating
preferred shareholders (31,228) (28,375) (91,597) (83,929)
Cash generated from (utilized in)
financing activities 314,443 3,030 338,158 (13,206)
Effect of foreign exchange changes
on foreign cash and cash
equivalents 208 13 936 236
NET CASH INFLOW(OUTFLOW) 260 3,521 3,994 (7,205)
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS,
BEGINNING OF PERIOD OR YEAR 13,009 3,416 9,275 14,142
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, END OF
PERIOD $ 13,269 $ 6,937 $ 13,269 $ 6,937
Consolidated Statements of Unitholders' Equity
Three months ended Nine months ended
2007 2006 2007 2006
CONTRIBUTED EQUITY
Trust units, beginning of
period or year $ 1,006,269 $ 908,222 $ 908,221 $ 891,070
Issuance of trust units, net
of issuance costs
and related tax effect,
during the period - (1) 89,431 (46)
Trust units issued on
exchange of PPSs, during the
period - - 8,617 17,197
Trust units, end of period 1,006,269 908,221 1,006,269 908,221
Class A units, beginning of
period or year - - - -
Class A units issued, during
the period - - - -
Class A units, end of period - - - -
Treasury units, beginning of
Trust units acquired by the
U.S. LTIP, during the period - - (1,698) (1,281)
obligation, during the
period - - 1,698 1,281
Treasury units, end of
period - - - -
TOTAL CONTRIBUTED EQUITY 1,006,269 908,221 1,006,269 908,221
ACCUMULATED NET INCOME
Accumulated net income,
beginning of period or year 95,475 66,322 86,947 54,204
Net income, during the
period 10,103 10,457 28,294 22,575
Transition adjustment,
during the period - - (9,663) -
ACCUMULATED NET INCOME, END
OF PERIOD 105,578 76,779 105,578 76,779
ACCUMULATED DISTRIBUTIONS
Accumulated distributions,
beginning of period or year (311,560) (212,820) (260,991) (167,270)
Distributions declared,
during the period (26,154) (23,802) (76,723) (69,352)
END OF PERIOD (337,714) (236,622) (337,714) (236,622)
DEFICIT (232,136) (159,843) (232,136) (159,843)
ACCUMULATED OTHER
COMPREHENSIVE LOSS
comprehensive loss,
of period or year (83,381) (56,909) (32,888) (32,467)
adjustment, during the
period (41,959) 619 (92,452) (23,823)
COMPREHENSIVE LOSS, END OF
PERIOD (125,340) (56,290) (125,340) (56,290)
DEFICIT AND ACCUMULATED OTHER
PERIOD (357,476) (216,133) (357,476) (216,133)
UNITHOLDERS' EQUITY $ 648,793 $ 692,088 $ 648,793 $ 692,088
Chaya Cooperberg
Director, Investor Relations and Corporate Communications
chaya.cooperberg@bficanada.com.
Web: www.bficanada.com.
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Casella Waste Net Loss Narrows on Improved Volume and Revenues
Source: Casella Waste Systems, Inc.
Casella Waste Systems, Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2010 Results; Provides Fiscal Year 2011 Guidance
Casella Achieves Fiscal Year 2010 Guidance Ranges for Revenues, Adjusted EBITDA*, and Free Cash Flow*
Casella Waste Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CWST), a regional solid waste, recycling and resource management services company, today reported financial results for its fourth quarter and 2010 fiscal year, and gave guidance on its 2011 fiscal year.
Revenues were up 11.5 percent from the same quarter last year, with 6.7 percent growth in the Solid Waste group, the first quarter of Solid Waste volume growth in eight quarters and the eighth consecutive quarter of pricing growth.
Solid Waste volume growth in the quarter driven by higher landfill volumes and sequentially improving collection volumes; Recycling commodity prices strengthened sequentially for the fifth straight quarter.
Adjusted EBITDA* for the quarter was $29.1 million, up $3.8 million from the same quarter last year.
Adjusted EBITDA margin for the quarter was 22.3 percent, up 80 basis points from the same quarter last year.
Fiscal year 2010 guidance ranges achieved with revenues of $522.3 million, Adjusted EBITDA of $123.6 million, and free cash flow of $0.8 million.
"During this past fiscal year we made solid progress against our key strategic initiatives to improve free cash flow and begin the process of delevering our balance sheet," said John W. Casella, chairman and CEO of Casella Waste Systems. "Our valuation continues to be significantly depressed; however we believe that our strategy to repay debt and reduce leverage over the next two years is the right plan to drive long-term shareholder value."
"Our team is focused on improving the performance of our base operations and increasing free cash flow through profitable revenue growth, operating efficiency programs, completing landfill development initiatives, and select divestitures," Casella said.
"The success of our pricing, revenue growth, and operating efficiency programs are clear in our operating results for the fiscal year," Casella said. "In particular, our Adjusted EBITDA margins for fiscal year 2010 were up by 120 basis points over the same period last year, with the gains driven by further improvement in collection pricing, increased landfill volumes, higher commodity pricing, and the successful operating efficiency initiatives. This margin expansion is reflective of the operating leverage we gained during the downturn through the implementation of permanent cost controls and operating efficiency programs, such as dynamic truck routing, front-load conversions, and the centralized customer care center."
"We made excellent progress in driving additional value from our long-term investment in landfill capacity over the past year," Casella said. "With the late May permit issuance for the conversion of the Southbridge landfill from C&D residuals to MSW, our team has begun the process to drive additional value from our Massachusetts assets. Our sales team continues to work hard to attract new long-term contracted volumes to our landfills. Both of these initiatives are key long-term drivers in our strategy to harvest the value from our investments in landfill capacity across our integrated footprint."
"Through early June, we had completed three non-core divestitures with cash proceeds of approximately $3.3 million," Casella said. "We are in various stages of diligence with the sale of several other non-contributing assets and we remain confident that we are on target to sell $25.0 million of assets by December 2010, as previously targeted."
Fourth Quarter Results
For the quarter ended April 30, 2010, the company reported revenues of $130.7 million, up $13.4 million or 11.5 percent over the same quarter last year.
Solid waste revenues were up 6.7 percent over the same quarter last year with 0.8 percent attributable to price, 0.2 percent attributable to fuel and oil recovery fees, 4.1 percent attributable to volume, and 1.3 percent attributable to commodity price and volume. Solid waste collection price was up 2.5 percent as a percentage of collection revenues over the same quarter last year. While solid waste disposal price was down 1.9 percent as a percentage of disposal revenues over the same quarter last year, disposal pricing improved sequentially from the third quarter.
The 4.1 percent increase in solid waste volumes was the result of a 3.9 percent increase in disposal volumes, a 0.1 percent increase in power generation, and a 2.1 percent increase in processing and recycling volumes, partially offset by a 2.0 percent decline in collection volume.
FCR revenues were up 29.7 percent over the same quarter last year with 26.2 percent attributable to price and 3.5 percent attributable to volume. More importantly, net revenue per ton of recyclables was up 3.5 percent over the same quarter last year, reflecting our risk mitigation programs that give to the customer a portion of higher commodity prices in exchange for long-term stability and protection from commodity price volatility. The risk programs mitigate cash flow volatility through floating revenue shares, variable tipping fees, index purchases, financial hedges, floor prices, and fixed price contracts. Net revenue per ton of recyclables equals gross commodity revenue, net of revenue shares, plus hedging revenues, plus tipping fees, less purchased materials.
The company's net loss applicable to common shareholders was ($5.2) million, or ($0.20) per common share in the quarter, compared to net loss of ($68.5) million, or ($2.67) per share for the same quarter last year.
Operating income was $10.5 million for the quarter, up $62.5 million from the same quarter last year. The company's Adjusted EBITDA* was $29.1 million for the quarter, up $3.8 million from the same quarter last year. Adjusted EBITDA margin was 22.3 percent for the quarter up 80 basis points from the same quarter last year.
Net cash provided by operating activities in the quarter was $22.6 million, down $3.9 million from the same quarter last year. Net cash provided by operating activities in the fourth quarter fiscal 2009 was favorably impacted by a $14.4 million increase due to the dissolution of the company's captive insurance company during the quarter. The company's free cash flow* in the quarter was $1.7 million, down $16.6 million from the same quarter last year, which had a $14.4 million benefit from the dissolution of the company's captive insurance company.
Fiscal 2010 Results
For the fiscal year ended April 30, 2010, the company reported revenues of $522.3 million, down $29.6 million or 5.4 percent from fiscal year 2009. The company's net loss applicable to common shareholders was ($13.9) million, or ($0.54) per common share, for fiscal year 2010, compared to a net loss of ($68.0) million, or ($2.66) per share, for the same period last year.
Operating income was $44.4 million for fiscal year 2010, up $63.8 million from the same period last year. The company's Adjusted EBITDA* was $123.6 million for fiscal year 2010, down $0.6 million from the same period last year. Adjusted EBITDA margin was 23.7 percent for fiscal year 2010 up 120 basis points from the same period last year.
Net cash provided by operating activities for fiscal year 2010 was $69.3 million, down $6.6 million from the same period last year. Net cash provided by operating activities in fiscal 2009 was favorably impacted by a $14.4 million increase due to the dissolution of the company's captive insurance company during the quarter. The company's free cash flow* for fiscal year 2010 was $0.8 million, up $1.9 million from the same period last year, or up $16.3 million not including the impact of the dissolution of the company's captive insurance company in the previous year.
As of April 30, 2010, the company had cash on hand of $2.1 million, outstanding total debt level of $578.6 million, and $92.3 million of availability on its Senior Secured Revolving Credit Facility. More detailed financial results are contained in the tables accompanying this release.
During the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2010, the company recorded an additional environmental remediation charge of $0.4 million related to a scrap yard and transfer station owned by the company. In addition, during fiscal year 2010 the company recorded a severance and reorganization charge of $0.2 million in resulting from the consolidation of customer service to the new customer care center.
Fiscal 2011 Outlook
"In fiscal year 2011, our emphasis is on further improving cash flows through increased pricing, operating efficiencies, focused capital deployment, and execution of our divestiture program," Casella said. "Our plan for the fiscal year assumes that economic activity remains soft with limited GDP growth, essentially mirroring the conditions that our business experienced during the last six months of our fiscal year 2010."
The company provided guidance for its fiscal year 2011, which began May 1, 2010, by estimating results in the following ranges:
Revenues between $532.0 million and $542.0 million;
Adjusted EBITDA* between $123.0 million and $127.0 million;
Capital Expenditures between $60.0 million and $66.0 million, with maintenance capital expenditures of $53.0 million to $56.0 million and growth capital expenditures of $7.0 million to $10.0 million; and
Free Cash Flow* between $1.0 million and $8.0 million. Please note our definition of "Free Cash Flow" for fiscal year 2011 is as follows: net cash provided by operating activities; less capital expenditures; less payments on landfill operating leases; less assets acquired through financing leases; plus proceeds from sales of property and equipment.
The company said the following assumptions are built into its fiscal year 2011 outlook:
No material changes in the regional economy from the fourth quarter fiscal year 2010.
In the solid waste business, revenue growth of between 0.5 percent and 2.0 percent, with price growth targeted at 50 basis points in excess of CPI; volumes up mainly from expected landfill volume growth at the Ontario and Hakes landfills.
In the recycling business, overall revenue growth of between 0.5 percent and 2.5 percent, with price up and volumes down.
In the major accounts business, overall revenue growth of between 20.0 percent and 25.0 percent, principally through volume growth with the addition of new contracts. The major accounts line of business requires little to no capital, however growth of this high return on invested capital business is expected to negatively impact overall margins by 50 basis points year-over-year.
The following project specific impacts are included in the overall guidance estimates for fiscal year 2011: With the new permit issued at the Southbridge landfill, the company plans to begin converting tonnages to municipal solid waste and expects an approximate incremental Adjusted EBITDA contribution of $1.0 million for the fiscal year with a six month conversion period. The Maine Energy Recovery Company waste-to-energy facility began selling power in the "day ahead" market in May 2010, which at current market rates is estimated to result in a negative $5.0 million year-over-year revenue variance. The Pine Tree landfill was permanently closed during Q3 fiscal year 2010, which will result in a negative $4.4 million year-over-year Adjusted EBITDA variance. In the FCR group, the company plans to complete four Zero-Sort® Recycling conversions during the fiscal year, with three of the projects funded by our municipal partners.
No acquisitions are included in guidance.
Free cash flow of $1.0 million to $8.0 million is based on net cash provided by operating activities of $63.0 million to $67.0 million. Cash interest expense is expected to increase by $10.0 million over the previous fiscal year due to the timing of interest payments on the 2014 Second Lien Notes. Payments on landfill operating leases are estimated at $6.0 million, and depletion of landfill operating lease obligations and interest accretion on landfill and environmental remediation liabilities are estimated at $12.0 million.
*Non-GAAP Financial Measures
In addition to disclosing financial results prepared in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), we also disclose earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA), adjusted for severance and reorganization charges, goodwill impairment charge, environmental remediation charge as well as development project charges (Adjusted EBITDA) and free cash flow, which are non-GAAP measures. In the future we may modify items considered in defining free cash flow and Adjusted EBITDA if we believe it will help the understanding of our financial performance.
These measures are provided because we understand that certain investors use this information when analyzing the financial position of companies in the solid waste industry, including us. Historically, these measures have been key in comparing operating efficiency of publicly traded companies in the solid waste industry, and assist investors in measuring our ability to meet capital expenditures, payments on landfill operating lease contracts, and working capital requirements. For these reasons we utilize these non-GAAP metrics to measure our performance at all levels. Free cash flow, EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are not intended to replace "Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities," which is the most comparable GAAP financial measure. Moreover, these measures do not necessarily indicate whether cash flow will be sufficient for such items as capital expenditures, payments on landfill operating lease contracts, or working capital, or to react to changes in our industry or to the economy generally. Because these measures are not calculated by all companies in the same fashion, they may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies.
About Casella Waste Systems, Inc.
Casella Waste Systems, Inc., headquartered in Rutland, Vermont, provides solid waste management services consisting of collection, transfer, disposal, and recycling services primarily in the eastern United States.
For further information, contact Ned Coletta, director of investor relations at (802) 772-2239, or visit the company's website at www.casella.com.
Conference call to discuss fourth quarter and fiscal year 2010
The company will host a conference call to discuss these results on Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. ET. Individuals interested in participating in the call should dial (866) 316-1370 or (913) 312-0675 at least 10 minutes before start time. The call will also be webcast; to listen, participants should visit Casella Waste Systems' website at www.casella.com and follow the appropriate link to the webcast. A replay of the call will be available on the company's website, or by calling (888) 203-1112 or (719) 457-0820 (passcode 4226870) until 11:59 p.m. CT on Tuesday, June 15, 2010.
Certain matters discussed in this press release are "forward-looking statements" intended to qualify for the safe harbors from liability established by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements can generally be identified as such by the context of the statements, including words such as the company "believes," "expects," "anticipates," "plans," "may," "will," "would," "intends," "estimates" and other similar expressions, whether in the negative or affirmative. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections about the industry and markets in which we operate and management's beliefs and assumptions. We cannot guarantee that we actually will achieve the plans, intentions or expectations disclosed in the forward-looking statements made. Such forward-looking statements, and all phases of our operations, involve a number of risks and uncertainties, any one or more of which could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in our forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include or relate to, among other things: current economic conditions have adversely affected and may continue to adversely affect our revenues and our operating margin; we may be unable to reduce costs or increase revenues sufficiently to achieve estimated EBITDA and other targets; landfill operations and permit status may be affected by factors outside our control; we may be required to incur capital expenditures in excess of our estimates; fluctuations in the commodity pricing of our recyclables may make it more difficult for us to predict our results of operations or meet our estimates; and we may incur environmental charges or asset impairments in the future. There are a number of other important risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements. These additional risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, those detailed in Item 1A, "Risk Factors" in our Form 10-K/A for the year ended April 30, 2009 and in the Form 10-K to be filed for the year ended April 30, 2010.
We undertake no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
CASELLA WASTE SYSTEMS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(In thousands, except amounts per share)
Three Months Ended Twelve Months Ended
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April 30, April 30, April 30, April 30,
--------- --------- --------- ---------
Revenues $ 117,264 $ 130,721 $ 551,937 $ 522,328
Cost of operations 78,346 88,689 371,200 347,460
General and administration 17,128 15,784 67,591 61,868
Depreciation and amortization 16,630 15,458 72,526 68,275
Goodwill impairment charge 55,286 - 55,286 -
charge 1,533 335 4,356 335
Development project charge 375 - 355 -
169,298 120,266 571,314 477,938
Operating income (loss) (52,034) 10,455 (19,377) 44,390
Other expense/(income), net:
Interest expense, net 9,217 14,616 39,039 54,270
Loss on debt modification - - - 511
Loss from equity method
investments 247 1,385 2,157 2,691
Other income (244) (361) (792) (849)
9,220 15,640 40,404 56,623
Loss from continuing operations
before income taxes
and discontinued operations (61,254) (5,185) (59,781) (12,233)
Provision for income taxes 7,268 820 8,749 3,018
before discontinued operations (68,522) (6,005) (68,530) (15,251)
Discontinued Operations:
Income from discontinued
operations, net of income
taxes (1) 46 - 442 213
Income on disposal of
discontinued operations, net
of income taxes (1) 26 852 63 1,180
Net loss available to common
stockholders $ (68,450) $ (5,153) $ (68,025) $ (13,858)
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Common stock and common stock
equivalent shares outstanding,
assuming full dilution 25,667 25,810 25,584 25,731
Net loss per common share $ (2.67) $ (0.20) $ (2.66) $ (0.54)
Adjusted EBITDA (2) $ 25,361 $ 29,124 $ 124,194 $ 123,558
April 30, April 30,
ASSETS 2009 2010
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Cash and cash equivalents $ 1,838 $ 2,035
Restricted cash 508 76
Accounts receivable - trade, net of allowance for
doubtful accounts 51,296 61,722
Other current assets 23,093 18,231
Total current assets 76,735 82,064
Property, plant and equipment, net of accumulated
depreciation 486,351 480,053
Goodwill 125,709 125,792
Intangible assets, net 2,635 3,085
Restricted cash 127 228
Investments in unconsolidated entities 41,798 40,965
Other non-current assets 17,607 22,627
Total assets $ 750,962 $ 754,814
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Current maturities of long-term debt and capital
leases $ 1,718 $ 2,000
Current maturities of financing lease obligations 1,344 1,449
Accounts payable 34,623 40,139
Other accrued liabilities 39,350 46,492
Total current liabilities 77,035 90,080
Long-term debt and capital leases, less current
maturities 547,145 556,130
Financing lease obligations, less current maturities 12,281 10,832
Other long-term liabilities 48,191 47,476
Stockholders' equity 66,310 50,296
Total liabilities and stockholders' equity $ 750,962 $ 754,814
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
Twelve Months Ended
--------- ---------
Cash Flows from Operating Activities:
Net loss $ (68,025) $ (13,858)
Income from discontinued operations, net (442) (213)
Income on disposal of discontinued operations, net (63) (1,180)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss
to net cash provided by operating activities -
Gain on sale of equipment (352) (1,325)
Depreciation and amortization 72,526 68,275
Depletion of landfill operating lease obligations 6,416 6,867
Interest accretion on landfill and environmental
remediation liabilities 3,262 3,506
Goodwill impairment 55,286
Environmental remediation charge 4,356 335
Development project charges 355
Amortization of premium on senior notes (675) (727)
Amortization of discount on term loan and second
lien notes - 1,667
Loss from equity method investments 2,157 2,691
Loss on debt modification - 511
Stock-based compensation 1,679 2,242
Excess tax benefit on the exercise of stock options (162) -
Deferred income taxes 8,436 3,031
Changes in assets and liabilities, net of
effects of acquisitions and divestitures (8,875) (2,556)
144,409 84,517
Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities 75,879 69,266
Cash Flows from Investing Activities:
Acquisitions, net of cash acquired (2,394) (864)
Additions to property, plant and equipment - growth (10,570) (4,346)
- maintenance (47,166) (50,004)
Payments on landfill operating lease obligations (5,102) (13,737)
Other (1,016) 4,385
Net Cash Used In Investing Activities (66,248) (64,566)
Cash Flows from Financing Activities:
Proceeds from long-term borrowings 127,600 492,344
Principal payments on long-term debt (142,003) (486,322)
Payment of financing costs (348) (14,089)
Proceeds from exercise of stock options 1,462 260
Excess tax benefit on the exercise of stock options 162 -
Net Cash Used in Financing Activities (13,127) (7,807)
Cash Provided by Discontinued Operations 2,520 3,304
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents (976) 197
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period 2,814 1,838
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period $ 1,838 $ 2,035
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Supplemental Disclosures:
Cash interest $ 40,623 $ 44,183
Cash income taxes, net of refunds $ 332 $ 234
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Note 1: As of April 30, 2008, the Company deemed its FCR Greenville
operation as held for sale and classified this operation as a discontinued
operation pursuant to guidance on discontinued operations. The divestiture
was completed in June 2008 for cash proceeds of $670. A loss amounting to
$34 (net of tax) has been recorded to loss on disposal of discontinued
operations in fiscal year 2009.
The Company completed the divestiture of its FCR Great Northern
Recycling Canadian operation in the third quarter of fiscal year 2010 for a
settlement amount of $400 in cash. In the fourth quarter of fiscal year
2010, the Company also completed the divestiture of its domestic brokerage
operations for a settlement amount of $1,350. The Company had previously
accounted for these transactions as assets under contractual obligation.
This resulted in a gain on disposal of discontinued operations (net of tax)
amounting to $97 and $1,135 for fiscal years 2009 and 2010.
The Company's contract for its FCR Cape May operation expired in
the third quarter of fiscal year 2010. Accordingly, this operation has
been treated as a discontinued operation.
The operating results of these operations for the three and
twelve months ended April 30, 2009 and 2010 have been reclassified from
continuing to discontinued operations in the Company's consolidated
financial statements.
Note 2: Non - GAAP Financial Measures
In addition to disclosing financial results prepared in
accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), we also
disclose earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization
(EBITDA), adjusted for accretion, depletion of landfill operating lease
obligations, severance and reorganization charges, goodwill impairment
charge, environmental remediation charge as well as development project
charges (Adjusted EBITDA) and free cash flow, which are non-GAAP measures.
These measures are provided because we understand that certain
investors use this information when analyzing the financial position of the
solid waste industry, including us. Historically, these measures have been
key in comparing operating efficiency of publicly traded companies within
the industry, and assist investors in measuring our ability to meet capital
expenditures, payments on landfill operating lease contracts and working
capital requirements. For these reasons, we utilize these non-GAAP metrics
to measure our performance at all levels. EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA and Free
Cash Flow are not intended to replace "Net Cash Provided by Operating
Activities", which is the most comparable GAAP financial measure. Moreover,
these measures do not necessarily indicate whether cash flow will be
sufficient for such items as working capital, payments on landfill
operating lease contracts or capital expenditures, or to react to changes
in our industry or to the economy generally. Because these measures are not
calculated by all companies in the same fashion, they may not be comparable
to similarly titled measures reported by other companies.
Following is a reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA and EBITDA to Net Cash
Provided by Operating Activities:
Net Cash Provided by Operating
Activities $ 26,538 $ 22,620 $ 75,879 $ 69,266
Changes in assets and
liabilities, net of effects of
acquisitions and divestitures (11,494) (7,045) 8,875 2,556
Stock-based compensation, net
of excess tax benefit on
exercise of options (291) (515) (1,517) (2,242)
Provision for income taxes, net
of deferred taxes 37 (196) 313 (13)
Net interest expense plus
premium/discount 9,391 14,277 39,714 53,330
Severance and reorganization
charges 1,370 107 1,370 185
Gain on sale of equipment and
other (190) (124) (440) 476
Adjusted EBITDA (2) 25,361 29,124 124,194 123,558
Interest accretion on landfill
and environmental remediation
liabilities (848) (838) (3,262) (3,506)
Depletion of landfill operating
lease obligations (1,398) (1,931) (6,416) (6,867)
EBITDA (2) $ 23,115 $ 26,355 $ 114,516 $ 113,185
Following is a reconciliation of Free Cash Flow to Net Cash Provided by
Operating Activities:
April 30, April 30, April 30, April 30,
2009 2010 2009 2010
Capital expenditures (7,587) (15,031) (57,736) (54,350)
Payments on landfill operating
leases (701) (5,934) (5,102) (13,737)
Assets acquired through
financing leases - - (14,115) (404)
Free Cash Flow $ 18,250 $ 1,655 $ (1,074) $ 775
SUPPLEMENTAL DATA TABLES
Amounts of the Company's total revenues attributable to services provided
April 30, April 30,
Collection $ 48,907 $ 48,655 $ 218,362 $ 204,242
Disposal 21,914 25,032 111,146 107,398
Power/LFGTE 7,057 6,935 28,448 27,778
Processing and recycling 10,747 13,935 58,271 50,313
Solid waste operations 88,625 94,557 416,227 389,731
Major accounts 8,289 9,776 34,660 38,678
FCR recycling 20,350 26,388 101,050 93,919
Total revenues $ 117,264 $ 130,721 $ 551,937 $ 522,328
Components of revenue growth for the three months ended April 30, 2010
compared to the three months ended April 30, 2009:
Solid waste operations (1) Core price 0.8%
Fuel recovery fee 0.3%
Volume 4.1%
Commodity price and
volume 1.3%
Total growth - Solid waste operations 6.5%
FCR operations (1) Price 26.2%
Total growth - FCR operations 29.7%
Acquisitions 0.2%
Total revenue growth (2) 11.5%
(1) - Calculated as a percentage of segment revenues.
(2) - Calculated as a percentage of total revenues.
Solid Waste Internalization Rates by Region (1):
2009 2010 2009 2010
Eastern region 52.0% 54.7% 49.2% 52.0%
Central region 81.1% 77.6% 78.9% 77.0%
Western region 63.0% 69.8% 66.0% 69.7%
Solid waste internalization 63.7% 64.4% 63.7% 65.0%
(1) In the quarter ended July 31, 2009, the Company revised its
internalization rate calculation to include third party waste received at
its transfer facilities and disposed at its own landfills. The prior year
internalization rates have been revised accordingly.
GreenFiber Financial Statistics - as reported (1):
Revenues $ 27,657 $ 20,240 $ 129,810 $ 102,785
Net (loss) income (266) (2,747) (4,315) (5,380)
Cash flow from
operations 1,519 808 10,910 6,050
Net working capital
changes (1,178) 1,071 3,515 (20)
Adjusted EBITDA $ 2,697 $ (263) $ 7,395 $ 6,070
As a percentage of
Net loss -1.0% -13.6% -3.3% -5.2%
Adjusted EBITDA 9.8% -1.3% 5.7% 5.9%
(1) The Company holds 50% interest in US Green Fiber, LLC ("GreenFiber"),
a joint venture that manufactures, markets and sells cellulose insulation
made from recycled fiber.
Components of Growth and Maintenance Capital Expenditures (1):
Three Months Ended Twelve Months Ended
-------------------- ---------------------
2009 2010 2009 2010
--------- --------- --------- ----------
Growth Capital Expenditures:
Landfill Development $ - $ 701 $ 6,642 $ 1,727
MRF Equipment Upgrades - - 1,310 -
Other 405 671 2,618 2,619
Total Growth Capital
Expenditures 405 1,372 10,570 4,346
Maintenance Capital
Expenditures:
Vehicles, Machinery / Equipment
and Containers 1,485 5,728 14,430 15,523
Landfill Construction &
Equipment 5,601 7,231 28,325 30,362
Facilities 353 347 2,642 3,068
Total Maintenance Capital
Expenditures 7,752 13,659 47,166 50,004
Total Capital
Expenditures $ 8,157 $ 15,031 $ 57,736 $ 54,350
========= ========= ========= ==========
(1) The Company's capital expenditures are broadly defined as pertaining to
either growth or maintenance activities. Growth capital expenditures are
defined as costs related to development of new airspace, permit expansions,
new recycling contracts along with incremental costs of equipment and
infrastructure added to further such activities. Growth capital
expenditures include the cost of equipment added directly as a result of
new business as well as expenditures associated with increasing
infrastructure to increase throughput at transfer stations and recycling
facilities. Maintenance capital expenditures are defined as landfill cell
construction costs not related to expansion airspace, costs for normal
permit renewals and replacement costs for equipment due to age or
obsolescence.
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Wuxiaworld > Enchantress Amongst Alchemists Ghost King is Wife > Chapter 195 – Who Exactly Are You? Part 1
Chapter 195 – Who Exactly Are You? Part 1
Chapter 195- Who Exactly Are You? Part 1
“Ben Wang had initially wanted to give you a quick end. It’s a pity you didn’t take that chance. In order for my eyes to not be dirtied from looking at your body, I can only make you stay here until not a single trace of your soul is left behind. Only then will you be liberated from this place…”
The man raised his hand to dust at his robe before turning to walk toward the border of the Xiao family. He didn’t even give Xiao Min another look.
Xiao Min, within the black flames, couldn’t plead for her life or for a quicker death. She could only look with despair at the departing figure of that man, holding boundless regrets.
If… if only her grandfather hadn’t pampered her so much since she was young, perhaps she wouldn’t have grown up to be so arrogant and despotic and wouldn’t have provoked these people.
All in all, everything was her grandfather’s fault!
It was his fault for not being strict enough!
One could only wonder how enraged Xiao Yin would be if he were resurrected and privy to her thoughts…
✶
The moonlight was faint, with barely any light. Just as Mu Ru Yue lay on her bed, a wave of sleepiness struck her. She tried to pry open her eyes, but was unable to wake up. Amidst her grogginess, she seemed to see a figure entering her room…
The man stood beside the head of the bed. He focused on the young girl on the bed, a trace of gentleness appearing in his purple eyes.
A slender finger brushed against the young girl’s nose before landing on her lips. While he gently caressed it, his gaze became incredibly warm. Every motion of his finger was so gentle, as though he feared he might waken her abruptly.
The man muttered those words gently. There was pain and sorrow in his voice, along with infinite reluctance. But what could he do? He didn’t have any other method except this. All of this in order to avoid harming her…
Slowly, he lowered his head to place a kiss on the lips of the young girl.
His kiss was so gentle, containing all of the tender feelings this man couldn’t express openly. Yet, he felt that this wasn’t enough. Her lips were so sweet and warm that they made him want so much more…
The man parted the young girl’s lips. Just as he was about to move his tongue to taste her, the previously closed-eyed young girl suddenly woke up.
When the two of them looked at each other, the man’s heart violently trembled. Yet, he didn’t have the slightest intention of releasing her…
Mu Ru Yue narrowed her eyes and raised her leg to mercilessly kick him. The man didn’t dodge and just stood there, enduring the kick to his most sensitive part.
He groaned, but was still unwilling to let the young girl go after tasting her once more. The man held the young girl’s hand tightly and pressed her down on the bed.
“Let me go!”
Mu Ru Yue’s expression gradually darkened.
It was unknown why she felt a dangerous feeling coming from this man…
“Why did you wake up so quickly?”
Mu Ru Yue sniggered. “I am an alchemist. How long did you think that puny incapacitating agent would knock me unconscious for? Tell me, who exactly are you? I initially treated you as Wu Chen, but Wu Chen wouldn’t use such flower thief ways like using an incapacitating agent to knock a girl unconscious late in the night.”
When the man lowered his head to look at the young girl and saw the wariness on her face, his heart felt as though it had been violently pierced by something. He was in so much pain, yet he really couldn’t let her go. “You will know who I am in the near future.”
Currently, he couldn’t let her know anything as he didn’t want her to be in danger while by his side.
A light flashed past Mu Ru Yue’s eyes as she raised her hand to remove the man’s mask. However, the man let go of her the moment she touched the mask. Following that, his silver robes disappeared in a flash as he moved to the door.
Enchantress Amongst Alchemists Ghost King is Wife is a Romantic novels, some original, some translated from Chinese. Themes of heroism, of valor, of ascending to Immortality, of combat, of magic, of Eastern mythology and legends. Updated with awesome new content daily. Come join us for a relaxing read that will take you to brave new worlds! A paradise for readers!
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Foxconn Forms New Board; Young Liu Succeeds Terry Gou as Chair
Liao Shumin
DATE : Jun 21 2019 /SOURCE : yicai
(Yicai Global) June 21 -- Terry Gou attended his last shareholders' meeting as chairman of world consumer electronics foundry giant Hon Hai Precision Industry today.
He resigned his post after the session, and the company's board of directors then elected Young Liu as the new chair and Li Jie as vice chairman, 21st Century Business Herald reported.
Foxconn Industrial Internet's [SHA:601138] share price all day on the news to close up 3.10 percent at CNY12.32 (USD1.79).
Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision Technology, which trades as Foxconn, focuses on the foundry service of electronics, research and development of precision electrical components, chassis, barebones, system assembly, optical communication components, liquid crystal display and other upstream and downstream products and services in the computer, communication and consumer electronics fields.
It has factories in many countries around the world, and more than one million employees.
Liu was the general manager of Foxconn's semiconductor unit, in charge of the chip business. Li was the vice chairman of the company's A-share market-listed Foxconn Industrial Internet.
Liu, 63 years old, is very familiar with the semiconductor, personal computer and communication fields. He obtained a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Southern California after graduating from the Department of Electronic Physics of Taiwan Jiaotong University. Liu founded a motherboard brand in the US in 1988 and later sold it to Foxconn.
Liu, who became Gou's special assistant in 2007 and began climbing the company ladder. He took over the company's marketing channel business group and became one of Guo's most effective helpers.
Gou has publicly praised Liu several times as the company's semiconductor expert. Foxconn bought Japan-based Sharp for USD6.2 billion in 2016 and named Liu a company director. Gou hoped Liu might lead Sharp to upgrade its chip technology, the ex-chair once said at a shareholder meeting.
Liu resigned as the director of Sharp in May. Outsiders thought the move was a preparation for Liu's promotion to Foxconn's chair.
Foxconn's revenues were CNY272.8 billion (USD39.7 billion) in 2015, CNY272.7 billion in 2016 and CNY354.5 billion in 2017, and the respective overall gross profit margin was 10.50 percent, 10.65 percent and 10.14 percent. Its main business gross profit margin was only 8.64 percent last year, down 1.48 percentage points from the year before, lower than the internet and manufacturing industry's average, per the company's prospectus.
Foxconn is looking for a way out, and one of the key directions is to focus its strength on semiconductors. It has invested hundreds of millions of yuan in Zhuhai, Guangdong province and Jinan in Shandong province to build chip factories over the past year, which Liu mainly promoted. He also served as chairman of the company's chip unit in Zhuhai in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau greater bay area, Taiwan media reported.
Editor: Ben Armour
Keywords: Terry Gou , Foxconn , Young Liu
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Dou Shicong / Feb 26 2018
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