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PART III - LIABILITY TO TAXATION
Division 7A - Distributions to entities connected with a private company
Div 7A inserted by No 47 of 1998.
Subdivision E - Payments and loans through interposed entities
SECTION 109T PAYMENTS AND LOANS BY A PRIVATE COMPANY TO AN ENTITY THROUGH ONE OR MORE INTERPOSED ENTITIES
109T(1) [When Division operates]
This Division operates as if a private company makes a payment or loan to an entity (the target entity ) as described in section 109V or 109W if:
(a) the private company makes a payment or loan to another entity (the first interposed entity ) that is interposed between the private company and the target entity; and
(b) a reasonable person would conclude (having regard to all the circumstances) that the private company made the payment or loan solely or mainly as part of an arrangement involving a payment or loan to the target entity; and
(c) either:
(i) the first interposed entity makes a payment or loan to the target entity; or
(ii) another entity interposed between the private company and the target entity makes a payment or loan to the target entity.
109T(2) This section operates regardless of certain factors.
For the purposes of this section, it does not matter:
(a) whether the interposed entity made the payment or loan to the target entity before, after or at the same time as the first interposed entity received the payment or loan from the private company; or
(b) whether or not the interposed entity paid or lent the target entity the same amount as the private company paid or lent the first interposed entity.
109T(3) This section does not operate if the payment or loan to the first interposed entity is treated as a dividend.
This Division does not operate as described in subsection (1) (and sections 109V and 109W ) if the private company is taken under Subdivision B (as it applies apart from this Subdivision) to pay a dividend as a result of the payment or loan to the first interposed entity.
S 109T inserted by No 47 of 1998.
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You want to know about this new company: Ventana Ballet opens a new window on Austin dance
Michael Barnes @outandabout
There’s a new ballet in town. It's worth dancing about.
Ventana Ballet, directed by AJ Garcia-Rameau, made its debut at the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican-American Cultural Center with "Disrupt," seven short dances that confidently showcased elements taken from traditional and contemporary ballet as well as rhythm and modern dance.
“Tempest,” created by Garcia-Rameau, established the group’s basic musicality, as a solo cello player, Daniel Kopp, interacted sensitively from center stage with the seven primary dancers — six women and one man. Even casual observers could validate with their own eyes the pretty amazing artist resumes made available in the printed program.
“The Night We Met,” also devised by Garcia-Rameau, brought together matched young guest performers from the Austin School of Classical Dance for a pleasing, fluent quartet.
The dynamics of the company grew more complicated for “In the Fluid Presence of Time,” exquisitely constructed by Erica Gionfriddo and set to Eliot Gray Fisher’s hypnotic “Slip into the Ether.” If Ventana Ballet thrives beyond its first season — and why shouldn’t it, given its initial full houses? — this organically unfolding piece should become a permanent part of its repertoire. I could see it again and again.
Navaji David Nava, the company’s sole male dancer, blended gracefully, naturally with the female performers in each of the concert’s main group numbers. Yet in “Dearly Beloved,” which he choreographed, he and Garcia-Rameau assumed more traditional gender roles in a charming duet about the first blush of romance.
Surrealism clearly informed Dorothy O’Shea Overbey’s “After a Dream,” given the titular subject matter and the costumes translated evocatively from a surrealist’s vision of antiquity. A mesh of poetry by Romain Bussine with music by Kamila Swerldoff and Gabriel Fauré generated an appropriately unsettling and dreamy atmosphere.
Fun, funny and uplifting, Ginnifer Joe’s ”How Do You Cook a Beat?” made the most of a reverberant raised floorboard.
“Chaccone” brought together all the accomplishments of the troupe and revealed Garcia-Rameau’s powers as a sophisticated maker of dances. Traditional ballet fundamentals set the frame here, but the company proved it could stretch far beyond those parameters without disrespecting their origins.
The MACC proved a puzzle for this debut. Who would not welcome its intimacy, friendliness and informality? At the same time, its technical limitations were obvious to the audience, who giggled each time the house lights popped on and off. Also, gestures that would have appeared bold as seen from an imaginary balcony sometimes looked oversized in this more confined space. More serious: Seated halfway back on the risers, one often could not see the dancers’ feet and even their legs over the heads of other audience members.
And everyone deserves to see the whole effect when Ventana Ballet performs.
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A Water or a Light
Taking in Water
Amala Groom: Cosmic Body of remembrance
imagineNATIVE at 20
Pauline Clague in conversation with Jason Ryle
Sydney Elders: Continuing Aboriginal Stories
State Library of NSW
Speaking back to colonial collections: Building living to Aboriginal archives
Kirsten Thorpe
Unravelling the past: Barbed wire and campfire learnings
Ali Cobby Eckermann
Dark Emu: Thank the Earth
Bruce Pascoe
Deaths in custody: We've got to give it everything
Lorena Allum
Indigenous storytelling: Deconstructing the archetype
Pauline Clague
Water figures in Australian art and Australian history as a vital thread binding together many narratives and imageries. Art that concerns itself with some manifestation of water demonstrates what can be considered a new phase in Australian art about the land. David Keeling, Nicole Ellis, Ruby Davies, Peter James Smith, Patricia Picinnini, Judy Holding and Danielle Thompson are all Australian artists whose work is manifested by this notion of the land and of water.
But our native country is less an expanse of territory than a substance; it's a rock or a soil or an aridity or a water or a light. It's the place where our dreams materialise; it's through that place that our dreams take on their proper form&The stream doesn't have to be ours; the water doesn't have to be ours. The anonymous water knows all my secrets. And the same memory issues from every spring.
L'Eau et les reves, 1942, Paris
He woke to the sound of voices and footsteps but tried to go back, back to the dream that seemed to make sense, to be offering him some guidance and consolation. In the dream he walked on a cliff over the sea, a silver mirror with islands and swimmers; and someone said: "there's a way down" and he was uncertain but there was a path; and he ate a chocolate bar from his pocket and proceeded easily along the path, through the bushes, to the sand where his own people were sitting. That wasn't so hard and he opened his eyes trying to keep his heart in that place of light.
Skimming, 1998, Adelaide
Water figures in Australian art and Australian history as a vital thread binding together many narratives and imagery. Aboriginal art is alive with water, rain, rainbows, dew, hail, freshwater, saltwater, borewater, waterholes and storms. Much Aboriginal art of the desert recounts journeys from waterhole to waterhole, and many stories are based on the creation of these soaks or rockholes. The paths to them are not necessarily spectacular but they are crucial to survival.
The idea of an inland sea was the Holy Grail of non-Aboriginal exploration of Australia. The dream of plenty, of fresh water, of a green heart in a dry red continent was persistent although death and privation accompanied the quest. Actually an inland sea can be found in the centre of Australia but not in a predictable way. Underground there is the Great Artesian Basin, and then there is Lake Eyre which has been full only twice in the 20th century. It is an endoric or centrally draining system, the largest in the world. When the rains fill the river networks of Cooper's Creek and the Diamantina/Warburton in the north-east, and the Macumba in the north, and run across country to flood the Lake, there is an enormous sense of miracle involved, borne out in the blooming of the desert flowers and the quickening of the fauna. The miracle lies also in the fact that the water doesn't fall from the sky but comes flowing over the land to run in the veins of her dry river and creek beds like blood in a body.
A sense of the earth as animate is strongly supported by Aboriginal accounts of Australia. This animation is partly metaphoric, seeing correspondences between the human body and the earth, and other organisms or substances; partly it is not metaphoric but based on the livingness of everything, stones even, their sense of presence and, indeed, destiny.
Many Northern Hemisphere categories are inverted by Australian nature, but the Australian or Southern categories are only inversions if they are compared with something else regarded as the norm. Regard them as infinitely subtle rather than as inconsistent, regard them as intricate exercises for the imagination and they can be seen to be variations on what is already known, another way of seeing and being rather than 'the other', thus providing immense reflective potential for thought and experience.
Art that concerns itself with some manifestation of water demonstrates what can be considered a new phase in Australian art about the land. After Mabo, after the final shredding of the myth of terra nullius, after the Aboriginal art that makes known the daily patterns of almost every region of Australia, this land can never be seen in the same way again. Aboriginal land, occupied land, land covered with stories, births and deaths, it is yet ready to receive more living and to deepen our understanding of what was and may still be. Our understanding of this history makes both bitter and sweet our current occupation. Each of us arguably comes from river people, or plains people, book people or boat people, people of the night, of the fish, of the mountains or of the sea. Many of us do not know what kind of people are ours or where we belong but perhaps we can, by listening to our intuitions and feelings, understand where we fit in and take responsibility for the effects on the world produced by our actions and ways of thinking.
Colonial history forms part of the agenda of David Keeling's paintings, which picture furniture and food, people and islands, horizons and the sea, topiary and trellises, gates and landscapes in Tasmania. In that island it is not easily possible to forget the history of imposition of European ways on Australia, and the foreignness of fences, dams and mines appearing on wilderness and bush. Perhaps this is because so much wilderness remains in Tasmania, perhaps because of a certain indelible wildness about the place, a sense that here the trappings of European civilisation are always only temporary presences. Ian Maclean has described Keeling's work as having "&the moral purpose of postcolonialism". The paintings conjoin nature and culture with the same careful brushwork, they show objects as intruders, clipped or non-native trees as polite visitors, and always behind it all the sea which, as a fluid presence or collective unconscious, is the place where everything leads to and from where everything emerges, whether crawling primordial from the water or in a ship with white sails flying over the waves. Illimitable distances and horizons provide a vehicle for longing, for expansive thought and for escape from a culture defined in picturesque gardens and turned wooden legs.
Tabulating underwater space forms a significant part of two recent installations by Nicole Ellis whose works analyse water as a great conduit for ideas and bodies, history and knowledge. She asks: "How does water carry the memories of those who lived on its shores and even on the water and below the waterline...?" While working at the Docklands studios in London in 1995 Ellis started to think about the ships that would have been moored in the fast-flowing Thames in 1777 to 1857, man of war ships converted to prisons, in which the convicts were kept before being sent out to Australia. Once in Australia ships were again used as prisons before deportation to Norfolk Island. In below the waterline, a site specific installation at the Customs House, Circular Quay, Ellis linked historical documents, names and myths, physical space and the complexion of thought. Tidal Vectors, a work made in collaboration with James McGrath, was a 3D digital installation at the Museum of Sydney describing the dynamic shape and motion of Sydney Harbour. New technologies provide new ways of mapping and seeing invisible forces and features. By investigating the underwater where ships take up space and currents play around landforms the work transforms history and information into patterns and almost musical or architectural forms. The past and the present are re-viewed in this way as an interlocking series of objects and subjects, names and stories, thoughts and feelings.
Judy Holding has been travelling to Northern Australia from Melbourne for twenty years, camping out and learning from the indigenous people, the Bininj in Western Arnhem Land. She has come to know something about the way they distinguish six seasons rather than two, the Wet and the Dry. They are Gunumeleng – the time of first storms, Gudjeuk – wet season proper, Banggerreng – the last rains, Yekke – the early dry season, Wurrgeng – the cold weather time, and Gurrung – hot weather. Holding's artwork invents graphic equivalents, pictograms, and ideograms for the knowledge that she gathers in the Top End. The pastels shine with a kind of life force, a luminosity suggesting the presence of ancestral power, the energy of the land, in forms which, like microbes, dust particles, pieces of story, insects or ideas wriggle across the surface of the paper to remember the place and its charged presences, both tangible and intangible.
Peter James Smith's paintings overlay handwritten scientific data onto painted images of distant views. They merge everyday material from the blackboard in a science lecture with realistic imagery of spectacular natural events in a considered conversation. The combination of these different ways of picturing the same phenomena/ this placement of science with its habits of empiricism, measuring, recording, and rule-making alongside such phenomena as clouds and sunsets with all their flamboyant exuberance sets up a dialogue of incommensurability. It draws attention to some communion with what we call nature which is yet, the paintings suggest, always viewed through a mind seeking patterns and rules, conclusions and verbal or diagrammatic solutions or explanations. The painting A note on the path of a starling overlays a sketch of the normally unmapped path of the bird over a sunset, and suggests that the random exuberance of nature will elude all attempts to tabulate it, though people will continue to attempt it.
The vertigo of the fake prevails in the work of Patricia Picinnini. The seasickness-like nausea which can be induced by the artificial is especially emphasised in Swell, an immersive video installation shown at Artspace in Sydney, which reproduces the rising and falling vision of the sea that is gained from being out in a boat. Like the earlier work Plasticology, in which a sea of computer-generated plants was shown on multiple videos, Swell challenges the viewer to be able to tell, or to consider significant, the difference between a fake world and a real one. Picinnini's interest in electronic generation of worlds, in genetic engineering and its conflation of real and manufactured life are seen in a nature that is a simulacrum. The child or calf that has been made by IVF is still a child or a calf, but the land or seascape made by a computer lacks the random slippages, by which we know the real world. No two grains of sand are the same, real pearls have flaws, the impurity of these features of life must be held on to firmly in the face of a manufactured world without decay or error, as perhaps these 'mistakes' are the very dynamics of life.
For about ten years Ruby Davies has been travelling from Sydney out to the Darling River near Wilcannia where she grew up. She takes hand-built wooden pinhole cameras with her and records on black and white film some parts of the river that she knows and loves from childhood. It is the place that she remembers and also a place that has changed. The impact of cotton-growing on the river is immense and its implications are complex, breathing life into the human populations of places such as Bourke while tragically setting back the health of the river and its flora and fauna. As well as issues such as ownership and regulation of the river, and related events like water auctions, Davies is interested in the history of occupation and exploration along the Darling. She has been investigating the journal of explorer Thomas Mitchell and in her exhibition Along the Darling of photographic and sound works at the Broken Hill Art Gallery wrote excerpts from Mitchell's journal on the gallery wall in Darling River mud. Mitchell's words describing: "&the buzz of population [which] gave to the banks, at this place, the cheerful character of a village in a populous country."(4 June, 1835), and "&I have more than once seen a river chief, on receiving a tomahawk, point to the stream, and signify that we were then at liberty to take water from it, so strongly were they possessed with the notion, that the water was their own."(10 August. 1835), reinforce the sense of presences in Davies' photographs of the river, its trees and water surfaces.
Movement, the blur, some gestalt from an undefined memory is a leitmotif in the photography of Danielle Thompson. The psychic charge in water, a fluid form suggesting the mutable individual self that can be poured into another vessel and take its shape, is referenced in the work. Some of the photographs contain white flashes of light that, like the waterfall of the Romantics, tears at memory or belief in suggesting something like the transcendence of matter. Thompson photographs the sea and moves the camera as she does so thus reinforcing a movement that is already there. But the exhilaration of looking at the sea and the meditative or dreamlike state that is entered when looking at its ceaseless surging is present in the work as a kind of hypnosis. A space for dream and remembering, water is seen to have the potential to put humans in contact with important parts of their past or what Herman Melville, when discussing the magnetic nature of water for human contemplation, called "the ungraspable phantom of life".
My own artwork, based in South Australia, attends to the unique spirit of this place as well as linking the experience of it to other places and other times. Large paintings on unprimed unstretched canvas, palimpsests of land and water, words and lacuna, lagoons and headlands, are installed adjacent to painted plaster books. Together the books and paintings layer language and land, distance and intimacy, dryness and water. The scale of the work, like a mural, absorbs the viewer's body while the detail on the surface, dry markings in a dry land, appear to move, to be shape-shifting, almost to breathe and expand as they are observed. On the books in reverse printing appear the titles of works of anthropology and philosophy as well as painted patterns. The counterpoint of the books and the paintings provides a ticklish mnemonic charge to the work, a resonant orientation device for a literate culture which often locates in the book its poetry and its knowledges.
Reading the Waters
Ray Norman
Norman has based this article around Terry Whites concept of land literacy, a notion he defines as the ability to read and appreciate the signs of health [and ill-health] in a landscape . From a cultural perspective, the land literacy idea quickly compounds itself into a multi-dimensional concept and perhaps a new discipline Landliteracy that calls into question interdisciplinary demarcations, understandings of home, perceptions of the land and how we might experience place. Furthermore, Norman has used this concept as a way of discussing artmaking operations in relation to the landscape and the idea of waterliteracy. Britains Common Ground Movement, the work of Craig Andrae and the art project website redreadwater.com are here referred to.
Phillip George: Tranzlution
6 December 2000 10 February 2001
Mining the Imagination
Old Mine Management Office
Martin Walch, Richard Bladel, Leisa Tyler, Poonkhin Khut
1 December 2000 - open-ended
Judith McGrath
New work by Fleur Schell
Craftwest GalleryPerth
October- November 2000
Water and Dust: Coongie Lakes
Dr Jim Puckridge
To non-indigenous people, Australia has often seemed a paradoxical, even perverse country. It is indeed the most climatically unpredictable of all continents - a land where seasonal cycles are overwhelmed by unpredictable drought and flood. Dr Puckridge examines this fact about Australia, with a particular focus on the Lake Eyre Basin and Coongie Lake. This article includes text by artists Peter Richards and Erika Calder who work extensively alongside Dr Puckridge in their ongoing pursuit to inform and educate the wider community on the importance of working co-operatively with all the different and varied users of the Lake Eyre Basin.
Art and Landliteracy Forum
The Art and Landliteracy Forum (ALF) was established within the School of Contemporary Arts at Southern Cross University in 1996. It was convened as an ongoing forum for investigating ways in which contemporary arts practice can be pro-active in relation to environmental issues. The program evolved into a series of placemaking/placemarking projects that were focused on contributing to cultural sustainability.
World Without End: Photography and the 20th Century
2 December 2000 - 25 February 2001
Jane Barney
Metis is a remarkable fusion of art and science. The first of these biennial events, held in May 1999, was inspired by Rebecca Scott from the CSIRO and Canberra artist Jill Peck, and featured works which resulted from a range of collaborations between artists and scientists. Metis 2001 - Wasted focuses on environmental themes including detritus, recycling, toxic waste and land degradation.
9 November 9 December
University of South Australia Art Museum
Raymond Arnold
An exhibition of contemporary embroidery
Moonah Arts Centre. Hobart
17 November - 22 November 2000
Nola Farman's Wind Tree
Toni Ross
Nola Farmans The Wind Tree is one of a series of three permanent public artworks commissioned in 1998 by Griffith Artworks, Queensland College of Art, and installed at the new Logan Campus of Griffith University south of Brisbane. The Wind Tree stands on a site that was once occupied by indigenous inhabitants and from the time of white settlement until the recent sixties, the homestead site of the dairy cattle stud Ellerslie. The Wind Tree has been christened according to a traditional pedagogical symbol: the Tree of Knowledge. Ross examines Farmans site specific work in relation to its complex functional and aesthetic qualities.
Tree Stories
Peter Solness, Chapter and Verse Sydney
1999 RRP $43.95
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Avoid the next bursting investment bubble
May 2, 2011 in Investing
How can you spot a bubble?
Have your personal finances ever gotten clobbered by an asset class bubble?
If your portfolio blew up in 2000 when Internet stocks imploded, or if you bought a home between 2004 and 2006 and now find yourself upside down in your mortgage, you know firsthand the devastating effects of an asset class bubble.
Asset class bubbles defy easy explanation and identification. There is no defining threshold that announces the beginning of effervescent economic conditions, and no easily identifiable tipping point that precedes the inevitable pop.
However, most bubbles share certain characteristics that set boom-and-bust cycles apart from the supply-and-demand dynamics that normally govern most markets.
In his recent book, “Boombustology: Spotting financial bubbles before they burst,” Vikram Mansharamani took a multi-disciplinary approach to studying bubbles and identified traits shared by five infamous boom-and-bust cycles.
Watch out for these five signs of an asset class bubble.
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Sign No. 1: mispriced assets
The first trait is a glitch in the mechanism for setting prices. After all, the most obvious characteristic of bubbles is skyrocketing prices apropos of nothing.
In a free market where the forces of supply and demand set the price of an asset, prices tend toward an equilibrium between what someone is willing to pay for something and the price at which someone else is willing to sell it.
But in bubbles, increased prices produce more demand, which sends prices far above the inherent value of the asset.
For example, investors commonly use valuation ratios to determine if stocks are cheap or expensive.
“For stocks of a particular type of firm in a particular industry, there is typically a ratio or boundary of ratios that seem reasonable or in line with the fundamental value,” says Peter Rodriguez, associate professor of business administration and director of the Center for Global Initiatives at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.
When an entire industry or group breaks out of that range, it can be indicative of bubbly conditions.
Determining the value of assets is not always so straightforward. The more esoteric or exotic the investment, the more easily valuation lines are blurred. Internet stocks in the 1990s blurred that line, as do emerging markets stocks from time to time.
Sign No. 2: easy credit
One characteristic of nearly all bubbles is the heavy use of leverage “or the use of debt vehicles to fund additional purchases on the expectation that the value will continue to rise and rise,” says Rodriguez.
According Mansharamani, three dynamics of easy money can lead to bubbles.
Financial innovation: Financial institutions evolve with the times. When economic conditions are conducive to easy credit and excessive risk, products emerge that enable consumers to borrow too much money. Example: interest-only mortgage loans.
Cheap money: Low interest rates on loans make money cheap. “When I say that money is too cheaply priced, I mean that interest rates are far below where they would naturally occur if you had a freely floating interest rate model rather than one where a central banker sets the interest rates,” says Mansharamani.
Moral hazard: When individuals are protected from risk, they behave differently than if they had to live with the consequences. If they can’t fail, they take more risks. The same is true of financial institutions and corporations.
Sign No. 3: confident consumption
Pride goes before a fall, and hubris is always involved in bubbles. Conspicuous consumption and overconfidence go hand in hand.
“Generally, this overconfidence manifests itself in world records — for instance, in prices of art and wine or even the world’s tallest skyscraper,” says Mansharamani.
Technological innovations can also impel investors to believe that this time is different, that the world is fundamentally changed and a new era is underway.
Sign No. 4: political manipulation
Another characteristic of past bubbles is the heavy hand of the government reaching in to stir up the free market pot with regulations and price manipulation, according to Mansharamani.
When questioning the presence of an asset class bubble, he suggests investors consider politics.
“Are we seeing the government distort behavior because of tax policies, incentives, ceilings, price floors or subsidies of any sort? And, are we getting moral hazard in the sense that they will protect you if you are failing?” says Mansharamani.
Sign No. 5: herd mentality
People can walk on the moon, but following the herd is still irresistible.
“There are a lot of group or herd behaviors where people follow others they believe know what they are doing. Those people don’t actually know what they’re doing,” says Mansharamani.
By the time you realize everyone is falling off the cliff, it may be too late to scramble to safety.
“The classic story that you hear people say — if the valets and waiters and all the service people around the rich hotels can think of nothing other than what stock to buy, it’s probably time to sell,” says Rodriguez.
It doesn’t help that bubbles often come with compelling stories that can cloud facts, even for the most clear-eyed contrarians.
“It’s like in the heyday of the Internet stocks. The narrative was it doesn’t matter that they don’t have profits now — they will and don’t be late to the party. So it’s usually that which gets you,” Rodriguez says.
Avoiding bubbles
Maintaining a diversified portfolio and investing in accordance with a well-thought-out plan will mitigate the damage from a bubble in one asset class. Though nothing is guaranteed, a broad asset allocation strategy across asset classes and geography coupled with regular rebalancing can reduce the risks individual investors face.
“In the absence of cost you should rebalance daily. If you determine the right allocation for you is 60 percent equities and 40 percent bonds, why let the market determine what your allocation is?” says Larry Swedroe, director of research at Buckingham Asset Management in St. Louis.
Unfortunately, cost is never absent when trading, in which case Swedroe recommends rebalancing every time new cash is deposited into the account rather than doing it on a quarterly or yearly schedule.
“Time-based rebalancing makes no sense. An alternative is setting up boundaries. For instance, you may have 10 asset classes, each 6 percent. ‘As long as it stays between 5 (percent) and 7 percent I’ll let it drift. If it gets out of there I’ll act.’ You determine what is appropriate, but stay disciplined and stick to it,” he says.
Investors could even benefit from bubbles by regularly taking profits off the table and reinvesting in asset classes that aren’t doing so well, effectively succeeding at investing by buying low and selling high.
Investing resources
When in doubt, always heed the old saw, “bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered.” That means don’t get greedy — lest you be the one left holding the bag when the bubble pops.
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Zendaya is undoubtedly Hollywood's new "it girl," so with everything she's achieved thus far, it's only fair that everyone is wondering if she has someone on her arm. Well, when she was spotted leaving a Grammy party with NFL star Odell Beckham Jr. on Monday night, her dad set the record straight.
"It's an audition!" he explained when the folks over at TMZ asked if the two were an item.
Pops isn't playing that with his little girl.
When asked if he approves of their "relationship," he simply responded, "What relationship?"
"There's no relationship," he continued. "[They're] just friends... When you see my daughter out on a date without me, it's a relationship. It's like an audition. It's an interview."
Check out the video of what went down, below:
For now, we'll go with "nah" on the situation, but we're keeping an eye on these two.
Speaking of this fab 19-year-old, watch her set the record straight on a quote in the BET Breaks video, below:
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Odell Beckham Jr.
Michelle Obama Hilariously Breaks Down Why Melania Trump's Inauguration Gift Exchange Appeared So Awkward
The former FLOTUS also explained to Ellen Degeneres how Barack stepped in and saved the day.
This 13-Year-Old Cheerleader Serving Some Serious Sassy Face Is Taking Over Twitter As Everyone's New Favorite Meme
"When my teacher asks me a question thinking I'm not paying attention, but I get it right."
Man Films Racist Old Navy Encounter Where Store Managers Accused Him Of Stealing The Jacket He Wore To The Store
James Conley III says the employees never apologized after they realized their mistake.
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Improving Every Day
After being named to Bicycling's Worst Cities for Cycling list in 2008, Miami has begun to turn itself around.
By emily furia
"It's too bad we don't have a copy of that article here today, so we could make the editors from Bicycling eat their words!"-Speaker at BikeTown Miami, "welcoming" the crowd to our giveaway.
To say that Miami was excited about hosting Bicycling's BikeTown would be a gross understatement. In June 2008, we'd named the city one of the worst places in the United States to ride a bike, and the response was exactly what we'd hoped for: Over the past year, the city added bike lanes and Share the Road signs, and hosted group rides to introduce more people to cycling. Mayor Manny Diaz created Bike Miami Days, celebrations that allow residents to enjoy car-free streets, yoga classes, live music, free bicycle rentals and more. It's safe to say Miami will not be on the "worst cities" list when our 2010 rankings come out.
Kathryn Moore, special aide to the mayor, says that surrounding communities are taking notice of the city's cycling projects. "It's driven people to go to their policymakers and say 'If Miami can do this, why can't we?'" she says.
Our 31 BikeTowners have big plans for their new Jamis Commuter and Citizen bikes. Several participants want to help support a burgeoning inner-city bike program. Some want to spend more quality time with their partners or children; others will use the new wheels to look for work. Many long to explore the city's new bike routes and group rides. One woman, whose pre-BikeTown bike had been stolen, said that she and her husband had been "starting a form of bike ministry encouraging other couples to join us and discover the beauty of biking and dating." (Just when we think we've read it all...)
A number of outdoors-minded community members--including bike-to-school advocates, a women's race team founder, even a Frisbee golf enthusiast--came to Bayfront Park to welcome the new BikeTowners. Although many of them reported that Miami still has room for improvement, cycling-wise, they were excited to see new cyclists taking to the city streets.
To share photos and stories, or ask questions or simply connect with other BikeTowners, visit Bicycling's BikeTown discussion forum or the BikeTown USA Facebook page.
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Jason Atherton and Jose Pizarro among chefs appearing at The Restaurant Show 2012
By Emma Eversham
Related tags: Chef, Culinary art, Chefs
Jason Atherton is among the line-up of chefs who will be appearing at this year's Restaurant Show
Jason Atherton and Jose Pizarro are among the chefs confirmed to appear at this year's top industry event The Restaurant Show.
Kicking off in exactly two months' time, the three-day trade show at Earls Court 2 in London will see Atherton and Pizarro appear on the venue's Centre Stage to share their expertise with visitors through a series of dedicated master classes.
Returning for the second year running will be Sat Bains while other chefs appearing at the event include Daniel Clifford of Cambridge's two Michelin-starred restaurant, Midsummer House, his fellow Great British Menu 2012 finalist Philip Howard, Paul Foster of Tuddenham Mill and The Cinnamon Club's executive chef Vivek Singh.
Bringing an international flavour to the event will be Peter Gilmore of Australian restaurant Quay and Hong Kong's Alvin Leung, who will be in London for the opening of his latest restaurant BO London.
Hot topics and trends
Restaurant operators looking to find out about the latest trends and issues affecting the industry, should head to the Business Bootcamp where industry experts will give their views on key areas such as sustainability, the economy and recruiting staff for the future.
More advice in the area of drinks can be found at the Drinks Quarter where top sommeliers, including Gerard Basset and Xavier Rousset will join with respected wine writers to host sampling sessions and food and drink matching workshops.
In response to the growing trend for street food, this year, the on-site restaurant will be replaced by Eat Street, an area dedicated to celebrating the growth of street food within the restaurant sector and hosting some of the entrepreneurs in this field.
Competitions and products
The show, which runs from 8 to 10 October, will again host the final of the Craft Guild of Chef's National Chef of the Year competition where eight finalists will battle it out for their chance to win the title. Other competitions held throughout the event are the Junior and Senior Compass Chef of the Year and the newly-launched Event Caterers Team Challenge.
Visitors will also be given the chance to meet suppliers and sample and view new products at the Artisan Producers' Market.
“This much-anticipated event, allows visitors to sample and taste, explore new avenues, learn new techniques or skills, develop knowledge, network, communicate and make new connections, discover product innovations, amass solid commercial advice from those leading the way, and simply be inspired all under one roof, and in the space of just three days," said exhibitions director Rachel Quigley.
“This year’s event is set to be better than ever before with a whole range of live events and something to appeal to everyone. With thoughts of change and innovation at the centre of everyone’s radar during this downturn in the economy, the show is set to offer plenty of food for thought.”
The Restaurant Show is free to visitors who register in advance, (£25 if turning up on the day). To register for free click here.
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Salmontini to open first UK restaurant with plans for expansion
By Melodie Michel contact
Salmontini Le Resto will open on Pont Street at the end of September
Related tags: Salmon, Dubai
Smoked salmon specialist Salmontini is opening its first UK restaurant in London’s Belgravia in September, with plans for further expansion.
The Beirut-born brand, which started as a smokehouse 20 years ago, already has venues in Lebanon and Dubai, and the Pont Street site will be its first venture outside the Middle East.
Menu
The food offering, prepared by Spanish-born head chef Esteve Prats Grau – who previously worked at Tom’s Kitchen – includes a variety of cold and hot salmon specialties, salads, Mediterranean fish and meats, as well as sushi and sashimi.
Co-owner and managing director Jason Bassili, who helped out in his father’s smokehouse from the age of four, told BigHospitality: “We’ve got to adapt our food offering to what’s available seasonally here, but 90 per cent of the menu is going to be the same as what it is in Dubai, which is soups, salads with smoked salmon and seaweed or lentils and quinoa for example; nothing too fancy. If I find some nice local meat, then why not add it to the menu.”
Wine and cocktails will make up the drinks list, and the venue will include a lounge bar area. “The concept is sexier than the one in Dubai, with a lounge bar and stripped back décor. We’ve got steel, vintage mirrors and vintage leather on the walls,” Bassili added.
Design
The design is overseen by Andraos Associates, the team behind Café de Paris, Madame Jojo's, Noura and Volupté, and is described as “a deconstructed, simplified procession of spaces, using leather, solid wood and raw steel”.
The first floor will include a casual and bar and lounge area as well as a more formal space, with a ‘Royal Dining Table’ for ten people, while downstairs will have a private dining room for 36 people.
Clientele
Bassili explained that the restaurant will be informal but not casual, targeting a high-end Belgravia clientele.
“We don’t want to be a pretentious restaurant where people are scared to eat. We want to be a dining spot where you feel like you can spend money if you want to but you’re not forced to. You can spend £40 or £100, but it’s your choice.”
And although the first venue is not yet open, Bassili is already eyeing other locations for expansion, mainly in the Chelsea area.
Salmontini Le Resto will be open daily from noon until 12.30am.
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A Wildly Seductive Night(3)
By: Lauren Blakely
His dick filled her completely, and her heat coated the length of him. Pleasure crackled in his body, racing through his veins as he took her harder. “When I saw you against the railing, those legs that went on forever, those heels so goddamn high, I was sure you were the kind of woman who knew what she wanted. Tell me what you want. Right now. Tell me what you want most from a hard, fast fucking.”
“I want to come on your cock.”
Shudders wracked his body. “You have a filthy mouth.”
“I think you love a filthy mouth.”
He sucked on her neck and bit her earlobe. “A filthy mouth on a filthy, fucking beautiful woman.” He slammed into her, and she moaned from the punishing pace. “Now you’re going to get what you asked for.”
“I want it. Give it to me,” she urged.
He dipped his hand between her legs, rubbing his finger relentlessly over her swollen bundle of nerves, his own sensations intensifying. She was frantic and wild, and he was charging hard into some kind of rapture with her.
Lust slammed into him, and she trembled under his touch, her moans growing louder, too loud. He brought his mouth to her ear. “I said quiet,” he said harshly. “I can’t fuck you the way I want if everyone can hear you.”
He rocked deeper. She leaned her head back, clamping her lips shut like she was fighting to hold in her sounds as she writhed on him. Her pussy clenched, gripping him; her lips opened in an O, then a silent, beautiful climax shook her body, her shoulders trembling, her pussy holding him tight. She clutched the railing, taking all that he gave her. He gave her all he had, driving deep, until he came so goddamn hard in this woman.
His woman.
With a muffled grunt and a rough punch of his hips, he curled his hands over her hipbones as he jerked one more time inside her. Then he breathed out hard and brushed a gentle kiss to her neck. “Mmm,” he murmured. “I trust you enjoyed getting to Point B.”
“Getting there. Being there. All of it. I loved Point B. And I love boats.” She leaned into his kiss, then, when he pulled out, she excused herself for the restroom, and he zipped up his pants.
A few minutes later, Julia Nichols returned to his side, looping a hand around his neck. “Hey, handsome.”
“Hey, gorgeous. I almost didn’t recognize you with your hair like that.”
She reached up, running a hand through her once again auburn locks. She patted her purse. “Wig’s in here. Who knows what color I’ll be next time.”
“Doesn’t make a difference to me. I’ll fuck you no matter what.”
“You better.”
He’d given her what she’d told him she wanted. A fantasy. Pretending they were strangers. He’d wanted it, too, because he craved all the dirty things in the world with his wife. Role-playing, new positions, places they’d never been, and things they’d never tried.
But when she wrapped her hand around his neck and pulled him close, she reminded him of something they’d been doing well since day one. “But don’t forget Point A,” she said.
He arched an eyebrow in a question.
She pursed her lips and blew a kiss. “Kiss me, you handsome fella.”
“Love Point A,” he said with a grin, and brushed his lips to hers. He pressed harder, sealing their mouths together, and he shuddered. Screwing her was earth-shattering, but kissing her never failed to rock his world. She melted against his lips, murmuring as he savored the taste of her sweet mouth. He swallowed her moans, kissing her like it was the best thing in the world.
Because it fucking was. She arched into him, her body molding to his as he explored her mouth with his tongue. He had no interest in stopping, but the time had come to return to the party.
He took her hand, and they joined his cousins on the deck below, no one the wiser that he’d screwed his wife before he joined them. Then again, he was always screwing her. Several years of marriage hadn’t slowed them down. If anything, they found new ways to love each other every day.
He could only hope that when they celebrated their next anniversary in a few more weeks, more of his dirty dreams would come true.
The camera panned to Julia as she brought the crystal martini glass to her lips, taking a taste of the gin-based cocktail.
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APPLE STATEMENT March 14, 2019
Addressing Spotify’s claims
We believe that technology achieves its true potential when we infuse it with human creativity and ingenuity. From our earliest days, we’ve built our devices, software and services to help artists, musicians, creators and visionaries do what they do best.
Sixteen years ago, we launched the iTunes Store with the idea that there should be a trusted place where users discover and purchase great music and every creator is treated fairly. The result revolutionised the music industry, and our love of music and the people who make it are deeply engrained in Apple.
Eleven years ago, the App Store brought that same passion for creativity to mobile apps. In the decade since, the App Store has helped create many millions of jobs, generated more than $120 billion for developers and created new industries through businesses started and grown entirely in the App Store ecosystem.
At its core, the App Store is a safe, secure platform where users can have faith in the apps they discover and the transactions they make. And developers, from first-time engineers to larger companies, can rest assured that everyone is playing by the same set of rules.
That’s how it should be. We want more app businesses to thrive — including the ones that compete with some aspect of our business, because they drive us to be better.
What Spotify is demanding is something very different. After using the App Store for years to dramatically grow their business, Spotify seeks to keep all the benefits of the App Store ecosystem — including the substantial revenue that they draw from the App Store’s customers — without making any contributions to that marketplace. At the same time, they distribute the music you love while making ever-smaller contributions to the artists, musicians and songwriters who create it — even going so far as to take these creators to court.
Spotify has every right to determine their own business model, but we feel an obligation to respond when Spotify wraps its financial motivations in misleading rhetoric about who we are, what we’ve built and what we do to support independent developers, musicians, songwriters and creators of all stripes.
So we want to address a few key points:
Spotify claims we’re blocking their access to products and updates to their app.
Let’s clear this one up right away. We’ve approved and distributed nearly 200 app updates on Spotify’s behalf, resulting in over 300 million downloaded copies of the Spotify app. The only time we have requested adjustments is when Spotify has tried to sidestep the same rules that every other app follows.
We’ve worked with Spotify frequently to help them bring their service to more devices and platforms:
When we reached out to Spotify about Siri and AirPlay 2 support on several occasions, they’ve told us they’re working on it, and we stand ready to help them where we can.
Spotify is deeply integrated into platforms like CarPlay, and they have access to the same app development tools and resources that any other developer has.
We found Spotify’s claims about Apple Watch especially surprising. When Spotify submitted their Apple Watch app in September 2018, we reviewed and approved it with the same process and speed with which we would any other app. In fact, the Spotify Watch app is currently the No. 1 app in the Watch Music category.
Spotify is free to build apps for — and compete on — our products and platforms, and we hope they do.
Spotify wants all the benefits of a free app without being free.
A full 84 percent of the apps in the App Store pay nothing to Apple when you download or use the app. That’s not discrimination, as Spotify claims; it’s by design:
Apps that are free to you aren’t charged by Apple.
Apps that earn revenue exclusively through advertising — like some of your favourite free games — aren’t charged by Apple.
App business transactions where users sign up or purchase digital goods outside the app aren’t charged by Apple.
Apps that sell physical goods — including ride-hailing and food delivery services, to name a few — aren’t charged by Apple.
The only contribution that Apple requires is for digital goods and services that are purchased inside the app using our secure in-app purchase system. As Spotify points out, that revenue share is 30 percent for the first year of an annual subscription — but they left out that it drops to 15 percent in the years after.
That’s not the only information Spotify left out about how their business works:
The majority of customers use their free, ad-supported product, which makes no contribution to the App Store.
A significant portion of Spotify’s customers come through partnerships with mobile carriers. This generates no App Store contribution, but requires Spotify to pay a similar distribution fee to retailers and carriers.
Even now, only a tiny fraction of their subscriptions fall under Apple’s revenue-sharing model. Spotify is asking for that number to be zero.
Let’s be clear about what that means. Apple connects Spotify to our users. We provide the platform by which users download and update their app. We share critical software development tools to support Spotify’s app building. And we built a secure payment system — no small undertaking — which allows users to have faith in in-app transactions. Spotify is asking to keep all those benefits while also retaining 100 percent of the revenue.
Spotify wouldn’t be the business they are today without the App Store ecosystem, but now they’re leveraging their scale to avoid contributing to maintaining that ecosystem for the next generation of app entrepreneurs. We think that’s wrong.
What does that have to do with music? A lot.
We share Spotify’s love of music and their vision of sharing it with the world. Where we differ is how you achieve that goal. Underneath the rhetoric, Spotify’s aim is to make more money off others’ work. And it’s not just the App Store that they’re trying to squeeze — it’s also artists, musicians and songwriters.
Just this week, Spotify sued music creators after a decision by the US Copyright Royalty Board required Spotify to increase its royalty payments. This isn’t just wrong, it represents a real, meaningful and damaging step backwards for the music industry.
Apple’s approach has always been to grow the pie. By creating new marketplaces, we can create more opportunities not just for our business, but for artists, creators, entrepreneurs and every “crazy one” with a big idea. That’s in our DNA, it’s the right model to grow the next big app ideas and, ultimately, it’s better for customers.
We’re proud of the work we’ve done to help Spotify build a successful business reaching hundreds of millions of music lovers, and we wish them continued success — after all, that was the whole point of creating the App Store in the first place.
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Kieran Trippier made 38 appearances for Tottenham in 2018-19
Tottenham right-back Kieran Trippier says he is unsure if he will stay at the club and expects to discuss his future with manager Mauricio Pochettino after his summer break.
Trippier is reportedly a target for Italian sides Napoli and Juventus, and Spain's Atletico Madrid have also been linked with the 28-year-old.
He said: "I want to stay in England but what can you do?
"I'll see what happens and what the club wants, most importantly."
Trippier, who is contracted to Spurs until 2022, made 38 appearances this season as they finished fourth in the Premier League and reached the Champions League final.
He impressed for England in their run to the semi-finals of the 2018 World Cup in Russia but was left out of Gareth Southgate's squad for this week's Nations League finals in Portugal.
When asked about his future, the defender said: "I don't know.
"I go home now, spend time with my family, just recover after a long, difficult season. Everybody's got a decision to make.
"Obviously this club has been very good for me over the last few years but I'll enjoy my summer, come back in pre-season and that's when I'll sit down with the manager and have a talk about my future.
"I see a lot of speculation about me not being here. I give everything, 100% every game, win lose or draw. So we'll see what happens in pre-season."
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Victoria (VIC) is Australia’s smallest mainland state covering just 227,600 km². Even so, it still manages to be bigger than England and Scotland put together. If it were a country, it would be in the 84th biggest in the world, just ahead of Guyana. It is slightly bigger than the American state of Minnesota.
It has a population of around 5.74 million people and because of its size, this makes it the most crowded state in Australia. It is known as “The Garden State” and residents are known as “Mexicans”- a reference to the fact that they live south of the border.
Victoria has some fine attractions, but surely none can be better than The Great Ocean Road. Over 240 km of twisting, turning, cliffside, seaside, bushside driving that will make your jaw drop. It also has Phillip Island and their famous Penguin Parade.
Places in Victoria
Melbourne is the capital of Victoria and the city is well known for it is performing arts; it also has a reputation for being unconventional. This is reflected in Victoria’s list of famous Australians originally from the state; Germaine Greer, feminist; Steve Irwin, crocodile hunter; Nick Cave, revolutionary rock legend; Barry Humphries, satirist; Shane Warne, cricketer; Rupert Murdoch, media mogul and Ned Kelly, outlaw and murderer.
Oh, and Kylie Minogue.
Here is a list of towns and localities in the state, with a population of over 10,000 people.
Populations of places change on a daily basis. When I compiled this list in 2011, I got my population figures from various sources and some of them are from the census of 2006. I have decided not to try to constantly update these population numbers, so if you are interested in a certain city or town, then you may want to search online for updated information about the population.
That way you can see if the population is growing, unchanged or shrinking.
Geelong – just over 137,000
Ballarat – just over 78,000
Bendigo – just over 76,000
Shepparton-Mooroopna – about 39,000
Melton – nearly 36,000
Mildura – just over 30,000
Sunbury – nearly 30,000
Warrnambool – – about 28,000
Traralgon – nearly 22,000
Pakenham – – about 19,000
Wangaratta – nearly 17,000
Moe – over 15,000
Ocean Grove-Barwon Heads – about 14,000
Horsham – about 14,000
Morwell – around 13,000
Sale – around 13,000
Bacchus Marsh – just over 13,000
Warragul – nearly 12,000
Bairnsdale – about 11,000
Colac – – about 11,000
Lara – around 10,000
Drysdale-Clifton Springs – just over 10,000
Then there are many more towns with less than 10,000 inhabitants, more will be added in time. If you live in any town or suburb in Victoria, then why not tell us about it in the comments below…
Col B. May 14, 2018, 9:31 am | Link
G’day Bob, I’ve pasted here the 2016 census Vic population centers for you to replace your old list, as you may have overlooked two other major Victorian provincial cities – Echuca and Wodonga, both are missing from your own list. These two cities had a population of well over 10,000 since the turn of the century.
You can copy/paste the revision to replace your old one and then just delete this comment and list. Cheers!.
……………………………..2016 census
1 Melbourne……………..4,196,201
2 Geelong…………………157,103
3 Ballarat…………………93,761
4 Bendigo………………….92,384
5 Melton…………………..54,455
6 Shepparton – Mooroopna…….46,194
7 Wodonga………………….35,131
8 Sunbury………………….34,425
– Pakenham…………………N/A[*note 1]
9 Mildura………………….33,445
10 Warrnambool………………30,707
11 Traralgon………………..25,482
12 Wangaratta……………….18,567
13 Ocean Grove – Barwon Heads…18,208
14 Bacchus Marsh…………….17,303
15 Torquay – Jan Juc…………16,942
16 Horsham………………….16,792
17 Moe – Newborough………….15,062
18 Warragul…………………14,274
19 Morwell………………….13,540
20 Sale…………………….13,507
21 Lara…………………….13,327
22 Bairnsdale……………….12,950
23 Echuca…………………..12,902
24 Drysdale – Clifton Springs…12,483
25 Colac……………………11,890
26 Drouin…………………..11,889
27 Leopold………………….11,882
28 Swan Hill………………..10,603
29 Portland…………………10,059
30 Castlemaine……………….9,933
(*note 1 – Due to increased residential development in Officer, which previously
provided a non-urban buffer between Pakenham and the rest of the Melbourne
metropolitan area, Pakenham began to be counted as part of the
greater Melbourne urban centre starting from the 2016 census.)
Hi Col,
Thanks for this. A lot of the information on my pages were put together based on either 2006 or 2011 data, so they are due and update. I’m going to put it on my list of things to do, and I’ll try and do all city and state pages as soon as I can.
Not sure why those two towns were missed off, it was so long ago I did this I can’t even remember the specific websites I got my information from. One thing your list does show though, is that many places have had a pretty steep increase in population.
Thanks again, Bob
Sham November 17, 2017, 5:35 am | Link
Hello Bob and friends
I recently got an offer for PhD research at La Trobe University, Bendigo campus. I would like to know about the cost of living per month in Bendigo. I will be living single, and I will earn about 2000 AUD per month as stipend. Will that be enough?
BobinOz November 17, 2017, 7:01 pm | Link
$2000 a month isn’t much money, but if you are getting free accommodation thrown in with that, you might get by. If you have to pay for your own accommodation though, you might find it quite difficult, maybe even impossible. Either way, you will be on a very tight budget I would think.
I don’t know much about prices in Bendigo specifically, but for day-to-day items, I can’t imagine it’s much different than the rest of Australia, so my page The Cost of Living in Australia of Everything will help you work out your budget.
Hopefully somebody who knows Bendigo will see your comment and give you more information.
Sham December 5, 2017, 9:36 pm | Link
Thank you so much for your reply.
Hello, Sham. I rented a hotel room in Lismore (NSW) when l was a student at the Conservatorium Of The Arts (which is an educational bridge to University). l find that hotel (not classy hotels) room rent is cheaper than anything else if you want to live by yourself. cheers.
ROY October 26, 2017, 11:59 pm | Link
Friends,,,
I am from INDIA working in UAE with annual package of equivalent 48000 AUD .Now I make saving 30000 AUD from salary for my 3 kids( 4 ,3 & 1 years old)) and family’s future.My spouse have a NURSING Degree with out Experience. As considering future of my KIDS,Now I am thinking of moving to Australia ,and my Qualification & Experience meets as a ‘Fitter’ in Australia. shed some light on my thoughts ,,like is it a rt decision to move ?? Is it possible to live with single person’s income & from my trade ? Is it will be a struggling life waiting for me in Australia?
BobinOz October 30, 2017, 6:24 pm | Link
It’s impossible to say really, there is an obvious risk when you move to a new country to find work, there are no guarantees. Looking at the huge percentage of your income that you are able to save in UAE, it’s hard to imagine that you would do better than that here in Australia.
Jobs aren’t easy to find either, especially for new migrants, see…
https://www.bobinoz.com/blog/17033/whats-it-really-like-trying-to-find-a-job-in-australia-2015/
Especially the comments.
kaylah September 24, 2017, 11:29 pm | Link
my partner and myself are looking at moving to Melbourne (from Tassie) and are wondering what suburbs are good and not high in crime (feral) and not to far away from the cbd.
thanks in advance. 🙂
BobinOz September 25, 2017, 8:35 pm | Link
Have a look at the comments on my main page about Melbourne, there is a great deal of talk about the suburbs and what they are like. I think you will find it very helpful. Good luck, Bob
William May 23, 2017, 9:33 pm | Link
Hey mate, I’ve been a brisbane boy all my life and I’m pretty sick of the humidity and insects up here. I’m considering moving to either Sydney or Melbourne. I have been to melbourne a few times and I only saw a few mosquito’s here and there. Much easier to explore the bush without the fear of running into cob webs, the flora also seems far more lush in melbourne, much like the UK. But with a bit of a hot, dry spanish element in summer. Is Sydney much the same? or is it more tropical like brisbane with insects everywhere? What about adelaide or perth? I’ve heard perth is over-run with golden orb spiders, harmless, but annoying to run into nonetheless. Probably not as lush and green as melbourne or tassy right?
Well if you’re looking to avoid the bugs, you might just have to move to Norway 🙂 There is no escaping these little critters, but you can get away from the humidity.
As you have said, Melbourne’s weather is a bit more like that of the UK, although most people who have moved there from Blighty will tell you that Melbourne’s weather is better. I don’t know for sure, but it wouldn’t surprise me if there are fewer mozzies in Melbourne, but I’m pretty sure the place will not be mozzie free. What I like about Brisbane is we don’t really get too many flies, but I think Melbourne does on occasions have a bit of a fly problem.
Sydney’s weather would be warmer than Melbourne’s and slightly more humid, but not as humid as Brisbane.
Many people say that Adelaide can have extremely hot summers and very cold winters, it’s also a very dry heat, so if humidity is what you want to escape from the most, it’s an option. Don’t know what the bugs are like down that way though.
I don’t think you’ll find Perth too much different from Brisbane, but if you really want to escape bugs and humidity then maybe Tassie is the place to go.
That’s my view, but I’ve only ever lived in Brisbane, so hopefully some others will see this comment and tell you what they think of the bugs and humidity where they live. Good luck with your plans, Bob
Thijs May 25, 2017, 6:57 pm | Link
I live in Melbourne, so can happily comment.
Mozzies: nope, no issues. Yes, they *exist*, but not more than I was used to in Belgium before. Mozzies are a humidity-related problem in summer. Humidity in Melbourne is quite low in summers. If anything, depending on what part of nature I found myself in back in the days in Belgium, mozzies were a bigger problem than over here in Melbourne now.
Flies: depends on where you are. Are you in the middle of the summer on certain very specific beaches? Yes, flies may accidentally exist then. And they’re in general much more annoying in Australia overall than I remember them being in Belgium. They’re just a different kind, that for some reason is much more aggressive over here. You can try to swat them away, but they’ll almost immediately come back.
Weather like the UK (or Belgium)? Not even close. On average 10 degrees warmer, no actual freezing during the day in winters, loads of sunlight most of the year (compared to a big bunch of gray in the UK / Belgium).
For me (and yes, that’s a personal thing), Melbourne’s weather overall is excellent. There is a four seasons in a day thing going on on certain specific days; but it’s never bothersome. If anything, I’d rather have 4 seasons in a day, than one annoying wet cold gray depressing autumn-winter seasons that lasts 6 months in Belgium. 😉
Sydney’s slightly more “towards” Brisbane on the scale of most of the above properties (bit warmer, bit more humid, bit more insects, etc…). But it’s not halfway there: it’s closer to Melbourne (both geographically as with respect to these properties). And they’ve got Sydney funnel web spiders, which I’d rather never ever encounter in my life (personally). 😀
Thanks for for helping out here Thijs, to add to what you’ve said I can explain why Australia flies can be so irritating.
“The female bush fly pesters you because she wants your saliva, blood, mucus and tears; it’s how she gets her protein. She needs it to breed and it’s why she is so persistent and so in your face.”
https://www.bobinoz.com/blog/17020/flies-in-australia-how-bad-is-it/
Completely different from European flies who seems to thrive on rubbish bins and dog dooey.
Col B May 13, 2017, 6:23 pm | Link
Bob, l’d like to put my profile picture in the comments, got a how-to ?
Hi Col
No, I don’t have a how-to, maybe I should put one up. Anyway, what you need to do is Google ‘Signing up for Gravatar with WordPress.com’ and then you upload your image to their website and associate your email address with it. Once you have done that, your thumbnail image will automatically appear on all of your comments, not just on this website, but on any website where you have used the same email address.
Hope that helps, looking forward to seeing your face sometime soon 🙂
Col B. July 21, 2017, 11:07 am | Link
I’ll keep that in mind for later. thanx Bob.
I like your site ‘Bob In Oz’ because it is unique and you managed to be broad in information concerning our livelihoods and understanding what awesome Awestralia has to offer and what not,
Inputs from your followers have a wealth of knowledge as well to help your site grow even bigger and already getting more popular to date. Well done. Cheers!.
BobinOz July 21, 2017, 7:26 pm | Link
Thanks Col, truly appreciate your kind words, especially as I’m pretty sure you are a true blue Aussie. When I started this thing all off, I had no idea would be as popular as it’s turned out to be and I love the comments.
I’m blessed to have so many great contributors, so many people helping each other out, you included. Makes me feel warm all over 🙂
Fariha April 16, 2017, 7:18 am | Link
I am a Forensic Scientist, eligible to apply for skilled migration to Australia and my preference is Victoria. I am divorced but I have three children as secondary applicants. How much assets I need to show and how much of it should be as bank statement?
BobinOz April 18, 2017, 8:17 pm | Link
I’m afraid this is a question about the visa application process, and I do not answer those. Only MARA registered migration agents can do that, see Would I Qualify?
Julie May 6, 2017, 6:08 pm | Link
Hi Bob we are hoping to move to Melbourne in a few months. Is it still free to send your child to a state school on a 457 visa in Victoria?
Mark May 6, 2017, 7:49 pm | Link
Hope you dont mind me answering as Im actullay in VIC. Yes no charge for school fees for 457 holders…I say no charge but thats not quite correct of course you have the uniforms to buy…Badged stuff from school, have a look elsewhere for non badged stuff, eg trousers skits etc.or M&S from UK ..You do have some things to pay like incursion excursion fees..Some contribution as set by the school its minimal really 40 50 60 dollars maybe. Then book and pencil type costs…if it looks expensive have a look at office works School will supply you a list… Then there is voluntary contributions, school upkeep and so on again usually 40 50 60 ish but dont have to bother with that. or if you feel guilty offer to help the PTA If your on decent to good money look at private.. We have just switched our two after a year here, Its expensive but not as bad as UK and my little guy First day yesterday comes home with Clarinet, school supplied lesson free…All trips included plus many other freebies that add up. Good luck with the move, read through some post by me on the Melbourne and Se suburbs in the drop down above …there is loads of stuff in there from me to … send you to sleep …..hopefully be helpful as well. Cheers Mark
Thanks Mark that’s really helpful. My daughter wants to do Nursing so not paying high school
fees will help. Will def look at ur posts, have been looking at houses to rent to get an idea of areas etc. Melbourne looks perfect for us 😊
Col B April 11, 2017, 1:39 pm | Link
Here’s the figures for average CouncilShire rates in Victoria for 2015/2016.
The rates have gone through the roof over the past decade by greedy, yes, greedy councils.
Listed are all Councils/Shires (79 in all) starting from the cheapest:
LODDON(S)
Average rates for 15/16: $1,259
Average increase: $62
MONASH(C)
PYRENEES(S)
WEST WIMMERA(S)
MORNINGTON PENINSULA(S)
WHITEHORSE(C)
HINDMARSH(S)
GLEN EIRA(C)
WELLINGTON(S)
MOYNE(S)
CENTRAL GOLDFIELDS(S)
MAROONDAH(C)
MANSFIELD(S)
WHITTLESEA(C)
PORT PHILLIP(C)
HEPBURN(S)
YARRIAMBIACK(S)
EAST GIPPSLAND(S)
LATROBE(C)
SOUTHERN GRAMPIANS(S)
KNOX(C)
STONNINGTON(C)
GREATER GEELONG(C)
TOWONG(S)
BASS COAST(S)
FRANKSTON(C)
GANNAWARRA(S)
MOIRA(S)
MORELAND(C)
KINGSTON(C)
INDIGO(S)
CASEY(C)
GREATER BENDIGO(C)
DAREBIN(C)
BANYULE(C)
NORTHERN GRAMPIANS(S)
GLENELG(S)
Average increase: $8
BRIMBANK(C)
GOLDEN PLAINS(S)
HUME(C)
MELTON(S)
MOONEE VALLEY(C)
WANGARATTA(RC)
Average increase: $121
MOUNT ALEXANDER(S)
CAMPASPE(S)
COLAC-OTWAY(S)
ALPINE(S)
GREATER DANDENONG(C)
MOORABOOL(S)
MURRINDINDI(S)
YARRA(C)
YARRA RANGES(S)
MACEDON RANGES(S)
MANNINGHAM(C)
CARDINIA(S)
BULOKE(S)
BAW BAW(S)
HORSHAM(RC)
BENALLA(C)
MITCHELL(S)
SOUTH GIPPSLAND(S)
WYNDHAM(C)
WARRNAMBOOL(C)
BAYSIDE(C)
ARARAT(RC)
GREATER SHEPPARTON(C)
QUEENSCLIFFE(B)
BOROONDARA(C)
SURF COAST(S)
MARIBYRNONG(C)
WODONGA(C)
MILDURA(RC)
STRATHBOGIE(S)
HOBSONS BAY(C)
MELBOURNE(C)
Average increase: -$21
NILLUMBIK(S)
BALLARAT(C)
CORANGAMITE(S)
Mark April 11, 2017, 3:18 pm | Link
Hi Col I am reminded of the weather here…So many Melbournians either 5 th generation to those that arrived several years back complain about the weather in Melbourne maybe Victoria as a whole It dropped to I believe 7 degrees last year and it was bad….Coming from the UK recently when my car dashboard read -17 yes minus, then 7 degrees is positively great….Regularly in the UK does the temperature drop into a minus figure. Same can be said for parts of USA where I have also lived and northern Europe where I have spent some time…Whats the weather got to do with rates I hear you ask….You do not realise how well off you are for weather and rates whereby in the UK I would annually fork out approximately ..5 to 6000 dollars in rates or the equivalent or where in USA again a home tax far higher than here….It may be increasing but its far far lower than UK or USA. From my last home I am about 4k dollars better off They still provide the same service in fact they even empty the rubbish here more often that the UK…
Hi Col B, nice to hear from you again, hope you are well.
Yes, I’ve written about this before, a couple years ago, when I compared UK rates with Australia’s. You can read it here…
https://www.bobinoz.com/blog/17495/from-the-uk-to-australia-council-tax-bills-and-rates-compared/
Mark is absolutely right, we have it lucky in Australia by comparison. Back in 2015 the average council tax bill in the UK was £1468, you can usually double that to equate it to Aussie dollars, although these days the pound is struggling following Brexit. Not that that matters a jot because a pound is a pound to someone earning pounds in the UK just as an Aussie dollar is an Aussie dollar for those working here. Australian rates without doubt are cheaper.
Everything is relative though, and Australians do complain when rates go up, when the weather doesn’t seem good, even though that is just Melbourne specific (just kidding Mark), or when the queue at the post office is too long, or when the traffic jams are getting longer. Quite right too, but as the saying goes, ‘think of England’; with their higher rates, worse weather, longer queues and slower traffic, it’ll make you feel better 🙂
I’m good Bob, so much cautiousness in planning my future out in the best way possible, even to find out which of the Shires has among the lowest rates would help with the rest of the costs of living without it all adding up past my pocket. 🙂
I don’t blame you Col, always good to live within your means and I think there is something to be said about living the kind of lifestyle you are. Biggest advantage I would think is you don’t have people walking into you because they are too busy playing with their iPhones 🙂 My pet hate at the moment!
Col B April 12, 2017, 10:59 am | Link
Interesting, Mark, That may be right for Melbourne, You may have came to Melbourne at the wrong time in terms of the weather as it changes frequently or it can stay the same temperature for a few days on end. .I’ve lived there for 25 years from the mid-1960’s to early 1980’s and it cops four “seasons” in a day most times. In a moderate temperate region it has an an average minimum of 13 degrees celsius in the proper winter season. and around the early 20’s degree celsius average in the proper summer season. The city do suffer heatwaves up to 40+ celsius sometimes every few years in summer anywhere between November to March and sometimes drops variously below -1 degree celsius in winter anywhere between June to August.
The northern half of Victoria really does not have the weather of Melbourne.
The southern end of the Great Dividing Range splits Victoria through the middle from east to west, ending at The Grampians in western Victoria.
With that, the northern side of the ranges does not suffer the Melbourne “four seasons” syndrome but is instead fed by warmer weather that comes from the north, northwest or west thus is shielded from the colder southern half of Victoria.
I currently live in northern Victoria between the NSW border and the northern edge of the ranges where I live in an insulated dwelling. The dwelling bodes me well, two years ago I only had to use the lounge heater 13 or so times over the winter period and about the same for the air-cooler in the summer period. But now the weather is weirdly different, I only had to use the heater only twice last summer and the same for the cooler in winter before that. A big huge saving on energy bills!.
I’m thinking of going further in moving to the Loddon shire which has the cheapest rates in Victoria (and possibly Australia) in terms of the costs of living. Being in the Campaspe shire which is right next door to Loddon shire, it would be my final quest. I love the weather in northern Victoria where you only wear a jumper or a coat for two and a half months in winter on average.
Whenever I think of the UK weather I get the Brrrrrr syndrome. As for the UK rates that you described, along with the weather alone I would have to call it the no-go zone.
But I do like many things concerning England, even the Brits’ English tongue accent especially spoken by Londoners.
Mark April 12, 2017, 12:31 pm | Link
Yes apologies Col I didnt mean to turn your rates into a weather post…The Melbourne weather suits us fine and I do believe globally we are seeing a massive change in weather patterns frequently now in UK April and May is better than June July and August can be a washout quite literally…We have seen 40 = in Melbourne both this year and last Well my car dash registered that and yes its hot but being coastal still humidly breathable,
As bob said I was working on a £1 to $2 rate…My coucil tax bill being £2900 in 2014 2015 I have copied and pasted this years bills for you …Grab a coffee and a sit down before you read them..the firts figure is the property’s valuation done in 1991 and never updated. this year id be paying £2604 9as our house was valued at 168K in 1991 and at £$ rates when I left app $5250 , nowadays app $4400 and for that they empty the trash once a fortnight.
A £40,000 or less £1,041.77
B £40,001 to £52,000 £1,215.39
C £52,001 to £68,000 £1,389.03
D £68,001 to £88,000 £1,562.65
E £88,001 to £120,000 £1,909.91
F £120,001 to £160,000 £2,257.15
G £160,001 to £320,000 £2,604.42
H £320,001 and over £3,125.30 ,
As an irony my bosses house worth around 25 million in fashionable Kensington Chelsea in UK I have just paid his council tax bill. (Its part of my job) and its less than mine was. The average council tax in UK is a worse equation than using the median house price here in Aus …look at Liverpool and Westminster here sheer and utter lunacy..
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/council-tax-cheaper-millionaires-london-10888587
Shivani December 7, 2016, 6:26 am | Link
Hello Bob and everyone
We would like to know how is Shepparton in terms of living, housing etc. How are the schools especially Goulburn Valley Grammar School.
BobinOz December 7, 2016, 7:18 pm | Link
All I know about Shepparton is that it’s a dairy town, I drove through it on the way back from my road trip in 2009…
https://www.bobinoz.com/blog/282/time-to-head-back-to-brisbane/
What it’s really like though, and what the school is like, I have no idea. Hopefully somebody who does will read your comment sometime soon and give you an answer.
Good luck, Bob
Rohit November 30, 2016, 1:49 pm | Link
Hi Bob and everyone
I am shifting from Adelaide to Melbourne next week. I got a job in Melbourne city. I am looking for a suburb nearest to the city with good connectivity and good schools around as my daughter will be starting her kindies in coming January.
Help in this regard is highly appreciated.
Mark November 30, 2016, 3:01 pm | Link
There are many places I can suggest but whether they will fit you budget and what your after is another matter Budget ? How far commute ? and connectivity ? trains bus car ? Its far bigger than Adelaide
Thanks Mark
I am looking for a 2 room apartment. Can afford around 300-350 per week. I prefer public transport for traveling.
Ok well for my own personal view of this i’d stay east side and look at areas down the Sandringham train line which will give you easy access to the city So Windsor Prahan Ripponlea and so on Elsternwick would be my favourite here There are other areas such as Aberfeldie and its near neighbour Essendon, in fact anywhere around there I am trying to steer you clear of what areas have a higher than the average crime rate. and also some decent schools Hope this helps
Appreciate your help.
Lots of Tramways in the inner and semi-inner suburbs that go to and from the Melbourne CBD as well.
Sammie August 1, 2016, 11:30 pm | Link
Can anybody tell me if there is an active country music scene in Melbourne, its suburbs or regional Victoria?
We need to live no more than 2 hours drive from the large children’s hospital in North Melbourne (can’t remember the name right now)
We would like to live in a quieter area…small town …rather than inner city suburbs.
BobinOz August 2, 2016, 5:28 pm | Link
Well, hopefully a local will give you a better reply than I can, but I’d be shocked if there wasn’t a country music scene in Melbourne; it has a bustling nightlife and music scene, possibly the best in all Australia.
Tamworth, in New South Wales, is known (I think) as the country music capital of Australia, so that might be worth checking out.
Col B April 11, 2017, 12:57 pm | Link
There are country music venues in and around Melbourne….
Hallam Hotel, Vic
Hallam Hotel has also been supporting travelling country singers for years and is always a go to venue on any Australian country singers tour.
They have loads of country gigs coming up and are friendly, atmospheric and most importantly vibey.
York On Lilydale, Vic
Another fantastic venue to play and they have live music all the time.
It’s a definite stop for me on all my Victoria tour runs and I just love the area as well.
The Gateway Hotel, Geelong, Vi
I always love playing in Geelong as they seem to have a large country fan base that are passionate and every time I go through town I play in this venue.
It’s great for country music and they host loads of acts all year round.
The Palais Theatre, St.Kilda.
The theatre sometimes showcases live well-known Aussie and international country music acts.
These are the words of a country music performer, not me, I copied and pasted the above from her website…….http://www.flightcentre.com.au/travel-news/destinations/australias-best-country-music-venues
Lucy July 16, 2016, 7:22 pm | Link
Firstly, I LOVE this website – it is so good!
Secondly, please help… I am currently in the UK but I’m emigrating to Australia in January. I currently work at Leeds General Infirmary as a Radiographer and I want to live a similar life style when I get to Australia. I want to work in a large trauma hospital but I also want to be near a beach. Do you have any recommendations of where to go? I’m between Melbourne and Sydney but I am open to other places if you know of any!
Thanks Lucy, glad you like it.
I don’t know Sydney Melbourne so well, I live up here in Brisbane. I can’t think you would have any problem finding a large hospital to work in that is close to the beach though, simply because we have plenty of beach.
If you are looking up my way, for example, there is a large hospital in Nambour which will give you really easy access to the beaches on the Sunshine Coast and there is also a big hospital on the Gold Coast which would be close to the beaches there.
So I’m sure there would be lots of hospitals near beaches in both Sydney and Melbourne areas.
Mark July 21, 2016, 8:26 pm | Link
Hi Lucy There arent lots of big hospitals in Melbourne there is also one down in Frankston right by the sea almost Have a chat to colleagues in UK many will have been. My Brother in law did this hes gas and air man and has and still does work at Leeds GI now and again but hes alos teaching now Hull and York. he went to Wollongong in the end but after being back in UK is now hlooking at Canada I believe His wife I think found the summer just to hot. Each the there own. Id be tempted to chat to colleagues and even apply for jobs it may help your descision . Good luck whatever you decide though Ill guarantee you wont have a similar lifetsyle to Leeds youll be outside more you wont be flooded and so on lol
Cheers Mark
Kourtney June 26, 2016, 8:22 pm | Link
Hi, I am planning to move in Melb Victoria from SA. Since job here quiet hard to find. I am a Facilities Engineer. I’ve been handling building maintenance, commercial/property. I think i have a bigger opportunity in Melb compared to SA.
BobinOz June 26, 2016, 11:34 pm | Link
I don’t know for sure, but yes, I would think so. I know that the employment situation in SA is quite dire at the moment. Hopefully though, somebody will be able to give you a more specific answer than I have.
Kourtney June 27, 2016, 12:37 am | Link
Yeah! Hopefully. Just like to ask about the rentals there. Is it possible to get a place where we can stay. Like 3 bedroom and 2 bath? Where is the place to live? Is it west, east or south? Thanks again mate! Cheers!
Check out the comments on my page about Melbourne, there’s lots of chat there about the suburbs and where to live. Feel free to ask your question there as well, quite a few people who know Melbourne well have been very helpful in those comments. Good luck, Bob
Ralph May 24, 2016, 5:57 pm | Link
I would like to ask for some advice on moving to regional victoria. Ive been currently living in Sydney for the past 4 years and now looking to move there because it is the requirement of my new visa. Kindly please advice me on where is the cheapest place to rent as well as which region is close to the cbd so i can get a job. Thanks very much.
BobinOz May 26, 2016, 12:15 am | Link
Which CBD do you want to be close to? You might want to look at the specifications of your new visa, just to check whether all you need to do is live regionally or whether you need to live AND work regionally.
What I’m saying is, there’s no point in living close to Sydney in what is designated as a ‘regional area’ so that you can get a job in Sydney if the visa stipulates that you must also work regionally. If you can let us know, maybe me or somebody else here can help you out.
Sorry, you misunderstood me. I, currently reside in sydney but, has to move to regional victoria. I am not to sure about the clause but, just to be on the safe side, if i were to move in victoria regionally, what region will give me a better chance of getting a mechanical engineering job?
Thank you so much you are doing a beautiful job here.
Ah, okay, then that’s a question I definitely cannot answer. I think your only way to research this is to search for jobs to see which area that qualifies as regional is likely to off you the best chance of employment.
There are some links to help you with your search on my page called Getting a Job or a Sponsorship. Hope that helps, good luck, Bob
Try this site for latest Mechanical Engineering positions in Victoria………https://www.adzuna.com.au/search?loc=98088&q=mechanical%20engineering&page=7
Colin K April 27, 2016, 9:21 am | Link
When you say Victoria is the most crowded State in Australia, it is worth noting it still has 1/10th the population density of the UK.
Adding to the ‘Mexicans’ discussion, I grew up in Sydney and had never heard the term there. But when I lived in Bega on the Far South Coast of NSW for a while, it was used regularly. So its use may depend on how close one lives to the border.
Yes, it certainly is worth mentioning. As I have also said, Victoria is bigger than England and Scotland put together, and the population of those two is something like 58 million the moment. And you might just be onto something about the ‘Mexicans’ thing, that would make sense. Cheers, Bob
Ryan March 2, 2016, 3:32 pm | Link
In a few years I am looking to move, as a math and possibly physics teacher, to Australia. By that time I expect to have two kids with my wife. We currently live in the northern United States. We’d prefer to move near Melbourne, as my research (including time on this site, thank you!) indicates its weather is the closest to our home state. Does anyone recommend a family-friendly, but still relatively free-spirited area in or around Melbourne for us to aim for or look specifically at first?
Thijs March 2, 2016, 3:37 pm | Link
Hi Ryan,
Fairfield is a very family-friendly suburb! Heaps and heaps and… HEAPS of families with young children. All the cafes and venues are very child-friendly, and there’s lot of green areas and huge parklands within walking distances in about every direction.
As to free-spirited: you’ll find that the whole of Melbourne fits that description rather nicely. 😉 I’m not sure how free-spirited your current living environment is, but chances are you’ll be experiencing quite an upgrade in free-spirited-ness when moving to and living in or around Melbourne in general!
Oh yeah, because I forgot to mention: about every one or two parks also comes with a playground. 🙂
Bella April 27, 2016, 3:59 pm | Link
Lots of artists/academics/progressive types types live in the inner north. I reckon you’d like it! Try Coburg or Preston for a more affordable house, or Brunswick or Thornbury if you can afford it. You won’t even need a car unless you really want one.
Thijs February 25, 2016, 5:26 pm | Link
As to the wildly debated “Mexicans” statement: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mexican+%28Australia%29
So it’s a fact that’s deprecated since more than 20 years now. Time to move on, people.
BobinOz February 25, 2016, 6:15 pm | Link
And this is what the Macquarie Dictionary has to say.
I’m really not sure why this thing seems to be causing so many problems on this page. It’s light-hearted, I have posted nicknames on every other state page, including banana benders, cockroaches, sand gropers and worse, I can’t remember anybody else complaining on those pages. The fact that you have found reference to Victorians being referred to as Mexicans, no matter how dated, means it does exist and I didn’t make it up.
Would the good people of Victoria be happier if I used ‘Cabbage Patchers’ or ‘Gum Suckers’ as preferred by the Australian Geographic instead of Mexicans?
Heh heh, when l was a kid, I was there when I once heard a joke from a poop-bin collector telling my father in our driveway back in the early 1960’s, he said that “Look at a map of Australia. Melbourne sits on top of the rectum that is Port Phillip Bay, so when Melbourne is having a crap through it and out through the narrow sphincter gap known as ‘The Rip’, you can see that Tasmania is the crap that came out of it!”.
Now please don’t have a go at me. There’s nuffin’ wrong wif tellin’ y’all wot foul language somebody else said.
Well, I’ve just consulted with the PC Bible, and yes, this comment is acceptable. Under section 17 clause C subsection III ‘Any relating of a story that came from the 60s is not subject to same stringent Political Correctness of today and is expected to contain slightly contentious language as that was how things were back then.’
Your good 🙂
satery January 28, 2016, 5:44 am | Link
How this state looks for leaving, What is leaving cost…Is it good for IT guys
furqan September 8, 2015, 4:58 pm | Link
i am furqan and i recently got the PR visa. could you please help me find temporary furnished residence for 1st few weeks of my arrival. i have family of 5 member (3 kids and wife). i will be travelling to Melbourne in 2nd week of October, 2015
BobinOz September 9, 2015, 2:42 pm | Link
No, I can’t help you directly, it’s not something I can do, but you may want to read…
https://www.bobinoz.com/blog/16335/finding-a-job-and-somewhere-to-live-in-australia/
https://www.bobinoz.com/blog/10120/relocating-to-brisbane-tips-on-your-arrival/
I know the second one is about Brisbane, but it will help you just the same.
Thijs October 15, 2015, 10:58 pm | Link
Dear Furqan,
Starting out in Melbourne, you should really look into AirBnB! Lot’s of people are renting out their places or even just rooms in their house for short/medium terms through that platform. Get yourself into an AirBnB place for a good month or so, and use that time to find an actual residence. And for the latter: IKEA of course. 😉 Couldn’t be easier.
Thijs (moved to Melbourne a year and a bit ago)
Joe Beloch November 4, 2014, 12:42 am | Link
Victorians do not refer to themselves as Mexicans. This is only used by ignorant New South Wales people.
BobinOz November 4, 2014, 4:27 pm | Link
Would they be the same ‘ignorant’ New South Wales people who you Victorians refer to as ‘cockroaches’? By the way, I haven’t suggested anywhere on this page that Victorians refer to themselves as Mexicans.
Col B. December 2, 2014, 2:53 pm | Link
l lived in Sydney for a while & met a lot of people. Told them where l hailed from & l’ve not heard them say ” Mexican” nor have l ever heard the term relating to any Victorians as “Mexicans”. In fact l’ve never heard of that term in my life. The same goes to “Cockroaches” of which l live in Victoria (& has been for most of my life) & not ever heard or read of such reference pertaining to NSW people from any Victorian people. Your site is the only place l’ve ever heard of either terms. Did you make those terms up in order to start a new foundation for interstate name-calling? lol.
No, l don’t mean did you make those up, my bad. l overlooked. It was a commenter or two. Well l’ve got news to those commenter(s). Neither terms will catch on because they’re only restricted to this comments site or other comments sites not related to Bob’n Oz..
Ha ha, I tell you what Col, I wish I had made it up, I’d be quite proud of myself if I had. I didn’t though, and as I think you’ve seen, there are mentions to these terms on other websites but I have two agree with you 100%, nobody really seems to use these names anywhere.
I’ve now lived in Queensland for seven years and nobody has called me a cane toad, called me many other things, but not a cane toad. Similarly I’ve not heard anybody refer to any other person from any other state using these terms either, it appears to simply not be a thing.
When I first made these state pages, I thought it would be a good idea to include these things, I’m beginning to find out it wasn’t so great. Created a lot of discussion though 🙂
By the way, I can offer you pictoral proof that NSWers can be known as cockroaches and those from QLD as cane toads, if you visit my page about State of Origin and take a look at the picture of the two mascots having a mock fight before the game, you will see what I mean.
Cheers, Bob
Col B. December 2, 2014, 10:53 pm | Link
Thanks, Bob. l’ll take a look at the two mascots socking each other, l like fun things. Cheers.
I’m sure the cane toad won 🙂
Brendan October 20, 2015, 12:01 pm | Link
Honestly Bob, being born and living in Australia for around 20 years now, I have not heard anybody here call anybody either “Mexicans” or “Cockroaches” before. I’m not entirely sure where you even found this out. Can I ask where you did? I’m just not sure it’s a reliable source for your blog and I think this blog’s great and just want you to not be unintentionally spreading around false information.
Brendan, firstly, I do have to agree with you in as much as these nicknames are very rarely used. I do have to admit, I’ve never heard anybody use any of these expressions in my day-to-day life and I’ve been here eight years now.
That said, these nicknames are about and I think they date back over 100 years. I can actually provide you with pictoral evidence if you visit a post I made about State of Origin. You will see a picture of the two team mascots, one is a cockroach on the other is a cane toad for NSW/Queensland respectively. You can see it here…
https://www.bobinoz.com/blog/1483/its-all-happening-in-queensland/
I can’t remember exactly where I got these names from originally, but I did research it, it was all there online somewhere, I didn’t make it up 🙂 Wish I had though, that would have been even funnier.
mike October 27, 2015, 4:11 pm | Link
oh come on , u should be thanking bob , not trivially with no logic or australian sense of humor at all , u jumping on a great author as if u waiting for some slight thing to prove yourselves ! professional authors always squeeze happy distractions and jokes , or create them , just to add some fun and readers not get bored with one color or one subject , thats professionalism , and not as u falsely accusing without having any shame or values what so ever as i gathered from only reading a couple of the first comments , so now u are teaching him manners ! or educating him , ok show us you two what general knowledge you have about your country , no need , i can tell from your intellect u cant have any knowledge of anything important or further than ur noses , i truly guess so
what a drama ! mexicans and cockroaches , are you going to cry now because u creatively joyfully u were called mexicans ohhhhh
thats negative people who are no where near the standard of positive constructive ones
Thijs October 27, 2015, 4:21 pm | Link
Chill man, breathe… 🙂 Re-read Brendan’s post: he’s not criticizing Bob’s writing, but just wondering about some facts and kindly inquiring about the sources. You’ll also find that Brendan stated that he thinks this blog is great. So all he did, was genuinely care about the quality of the information, with the sole intent of supporting the blog. He took the effort to write the comment, only to help improve the information.
Now go grab a beer or something and cool down a bit; summer’s gonna be a scorcher already, so no need for extra heat. 😉
Mad Mastermind May 28, 2016, 8:40 am | Link
You obviously don’t get out much, because EVERYONE knows…
QLD are Pumpkinheads or Banana Benders
NSW are Cockroaches
VIC are Mexicans
SA are Croweaters
WA are Sandgropers
TAS are Taswegians
NT are Mental
ACT is not actually a real place.
We “Mexicans” are proud and better than the central American Mexicans.
We don’t wear those wide-brimmed hats and we don’t wear ponchos.
We don’t live in a cactus desert and we don’t have “Chupacabras”.
We are a big food-bowl and a helluva lot richer than them. Tee hee.
Mr C May 16, 2016, 1:51 pm | Link
Mexicans, cockroachs, banana benders/cane toads, crow eaters, sandgrophers whatever state you are from you have a nick name that has been used since the beginning of terra Nulius. Note I said ‘state’ does not include territories or island attachments such as Tasmania and New Zealand. Enjoy your nick name
Kamma November 2, 2014, 7:37 pm | Link
I love how I come here to see if anyone has anything to say about some of the towns around Victoria, and everyone is just talking about Ned Kelly. 😀 Well, not everyone, obviously, but not a lot of town-talk going on.
So, do anyone have any towns they’d recommend? Anyone have anything to say about Apollo Bay and surrounds? I think it looks like a small slice of heaven, but what do I know?
I’ll leave this one to the people of Victoria, anybody?
l’m researching real estate & the costs of living of each local government shires or councils of Victoria. Because l’m getting a house & land inheritance, l would keep myself informed & up to date of each rural open areas, villages, towns & provincial cities & see what they have to offer in terms of affordability living, in the case l move house to another place.
Please bear in mind l’m a pensioner, a poor man, whatever.
l seek somewhere that’ll be just right for my living standards.
When l chose to match the price of a house & property somewhere that is the same as my yet to be inherited house & property (currently $170,000), l’d chose to live in an open rural area, village or small town preferably any place where there’s peace & quiet & its surrounding has abundant trees, has a running river, creek or regional canal all good enough for fishing or swimming, be at least around 30 mins driving/public transport distance of a major 5,000+ populated town or regional city where everything is affordable like large supermarket(s), hardware store(s), auto related businesses, (the list can go on & on) & that there is a regional hospital, clinic or health care center in it as well. A dental center that accepts government pensioner health cards, (this list can also go on & on), then that will be the likeliest place l’d chose as long as the shire/council costs are lower than most others. l also take into account cable or optic fiber internet access. Electricity access, rainfall average etc etc etc.
Up to date, the cheapest houses & lands with all of the above taken into considerations are in the north eastern part of the West Wimmera Shire, the southern part of the Hindmarsh Shire & the southern part of the Yariambiack shires are all in the proximity of the major regional town of Horsham (pop: 12,000+).
Other shires & their major towns taken into considerations are:
Central Goldfields Shire: Maryborough (pop: 8,000+).
The southern half of the Pyrenees Shire: Stawell (pop: 6,000+) & Ararat (pop: 8,000+). (Note: Both these major towns are altogether situated in two other shires)
The southwestern part of the Loddon Shire: Bendigo Pop: (82,700+) This city is in an adjoining shire.
All NAMED Shires above have the lowest council rates.
And there you have it. l’ll update after the next council hikes. Cheers!.
Great round up Col, you’ve obviously done some hefty research. I had a quick look at some of those areas and property prices are pretty good as well, in fact excellent when compared to the prices in our major cities.
And if you find any of them do have a fast broadband Internet connection, then you’d be better off than I am and I live in a suburb of Brisbane! I’m only getting about 8 Mbps.
Thanks for keeping us in the loop, hope you find somewhere suitable very soon.
Col B. December 3, 2014, 6:40 am | Link
While council hikes isn’t occurring until mid next year, l’ll run a comparison on rural & Metropolitan Melbourne average shire council rates per annum.
There are 78 shires in Victoria with average council rates ranging between the cheapest (Monash Shire in Melb Metropolitan at $1320) & the most expensive (City Of Melbourne Shire at $2,360).
Now isn’t that weird?
Nillumbik Shire (Melb Metropolitan) at $2,319 comes in as the second most expensive in Victoria.
The most expensive RURAL shire is Strathbogie in north-central Victoria at $2,137 comes in as the 3rd most expensive in the state.
Other shires over $2,000 are: Marybyrnong (Melb Metropolitan) & Wodonga (north eastesn Victoria).
Close behind at $1900 – 1,999 are as follows:
Mildura (rural north western vic).
Ararat (rural western vic)
Corangamite (rural south west vic)
Swan Hill (northwest vic)
Surf Coast (south west vic)
Baw Baw (northern Gippsland)
Boroondara (Melb Metropolitan)
Shires at $1,800 – 1,899 are as follows:
Macedon Ranges (rural central vic)
Yarra (Melb Metropolitan)
Glenelg (rural southwest vic)
Horsham (rural western vic)
Ballarat (rural western vic)
Moorabool (rural western vic)
Wyndham (Melb Metropolitan)
Alpine (rural high country eastern vic)
Mitchell (rural central vic)
Yarra Ranges (part Melb Metropolitan – rural central vic)
Cardinia (Melb Metropolitan)
South Gippsland (rural Gippsland vic)
Moonee Valley (Melb Metropolitan)
Manningham (Melb Metropolitan)
Bayside (Melb Metropolitan)
That’s just 24 0f the most expensive shires so far. l’ll be back later to continue the run down the ladder in Part Two towards the cheapest.
Note: l cannot find data available for nine out of the 78 shires for the complete rundown.
Cheers for now, l’m sleepy. Yawwwwwwnnnn….
Take it easy Col, you’re working too hard 🙂 It’s good work though, certainly very useful information for anyone considering moving to Victoria. There are some huge differences in some of those councils rates, quite astonishing.
Certainly worth taking these figures into account when choosing somewhere to live in the area.
Al February 24, 2016, 7:06 pm | Link
You are looking at some pretty hot dried out places there Colb . Prices are low but the happiest people living there would mostly have been born to it. I repeat MOSTLY cos there are always the exception. If your tough and can stand the heat dust and loneliness of being new in town you will do ok. Also Very high country shire rates would be due to large rural land holdings.
I don’t mind really. I’ve lived on my own in the peaceful middle of nowhere for a very long time without feeling lonely anyway and l love it. I practiced T’ai Chi (a meditation and martial arts type) for two decades so it bodes me well but l’m a very friendly person who helps others occasionally like in charity work and such.
Urban living is not for me because l don’t much take to crowded areas except when l drive to town or a regional city each fortnight for supplies and maybe the occasional appointments.
Being a low profile sort of person, l don’t mind the occasional socializing.
I do kind of like the landscapes of the areas I mentioned and the weather at these areas are to my likings just right for me, and it all fits in greatly in terms of the low costs of living.
All up, l will have it no other way.
Col B April 13, 2017, 4:50 am | Link
A national survey was conducted last year on “Where do Australia’s happiest people live?”….http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/happiest-electorates/7482380….. Look at the map of Australian electorates, the smiley faces tells you where the happiest people lives.
You’ll find the people living in the Victorian electorate seats of Murray and Mallee are respectively ranked second and third happiest in Australia in terms of well being, that is:
1. Standard of living
2. Health
3. Relationships
4. What they are achieving in life
5. Safety
6. Community connection
7. Future security
Check it out, a good read too.
Interesting. I wrote about this sort of thing a while back but mine was based on a different survey. The conclusion was that people in the smaller towns were far happier than those in the big cities. See…
https://www.bobinoz.com/blog/17675/where-do-the-happiest-people-in-australia-live/
It’s not always about Sydney and Melbourne 🙂
Thanks for the link Col.
l’ve been to Apollo Bay for a week. Accommodation cost in the mid-range at a caravan park. Has some shopping, food is expensive there. The town doesn’t look at all like paradise, not as picturesque as much as l liked, My stay was cold light winds & constant showers, fogs, not one dry day was warm in the second half of spring. The area has one of the highest rainfalls in the state. The 3 km long beach is safe & popular in summer. It is a quieter & more peaceful town for tourists than either Torquay or Lorne which are also on the long narrow winding Great Ocean Road.
To live there would not be a good idea unless you are in the higher income bracket like, for example, other than the earnings of an unskilled laborer. If you can afford your car tyres to wear out in a very shorter time & constantly changing between 2nd & 3rd gears all the way through the steep mountain range & its coast which means higher fuel/lpg usage on this long narrow tight winding Great Ocean Road in either direction of the town. then you’ll find you have to fork out a hefty sum of money to keep ahead. Petrol station prices are among the highest in victoria around there, especially for new tyres as well. l mentioned that shopping there is expensive, add that on top of it all.
Apollo Bay is 1 hr 17 mins via a turn off to another long steep winding road that go over the middle of the Otway Ranges & out to the major town of Colac (pop: 10,000+). Or you can opt to go 2 hours drive along the G.O.R north-east to the provincial city of Geelong. Or a 2hrs 27 mins drive along the G.O.R westward to Warrnambool (pop: 34,000+). Regards.
May l add: From Apollo Bay, you can also take a 1 hr 52 mins drive northeast along the G.O.R coast to Apollo Bay’s closest major town of Ocean Grove-Barwon Heads (pop: 14,000+).
Yes, I’ve driven through Apollo Bay and although I did not stop in the actual town, I stopped nearby to take a look at those Twelve Apostles. Out of all the places I’ve been to in all of Australia, and I’ve been to every major city bar two up till now plus quite a few nonmajor cities, it was the worst place ever for being plagued by flies.
Bush flies covering my back, face, everywhere, maybe 20 flies at a time. I do know that this isn’t how it always is and that these flies can get blown in sporadically, but they were there all the same. We stayed for three days in Warrnambool (no flies) and although it was the middle of summer, it was 16° each day. In fairness though, the day before we arrived, it was 36°.
I think that’s a bit of Victoria for you.
Heh heh… l used to visit some mates in Timboon not far from the Apostles every November over 5 years. l tell you the first year was just a fly or two, none the next, plague the next but just a few in subsequent years. l think it got to do with the winds varied directions.
There’s a lot of cow poo across all of southwestern Victoria, it’s where most of the milk in the state are produced. The winds pushes the young fles far across the farm regions until they’re dispersed or when another wind collides head on, this disperses them too.
A plague would be the result of a strong wind pushing young flies across the farm region as two other winds on either side of said fly-ridden wind are traveling in the same direction but ever slightly inwards, squashing in the middle fly-ridden wind. When this action dies down, that is where a compact plague is.
Yes, it’s sporadic.
I think you are spot on Col and I’m glad it is sporadic. If ever I had to live in a place where flies were like that all the time, well, I simply wouldn’t live in that place anymore. I found it totally overwhelming, no fun at all.
In Brisbane we hardly get any flies at all, another reason why I like it so much here. I think we are all on the side of the dung beetle 🙂
Col B. December 18, 2014, 12:37 pm | Link
Gympie (QLD) is my favorite Queensland destination. Though it’s a tad inland from the coast, it’s a wonderful place to do shopping. It has a big dirt cheap variety store called Crazy Joe’s that has everything & is more than just a variety store. There’s an ALDI store & more. l went to nearby Tin Can Bay where l got close to friendly Dolphins & when it’s feeding time you’re allowed to feed them by hand & you can pat them, all under the guide of the park ranger’s assistants. l could go to more details about Gympie & its surroundings but it’s numerous. If ever l’d live in QLD, Gympie would be my No. 1 choice even though floods of the Mary river periodically floods the lower parts of the city. Check it out.
Kamma December 13, 2014, 8:13 pm | Link
Thanks, Col. That’s an informative thumbs down for Apollo Bay, and southwestern Victoria in general, I dare say. I’ll be looking East and perhaps a tad further north in the future. Any place you’d recommend in that direction?
Col B. December 15, 2014, 10:53 am | Link
Kamma, try MALLACOOTA (2011 population census: 1,032) in far east Gippsland. It’s a lovely coastal town situated on & near the mouth of a large inlet. It has the warmest winter in the state as well as a cool breeze in summer.
As l’ve travelled & camped all along the Victorian coastline starting from the South Australia border to the NSW border for decades, even though MALLACOOTA was the last ever coastal place in the state for me to discover, it turned out to be my most favored destination ever after all. l then lived there not long after for 2 years (though l then had to move away to look after my ailing mother (and l am still) in northern Victoria).
Kamma, here’s a cuople of details on MALLACOOTA:
http://www.visitvictoria.com/Regions/Gippsland/Destinations/Mallacoota
http://localstats.qpzm.com.au/stats/vic/south-eastern-victoria/lakes-wilderness/mallacoota
Apollo Bay overpriced fashion victim
John V. January 10, 2014, 6:08 pm | Link
Sad news which could have been avoided!
Rips at beaches appear in the center of a circular bay, with water incoming, and the water draining in the center. This causes the current that drag people into the water. Swim sideways to the current to get out, not into the current, . Too many people try to fight the current….You cant.
British man dies at Burrill Beach while trying to rescue sons
A British tourist has died while attempting to rescue his two sons at a beach in southern New South Wales.
The 46-year-old man was in the surf with his sons at Burrill Beach, near Ulladulla, when they appeared to get caught in a rip around noon today.
The man went to their aid, but also got caught in a rip and suffered a cardiac arrest while in the water.
BobinOz January 13, 2014, 1:48 pm | Link
Yes, very sad. People talk about sharks, but it is actually the ocean itself that should be feared the most. Always swim between the flags, that’s what I advise.
John V. January 9, 2014, 4:32 pm | Link
Those Queensland “anti Victorian” travel agencies appear to be posting here….
http://www.au.timeout.com/melbourne/aroundtown/features/2015/top-5-beaches
Good timing John, I’m going to be in Melbourne for a holiday the week after next. Elizabeth can enjoy those beaches, I’ll be looking for those great pubs dotting the area 🙂
Yeah I have spies everywhere…..Wave to me as you go over Wangaratta. Its right in the flight path….. ..
..Go past Brighton and enjoy the other beaches on that side of the bay. Parking will be sparse unless you get there early. and a kite for the kids on the beach….Those Melbourne parking inspectors are ex Limeys…and dont have a sense of fair play….but neither did I but that is another story…and I’m working on that as well….Bring plenty of change for the damn meters in central Melbourne district…..Its over populated. Play spot the Aussie at the train station….great game…
John V. January 9, 2014, 12:45 pm | Link
Just picked this up regarding beaches. Victorian beaches are better than some European beaches, and the temperatures are great in summer, close to the city and enclose a bay called Port Philip bay. This is a large bay with good fishing most times, not quite so good for surfing, but it has its moments.
Great pubs dot the areas surrounding the bay and beaches. Irish Poms and all other pubs are located in the city, where eating houses restaurants are renowned for their continental cuisine.
Until you’ve lived there and experienced the nightlife etc you will miss out on a great part of Australia.. Pls bring bucket loads of money. You may need it….
denise December 1, 2013, 10:19 pm | Link
Well back to the subject of Victoria. Its just like nsw, qld, wa, tas, act, and the northern territory. Except there is less desert, more rain, plenty of bushfires and of course Melbourne the capital where most new comers will end up for work related reasons have beaches that are low quality compared to perth, brisbane and sydney. The suburbs sprawl ever outward and house prices are pretty unaffordable. Melbourne has been credited with being the most livable city in the world but I think that would be for corporates who can afford inner city residences. What suburb or regional area you choose to live in will affect how you experience Victoria. There are plenty of cultural, educational and recreational opportunities if you don’t live too far out in the burbs. In the end it is the people you meet or already know that will affect your experience though.
BobinOz December 2, 2013, 10:59 pm | Link
I’ll take that as a thumbs down for Melbourne then Denise.
Snortbrick July 9, 2013, 6:00 am | Link
Also brings in the whole other plethora diesel and beef of what do you eat when you’ve been on macro diet for 14 years. I wonder if the springs will reverse my stomach and alleviate the stomach probs?
Yeah, why not, it is paradise here after all 🙂
Snortbrick July 11, 2013, 7:39 pm | Link
Thanks Bob.Know exactly where your coming from with your European thoughts. I Love Europe and it’s many varying landscapes- customs and rich history. We are after all cut from the rich fabric of our ancestral continent. To be able to fly into Schiphol or hop on a plane to Charles de Gaul and be in a foreign palatial postcard within an hour is an Aussies dream. Only last week i was watching Day of the jackal. I have for so long dreampt of tormented romantic notion that so plagued me watching this film. Twisting around the the dry sun baked southern french countryside in my Alfa romeo spider,cravat reassuringly soaking up the excess from my drooling mouth after snaffling a swig of vermooth as i floor the alfa through the forest road. Only the canopy of the forest between me and heaven… But who needs to see heaven above?
I think you really do snort bricks 🙂 Love your imagination, cheers mate!
No thank you ,Bob. Your a fantastic testament to the true spirit of internet. Advice given or offered on the internet by money making companies in relation to making a move abroad is not accurate, or even perceived objective resource. Therefore, your site is an invaluable knowledge base, a fantastic tool for possibly one of the biggest decisions an individual or family can make other than consulting family or friends who already live there.
I mean i abhore the permissive society; bloody pot dodgers, barnstormers and the like! But how do they operate, these dogging clubs over there with the old kangaroo’s and the wombats jumping about all over the place?
Well, you lost me with the second paragraph, but thank you for your comments in the first, much appreciated 🙂
Thanks fellas
Done a few small documentary’s and thought i was quids in with the old Drop bear there. Would have certainly been a few night’s adventure for the lads had it been real. Nothing like kicking the door open and seeing the look in your woman’s breath taken away with a worthy advisory on the end of a pike.
Snortbrick July 8, 2013, 9:39 pm | Link
Thanks for the info there ,Fellas!
Can’t be having done with the old Irish bars though, Bob. Drives me nuts all that sweaty ginger speeding violin stuff! Anything with a 70’s/80’s British rail type feel to it over there?
John V. July 8, 2013, 11:38 pm | Link
Re Drop bears. Stay away from the bush, speak in an Aussie accent and youl’l be fine. As for Irish music, we sent some of dem fiddlers down to Tassie. It killed all the Tassie tigers and drop bears sorta died out from lack of sleep, looking for them. There were their favorite food. British rail type feel? Even better, we have Indian train drivers and taxi drivers. .. and mostly Yorkshire Union leaders and the Labor party. You will feel right at home…We even have the English Queen….
BobinOz July 9, 2013, 1:48 am | Link
Snortbrick
Drop Bears are only found in Victoria, inside John’s head! I think you’ll find our cities are a good deal less violent than many of those UK cities you’ve probably experienced it in, you’ll also get the hang of the beer, so I reckon you should give it a go. Bob
John V. July 9, 2013, 7:16 am | Link
Come on Bob. You just dont want to admit the biggest dropbear comes from Queensland. They even gave him a name. “Kevin”….
Neil June 24, 2014, 5:48 pm | Link
This should be definitive on the drop bear question
BobinOz June 24, 2014, 7:53 pm | Link
I’m not surprised they have had problems tracking them with Global Navigation Satellite System, my SatNav couldn’t even take me to Bellbird Grove, (tried it Saturday) and it said it doesn’t exist. It’s only 40 minutes up the road!
John V. June 24, 2014, 9:08 pm | Link
The dropbear season is here. The latest victim has been found. Apparently they are least likely to attack those with Aussie accents…
http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2013/03/drop-bears-target-tourists,-study-says/
Smart camera captures final moments of New Zealand victim…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WD_Nh_rboQ
This warning should alarm boat people….who havent been seen for six months
Dear me, these Drop Bears seem a bit nasty. TBH the very reason i was wanting to move to OZ is to get away from the weekend city centre violence.
John V. July 8, 2013, 7:26 pm | Link
Bob know nothing about coolants. Vic Bitter is great to put in your cars radiator, and is cheaper than the glycol they sell you at exorbitant prices. It fixes stop start driving, and plugs cylinder head leaks. If you ask the indigenous people here, they will tell you about its qualities. They even line the local creeks with the empties as some kind of a tribute, but unfortunately that last great flood washed them away. No doubt they will endeavor to double their efforts to redo what the flood undid, chanting the great Vic bitter anthem.
Ah, yes, that makes sense, pour yer VB in to your rad. I know it would be good for something 🙂
Lots of beer. On Friday night, we swim in it, and surf nude. ( Too much information? ) Except the Guiness, we prefer Victoria bitter. But I’ll let you look at this beer pages, after all theyre the experts it seems http://www.significantbit.com/Beer/
I konw you will want to come to beer paradise….but watch out for the dropbears.They can smell a Pom a mile off and do some terribly damage….Especailly if he drinks Guiness….
http://australianmuseum.net.au/Drop-Bear
frankly, what’s the beer like. I mean can you buy the equivalent to Guinness?..is there Australian beers that are dark and earthy like English beers?
Many thanks and a thousand pardons for my attitude!
BobinOz July 8, 2013, 6:50 pm | Link
You can get Guinness here if you go to an Irish bar, but it’s not the best beer to drink in this heat. John, see below, has to drink Victoria Bitter because he’s in Victoria, you won’t have to put yourself through it though 🙂 See…
https://www.bobinoz.com/blog/9636/australias-best-beers-and-lagers-by-bobinoz/
Andy October 22, 2012, 6:26 pm | Link
Fictionalising people like Robin Hood is part of the same method as demonising him and Ned Kelly: belittling them, so as to belittle what they stood for, fought for, and died for as martyrs. They were real people – larger han life, than us ordinary citizens.
According to the English historians Graham Phillips and Martin Keatman’s recent history-book, hailed by London’s “The Sunday Times” as “a quiverful of historical mysteries” , and by London’s “Daily Mail” as a “Compelling evidence that Robin Hood was an historical figure” – slightly camouflaged in his latter years, for understandable reasons as “Robard Hude” of the Sherwood Forests in Nottinghamshire, did actually exist and did almost all the things he is popularly known in legends to have done – including challenge, like Ned Kelly in Australia, unjust abuse of power by those who acquired power illicitly.
As it happens, my (former) wife’s now-late maternal grandfather – from the same area near the Sherwood Forrest in Nottinghamshire, was surnamed “Wood”, most likely a slightly “evolved” form of “’Ude”, from “Hood” – seems to have been a descendant from Robin Hood aka Robard Hude or someone from his clan/ family. Their name “Hood” – pronounced in Nottingham accent as “Wood”, might have gotten mixed with their being referred to as “Of the Wood”, i.e. the Sherwood forrests.
In any case, as the English historian has now proved, Robin Hood/ Robard Hude did exist, but not in late 12th century as other researchers mistakenly assumed and looked for him the wrong time-period and failed to find him, and so gave rise to the wrong notion that Erobin Hood was just fiction.
According to the two historians,
“In the vaults of the British Library in London there survives a tale of Robin Hood … an anonymous work entitled A Little Gest of Robin Hood that first appeared in print around 1500 but seems to have been composed in the mid-to-late 1300s. … Literary scholars had long known of the Gest’s existence, … [is] evidence for an historical Robin Hood … in the early fourteenth century … [under] king … Edward II. … Robin … [was] a soldier – a knight in the army of Thomas, the earl of Lancaster [in whose cause,] … in 1322 … Robin is forced to become an outlaw after the earl of Lancaster leads a failed rebellion against the king.
“Lancaster’s rebellion was an historical event and the records show that many of his defeated followers did flee into Sherwood Forest to continue a guerrilla campaign. The earl of Lancaster had been the lord of both Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire and had led a popular uprising against unfair taxes imposed by the king following a crippling famine. Unfortunately, Lancaster was betrayed when his plans were revealed to the king by his trusted deputy Henry de Facombery. When the rebel army was defeated at the battle of Boroughbridge in Yorkshire on 15 March 1322, Lancaster was killed and the king rewarded Facombery by appointing him sheriff of Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire. He was charged with rounding up the rebels who had fled south into Sherwood Forest. Henry de Facombery … became the fabled Sheriff of Nottingham.
“Following the work of an obscure mid-nineteenth-century Yorkshire historian named Joseph Hunter, Graham and Martin discovered record of the leader of the rebels who had escaped following Lancaster’s defeat. In the archives of Wakefield Manor on the edge of Barnsdale Forest, just to the north of Sherwood, his name is recorded as “Robert Hode”. … Robin was a nickname for Robert [or vice versa,] and Hode was a medieval spelling of Hood… In fact, in one particular document he is actually referred to as “Robin Hode”.
“Robert Hode was the historical Robin Hood … supported by … other outlaws recorded as being in his band. … a man who went by the name of Little John is recorded as being buried in nearby Hathersage churchyard where his grave can still be seen, and a Friar Tuck is recorded as Lancaster’s chaplain who took part in the revolt. Robert’s wife was even a perfect candidate for Maid Marian. Before he was outlawed Robert [i.e., Robin,] had been a relatively wealthy knight who lived in modest manor on the edge of Barnsdale Forest in what is now the village of Wragby, a few miles south of Wakefield. In 1321 he married a girl from the nearby village of Woolley named Matilda. … Maid Marian … being an alias she adopted once she had fled into Sherwood Forest. Just as in the legend, Matilda Hode joined her husband in the forest and, remarkably for the time, had actually played an active part in the struggle. All this provided astonishing confirmation that [there] … was indeed the historical Robin Hood.
“The royal archives, dating from the reign of Edward II at Winchester in southern England, reveal that the Sherwood outlaws were eventually granted an amnesty by the king in 1323, in return for their support in putting down a new rebellion. Two years later, with the rebellion behind him, Edward had a change of heart [hypocritically, and treacherously]. Robert [i.e., Robin Hood,] and his followers were once again outlawed and disappear from record. … However, the Gest says that Robin Hood was eventually murdered by the abbess of Kirklees Priory in Yorkshire when he sought sanctuary there in 1347. Why the abbess killed him is a mystery as the surviving manuscript is damaged and the verses pertaining to the betrayal no longer survive. All we learn is that, after killing Robin, the abbess took her own life and Little John arrived to bury his friend’s body nearby.
“Kirklees Priory historically existed and an abbess – one Elizabeth de Staynton – is recording as dying there in 1347, the very year that the Gest says Robin’s murderer died. More remarkably, the grave of a “Robard Hude” – …. another medieval spelling of Robert Hood – was discovered in woodland nearby. The original is no longer there but in 1665 an antiquarian named Nathaniel Johnston made a drawing of it and that still survives. Today a crumbling nineteenth-century monument marks the spot, bearing an inscription that claims it to be the actual site of Robin Hood’s grave.”
In Robin Hood – The Man Behind The Myth, Graham Phillips and Martin Keatman retrace the life of the historical Robin Hood; even identifying the very place he robbed the rich to help the poor at a medieval bridge at Wentbridge on the old road from Nottingham to York.
By the way, I am not Irish, nor have – as a lawyer – any sympathy for outlaws. But people like Robin Hood, and our own Australian Ned Kelly, were demonised citizens, made to look like – or even act like – outlaws by illegitimate power-weilders, pretenders pretending as “authorities” with no legitimate basis. Those who “outlawed” Robin Hood, themselves had broken the law treacherously. Those who killed Ned Kelly – so-called “policemen” – as an earlier commentator here pointed out, themselves were convicts.
Thanks Andy, that’s what I was going to say 🙂
Thanks mate! 🙂 🙂
John March 8, 2012, 8:48 pm | Link
Just a reminder to Andy on a few facts that may have escaped his attention. Robin Hood is a purely fictional character, and that of the tens of thousands of Irish who landed in Victoria , Ned Kelly and his merry men are the only ones I know of who chose to rob and murder ( Irish born constabulary, Kennedy and Scanlon). like all legends, it’s flawed and embellished. Kelly is best known for the home made armour rather than any entitlement to hero worship.
BobinOz March 10, 2012, 12:39 am | Link
What, and no Maid Marian either? No Merry men? Are you sure? So all the poor people stayed poor then?
Seriously, you’ve made an interesting point about the thousands of Irish who came here, but only Ned chose to rob and murder. I’m sure many other Irish did commit serious crimes, I do hear that James Squire was quite a handful. (Read it on the back of a bottle of beer).
But we do have a lot of Ned Kelly backers here who think he is a hero. So I reckon the debate is on! What say the NK fans about this?
Andy January 26, 2012, 5:57 am | Link
Thanks for the realisation. But, no – we don’t call Robin Hood or Ned Kelly murderer, just as we won’t call George Washington or Abraham Lincoln murderers, even though actions by all of them involved people being killed. They were heroes – well-respected amongst the people they sprang from as they stood for a “fair go” for those people (Robin, George, Ned) – or part thereof (Abraham), which is not the case with murderers.
Who do you mean by “we”? There are plenty of people who do refer to Ned Kelly as a murderer.
John V. February 3, 2012, 7:10 am | Link
As I wrote before, some “Police” in those unruly days were actually x convicts who were worse than the criminals they were supposed to apprehend. But you cant give those who were supposed to uphold the law a bad name. Kellies sister was said to be raped by one of them, and another in a fight, (5 against Ned)did some damage to Neds family jewels. and Ned swore he would kill that ungracious man. He did one year later in a gunfight.
Ned did what he had to do, with stories about him wanting to overthrow the government of the day because of the unfairness of way of treatment settlers got from government agents. Being mainly Poms from the old country, with old country attitudes (remember Bligh?) he found no sympathy when he complained. He was after all Irish, which were despised by them.
BobinOz February 6, 2012, 10:00 pm | Link
Then that settles it. He was innocent. (I am of Irish descent, my grandad on my father’s side was Irish. We gotta stick together.)
Steve October 21, 2012, 9:23 pm | Link
Ned Kelly was a living breathing human being, so were Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, but why are you talking about Robin Hood with them when he didn’t actually exist? Three are national icons of their peoples, one a fairy story.
You can’t compare them in any way!
Well, not everybody believes that Robin Hood was a “fairy story”, some are quite convinced he really did exist. I was going to try and find a few links to back up this statement, but I’ve just noticed that Andy has added a substantial comment below, so I don’t need to do that.
I’m not saying Robin Hood definitely lived, but I don’t think anyone can say he definitely didn’t either.
Andy January 18, 2012, 11:56 pm | Link
I am a lawyer myself – very much against any outlaw – but also am a historian and a proud Australian. Ned Kelly represent the Australian spirit – fairness and mateship, justice and fraternity of the people. Calling him murderer is hurtful to Australians.
Britain has her Robin Hood, Americans their George Washington. Washington succeeded against the colonials and is celebrated officially; Robin Hood kind of succeeded amongst the masses – so remains a celebrity in popular ballads. Ned was murdered – but his spirit of fairness and mateship succeeded eventually, and so Australia is free and a welfare nation.
BobinOz January 20, 2012, 10:25 pm | Link
Well, the votes keep coming in for Ned Kelly. Sounds like he was a good guy.
I suppose we have to realise that in those, kind of “wild West” days, murders did happen more regularly. Situations where you either kill or be killed. Both Ned Kelly and Robin Hood were probably quite good at being the survivor in those situations and probably both had a good heart.
So they go down in history as murderers, but also as heroes.
Maybe Ned was responsible for the “give a bloke fair go” attitude in Australia. Fair dinkum!
It should be that your profession is proud of Ned Kelly. Some of their relatives seem to have (taken up robbing people blind by) become lawyers and one became a judge. Also possibly a distant relative.
Such is life.
John Vance August 30, 2011, 4:41 am | Link
Living in Kelly country, Wangaratta, and a stones throw from Benalla and Glenrowan, we know all about Ned Kelly. See website >http://www.ironoutlaw.com/html/history_01.html < History has it that some of the Kelly's turned to law and some are still practicing in both South Australia and Victoria.
Injustices by Police (who were often Ex Convicts themselves) were said to be rampant.
A fight with Ned Kelly and four constables who tried t ohandcuff him, ended with Ned's "family jewels" being severely injured. Ned swore he'd shoot the Policeman who did that. He did exactly that a year later when attacked. No onewould dare call Ned a Mexican!
BobinOz August 31, 2011, 9:53 pm | Link
On the plus side, they didn’t have speed cameras and RBT’s.
I think every country went through its “Wild West” days, Australia is no different by the sounds of it. Ned Kelly is clearly a bit of a hero for most people, rather than a crook. Didn’t realise he died so young though, just 25!
John Vance August 31, 2011, 10:11 pm | Link
As an aside: On RBT’s you have to wonder if some of the “crooks” are now runing the show… http://blog.motorists.org/its-just-a-decimal-point-the-dirty-secret-behind-breathalyzers/
Seems higly suspect…
Oops! Dang it! Put the decimal point in the wrong place. Oh well.
Yes, very disturbing.
Col B. August 29, 2011, 2:19 pm | Link
The second half of spring and first half of Autumn are good weather times in Victoria. Summers and winters are extremes. But on the cost of living it’s not bad here. Victoria and South Australia share the cheapest living standards in Australia. There is a border between Tasmania and Victoria so you missed which is the actual “Mexico” state!. Bob, Imagine living in the 19th century in northern Victoria when there were horses and hosre-carts as mode of transport in extreme weather both hot and cold. Police in them days has to go out across the land to attend to troubles. it’s a rotten occupation that turn them into arrogants. There once was a settler Mother’s Daughter who refused a Benalla policeman’s advances towards her while he was supposed to be out looking to arrest her brother for “horse-stealing”, but her brother was nowhere within the vicinity. The Policeman cracked and after taking the long ride back to Benalla on horseback he lied to the authorities which resulted in the loss of the said settler Mother’s property leaving her and her family without a home. The family in question were the Kellys. This gave rise to the Kelly gang. The Stringybark incident was that the Law on horsebacks (From Mansfield) were charging (galloping) on their horses and shooting with fire-arms at the same time, thus firing the first shots at the Kelly gang before one of the Kelly gang members fatally shot one of the charging constables. This puts the constables on a murderous intentional mode whereas the Kelly gang were on a defensive mode. Ned Kelly and his gang had the utmost support of all the citizens and settlers around northern Victoria (even back from the time when that arrogant Benalla constable ruined the Kelly family’s livelihoods which showed the arrogances of the law as a consequence) right through to the aftermath of the Stringybark incident and through the Glenrowan seige (where the Kelly gang’s body armor and helmet were first worn and consequently the massacre of Ned’s Gang and the capture of Ned himself) and through many generations ahead the next century.
BobinOz August 29, 2011, 11:28 pm | Link
I haven’t yet fully looked into the Ned Kelly thing, but I do know that some people think he was nothing but a murderer and others say he was a hero. I think I know which side of the fence you sit on, Col. B.
I will certainly look into it at some stage, thanks for your account.
Can’t help but wonder why they called it the good old days, some of those old days were pretty tough!
Pepito August 3, 2011, 11:19 pm | Link
Youre wrong. EEt finished. We both clazy!
Who you calling clazy! Oh, eet finished? Oh.
John Vance August 1, 2011, 8:54 pm | Link
We burn em. You ref u gee!
BobinOz August 3, 2011, 10:07 pm | Link
I’ll pour water over your flame! (I’ve got a feeling this could go on a bit).
John Vance July 29, 2011, 1:03 pm | Link
Vic(e)torians us Mexicans? That infers youre going to a hotter place. We are definitely not as hot as Queenslanders. It also infers were touched by heat, which we definitely are not. (though our state won the hottest capital award for a while, a few years ago).
I would sugges the fact were called Mexicans because we can and you guys cant…
This means war, unless you remove the reference as us being mexicans. We have been trying to improve Queensland, (Tourists) by supporting your lack of inteligence there ie , building homes in flood prone areas, having Joh Bjelke Petersen as Premier, and tryinh to ruin our nations artesian basins by allowing GAS exploration and screwing up with water management. but calling us mexicans. Bob delete that passage at once, or I wil fill your mail box with all sorts of nice requests, and things that you didnt know you could do to yourself… Grin: John Vance
BobinOz July 30, 2011, 12:08 pm | Link
Ah, I’m glad you showed up. I’ll have a bottle of Corona, my good wife would like a margarita and when you have a moment, could you rustle us up a couple of fajita’s?
John Vance July 30, 2011, 12:16 pm | Link
You will want them with worms Eh?
Eh Pepito, there’s a guy here who want to be deported to Me he co. Did ya bring se bolero’s He’s crafty und qeeck. Mucho diniro fo yu eef you catch heem qeeck…
I got papers!
Ryland February 3, 2012, 1:50 am | Link
I sincerely hope you are joking John, he is right of course. And queenslanders are ‘Banana benders’ if i recall
BobinOz February 6, 2012, 9:56 pm | Link
Us Queenslanders can also be known as ‘cane toads’ too. Not sure which I prefer, but I do know that John is joking. He does it a lot.
Col B. April 12, 2017, 3:04 pm | Link
….or sugar-cane suckers still sucking as they whip around mid-air in a cyclone.
Enjoy it while you can Col B, State of Origin will be soon 🙂
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Kayani Cornered?
General Kayani is facing two problems, a smaller problem and a bigger problem. The smaller problem is external. The hypocrisy of the Pakistan army exposed by the discovery of Osama bin Laden living comfortably next to Pakistan’s Military Academy will now attract enormous flak from most of the world. The Pakistan army might survive that thanks to the tact being displayed by US authorities. The much bigger problem for the Pakistan army is internal. It has to explain to the hardcore elements in the military establishment and in civil society how and why the Americans could forcibly kill Osama inside Pakistan.
The sequence of the immediate events preceding the US operation is intriguing. Just a few days before the operation Prime Minister Gilani and General Kayani reportedly met with Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai and urged him to dump America and side with China. That was leaked to the media presumably by Afghan authorities. That was followed by an Afghan army incursion into Pakistan killing three Pakistani soldiers. That was followed by the ambush inside the heart of Pakistan by American operatives. The death of Osama inside Pakistan was followed by statements by Afghan leaders claiming that the real war against terror was required in Pakistan and not in Afghanistan.
The US authorities are at pains to stress that the ambush was entirely American outside the knowledge of the Pakistan army and without its assistance. The US version claims that a forty minute operation was carried out by US helicopters sixty miles from Islamabad next to the Pakistan Military Academy without Pakistan’s army being aware. US Counterterrorism chief John Brennan claimed that before the Pakistanis could get their airplanes to react the US had departed from Pakistani soil. Is this believable? Given the high risks resulting from a Pakistani reprisal would the US risk the ambush without ensuring that things remained under control? It is logical to conclude that either the Pakistan army itself or a section within it was in the loop. So, which was it?
That brings us to the question of how the US might have reacted to the exposure about General Kayani’s lobbying for the Chinese with President Karzai. Behind the curtain could the Americans have confronted General Kayani, twisted his arm, and obtained his compliance for the ambush? Alternatively, could the Americans have sidelined General Kayani and struck a deal with some other powerful segment inside the Pakistan army? That neither was done defies logic. The stakes were too high for the US to carry out the ambush without some assurance that things would not slip out of control.
Now it remains to be seen how General Kayani faces up to the bigger internal crisis that is most likely going to confront him. The question that will be asked sooner rather than later is: did General Kayani collude with the Americans or was he totally in the dark? If he colluded it will be dubbed as gross betrayal of Pakistan by the hardcore elements inside and outside the army and could lead to serious confrontation. If he was in the dark it would expose unacceptable incompetence having damaging implications for nuclear Pakistan’s future security.
The immediate future of General Kayani and Prime Minister Gilani needs to be watched closely. Significantly, while all the world leaders hailed Osama’s death there was only conspicuous silence in Beijing. Eventually Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu while hailing the death of Osama bin Laden countered global criticism of Pakistan by defending Islamabad against accusations that it did little to find the Al Qaeda leader. China, which signed an MOU with the Taliban government in the presence of Osama bin Laden on 9/11, 2001, was always the hidden patron of Pakistan army’s support to terrorists. The killing of Osama inside Pakistan is an embarrassment that may prove equally huge for Beijing as it is for Islamabad. It remains to be seen how the Chinese with their strong sense of self-preservation finally deal with the prospect of being the solitary supporters of a Pakistan pushed into the dog house.
Related Article: Killing Osama Inside Pakistan
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#HarperCollinsLovesIndies Facebook Live Program to Return in 2019
American Booksellers Association member bookstores can sign up now to participate in HarperCollins’ Facebook Live program for its return in 2019, though there are several changes in store for next year’s program.
For the 2019 season, booksellers will livestream videos from their stores every Thursday, a change from 2018’s Saturday schedule. In addition, #HarperCollinsLovesIndies will train the program’s focus on hand-selling.
“It’s undeniable that one of the greatest arts inside America’s vast array of independent bookstores is the good old-fashioned hand-sell,” said Lisa Sharkey, senior vice president and director of creative development at HarperCollins. “Beginning in January 2019, HarperCollins and Book Studio 16 will celebrate the art of the hand-sell and the independent bookstore salespeople who have perfected it.”
Every Thursday, a new participating store will create a streaming Facebook Live video featuring their bookstore staff, who will then recommend titles via personal pitches. While HarperCollins still encourages bookstores that have never participated in the program to include a walkthrough of their stores, HarperCollins asked that videos made in 2019 focus more on hand-selling the new titles that booksellers are excited about.
In the videos, said Sharkey, “a potpourri of booksellers from urban, rural, and suburban independent stores will convince you to read America’s great works of fiction and nonfiction from the frontlist to the backlist, from the hardback to the paperback, from new poetry to beloved classics, from graphic novels to literary masterpieces.”
“We’re looking forward to a year of the best reads from coast to coast and everywhere in between,” she added.
The move to Thursday streaming dates will allow booksellers to pitch the books they are enthusiastic about heading into the weekend, with a focus on “What’s new this week” and “What I’m reading.” HarperCollins has even created a new hashtag for the purpose, #TheHandSellLive, which booksellers can use to tag their videos on Facebook and use when reposting them to other social media platforms.
So far in 2018, 48 different independent bookstores have created streaming Facebook Live videos as part of the #HarperCollinsLovesIndies initiative. Every Saturday in 2017 and 2018, the program featured a new bookseller giving a 20-minute virtual tour of their store, providing a behind-the-scenes view, introducing staff, discussing upcoming events, sharing staff picks, and answering questions posed by commenters.
Next year, just as in 2018, ABA will publicize booksellers’ videos by sharing them with its 44,000 followers on its Facebook and IndieBound Facebook pages. HarperCollins will also continue to help bookstores plan their Facebook Live videos by sending a “best practices” guide prior to taping.
Booksellers who would like to sign up for a Thursday in 2019 or who have questions about the program can e-mail HarperCollinsFBLive@harpercollins.com. To see the Facebook Live videos that were posted throughout 2017 and 2018, browse the #HarperCollinsLovesIndies hashtag on Facebook. Here are all of the videos from 2018 so far:
Bartleby’s Books, December 8, Wilmington, Vermont
The Seminary Co-op, December 1, Chicago, Illinois
Lake Forest Book Store, November 24, Lake Forest, Illinois
Book Passage, November 17, San Francisco, California
Chapters Bookshop, November 10, Galax, Virginia
Second Star to the Right Books, November 3, Denver, Colorado
Hooray for Books, October 27, Alexandria, Virginia
Branches Books & Gifts, October 20, Oakhurst, California
Bookmarks, October 13, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Books & Books, October 6, Coral Gables, Florida
Midtown Scholar Bookstore, September 29, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Country Bookshelf, September 22, Bozeman, Montana
Bright Side Bookshop, September 15, Flagstaff, Arizona
The Vermont Book Shop, September 8, Middlebury, Vermont
Rediscovered Bookshop, September 1, Boise, Idaho
Winchester Book Gallery, August 25, Winchester, Virginia
Next Page Books & Nosh, August 18, Frisco, Colorado
Dragonfly Books, August 11, Decorah, Iowa
Beagle and Wolf Books & Bindery, August 4, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Writer’s Block Bookstore, July 28, Winter Park, Florida
Schuler Books, July 21, Grand Rapids, Michigan
World’s Only Curious George Store, July 14, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Raven Book Store, July 7, Lawrence, Kansas
Breakwater Books, June 30, Guildford, Connecticut
Joseph-Beth Booksellers, June 23, Cincinnati, Ohio
Trident Booksellers & Café, June 16, Boston, Massachusetts
Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeehouse, June 9, La Cañada Flintridge, California
Odyssey Bookshop, June 2, South Hadley, Massachusetts
Island Bookstore, May 26, Duck, North Carolina
Whitelam Books, May 19, Reading, Massachusetts
Cabot Street Books, May 12, Beverly, Massachusetts
Third Street Books, May 5, McMinnville, Oregon
R.J. Julia, April 28, Madison, Connecticut
Alabama Booksmith, April 21, Homewood, Alabama
Curious Iguana, April 14, Frederick, Maryland
Oblong Books & Music, April 7, Rhinebeck, New York
WORD Bookstore, March 31, Jersey City, New Jersey
Page & Palette, March 24, Fairhope, Alabama
Devaney, Doak & Garrett Booksellers, March 17, Farmington, Maine
Downtown Books, March 10, Manteo, North Carolina
Old Firehouse Books, March 3, Fort Collins, Colorado
Tattered Cover Book Store, February 24, Denver, Colorado
Mrs. Dalloway’s Literary and Garden Arts, February 10, Berkeley, California
Belmont Books, February 3, Belmont, Massachusetts
Wellington Square Bookshop, January 27, Exton, Pennsylvania
Card Carrying Books & Gifts, January 20, Corning, New York
Liberty Bay Books, January 13, Poulsbo, Washington
One More Page, January 6, Arlington, Virginia
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Detectives began investigating Sanders a year ago and conducting undercover buys. Numerous arrest warrants were secured for Sanders after he met with undercover detectives who purchased oxycodone and cocaine, authorities said.
Manatee County Schools Superintendent Tim McGonegal said Sanders has been suspended with pay. On Jan. 10, school board members will vote on whether or not the Manatee High assistant baseball coach will be suspended without pay.
McGonegal spoke with the high school’s baseball coach after Sanders was arrested.
“He is very disappointed,” McGonegal said. “Baseball and athletics in general tries to instill character education. This is very disheartening.”
Sanders is being held in the Manatee County Jail on $250,000 bond. Authorities say additional charges are forthcoming pending further investigation.
It is not known if Sanders sold drugs to minors or school students, authorities added.
Local law enforcement has seen an increase of prescription drug-related crimes this year reaching across a wide variety of age and socioeconomic groups.
As of November, Manatee County Sheriff’s Office and Bradenton Police Department had made 478 arrests for crimes related to prescription drugs this year -- up from 330 arrests in 2009.
Detectives in narcotics units have conducted numerous undercover buys and worked with informants and pharmacies to make arrests.
Another Manatee High School employee was arrested on prescription drug related charges in May.
Bradenton Police say Christopher J. Potter, 26, pawned school electronics to feed his prescription drug addiction and threatened to attack school board employees resigned as a teacher at the school.
He was arrested on charges including possession of oxycodone, dealing in stolen property and grand theft. His case is still pending, according to court records.
-- Herald staff writer Beth Burger contributed to this story.
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Tim Ryan: Democrats Have ‘Lost All Connection’ to Working-Class People
Kyle Morris
Ohio Democrat Rep. Tim Ryan admitted that Democrats have lost touch with “working class people” while being questioned during the first presidential debate held in Miami, Florida.
After he answered a question regarding solutions to climate change, Ryan jumped to respond to a previous question on “real politics.”
“We could talk about climate, we could talk about guns, we could talk about all of these issues that we all care about,” Ryan told MSNBC’s Chuck Todd. “We have a perception problem with the Democratic Party.”
“We are not connecting to the working class people in the very states that I represent in Ohio, in the industrial midwest,” Ryan continued. “We’ve lost all connection — we have got to change the center of gravity for the Democratic Party from being coastal, elitist, and ivy league, which is the perception, to somebody from the forgotten communities that have been left behind for the last thirty years.”
“Get those workers back on our side so we can say we are going to build electric vehicles, we’re gonna build solar panels,” Ryan added. “If you want to beat Mitch McConnell, this better be a working-class party if you want to go into Kentucky and take his rear end out…”
Ryan concluded by reiterating his point that the Democrat Party must find a connection to the working-class people.
“All I’m saying here is if we don’t address that fundamental problem with our connection to workers white, black, brown, gay, straight working class people, none of this is going to get done, Chuck.”
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Antifa Attacker of Tacoma Detention Facility Left Manifesto on ‘Concentration Camps’
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Terms that are Used by a Professional Director of Photography
Digital Video / By Shane Burley / Film Production
Learning Some Director of Photography Terms
The Director of Photography, also known as the Cinematographer, is possibly the most important production position below the Producer and Director. It is the Director of Photography that arranges and decides upon the images that are being captured for the film project. The Director of Photography ends up as the visual artist for the production who tries to take the Director’s vision and create an actual film out of it with images that are expressive and work in context. The professional world for the Director of Photography includes just as much lingo and jargon as anything else in the professional film industry, so here are a few of the most common terms that you will hear in the camera department being led by the DP.
Cowboy Shot
The Cowboy Shot is a medium long shot that positions the middle of the leg up to the head. This essentially frames the whole body in a standard shot but cuts off before the knee. The term Cowboy Shot comes from the use of this framing in spaghetti Westerns where the cowboy was framed so you could see his low riding guns.
If there is just a very quick moment where an object or subject lacks perfect focus they may call this a Buzz. What happens here is during a scene or camera movement the subject may become temporarily soft, so this will be announced as there was a Buzz in a particular set up.
Hollywood It
You will often here a Director of Photography telling the lighting department to "Hollywood it." To Hollywood a light means that a light is to be hand held on a subject instead of positioned in a secure location for the scene. This will often happen if a subject is going to move around and a small light is needed to stay on them at all times.
When using a crane shot there needs to be a camera operator seated in the seat for that crane. This is always called the Hot Seat.
When you are done filming for the day the very last shot is usually called the Martini. This comes from an old joke about receiving a martini at the end of a shoot.
Dolly Shots
A Dolly Shot is one where the camera is placed on a moving "dolly," which is a platform with wheels on it. This is essentially a moving shot where the camera remains stable on the dolly platform. A Fishbowl is a dolly shot where the track for the dolly has a curve to it so that it will encircle as subject.
Stacking it Up
If you want to make the space of a shot look larger and you are doing this by using a longer lens this can be called Stacking it Up. This is because you are adding more things in depth.
Film Magazine Terms
Often times the Second Assistant Camera person will load film magazines ahead of time so they will be ready to go. If a film magazine is not going to get shot that day the film has to be put away. This process is called Recanning because the film must be returned to the can it came from. If you hear something called a French Film it rarely indicates a foreign produced picture. Instead it means that there is a fake, or absent, roll of film in the magazine. Accordionnated means that the film stock in a magazine has become bunched up and is not circulating correctly, usually because there was a problem when it was loaded.
OTS and POV
An OTS means an over the shoulder shot where you can see the back of one person’s shoulder but the focus is on the other person’s face. A dirty OTS is an over the shoulder shot that allows you to see a little more of the back of the shoulder holder. A POV shot is a shot that indicates a character’s point of view (you can learn more about POV shots here).
The term Magic Hour refers to a short period of natural light in the morning and evening. The Magic Hour is in the area of sunset or sunrise where the light kind of explodes in the sky. The Magic Hour is usually the best period of time for natural light. The Magic Hour is a heavily sought after time period in professional filmmaking and you will find Director’s of Photography either rushing or waiting to get into the Magic Hour.
Tail Slate
A Tail Slate refers to a situation when you would put the normal slate at the end of a shot instead of the beginning. A Tail Slate is usually a safeguard for a situation when you just could not get the slate at the beginning.
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Nominations for The Fashion Awards 2018 in Partnership with Swarovski Announced
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Today, Tuesday 23rd October 2018, Stephanie Phair, Chairman of the British Fashion Council (BFC), Nadja Swarovski, Member of the Swarovski Executive Board and Caroline Rush, Chief Executive of the British Fashion Council announced the nominations for The Fashion Awards 2018 in partnership with Swarovski at a press screening at Soho House, 76 Dean Street, London.
The Fashion Awards in partnership with Swarovski recognise creativity and innovation in fashion, celebrating exceptional individuals whose imagination and creativity has broken new ground in fashion globally over the past 12 months as well as brands and businesses that have transformed the possibilities of fashion today.
Watch The Fashion Awards 2018 in partnership with Swarovski Nominees video created by Creative Director Robin Derrick here.
The Fashion Awards 2018 voting body, made up of 2,000 key members of the fashion industry across 32 countries, was invited to put forward their preferences for each award and nominations were made in ten categories with the five brands/individuals receiving the most nominations shortlisted in each. Additional awards will be celebrated on the night, recognising incredible career milestones. The recipients of these special awards will be announced over the coming weeks.
The Fashion Awards 2018 Nominees are (all listed in alphabetical order)
Accessories Designer of the Year
Alessandro Michele for Gucci
Demna Gvasalia for Balenciaga
Jonathan Anderson for LOEWE
Maria Grazia Chiuri for Dior
Miuccia Prada for Prada
Brand of the Year
British Designer of the Year Menswear
Craig Green for CRAIG GREEN
Jonathan Anderson for JW Anderson
Kim Jones for Dior Homme
Martine Rose for Martine Rose
Riccardo Tisci for Burberry
British Designer of the Year Womenswear
Clare Waight Keller for Givenchy
Roksanda Ilinčić for ROKSANDA
Simone Rocha for Simone Rocha
Victoria Beckham for VICTORIA BECKHAM
British Emerging Talent Menswear
Ben Cottrell and Matthew Dainty for COTTWEILER
Eden Loweth & Tom Barratt for ART SCHOOL
Kiko Kostadinov for Kiko Kostadinov
Phoebe English for PHOEBE ENGLISH
Samuel Ross for A-COLD-WALL*
British Emerging Talent Womenswear
Matty Bovan for Matty Bovan
Natalia Alaverdian for A.W.A.K.E.
Rejina Pyo for REJINA PYO
Richard Quinn for Richard Quinn
Sofia Prantera for ARIES
Jonathan Akeroyd for VERSACE
José Neves for FARFETCH
Marco Bizzarri for Gucci
Marco Gobbetti for Burberry
Michael Burke for Louis Vuitton
Pierpaolo Piccioli for Valentino
Virgil Abloh for Louis Vuitton
Model of the Year
Adut Akech
Nominees Assets for social media: https://we.tl/t-9QPjmW2Jx0
The winners of each category will be announced on Monday 10th December at The Fashion Awards 2018 in partnership with Swarovski at the Royal Albert Hall, during a ceremony attended by 4000 guests.
Stephanie Phair, BFC Chair said: “I would like to congratulate all the nominees of The Fashion Awards 2018 in partnership with Swarovski. Each and every one of them is being recognised for their creative excellence and innovation. I look forward to celebrating them alongside the rest of the industry from across the globe on the 10th of December at the Royal Albert Hall.”
Nadja Swarovski, Member of the Swarovski Executive Board, added: “We are delighted to reveal the nominees for the 2018 Fashion Awards. Representing fashion’s most inspiring emerging and established talents, this list is the perfect showcase for the energy and diversity of the industry today. We are excited to unveil the winners at the awards show in London in December, which will raise truly vital funds for the BFC’s initiatives.”
This year, for the first time, The Fashion Awards 2018 in partnership with Swarovski, will celebrate the global community of young creative talent by recognising 100 of the most innovative and inspiring young creative talents from around the world via a new element to the awards; NEW WAVE: Creatives. The 2000 members of the international fashion community that make up the Fashion Awards Voting Panel, were asked to nominate those they believe to be the best young creative talent of today. Shining a light on this year’s emerging visionaries, NEW WAVE: Creatives will include trailblazers from image-makers, hair and makeup artists, set designers, creative directors, models, digital influencers and stylists. The final list will encompass 100 names and will include some of fashion’s most exciting and forward-thinking young professionals.
The Fashion Awards in partnership with Swarovski is a fundraiser for the British Fashion Council, a not-for-profit organisation focused on promoting excellence in British fashion and supporting the future pipeline of creative talent. The BFC’s work is achieved through a range of charitable initiatives and education, business and mentoring schemes that support talent from school level students, to emerging designers and future fashion start-ups, through to established designer businesses.
In 2017, the BFC raised over £2.2million for its charities and business support initiatives and in the twelve months to March 2018 has allocated £1.1million to further support these efforts. As part of its Education pillar, the BFC’s initiatives are designed to secure the legacy of support for talented students at every stage, safeguarding the opportunity to further education regardless of financial situation.
Industry tables and boxes for The Fashion Awards 2018 are on sale. For more information please email:
fashionawardstable@britishfashioncouncil.com or FashionAwardsBox@britishfashioncouncil.com
General tickets are available via Ticketmaster
The generosity and commitment of our sponsors is more vital than ever. Please help us by acknowledging our Principal Sponsor SWAROVSKI for their support of The Fashion Awards 2018. Official Sponsors American Express, Bird in Hand, Digital Domain, Getty Images, Lavazza Coffee, Mercedes-Benz, Rosewood London and Slingsby.
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You are here: Home / ABQnews Seeker / Arroyo playing big for Lobos heading into exhibition vs. Northern N.M.
Arroyo playing big for Lobos heading into exhibition vs. Northern N.M.
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………. ………. ………. ………. ………. ………. ………. ………. ………. ………. ………. ………. ………. ………. ………. ………. ………. ………. Walk-ons don’t generally get much playing time at the Division I level of college basketball. Even fewer see the court in their first season. Almost none can lay claim to how Albuquerque’s Jordan Arroyo, a walk-on for the University of New Mexico men’s basketball team, started his college career on Tuesday. ADVERTISEMENTSkip Just six minutes, 11 seconds into the Lobos’ 2018-19 season, in a road game at Cal-State Northridge, head coach Paul Weir sent into the game the 6-foot-7 freshman forward from Atrisco Heritage Academy. And it was no mistake. “Jordan Arroyo has exceeded any expectation I had or the staff had with regards to his work ethic, with regards to his energy, his body language, his commitment to this team,” said Weir. “He’s been exceptional.” Arroyo and fellow walk-on Clay Patterson from Rio Rancho High School are expected to get minutes for UNM (1-0) in Saturday night’s exhibition vs. NAIA Northern New Mexico (3-1) in Dreamstyle Arena — The Pit. The fact that Arroyo is already in the rotation for even the regular season games is a bit of a surprise. Just one month ago, as practices for the season were getting underway, Arroyo told the Journal he knew people didn’t expect much from walk-ons. ADVERTISEMENTSkip “Walk-ons usually don’t play,” Arroyo said in the first week of October. “And I know that. I knew that deciding to be a walk-on. But… [Read full story]
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Home More Health Rabies Warning Issued for Walt Disney World Area
Rabies Warning Issued for Walt Disney World Area
July 12, 2019 — A rabies warning was issued for Walt Disney World Resort and the surrounding area after a rabid cat scratched two employees.
The 60-day warning was issued by the Florida Department of Health in Orange County for a two-mile radius of the intersection of Interstate 4 and Epcot Center Drive, which includes Disney’s Epcot Center theme park, USA Today reported.
Laboratory tests confirmed rabies in the cat, which scratched two cast members. They did not contract rabies, according to Disney World spokeswoman Erica Ettori.
“We are relieved the two cast members received timely treatment and are back to work,” Ettori told USA Today.
Because the cat may have spread rabies to other animals, the Florida Department of Health advised people in the affected area avoid stray cats and dogs, as well as wildlife. So far, the cat is the only rabid animal that’s been found in the area.
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Elizabeth Warren accuses Amazon of using a 'special information advantage' for 'anti-competitive' practices
Sen. Elizabeth Warren called out Amazon.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, in conversation with The New York Times' Andrew Ross Sorkin, explained why she thinks big tech companies like Amazon should undergo more scrutiny.
For Warren, the issue lies with Amazon acting both as a platform for sellers and as a direct seller itself, all while collecting data from those transactions.
"Amazon gets this special information advantage that it [can] then exploit to wipe out [a business]," Warren told Sorkin. "That is a serious problem."
Sen. Elizabeth Warren laid out her criticisms of Amazon— and why she thinks it should be scrutinized more closely.
Speaking with The New York Times' Andrew Ross Sorkin on Thursday, Warren centered her criticism on the fact that Amazon is both a marketplace — essentially, a platform for other sellers — and a direct retailer itself.
The problem, Warren says, is that Amazon gets the data from all of these sales and doesn't necessarily share it. With that information, Amazon can then create its own market conditions and develop a private-label brand.
Warren said that, ultimately, Amazon should not be in both businesses.
"You got to pick one business or the other, baby," Warren said. "You want to be a competitor, be a competitor. That's great. You want to be the platform provider that is a different function. If you're getting a huge competitive advantage from being a platform provider because of all this information you keep scraping off, then we no longer have competition going on."
Amazon did not immediately return Business Insider's request for comment.
Warren also compared Amazon's usage of data to Facebook's, arguing that people's information sometimes gets used in an "anti-competitive" way.
"I believe in markets," Warren said. "But I believe in markets where there's competition."
Amazon's Marketplace has grown to account for more than half of the brand's sales. Its growth is outpacing Amazon's sale of direct merchandise.
Amazon isn't the only online retailer that operates a marketplace while directly selling goods. Walmart also has a similar model.
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Explore Mars In Fine Detail With New Panoramic Images
Jennifer Welsh
NASA just released these amazing billion pixel, interactive panoramic photographs of the surface of Mars, taken by the Curiosity rover.
You can access them at NASA's website.
The Curiosity rover has been on Mars for about 10 months now. It's done some awesome things, like the first drilling of Martian rocks and shown that the pebbles in Gale Crater indicate there could have been hip-deep water flowing over the area.
The panoramas were created using almost 900 exposures from Curiosity's cameras.
"It gives a sense of place and really shows off the cameras' capabilities," said Bob Deen of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said in a statement. "You can see the context and also zoom in to see very fine details."
You can see the images in either white-balanced, to make the rocks look as they would on Earth, or in the Raw Color. Definitely make the panoramas full screen. (The button is hiding for us, but still clickable — a sliver is hanging out under the "View All" button.)
There are also snapshots which will zoom you to places of interest, like the rover's landing site, and this bird that looks like a rock:
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Regional Trade Agreements and the Multilateral Trading System
Editor: Rohini Acharya, World Trade Organization, Geneva
Jo-Ann Crawford, Maria Donner Abreu, Nora Neufeld, Jean-Daniel Rey, Jo McKeagg, Julia Tolstova, Lee Ann Jackson, Hanna Vitikala, Ana Cristina Molina, Vira Khoroshavina, Pierre Latrille, Raymundo Valdés, Maegan McCann, Claude Chase, Alan Yanovich, Pamela Ugaz, Rohini Acharya
This volume contains a collection of studies examining trade-related issues negotiated in regional trade agreements (RTAs) and how RTAs are related to the WTO's rules. While previous work has focused on subsets of RTAs, these studies are based on what is probably the largest dataset used to date, and highlight key issues that have been negotiated in all RTAs notified to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). New rules within RTAs are compared to rules agreed upon by WTO members. The extent of their divergences and the potential implications for parties to RTAs, as well as for WTO members that are not parties to RTAs, are examined. This volume makes an important contribution to the current debate on the role of the WTO in regulating international trade and how WTO rules relate to new rules being developed by RTAs.
Provides an in-depth analysis of regional trade agreements (RTAs)
Contributes to the current debate on the implications of RTAs for the multilateral trading system
Reviews for the first time how issues involving WTO rules are handled across all RTAs
Part I. Trade in Goods and Services:
1. Market access provisions on trade in goods in regional trade agreements Jo-Ann Crawford
2. Preferential rules of origin in regional trade agreements Maria Donner Abreu
3. Trade facilitation under the RTA umbrella: origins and evolution Nora Neufeld
4. Do regional anti-dumping regimes make a difference? Jean-Daniel Rey
5. Mapping of safeguard provisions in regional trade agreements Jo-Ann Crawford, Jo McKeagg and Julia Tolstova
6. Cross-cutting issues in regional trade agreements: sanitary and phytosanitary measures Lee Ann Jackson and Hanna Vitikala
7. Technical barriers to trade provisions in regional trade agreements: to what extent do they go beyond the WTO TBT Agreement? Ana Cristina Molina and Vira Khoroshavina
8. Services rules in regional trade agreements: how diverse and/or creative are they compared to the multilateral rules? Pierre Latrille
Part II. Other Provisions:
9. Intellectual property provisions in regional trade agreements: revision and update Raymundo Valdés and Maegan McCann
10. Mapping of dispute settlement mechanisms in regional trade agreements – innovative or variations on a theme? Claude Chase, Alan Yanovich, Jo-Ann Crawford and Pamela Ugaz
11. Some conclusions Rohini Acharya.
Rohini Acharya, World Trade Organization, Geneva
Rohini Acharya is a Counsellor with the World Trade Organization. She has a PhD in Economics and joined the WTO's Trade Policies Review Division in 1996, becoming Chief of its Regional Trade Agreements Section in January 2007. Previously she worked as Senior Research Fellow at the International Economics Programme of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) in London. Her work at the WTO has included the trade policy reviews of several WTO members, including Australia, Egypt, India, New Zealand and Singapore, and the first Trade Policy Review of China.
Regional Rules in the Global Trading System
Multilateralizing Regionalism
Challenges for the Global Trading System
A History of Law and Lawyers in the GATT/WTO
The Development of the Rule of Law in the Multilateral Trading System
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Sports: Soccer [Galaxy Kick]
Buddle Scores, Galaxy Win
By Marvin Vasquez
The Galaxy celebrate their goal against the Sounders, a chip shot by Edson Buddle (right).
(Credit: Dean Rutz/SeattleTimes/MCT)
Forward Edson Buddle scored a brilliant goal in the first half en route to giving the visiting Los Angeles Galaxy a 1-0 first-leg playoff victory over the Sounders FC in Seattle Oct. 31.
“It was a pretty classic playoff game where you get a goal on the road and you’re defending and you try to get out of here. That’s basically what we did,” Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena says. “We have to play to win next week.”
Buddle’s 38th-minute goal past keeper Kasey Keller left many astonished because the right-footed potent shot came from 30 yards out.
“I don’t think anyone thought I would shoot from there. That’s why I shot it,” Buddle says of the incredible goal.
Defender Omar Gonzalez received the assist on the play.
“Omar got a good clearance on the ball. I saw that developing. I was able to get a turn on the ball,” Buddle points out. “It bounced perfect, and I took a shot.”
Keller was not pleased with the way the game ended in favor of the Galaxy.
“It’s just one of those things that guys try 100 times in their career and never make it happen,” Keller comments of Buddle’s goal. “And the one time he got it to go was in a big game. Great goals change games, and that’s part of it.”
Along with the great goal provided by Buddle, goalkeeper Donovan Ricketts and the Galaxy defense completely shut down the Seattle squad. For the match, Ricketts made eight saves, including seven in the first half.
“All of the credit goes to my defense. They smothered the Seattle attack,” Ricketts states. “Whatever I had to do, I did just to keep my team in the game.”
Ricketts made crucial saves the entire game, especially in the last few minutes against Nate Jaqua.
Los Angeles will host Seattle Sunday, Nov. 7, at the Home Depot Center in Game 2 of the postseason series. Kickoff is at 6 p.m. in Carson.
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Maple Syrup industry hindered by long, cold winter
Producers are keeping a close eye on the thermometer and anxiously waiting for a stretch of warmer days
TORONTO—Just like any other crop, maple syrup is at the mercy of Mother Nature, and the frigid winter hasn’t been kind to Canadian sugar bush owners.
Many producers, like Ray Bonenberg of Mapleside Sugar Bush south of Pembroke, Ont., are keeping a close eye on the thermometer and anxiously waiting for a stretch of warmer days to get the sap flowing.
“I’ve been tapping all day, drilling holes and tapping, and it’s running on the south side of the tree but not on the north side of the tree. It’s too cold,” said Bonenberg, who is also president of the Ontario Maple Syrup Producers Association. “I’ve been talking to producers every day. Some are getting small, small runs.”
Bonenberg, who taps 1,400 trees, said two years ago on March 24 he made 118 litres of syrup.
Production can vary widely from north to south. A few producers in the Sault Ste. Marie area boiled until May 1 last year while those south of Highway 7 in Ontario were finished by the second week of April.
Quebec is experiencing a similar situation to Ontario this season, according to Caroline Cyr of the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers.
“In general the season is late,” she said, adding that she expects it to begin in earnest by the end of March. “Last year was a really late season for sure. But we were lucky it was a really good season, the second-best production, so we never know.”
Pierre Faucher, owner of Sucrerie de la Montagne in Rigaud, Que., was jubilant this week as sap started dripping into his 3,500 buckets. He’s not letting the delay get to him. After all, says Faucher, you can’t control Mother Nature.
“It’s just the time that nature is arriving,” Faucher said from his operation west of Montreal. “Nature doesn’t have a watch. Doesn’t have a schedule like we do.”
A combination of nights below freezing and days above freezing is needed to get the sap flowing in sugar maple trees.
Faucher and four others gather sap by hand and boil it over a wood fire in a sugar shack. It takes about 40 litres of maple sap to make one litre of maple syrup.
“Normal people have pipelines and pumps and stuff, but I wanted to keep it traditional. We boil into the early hours of the morning,” he said.
Deep snow in the Maritimes this winter has meant producers have had to do some digging to uncover their lines. But sap flow a few weeks behind schedule was buying them time to get their trees tapped.
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CBI moves SC challenging HC order granting bail to Karti
New Delhi, June 25 (IANS) The CBI on Monday moved the Supreme Court challenging a Delhi High Court order granting bail to Karti Chidambaram in a case of alleged graft for facilitating FIPB clearance to INX Media in 2007.
Senior Congress leader and Karti’s father P. Chidambaram was the Union Finance Minister then.
Karti Chidambaram was granted bail by the Delhi High Court on March 23, 2018.
Pointing to the errors in the order granting bail to Karti Chidambaram, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) contended that the high court erred in exercising its concurrent jurisdiction in entertaining the bail plea when the same was already pending before the lower court with a pre-fixed date of hearing.
“It was impermissible in law for the high court in exercise of concurrent jurisdiction to entertain the bail application when the same was already pending with the lower court with a pre-fixed date,” the CBI said in its petition challenging the high court order.
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Contending that the high court could have entertained the plea taking recourse to its concurrent jurisdiction “only and only when there exists special and exceptional circumstances” and where the very filing of the bail application before the court of special judge is “likely to result in miscarriage of justice and brazen and illegal abridgment of personal liberty of the accused”.
Asserting that the concurrent jurisdiction can be exercised in “rare and exceptional circumstance and not in routine manner”, the CBI contended that the high court had to record adequate reasons for entertaining such a bail plea.
Referring to Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), the probe agency said that it does not give right to the accused to bypass the remedies before the court of first instance and directly approach the high court.
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It asserted that no special or exceptional circumstances existed which warranted the exercise of concurrent jurisdiction by the high court.
It also assailed the high court order for erroneously conducting the detailed examination of evidence on merits at the stage of grant of bail and thereby seriously prejudicing its case.
Karti was arrested on February 28 for allegedly taking money to facilitate Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) clearance to INX Media in 2007.
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Leaked UK memo says Trump axed Iran deal to spite Obama
Posted: Jul 14, 2019 / 03:43 AM CDT / Updated: Jul 14, 2019 / 12:58 PM CDT
FILE – In this Friday, Oct. 20, 2017, file photo, British Ambassador Kim Darroch hosts a National Economists Club event at the British Embassy in Washington. Britain’s ambassador to the United States resigned Wednesday, July 10, 2019, just days after diplomatic cables criticizing President Donald Trump caused embarrassment to two countries that often celebrate having a “special relationship.” The resignation of Kim Darroch came a day after Trump lashed out at him on Twitter describing him as “wacky” and a “pompous fool” after leaked documents revealed the envoy’s dim view of Trump’s administration. (AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz, File)
LONDON (AP) — A U.K. newspaper has published more leaked memos revealing a British ambassador’s blunt assessments of the Trump administration, including one in which the envoy to Washington claimed President Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal to spite predecessor Barack Obama.
In the May 2018 cable published by the Mail on Sunday, U.K. Ambassador Kim Darroch called Trump’s decision to abandon the international accord “an act of diplomatic vandalism, seemingly for ideological and personality reasons” because the pact “was Obama’s deal.”
Darroch wrote the memo after then-Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson visited Washington in a failed attempt to persuade the United States not to abandon the 2015 nuclear agreement.
He alleged the White House had no strategy for what would come after its withdrawal and “no sort of plan for reaching out to partners and allies.”
The newspaper published new details from confidential diplomatic cables despite a police warning that making the documents public might be a crime.
Scotland Yard is hunting for the perpetrator who leaked confidential diplomatic cables to the Mail on Sunday. Last week the newspaper published memos from Darroch describing the Trump administration as dysfunctional and inept.
The publication of the ambassador’s unguarded views, meant for a small group of ministers and senior officials in London, cost him his job.
Trump responded by calling Darroch “very stupid” and a “pompous fool” in a Twitter fusillade, and the White House cut off contact with the British envoy.
Darroch announced his resignation Wednesday, saying “the current situation is making it impossible for me to carry out my role as I would like.”
He remains formally in the post while a successor is chosen for one of Britain’s most important diplomatic jobs.
British politicians and officials are embarrassed at the leak of Darroch’s frank — though widely shared — opinions about Trump. And they are angry that a British ambassador was forced to step down because of pressure from a foreign leader.
Some also blame Johnson, who is likely to become Britain’s next prime minister, for refusing to publicly defend Darroch after Trump posted disparaging tweets about the ambassador for two days. Darroch has said Johnson’s silence contributed to his decision to quit.
British officials have said they have no evidence that hacking was involved in the documents’ release, and that the culprit is likely to be found among politicians or civil servants in London.
Rumors are swirling in government circles in London about who was behind the leak, widely seen as benefiting supporters of Brexit and Trump.
The journalist who reported the cables, Isabel Oakeshott, is a strong supporter of Brexit and an ally of Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage, who also is Britain’s leading champion of Trump.
Farage has accused Darroch of lacking enthusiasm for Britain’s departure from the EU and said he should be replaced with “a non-Remainer who wants a trade deal with America.”
Police are investigating the leak as a potential breach of the Official Secrets Act, which bars public servants from making “damaging” disclosures of classified material. Breaking the act carries a maximum sentence of two years in prison, though prosecutions are rare.
Contentiously, police issued a warning to journalists that publishing the documents “could also constitute a criminal offence.”
Both Johnson and Jeremy Hunt, his rival in the race to be Britain’s next leader, defended the media’s right to publish. And the Mail on Sunday said publication was in the public interest.
“Our readers across the globe now have important information about how Britain tried, but failed, to stop President Trump abandoning the Iran nuclear deal,” the newspaper said in a statement.
“What could be more in the public interest than a better understanding of how this position was reached, which may have serious consequences for world peace?”
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McAfee Cuts Staff, Sales Execs
Security vendor lets go of 3 percent of workforce to rebalance expenses and bolster margins
Security vendor McAfee has reportedly handed out hundreds of pink slips and said goodbye to long-time sales leader Bill McAlister, senior vice president of sales for the Americas, as it deals with a dip in sales and a channel restructuring.
The Lowdown: Since the beginning of the year, McAfee has laid off around 200 people in various departments in a general workforce reduction aimed at cutting expenses and improving operating margins, according to a report in The Information.
In addition, McAlister — a fixture in McAfee’s sales leadership team for the past 13 years and a staunch supporter of the company’s channel partners — has departed the security vendor. According to The Information, several other senior sales executives have left McAfee as well.
The Details: The precise number of people affected by the workforce reduction is unknown. In a statement to CRN, McAfee said the restructuring is part of the company’s effort to rebalance its resources and focus on high-growth investments.
The Impact: According to various reports and Channelnomics sources, the McAfee channel organization is largely unaffected by the layoffs. In the short term, any restructuring is unlikely to impact channel operations.
Background: McAfee and other legacy security vendors continue to try to find their way in a rapidly changing technology and security market. McAfee and Symantec, the two market leaders in endpoint and network security software, are facing stiff challenges by upstarts Crowdstrike and Cylance (both founded by former McAfee executives).
In October 2018, at its annual MPower event, McAfee told partners it was suspending its current channel program so it could rebuild its programs and operations for future growth. The suspension of the program means partners are not held to qualification standards while McAfee is redesigning its partner framework and systems.
McAfee is reportedly under increasing pressure by its private equity owners, TPG Capital, to increase operating margins to improve the company’s valuation.
In December, reports surfaced that TPG and Intel, the other stakeholder, were in talks to sell part or all of their interests in McAfee to Thoma Bravo, a private equity firm with extensive security holdings. If those talks happened, nothing came of them.
Channelnomics Point of View: McAfee’s explanation for the changes — rebalancing the company — is likely legitimate. The vendor’s sales and channel leadership are making a concerted effort to improve its partner program and relationships with resellers and managed service providers. McAfee’s next-generation endpoint security products are getting strong ratings from analysts, and its 2018 acquisition of Skyhigh to enter the Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) market is paying dividends.
Additionally, McAfee isn’t the only security company seeing soft sales. Last week, Sophos reported a 2 percent sales increase, down from a 14 percent growth rate a year earlier, as demand for security systems — particularly hardware — fell. The softness in McAfee sales is likely part of a general trend among security buyers to rebalance their investments.
The Information: McAfee Lays Off Hundreds, Senior Executives Depart
CRN: McAfee Lays Off 200 Employees, Americas Sales Leader Exits: Report
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Cleveland Browns raise the roof with Johnny Manziel's high-wire act: Bud Shaw's Spin
Updated May 9, 2014 ; Posted May 9, 2014
By Bud Shaw, cleveland.com
NFL Draft Football
Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel reacts after being selected by the Cleveland Browns as the 22nd pick in the first round of the 2014 NFL Draft, Thursday, May 8, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) ORG XMIT: NYJJ165
(Frank Franklin II)
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Here's what to hope for after Johnny Manziel and the Browns fell into each other's arms on an odd night at the NFL draft.
Hope that GM Ray Farmer couldn't wait to call his old team, the Philadelphia Eagles, and pull off the deal that landed Manziel with the No. 22 overall pick.
Hope that Mike Pettine tried to wrestle the phone from Farmer to make the call himself, being so intimately aware of the perils defenses face in trying to corral a dynamic, mobile quarterback.
What to root against: That this was another Brady Quinn "value pick." He's still on the draft board? Why not, then?
Worse, that this was a Jimmy Haslam pick. (Farmer swears it wasn't, saying at no point did Haslam "push" or "shove" his decision makers in any particular direction.)
I'm not referencing the anecdote shared by ESPN's Sal Paolantonio recounting how a homeless man recognized the owner on the streets of Cleveland recently and told him, "Draft Manziel."
(Of course, if you’ve always believed fans were just as capable of drafting good players as the people in charge in Berea, we now have the ultimate man-on-the-street Cleveland story.)
It’s doubtful Haslam needed that much prompting.
The owner promised more than once that he would let his football people make the decisions in the draft room, that facilitating conversation would be the extent of his influence. No reason to believe he didn't. Farmer supported that premise.
Not surprisingly, Haslam loved Manziel after watching him tear up the SEC. What owner wouldn’t want the Johnny Football Phenomenon to blossom in his NFL town, let alone an owner who has brought negative attention to himself and his franchise for exercising his trigger finger on his first coaching staff and executive team after just a season together?
While there’s no reason to doubt Haslam, the way the Manziel selection came about begs some questions:
How much did Farmer love him, if the Browns passed him at No. 4, then again at No. 8?
Getting Buffalo's 2015 first-round pick was a higher priority than making sure the Browns got a quarterback. That Farmer got both was well-played, if fortunate.
In fact, whatever the doubts about Manziel's style translating -- and I have them -- the upside of the first round could only be better if the Browns had stayed at No. 4 and got Sammy Watkins and Manziel instead of Manziel and a cornerback.
Did Farmer not love Manziel at No. 4 because he didn't project him as a starter in 2014? If he's not projected as a starter, is he here to sit behind Brian Hoyer?
Really? For how long? One bad game? Two bad games? The first bye week?
If Hoyer has a healthy productive year, did the Browns just find their backup quarterback of the future? The first round is a high price for that. So we think the local boy who made good last year is under siege.
These are the kinds of questions that make the people asking them sound like wet blankets on a night when the city comes alive with excitement and imagination (Sorry, Justin Gilbert, cornerbacks can’t do that.) I realize that. But once the Browns passed Manziel in the Top 10, I thought they were in quarterback developmental mode and suspected they’d find their project in the second or third round.
Instead, Manziel came to them the way Quinn came to them. And while pictures of Browns’ fans celebrating suggest this was Christmas in May, just remember that the same scenario fell in place around Quinn, who also had reason to believe he’d be a Top 5 pick.
The Browns drafted Joe Thomas at No. 3 instead, then doubled back for Quinn. The instant take inside and outside Berea: the Browns had solidified their future in one round of one NFL draft.
We know how that turned out.
Manziel is different than Quinn, granted. He’s also different than any other quarterback, for better or worse.
Manziel has a big challenge ahead. So do the Browns.
He might need as much time as Teddy Bridgewater or Derek Carr or Aaron Murray to make the transition to NFL starter.
History tells us he won't get it. Not just because he was drafted in the first round and higher than those other QBs. Because he's Johnny Football, he already walks in as the most popular backup quarterback ever in a town where the backup quarterback has found unusually high pedestals (Yes, you, Kelly Holcomb).
Manziel can only energize the city as a starter. Will Farmer and Pettine (and Haslam, too) have as much patience in allowing him to earn the job as they did in passing him up at No. 4 and No. 9?
The question isn’t just whether Manziel is ready for the NFL. It’s whether a young GM and a young head coach and a hard-driving owner are ready to handle life under the big top.
It helps if it was their idea all along and they put lots of thought into all aspects of the JFF phenomenon.
This town, after all, deserves an Aaron Rodgers story. Not Brady Quinn, the Sequel.
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Consumer Nation
Boomer Brands Get A Second Life
Joseph Pisani |CNBC.com News Associate
Published 9:54 AM ET Tue, 1 June 2010 CNBC.com
When executives at Akeena Solarwanted to give their solar panels some mainstream appeal, they looked for a way to bring brand name recognition to their little-known Andalay solar panels.
Akeena Solar
Westinghouse solar panels being installed on a roof.
Enter Westinghouse.
The once powerful conglomerate—whose appliances could be found in many American kitchens during its prime—is now a trademark owned by CBS. Westinghouse approached Akeena Solar about a licensing deal that would put the famous “W” logo on the solar panels. After market research, Akeena Solar agreed to the deal.
"All you have to do now is slap that name on it and you get all the benefits of the years and money spent on building that brand,” says Rob Frankel, a branding expert and author of "The Revenge of Brand X." "It immediately leverages generations of messaging that was consistent and that spoke to quality."
The deal between Akeena Solar and Westinghouse, announced last week, is only one example of the revival of once-mighty brands that disappeared from commerce but still hold valuable name recognition and are now being revived by other companies. Two other examples are RCA, which is licensed similarly to Westinghouse, and PF Flyers, a nearly gone brand revived by a new company.
Frankel says such brands get a second chance because they resonate well with a big generation of consumers: the Baby Boomers.
"Westinghouse is a famous brand name with a significant historical position in the power and energy business. We have had an active and successful licensing program for over 10 years," says a CBS spokesperson.
Barry Cinnamon, CEO of Akeena Solar, said that marketing research found that the Westinghouse brand had high recognition among homeowners and older Americans, most likely because they grew up with Westinghouse products. Recognition of the Westinghouse brand was highest between those aged 55 to 64 years old, according to the market research.
But besides boosting Akeena Solar's profile, the deal may also help put a new spin on the Westinghouse brand, which is also used by Westinghouse Lighting, a manufacturer of products ranging from ceiling fans to Christmas lights.
Peter Madden, founder and president of marketing firm AgileCat, says that solar panels are seen as "cutting edge" and "progressive,” a welcomed image for a brand founded in 1886.
And those traits can help carry the Westinghouse brand into the future.
RCA's story mirrors that of Westinghouse. RCA was once a company that manufactured its own televisions and other appliances, but it changed hands several times before its trademark was acquired by media services and technology group company Technicolor SA .
Technicolor licenses the RCA brand to a number of different companies that produce products ranging from telephones to microwaves. The audio/video and accessories company that produces RCA-branded iPod speakers, camcorders and radios was sold to Audiovox spacer in 2007, according to a spokesperson at Technicolor. Those devices are a sharp contrast from its trademark image of a dog listening to a phonograph.
Technicolor is active in building RCA’s brand value, the company spokesperson said, and it ensures that products manufactured with its brand are consistent and are of equal quality.
Another boomer brand, PF Flyers, has a slightly different story. The shoe brand was first introduced in 1937 by tire company B.F. Goodrich. The brand was massively popular in the 1950s and 1960s, but was sold off to Eltra, the parent company of Converse shoes, in 1972. Eltra eventually sold off both shoe brands. Converse was scooped up byNikeand New Balance picked up the PF Flyers trademark in 2001, but didn't relaunch the brand until 2003.
Although these companies don't disclose the cost, experts say reviving or licensing an older brand can be more cost effective than building one from scratch.
Akeena Solar's Cinnamon said the Westinghouse name cost less than it would to "dump an enormous amount of money" on marketing and building a solar brand on their own.
“You can make a cheap tasty soda,” said Cinnamon, “but unless its Pepsi or Coke, it's hard to get it on the store shelves.”
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Asus All-in-One PC ET2700INKS review: Asus All-in-One PC ET2700INKS
By Rich Brown
June 13, 2012 11:41 AM PDT
Apple iMac (27-inch, 2017)
HP Envy Curved AIO (34-inch, 2017)
Falcon Northwest Tiki (2016)
The Good The Asus ET2700INKS is unique for its 27-inch display, a fast Core i7 GPU, and a discrete Nvidia graphics chip.
The Bad Like other 27-inch Windows all-in-ones, the Asus' 1080p resolution hurts its appeal next to the higher-resolution 27-inch iMac.
The Bottom Line The Asus ET2700INKS will meet the needs of anyone searching for a fast, large-screen all-in-one for mainstream home entertainment and general-purpose productivity.
Asus All-in-One PC ET2700INKS
Hewlett-Packard debuted the first 27-inch Windows all-in-one earlier this year. Now Asus follows suit with its ET2700I. Like HP, Asus charges a reasonable premium for its large display, asking $1,399 for a system that might otherwise cost around $1,000 with the same components and a 24-inch LCD. None of these 27-inchers has the same high resolution as Apple's large iMacs, making them a better fit as home entertainment PCs than productivity workstations. Should you choose the Asus system over the HP? If overall performance and budget gaming capability are important to you, yes.
Asus offers a few different versions of the 27-inch ET2700I. This one, the ET2700INKS, is the most expensive, thanks to its Core i7 CPU, a discrete Nvidia graphics card, a Blu-ray drive, and a standalone subwoofer unit that plugs into the side of the system.
I haven't seen an all-in-one with a breakout subwoofer before. It seems like a reasonable way to differentiate the system, but the effort is marred by underpowered hardware. Asus sends power and the audio signal to the sub via a single audio cable. The unit provides a slight boost to the bass output, but even at max volume and with all of the various software effects enabled, the audio isn't what you would call room-filling. At the higher volume levels, the output also lost some integrity.
Cheap subwoofer aside, the 27-inch screen is the highlight of the ET2700I. The resolution tops out at 1,920x1,080 pixels. That's plenty for most home users, and movies, games, and other media content will look great. You might be disappointed if you want a giant screen to cram full of open windows for multitasking. Professional digital-image editors and others will also likely prefer the 27-inch iMac's denser 2,560x1,440-pixel resolution.
Also note that the ET2700I does not have a touch screen. Multiple PC vendors have told me that getting touch on a 27-inch display is prohibitively expensive. That didn't stop Lenovo and others from exhibiting touch-enabled 27-inchers at this year's CES, but whether those systems will actually come to market here in the United States is another question.
It's worth noting that without touch-sceen technology, upgrading the ET2700I to Windows 8 later this year might feel rather pointless. How that might factor in to your present-day buying decision depends on what you think of Microsoft's ability to spur the development of compelling touch applications. For this system today, I expect most potential buyers won't find the lack of touch a deal killer.
Asus ET2700INKS
HP Omni 27 Quad
Lenovo IdeaCentre B520
Price $1,399 $1,249 $1,279
Display size/resolution 27-inch, 1,920x1,080 27-inch, 1,920x1,080 23-inch, 1,920x1,080
CPU 2.8GHz Intel Core i7-2600S 2.5GHz Intel Core i5-2400S 3.4GHz Intel Core i7-2600
Memory 8GB 1,333MHZ DDR3 SDRAM 8GB 1,333MHZ DDR3 SDRAM 8GB 1,333MHZ DDR3 SDRAM
Graphics 1GB Nvidia GeForce GT 540M 64MB Intel HD Graphics 1000 (embedded) 2GB Nvidia GeForce GT 555M
Hard drives 1TB, 7,200rpm 1TB, 7,200rpm 1TB, 7,200rpm
Optical drive Blu-ray player/dual-layer DVD burner combo Blu-ray player/dual-layer DVD burner combo Blu-ray player/dual-layer DVD burner combo
Networking Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11b/g/n wireless Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11b/g/n wireless Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11b/g/n wireless
Operating system Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (64-bit) Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (64-bit) Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (64-bit)
Comparing the Asus ET2700I with the HP Omni 27 shows that while the HP system is less expensive, the Asus unit has more powerful components. The Core i7 chip in the Asus (second-generation Sandy Bridge Core i7, not the new, third-gen Ivy Bridge version) is a quad-core CPU with Hyper-Threading, which means in times of need you get four additional processing threads simulated on top of the four physical CPU cores. The Core i5 has no Hyper-Threading, making it only a pure quad-core CPU.
The bigger edge for the Asus system is its GeForce GT540M graphics chip. That budget graphics chip won't run every PC game out there at full 1,920x1,080-pixel resolution, but it will handle most of them reasonably well. The HP's embedded Intel HD 1000 chip most certainly won't.
Those two features alone justify the Asus' $150 price premium over the HP system, which argues for the ET2700INKS as a fair deal. Whether you need that extra performance depends on how you intend to use the system. If you're primarily interested in a large-screen all-in-one for non-gaming media consumption, the HP Omni 27 should be sufficiently powerful.
Adobe Photoshop CS3 image-processing test (in seconds)
(Shorter bars indicate better performance)
Lenovo IdeaCentre B520 (3.4GHz Core i7, June 2011)
Apple iMac 27-inch (3.1GHz Core i5, May 2011)
HP TouchSmart 620 (3.1GHz Core i5, October 2011)
Asus ET2700I (2.8GHz Core i7, April 2012)
Apple iMac 21.5-inch (2.5GHz Core i5, May 2011)
Dell Inspiron One 2320 (2.5GHz Core i5, November 2011)
HP Omni 27 Quad (2.5GHz Core i5, February 2012)
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Hispanics Gain 109,000 Jobs, Labor Force Participation Grows in June
By Craig Bannister | July 5, 2019 | 8:53 AM EDT
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The number of Hispanics and Latinos employed and in the U.S. labor force increased in June, as their national seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate inched up to 4.3% from its record-low the previous two months, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data released Friday show.
In June, the unemployment rate for Hispanics and Latinos, aged 16 and up, was 4.3%, up from the record low of 4.2% in April and May – which broke the record low of 4.3% set two months earlier in February. BLS began tracking Hispanic-Latino employment data in 1973.
109,000 more Hispanics had jobs in June, as the number employed grew to 27,602,000 from 27,493,000, but remained off of its record high of 27,701,000 in December 2018. The number of Hispanics participating in the workplace increased in June as Hispanics' labor force participation rate increased to 66.4% from 66.2% in May.
The number of unemployed Hispanics also rose to 1,253,000 from 1,196,000 in May – which was the fewest Hispanics unemployed since August of 2007 (1,190,000).
Hispanic-Latino employment statistics for June 2019:
Unemployment rate: 4.3%, up from 4.2% in May
Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population (16+ years old): 43,453,000, up from 43,370,000 in May
Number Participating in Labor Force: 28,855,000 up from 28,689,000 in May
Labor Force Participation: 66.4%, up from 66.2% in May
Number Employed: 27,602,000 up from 27,493,000 in May
Number Unemployed: 1,253,000, up from1,196,000 in May
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Welles Street
10 Welles Street,
7am-4pm | Weekdays
8am-4pm | Weekends
Kitchen until 2pm Daily
--°C | --°F
Next: Midland Park
About Welles St
The doors to our refreshed Coffee Supreme Christchurch opened on Friday 24 May - we can't wait to have you over!
Supreme Supreme
It all begins with the name, Supreme Supreme. Our home on Welles Street means several things to us. Supreme is Supreme, and our mission is to offer Christchurch the best of the best. The site also marks our second eatery in Christchurch, and round two of providing locals with warm and inviting hospitality.
With room for 70 coffee-loving epicures, Supreme Supreme is equipped with a full kitchen and bakery. With a team of chefs on staff, food is made from scratch using locally sourced ingredients. There are our own house-made jams, hand-churned butter served in small glass jars and homemade sauces featuring daily, which are also available for purchase by the bottle.
The space has an international feel, with strong influences from Scandinavian design and American diner culture. There are three different seating and dining areas, which can accommodate solo travellers, an intimate lunch date or larger dining parties.
Full breakfast and lunch menus sit alongside Coffee Supreme’s signature espresso blends and a seasonal menu of single-origin filter coffees. For those rare moments when you don’t want a coffee, craft beer, local wines, sparkling water on tap, Noble & Savage tea and Six Barrel Soda are also available.
For those needing coffee for home or the office, there are freshly roasted coffee beans ready to go. Supreme Supreme also sports our most popular brew gear, should you need to update your kit.
Located right next door to Christchurch’s fourth most well-known landmark, Peaches and Cream, Supreme Supreme is housed in a building with a long and proud history. The site was constructed as Christchurch’s Land Rover dealership in the 1960s. Hop Yick, an Asian food warehouse and emporium, followed, before the building emptied for significant earthquake-strengthening work.
It took almost half a decade for Welles Street to fall into place, but it was well worth the wait and toil. Strengthening work on Welles was completed at the end of 2014, allowing us to take command of the space in preparation for a March 2015 opening of Supreme Supreme.
Supreme Supreme is easily our biggest hospitality undertaking to date. The investment in Welles Street reflects our connection to Christchurch city and our desire to be part of the rebuilding efforts, to help a great region of people get back on their feet.
Our dedication to the Garden City goes back to the early 2000's when we were first operating out of a garage in Lyttelton, before we moved into an old real-estate office on Montreal Street. As time passed, we grew out of this commercial cul-de-sac condo and moved into more suitable digs opposite the IRD on Madras Street. We had this space, which was home to both our wholesale team and a small café, until the Christchurch earthquake in February 2011.
Inspiration & Materials
We enlisted Jessica Barter and her team from Bureaux to help nail what was our most ambitious spatial project to date. Jess first helped us with the initial design of Good One back in 2008 as well as with our Midland Park retail store. Reunited with Supreme head honcho and Creative Director Al Keating, the duo made an inspired team, with the kind of natural chemistry that bodes well for creative endeavours like Supreme Supreme.
While attention to detail is a big part of what makes Supreme Supreme special, it’s perhaps the union between the building’s history and the two aspects of our South Island operation under one roof that gives the space a unique feel.
As to the design direction, Land Rover’s robust and practical attitude, along with its assured 1970s colour palette, mixed with the earnest energy of Hop Yick, inspired many of the spatial elements. Light timber, polished concrete floors, frosted glass and bent white steel tubing are core elements. Canvas, hints of red and a custom neon sign add dynamism to the space.
Bespoke seating inspired by the cantilever chair designs of Marcel Breuer and Mart Stam are tucked around tables and the bar area, with by cushioned bench seating running along the outter walls. Grid detailing, inspired by an old Chinese ledger found in the space during demolition, weaves itself throughout the space, detailing timber work and creating the keystone design device on the site’s branding, masterfully crafted by Supreme’s Douglas A. Johns.
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Hyundai QXI officially teased for the first time
March 22, 2019, 03:38 PM IST by Bilal Ahmed Firfiray
- The QXI is Hyundai’s take on the sub-4 metre SUV segment.
- To be powered by two petrol and one diesel engine options and likely to come with a DCT automatic.
- The American-spec version might adopt the Styx moniker and is expected to debut at 2019 New York Motor Show.
Hyundai has finally commenced a teaser series for the upcoming QXI sub-four metre SUV. The campaign is called “when you love to explore” and the first teaser video showcased the production-ready model of the Vitara Brezza rival exploring the city of Chennai.
Heading out of Hyundai’s manufacturing plant situated in Sriperumbudur, Chennai, the QXI is shown driving down the Mahabalipuram road and towards Pondicherry. The QXI is seen with squared-off LED day-time running lights (akin to the Volkswagen T-Roc) in the teaser video, but apart from that, it doesn’t reveal anything more than what we already know.
The QXI test mule revealed that the sub-four-metre adopts a proper SUV-like styling. The appearance of the test mule suggests that the QXI will resemble a scaled-down Creta sporting a similar silhouette with cascading grille up front. And being a Hyundai, the cabin will have all the bells and whistles expected from its segment and many segment-first features as well. The equipment list is likely to include ventilated seats, sunroof disc brakes on all four wheels, dual front airbags, ABS with EBD, front seatbelt reminder, reverse parking sensors, ISOFIX, high-speed warning, vehicle stability control, hill start assist, side airbags, and reverse parking camera with dynamic guidelines.
Under the hood, the QXI will have three engine options – a 1.0-litre three-cylinder turbocharged petrol making around 100bhp and 172Nm, 1.4-litre four-cylinder petrol, and a 1.4-litre four-cylinder diesel from the Verna. Transmission options could include a five- or six-speed manual with the probability of an AMT as well. But according to rumours, the 1.0-litre turbo-petrol is expected to get a new seven-speed dual-clutch automatic gearbox.
The QXI will also debut in the American market as well as an entry-level product positioned below the Kona. Moreover, the India-built QXI will also make its way to the Australian market. When the Hyundai QXI is launched in India, it will go up against the likes of the Maruti Suzuki Vitara Brezza, Tata Nexon, Ford EcoSport, Honda WR-V and the Mahindra XUV300. More teasers of the QXI will follow soon even as it will next head to Aravalis.
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B&B Spoilers — Hope Wants to Be a Part of Liam's Future - CBS Soaps In Depth
THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL Spoilers 4/20/18 — Hope Wants to Be a Part of Liam's Future
Steffy is trying to put her life back together but in these spoilers from THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL, Hope may make that a little tricky. And when Brooke offers her sister some comfort, will Katie confess what's really going on?
Still reeling from Taylor’s visit and confession that she was the one who had tried to kill Bill by putting a bullet in his back, Steffy confronts Ridge about bringing her into this in the first place. “You shouldn’t have told her about Bill and me,” she complains to her father. But Ridge defends his actions. “She’s a psychiatrist,” he argues. “She knows how to deal with things like that.” Uh oh — Steffy may not appreciate Ridge thinking she needs a shrink!
Meanwhile, Steffy’s plans to win back Liam could be falling apart as Hope continues to sink her claws deeper and deeper into her ex. “You need to start a new chapter in your life,” she urges him with a smile. “And I can help you with that!” But will Liam lean towards Hope or Steffy as he moves forward?
Will Katie take Brooke into her confidence? (Photo Credit: CBS)
Having decided to call off their engagement and pretend to split up in order to get Bill off their backs, Katie and Wyatt continue their charade. Which means that Brooke believes that she needs to offer her sister a shoulder to cry on. “I know it hurts,” the blonde says sadly, “but it’s probably for the best.” Will Katie bring her sister in on the scam or keep her in the dark? Considering it sounds like Brooke didn’t really approve of Katie’s relationship with Wyatt in the first place, maybe keeping her out of the loop would be best!
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Ramirez Heads To Rome!
Gladiators and sex and slaves, oh my! Yep, that's what THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS alum Marisa Ramirez (ex-Carmen/Ines) has been thinking. If you tune into STARZ' SPARTACUS: GODS OF THE ARENA --...
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THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS fan favorite Lauralee Bell is bringing Christine back to Genoa City! A show rep confirms that the actress' first air date is Thursday, January 13. Storyline details are...
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THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS has scored another stunt casting coup: Stage and screen star Ellen Greene will appear on the soap as Primrose. "With a surprising link to the past, Primrose's arrival...
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Erin WeingerSpecial to the Los Angeles Times
As the saying goes, there's an app for that — more than 300,000 in Apple's app store, to be exact. And since the iPhone became available for Verizon customers, even more members of the stylish set can get a digital fashion fix via personal mobile devices. But not all shopping and fashion apps are created equal — as evidenced by the bevy of them that are little more than a cellphone version of a designer's look book.
"In 2009 and 2010, brands made apps just to make apps," says Macala Wright Lee, a digital media consultant who has worked with the likes of Cynthia Rowley and Teen Vogue. "This year, more people are creating apps that actually have relevancy and need for use."
So while pretty look books and spot-the-shorter-pant-leg games may be amusing, 2011 is the year of fashion apps that are really helpful. We scoped out six iPhone apps that make it easy to be stylish.
Glamour Ask a Stylist
The deal: This app is Glamour magazine's attempt to answer the age-old question "How do I look?" Simply snap a photo of an outfit or specific piece of clothing that's causing you worry, type your question ("Are these boots too wild for a first date with an auditor?") and voila — in a matter of minutes, the Glamour stylist of your choosing will send you an opinion at any time of the day or night.
Why we want it on our phone: Because we don't have $120 to pay an in-person stylist for an hour of her time.
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The Find
The deal: Scan a product's barcode at a store and get a list of websites and local shops where said product carries a lower price tag. As a bonus, they'll hook you up with coupons and deals based on your shopping habits. Barcode scanning technology still has a ways to go in the apparel industry, but this works like a charm for beauty products and some accessories.
Why we want it on our phone: Because the $2 we saved on a bottle of Kiehl's perfume is enough for a small iced Americano at Starbucks.
http://www.thefind.com
The deal: Feel like exploring the mall but have no idea where to start? Enter Pose, a social shopping app that lets you browse photos of merchandise that other users have found in stores. Just take a picture of an item and type in the price before sharing it with the entire Pose community or just your friends. Users can weigh in on whether they like your find, and you can browse pictures, prices and store info for items found by shoppers in 55 different countries. Retailers, including the about-to-shutter Metropark, have already started using an interface that lets them customize the Pose framework to do things such as announce contests or transmit photos to in-store display screens. And on June 1, the company plans to introduce Pose 2.0, although it is mum on details about what features will be added.
Why we want it on our phone: In a time when Facebook stalking is a sport, it's fun — and surprisingly helpful — to find retail inspiration through strangers' shopping bags.
http://www.pose.com
The deal: This wardrobe organizer lets you keep track of pieces in your closet, make inspiration boards using photos of your own clothes and keep a visual calendar showing exactly when you wore what. Sure, it's a bit time consuming to photograph and catalog all of your gear. But the ability to banish repeat outfit offenses is worth every second.
Why we want it on our phone: Who hasn't wanted their own version of Cher Horowitz's virtual closet from the time "Clueless" came out in 1995?
http://www.stylebookapp.com
The deal: This product from Google Labs, which finally became available for the iPhone in October, is a visual search engine that lets you take a photo of pretty much any object and gives you results based on the image. It isn't solely designed for fashion. But imagine snapping a picture of a vintage clothing label and getting info on the designer. Or sending Google a picture of a pair of shoes and receiving information on where to buy them. You can even offer a visual snippet of text from a French clothing catalog and receive the English translation.
Why we want it on our phone: A picture is worth a thousand words indeed — especially when you're on the go, can't be bothered to type and aren't quite sure what you should be searching for to begin with.
http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles
EBay Fashion App
The deal: OK, so it isn't new per se, having launched last June. But the Internet auction king's mobile style software is a surprisingly easy way to shop for vintage goods in a very specific way. Browse by era or style, or even click on a photo of a current runway trend to find similar listings. There are other nifty features that allow you to upload your photo and "try on" sunglass styles, or to model pieces of clothing virtually on an avatar. But we're more interested in the ability to find a 1940s black satin slip in our under-$5 price range with the swipe of an index finger.
Why we want it on our phone: Because few things in life are as fun as scrounging through racks of dirty used clothes in hopes of unearthing a gem. Unless you can do it virtually, sans mothball aroma, while waiting in an airport security line, that is.
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The large non-resident Indian (NRI) community in the US has welcomed the recent decision of the Union Cabinet to extend proxy voting to overseas Indians.
ECI senior members Sandeep Saxena (left) and Umesh Sinha (centre) in New York. Photo Courtesy: Election Commission
Senior Election Commission of India members recently interacted with eminent Indian-American community leaders in New York and Washington. Officials present at the meeting said the feedback was very positive, but many of them had questions on the process.
The delegation was led by Senior Deputy Election Commissioner Umesh Sinha and included Deputy Election Commissioner Sandeep Saxena.
"We welcome this move," Thomas Abraham, chairman of the Global Organisation of People of Indian Origin (GOPIO), said.
Still an Indian citizen, despite having obtained a green card for more than four decades now, Abraham said the decision of the Indian government in this regard is a dream come true for people like him and many others.
The Indian Government last week approved changes in electoral laws to permit NRIs to cast their vote in assembly and Lok Sabha elections from overseas. If the proposal passes political muster in Parliament, NRIs will be able to exercise their voting rights through “proxy”, the same as service personnel overseas.
The Election Commission of India (EC) estimates that there are about 16 million Indian citizens living outside of which about 70 per cent are eligible to vote. While the significant portion of them are in the Middle east, in US the estimate range from 800,000 to 1.5 million. An overwhelming majority of them are young, either university students or those on H-1B visas.
Overseas electors will have to appoint a nominee afresh for each election — one person can act as proxy for only one overseas voter. With the Cabinet’s approval, sources said, suitable rules and guidelines will be framed to make this move effective soon.
Participants in these meetings welcomed the effort from EC and agreed to publicise and reach out to the Indian citizens to register for voting, GOPIO said in a statement. Notably, GOPIO had passed a resolution in this regard way back in 1989.
"We would prefer direct voting, instead of proxy voting. We think, we can find ways to have secure voting process through IT. This is possible," Abraham asserted ruing that absence of a process for the NRIs to vote is violation of constitutional rights of those Indian citizens living overseas.
The proposal to permit NRI voters to cast their vote from overseas was taken up seriously by the election commission in 2014 after it received several requests regarding this matter, including one from Rajya Sabha MP and industrialist Naveen Jindal and the Ministry of Overseas Affairs.
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Dr. John Cooper Clarke: Unity Works, Wakefield
The largest crowd I have ever seen at Wakefield’s Unity Works gathered for an evening of poetry combined with whit and social commentary. The audience were treated to the wonderful lyricism of Toria Garbutt and Mike Garry before a headline set from the legendary punk poet Dr. John Cooper Clarke.
The entertainment began with Knottingley based poet Toria Garbutt. Each of her poems perfectly balanced light and shade. The lighter side came from her comedic lyrics, delivered with perfect comic timing in a thick Yorkshire accent. The grittier edge to her work came from the vivid descriptions of a drug riddled past and of the surrounding social deprivation.
It was then the turn of Mike Garry to capitalize on the enthusiastic applause that signaled the end of Toria Garbutt’s set. The Manchester based wordsmith also possessed comic whit and timing, which sat nicely alongside his bleak social commentary. His style was reminiscent of a stream of consciousness broken up with segments that were similar to a traditional song chorus. His Mancunian tones draw graphic pictures of Tory induced desolation and invoke feels of despair. Each of his works has the ability to make you feel utter desperation at the current political and social climate, transport you into that situation via his fantastic descriptive techniques and to make you belly laugh, all in the space of a couple of minutes. He combines sparkling intelligence with gritty observations at a rapid pace. A thought-provoking and truly impressive set concluded with a moving personal tribute to Manchester’s sweetheart Tony Wilson.
Then came the main event, the legend, the original punk poet John Cooper Clarke. He arrived on stage looking equally dapper and disheveled, as is his trademark look, with his book of poems clasped to his side. This wasn’t simply an evening of Doctor Clarke reciting from his poetry collection, the poems were interspersed between moments of stand-up comedy and the great man displaying his renowned skill as a raconteur and comic. He was everything you would expect him to be, his dry whit and sarcasm were razor sharp and despite his advancing years his rhythmic delivery was still as rapid as ever. He references his age with the poems “Get Back On Drugs, You Fat Fuck” and “Bed Blocker Blues”. He also demonstrates that he shows no signs of slowing down by treating the audience to the first ever live performance of his latest work, about how you can’t trust your chimpanzee butler with a razor.
One of the many laugh out loud moments that he induced came after a long ramble about limericks when he recited one he had written himself. “Two ugly sisters from Fordham, took a walk one day outta boredom, on the way back, a sex maniac, jumped outta a bush and ignored ‘em”. Doctor Clarke treated his fans to classic works such as ”Beasley Street”, “Evidently Chickentown” and “ I Wanna Be Yours”. The whole evening proved that although he is the original of his kind, influencing many others and also inspiring quite a few imitators, he is still the best and on top of his game, long many it last.
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Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire
By Eric Berkowitz
April 9, 2013 | Paperback | 6 x 9, 352 Pages | ISBN 9781619021556
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"[An] extraordinary book… Whether you want to fuel your indignation, or simply furnish yourself with enough jaw-dropping data to galvanize a hundred party conversations, you really must shell out for this book." —The Guardian
The “raging frenzy” of the sex drive, to use Plato’s phrase, has always defied control. However, that’s not to say that the Sumerians, Victorians, and every civilization in between and beyond have not tried, wielding their most formidable weapon: the law. At any given point in time, some forms of sex were condoned while others were punished mercilessly. Jump forward or backward a century or two (and often far less than that), and the harmless fun of one time period becomes the gravest crime in another. Sex and Punishment tells the story of the struggle throughout the millennia to regulate the most powerful engine of human behavior.
Writer and lawyer Eric Berkowitz uses flesh-and-blood cases—much flesh and even more blood—to evoke the entire sweep of Western sex law, from the savage impalement of an ancient Mesopotamian adulteress to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde in 1895 for “gross indecency.” The cast of Sex and Punishment is as varied as the forms taken by human desire itself: royal mistresses, gay charioteers, medieval transvestites, lonely goat-lovers, prostitutes of all stripes, London rent boys. Each of them had forbidden sex, and each was judged—and justice, as Berkowitz shows, rarely had much to do with it.
With the light touch of a natural storyteller, Berkowitz spins these tales and more, going behind closed doors to reveal the essential history of human desire.
About Eric Berkowitz
ERIC BERKOWITZ is a writer, lawyer and journalist. He has a degree in print journalism from University of Southern California and has published in the Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles Weekly, and for the Associated Press. He was an editor of the West Coast’s premier daily legal publication, the Los Angeles Daily Journal. He lives in San Francisco.
“[An] extraordinary book… I don’t think I’ve ever read such an entertaining historical work. It has the wisdom granted by perspective, without the condescension of someone who thinks we’re wiser than our ancestors. Whether you want to fuel your indignation, or simply furnish yourself with enough jaw-dropping data to galvanize a hundred party conversations, you really must shell out for this book. It’s worth every penny.” —The Guardian
“Sex and Punishment is an illuminating and deftly told account of the two urges that have done so much to define civilization: humanity’s appetite for sex and its concern to regulate the consequences. As Eric Berkowitz shows, both impulses have been in flux for centuries, and his colorful history serves as a timely reminder of just how arbitrary—and ludicrous—the moral certainties of one era can appear to the next.” —Sadakat Kadri, author of The Trial: A History, from Socrates to O. J. Simpson
“Very interesting, very enlightening, very well written, and very timely; Sex and Punishment performs an important service in narrating the pre-twentieth-century history of sexual mores and regulation to a nonspecialist audience.” —Richard Posner, author of Reflections on Judging
“Berkowitz describes the real stories of medieval cross-dressers, London’s rent boys, gay charioteers, and a whole lot of people who were judged for their forbidden sex. The book makes for an excellent, fascinating, and provocative read about carnal desire and what lengths humankind will go to fulfill and control it.” —The Advocate
“It’s rare that a book so well researched and provocative is also so downright entertaining. Sex and Punishment will have you gripped and fascinated (and sometimes laughing out loud) at how legal systems over the millennia have attempted to regulate mankind’s unruly carnal desires. The chapter on ancient Mesopotamia alone is worth the price of the book.” —Tony Perrottet, author of Napoleon’s Privates and The Sinner’s Grand Tour
“In Sex and Punishment, Eric Berkowitz leads us through the inventive and ultimately futile ways that mankind has tried to tame its most troublesome pleasure. His compehensive tour is sometimes funny, more often scary but always entertaining.” —A. J. Langguth, author of Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution
“There may be no question more vexing than ‘What is normal human behavior?’ and no facet of ‘normality’ more arbitrarily defined—and viciously policed—than sexual morality. Eric Berkowitz has done an excellent job of showing just how far from certain any of us should be that we really know what is ‘normal’ or ‘ethical’ when it comes to human sexuality. Sex and Punishment is built on solid scholarship and spiced with plenty of sordid details that will make you the hit of any cocktail party.” —Christopher Ryan, author of Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
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Soccer stadium could be big boost for Butchertown
Selection of Butchertown site for soccer stadium should be economic boon for neighborhood
Soccer stadium could be big boost for Butchertown Selection of Butchertown site for soccer stadium should be economic boon for neighborhood Check out this story on courier-journal.com: http://cjky.it/2oXZIi7
Sheldon S. Shafer, @sheldonshafer Published 11:26 a.m. ET April 12, 2017 | Updated 12:00 p.m. ET April 14, 2017
Here's what the Louisville City FC stadium will look like
Louisville City FC's future stadium site will feature office, retail and hotel space. The site in Butchertown includes and surrounds the former Challenger Lifts Inc. site at 200 Cabel St. Architecture firm HOK designed the 10,00-seat stadium. Courtesy of Louisville City FC
Louisville City FC's future 10,000-seat stadium is planned for Butchertown. The site will include retail, office and hotel space. Architecture firm HOK is responsible for the design and renderings. Courtesy of Louisville City FC
The future Louisville City FC stadium will be situated on 40 acres of land in Butchertown, including the former Challenger Lifts Inc. site at 200 Cabel St., as well as adjacent plots previously occupied by Marshall's Auto Parts, Extra Space Storage and an above-ground oil tank facility. Courtesy of Louisville City FC
The future Louisville City FC stadium will be situated on 40 acres of land in Butchertown, including the former Challenger Lifts Inc. site at 200 Cabel St. The stadium will open in 2020. Courtesy of Louisville City FC
Louisville City FC board member Mike Mountjoy spoke during a press conference to announce the team's new stadium plans in Butchertown. April 12, 2017.(Photo: By Pat McDonogh / The C-J)Buy Photo
The much-anticipated decision to build a soccer stadium in Butchertown should produce an economic boom for a historic neighborhood that is already stirring with activity, officials say.
The city and the second-division professional soccer club, Louisville City FC, on Wednesday announced the selection of the stadium site — near Cabel and Franklin streets on the north side of Butchertown just off Interstate 64 and near Waterfront Park.
"Everyone in the area is more than excited to hear that this is the future site; it definitely is an underutilized section of the neighborhood and the city," said Andy Cornelius, former Butchertown Neighborhood Association president. "There traditionally has been industry on that site. It has good connectivity to Waterfront Park, to the interstate and to bike trails. There already are a great number of attractions and restaurants in the area, and the stadium will add to the visibility and the growth that we have seen over the last decade."
More:See renderings for new Louisville City FC stadium
Background:LouCity stadium will be in Butchertown
The announcement "is really huge," said Karen Williams, president and CEO of the Louisville Convention & Visitors Bureau. "Louisville City Football has created great energy for downtown playing at Slugger Field. Soccer has been really on the uprise for the last five to 10 years both here and nationally. Soccer here has a huge base of very loyal fans. The stadium will bring in fans from around the region — and money. The fans will eat at restaurants before and after games."
In addition to the 10,000-seat stadium, the city is setting aside some nearby property — a 40-acre package including the venue site— for the potential development of such support facilities as offices, shops, restaurants and perhaps a hotel.
While emphasizing that numerous steps will be necessary before the project reaches fruition, including securing financing and Louisville Metro Council's assent, Mayor Greg Fischer said the stadium and potential spinoff development hold "enormous potential and promise."
The project, Fischer said, can leverage an unknown number of new jobs.
But he cautioned that the soccer club's owners will need to "commit significant private dollars to the private-public project before the city would commit taxpayer dollars."
Metro Council President David Yates said the council is prepared to begin talks about the city’s role. “This is an exciting proposal and Metro Council looks forward to further discussions with Louisville City FC about a potential public-private partnership,” he said in the release.
A city-funded study released last August proposed three funding models for a stadium, all of which rely on a combination of private and public money with Louisville Metro government doling out anywhere from $15 million to $27 million.
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Louisville City FC board member Mike Mountjoy said Wednesday that the team will seek between $30 million and $35 million in tax-increment financing assistance from the state. Commonwealth Economics will produce an economic impact study for the team to present as part of its TIF proposal. The special taxing districts allow for developers to get rebates based on taxes generated by their projects.
Mountjoy estimated a price tag of $200 million for the entire development project, including purchasing the land.
Mary Ellen Wiederwohl, chief of Louisville Forward, Fischer's lead agency on development issues, said the soccer project offers "an incredible opportunity to turn disinvested, industrial land immediately adjacent to downtown, at a highly visible entrance point to the city, into as much as $200 million of new investment."
She added that "the edges of downtown are experiencing amazing activity — with $35 million for Waterfront Park Phase IV and more than $200 million investment in Russell transformation to the west, higher education investments just south of the central business district, and neighborhood revitalization from the eastern edges to the river.”
The soccer stadium site is a stone's throw from both Waterfront Park, which gets more than 1.5 million visitors a year, as well as the site at Frankfort Avenue and River Road of the long-planned Waterfront Botanical Gardens.
Mike Kimmel, a spokesman for the Waterfront Development Corp. that oversees Waterfront Park, said that the park for years had seen a steady stream of visitors before and after both baseball and soccer games at the nearby Slugger Field. He said sports facilities have a "good symbiotic relationship" with the park. And he said he expects that the popular cross-river walkway, the Big Four Bridge, would draw foot traffic from the nearby soccer stadium.
Brian Voelker, president of Botanica Inc., the nonprofit group pursuing the botanical garden at an old city landfill along River Road, said the nearby soccer stadium and the garden project "are two important pieces" for Louisville tourism. He said he expected that many soccer fans will stop by the gardens and that the two attractions will extend the stays of some visitors. Voelker said the ground is to be broken on the first phase of the $3 million to $4 million garden project by year's end.
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Butchertown activity has been in an acceleration mode lately, and the announcement of the stadium will add to the momentum.
Within the past month or so, for instance, at least three bars and restaurants have announced plans to open in the neighborhood. The plans include two pizzerias to be operated by locally known chefs and a new country music bar going into the former Do Drop Inn building.
Also, two coffee companies are building roasteries on the edge of Butchertown, and additional businesses are expected to fill out the Butcher Block development owned by developer Andy Blieden. That development has seen the additions of businesses like Pho Ba Luu and Hi-Five Doughnuts within the past year.
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Blieden said in an interview Wednesday that "I can't tell you how excited I am" about the planned location of the soccer stadium in Butchertown. "It is going to be unbelievable for the city and unbelievable for Butchertown."
Perhaps the closest hotel currently on the horizon near the stadium site is the planned — ground was broken several days ago — AC Hotel NuLu, a 156-room upscale hotel at Shelby and Market streets. Lauren Hendricks, a spokeswoman for the AC Hotel NuLu, said that the soccer facility in Butchertown is wonderful news. "The proximity of the hotel to the stadium makes AC Hotel NuLu an ideal place to stay for soccer fans attending Louisville City FC games."
Louisville City FC club chairman John Neace said in a release that the goal is "revitalization of downtown Louisville and surrounding areas."
Soccer club officials said the project, including the planned nearby mixed-use development, will create jobs, drive tax revenues and spur economic growth.
The club has commissioned the architecture firm HOK to design the stadium so it can be expanded to 20,000 seats — and someday perhaps house a Major League Soccer team.
Reporter Sheldon S. Shafer can be reached at 502-582-7089, or via email at sshafer@courier-journal.com. Reporters Bailey Loosemore and Danielle Lerner contributing.
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Man stabbed mum 17 times in row over cup of tea
Case is listed in crown court today
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The case of a man who killed his mum in a row over a cup of tea is due in court again today (Tuesday).
Thomas Westwood, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, was charged with the murder of his mother, Susan, after her body was found at a home in Cavendish Road, Tile Hill, in December 2017.
A post-mortem examination revealed she suffered 17 stab wounds.
On the day Westwood was due to stand trial earlier this year, he instead entered a guilty plea to the lesser charge of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
The 46-year-old was due to be sentenced at Warwick Crown Court on three previous dates, but sentencing was delayed on all occasions as reports are prepared for the court's consideration.
At the most recent hearing, Judge Andrew Lockhart QC said: “I am going to extend the Section 38 Mental Health Act order, in order that further work can be carried out.
“Essential work needs to be done to assess the future risk this man poses and the level of culpability.”
he case is now due up before Warwick Crown Court for a fourth time since his conviction to find out what stage the proceedings are now at.
Westwood was arrested at the scene in Cavendish Road on December 1, 2017, and claimed an argument had erupted after he made a cup of tea for his mother which was “not milky enough".
He claimed his mother had been bullying him every day and was to blame for initiating the knife attack and described her attacking him with the knife first.
The video below shows police at the scene of the killing in Cavendish Road, Tile Hill
At a previous hearing at Coventry Crown Court, prosecutor Peter Grieves-Smith said at the time of the killing the defendant was suffering with paranoid schizophrenia, and he had certain beliefs about his mother.
It was then their relationship detoriated.
Mr Grieves-Smith said: "At the time of the offence he was suffering with paranoid schizophrenia.
"The defendant had described in both interviews and to psychiatrists in a period leading up to the offence.
"One of the things he had said was people were breaking into the flat and moving things.
"The conclusion of one expert that the descriptions of the behavior is consistent with psychotic experiences including delusions."
Michael Duck QC, defending, said Westwood’s medical problems have been well documented.
He said there are "thousands of pages of medical records of the evolution of mental health problems".
Tribute to Susan
A tribute from Susan's heartbroken family read: "We as a family have been left devastated and heartbroken at the loss of Susan.
“She was a loving mum, nan, sister, auntie and friend who will be missed so much.
“She was a kind, funny, generous warm loving person. She did not deserve to lose her life in the most cruelest of ways.
“To lose someone in your life is bad enough, but for Susan to be killed by someone she loved and supported endlessly is the cruelest blow. Someone she trusted and loved. This is beyond our comprehension.
“No family imagines ever having to go through such a traumatic event in their lives. We now have to face reality and realise Susan is never coming back to us. A big hole is left in our hearts that will never be filled.
“We pray she rests in peace now."
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Air Cover: HP Launches Public Cloud Partner Program
HP is now in the game with cloud service providers Amazon, Microsoft, Rackspace, Verizon's Terremark division and others that already have established partnerships with solution providers.
The new program puts HP into a market where cloud service providers such as Amazon, Microsoft, Rackspace, Verizon's Terremark division and others already have established partnerships with solution providers. It also comes a few days after Amazon's Redshift -- a new data warehousing service positioned as a lower-cost and big-data-ready alternative to traditional enterprise data warehouses from vendors such as HP -- was released for general availability.
[Related: Whitman's Partner Profitability Pledge Has HP Partners Literally Cheering ]
HP initially will allow VARs to act as agents, referring customers to HP with annuity-based commissions at the rate of 10 percent for the first year of referred customer usage and 5 percent for every year thereafter as long as "the partner's established revenue growth goal is exceeded," according to the company.
In the summer, HP plans to offer a resale program through which VARs can resell the HP public cloud offering, maintaining the billing and customer account management rather than just referring customers.
Rich Baldwin, co-founder and chief strategy officer of Nth Generation Computing, a San Diego-based HP enterprise partner, said he sees the new cloud partner program as a strong addition to a partner program he called the "best in the business." Baldwin said he anticipates HP partners that sell a full portfolio of HP products and services such as the HP public cloud service earning more money in the future.
HP, Palo Alto, Calif., has been piloting the program for global system integrators (GSIs) and VARs since last June and already has gotten "significant traction" and interest from partners, said Dan Baigent, senior director of business development, HP Cloud Services.
"We think there is tremendous demand for this program," said Baigent. "We think that VARs and GSIs are being challenged by their customers to be more cloud capable and savvy."
VARs and integrators must go through some HP training, but it does not require a major capital expense on their part, said Baigent. "We want this to be very inclusive," he said. "We are going to include as many VARs and GSIs as we can."
HP, meanwhile, claims its annuity referral plan is more beneficial to partners than competitive offerings. "We have a market-leading position on that annuity-based payment," Baigent said. "It is at a very robust level and lasts for the life of the partnership. Most competitors tail off after a certain period of time. I think we are going to find VARs and GSIs very excited by our program. It is a very generous program."
Many VARs are interested in doing the billing themselves, but that program has not yet been implemented, said Baigent. "That is one of the things they want to be able to do -- resell those public cloud services and be the partner of record for that customer relationship," he said. "The reseller program is extremely attractive to these partners. They can mark it up as much as the market will bear."
The advantage to the referral program is the VAR does not have to maintain the complex billing systems and user management, said Baigent. In addition, he said, partners can leverage a comprehensive set of tools and capabilities that positions them as trusted cloud advisers.
"A lot of VARs and GSIs are struggling with how to become a trusted adviser and be a pertinent vendor to their customers when this 'Wild West' of cloud is hitting them and hitting their customers," he said. "What we are bringing to them is a coherent answer for how to help enterprise customers embrace cloud in private and public cloud environments with a very compatible, very open, no-vendor-lock-in strategy."
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Is There a 'Holy Grail' In The Cloud?
A panel of solution providers weighs in on the best uses and offerings around cloud technology.
By Meghan Ottolini October 15, 2015, 02:22 PM EDT
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With so many directions to go in when it comes to the cloud, customers can quickly become overwhelmed and misinformed. Cloud leaders in the channel gathered in a panel discussion this week at the Channel Company’s Best of Breed Conference to debate what offerings their customers are asking for, and what they really need.
’Customers are confused. The industry’s doing them a disservice because I don’t think we’re providing clarity. Everyone’s coming, saying, ’We’ve got the holy grail’ of where you need to go right now,’ said moderatorRon Dupler, CEO of GreenPages, based in Kittery, Maine.
Cumulus Global CEOAllen Falconsaid customer expectations around cloud are simple: ’They want it to work,’ he said.
’Particularly in our markets, I think one of the challenges of industry is an awful lot of mediocrity,’ head of the Westborough, Mass.-based company said.
Meanwhile,Jamie Begin, CEO of RightBrain Networks, of Ann Arbor, Mich., agreed that speed was key to his customers.
’A lot of my customers are probably spending 99-plus percent of their budgets making sure what happened yesterday happens today. There’s just no opportunity for them to move beyond that. Moving to the cloud gives them flexibility. You can fail fast, you can fail inexpensively, and they’re just looking to move faster,’ he explained.
Sean McCarron, a vice president with Smartronix, based in Hollywood, Md., said he has found the best way to make customers successful in the cloud is to target exactly what they’re looking to get out of it – whether it’s cutting costs or becoming more agile.
’At the end of the day, cloud, it’s infrastructure. I mean, it changes the way you treat your infrastructure,’ he said.
’It’s [about] how you want to leverage that infrastructure that’s globally available and infinitely scalable,’ McCarron added.
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A student at James Shields Middle School opens a locker onFriday, Sept. 30, 2016. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)
A massive property tax hike is the "most likely" way for the financially teetering Chicago Public Schools to find its way out of a sea of red ink, a major Wall Street ratings agency said Thursday — a conclusion district officials were quick to reject.
A tax hike of "more than $400 million annually" is one of three "painful options" the district could consider if it fails to secure more state funding and runs out of rope in its ongoing practice of borrowing money and cutting costs to stay afloat, according to a pair of reports on city and school finances issued by Moody's Investors Service.
The new tax revenue would be used to make debt payments now covered with state aid meant for the classroom. The two other options are pushing off contributions to an already underfunded teachers' pension system or declaring bankruptcy, the reports state.
CPS officials are weighing a series of cost-cutting options after Gov. Bruce Rauner late last year vetoed $215 million in teachers' pension fund relief — money the district was counting on to help balance the budget for this school year. The district has depleted its once substantial reserves and has relied on short-term borrowing to pay its bills. Moody's concluded that CPS could max out its legal authority for short-term borrowing as soon as next year.
District spokeswoman Emily Bittner said the school district rejects Moody's suggestions, particularly the idea of bankruptcy, which couldn't happen without legislation from the state. She said CPS would find a way to "maintain a balanced budget this year" as it continues to seek more state funding.
The Moody's reports acknowledge a major CPS tax increase could weaken "the city's political and practical ability to increase taxes" to continue addressing its own problems. They were released as Mayor Rahm Emanuel's top financial aides were preparing next week's sale of nearly $1.2 billion in bonds. The timing created some consternation at City Hall.
"You cannot tell me the timing of these reports is not based very much on when they know we're going to market," city financial spokeswoman Molly Poppe said. "You're driving up our borrowing costs. Taxpayers are the ones who pay that."
But David Jacobson, a spokesman for Moody's, said both reports had been in the works since November. "We put the report out this week so it does not interfere with the sale next week," Jacobson said.
The critical reaction from City Hall was in keeping with Emanuel's previous characterization of Moody's as "irresponsible." Earlier this week, Emanuel's administration released a letter from the mayor asking the top executive at Moody's to withdraw the firm's junk rating of the city's creditworthiness. In the letter, Emanuel said the firm's evaluation fails to account for progress that has been made in addressing the financial problems that he inherited upon taking office six years ago.
"We don't understand their methodology," Poppe said Thursday. "We don't understand how they come to their conclusions. The mayor said as much in his letter."
Richard Ciccarone, president and CEO of Merritt Research Services, noted that Moody's has been hired in the past to rate city bond issues, even though the city stopped using the agency in 2014 after it issued a series of downgrades on city debt. Ratings agencies typically continue to rate the debt of an issuer for the life of the bonds, he said.
"Clients tend to look for rating agencies to confirm their positions at the time of a bond sale, so that's not unusual," Ciccarone said of the reports issued Thursday.
Moody's in recent months has not followed the lead of other ratings agencies that have changed the city's financial outlook to stable from negative. It is currently the only major ratings agency to place the city's credit rating in junk territory.
In Moody's report on city finances, the agency gives Emanuel credit for raising taxes to significantly increase contributions to the city's four government worker pension systems, for pledging to stop pushing debt off into the future at higher cost, and for ridding variable-rate debt from the city's financial portfolio.
But the agency also concluded that the city's overall pension debt would grow for 15 more years under Emanuel's plan, which in the early to mid-2020s would "necessitate further tax increases or reductions in city services" absent "continued and robust economic expansion." The city's own bond documents also note that future tax increases and budget cuts may be needed.
Moody's said CPS' financial woes create drag on the economic health of the entire city, saying "continued negative headlines about CPS could discourage some businesses and residents from moving to or remaining in the city."
Over the past six years, CPS has increased annual property taxes by a total of $477 million. That includes the maximum increase allowed by the state each year for school operations, about $45 million for school construction projects authorized by the City Council and another $250 million for pension contributions approved by the state.
The Moody's reports state that CPS also has the authority to collect property taxes on more than $400 million in annual bond debt now covered with general state aid. It's a scenario detailed in a Tribune story published in March.
In an accompanying report, Moody's cites a litany of causes for the district's financial problems, including years of spending more than it takes in, "overly optimistic budget assumptions" and rapidly rising pension costs. By the end of the current school year, CPS said its operating fund balance will be $88 million in the red, the report states.
Moody's acknowledges that CPS officials have "not publicly contemplated" any of the three "painful options" and concedes they could "ultimately prove costly, controversial and unsustainable."
Legislators in the past have resisted moves to further put off paying down debt to the teachers pension fund and, although Rauner has raised the specter of CPS bankruptcy, Emanuel has consistently opposed it.
The "best case scenario" is providing more money for the district's operating costs and pension contributions, states the report, which also notes that Illinois government is grappling with its own financial woes and lacks "political consensus" on helping CPS.
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Aetna, still looking for scapegoat in HIV disclosure fiasco, sues plaintiffs firms
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This case is the stuff derisive tweeters live for. Seriously. Aetna is only making itself look worse and worse.
Alison Frankel reports:
Aetna has intensified its search for someone else to blame for a settlement notification fiasco that has so far put the company on the hook for nearly $20 million.
Aetna stands accused, as you may recall, of violating the privacy of customers who take HIV medications by allowing postal delivery of a settlement notice that displayed patients’ names, addresses and HIV prescription information in a transparent envelope window. In February, the insurer sued the claims administrator Kurtzman Carson Consultants in federal court in Philadelphia, arguing that KCC should indemnify Aetna for the botched notice because KCC chose the overly-revelatory envelope. That case is ongoing.
But Aetna has meanwhile found a new target. On Wednesday, the insurer filed a complaint in Philadelphia federal court against the plaintiffs firm Whatley Kallas and the non-profit Consumer Watchdog, which represented Aetna clients in the cases that led to the botched notification. The new suit contends that plaintiffs lawyers demanded Aetna supply confidential information about its clients to KCC, then failed to assure that none of the information would be exposed in the settlement notification mailing.
Read more on Reuters. Consumer Watchdog issued a press release yesterday in response to Aetna’s suit:
This morning, health insurance Goliath Aetna sued the nonprofit Consumer Watchdog and Whatley Kallas LLP, a consumer law firm, who’ve sued Aetna for it’s improper and negligent disclosure of the HIV positive status of thousands of its members. The disclosure was made as a result of Aetna’s use of a window pane envelope that was sent to communicate a member-wide business practice change Aetna agreed to make in order to resolve an earlier lawsuit brought by the consumer advocates.
Consumer Watchdog and Whatley Kallas sent a letter to Aetna’s lawyers denouncing the threatened lawsuit on Tuesday. Read the letter here: http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/sites/default/files/2018-05/Letter%20to%20M%20Kanny_5-22-18.pdf
The law firms currently represent a “John Doe” whose HIV status was publicly disclosed through the window pane envelope. This John Doe was one of several plaintiffs who Consumer Watchdog and Whatley Kallas LLP represented in a 2014 lawsuit challenging Aetna’s prior practice that mandated its HIV patients obtain their life-sustaining prescription medicines by mail order, rather than by going to their local pharmacy. This mail order policy exposed HIV patients’ health status to their families, friends, neighbors and coworkers, a violation of state and federal privacy laws. The mail order program also threatened HIV patients’ health by cutting off access to community pharmacists who provide essential advice and counseling that help HIV patients and their families navigate the challenges of living with a chronic and often debilitating condition.
Lawyers for Consumer Watchdog and Whatley Kallas LLP challenged the mail order policy in court. Aetna dragged its feet for two years, eventually settling the lawsuit by permanently stopping the mail order system and reimbursing patients who paid exorbitant prices by choosing to go to local pharmacies.
The latest lawsuit arose because Aetna mailed a required notice of the settlement to its 11,875 affected members, advising them of their rights under the settlement. Aetna sent the letter out in an envelope with a large window that revealed the recipient’s HIV status. Multiple lawsuits were filed against Aetna for the second privacy breach, including one brought on behalf of the original John Doe by lawyers for Consumer Watchdog and Whatley Kallas LLP. Aetna settled a class action suit in federal court in Pennsylvania and also agreed to new privacy practices with the State of New York.
Aetna is now trying to blame the lawyers from Consumer Watchdog and Whatley Kallas LLP for using the window pane envelope. Aetna, in its latest lawsuit, claims that lawyers from Consumer Watchdog and Whatley Kallas should have prevented Aetna from sending out the envelope exposing peoples’ HIV status.
Aetna has threatened to ask a California court to prevent the lawyers from representing John Doeon the ground that they are responsible for the harm caused to their client’s privacy.
“Aetna’s attempt to blame us is a frivolous waste of judicial resources and Aetna knows it,” said Harvey Rosenfield of Consumer Watchdog. “We had no control over the mailing process and had no idea that Aetna decided to use an envelope with a giant window that exposed the recipient’s HIV status.”
“Some have called Aetna’s mess a ‘comedy of errors,’ but Aetna’s inability to protect the personal health information of its members is no joke, and its attempt to sideline and disparage the attorneys who first exposed and prosecuted Aetna is a frivolous misuse of judicial procedures and resources,” said Joe Whatley of Whatley Kallas, LLP. “We look forward to employing all the tools of the legal system to expose how this occurred and who at Aetna and its many law firms was responsible, and we will take every action necessary to bring this wayward and arrogant corporation to justice.”
Consumer Watchdog and Whatley Kallas lawyers have successfully resolved challenges on behalf of HIV patients to the mail order privacy practices of United Health Care, Blue Cross of California, and Cigna.
Read about the original lawsuits against Aetna and Coventry: http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/courtroom/aetna-and-coventry-discriminate-against-hivaids-patients-violation-affordable-care-act
Read about the settlement in the original case: http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/courtroom/aetnacoventry-members-may-obtain-hivaids-meds-retail-pharmacies-protect-privacy
Read Consumer Watchdog’s suit against Aetna for the 2017 privacy breach: http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/courtroom/hiv-patient-advocates-announce-lawsuit-against-aetna-over-disclosures
Consumer Watchdog is a nonpartisan consumer advocacy organization with offices in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, CA. For more information, go to: http://www.ConsumerWatchdog.org
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Credit services provider Experian says one of its servers, which stored personal information for some 15 million customers of mobile communications provider T-Mobile USA, has been breached.
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"What we know right now is that the hacker acquired the records of approximately 15 million people, including new applicants requiring a credit check for service or device financing from Sept. 1, 2013, through Sept. 16, 2015," says T-Mobile CEO John Legere in an open letter to customers posted on his company's website. He added that while Experian was encrypting stored Social Security numbers and identity numbers, it tells T-Mobile that it thinks that the hacker cracked that encryption, thus leaving all of the data it was storing at risk.
"Obviously I am incredibly angry about this data breach and we will institute a thorough review of our relationship with Experian, but right now my top concern and first focus is assisting any and all consumers affected," Legere says.
To that end, Experian is offering two years of free identity theft monitoring services to affected consumers, in the form of its own ProtectMyID service.
Connecticut's Attorney General's office says it plans to investigate the Experian breach, Reuters reports.
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On Oct. 1, Experian first disclosed publicly that on Sept. 15, it discovered that "an unauthorized party" accessed its systems, exposing data collected for the aforementioned September 2013 to September 2015 period. "The unauthorized access was in an isolated incident over a limited period of time," the company claims.
No payment card data was exposed during the breach, Experian says. But the company, which aggregates data from a variety of sources to create profiles filled with highly sensitive personally identifiable information, reports that the exposed information includes names, addresses, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, identification numbers - such as driver's licenses, military IDs and passport numbers - plus additional information used in T-Mobile's credit assessments.
"Experian maintains a historical record of the applicant data used by T-Mobile to make credit decisions," Experian says in a breach-related FAQ. "The data provides the record of the applicant's credit application with T-Mobile and is used to assist with credit decisions and respond to questions from applicants about the decision on their credit application. The data is required to be maintained for a minimum period of 25 months under credit laws."
Experian says that it has seen no reports that the stolen data was inappropriately used, and it says that neither its consumer credit database nor other clients' data was accessed and that there was no breach of T-Mobile's security or systems.
But Richard Cassidy, technical director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at managed cloud security and compliance firm Alert Logic, says attackers target the type of information that was stolen from Experian precisely because they can turn a profit by selling it to other criminals on fraudster forms. "Remember, cybercriminals will monetize any amount of data, so the fact that credit cards or bank information may not have been leaked ... is a moot point."
Alert Logic's Richard Cassidy discusses Experian breach risks and culpability.
Law Enforcement Investigating
T-Mobile says that its investigation is ongoing. "I take our customer and prospective customer privacy very seriously," Legere says. "This is no small issue for us. I do want to assure our customers that neither T-Mobile's systems nor network were part of this intrusion and this did not involve any payment card numbers or bank account information."
Experian says it notified law enforcement agencies in the United States and abroad when it discovered the intrusion. The company says it took several steps to mitigate the problem, including assessing and removing malware or improper connectivity, performing assessment of isolation procedures of the affected server and associated systems and increasing monitoring of the affected systems.
The company is notifying individuals who may have been had their PII exposed in the breach and is offering them its identity theft and credit monitoring services. "Although there is no evidence that the data has been used inappropriately, Experian strongly encourages affected consumers to enroll in the complimentary identity resolution services," the company says in a statement.
"We take privacy very seriously and we understand that this news is both stressful and frustrating," says Craig Boundy, CEO of Experian North America. "We sincerely apologize for the concern and stress that this event may cause. That is why we're taking steps to provide protection and support to those affected by this incident and will continue to coordinate with law enforcement during its investigation."
This isn't the first time that Experian has suffered a security incident. One such past incident involved Experian subsidiary Court Ventures, which aggregates electronically available U.S. public records data, and which allowed a Vietnamese fraudster to buy personal information relating to 200 million people, which he then sold to cybercriminals (see ID Theft Case: Experian Faces Lawsuit). That incident triggered an investigation by multiple states' attorneys general, and a spokeswoman for Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen tells Reuters that the state's investigation into the Court Ventures matter "is active and ongoing."
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Letter to the Editor – Are we being bullied?
March 29, 2012 By Letters to the Editor
It’s gratifying to read in recent months that anti-bullying campaigns have been launched nationwide— including Dearborn Public Schools. Years ago, I was in disbelief when I learned one of my daughters was being bullied by other girls at Lindbergh Elementary. It prompted family discussions about how to stand up to bullies and a phone call to one of the moms. Finally, upon my daughter’s graduation from Dearborn High, she received an overdue apology from one of the girls. Better late than never!
Fast forward a few years with no kids at home—my husband and I suspect we are being “bullied.” It’s not our neighbors or anyone we know, so it feels even more threatening.
On top of that, we’ve been cautioned not to speak up with warnings of “don’t fight City Hall” or “pick your battles carefully” from neighbors with rental properties, local business people who have to deal with the City and others who live or work in Dearborn.
"The Beast" - Classic vehicle or public nuisance?
Our situation started with a “notice of violation” (not a fine) from the Residential Services Department on September 16, 2011 about removing an illegal, commercial vehicle from our property. This prompted my husband Peder to contact the field inspector who insisted we had a commercial vehicle. The vehicle in question is a customized, classic1968 C10 Chevy panel wagon that my husband uses as a daily driver, to car shows and cruises during the summer and has vinyl graphics on the outside for his website, MyNewMarketplace.com.
In truth, it’s a colorful vehicle that we call “The Beast.” However, it’s not “commercial” according to our usage and to state and local law. With the exception of winter months when it goes into hibernation, it’s parked in our private driveway accessible and visible from Cherry Hill.
To make a really long story, short — Peder applied for an “exemption” through the Police Department to keep the “Beast” parked at our residence, obtaining signatures from all of the surrounding neighbors. Then the traffic commission invited him to a meeting and unanimously agreed that it wasn’t a commercial vehicle, so an exemption was not granted. They added, “It’s up to the City’s legal department to prove it is.”
When the City realized it’s not a commercial vehicle, the City then claimed it was against the signage ordinance as they saw it as a “rolling billboard.” When they realized that didn’t apply, the final attempt is now it is a public nuisance.
We received a citation by mail to call the Court, and then a notice to appear for an “arraignment” on misdemeanor charges for a “public nuisance.” This is a criminal charge! Because the house is titled in my name, yours truly must respond “Guilty” or “Not Guilty.”
Obviously, we’ve made someone very mad to go to all this effort, time and expense with taxpayer money. We’re both self-employed entrepreneurs and small business owners who think “out of the box.” We love Dearborn, but we don’t like this feeling of being “bullied” or “boxed in.” If we tell our kids to stand up for themselves against bullies, we have to stand up, too! That may make us different, but hopefully a jury will decide we’re not a “public nuisance.”
After two pre-trial court hearing dates, where the City’s only offer was “Plead Guilty and pay up to a $500 Fine” or 90 days in jail, so we’re standing our ground. We’ll be in court at 8:30 a.m. on Friday morning, March 30, 2012 for a jury trial in 19th District Court with Judge Hultgren.
If you agree this is outrageous, we welcome your support on Friday. Join us in court!
Margaret Blohm – Dearborn resident
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How absolutely ridiculous. This is a complete waste of your time and energy and a waste of taxpayers $$…and for what?
millie judd says
The city is crazy. The vehicle in this story is clearly not hurting anyone. The family needs to post a Facebook event and let the world know to show up in court. I support you. Will pray for an end to this insanity.
Crap like this is why people are moving OUT of Dearborn !!!!
Scott says
Stand up for your rights. I should think all reasonable people in the city will back you. Do you even get to know who your ‘accuser’ is? Perhaps they should pay the cost for all this wasted time/money. Frivolous for sure. I agree with Millie, gather support on Facebook or elsewhere so that your accuser is clearly outnumbered by supporters. It’s time for reason to prevail.
JH says
This is ridiculous. I wish the city would focus on the people who treat their property like a garbage can. I was warned once that the next time I left my trash can out all night after the garbage was collected I would get a citation. This happened ONCE for me and it had just slipped my mind to bring them in the garage that night. However, we have two very close neighbors with yards that look like Sanford and Son. One of the neighbors allows her sons and his friends to throw their empty bottles and chip bags all over the place and they blow onto my property. Some parts of these houses are in total disrepair. Yet, I’m the one who is threatened with a citation for leaving a trash can out once? Give me a break.
peder blohm says
Scott. We don’t know who complained to the City, maybe we will find out in court.. Thanks for your support.
LM says
Is the city really that desperate for money?! We’re being nickle-and-dimed for whatever they can come up with. Pretty soon, sitting on your front porch will be a violation. What about the houses that are left empty and unattended to? What about the traffic around the schools and the illegal parking issues. Really? A car is more important than a life?? Wow.
Good for you for standing your ground! You have my support.
BIG MOE ABDALLAH says
this is soo wrong..i drive everyday on cherryhill when i take my daughter to bryant junior high..and i see the truck..so what if its parked in the driveway?? give me a break dearborn..grow up!!
Kay says
Horrible! Obviously there are people in our city who have too much time on their hands. You are being bullied!!! And I second previous comments. This is why people are moving out of Dearborn! I can’t *wait* to get out!
Cheryl Kohs says
The two of you (lovely people, by the way) are an asset to Dearborn. You promote the city, you live in the city, you have business in the city. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you!
The ordinance department has been, IMHO, a bit on the rabid side, but only about people who are decent, upstanding citizens. If you push back, or threaten to hire a lawyer, or point out the 500 other people in your neighborhood who are violating ordinances (as one of my crazy neighbors does, even though he has SEVERAL violations in plain view on his property) then they back off and slink away.
I can’t make it to court to support you, but I’m there in spirit! Give ’em hell!
Kathlene Carroll says
Start a change.org petition…this is ridiculous!
BT says
I had the same thing happen to me several years ago, I was targeted by my next door neighbor who claimed my work van was a commercial vehicle(1996 Ford E250), it was not a commercial vehicle per the owns city’s guidelines. I found out it was my next door neighbor when I did the support petition from my neighbors and he was the only one not willing to sign and actually told me to my face to move, because he didn’t like me, my wife, or my dogs. Needless to say, I fought it, won, and he was the one who moved. Keep the faith !!
That’s crazy. I once had a notice on the door that I had to remove my bird feeder or pay $75. I called the city to ask if there was an ordinance against bird feeders and within minutes there was another notice on my door for some frivolous thing. Meanwhile, neighbors have containers for garbage in their front yards, old appliances standing outside for months, and nothing happens. Much depends on how visible your home is, making it easier for an inspector to see it without much trouble. I don’t understand why the city takes everything to court where they lose case after case and sink into more debt.
Gosh! Unbelievable. I hope you guys win! Maybe if they put up a flag (that clips in the window) that said “funeral” the neighbors would understand that this is a hearse for clowns. Clown funerals are sad not a public nuisance!
People have nothing better to do!!! There are cars that should be in the junk yard but they are parked in the driveway!!!
Fight for your rights!!! I will be looking forward to the verdict and praying for you!
JJeb
Scott Anderson says
I grew up in Dearborn my whole life… And saw all kinds of cars parked in driveways from classic too new with graphics etc … This has absolutely no basis in law… So, if I had a classic muscle/ race car with Ford dealer logos, like I have seen growing up my whole life that would now be illegal? I am an Eagle Scout, and spent a day in “Scouts in Government Day” with Judge Hultgren…before he was a Judge… All I can say is, if he doesn’t throw this out of court on its ear and dismiss it, I will forever lower my opinion of him as a reasonable, logical and just city official.. I only wish I heard about this earlier so I could appeal to Judge Hultgren for you.
nick vanderburg says
This city hall are bullies and crooked dirty………..the problem is really on behalf of the voters who have, decade after decade, blindly voted the same people into office…i hear all the time that tom tafelski is being groomed to take oriellys spot when he decides to retire….how arrogant ro rhink their jobs are a lock. They dont have to worry about their job so they simply do what they want…the pass laws to pass the time. You can polish a turd but its still a piece of sh*t and when i walk into city hall it smells sh**ty.
Which is why im planning on running for council this year…we need other citozens who want to overtake the council and restore dearborn back to financial porsperity, a place where people want to live AND do business without being forced to pay city hall for the privelige of opening a store in the city.
I pass your car every day- I think it’s pretty. They need to back off a non- issue.
Update on the “Beast” and the City of Dearborn. The city wanted to postpone the jury trial, as their only witness, the Field inspector who wrote the ticket, had family issues and could not be there. A new date of May14th was set up. After discussions with the city attorney, we reached an agreement. The city took the misdemeanor down to a civil infraction, and a $100 fine. We did this as it is ridiculous for the city to spend more tax payer’s money on something “stupid” like this. We also made it very clear that another citation from the city concerning parking the “Beast” in our drive way will result in a law suit against the city with request of damages.
So the “Beast” will be parked in our drive way, and hopefully the city is starting to re-invent itself and concentrate on what is important.
martin kaltenbach says
The vehicle disappeared for a while. I understand times are tough. Although I have not personally complained, technically having it on the driveway it is in violation of Dearborn Hills deed restrictions.
It was in storage over the winter. This is the text from the deed No commercial vehicle or trailer shall be kept parked or stored in any such garage, private driveway, lot or streets of the subdivision. The vehicle is NOT an commercial vehicle. Check up the State and local description of a commercial vehicle
Denise Rudisill says
Mr and Mrs Blohm, thank you for reminding me that there are good people in Dearborn and that fighting for what is right can and should be done! You two make me proud to live in Dearborn. All I can say is the more I hear about local politics, the more i get a bad taste in my mouth. Nick Vanderburg, I shall remember your name!!!!
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By System Administrator March 19, 2009 12:00 am January 30, 2015 12:49 pm
After famously saying the last recession was ‘bath-shaped’, Sir Martin Sorrell has challenged creatives to come up with a shape for this recession. What shape do you think it will be?
It’s tempting to say Bush-shaped, but that might be too political. Bread-knife-shaped? The downturn is evident enough, and it’s certainly cutting into the UK in no uncertain terms. But there are likely to be a number of small false dawns – the serrations of a bread knife, if you will – which will raise hopes only to slash them still further. The end result will be a slice off our productivity, for sure.
Fred Burt, Managing director, Siegel & Gale
What is unique about this particular recession is the inane commentary that accompanies it. Everything from the supremely irritating phrase ‘credit crunch’, to the hours of enjoyable nonsense about growing your own vegetables (get real – it takes an area the size of a football pitch to feed a family and keep a cow). Meanwhile, if you tell everyone that they are poor for long enough, they’ll believe it, and the more you do that, the longer the recession will last. So, a very-long-bath-shape, perhaps? No, I rather think it will be pear-shaped.
David Worthington, Chairman, Media Square Design Division
What shape is a recession? Whatever you want it to be. If your bath is half full, it is an opportunity to adapt, change and develop your creative business model to meet the demands of a transforming economy and society. Or if it’s half empty, it may be time to pull the plug.
Julian Grice, Chief executive, The Team
I think the shape of a recession is more like a flat plane. The analogy of a recession being like a yacht caught in the doldrums also rings true. Here we are, becalmed, waiting for a breeze. The recession will last longer for manufacturers that shelve design and development, because when it ends (it will) they’ll be years behind.
Terence Woodgate, Furniture designer
Like a cake tin. A perpendicular fall, with a corresponding rise as a reward if you have the right ingredients to turn a sticky mess into something more palatable. Caution: timing and keeping the oven door closed really is crucial for success.
David Haseler, Strategy director, Smith & Milton
19 March 2009 Insight People
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by Dante8411, Feb 21, 2013, 9:06:48 AM
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"Merin found it. Somehow, it got through the barrier."
"No way! No way! Nothing gets in without The Elder's permission! One time I went to the forest to pick flowers and I was stuck outside for three hours when I tried to come home!"
Voices flitted through his mind, but meant nothing to him. What was he? What was his purpose? It felt like there was just a void where his identity had been.
The bickering continued as his mind slowly reassembled itself. The sounds around him began to take on meaning, though they were still so faint and distant.
"It's a male," one voice spoke calmly, "The Elder has mentioned them before."
"Like a warlock? No way! If a warlock was coming here, The Elder would have warned us!"
"Stop saying 'no way'!"
"No!"
"Enough. Are you sorcsourd? It's not a warlock. It has no magic at all."
"Why would you ever use that word, Merin!? You and The Elder are the only two who can even pronounce it!"
"There are no other terms for 'unable to sense magic', though..."
"Then I'll make one, and everyone will want to use MY word!"
He tried to say something, but all that came out was a murmur. Still, it was enough to summon the presences nearby to encircle him. His eyes slowly opened, and the blurred shapes above him focused into a ring of youthful feminine faces of varying shapes and colours. All unique, but all attractive. A sensation jabbed at him from the recesses of where his memory used to be and quickly subsided. Had he been able to hold the thought, he would have said "I've had this dream before." Instead, he twitched in shock.
"Ah!" one of them exclaimed, "he's awake!"
"He's kind of cute, isn't he?" another girl commented.
"Cute? Like a zurrel or something?" a third replied.
"Nooo, cute like Ginger! Except...not exactly the same. You know?"
At once, all of the others gained a look of concentration. He felt his face turn red.
A calm, silvery voice spoke from outside his field of vision. "He is looking back at you all, you know."
Some of the faces vanished as their owners stood upright, some took on blushes of their own, and one continued to stare exactly as intensely as before. What she saw was an attractive, not entirely unfit young man of 5'7", with untended short brown hair, violet eyes, and a deeply concerned expression. Over time, the other faces receded, and the one who refused to was pulled away.
The boy sat up, surprised at his sudden ability to do so. Looking around, he spotted a girl behind him with raised hands with a green glow around them. She promptly placed her hands behind her back and shuffled away wordlessly.
Gingerly, he raised a finger as he struggled to choose one of his many questions. After a long pause, he finally spoke. "...what...is this?"
At once, a chorus of voices answered him, some conflicting, some in unison, but after they all died down, the calm one he had heard before gave him an answer. "This is our village. Nobody should be able to enter it, but you have."
He turned to see a girl wreathed in wavy dark red hair in the nearest corner, calmly sipping from a teacup. She continued. "To be honest, even I'm concerned. Aside from The Elder and perhaps Merin, I'm the most powerful seer in the village, and your arrival caught me completely by surprise. It's almost like there's a sort of void around you..."
The other girls gasped, some of those closest to him shuffling away. Clearly, this girl's words were given reverence. He faced her to reply, but when her head rose from her teacup to return his gaze, her milky white eyes put him off-balance.
"I can see just fine, by the way," she preemptively informed him, "one doesn't need to be clairvoyant to anticipate concern over my appearance...my name is Tel. It is a pleasure to meet you."
Before he could give his name, the other girls clamoured to tell him theirs. He counted perhaps ten of them, and saw that they all wore similar outfits, apparently handmade from simple cloth. In a meek tone, he managed to murmur something. "Well...I'm glad I'm so popular..."
"Oh, you aren't," Tel replied bluntly, "at least, not outside of this hut. You see, Merin only found you a little while ago and brought you here. Only the most curious and carefree of our coven came to investigate the news. I'm sure many here won't take kindly to an invader of our home, especially a human one."
As if on cue, a gust of wind rushed through the room, and the wooden door to it burst open. Once again, the girls all backed away from him as the dark figure silhouetted against the grey sky outside entered. The form of a tall woman came into the light, with long, straight black hair billowing behind her. A chill ran down his spine as she opened her crimson eyes and he heard a whisper from one of the girls pressed against the back wall.
"Raven."
As she came closer, he saw that her outfit was not like that of the others. The coat around her shoulders was pitch black, as opposed to the simple white blouses most girls were clad in, and a buckled choker adorned her neck. Between the bands holding the coat's front together, he saw white fabric which somehow looked brighter than the other girls'. When he scanned lower, he saw that her long legs were bound in a tight-fitting ebony cloth, and that she wore boots of black leather instead of the slipper-like brown shoes of the others. Standing at a height notably greater than his own, she deeply scared him.
"So," she spoke, her voice a light, chilling euphonic, "this is what a human looks like. I was expecting something a little more...intimidating."
A soft breath escaped her lips, sending a chill down his spine. He took a step backwards, but was answered with a slightly longer step towards him. A low chuckle emanated from her throat.
"Merin thinks there's something special about you," she continued, idly toying with her choker, "personally, I don't think you're worth concerning The Elder over. She's probably just going to order you exterminated."
The dark beauty sighed remorsefully, "ahh, it's a shame Merin's The Elder's favorite. Why should she be the one to have all the fun?"
He shivered, waving one hand in the air behind him as though he could find something to save him. "Wh...what fun...? Wh-why would executing someone be fun?"
As she leaned in to whisper in his ear, a smirk slowly spread across her slightly Oriental features. "Because," she told him, her voice becoming low and sultry, "we're witches. And one of the ways witches deal with things they need to disappear...is to eat them."
A jaded voice called from the doorway, which the boy could no longer see. "That's enough, Raven," it said dismissively, "the human isn't for you to play with. It's an intruder in our home, and only The Elder may decide it's fate. You would all do well to keep your distance from it."
The voice was obviously familiar to the others, as they all breathed sighs of relief and removed themselves from the wall. Raven seemed deeply embittered as she turned to face the mysterious speaker.
"What business of yours is it if we want to have a look at him!?" she snapped, "Maybe you're content to just let The Elder tell you everything you need to know, including what you need to know, but some of us actually care about the world outside of class!"
The boy leaned to one side, peering over the enraged girl's shoulder. Across from her was a girl of his height with a serious look on her face. She had loose, almost neck-length brown hair, piercing green eyes, and a perfectly proportioned figure. Despite its coldness, her found her face to be quite beautiful, perhaps even moreso than Raven's.
"I have plenty of interests beyond The Elder's teachings," the beauty solemnly retorted, "none of them, however, involve antagonizing creatures which can penetrate the barrier around our village. The Elder only seeks to protect us, Raven. There is no need to resent her instruction."
The black-haired girl irritably crossed her arms. "The last time I checked, Merin, I was capable of deciding for myself what is and isn't dangerous," she quipped before her voice took on a more self-assured tone, "Have you actually seen the creature we're talking about? He was quivering at the sight of me mere moments ago. He couldn't harm us if he tried."
Merin...the one who found him. Her eyes narrowed, and slight signs of agitation showed in her otherwise calm body language. "You're calling it 'he'...where are you getting that from? Have you begun to develop an attachment, Raven?" was her silently biting reply, "At any rate, I must ask you and the others to leave. The Elder has instructed that nobody is to interact with the human until her decision is made."
Gritting her teeth, Raven moved to reply, but was preemptively cut off by the girl in the corner.
"Alicia," she began, evoking a jolt as she sipped the last of her tea, "I believe Merin is right. The Elder wishes for us to stop crowding the poor boy, and for what happens next, it would be best if we left. I understand you were enjoying yourself, but I have a feeling there will be time for that later, okay?"
Again showing their respect for Tel's words, the other girls hastily moved towards the exit, many shuffling along the walls as they passed by Raven. The boy caught several glances back at him as they left, including one from a pigtailed blonde which lasted for an uncomfortably long time. A few moments later, Tel rose from her cross-legged perch, and finally, even Raven abandoned her standoff and, as coldly as possible, pushed past Merin to leave.
The brunette sighed and turned to make her exit just in time to see the door slam shut. Instantly alert, she rushed to the nearest window just as a shimmer fell over it, then to the farthest in time to see that there were no more exits. Her agitation from before became visibly more intense.
"Tel, I know you're behind this! You're the only one capable enough with barriers to cast them so quickly! Release me now and I will tell The Elder nothing of this!"
Tel's relaxed chuckle came from the other side of the door. "Oh, but this isn't the type of barrier I can simply dispel, Merin," she explained, "do you recall my discovery a few weeks ago? The Barrier of Fate? Well, I saw some shades of things to come and decided that now was the perfect time to try one! Until you learn what you're meant to, releasing you is impossible for anyone with less power than The Elder herself."
"Then I'll wait for The Elder!" Merin snapped, all pretense of calmness evaporated, "she will know within minutes that I've been imprisoned, and when she comes, I will tell her every violation of her wishes you have ever perpetrated!"
"Very well," Tel replied coolly, "I accept your terms. I would love to stay and chat, but there are other matters I must attend to. Farewell, now!"
The gorgeous brunette let out a growl of frustration and angrily strode over to the window nearest the door. As she moved, wavering green flames rolled down her sleeves, quickly engulfing her hands. Her stance shifted and the fire became opaque a moment before she thrust her palms towards the opening.
An emerald beam erupted from her body, crashing against the shimmering barrier and rolling across the adjacent wall. Recoiling in shock, the boy tripped over the bed behind him and landed on his head, which hurt significantly less than he expected it to. After a few seconds, the ordeal was over, and the girl called Merin stood alone, smoke pouring from her clenched fists.
Once he had climbed to his feet, the boy cautiously peered over the bed. The girl there seemed almost depressed, despite all of her body language showing indignation. He took a few timid steps towards her, then staggered back as she raised a blazing hand towards him.
"Keep away, human," she commanded as the fire enveloping her hands shifted to blue, "you would do well to wait for The Elder's judgment without trying my patience."
Her eyes were more than intense; he saw now that a faint light was emanating from them, the same bright green as her gaze. His recollection of his past was tenuous at best, but he didn't feel like he had much experience with diplomacy, especially with infuriated superhuman beauties. Still, he spoke. "Listen," he began, raising his hands in front of himself, "I get that I'm a stranger here, but you have to believe me when I say that I never meant to upset anyone."
"Of course you didn't," she replied coldly, "only an idiot would intentionally anger a coven of witches. You just underestimated our protection. You probably thought whatever it was you were trying to do would be a simple in and out job, didn't you?"
"I have no idea what you're talking about!" the boy cried, "I had no idea witches were even real!"
"Then why were you anywhere near our village? The Elder established it quite far out of the way, and the barrier protecting us renders it invisible and repellent to the outside. You'd only be near it if you already knew where it was, so what's your excuse, human?"
His fists clenched. "I have a name, you know! If you're going to treat me like your enemy, you could at least use it!"
She brushed her hair away from her eyes with the back of her hand. "Fine, then. What is your name?"
He inhaled to reply, but no answer came to him. After a few tense seconds, he turned his gaze to the tatami-like floor. "...I don't know..." he murmured weakly.
She hesitated as she tried to find the right response. "...what do you mean you don't know? And you didn't answer my question from before. Who are you, and why were you anywhere near our village?"
"I...I don't know!" he repeated, "I can't remember! I...all I have are these vague feelings now...I think I had parents...?"
As he sank onto the bed, Merin saw an overwhelming sadness overtake him. This human had no past now. No identity. Her arms lowered, and the flames rippling along them dispersed. "You really can't remember anything?" she asked, a hint of sympathy creeping into her voice, "Friends, family...aspirations?"
A sorrowful head shake was her answer. Besides that, the boy didn't move.
Merin found that her fists had unclenched, despite her best efforts to keep her guard up. Either the human was a master of manipulation the likes of which she had never encountered before...or he really was just someone who got lost.
"I just thought 'he'," she realized, "instead of 'it'. When did I start doing that? Why do I feel such sympathy for this intruder?"
"That girl before -Raven- she said that The Elder's probably going to have me killed," his voice broke into her thoughts, "...is that true? I mean, I know she was just toying with me, but...I don't know how much she was making up."
The brunette sighed. As much as she felt she was obligated to, she couldn't bring herself to resent him any longer. "The Elder is a mother to all of us, and I, above all others, trust her to make the right decision."
"What's the right decision, though?"
She pressed a hand to her cheek. "...I'm not so sure anymore. But it isn't killing you. You're a very curious specimen, human. I...we could learn a lot from you."
For just a moment, he could swear he saw her one visible cheek redden, but then she turned away, "You aren't what I first thought you were," she murmured, "...I'm sorry for being so quick to assume."
Merin wistfully aimed her gaze out the window, and immediately noticed that the shimmering barrier was gone. Her heart quickened as she rushed to the door and opened it with ease, finding the space outside completely vacant.
"The barrier's gone," she breathed before remembering the human behind her. She stepped outside of the hut and turned to face him. "Maybe you aren't trying to harm us, but I still can't let you leave here. I'm sealing the door off until The Elder's decision is made. Don't take anything anyone in the village says at face value; not all of us are perfectly grounded."
Before he could reply, the door was shut, and he heard footsteps rushing away. With a sigh, he sat back down on the bed, lay back, and wished he could remember his name.
As she approached The Elder's home, Merin saw that a large crowd had gathered. It was obvious that she had made her decision, and been waiting for her star pupil to arrive before disclosing it. She quickened her pace and pushed through the crowd, panting on arrival more as an excuse to not meet her mother's eyes than out of actual fatigue.
"You have arrived, Merin," the elderly woman's voice came from beneath her hood, "please, relax. There is no need to concern yourself with my patience. I was just enjoying a relaxing cup of tea with Tel. Isn't she a dear?"
"Tel!" the girl exclaimed, "Elder, listen, Tel-"
"Is very eager to hear your decision, Elder," the white-eyed girl spoke, gently cradling her teacup, "as you know, my clairvoyance has no ground against your mystical aura, so your decision is as much a mystery to me as it is to anyone else."
Cracked lips formed a smile, as the coven's leader set aside her own cup. "Yes, that's right. You girls have all been waiting long enough," she said kindly, rising from her throne.
"Ever since I found you girls, you have been the most important things in my long life..." she began, "and I couldn't bear to see any of you led astray or harmed. It is for this reason that I have made the decision..."
Though she only paused for a moment, minutes seemed to seep by as all of the girls held their breath.
"...to have the intruder executed."
A disturbing silence swept through the crowd. Though some of them had expected such a verdict, to actually hear it filled them with a sense of dread. Death was something they had only heard of, and the thought of one occurring in their village was unsettling.
"Merin will do the honours," the Elder continued, undaunted, "if I can rely on any of my beloved daughters to handle such a task, it is certainly her. Bring him to the center of town, and we will begin as soon as these old bones can work their way there."
The silence persisted as everyone turned to Merin for her reaction. Her fist tightened for just a moment before she met the Elder's eyes. "...I will go prepare."
The boy perked up as the door to the hut opened, but his heart sank when he saw the girls' expressions. They were grave. Actually, it was worse than that. The dark-skinned taller girl looked like she was about to cry.
"The Elder made her decision..." the lighter-skinned, bandanna-wearing shorter girl murmured, avoiding eye contact, "...I'm sorry. Please come with us..."
He stood, his heart accelerating. "...what did your elder decide...?" he breathed.
"Telling you would only make this harder," their speaker replied, lifting a glowing blue hand, "please just come with us..."
The boy tensed for a moment, but stepped forward. Whatever the situation, these girls didn't want to harm him, and he didn't want to harm anyone. As they escorted him towards the village's centre, nobody made eye contact.
Soon, a crowd came into view. They were gathered around what looked like a temporary altar, overseen by a black throne seating a being cloaked in tattered green rags. The boy took note of his surroundings. Scattered huts, no two quite alike. There was no conformity to their orientations, shapes, colours, or materials; the only thing which could be said that applied to all of them was that they were huts. Presumably, the girls of the village had all built their own homes to their tastes using the vast amount of clear land available to them.
As they neared the crowd, he leaned over, between the girls' heads, and whispered "I'm sorry."
A fierce shove threw both girls into the crowd, throwing many of them off balance and stunning many more. By the time anyone regained their balance, the boy was already sprinting between the huts, barely keeping in sight as he weaved around them. Infuriated, the Elder rose from her chair quite suddenly. "Insolent human! I shall obliterate-"
"Wait!" Merin interrupted, hurrying over to the altar's edge, "You wanted me to execute him, so let me capture him. To destroy him yourself would be wrong, Elder."
A low growl of displeasure came from the hag, but there was little time to argue. "...very well, Merin. Bring him here, but know that if he leaves this place alive, you will take full responsibility," she conceeded.
The young witch bowed. "I expected nothing less, Elder."
His heart raced as he ran, faster than he knew he could, but what still felt painfully slow. He wasn't quick to frighten, but that person in the green rags had some sort of aura, and it chilled him to the bone. He had to get out of this village. To find the exit. Just run in one direction and maybe on the other side he'll forget all of this and get his old memories back. Anything he had to tell himself to keep running.
As he passed in close to one of the outermost huts, something grabbed him. In a flash, his arms were bound and his mouth covered, and he was lifted slightly off the ground. From the pressure against his back and the smoothness of the arms binding him, they were clearly those of a girl, but she was strong. Impossibly strong. He wasn't overly fit, but he should have been able to at least budge his captor with his struggles.
"Stop squirming," she whispered in his ear. For some reason, he worried she planned to bite it, "we're trying to save you!"
"We...?"
The girl moved back and he was pulled into the hut, the door magically sealing behind him. His captor then released him and stepped back, allowing him to look around the room. Tel was the first thing he noticed, looking slightly troubled now and without any tea, but still sitting in her usual cross-legged position.
"There is a silence enchantment over these walls," she commented, "you may speak without fear of your pursuers hearing. Though I suspect that your first question is who they are."
She pointed, and he followed her finger to a cute little blonde with pigtails in a shimmering short dress, and a dark brunette coolly leaning against an uncomfortable-looking wall, with a short-sleeved shirt exposing unusually muscular arms.
The brunette opened her mouth to speak, but the blonde instantly jumped towards him and introduced herself first. "My name's Ginger!" she greeted cheerily, "I'm a witch! Though, I guess you already knew that..."
A sigh came from the other girl. "Name's Erica," she murmured, pushing off of the wall to gesture around the room, "this is my house. Tel predicted that you'd come by here, and The Elder had it soundproofed because apparently my training's too loud, so it's a pretty lucky break."
Tel chuckled. "Yes, I was quite disturbed by The Elder's ruling, but it was fortunate that you were bold enough to flee," she added, "though I'm even more pleased that I'm not the only one willing to take such a risk for you. I doubt I could do much to protect you unaided."
The boy shook his head, stepping back from the girls to look at all three at once. "I don't understand, though! What's going on!? That girl...Raven...she said the Elder would have me executed or eaten or-"
Tel held up a hand, causing him to pause almost subconsciously. "Alicia was just toying with you," she explained, "but The Elder's verdict actually WAS execution, something I was unable to foresee due to her magical superiority. I sensed a great...let us call it displeasure among the crowd at this decision, but very few girls, if any, would even question, let alone disobey The Elder. Fortunately, these two wear their emotions on their sleeves, and I was able to tell that they, at least, shared my belief of what is right."
Strangely humbled, he looked back to the girls. Ginger's hair was bright and wavy, and her blue eyes were...the same pair that had refused to stop staring at him when he first woke up. Their eye contact excited her, and she soon turned away, apparently entertaining some strange fantasy.
Erica resembled Merin at a glance, but was significantly different. Her shorter brown hair had more jagged edges and a darker colour, her skin was tanned where Merin's was paler than most villagers', and her grey eyes shone with a competitive spirit Merin's were utterly devoid of. She was also an inch taller, and seemed larger than that due to the muscle mass no other villager seemed to bear.
"...you're all undertaking a terrible risk just to protect me..." he breathed, "I...no. I can't let you do this. I don't have a life anymore...I've forgotten everything. I won't ruin what you have just for a chance to keep going nowhere," he strode over to the door as he continued, "I appreciate that you cared enough to help me, really, I do, but...it's not right. I'm either going to escape on my own, or die trying, but either way, I won't let you be harmed!"
All three of the girls attempted to protest, but before they could, he threw open the door and found himself face-to-face with the witch known as Raven. "Going somewhere?" she quipped in her usual smoky voice.
"How did you find him?" Tel asked, her voice hardening, "Nobody saw him come in here."
Raven lightly pressed her fingers to the boy's chest, pushing him as she stepped inside and closed the door. Once they were inside, she held up a strange trinket, causing Ginger to gasp.
"Th-that's mine!" she cried, "I made that! Give it back!"
Surprisingly, she complied. With a flick of her wrist, she tossed the charm to the smaller girl, then retrieved a second, identical to one half of the first, from the boy's pocket and returned it, as well. "I only needed them to track him," she replied, "and believe it or not, I wouldn't have stolen from your house for anything less."
The sense of confusion he thought he had finally been coming to terms with was fully renewed. Was Raven, the young woman he had begun to think of as the Mistress of Cruelty...being considerate?
"I was just going to use the tracking charm to play with him for a little while," she explained, "but when The Elder ordered him executed...I had a change of plans. I went back to borrow that listening charm so I could..." she paused, something she'd never let herself do unless she was being sincere, "...I wanted to know him better. To be sure I was making the right decision..."
Ginger was the one to break the silence. "Do...do you mean...that you want to protect him, too, Raven?"
After shooting him a chilling glance, the young woman nodded. She seemed embarrassed to be showing humanity in the presence of others, but couldn't find a way to cruelly commit to safeguarding someone's life.
The boy laughed slightly. "S-so...after that huge terrifying show, you actually care about what happens to me?"
An unsettling smirk crept onto her face. "Of course I do," she replied, her voice sinking back into the exaggerated provocativeness it had possessed earlier, "when I heard Merin would be the one to execute you...well, I just wasn't satisfied. I want to be the one to eat you."
For a moment, he thought he saw a flicker of gratitude in her crimson eyes, but the thought of addressing it terrified him. Instead, he stepped back, closer to the girl known as Erica. If anyone could protect him now, it would be her.
He felt her arms drape over him as she brought her lips to his ear. "Mmm," she interjected, "he does look pretty tasty..."
Turning his head, he saw a wide grin on her face, then discovered that he was unable to break free of her grip. "...but we went to a lot of trouble to save him, you know?" she finished, "Let's not be wasteful."
The amused smile on Tel's face confirmed his suspicion that the girls were just toying with him, but his emotions gave logic little weight, so he remained palpably unnerved. He struggled to speak, in hopes of loosening the toned arms around his neck. "I-if you ladies are done joking around, there is still the matter of the rest of the village trying to kill me..."
"Don't worry, little human!" Ginger said reassuringly, standing up to her full 5'4" height, "We won't let anyone get you! Aside from Merin and the Elder herself, we're some of the strongest mages in the village!"
"Except for Lydia," Erica murmured, "oh, and Venthi, Alyss...Tomeri...half of the village..."
"I meant in our areas of expertise!" the smaller girl barked, visibly upset by the contradiction, "With all of our strengths combined, we have no weaknesses!"
A light chuckle came from Tel. "Ginger's greatest strength is her optimism," she quipped, "but there is some truth to what she says. While many of us lack noticeable expertise or choose to study several fields instead of one or two, history's greatest mages often had a solitary specialization, with other arts being embraced after complete mastery was attained, or to supplement the main field. If we four stay together, we can function as a single mage of vastly superior capability to even Merin."
Their captive winced. "Is that girl Merin...is she really that powerful?" he ventured, "I...I mean, she couldn't break through that barrier, and the way she reacted to me...it was like she was kind of afraid..."
"She probably was," Tel replied, "although not of you so much as what you're capable of."
"You mean passing through the barrier?" Ginger chimed in.
A gentle shake of the head. "No. I mean being something Merin cares about..."
At the boy's baffled reaction, Raven spoke up. "Merin was the first of us The Elder found," she explained, "she was a lost infant, with nobody around to care for her. It was because of her that The Elder started this village, and more than any of us, she is The Elder's daughter. She allows herself to care for us because our mother does, but were she to ever find herself at odds with The Elder..."
"I understand," he cut in, "...so how do I get out of this village?"
"You don't."
They all reacted in their own way. Erica gasped and whirled to face the speaker, Tel's expression hardened, Raven casually turned her head, and both Ginger and the boy jumped away from the sound. Merin stood in the far corner, arms crossed.
"No matter what, I cannot allow the human to leave this village alive. And all of you..." she paused, momentarily gripping a jade pendant around her neck, "...have done very well to capture him for me. Hand him over now, and I promise that I will take care of everything."
Ginger and Erica prepared to protest, but the boy held up a hand to silence them. "...I never meant to intrude here, and if I could, I would just leave you in peace," he told the young witch, extending a wrist to her, "...but if taking my life really means so much to you, then I cannot resist. Take me."
Merin suppressed an audible reaction as a blush spread across her face. Did he know The Elder was listening, or was he truly this courageous? Either way, she could tell that half of the group was itching to incriminate them all, so she hastily gripped the extended wrist and pulled her captive out the door.
Hands in his pockets, the boy ascended the small stairs to the stage. Perhaps the miniature altar was meant to be practical, but it made him feel like his execution would be getting sawn in half.
He felt various objects brush against his fingers, but it was too late to check them. If he suddenly drew an object, he was likely to be struck down and incriminated. At least with this death, he wouldn't be thought of with contempt.
"Lie down here, please," Merin spoke from behind him, "and if there is anything you want to say, you have nothing further to lose by doing so now."
With a sigh, he gently lay back on the decorated stone slab. "Actually, I have a lot of questions...mind if I ask some?"
Hopeful eyes turned to the brooding Elder, whose lip twitched slightly in agitation. "...very well..." she growled, unable to resist her daughters, "...the human may ask two questions..."
"Isn't three more traditional?" Tel remarked calmly despite the troubled expression on her face, "after all, a death without peace could bring about a haunting, so the legends say..."
Emaciated hands clenched beneath thick cloth as she strained for an argument. "...three, then!" the hag barked, "but no more! Choose them wisely so that you may rest in peace, human!"
He sighed in reply. "Thanks...that should be enough for what matters...first of all, why does it have to be like this?"
"You are a corruptive influence," Merin answered, "a threat to our sanctity, loyalty, and focus, and if we allowed you to leave, possibly our well-being, as well. With your execution, we protect ourselves, and further our understanding of the world."
There was a pause. "...I have followup questions about that," he began, "...but I need my other two. What I meant, though, was why am I being executed on this slab of rock on a stage for a magic show?"
"You mock the old ways, child!?" the Elder exclaimed, her tone conveying more offense than was truly there.
"No, I'd understand if there were a full altar or something here, but this was clearly just put together. It can't have any history or sacred status, so there's no way I'm an offering...why all the ceremony?"
A murmur ran throughout the crowd as the ancient witch grit her gnarled teeth. "You will be destroyed as all violators of the ways I teach have been!" she barked, "Anything less would be belittling to my daughters!"
The young man sighed, dissatisfied with and intrigued by the hag's outrage. He noticed some of the audience members murmuring amongst themselves, contributing to her agitation.
"My second question," he spoke again, "is really more of a request...I don't know who I am. There are some things in my pockets which might help me learn, but I didn't want to alarm anyone by taking them out, especially since I'm not entirely sure what they are. May I check them?"
Sympathetic sounds came from the crowd as Merin leaned into his field of vision. "If you truly mean only to inspect these objects, then it doesn't need to be you who collects them," she reasoned, prompting a rush of elevated hands and audible volunteering, "...I'll empty your pockets for you."
The other girls looked on with interest as their sister reached into the boy's pants, a blush slowly filling her face. One by one, she withdrew the items, studying each in turn before setting them down by his shoulder. She cleared her throat.
"Your right pocket," she began, holding the items out for him to see, "contained an ornate key, a folded leather pouch-"
"Wallet," he interrupted, "that could-"
"Be quiet or I'll rescind your final question," the girl replied coldly, clearly resentful of being spoken over, "I...I'll show it to you in a moment. Your right pocket also contained a notepad with only seven blank white pages, a broken, apparently inkless pen, and what appears to be a wrapped piece of candy."
Ginger, who had pushed her way to the front of the crowd over the course of the show, gently stretched an arm towards the treat, but was met with a cold stare and receded.
"The contents of your left pocket, however, are less innocuous," she continued, "A knife between two lacquered metal bars, a pebble, a handful of what I believe are called bullets, and..." she held out a gleaming ruby the size of her palm, "...this."
Many girls in the audience leaned in, enthralled by the crimson stone. It seemed to have some significance to them, even though now it had none save for monetary value to the man who had carried it.
"I believe you now when you say that you have no memory of your life outside our village," Merin commented, "Were you a mage trying to infiltrate us, you would never have succumbed to the barrier's influence with this, and you certainly would never have been foolish enough to let your quarry handle it...you're clearly oblivious of the workings of magic."
"That isn't news to me," he replied distressedly, "what is news is that I am, apparently, either a jewel thief or some sort of butterfly knife-wielding delivery boy who has failed miserably in his duties."
"...thief?"
The word seemed alien to the brunette, who repeated it to herself as she turned the ruby over in her hand. "...one who takes that which is not theirs, correct? But, without an understanding of magic, why would this...?"
"Enough!" the Elder cried, slamming her palms on the arms of her throne, "Merin, you are wasting everyone's time! Reveal to the boy the contents of his wallet, answer his final question, and then fulfill your duty to this village!"
The girl was visibly rattled by her mother's shouts. The look of fear and remorse on her face was one her captive had never expected to witness. "...at once, Elder." she weakly replied.
To the boy's disappointment, the wallet contained nothing in the way of identification. It contained money, the coins of which fascinated the girls, a few crumpled notes likely from the blank pad, but written in a cipher he no longer recognized, and a few plastic cards for stores, none of which revealed any personal information about him.
"Can you glean anything?" Merin queried in a harsh tone which failed to hide her interest, "Or at least tell us what these items are?"
He shook his head, which was uncomfortable against the stone slab. "If I ever could read those notes, I can't now, and the cards clearly have no significance to me or my name would be on the back...the other stuff is money, though. More than most people would carry..."
"Ask your final question!" the Elder interrupted, her agitation rising once more, "Your musings are soon to have no meaning, human, so spare my daughters them."
A sigh. "...okay, last question," he murmured, meeting Merin's emerald eyes, "...will it hurt?"
A slight blush tinted her cheeks as she turned away. "I don't know," she replied, "I've never done this before, and obviously nobody who has been subjected to it can be questioned. I wish I could say it would be painless, but...I don't know."
His head bobbed in something similar to a nod. "I was afraid you'd say that," he confessed, "and now I'm out of questions."
"Finally," the old witch grumbled, rising from her seat, "Merin, it is time. Fulfill your duty to your sisters and to me. Execute him."
"I wonder if I had any last words I wanted to say..." he mused to himself.
Eyes closed, Merin took a few deep breaths as crimson flames rolled down her arms. Her focus was absolute as she turned and lifted her arms over the boy. Before she began, a faint whisper escaped her lips. "I'm sorry."
They both closed their eyes, and a beam of mystic power surged down onto him. If it hurt, there were no signs of it to be found in the ruby blaze which engulfed his body. Many of the girls in the audience found themselves without the strength to look on as the dark deed was done.
The flames left the body unscathed, but motionless. Long seconds passed as Merin looked down on her victim before the Elder spoke once more.
"You have done well, Merin," she praised, "I am very proud of you. Leave now, if you desire. Rest. I shall take care of the body's disposal."
The young woman quivered with tension as she readied her reply. "...you assigned the task of dealing with the human to me, and I intend to do so fully, Elder. With your consent, I shall take him to my home and finish my duty there."
A grin came to the hag's face as she descended from her throne. "Well, Merin...I'm very impressed. The first time I was made to take life, I could barely stand, yet here you are, strong enough to finish the job. The rest of you girls could learn a thing from that."
Despite her best efforts, Merin was unable to steady her body. "I would like some assistance, though..." she murmured, "and it would be wrong for me alone to gain the lessons this task will teach. I trust none more to aid me than the four who captured the human in the first place."
A light cackle escaped the witch. "Splendid, Merin," she replied, "yes, of course those four may join you. This is, after all, a rare opportunity. My children, come hither."
The crowd around each of the girls parted, letting them begrudgingly approach the altar. Ginger and Erica wore deeply troubled expressions, while Tel and Raven seemed hesitant to make eye contact despite their calm exteriors.
"Gather the human's belongings," Merin instructed, sliding her arms under the body and lifting it with magically-induced ease, "and meet me at my house."
Silence hung in the air as the girls stood around the motionless body. Each of them seemed to radiate their own variety of sorrow or contempt. After seconds which felt like hours, Merin turned to face the others.
"I have betrayed the Elder," she confessed.
"What are you talking about!?" Erica shouted, "You killed him! What, you had it in you to do that, but you can't bring yourself to incinerate him!? That's where you draw the line!?"
"No," Merin replied; calmly, yet morosely, "I have betrayed the Elder because I did not kill this human."
"What exactly do you mean, Merin?" Tel asked suspiciously, "I can sense nothing from his body anymore, and the Elder's senses are even more acute than mine. He is more than just unconscious..."
"Correct," she replied, blue flames spreading along her open hands, "the spell I used puts its victim into a mystical coma for about 48 hours. A form of stasis, essentially dead to the outside world."
"But we saw you casting," Ginger pointed out, "the spell you used was dark red, not blue..."
"That is why I used a masking spell beforehand to change the colour of the flames," Merin replied, eyes narrowing with focus as the sapphire flames on her outstretched hands gave way to red, "the spells are similar in form, so disguising one as the other requires little else."
"You cast and maintained two spells at once?" Raven assessed, her voice tinged with disbelief, "One of which you mastered on your own, no less, because we never learned anything about stasis..."
"Correct," was Merin's simple reply, her hands dropping to her sides as the flames dissipated, "and I have used the full extent of my ability to deceive our own mother."
"...why did you do this?" the ebony-locked beauty persisted.
"...because it -he- doesn't deserve to die," the brunette confided, "The Elder has never steered us wrong before, but...the thought of killing this human makes me feel...I don't even know what the word is. I've never felt like this before, but I don't like it."
"That's your conscience acting up," Tel remarked peacefully, "you may not have needed it before, but now it's revealing to you that not everything the Elder orders is right. Even she can be hasty or fearful, Merin."
"Then I betrayed her in her moment of weakness," she returned coldly, "when she needed me most to either confront her or obey her, I did neither..."
"We all know that if you even hesitated to do the execution, the Elder would have herself, and she would have actually done it," Erica stepped forth, "you did the only thing you could given the situ-Ginger, get away from him!"
The smallest of the witches hovered over the comatose boy, cheek resting in her hand as she examined him more closely. "Why?" she murmured, "He was harmless even while awake, and Merin said he'd be like this for 48 hou-"
The boy shot upright, his skull cracking against that of the girl perched over him and flooring them both. "Ow," they groaned in unison as the others hurried over to help.
"I really thought waking up in the afterlife would be less painful..." he whined, "I guess I have punishment awaiting me..."
"Why are you talking out loud?" Erica queried.
"Forget that, why are you conscious already!?" Raven demanded, scaring the boy from the bed, "I'll believe that you convinced Merin that you're a good person, but I won't believe that she messed up a spell!"
"He's magic assimilate..." Merin exhaled, "...that's how he got through the barrier. Why he's even here."
Tel's eyes opened in well-concealed surprise. "You mean to say that this human posesses a trait so rare it is considered a legend? Merin, to suggest such a thing with so much confidence..."
"Now that you're considering it, you know it's true yourself, Tel," she replied, turning to the confused boy rubbing his head, "perhaps this is why mother wanted him destroyed...with that gem he had, if he had kept his memories..."
The look on the redhead's face betrayed her disagreement with the reasoning, but she remained silent. Instead, she allowed Erica to step forth and pose the next question. "So what do we do with him now?"
"You could tell me what's going on," he suggested hopefully, "since I'm pretty sure I'm supposed to be dead right now."
"Merin spared you," Raven informed him, "with a technique so advanced that even the Elder didn't suspect she could use it yet, by the way. You were supposed to wake up outside the barrier in two days, but it's hardly been an hour. We think that might mean you're a legendary creature."
"No, it means we think he might have a legendary trait, silly!" Ginger interjected, "Just about any species can be magic assimilate, it's just super rare among all of them."
The taller girl's crimson eyes shot a glare at the chipper blonde as she signed in agitation. "At any rate," she continued coldly, "you're still alive, and very, very lucky. Now we need to figure out how to get you out of this village without the Elder knowing."
The others all turned to face Merin as she pressed the side of a hand to her lip. "It's impossible to bypass the barrier without magic far beyond our own, or perhaps even the Elder's, and it cannot be broken, redirected, or disrupted without her instantly knowing. She watches anyone leaving with her permission, and she would surely want to see the human's burial firsthand. There is no way to get him out of here alive without the Elder knowing."
"Then it really is hopeless," he sighed, "listen, I can't thank you all enough for everything you've done for me so far, but I can't ask you to do any more for me. I can still cover for you all if I pretend that I broke out. I really am magic assilitate-"
"Assimilate," Tel corrected.
"Whatever," he shot back, beginning to gesticulate as he spoke, "Your Elder should believe me if I say I used that to save myself and pretend as though I can fight her. You can say I knocked you out from behind and she'll have no reason to believe any different. I just need-"
"No," Merin responded firmly.
He became still. "...it wouldn't work?"
"It would work perfectly," she replied, "with the exception of you perishing. I have defied the Elder's will in sparing you, and while I feel guilty, I do not feel remorseful. I did the right thing, and to go back on that now would make me a traitor to all of you and my own ideals as well as my mother. We are leaving this village. Together. Tonight."
Tel focused, trying her hardest to peer into the future before simply inquiring. "...how?"
"Through brute force," was the answer, "if we all combine our power, we can surely puncture the barrier for long enough to escape through it."
"You're wrong, Merin," Raven stepped forth, "you and Tel are the only two with any real sense for barriers. The rest of us would be at a disadvantage. We could dent it, but there's no way we five could break it."
The brunette turned to her doubter. "I said all of us," she returned succinctly, "that includes the human. He's magic assimilate, not merely spell resistant. He stores the properties and energy of spells cast upon him inside his body. Long term, he can develop complete immunities or even limited use of the spells, but short term..."
"The energy's still in his body," Raven breathed, "but how does that help? We can't very well fling him at the barrier without killing him, and drawing from energy from living beings is completely beyond us."
"Unless that being is your familiar."
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This may be the first story I'm truly proud of.
Elyre trudged along the dust road, eyes sweeping over the lush grass around her. She had been walking for hours since leaving the city around Knight's Tower, and hunger had begun to gnaw at her. Despite her former confidence in her stamina, she had quickly learned that a long journey was far different from sprints between villages. Still, the rations she had packed were meant to ward off imminent threats of starvation, not to act as travel snacks, so she pressed on. Aiming her gaze forward, she saw a village up ahead.
No, it was more than just a village. It was big. A town. Practically a city, in fact. Her spirit revived, Elyre's steps regained their usual enthusiastic bounce as she hastened towards the bustling sanctuary.
The courier had never set foot inside such a large town before. Strange new scents filled her nostrils and the marketplace around her bustled with activity. A loud groan from her stomach reminded her of her priorities. Glancing around, she spotted a hanging wooden si
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Elyre
Footsteps echoed along the moonlit rooftops, their origin a phantasmic blur in the dead of night. In the blink of an eye, it disappeared, soon landing before a small wooden door with a sonorous tap. Removing a hand from the worn brown fabric wreathing its form, it reached to the door and firmly knocked on it.
"Coming!" a woman's voice called from the other side. "Just a second!"
Soon, a metal clack came from the door's lock and it swung open, casting the light from within on the figure outside. "Oh!" the young lady cried. "It's Elyre! I take it you have another delivery for us?"
"You got it, Ed!" the courier replied, casting the excess cloth from her form. Beneath it, a large wooden case, standard for deliveries, sat strapped across her back. Setting it on the ground, the girl swiftly retrieved a smaller wicker container and handed it over. "And I know what you're going to say. It's no problem, I'm just doing my job, yes, I would like a biscuit to go please thank you."
Smiling, the eld
Sorcerer's Strife
"Zephis Altyria: Encant!"
Solid wooden double doors rocketed across the vast mansion lobby, blasted aside by the concentrated explosion of air. Through the doorway they once barred, a tall figure emerged, cloak billowing in the residual breeze. Sighing, he lifted his crystal sphere-tipped scepter and rested it along his shoulder. "So you're going to make me play Hide and Seek first..." he murmured. "...well...maybe it's more like Seek and Destroy."
A thin smile appeared on his lips as he strode forward, taking in the exquisite decor around him. The plush crimson rug yielded under his hard black boots, bright light glinted off of the golden girandole and chandelier, and wonderfully realistic paintings hung from the walls. He steeled himself and began muttering.
He reached the center of the room, stopping directly beneath the chandelier to choose from among the various doors available to him. A gentle rush of air rustled his wide-brimmed hat. Showtime.
"BARIS ENES!"
The falling chandelie
Leaf Blade
The Machop next to me staggers, the venom in his body eating away at him. From the wound on his shoulder, he should be on his knees, but the way his body tenses, he seems stronger than ever. I had heard that their kind was resilient, but to actually gain power...? He lowers himself into a strange stance, eyes focused on the Beedrill that had us backed against this tree. I simply wait for their attack.
The two strike as one, each a mirror of the other. I leap up the tree's side, the hooks in my feet digging into the bark at the apex of each jump. Below, I see the grey figure masterfully parry the massive stinger and strike an ineffective blow to the buzzing body. Reaching the knothole hidden in the leaves, I take my sword and call out to the insect with its stinger buried in the wood.
"Look up."
I bring my tail down on its head with all the momentum my small frame could gather, then spring from its floored form to slash an arc across its partner's chest. Thanks to the hard shell encasin
Twineedle
Leaves crunch beneath my feet as I make my way through the forest. Although my arm and chest are still injured from yesterday's ordeal, the wounds have closed, the one on my arm now beneath a tightly-wrapped leaf, and thanks to the berries and long rest I had taken, the pain was now nonexistent.
My foraging skills are improving. Besides the blue-skinned berries I learned can restore one's vitality, I have found, though not yet tried larger, even harder yellow berries, their spherical surfaces marked with green rings. Presumably, so many are left unscavenged due to the force required to crack the solid peel. Still, I already miss the colourful, mind-clearing berries that grow in the sun back home. I should have gathered some before leaving.
A low droning fills my ears, borne on the gentle breeze between the trees. A different sound brought this way would be welcome, but this one fills me with a strange sense of anxiety. The pitch of the buzzing seems to change as it grows louder. I move
Pain surges through my wounded arm as I weave my way closer to my opponent. The blade-adorned being known as Sharp may be a ruthless and seasoned warrior, but he also lacks a means of attack once I pass the reach of his limbs.
This battle carries more importance than any I have faced before. If I fall here, the forest of the acorn-beings, and almost assuredly my life, as well, will be lost to this creature and his underlings. I cannot fail.
The side of my hand strikes his side and I feel that metallic ringing again. Despite his impressive composure, he produces a rasping sound in pain as he leaps away from me. I think I hear him muttering as one of his blades narrowly misses my other arm.
"It doesn't have to be like this," I call to him, stalling as I plan my reapproach. "You can leave this place. Move on, approach the next colony in peace. A home doesn't need to be gained through domination."
I can tell from the movment of his triangular eyes that he's making just as much use of the p
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FROM BLACK:
Inspector Gadget was a hero.
FADE IN to a heroic image of INSPECTOR GADGET, followed by several redrawings of scenes (or original footage, if necessary to conserve budget) with Gadget on-duty from the original series.
Time and time again, he single-handedly went up against M.A.D. -the Malevolent Agency of Destruction, and every time, he came out on top. It didn't matter how badly the odds were stacked against him; Gadget always persevered.
The scenes shown change to times when he was with PENNY and BRAIN, off-duty.
Even with his boundless dedication to his job, Gadget was still able to care for his ten-year-old niece, Penny and their dog, Brain. Most people have to decide between being an officer or someone with a family, but Gadget was both, and he never failed in his duties as either.
The scenes change again to DR. CLAW'S many escapes.
Despite all of this, though, not even Gadget could capture the nefarious leader of M.A.D., Dr. Claw. E
Serohn's Fortunes
Serohn sighed in aggravation, a toxic mist wafting from her jaws to tint the air near them purple. Her cards had failed her again. Their information was always accurate, of course, but whether it was decipherable or useful was entirely a matter of luck, something she apparently had run out of.
With a flick of the wrist, her deep blue hand cleared the table, scattering the deck of alien tarot cards along the floor of her hut. "If the cards won't help me," she hissed, "then perhaps it's time that I introduced myself to the locals. I need a snack, anyway."
At a snap of her fingers, the diffuse cards fearfully flew into the pocket of her hanging coat, tightly bunching themselves together therein. If only they could be intimidated into showing solutions rather than problems. Swiftly crossing the room, the fortune teller gathered her things and passed through the door.
The night air swirled around the flesh she had left bare, which was most of it. A richly purple headband held back ebo
"All right, girls," Ashley shouted, a hand slamming down on the desk before her, "let's get this party started!"
Ashley was a tall, athletic, long-haired blonde with bright blue eyes and a button nose. She was absolutely beautiful and the natural alpha of any group she entered. In her final year of high school, this party became her study-group-turned-best-friends, who she now had assembled before her. Today, she was wearing a white button-up shirt, a slightly askew studded white belt, and tight navy blue jeans.
"Don't you mean 'research project'?" Eile quipped, adjusting her glasses with the length of her middle finger, "That is, assuming you think it's possible to dig up a cryptic language which isn't the Voynich manuscript and present a plausible theory as to its meaning within a week?"
Eileen was an outwardly distant girl with neck-length red locks, loosely-fitting round-framed glasses, and a penchant for being a buzzkill. She was fully capable of being fun, it was just her last pr
Night Slash
"Just what do you think you're doing, boy?" the towering monster asks me, "Interfering with plans that don't concern you. Shouldn't you be up in some mountain, tossing Graveler around?"
"No," I reply simply, "I've had enough of mere weight-lifting. Now I want something more...and I think defeating you will be a good start."
The being known as Sharp laughs, sending out pulses of a sound like grating metal before locking my gaze once more. "So you've decided to make a hero of yourself, have you?" he surmises mockingly, "Well, allow me to teach you about the real world. There are no heroes. The only ones who matter are the ones with power. All others exist to serve them."
"Is that why you're trying to take their home?" I ask, glancing over at a crowd of terrified acorn-people, "Because you think being strong gives you more right to it than they have?"
"Because I KNOW that being strong gives me more right!" he bellows, proudly raising a bladed arm, "Might MAKES right, boy! I and my underli
Metal Claw
When fighting a less skilled opponent, the most important thing is to maintain focus. A well-trained fighter battles mostly subconsciously at all times, and almost entirely subconsciously against weaker foes, using their conscious thoughts to process additional factors of the scenario.
My attackers are out of sync. The spacing between their attacks makes it a simple matter to counter each in turn. A chop to the base of the first one's head blade, a spinning kick to the second's core, an elbow to the face of the third behind me. All three lose consciousness immediately.
The second most important thing when battling weaker adversaries is to resist your ego. Although taunts, flourishes, and intimidating poses are tempting, they should never be employed without a good reason, no matter how unskilled the opponent. The momentum of a battle can shift in an instant, given an opportunity to.
I sweep the legs out from two more of them. I can feel that their bodies are light, but not so light tha
I bite down into a round blue berry, a bag bearing more dangling from my other hand. Some prefer berries with a certain flavor, but my interest in food lies with its texture and properties. Crushing the solid blue oval is made all the more satisfying by the mix of flavors doing so releases.
I had been keeping my rations in reserve before, but through the leaves just ahead I caught glipses of more berry trees, and had let my appetite get the best of me. Restocking my supplies, however, will have to wait. As I approach the trees, a panicked creature resembling a giant acorn rolls by at an incredible speed.
While the first nearly startles me off my feet, the second I see coming. Steadying myself, I thrust out my foot, easily absorbing the creature's meager weight with my leg. I had expected it to weigh as much as the unChanged form of my training weights, but instead it made them seem like mountains.
"Please help us!" the acorn shrieks, its somehow-attached feet wiggling violently as it s
Pt. 1 - Karate Chop
Two balls of jagged stone slam to the ground, clouds of dust billowing out from beneath them as they take the opportunity to roll away. I let them; my training was done for the day. As they send themselves down the rocky slope, a chorus of loud cries echoes behind them. It annoys them to be used as weights, but they allow it so long as I carry them up the mountain.
I wish I had a name to give, but I don't. Not yet. That's why my goal is to make one for myself. My peers have always believed that true strength comes from Changing, but I see things differently. I won't pretend I can't see the allure of a larger, stronger body, but to say that taking on a new form is the only way to be strong is wrong, and no matter how difficult it is, I'm going to prove that to the world.
A loud sigh escapes me as I take a seat on a tuft of grass. I've heard that some creatures believe my kind never tires, but that's not true. We simply have far more endurance than other species and never show our exhaus
"There are no other terms for 'unable to sense magic', though..
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Clash of the Machina
"Matchup 1: Artemis Jensen versus Aloysius Vyle."
The modulated voice cued the contestants to take their places, though from the looks of the arena they were in, the event was a contest in advertised name only; the friendlier name used in hopes of drawing young blood to what, from the tension, Sen could feel was going to be competition on par with mortal combat.
From his vantage point atop his sister's shoulder, he examined the competitors with the device The Masked Inventor had given him. They had the same function as binoculars, but with them, he was easily able to observe minute details, and even capture and review moments with a press of a button. No camera where he was from was sophisticated to double as much else, especially while being so lightweight.
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Devious Journal Entry
by Dante8411, Nov 30, 2017, 12:09:08 AM
Went looking through all my PMs (to purge all traces of sour relationships from them, tbh.) It's surreal realizing how much you forget. Was I ever even here, or just a facsimile of me who's since left this world?
Nah, I just have a bad memory.
Sorry if I never got back to you, it's been over two years since my last anything. I still swing by to look at PMs sometimes, but if I don't get a reply, odds are I won't remember we were talking.
Listening to: Anime themes and Streetlight Manifesto
Reading: Too many comments sections
Watching: Super Best Friends Play
Playing: LPing now, actually
Eating: but not very often
Drinking: Orange juice
Devious Journal Entry November 30, 2017 No Comments No Favourites
Current Residence: Earth, unfortunately. Canada is better than most places, though.
deviantWEAR sizing preference: Mine. I think that'd be "anhorexic".
Print preference: Free?
Favourite genre of music: It's more of a case-by-case thing.
Favourite photographer: People do that professionally?
Favourite style of art: Good. I like things that are done well...and manga.
Operating System: Windows 7, and I miss XP very much.
MP3 player of choice: They all fail, it would seem, but mine's a Sansa.
Shell of choice: Turtle. And now I have a pet. Score one for me.
Wallpaper of choice: The kind that covers walls?
Skin of choice: You racist bastards.
Favourite cartoon character: Impossible to decide.
Personal Quote: "Make your own world, then complain about the crabcakes there."
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you don't know me, just saw you post s funny comment on a image years ago and i wanna say hi for some reason...
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Aww, that's sweet. Hi.
i dunno why but sometimes i look back on old images from over a decade ago and see if some of the non artists unknown folks are still active members of the community, no matter how big or how small im always sad to see an inactive user. you've made my day basically
That's an interesting sentimentality, but I'm glad you're happy. I don't really go out into the community now, though; just put off getting through my subscription backlog.
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hey man. Here we are once again, growing older!
Happy bday!!
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Thanks, my dude!
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Nasim: Khaleda's lawyers will increase her jail time
Tribune Desk
Published at 12:31 am February 27th, 2018
Health Minister Mohammad Nasim has advised BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia not to listen to her lawyers. Speaking in a thanksgiving motion on the president's speech at the parliament on Monday, he said: "Your lawyers have so far caused you to be evicted from your home and kept out of parliament. Do not listen to them, or you will remain incarcerated for years." "None of us want her to remain imprisoned. She has gone to jail because of the court, and through the same process she shall return," he added. In response to Barrister Moudud Ahmed's statement following Khaleda's imprisonment, Nasim said: "Mr Moudud Ahmed has said that they are acquiring a million votes a day because of her incarceration. If that is the case, why are they going to court every day to appeal for her bail? "If she remains in jail, your votes will increase past 300 million," he quipped. Asking BNP to prepare for the elections, the veteran Awami League leader said: "We want everyone to be on the playing field. The government has a great record and we are not afraid to play. Every party is welcome to join the fray. Do not commit fouls; play fair and try to win." Referring to the 11th National Parliamentary Election, the Health Minister said: "We do not want the upcoming elections to be a one-sided affair like the last time. We want a proper, constitutional election process that everyone will attend. If there are discrepancies, there will be uncertainty followed by a possible power vacuum." He said that a conspiracy was afoot to ensure that a political government does not rule the country. People may decide to give Sheikh Hasina's government an extension for the sake of the wellbeing of the country, JaSaD's Moin Uddin Khan Badal said. "The people of the country are with us. If we are humble in our approach to the people, they will re-elect us." "We are about to achieve what no one but Jawaharlal Nehru has been able to in the subcontinent - remain in office for three consecutive terms," he continued. Urging the government to stay alert regarding Myanmar, Badal said: "Despite our attempts, it will be difficult to remain on friendly terms with them in the future. We have to be wary and watchful of them. They constantly go back on their words."
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The Letter For The King
By Tonke Dragt
Read by Matt Addis
Tonke Dragt Listening Library (Audio)
The De brief voor de koning Series: Book 1
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SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES A young messenger. A secret mission. A kingdom in peril. It is the dead of night. Sixteen-year-old Tiuri must spend hours locked in a chapel in silent contemplation if he is to be knighted the next day. But, as he waits by the light of a flickering candle, he hears a knock at the door and a voice desperately asking for help. A secret letter must be delivered to King Unauwen across the Great Mountains--a letter upon which the fate of the entire kingdom depends. Tiuri has a vital role to play, one that might cost him his knighthood. Tiuri's journey will take him through dark, menacing forests, across treacherous rivers, to sinister castles and strange cities. He will encounter evil enemies who would kill to get the letter, but also the best of friends in the most unexpected places. He must trust no one. He must keep his true identity secret. Above all, he must never reveal what is in the letter... The Letter for the King is the thrilling story of one boy's battle against evil, set in an enchanted world of chivalry, courage and true friendship.
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SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES
A young messenger. A secret mission. A kingdom in peril.
It is the dead of night. Sixteen-year-old Tiuri must spend hours locked in a chapel in silent contemplation if he is to be knighted the next day. But, as he waits by the light of a flickering candle, he hears a knock at the door and a voice desperately asking for help. A secret letter must be delivered to King Unauwen across the Great Mountains--a letter upon which the fate of the entire kingdom depends. Tiuri has a vital role to play, one that might cost him his knighthood.
Tiuri's journey will take him through dark, menacing forests, across treacherous rivers, to sinister castles and strange cities. He will encounter evil enemies who would kill to get the letter, but also the best of friends in the most unexpected places. He must trust no one. He must keep his true identity secret. Above all, he must never reveal what is in the letter...
The Letter for the King is the thrilling story of one boy's battle against evil, set in an enchanted world of chivalry, courage and true friendship.
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Deaths in Dundalk - Monday, 25th June 2018
Tia Clarke
tia.clarke@dundalkdemocrat.ie
Ann (Nan) Sharkey (née Ludlow) of Thistle Cross, Mountpleasant, Dundalk, Louth
Peacefully, in the tender and dedicated care of the staff of Dealgan House Nursing Home, surrounded by her loving family. Beloved wife of the late John and dear mother of Jimmy, Ann, Eileen, Briege, Patricia, Kathleen, John, Michael, Paul and Nicholas. She will be sadly missed by her sorrowing sons, daughters, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, brother Kevin, sister Eileen (Fox), grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, relatives and friends. Predeceased by her parents James and Annie and brothers Seamus, Paddy and Barney and sister Kathleen.
Reposing at home from 12 noon on Sunday and Monday. Removal on Tuesday at 10.15am, to St. Mary’s Church, Ravensdale, arriving for Funeral Mass at 11am. Burial afterwards in Calvary Cemetery.
House private on Tuesday morning, please. May She Rest in Peace.
David O'Shea of Greystones, Wicklow/Dundalk, Louth/Cork
The death has occurred of David O'Shea of Greystones, Wicklow and formerly of Dundalk, Louth and James Square, Tower Street, Cork. Late of ESB. Winner of F.A.I. Minor Cup with Tower Rovers in 1955. Peacefully at home in Greystones surrounded by his family. Loving husband of the late Phyllis (née Flood) and much loved father of Orla, Aisling, Sharon and Aoife. Caring grandfather to Luke, Sebastian, Colm, Mia, Kate and Kerrie. David will be sadly missed and remembered with love by his daughters, grandchildren, sons-in-law, brother Tommy, close friends and family.
Removal on Tuesday June 26th to Saint Nicholas Church Dundalk arriving for 1 o’clock Funeral Mass. Thereafter driving to Saint Patrick’s Cemetery for burial. Enquiries to Dixons Funeral Home T 0429334240.
Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.
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Barnfield College plan for the future moves a step closer
Barnfield College, New Bedford Road PNL-170329-134200001
A brand new, centrally located Further Education College for Luton has moved a step closer after land for the development was secured.
Barnfield College has purchased Bute Street car park, with contracts exchanged earlier this week.
The new build will replace its existing campuses on New Bedford Road and Enterprise Way as part of the college’s three year development plan.
“This marks an important milestone in realising our vision of reclaiming the excellence of old that Barnfield was renowned”, said College Principal Tim Eyton-Jones.
“This will provide the people of Luton and particularly our students, a state-of- the-art college with world-class facilities, in a truly fantastic location that is accessible by all.
“We have a pivotal role in supporting Luton’s exciting development and regeneration. A thriving modern Further Education College will allow us to deliver learning to tens of thousands of local and regional students and provide local employers with the skilled workforce they need to compete and
participate in a global economic environment.”
The car park will continue to operate as normal under the control of Luton Council until building works commence around late 2018.
The College has already placed both its current sites on the market to help fund this project.
Prospective buyers should contact the agents’ office based in Brindleyplace, Birmingham, directly, on: 0121 265 7500.
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HomeSportsHarden scores 29 as Rockets rout Jazz 122-90 in Game 1
Harden scores 29 as Rockets rout Jazz 122-90 in Game 1
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James Harden had 29 points and 10 assists to help the Houston Rockets rout the Utah Jazz 122-90 on Sunday night in Game 1 of a best-of-five first-round playoff series.
The Rockets had a double-digit lead for most of the game, but the Jazz got within five points midway through the third quarter before Houston used a big run to pull away and sail to the victory.
It’s the second consecutive year these teams have met in the postseason after the Rockets eliminated Utah in five games in the second round last season.
Game 2 is Wednesday night in Houston.
Houston was up by 15 in the fourth quarter before Harden, who had eight rebounds, scored six points in a 9-2 run that stretched the lead to 108-86 with four minutes left and both teams cleared their benches about a minute after that.
Houston’s starting lineup helped carry the scoring load on Sunday night, with each starter scoring at least 10 points. Eric Gordon had 17, Clint Capela scored 16, Chris Paul added 14 and P.J. Tucker had 11.
Rudy Gobert had 22 points and 12 rebounds to lead the Jazz after not scoring more than 15 points in a game in the playoff series against the Rockets last season. Donovan Mitchell had 19 points, but did not have an assist as the Jazz went long stretches without scoring.
Ricky Rubio started after missing four of the last five games of the regular season with a quadriceps injury. Rubio, who finished with 15 points, didn’t play against Houston in the playoffs last season after injuring his hamstring in a first-round series win over the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Houston had a 12-point lead entering the fourth quarter and an 8-0 spurt, with two 3-pointers from Danuel House, extended it to 95-75 with nine minutes remaining.
The Rockets led by 17 when Harden re-entered the game about a minute later. Soon after he returned he found House behind the 3-point line in the corner and drove to the basket and finished with a one-handed slam.
The Rockets were up by 15 at halftime, but Utah opened the second half with a 10-3 run, with six points from Gobert, to cut it to 62-54 with nine minutes left in the third.
The Jazz got within five with a shot from Mitchell later in the third, before the Rockets scored next 10 points, with a 3 from Gordon and a three-point play from Harden, to make it 76-61 with about four minutes left in the quarter.
Mitchell ended a Utah scoring drought of about 4 ½ minutes after that with a 3-pointer, but Harden hit a 3 seconds later to leave the Rockets up 79-64.
Utah cut into the lead a bit after that and trailed 83-71 after three.
Jazz: Derrick Favors had 13 points. … Utah went 7 for 27 on 3s. … The Jazz had 18 turnovers. … Jae Crowder scored nine points off the bench.
Rockets: Coach Mike D’Antoni was back on the sideline after missing Houston’s last three regular-season games with an intestinal virus. … Hall of Famer and former Rocket Hakeem Olajuwon watched the game from a courtside seat. … Houston made 15 3-pointers, led by four from Harden.
After Game 2 on Wednesday the series moves to Utah for Game 3 on Saturday and Game 4 on April 22.
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iLove*Music presents :: 28 DAYS OF DILLA
It is officially J DILLA MONTH 2014!!! Even though we keep Dilla (James Dewitt-Yancey) on heavy rotation all year round as he is one of the biggest influences & inspiration in hip-hop. February is marked as "DILLA MONTH" because his birthday is February 7th, 1974 and the anniversary of his passing is February 10th, 2006. Also J Dilla released his future classic album "Donuts" (Stones Throw Records) on his birthday & three days before his death on February 7th, 2006. How do iLove* J Dilla? …Let us count the ways…DAY 11 //
"DROP" by THE PHARCYDE // hip-hop
Producer: J Dilla
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Release Date: November 14th,1995
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Employees > Educational Policy > Office of Student Affairs
COMMUNICATIONS FROM STUDENT AFFAIRS
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Student Affairs of the DCCCD, as a whole and as committed individuals, strives for excellence through a student-centered philosophy, which emphasizes innovative thinking, modeling of positive behavior, and mentoring.
To inspire and sustain us in these efforts and provide focus and meaning to our work, we adopt these themes and values as the common thread which binds us. Our themes and values transcend individual campuses, job descriptions and departmental mission statements and illuminate the ideals to which we aspire in each interaction we undertake.
Student-Centered Philosophy
Student-Centered Philosophy means that our students and their needs are the driving force for our behaviors.
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Quality Contact means we strive for a meaningful interaction in which we validate and support the persons involved and help them move closer to their goals.
Teamwork means that our services, through broad and disparate, are offered collectively in the name of helping our students, staff and colleagues to succeed.
Interconnectedness means we are united with others in purpose and achievement of goals, with an appreciation that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Passion means we are committed to being positive about our work and each other.
Compassion means we genuinely care for students and for each other.
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Flexibility means we adjust to change and are resilient and ready to adapt to new, different, or changing requirements or situations.
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This Year’s Victoria's Secret Models Are Celebrating Their Casting On Instagram
The emotional posts from this year's models are coming in thick and fast.
By Ana Eksouzian-Cavadas
As news of which models have snapped up a place in the 2018 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show rolls in, so too do the emotional casting posts on Instagram.
Celebrating their appearance in the upcoming runway show—which is currently set to be filmed in November—both VS regulars and newcomers alike have taken to social media to announce their castings.
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With Victoria's Secret heavyweights, including Devon Windsor, Cindy Bruna and Georgia Fowler having already taken to social media to mark their appearance on 2018's runway, we still await confirmation from many more of the iconic VS Angels that have worn their wings for many shows passed.
Here, we round up every single VS model who have taken to Instagram to celebrate their casting.
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The Kiwi model took to Instagram to share her joy for booking the VS fashion show for a third time, accompanying her post with the caption "When you get the call that it's going to be round three! Honoured to be walking the @VictoriaSecret show for the third year. It means more and more each year, THANK YOU for seeing my dedication and realizing my dream once again"
@georgiafowler
"Celebrating her second year as a VS runway model, the Hungarian model shared this image, along with this sweet message: "Wooowww!! I'm speechless. So happy to share the news with you all that i'll be walking the Victoria's Secret fashion show this year. Thank you @victoriassecret for making my dream come true!!"
@realbarbarapalvin
The VS regular celebrated her sixth casting, posting a photo from her 2017 runway appearance with a lengthy caption.
Wow. I'm not honestly sure what to say, or how to begin, to thank these people who have come and forever changed my life for the better. Thank you to all my friends, family, agents and the people from VS who have believed in me 6 years in a row!!!!! I think people think it gets easier every year, and I can honestly say that is not true. Every year gets more and more difficult and I find myself wanting it even more ! I have never worked so hard or wanted anything in my life so badly. So, to be rewarded for that is a feeling I cannot describe! Congrats to all of the other girls walking as well, I know you all have been working your booties off for this, and I can't wait to share this incredible moment with you! #VSFashionShow2018 #Number6
@devwindsor
Making her return for her seventh show in a row, the Brazilian model could not be more thrilled to be joining her fellow VS models once again in 2018. "N 7 ! Thank you my loving @VictoriasSecret family for this amazing gift! It gets more special each year. I love you with all my heart! I know how hard you all work to make this dream possible for us. Forever grateful for our beautiful journey together."
@barbara
Yet another VS regular, Australian model Kelly Gale, took to Instagram to celebrate her fifth year donning angel wings. "Woooohoooo!!!! Yaaayyy, so thrilled to let you all know I'll be walking in the Victorias Secret Fashion Show for my 5th(!!!) year! It's a dream come true every single year and I'm so thankful to everyone who make it happen."
@kellybellyboom
Gaining notoriety after making her debut at the Victoria's Secret 2017 Fashion Show, the Norwegian model celebrating her second casting: "I got the best surprise today at work - I'll be walking in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show for the second time! I couldn't be happier! Thank you for believing in me once again."
@frida_aasen
Marking her third appearance on the VS runway, Williams took to social media to express her gratitude for her 2018 casting: "Very proud and honoured to be back on this legendary runway for my 3rd year."
@meganmayw
The model marked her return to the VS fashion show by snapping herself in one of the brand's famed bras, naturally.
@gracebol
Walking the VS runway for the sixth time in a row, the now-regular will once again wear her angel wings on the 2018 runway, taking to Instagram to share the news with her fans. "2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and now 2018 !!! I still can't believe it ! I feel so blessed and forever grateful to this amazing family. Merci Merci Merci"
@cindybruna
After her memorable appearance on last year's runway, Chen has turned her single VS runway appearance into a second one, celebrating her casting on Instagram: "#2 ALL SMILES! So happy to announce that I will be walking the @victoriassecret #VSFashionShow for the second year."
@chen_estelle
Leomie Anderson
Celebrating her fourth VS fashion show booking, Anderson will join a tonne of other runway regulars at this year's show. "The face you make when you find out you've bagged @victoriassecret show for the fourth time in a row!"
@leomieanderson
Making a repeat appearance after her debut on the 2017 runway, the British model couldn't be more thrilled to be rubbing shoulders with this year's angels once again.
"This [fox] is going to be STRUTTING her stuff this November!!!!!! ArGhHhHh!!!!!! I am so so excited and so happy to announce that I will be walking the @victoriassecret runway this November 2018!!!!. Thank you to Monica, Ed, Sophia & John for believing in me and making my dreams come true. This red head is coming for you."
@alexinagraham
Herieth Paul
Racking up a third appearance on the VS runway, Paul uploaded an image of her at the 2018 casting to celebrate. "I watched my first vs show when I was 13 years old. I am so beyond excited to be walking my third @victoriassecret fashion show."
@heriethpaul
Cheyenne Maya-Carty
Making her first ever appearance on the VS runway this year, the British model uploaded a clip of herself finding out she was cast in 2018 show to Instagram to mark the occasion.
"Getting pulled off set to be given this news!!! After all the missed flights and back an forth from NYC to London this is the best news I could ever get! Still feels like a dream...pinch me. BIG MOOD!!!
@chey_maya
Gizele Oliveira
Returning to the VS runway for a second time after her debut in 2017, the Brazilian model celebrated by thanking her fans for their endless support of her career.
"Thank you everyone that believed in me since the beginning, thank you for always rooting for me and making me feel the luckiest girl in the world! I'm so so so happy to announce that I'm gonna be walking at the @victoriassecret fashion show 2018."
@giizeleoliveira
Having already managed to drum up a huge amount of success in the model industry, Harlow's first appearance on the VS runway will no doubt be one to remember, especially for the model herself. Shortly after being tapped, she posted an emotional image and caption to Instagram once she learned she would appear in 2018's show.
I had a break down before i walked into the most nerve wrecking casting of my life. I asked my driver to go around the block twice before i could walk into the @VictoriasSecret offices so i could re coup, and remember… how hard I've been working! I went in and made new friends and saw old friends and it already felt like home! … When it was finally my time, within my nervous storm of anticipation i changed into a black Victoria Secret set and stepped out!!!! I spoke to them about Jamaica, @nick_knight , my abs, and how i was beyond honoured to be given the opportunity to try out.. then I walked for my life!!!! I can't believe this!! Thank you for giving me all the energy and kindness in that room! Thank you for allowing me to walk for VICTORIA'S SECRET!"
@winnieharlow
Kelsey Merritt
Booking her very first VS fashion show, the model couldn't help but post about her excitement on Instagram: "That moment when your agenbcy… tells you you booked the #VSFashionShow @victoriassecret!!! The best feeling in the world!!!"
@kelseymerritt
Sadie Newman
Joining many other newcomers, Newman posted an emotional self-congratulations to Instagram after receiving news she would be walking the 2018 VS runway: "I am so excitedhappyproudemotional to announce that I am going to be in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show!!!!! 10 years modeling and this has always been a dream of mine AND I DID IT. Keep grindin' and being kind."
@sadienewman
The newcomer celebrations continue, with Rae posting a real-time video of her hearing of her casting for the 2018 show.
@lorena
The Australian model also posted a real-time video of her receiving the news that she too would be walking the 2018 Victoria's Secret runway for the first time.
@duckieofficial
Now a VS runway regular, the fellow Aussie model celebrated her fifth casting with this caption: "I had a few visitors turn up to my photoshoot today. It was my amazing agent @lisamariebenson & my bestie @jastookes ... a little confused… then began to realize I'm going to receive the most outrageous news!! I WILL BE WALKING IN THE @victoriassecret FASHION SHOW!!!!!! A challenge for me because I couldn't cry ... I was in makeup for 4 hours. I'm overjoyed and so beyond grateful… I'm excited to make this 2018 #VSFS an unforgettable show!!"
@shaninamshaik
Maia Cotton
The Kiwi model could not be more thrilled for her first ever casting in a Victoria's Secret fashion show, posting a lengthy celebratory post to Instagram:
"This is my face permanently for a little while!!! ✨✨✨ I am so ecstatic to say that I'll be walking this year's VICTORIA'S SECRET FASHION SHOW!! I used to think about what this moment might feel like, and it is simply indescribable. Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined I would get the opportunity to cast, let alone confirm the show of a lifetime."
@maiacotton
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Public Release: 31-May-2012
New research shows runners can improve health and performance with less training
VIDEO: The new 10-20-30 training concept can improve both a person's running performance and health, despite a significant reduction in the total amount of training. This is the conclusion of a... view more
Credit: Carsten Lundager
The new 10-20-30 training concept can improve both a person's running performance and health, despite a significant reduction in the total amount of training. This is the conclusion of a study from University of Copenhagen researchers just published in the renowned scientific Journal of Applied of Physiology.
Over the course of seven weeks, runners were able to improve performance on a 1500-metre run by 23 seconds and almost by a minute on a 5-km run - and this despite a 50 per cent reduction in their total amount of training. These are just some of the results from a research project involving 18 moderately trained runners following the 10-20-30 training concept developed by researchers from the Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences at the University of Copenhagen.
In addition to enhancing running performance, the runners from the project also had a significant decrease in blood pressure and a reduction in cholesterol in the blood.
"We were very surprised to see such an improvement in the health profile considering that the participants have been running for several years," says Professor Jens Bangsbo, Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences, who heads the project.
"The results show that the very intense training has a great potential for improving health status of already trained individuals," says Professor Bangsbo.
PhD student Thomas Gunnarsson adds that the emotional well-being of the participants also improved over the span of the project.
"We found a reduction in emotional stress when compared to control subjects continuing their normal training based on a recovery-stress questionnaire administered before and after the 7-week training period," explains Gunnarsson.
The 10-20-30 training concept
The 10-20-30 training concept consists of a 1-km warm-up at a low intensity followed by 3-4 blocks of 5 minutes running interspersed by 2 minutes of rest. Each block consists of 5 consecutive 1-minute intervals divided into 30, 20 and 10 seconds of running at a low, moderate and near maximal intensity, respectively.
30 minutes is all you need
According to Professor Bangsbo, the 10-20-30 training concept is easily adapted in a busy daily schedule as the time needed for training is low. A total of 20-30 minutes including warm-up is all that is needed. Since the 10-20-30 concept deals with relative speeds and includes low speed running and 2-minute rest periods, individuals with different fitness levels and training backgrounds can perform the 10-20-30 training together.
"The training was very inspiring. I could not wait to get out and run together with the others. Today, I am running much faster than I ever thought possible," says Katrine Dahl, one of the participants in the study.
The study was supported by the Nordea-fonden, Copenhagen, Denmark, and the results are published in the Journal of Applied of Physiology.
Jens Bangsbo
jbangsbo@ifi.ku.dk
01-145-287-51623
@uni_copenhagen
http://www.ku.dk
Journal of Applied Physiology
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Microbial Factory 1
Private Platform
Krajete GMBH
Krajete GmbH is a privately owned, young, independent and dynamic start-up company active in the field of industrial biotechnology with gaseous substrates. Krajete GmbH aims at the de-carbonization of road transportation via emission free methane, which can be produced via CO2 and H2 employing the patented and registered Krajete process. The new business line recently opened at the company regards fermentation optimizations for third parties, either for gaseous carbon sources or also for conventional carbon sources (sugars, oils).
Team role and expertise in the project:
KRJ will lead the Metabolic engineering and reactor developments for microbial factory 3: acetone production via engineered Acetobacterium woodii and provide its input and advises also in other WPs.
The leader role in WP6 will exploit KRJ knowledge for both anaerobic and high pressure fermentation with gaseous substrates. Knowledge and technology transfer among partners will assure to reach the outlined targets in the most effective way.
The models previously developed at the KRJ GmbH coupled to a deep analysis of metabolic performances during different phases of the fermentation will allow to quickly understand the strategy to adopt in order to optimize the productivity of the desired target molecule (acetone).
Sébastien Bernacchi
Arne Seifert
WP Leader
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No. 760994.
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Managing conflicts of interest in the NHS
We are living through a golden age of drug discovery. Newspaper front pages tell us weekly of the scientific breakthroughs being made in cancer, cardiovascular disease and HIV. The pharmaceutical industry is incredibly proud of our role in pushing forward these advances to benefit the lives of patients across the UK.
The story of discovering and developing a new drug from bench to bedside is an extraordinary one. On average, it takes over 12 years and costs over £1 billion to develop a new medicine. And crucial to this process is the role of doctors, nurses and other NHS professionals – working with industry – to deliver these breakthroughs.
That’s why I’m proud of these relationships and why I feel passionately that they are critical to the success of the medical innovations of the future. But for these relationships to thrive, transparency about them is crucial.
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) has done much to increase the transparency about the relationships between healthcare professionals and pharmaceutical companies. The ABPI Code of Practice sets the standard, clearly setting out what pharmaceutical companies can and cannot do when engaging with doctors, nurses and other health care professionals. Importantly, the Code makes it absolutely clear that joint working between pharmaceutical companies and NHS employees ‘must always benefit patients’. It covers everything from prohibiting companies from giving doctors note pads and pens, to ruling that only economy flights can be taken to overseas conferences.
This year the ABPI took transparency further by establishing ‘Disclosure UK’. For the first time, details of payments or benefits in kind made to health professionals and healthcare organisations in the UK were made available on a publicly accessible database. It outlines payments for services including speaking at and chairing meetings and training services. But the vast majority of payments relate to research and development activity – predominantly clinical trials. When Disclosure UK launched on 30 June, £229m of the £340m of payments disclosed were for research activities. I thank the majority of healthcare professionals and organisations who have disclosed their data. This helps to tell the story of the NHS being at the forefront of developing and launching new medicines.
It is because of this commitment to transparency that I was pleased to accept the invitation from Sir Malcolm Grant to sit on the ‘Task and Finish’ Group to look at conflicts of interest in the NHS.
The Group was set up to look at how to establish a common approach to managing any perceived conflicts of interest across the NHS. Of course, this is a much wider question than just the relationship the NHS has with the pharmaceutical industry. But I was pleased to be able to give a perspective from the industry and share what we have learnt about how to manage any conflicts of interest arising.
For the ABPI, it is absolutely critical that pharmaceutical companies can continue to work with doctors, nurses and other NHS staff to develop and deliver new medicines. Without the insights from those on the frontline of patient care, we lack the feedback on how medicines are working in practice.
And these relationships are critical for the NHS too. Indeed, under the NHS England Mandate, the NHS has an objective to support research, innovation and growth to ‘harness research and innovation to enable cost effective, affordable, transformative new treatments to reach patients more quickly’. The pharmaceutical industry can be at the heart of delivering this alongside the NHS. The recent announcement that the NHS has appointed its hundredth clinical entrepreneur as part of a programme supported by a range of pharmaceutical companies is proof that this is already happening.
The Task and Finish Group enabled some good discussion about how this collaboration can be fostered, whilst giving the public confidence in the nature of these relationships. The consultation response seeks to strike that important balance.
Getting this balance right will be crucial in allowing our golden age of drug discovery to continue.
Mike Thompson is Chief Executive of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry.
Mike took up the position of CEO of the ABPI in March 2016, joining from GlaxoSmithKline where he was most recently senior vice president of global commercial strategy and platforms leading teams of experts in areas such as multi-channel, market research and analytics as well supporting colleagues in research and development to bring new medicines to launch.
During 20 years with GSK Mike spent seven years as the commercial strategy head for Europe and before that ten years in the UK company in a variety of senior sales and marketing roles.
A graduate of The Queen’s College, Oxford, Mike has worked across multiple sectors including food, drinks, toiletries and Government agencies. He joined Unilever as a trainee in 1981, leaving in 1995 as Marketing Director in the UK, to join GSK.
Kassander says:
Mr Thompson claims
The T&F Gp enabled … discussion about how this collaboration can be fostered, whilst giving the public confidence in the nature of these relationships.
The group is led by Sir Malcolm Grant, Chair of NHSE and includes reps from BMJ, NICE, CQC, LGA and ABPI
BUT not one mention of P&Ps
How does he justify this claim?
Does the Chair share his great confidence?
A P&P presence?
Self declared Patient Leaders
VCS groups claiming to speak on behalf of P&P
CCG Lay NEDs, chosen and retained by the CCG, to speak on behalf of their disenfranchised, non-electorate
They carry no mandate from P&P
These are P&P delegates, chosen by, and responsible to, that public
Require proof that Conflicts of Interest have been properly defined & will be eliminated
Will sit on the Scrutiny Committee/s as full members
Then, and only then, can P&P start to have confidence in links between a Service, and the Profit driven private sector
From the ABPI web site:
The Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority (PMCPA)
was established by
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI)
to operate
the ABPI Code of Practice for
the Pharmaceutical Industry
independently of the ABPI.
The PMCPA is a division of
the ABPI
which is a company limited by guarantee registered in England & Wales no 09826787, London SW1E 6QT.
Which in plain English is:
Big British (?) Pharma [BBP]
has set up its own wholly owned subsidiary –
Pharma’s Tame Watchdog [PTW]
to guard the profits and ‘Good name’ of its owner against any
Public & Patients [P&P], or other
Do Gooders [DG] or
Busy Bodies [BB]
who fancy themselves as a
Constant Gardener [J le C]
One might ask :
Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Paul Conyers says:
24 September, 2016 at 8:18 am
‘Getting this balance right will be crucial in allowing our golden age of drug discovery to continue.’ In order to achieve this rather bald statement, first and foremost is the public’s perception and understanding of the ‘operational mechanics’ will be put in place and monitored appropriately. For conflict of interest to work effectively there needs to three separate but distinct elements:
1. Legal implications for compliance with all the relevant statutes, policies and other related laws.
2. Standard Code of Ethics of which the profession must abide by.
3. Agreed and accepted good practice on how to handle conflicts of interest when then arise that are linked to points 1 and 2. These elements have not been raised in this advertising pitch.
Most important:
“3 Agreed and accepted good practice on how to handle conflicts of interest when then arise that are linked to points 1 and 2”
However, agreed by whom?
BMJ NICE CQC LGA and ABPI of course
But NOT
CCG Lay NEDs chosen and retained by the CCG, to speak for a disenfranchised, non-electorate
What WE are entitled to are real P&P delegates, chosen by, and responsible to us
They will:
Sit on the Scrutiny Committee/s as full members
Then, and only then, can P&P start to have confidence in links between an N H Service and the Profit driven private sector
“These elements have not been raised in this advertising pitch”
Yet another such! Indeed when one has pointed out some of the undeclared financial and business links in other pitches they’ve been censored out of existence
Dr Peter J Gordon says:
23 September, 2016 at 12:57 pm
What excellent PR by Mr Thompson.
The headline figure is not stated. That 2/3rds of Pharma expenditure is on marketing and “education” and only 1/3rd on scientific development.
Transparency is only a means to an end in my opinion. The ABPI Register is meaningless without mandatory declarations. Worse than that it gives the illusion of transparency.
Pharma and Commerce has it on a plate with CME being required for Appraisal and Revalidation. My research for a Sunshine Act in Scotland has revealed the truly shocking SCALE of Pharma “education”. This is anything but “all in the past” as the ABPI are keen to keep saying!
The Scottish Public have been consulted and in MAJORITY ask that it is MANDATORY for all payments to be made public.
My view is that science and business need to be completely separate. Otherwise it is not science, which as Robert K Merton said should always be “disinterested”.
My conclusion: ZERO out of TEN for the ‘Task & Finish Group’
@Dr Peter J Gordon 23 September
But, you can’t possibly write that! The group is led by Sir Malcolm Grant, Chair of NHSE.
If your assessment is correct, that could imply that Sir Malcolm has slipped up in one of the most crucial areas of modern day healthcare, and might have to ‘consider his position’?
And where Could that Finish?
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Owners of Easton shovel factory site may seek demolition permits
Vicki-Ann Downing
A decision by the Turner brothers, owners of the historic Ames shovel factory site, to obtain 10 demolition permit applications from the building inspector last week is raising concerns about their intentions.
Robert and George Turner have not returned the permit applications or provided a reason why they sought them for the shovel factory project, which is in the midst of a Chapter 40B hearing before the Zoning Board of Appeals.
The state Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs is also reviewing the Turner project under the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act, which regulates compliance with environmental and historic preservation issues.
Town Administrator David A. Colton said George Turner walked into the building inspector�s office last Thursday and �asked if he needed demolition permits for each and every structure he intended to demolish� at Shovel Shop Square.
�When he was told yes, he asked for seven permit applications,� Colton said. �He returned Friday and took out three more applications.�
Colton said he notified the town�s lawyer about the Turners� actions so that Building Inspector D. Mark Trivett will have access to legal advice about the procedures to follow if the Turners do submit the permit applications.
The filing would likely trigger the town�s demolition review bylaw, Colton said. It would require the Turners to meet with the Easton Historical Commission to determine whether any of the buildings requested for demolition are �preferably preserved.�
When buildings are �preferably preserved,� developers are asked to work with the town for a year to find options other than demolition.
In October, at the request of the Easton Historical Commission, the nonprofit group Preservation Massachusetts named the Ames shovel factory site one of the state�s �most endangered historic resources.�
Historical Commission Chairwoman Melanie Deware suggested Monday that the Turners may have picked up the demolition applications for use when their 40B review process ended. The Turners have said they would demolish all or part of seven shovel factory buildings.
�Obviously (the commission) is concerned when any old building in town is slated for demolition, particularly when it is an important structure,� Deware said. �However, until the applications are filed, we are still guessing as to the extent of the proposed demolition.�
David Ames, president of the Friends of the Ames Shovel Works, a group formed to find alternatives to preserve the historic factory buildings, said the Turners� actions were a concern.
�We don�t really know what the Turners have in mind here,� Ames said. �But 10 demolition permits � it seems it would be impossible to use them all without demolishing some of the historically important buildings on that site.�
Ames said the consultants working for his group had a �good meeting� with the Turners 10 days ago and that he hopes such meetings continue.
Meanwhile, �it�s appropriate to take action to make sure the demolition permits are not issued and don�t make it possible for the Turners to take anything down until there is a proper review,� Ames said. �I�m not assuming the worst, but I am concerned.�
Ames estimated there are 15 buildings on the shovel shop site. Some, built in the 20th century, are not important to the historic parcel, and the Friends would not object to their demolition.
�Others, really, are what makes the site special,� Ames said.
Vicki-Ann Downing can be reached at vdowning@enterprisenews.com
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Nick Jonas Calls It Quits With Delta Goodrem
by Alexis L. Loinaz | Tue., Feb. 21, 2012 2:16 PM
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Sniff, sniff: This pop star's dalliance with a gal from Down Under just went under.
Nick Jonas has reportedly split from his girlfriend, Australian songbird Delta Goodrem.
The two had dated for a year.
MORE: Everything You Need to Know About Delta Goodrem
Jonas' rep declined to comment, but Goodrem's spokesperson released this statement to People:
"Nick and Delta have decided to mutually end their relationship. At this point in time, they are both focused on their careers as they go on different paths. They remain friends and wish each other the best for the future."
The two were first spotted together last May leaving an L.A. movie theater. And despite their age difference—he's now 19, she's 27—both managed to silence naysayers with what seemed like a sweet and under-the-radar relationship. (Sources told E! News back then that the two had actually been dating since March.)
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The union quickly boosted Goodrem's profile, who's best known Stateside for singing on Dancing With the Stars. She remains a massive star in Australia, though, and is reportedly set to cohost the Australian import of The Voice with Keith Urban.
Jonas, meanwhile, is keeping himself equally busy: He's on stage in the current Broadway revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and appears in the backstage-on-Broadway TV series Smash.
He also just rented a $23,000-a-month pad in downtown Manhattan. Now, if only he had someone special to share it with…
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Bumper crowd creates wonderful derby atmosphere at Camp Nou
Barça v Girona attracts 85.417 spectators to the stadium in a wonderful advertisement for everything that is good about football
10:28AM Sunday 25 Feb
Saturday’s game against Girona certainly lived up to the occasion. The first ever edition of what was billed as the ‘new’ Catalan derby drew a massive 85,417 spectators to the stadium, the biggest crowd for a league match this season.
In fact, the only bigger attendance this year has been the 89,514 that came to the Spanish Super Cup match with Real Madrid.
The fun started long before the first ball had been kicked, with activities for fans of all ages outside the stadium, including face paints, photo calls and a drum parade.
And once inside, Barça fans were in for a treat, with seven goals in all, and six of them scored by the boys in blaugrana, to set a new club record of going for 32 Liga games without defeat.
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2019 Food Drink Devon Awards Announces Last Call For Entries
Posted: Tuesday, 19th March, 2019
Food and drink brands across Devon need to move quickly to enter the prestigious Food Drink Devon Awards.
The county’s leading food and drink organisation, Food Drink Devon, has announced its last call for entries into the awards. The deadline for the esteemed awards, judged by leading industry experts, is Friday 19th April. Open to both Food Drink Devon’s members and non-members, the awards can be entered online at www.foodanddrinkdevon.co.uk/awards/entry-form.
This year’s black tie awards’ ceremony will be held on Monday 7th October at the magnificent 19th century Victorian hotel, The Imperial in Torquay. With categories across production and hospitality, there really is an award for everyone. Accolades include ‘Best Producer’, ‘Best Brand’, ‘Best Farmers’ Market’ and ‘Best Training School’, along with hospitality and retailer awards including ‘Best Street Food’, ‘Best Hotel Restaurant’, ‘Best Online Retailer’ and ‘Best Community Shop’ and more.
Barbara King, chair of Food Drink Devon says: “Food Drink Devon’s Awards champion the county’s most respected and passionate artisan food and drink producers and establishments. We’re increasingly impressed with the number and standard of entries and we’re proud, through the awards, to recognise and celebrate the very best of the region’s food and drink scene.”
Barbara continues: “After months of blind tasting, deliberation and judging, we’ll be revealing the shortlisted entrants in August, before announcing all our fabulous winners at the awards’ ceremony in Torquay’s iconic, The Imperial.”
A special thank you goes to sponsors of the awards Peplows Chartered Accountants, Stephens Scown, Black and White Asset Finance, Hale Events, Taste Buds, Hedgerow Print, WestCountry Fruit Sales and inkREADible.
Food Drink Devon represents a membership of like-minded food and drink businesses, dedicated to providing the highest quality local food and drink. They work tirelessly to increase the county’s profile, both nationally and internationally and has over 250 members across the county.
For more information about Food Drink Devon, the awards and to sign up to their monthly newsletters which feature events, offers and competitions, please visit www.fooddrinkdevon.co.uk, follow @FoodDrinkDevon on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
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Waxy O’Connor’s
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14-16 Rupert Street, Soho, London, W1D 6DD
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Guests receive a warm Irish welcome at Waxy O’Connor’s – London’s biggest Irish bar located in the heart of the West End. Waxy O’Connor’s is a labyrinth of four unique bars spread out over six levels, each with its own atmosphere, so there’s something for everyone to be found here. Named after the famous candlemaker from Dublin, Waxy’s has gained worldwide recognition for its warm hospitality, friendly staff, traditional homemade dishes and extensive range of beer, spirits and coffee – it’s no wonder it was named Irish Pub of the Year in the UK at the Irish Pubs Global Awards.
With live music four nights a week, including traditional Irish sessions every Sunday night from 8.30pm, you couldn’t ask for a more lively environment. There are three large screens showing all major sporting events, including the GAA, rugby and football. You can book a table for drinks and dinner or simply walk in. You can even hire a private area with your very own bar, so if you’ve got a birthday, leaving party or Christmas celebration coming up, get in touch with the team. Waxy’s offers set menus and buffet options as well as bar food.
There’s always something going on at this lively bar and restaurant. Waxy’s hosts celebrations for New Year, Australia Day, National Irish Coffee Day and Halloween. This year, why not celebrate St Patrick’s Day the Waxy’s way?
Mon: noon-11.30pm
Tues: noon-11.30pm
Weds: noon-11.30pm
Thurs: noon-11.30pm
Fri: noon-midnight
Sat: noon-midnight
Sun: noon-11pm
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National Restaurant Association Seeks Standout Innovations for 2013 FABI Awards
October 24, 2012 | Industry News
The National Restaurant Association is calling on food and beverage manufacturers who have made significant advancements and innovation in ingredients, preparation, processing, and packaging – be it a new flavor concept, improved nutritional profile, or increased cost/labor efficiencies – to apply for a 2013 FABI Award. Formerly known as Food and Beverage Product Innovations Awards, the FABI Awards program maintains all the same prestige, under a more memorable, user-friendly name.
Award recipients represent the most innovative consumable products in the market today. The awards will be presented at the 2013 National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show (May 18 to 21 at Chicago’s McCormick Place).
“The FABI Awards celebrate breakthrough innovation in food and beverage products that drive progress in the restaurant and foodservice industry, fueling guest satisfaction and profitability,” says Mary Pat Heftman, National Restaurant Association executive vice president, convention and strategic alliances. “The foodservice trends these products represent offer a window to the future of what Americans will be eating and drinking, whether dining in the restaurant, enjoying at home, or on the go. That's why the National Restaurant Association is committed to identifying and recognizing cutting-edge food and beverages that operators need to drive success."
"The reason why it’s so important to recognize these innovations by food and beverage manufacturers is to shine a spotlight on tomorrows’ products,” says Brad Nelson, vice president and corporate chef, Marriott International.
All applications are evaluated by an independent panel of industry leaders who represent all commercial and non-commercial segments. New this year to the panel is William J. Spencer (chief of the Air Force Food & Beverage Appropriated Food Section, Air Force Personnel Services Directorate, San Antonio, Texas). Spencer will be joining other notable panelists including Carlyn Berghoff (CEO, Berghoff Catering & Restaurant Group), John Li (senior vice president, research & development, Bloomin Brands, Inc), Greg LaMothe (vice president, Restaurant Concepts & Hospitality, Kimpton Restaurant Group), Jeff McClure (director of culinary services, Sodexo Education Market), Deborah McDaniel (senior director, Product Innovation & Development, McDonald’s USA, LLC), Mary Angela Miller (administrative director, Ohio State University Medical Center), Brad Nelson (vice president & corporate chef, Marriott International), Linda Sceurman (national director of nutrition & menu development, ARAMARK Education), Tracy Vessilo (vice president, Retail Innovations, Compass Group USA), Brian Wilson (senior culinary development chef, Bob Evans Farms Inc.) and Ed Wronski, (director, culinary & concept development, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts).
The deadline to apply for the 2013 FABI Awards is January 16, 2013. To be considered, all food and beverage product innovations must be introduced in the U.S. marketplace from January 1, 2012 through May 18, 2013. Award recipients will be announced in March 2013. Any new product submitted for the panel of operator experts’ review must fall into one or more of the general categories listed below:
· High Marketability – products designed primarily to satisfy a consumer trend that will sell regardless of nutritional profile
· Lifestyle – products designed to meet the need(s) of a specific lifestyle or diet such as: Gluten Free, Allergens, Lower Sodium, Vegetarian, Vegan, Raw, etc.
· Nutritional Profile – products designed with a significant improvement in the nutrition compared to similar products; can be designed primarily for children or focused on menu development
· Packaging Improvement- products designed with a significant change in the packaging of the product that delivers clear benefits to the operator
· Incremental Value to the Operator – products that provide real value to the operators in terms of price, cost savings, labor savings, time savings, sustainability, prep efficiency, or a longer shelf life.
For more information, to view the online application and to see a list of past award recipients, visit Restaurant.org/Show/food-and-beverage-innovations.cfm.
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Police seize more than $500K worth of drugs in Newark
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Police in Newark are giving details on seizures that yielded more than $500,000 in illegal drugs.
The raids last Friday at two locations in the city produced 2,700 grams of heroin, 1,900 grams of cocaine and 3,000 grams of marijuana.
The heroin is estimated to be worth more than $500,000, and the cocaine and marijuana are estimated to be worth more than $100,000.
Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore Stephens says police also seized more than 200 opioid pills and several firearms including an assault rifle.
Three men were arrested during the raids and face drug and weapons charges.
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Anne Compton is a celebrated Canadian writer and anthologist, as well as a former university professor, originally from Prince Edward Island.
She is the editor of The Edge of Home: Milton Acorn from the Island, and co-editor of Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada. A former teacher and writer-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick at Saint John, she developed and directed the acclaimed Lorenzo Reading Series.
Click here to see a page on the St. Thomas University site about Anne with a brief biography and a synopsis of why Anne Compton is studied at the university.
Below are some of the awards for Anne and her writing:
Opening the Island
Shortlisted - Margaret and John Savage First Book Award (2002)
Winner - Atlantic Poetry Prize (2003)
Winner - Governor General's Award for poetry in English (2005)
Shortlisted - Pat Lowther Prize
Asking Questions Indoors and Out
Shortlisted - Atlantic Poetry Prize (2010)
Other recognition:
2007 Featured writer at the Maritime Writers' Workshop & Literary Festival in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
2008 Winner - Alden Nowlan Award for excellence in English language literary arts, presented by the New Brunswick Arts Board
2008 Winner - National Magazine Award in Poetry
2012 Winner - Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal
2014 Winner - Lieutenant-Governor's Award for High Achievement in the Arts
Books by Anne
Author Anne Compton
$14.95 ISBN: 9781554552276 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Fitzhenry & Whiteside Publication Date: 2013-03-26
Opening the Island : Poems by Anne Compton
Afterwork : Essays on Literature and Beauty
Meetings With Maritime Poets : Interviews
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Construction law v insolvency law – a clash of cultures?
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Author: Jeremy Whiteson
The insolvency and construction worlds have developed sophisticated systems of law. Alas, they often pull parties in opposite directions!
The construction industry operates on contracts which, while frequently based on standard forms, are often individually negotiated. There is not complete freedom of contract, however – following the Housing Grants Act 1996, disputes under written construction contracts can be referred to adjudication – a process that the courts acknowledge to be “quick and dirty” and based on the principle of “pay now, argue later”. The courts accept this because, generally, adjudicators’ decisions are not final and binding, and disputes can be finally settled by arbitration or in court.
Insolvency, however, imposes rules that restrict parties’ contractual arrangements. It has a statutory order for payment of debts which tries to enforce a universal approach in all situations and opposes attempts to contract out of this.
It’s not the taking part that matters…
A recent example of this arose in Straw Realisations v Shaftesbury House. As the judge there said: “The tension here is between… the general rules relating to bankruptcy and liquidation, and the contractual obligation created by statute to comply with decisions of an adjudicator.”
In that case, the Technology and Construction Court considered enforcement of an adjudicator’s decision in an insolvency context. Straw contracted with Shaftesbury to carry out a development in North London for £8.5 million.
The contract provided for disputes to be referred to adjudication and stated that an adjudicator’s decision would be final and binding, unless one party gave notice within three months of the decision to refer the dispute for final determination by legal proceedings. It also contained conventional provisions for insolvency of the contractor to trigger termination of the payment obligations and a balancing of payments due each way (which the judge observed are intended to mirror the general rules on bankruptcy or liquidation).
Following practical completion in April 2009, two disputes were referred to adjudication in July 2009. The first adjudication was decided in Straw’s favour for £31,000 on 31 July. On 13 August, Straw went into administration. On 13 October, Straw won the second adjudication and was awarded £475,000.
Shaftesbury did not pay, and Straw applied for summary judgment. The judge reviewed the authorities as to whether summary judgment could be granted in Straw’s favour and decided that, because Straw’s financial position was very different from when it entered into the building contract and was not caused by Shaftesbury’s failure to pay (Straw had become, in one barrister’s words, “spectacularly insolvent” with debts of £35 million), the law is that:
summary judgment will not be granted if the party seeking enforcement is in liquidation or is in administration and the adjudicator’s decision has not become final; and
if the decision has become final (because of the provisions of the contract), but the party seeking enforcement is in administration, summary judgment may be granted, but subject to a stay.
Straw was granted summary judgment for the first adjudication, because it had become final and binding (Shaftesbury had failed to issue a notice of intention to refer it to court in time), but subject to a stay. The judge refused summary judgment on the second adjudication as, for that decision, Shaftesbury had served its notice in time.
As part of the reasoning, the judge put a restrictive interpretation on the use of insolvency set off provisions in statute or where mirrored in a contract. He said: “a clause in a contract that purports to supersede the obligation to comply with an adjudicator’s decision, in this case the provision for a mutual setting off of the accounts…and an obligation only to pay the balance and the restriction on any further payments, cannot prevail over an obligation to comply with the decision of an adjudicator”.
This interpretation will leave insolvency practitioners with a far more restricted remedy in adjudication – a restraint on the quick and easy route to recovery of construction debts that they had become familiar with.
However, adjudication is not the only area where this tension arises and many unanswered questions remain.
Termination of contracts in administration
The appointment of an administrator creates a broad moratorium requiring that certain actions, amongst other things, insolvency proceedings, legal process and enforcement of security, are not carried out without leave of the court or consent of an administrator. It was established some time ago that notice of termination of a contract would not be a “legal process”. However, could it be “enforcement of security” – which is also restricted on administration? Could rights to take possession of, or even ownership of, goods and materials amount to security?Other types of rights commonly found in construction contracts could similarly be argued to be security, resulting in their implementation being restricted in administration. Would a right to take possession of goods when twinned with rights to recover debts amount to security? These questions remain unanswered by the courts.
The anti-deprivation principle
This equitable principle could be crudely paraphrased by saying that a contractual provision cannot permit a person to contract out of the statutory order of payment on insolvency. The application of this principle is complicated, with cases going back at least 130 years. Would vesting clauses which purport to transfer ownership of goods from contractor to employer, termination of payment rights or diversion of payments to subcontractors offend this principle? Its reassertion in recent cases may bring an answer to light.
The lessons to be learned
Careful drafting of contracts can protect against some of these risks. However, the uncertainty caused by the clash between insolvency and construction law is likely to provoke unexpected results for the foreseeable future.
Jeremy Whiteson, partner and head of insolvency and restructuring (jwhiteson@fladgate.com)
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Total War: Warhammer 2's upcoming "Laboratory" game mode will allow you to drastically tweak unit sizes, stats, and battle mechanics
on 8th of December 2017 @ 03:20 am UTC
Two days ago Creative Assembly announced some good and bad news. The bad news is that Norsca and its accompanying 30 new Regiments of Renown will not be making their way to Total War: Warhammer 2 until May due to technical problems. The good news on the other hand is that we'll be getting Tombs Kings as a brand new faction in January, a new Skaven Legendary Lord, as well as a highly experimental new game mode.
The Tomb Kings are still shrouded in a sandstorm so we have absolutely no information about them, but what I can tell you is that Total War: Warhammer 2 will be getting "The Laboratory" game mode next week! The new game mode allows you to tamper with 16 different sliders in order to drastically affect the course of battle. You can ramp up the number of models per each unit in order to recreate the Vermintide (an ocean of very, very angry rat-men), mess around with gravity so units go flying through the air with each charge, amplify the power and range of spells, increase the size and strength of units, and the list goes on.
I can already hear my CPU squeal
On its own, this concept is pretty damn cool, but what excites me the most is its future potential! Right now "The Laboratory" will only be available in custom battles, but if it manages to prove that it won't melt PCs left and right, what's stopping Creative Assembly from implementing it into the campaign as well? Just imagine, you could make Skaven forces weak but numerous, the Dwarfs incredibly powerful but small in number, and a variety of other lore-friendly changes that would make the campaign that much more flavorful. So while "The Laboratory" might not be much more than a passing distraction, it gives me extremely high hopes for the future of Total War: Warhammer games!
If you would like to learn more about "The Laboratory" and what exactly you'll be able to tweak, I'd recommend heading over to the official website. And as a final note, allow me to send you off with a Skaven-narrated trailer showing off the new features. Enjoy, and don't forget to add more Doomwheeeeeeeeeels!
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What Is an Intensive Pronoun?
An intensive pronoun is almost identical to a reflexive pronoun. It is defined as a pronoun that ends in self or selves and places emphasis on its antecedent by referring back to another noun or pronoun used earlier in the sentence. For this reason, intensive pronouns are sometimes called emphatic pronouns.
You can test a word to see whether it’s an intensive pronoun by removing it from the sentence and checking to see if the sentence has the same impact.
Reflexive vs. Intensive Pronouns
You can tell the difference between a reflexive pronoun and an intensive pronoun easily: Intensive pronouns aren’t essential to a sentence’s basic meaning. Understanding this basic difference will help to prevent you from confusing the two.
Both intensive and reflexive pronouns end in the suffix –self or –selves, however reflexive pronouns are always objects that refer to a sentence’s subject. The following example shows a reflexive pronoun in action:
Jim made himself coffee.
Without the reflexive pronoun himself, it would be impossible for the reader to know who Jim made coffee for.
In the next example, himself is used as an intensive pronoun. The reader would be able to understand the sentence’s complete meaning without this pronoun, but it serves to add emphasis:
Jim made coffee for the king himself.
Here, himself refers to the king rather than to Jim. The reader is meant to be impressed that Jim made coffee for the king.
Common Intensive Pronouns
The following list contains the most commonly used examples of intensive pronouns.
Intensive pronouns might not be necessary, but they serve the important function of making your writing more interesting as well as more meaningful, particularly in formal situations. Use them sparingly to ensure that the emphasis they provide isn’t lost.
Intensive Pronoun Examples
Intensive pronouns are used to add emphasis to statements. In the following examples, the intensive pronouns have been italicized for ease of identification.
Jesse wondered aloud whether he himself was the only one seeing what was happening.
Maria knew that she herself could make a positive impact on the world, if only she put her mind to it.
You yourself can easily transform your body: All it takes is a proper diet and plenty of exercise.
The team knew that they themselves were responsible for playing their best.
We ourselves are the ones who make the greatest impact upon the world we live in.
Intensive Pronoun Exercises
Choose the correct intensive pronoun to fill the blank in each sentence.
We built a garden shed by ______________.
Jordan made _____________ a sandwich, complete with pickles.
I’m a little nervous about walking by _____________ after dark.
The twins are growing up fast; they’re already walking by _____________.
Jennifer sewed her dress ____________.
B – We built a garden shed by ourselves.
C – Jordan made himself a sandwich, complete with pickles.
A – I’m a little nervous about walking by myself after dark.
D – The twins are growing up fast; they’re already walking by themselves.
D – Jennifer sewed her dress herself.
Intensive vs. Reflexive Pronoun Exercises
Identify the italicized word as either a reflexive pronoun or an intensive pronoun.
Ben built a boat for himself
Intensive pronoun
My mother bakes our family’s bread herself.
The mayor herself appeared at the rally.
A – Reflexive pronoun
B – Intensive pronoun
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Hyllested Collection
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Photograph of Hyllested pasted in at beginning of Ca16-y.15
This small collection is made up of compositions by August Hyllested.
Hyllested was born in Stockholm in 1856, became a concert pianist, and held a number of teaching posts in various parts of the world over many years - United States, Scotland, Denmark and Sweden. He retired to Blairmore, Argyll, and died there in 1946.
In 1949 his widow presented to the University of Glasgow Library a number of his unpublished works, all undated: 10 songs and 1 choral work, 2 orchestral works, 3 piano pieces and 2 unfinished compositions. With this donation came some letters, including one from each of the following: Eugen d’Albert, Sir Edward Elgar, Edvard Grieg, Sir Henry Wood, and one to his father-in-law from Franz Liszt, from whom Hyllested had lessons.
How to find material from the Hyllested Collection
Browse through a list of titles or use the manuscripts search to find material (eg. type Hyllested in the descriptions box to access a list of item descriptions)
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Dr Swaminathan graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1982. In 1997, he further attained his Fellowship from the Royal College for Surgeons in Edinburgh, specialising in General Surgery. Dr Swaminathan has been specialising in General Surgery in which he has extensive experience.
He also trained in Urology under the Health Manpower Development Plan at North Middlesex Hospital in London, U.K. He has conducted basic research on adhesion formation in animals, and has published in peer-reviewed journal. He is currently conducting his private practise in Gleneagles Hospital and Parkway East Hospital and is also the Chairman of the Chapter of General Surgeons, College of Surgeons: Censor with the Academy of Medicine, Singapore, as well as a council member for the College of Surgeons.
In addition, Dr Swaminathan does voluntary work as a medical counsellor and has been a clinical tutor with National University of Singapore, teaching both undergraduates and post-graduates. He has given talks and lectures, including journal updates, and has also been involved in the organisation of scientific meetings and hospital seminars. He attends international congresses regularly and is interested in bringing new technology that has been tested and proven. Dr Swaminathan's clinical interests include minimally invasive surgery and urology.
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Labour Pains Could Lead To Birth Of New Political Landscape
Can Labour pass its double by-election test?
By Saul Harris
Today the British Labour party faces two by-elections in what should be safe seats but with post-Brexit tremors still reverberating across the British political scene, and leader Jeremy Corbyn deeply unpopular in national opinion polls, a double disaster could be imminent.
• Labour faces difficult double by-election test
• Divided party and an unpopular leader under the microscope
• First post-referendum test for anti-Brexit Labour
• Double loss could throw party into chaos
Safe seats could suprise
Stoke-on-Trent Central in the British West Midlands and Copeland in the north-western Lake District area have elected Labour MPs since 1950 and 1983 respectively, so should in theory be a safe bet for a double win and a welcome boost for the party. But both seats voted to leave the EU in the recent referendum, against the direction taken by Labour.
Corbyn’s past critical comments about nuclear power have not gone down well in the Copeland constituency, home of the Sellafield nuclear fuel reprocessing plant which employs many local people. In an effort to fight back the party has focused on concerns about maternity services at the local hospital and issued leaflets claiming mothers and babies could be at risk if cuts are made.
Time is running out to save our hospital. Vote Labour tomorrow. Find your polling station here https://t.co/xpNOU7G0hN pic.twitter.com/JuEzWineXj
— Labour Copeland (@LabourCopeland) February 22, 2017
Brexit Champion scores own goal
In Stoke, which voted by a majority of 70% to 30% to leave the EU, Labour faces the challenge of UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Paul Nuttall, who has focused on Brexit and Labour’s opposition to it.
If Lords try to delay Brexit there will be the stench of a stitch up, says @paulnuttallukip https://t.co/yZUVPSFN96 pic.twitter.com/dBgrxKDBJq
— UKIP (@UKIP) February 21, 2017
Despite being on the right side for the majority of the constituency, at least on this issue, his campaign has been overshadowed by allegations about being “economical with the truth”, to use that famous and polite description of telling lies. One of these included the allegation that he had lied about losing friends at the infamous Hillsborough disaster, in which 96 Liverpool fans died in the Sheffield stadium. Whether this will fatally damage his campaign remains to be seen but it has certainly cast a shadow and distracted from what UKIP hoped would be the main issue.
Double loss could signal suffering to come
Many commentators are predicting a Conservative win in Copeland, and perhaps a UKIP win in Stoke. If the Conservatives do take Copeland it will be the first by-election victory in the UK by a government party since 1982, so it would be a comparatively rare event which would underline how far the Labour party has fallen. To lose Stoke to UKIP would not be a big shock, but it would raise two important questions. How far can Labour fall in its traditional northern heartlands and how high can UKIP rise in a replacement role for these Labour voters?
For a party already divided by a battle for its soul, and still a long way from recovery, following two bitter leadership elections which ended with victory for Jeremy Corbyn, to lose both by-elections would a catastrophe. Anti-Corbyn members of parliament and party members would see this as the proof they need that the opinion polls are right and evidence that Corbyn will lead them to Labour’s biggest ever electoral disaster if he stays on as leader. His supporters, many of whom are young and/or have joined in the last year or so, are unlikely to accept a double defeat as the writing on the wall and time for a rethink.
Corbyn’s comments in recent days, about “problems with the media” seem to be preparing the ground for excusing poor performances in both constituencies.
Corbyn says Labour is doing better on social media, blames MSM as polls head in wrong direction https://t.co/jkk0B8NrPb pic.twitter.com/XjoFpke7r7
— Gordon MacMillan (@gordonmacmillan) February 21, 2017
Old loyalties die and an old party divides
If Labour is hit with a double dose of electoral reality today, in its first excursion into real opinion poll land since the Brexit referendum, this would be a signal that the UK political landscape could be about to change for ever.
In large parts of the north of England, where the Labour party has been able to rely on absolute tribal loyalty for generations, UKIP will sense that its moment has come if it wins Stoke. These areas which on the whole voted heavily for Brexit feel no sense of belonging to or identifying with a London-centric and hard left Labour party, or with a leader who won’t sing the national anthem, has made ambiguous statements about terrorism in the past and has, despite Brexit, refused to acknowledge concerns about immigration.
If UKIP can convince these voters that it is on their side, understands their concerns, and, crucially, has the ability to formulate policies which will help them, this could be the springboard it needs to grow into a genuinely national party. At the moment though, even given success in Stoke, the jury is still out on whether it can overcome internal squabbles and get a grip on the sort of problems which have damaged Paul Nuttall in this campaign.
Squeezed from one side by a loud and proud pro-Remain Liberal party in some constituencies, far behind a so far cool, confident but yet to be tested by Brexit negotiations Mrs May and her Conservatives in the polls, and perhaps soon to be devastated in the pro-Brexit working class parts of northern England, the Labour party seems set for a difficult path to perhaps its worst general election result ever.
Results today could decide whether it even faces the electorate in its current form or whether two parties will have emerged by then, to represent what seems increasingly likely to be a permanent parting of the ways on the British left.
Saul Harris
I am a freelance writer based in Germany, with a particular interest in the EU, Britain's relationship with the EU, Anglo-German relations and British politics as seen from "the continent" . You can follow me on Twitter at SJHN@sauljnh or discuss an article using: sjnharris@web.de
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Again! Trump’s Travel Ban Thwarted Again by Federal Judge in Hawaii
The president's second controversial immigration order was blocked again by the federal court system - here's what you need to know
By Globalo
A nationwide order was issued by a federal judge on Wednesday evening that blocks President Trump’s ban on travel from six Muslim-majority countries, signifying another setback to the White House’s controversial immigration policy.
This ruling is the second of its kind for the Trump administration over policy that they deem is critical for national security.
It would have stopped those from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen entering the United States for at least 90 days.
All refugees would be barred from entry for at least 120 days.
Refugee admissions limited to 50,000 people in the current fiscal year.
The judge’s ruling is not a final ruling on the constitutionality of the order.
The first controversial travel ban caused widespread mayhem and was ultimately blocked by a federal court in Seattle.
The judge, Derrick K. Watson of Federal District Court in Honolulu, wrote that a “reasonable, objective observer” would view even the new order as “issued with a purpose to disfavour a particular religion, in spite of its stated, religiously neutral purpose.”
The new travel ban issued on March 6 was supposed to satisfy the courts by removing the more contentious components of the original version. Trump lambasted Judge Watson during a campaign-style rally in Nashville shortly after the news broke, accusing the judge of ruling “for political reasons”.
“This ruling makes us look weak, which by the way we no longer are, believe me,” Mr. Trump said, to mounting cheers from a loyal crowd.
Hawaii Judge block of the @POTUS travel ban sends a clear message that America is no place for discrimination & hateful rhetoric. #MuslimBan
— Gregory Pizarro Jr. (@gregpizarrojr) March 16, 2017
Administration lawyers argued in multiple courts on Wednesday that the president was merely exercising his national security powers and that no element of the executive order, as written, could be construed as a religious test for travelers.
However, and most importantly, no element of Trump’s executive order, as written, could be construed as serving national security interests. If anything this executive order, greatly undermines national security by alienating the United States’ Muslim allies who are fighting shoulder to shoulder with American troops, against terrorism in their own countries.
Trump has long been accused of thinly veiled racism towards the Muslim community, and singling them out in immigration policy. Judge Watson ruled that the State of Hawaii and an individual plaintiff, Ismail Elshikh, the imam of the Muslim Association of Hawaii, had reasonable grounds to challenge the order as religious discrimination.
“For instance, there is nothing ‘veiled’ about this press release,” Judge Watson wrote, quoting a Trump campaign document titled “Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”
Blocking the travel ban is a triumph for democracy, the Constitution & to show that words do matter – especially when said by the president.
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) March 16, 2017
“This is a great day for democracy, religious and human rights,” Mr. Elshikh, who was out of the country, said in a message relayed through Hakim Ouansafi, the chairman of the Muslim Association of Hawaii. “I am very pleased that the processing of my mother-in-law’s paperwork will not stop now but more importantly that this Muslim ban will not separate families and loved ones just because they happen to be from the six countries.”
Refugee organizations and civil rights groups have praised the ruling calling it a strong and unequivocal rejection of the politics of hate. “It’s a preliminary decision, but it recognizes that there continue to be problems with the constitutionality of this revised order, particularly with discriminatory intent toward Muslims,” said Betsy Fisher, policy director at the International Refugee Assistance Project at the Urban Justice Center.
Controversy surrounding the rejection
Many believe the ruling to be illegitimate. The law is quite clear that the President has virtually unlimited power under law to take this action. The notion that foreign policy decisions that are delegated to the executive can be litigated by those who disagree with the policy preferences of the elected president, some argue, is a dangerous path on which to go down.
Gov. Huckabee approves of travel ban, citing Pres. Jackson ignoring court order, leading to death march of Native Americans, Trail of Tears. pic.twitter.com/TduwOX6iYy
— Niraj Warikoo (@nwarikoo) March 16, 2017
Whether the U.S. can have its foreign policy determined by an unelected judiciary is hotly debated. There are already many cases of unelected judges nakedly substituting their own policy preferences for those of the president who is authorized by statute to make these decisions under the pretext of resolving litigation initiated by opponents of the president.
However, an immense number of individuals have already been affected by the administration’s past failed attempt of an immigration travel ban and future Federal court rulings blocking this new one are virtually guaranteed.
The U.S., a nation built on immigration, has forsaken the very principles it had always stood for: Liberty and Justice for all.
Read the full ruling here
Those who interact with Muslims on a daily basis voted overwhelmingly against Trump. Those who never see Muslims hate and fear them.
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Anime, Manga & Games That Were Not Mangled On The Big Screen
There’s always that fear that the movie adaptation will never live up to the original
You will not be disappointed by these life action remakes.
Original: Comic, published by Archie Comics
Live action adaptation: Starring Rachel Leigh Cook, Tara Reid and Rosario Dawson, directed by Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan
Didn’t do that well in the box office, but it’s a still a fun watch for the generation that grew up with Josie, Valeria and Melody.
Original: Video game, published by GT Interactive
Live action adaptation: Staring Karl Urban, Dwayne Johnson and Rosamund Pike, directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak
Another film that is widely considered a box office bomb, but that does not always mean a flop, as Urban, Johnson and Pike will prove.
Live action adaptation: Starring KJ Apa, Lili Reinhart and Camila Mendes, developed by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
A bit of a surprise, but it’s welcoming to see Archie and the gang stir up some trouble and drama in a darker and more modern Riverdale. Catch it on Netflix.
Original: Manga, written and illustrated by Masamune Shirow
Live action adaptation: Starring Scarlett Johansson, directed by Rupert Sanders
A little controversial with the casting, but Scarlett Johansson has a history of making action movies that are both endearing and exciting.
Original: Cartoon, produced by Walt Disney Pictures
Live action adaptation: Staring Emma Watson and Dan Stevens, directed by Bill Condon
Catch Emma Watson in a role that was almost tailor made for her. Beauty and the Beast debuts on March 16, 2017.
Original: Manga, written and illustrated by Nobuhiro Watsuki
Live action adaptation: Starring Takeru Satoh, directed by Keishi Ōtomo
Whether or not you watched Samurai X growing up, this action-packed film is sure to grab your attention and have you wanting more.
Original: Manga, written by Koushun Takami, illustrated by Masayuki Taguchi
Live action adaptation: Starring Tatsuya Fujiwara and Aki Maeda, directed by Kinki Fukasaku
Ask yourself, what you would do if you had to kill your friends in exchange for your life? And oh, your weapon is a frying pan.
Original: Manga, written and illustrated by Naoshi Arakawa
Live action adaptation: Starring Suzu Hirose and Kento Yamazaki, directed by Takehiko Shinjō
A piano prodigy loses his mother and the ability to hear the piano; he is resolved to the fact his live will never be colorful again. But then he meets a violin player who proves there is more than one way to play.
Original: Manga, written by Garon Tsuchiya, illustrated by Nobuaki Minegishi
Live action adaptation: Starring Choi Min-sik directed by Park Chan-wook
A man jailed for 15 years, without any knowledge of who his captors are or what they want with him. But his release is only the beginning.
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Industry Veterans Join Zenput Leadership Team
December 12, 2018 07:00 ET | Source: Zenput
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 12, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Zenput, the global leader in operations execution solutions, today announced two additions to its leadership team - Tim Olshansky joining as VP of Engineering, and David Karel as Chief Marketing Officer. In a period of rapid growth for the company, both executives bring deep industry experience and a proven track record scaling businesses.
Leading restaurant and retail chains like Chipotle, Dominos, and 7-Eleven use Zenput to roll-out operating procedures and key initiatives to all of their stores. Today, the company is supporting a fast-growing customer base of top brands that are collectively overseeing 40,000 locations across 35+ countries. At the core, Zenput’s mobile platform is enabling them to translate their operations strategies into better customer experiences and store performance.
“For the past six years, our team has been building against a vision to help our customers achieve a step-function change in terms of the quality and consistency of execution across their operation, which can span hundreds or thousands of locations,” said Vladik Rikhter, CEO of Zenput. ”We’re excited and inspired by our customers’ success, and the experience Tim and Dave bring to the company put us in a great position to fully leverage the big opportunity in front of us.”
Olshansky oversees product development at Zenput. He brings to the company over 16 years experience building high-quality software products and scalable technology platforms, most recently as CTO of Aconex (acquired by Oracle). Prior to Aconex, Tim was the co-founder and VP of Engineering at Worksite (acquired by Aconex) and a founding partner of Topguest (acquired by Switchfly). He holds a Bachelor of Law degree and a B.S. degree in advanced physics and computational mathematics from the University of Sydney.
Karel leads the company’s global marketing effort. He has spent the last 20 years building marketing teams that have scaled revenue growth in both enterprise and SMB markets. Prior to joining Zenput, David held marketing leadership roles at Clari, LinkedIn, Bizo (acquired by LinkedIn), and SuccessFactors. A graduate of Tufts University, he earned an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
About Zenput
Zenput is how top operators make great customer experiences happen. Restaurants and other retail chains such as Dominos, Chipotle, KFC, Jersey Mike’s, 7Eleven, and Mapco use Zenput’s operations execution platform to see inside and improve the operations of every location. By making it easy to roll-out, track and enforce compliance with operating procedures and key initiatives, Zenput helps operations leaders who are collectively overseeing 40,000 locations across 35+ countries collaborate more effectively with employees in the field and in their stores to improve performance and exceed customer expectations. For more information, visit us at zenput.com.
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Mexican Gas Stations Seeing Changes
Costco opened its first gas station in the state of Guanajuato this week, its fourth in Mexico. The spiffy new station cost $3.3 million. They’re selling Costco’s Kirkland Signature gasoline brand, and sure it comes from the States, but so does most gas.
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How to Plant by Phases of the Moon
By Barbara Fahs ; Updated September 21, 2017
About three generations ago farmers relied on folk wisdom to ensure the largest harvest of their crops, which they relied on for food and income. One method was planting by the phases of the moon. The moon’s gravitation force is capable of controlling the tides on Earth; it also stimulates plant growth and even the quality of harvested crops. If you’re trying to go more “green” and grow some of your own food, consider checking the phases of the moon.
Planting by the Phases of the Moon
Plant spinach, cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, lettuce, celery and other annuals that develop flower spikes during the new moon.
Plant vegetables such as melons, peas, peppers, squash, tomatoes, beans and other annuals that produce fruit above ground during the second moon quarter, up to two or three days before the moon is full.
Plant root crops during the moon’s waning phase, after the full moon. Include carrots, potatoes, beets, onions and bulbs in your waning phase planting.
Avoid planting during the fourth quarter, because the moon’s gravitational force is lowest during this phase. Good gardening projects during the dark of the moon include harvesting, pruning, cultivating, transplanting and weeding.
Mow your lawn during the third or fourth quarter to slow its growth.
When the moon is waxing, its energy is believed to cause water to rise in soil, which speeds seed germination.
During the second quarter, the moon's gravitational pull is less than at other times of the month, helping strong leaves to develop.
When the moon is waning, its gravitational force is very strong, and it causes more soil moisture. Energy is believed to be diverted to plant roots during this phase.
Believers in planting by the moon's phases claim that plants you attempt to start during the fourth quarter, or dark of the moon, will not succeed as well as seeds and bedding plants you put in the ground during other phases.
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Lessons in green thinking
Green-thinking pupils have started a drive to make their school more environmentally friendly.
Pupils at St Cuthbert's Primary School in Parkfield, Stockton, want to create an outdoor classroom, a vegetable patch and a sensory garden in the school grounds.
The children are also collecting batteries for recycling and putting up energy posters and stickers around school to remind pupils and teachers to think in an environmentally-friendly way.
St Cuthbert's is among the schools in the Parkfield and Mill Lane community joining the 'Eco-Schools' programme.
The scheme has been organised by Rebecca Henderson, the new Neighbourhood Environment Action Team officer, and is part funded by Neighbour Management.
Rebecca's role is to advise the Parkfield and Mill Lane community on all recycling issues and she is working with St Cuthbert's to look at ways of improving the school environment.
The school is starting an elected eco committee which will help pupils and staff to be more environmentally friendly while also looking at ways of developing the outside of the school.
Rebecca said: "The Eco Schools programme allows schools to review how they operate and how they can become more sustainable.
"Encouraging children and their parents to be more environmentally friendly and get involved in activities such as recycling is really important."
Julia Peace, headteacher at St Cuthbert's, said: "This will provide a wonderful opportunity for our children to have hands on experiences that many of our pupils don't have access to. It also enables parents, governors, staff and the community to work in partnership to improve our local environment."
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George Lines-Up 17th on the Grid in Azerbaijan
ROKiT Williams Racing driver George Russell will start the Azerbaijan Grand Prix from P17.
ROKiT Williams Racing Driver George Russell set the 19th fastest time in Qualifying for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, but will start from P17 tomorrow on the streets of the Baku City Circuit.
Following an incredibly unfortunate Friday, which saw George requiring a new chassis and missing the whole of Free Practice - the Briton kept up his perfect Qualifying record against teammate Robert Kubica.
George was completing his opening laps in Free Practice one, when a manhole cover was dislodged on the long straight between Turns 2 and 3. He was completely unsighted, as the loose manhole cover caused a huge amount of damage to the floor and chassis of his FW42. Luckily George was unharmed in the incident, but it caused the cancellation of FP1 and it also required a replacement chassis for George in order to complete the race weekend, such was the extent of the repair needed.
He was forced to sit out the FP2 session on Friday, meaning he only had Free Practice on the Saturday morning to acclimatise himself with the Baku City Circuit, prepare himself for Qualifying and get set-up information for the Grand Prix on Sunday.
Despite this setback, George was able to improve on every run in Qualifying - setting a 1:45.042s lap time to set the 19th fastest time of the session and ahead of his teammate in the intra-team Williams Racing battle.
Due to grid penalties affecting Alfa Romeo's Antonio Giovinazzi and Aston Martin Red Bull Racing's Pierre Gasly, George will start tomorrow's race from P17 on the grid for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
"Friday was a tough day, it’s a shame for the guys to spend yesterday preparing the car to only do a couple of laps. I was going down the straight and I felt a big bang through the chassis and everything turned off; it’s just unfortunate.
I went into qualifying quite blind after missing all the running yesterday. Baku is a circuit that requires a lot confidence for you to maintain your momentum. From a personal perspective, I felt comfortable during qualifying and got the most out of the package. It’s been a tough weekend and will be a long race tomorrow, but we must stay positive and keep making the most of the situation."
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Travel Guide to holidays in... Cardinham, Cornwall, England
Cardinham is a town in Cornwall, England. It is situated near to Blisland, Bodmin And Country, Bodmin, St Breward, Lanhydrock, and St Neot and is one of 258 towns or villages in Cornwall in which Go2 has cottages or holidays lets available. The nearest main cities are Plymouth (population 243,795), Truro (population 20,920), and Exeter (which has a population of 106,772 according to the 2001 Census). Follow the links to find holiday cottages and lets available in this area on Go2, or view the surrounding area on the map below.
Wilder and more rugged than the south of the county, North Cornwall is a land of tall headlands, sandy beaches and empty moorland – yours to explore from one of our holiday cottages in North Cornwall. The busy resort of Newquay is a major attraction, with its glorious beaches and fantastic conditions for surfers. Nearby Perranporth also boasts some fantastic beaches, perfect for sun-lovers. You’ll find many more lovely beaches, like those at Bude for example, waiting for you on one of our North Cornwall cottage holidays. This part of Cornwall has become a bit of a mecca for food lovers too. Rick Stein has put Padstow on the map and more chefs, including Jamie Oliver, are joining him, attracted by the quality of the ingredients available locally. Then there is St. Ives, long a haunt of artists drawn here by the wonderful light and inspiring scenery. A cottage holiday in North Cornwall puts you in touch with history from ancient celtic times to the days of the smugglers. Tintagel Castle, rumoured to be the birthplace of King Arthur, sits high on a cliff and still has a strange air of mystery about it.
Wonderful scenery, a mild climate, sparkling blue seas and charming seaside villages make South Cornwall a firm favourite for cottage holidays whatever the season. And we have a fabulous choice of holiday cottages in South Cornwall from which to make the most of this lovely part of the country. The Cornish Riviera takes in some of South Cornwall’s most popular resorts and many of our holiday cottages in South Cornwall are located nearby. Picturesque Fowey is a haven for sailors, while the Roseland Peninsula is a noted beauty spot. Mevagissey, St. Mawes and St. Just are all well worth a visit. Not to be missed is the Eden Project, a fascinating recreation of different biospheres, featuring a wide variety of exotic plantlife. You should also make time for a trip to atmospheric St. Michael’s Mount and on to Land’s End, the most westerly point in England. The county town of Truro has a lovely cathedral and some excellent shopping opportunities, while Penzance is a bustling resort, famed for its warm weather and sub-tropical plants. And do make sure you sample the pasties, saffron cake and clotted cream – all local delicacies, – during your cottage holiday.
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The TAG Heuer Connected Smartwatch is here
Time's up, Apple
While Cupertino's smartwatch business is going gangbusters for the moment (it reportedly owns nearly 75 per cent of the global market), it doesn't mean that other manufacturers aren't sharpening up. And we aren't just referring to typical electronic manufacturers like Samsung and Huawei (who already have their own smartwatches), but pedigreed Swiss watchmakers who are entering the ring for the first time.
Earlier this year, we saw Fr?d?rique Constant and Bulgari turn up at Baselworld with their smartwatches, and it was then too that TAG Heuer announced they'd be creating one based on a Google platform and powered by an Intel chip. This TAG Heuer Connected Smartwatch is the result.
The 46mm timepiece has a 1.5-inch LCD touchscreen with three watch faces. The first is a Carrera-styled chronograph. Tap the screen once to start the chrono, once more to stop it and twice to reset. The second face is a GMT display while the third is a conventional three-hand time display.
You can get email and text message notifications on the timepiece and it's compatible with Android apps. The major difference between it and an Apple Watch is that there aren't any sensors in the back, so the TAG watch doesn't double up as a fitness accessory.
Electronically, TAG's packed in the fireworks. It's got a 1.6GHz dual core processor and 1GB main memory with 4GB of storage space, backed by a decent 25 hours of battery life. For the moment, the watch is released only in America for $1,500, but it will likely be launched in India soon.
The smartest bit of the watch though? The buyback and upgrade scheme. Two years after you purchase it, you can go back to the TAG store, return it, pay another $1,500 and score a proper Swiss-made all-mechanical Carrera timepiece.
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Study: Most young adults in dark about this car dashboard symbol
The study found 49 percent of young drivers were unable to recognize the tire pressure warning light.
Study: Most young adults in dark about this car dashboard symbol The study found 49 percent of young drivers were unable to recognize the tire pressure warning light. Check out this story on Freep.com: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/01/15/study-millennials-car-dashboard-symbol/2585273002/
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Young adults are more familiar with emojis than one of their vehicle's dashboard warning lights, according to a survey by Goodyear Auto Service and Just Tires.
The survey, conducted last fall of more than 1,000 drivers, found young drivers — both millennials and Generation Z — were more than 1.5 times as likely to identify the eye roll emoji or the Wi-Fi symbol correctly than the tire pressure warning light, a spokesman for Goodyear said.
Tire pressure symbol. (Photo: pialhovik, Getty Images/iStockphoto)
In fact, 49 percent of young drivers and 39 percent of all drivers were unable to recognize the warning light at all, the survey found.
The tire pressure monitoring system light indicates that at least one tire is significantly under-inflated. Possible causes for it illuminating include a puncture, leaking tire because of rim damage and fluctuating temperatures as seasons change, according to Goodyear. Improper tire pressure can lead to uneven tread wear, decreased gas mileage and poor handling.
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Obituary for David G. "Dave" McGuire
David G. "Dave" McGuire, age 70, a resident of Aurora, IL since 1988, formerly of Des Plaines, IL, passed away on Thursday, May 2, 2019 at his home after an extended illness, surrounded by his loving family. He was born February 25, 1949 in Berwyn, IL.
Beloved husband of Carol A. McGuire (nee Wadman), whom he married February 6, 1971, loving father of Jeanette (Joshua) Brooks of Plano, IL, Karen (Christopher) Wheeler of Barrington Hills, IL and Sarah McGuire of Boston, MA, adored grandfather of Yuri, James and Madeline Brooks; Ronin and Ethan Wheeler, devoted son of the late Albert McGuire and the late Loretto (the late Verne)Wellman, dear brother-in-law of Thomas (Victoria) Wadman, Mary (the late Steven) Kendall, Susan Schoefernacker, William (Deborah) Wadman and Nancy (James) Widlowski, fond cousin, uncle, great-uncle and friend of many.
David grew up in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood and moved with his family to Des Plaines at age 10. He was a 1968 graduate of Maine West High School and served in the U.S. Air Force from 1969-1973 as a jet engine mechanic, stationed in Guam. David was employed by Xerox for 31 years, retiring in 2004 as a manager.
He was a longtime, active member of St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church in Naperville and was active with the Pastoral Care ministry.
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Writing words: From brain to hand(s) View all 22 Articles
Experiment 1: Word Frequency and Syllable Frequency in Speaking
Experiment 2: Word Frequency and Syllable Frequency in Writing
Front. Psychol., 18 February 2014 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00120
Syllable frequency and word frequency effects in spoken and written word production in a non-alphabetic script
Qingfang Zhang1,2* and Cheng Wang2
1Department of Psychology, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China
2Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
The effects of word frequency (WF) and syllable frequency (SF) are well-established phenomena in domain such as spoken production in alphabetic languages. Chinese, as a non-alphabetic language, presents unique lexical and phonological properties in speech production. For example, the proximate unit of phonological encoding is syllable in Chinese but segments in Dutch, French or English. The present study investigated the effects of WF and SF, and their interaction in Chinese written and spoken production. Significant facilitatory WF and SF effects were observed in spoken as well as in written production. The SF effect in writing indicated that phonological properties (i.e., syllabic frequency) constrain orthographic output via a lexical route, at least, in Chinese written production. However, the SF effect over repetitions was divergent in both modalities: it was significant in the former two repetitions in spoken whereas it was significant in the second repetition only in written. Due to the fragility of the SF effect in writing, we suggest that the phonological influence in handwritten production is not mandatory and universal, and it is modulated by experimental manipulations. This provides evidence for the orthographic autonomy hypothesis, rather than the phonological mediation hypothesis. The absence of an interaction between WF and SF showed that the SF effect is independent of the WF effect in spoken and written output modalities. The implications of these results on written production models are discussed.
Although effects of word frequency (WF) and syllable frequency (SF) have been investigated systematically in the speech production domain, only a few of studies address similar issue in the written production of normal subjects (i.e., Bonin et al., 1998a; Bonin and Fayol, 2002). As a result, the study of WF and SF is far more advanced in speaking than in writing. The current view of speech production provide a general theoretical framework from which hypotheses specific to writing can be derived. Hence, it could be argued that the generation of written words should be investigated in close parallel to spoken production. In the work reported here, we investigated WF and SF effects, and their interaction in spoken and written production in Chinese, and addressed the general question of whether or not written production is independent or dependent on spoken production.
A central theoretical issue in the field concerns the extent to which written production is autonomous from or dependent on, spoken production. Early theoretical accounts claimed that the retrieval of an orthographic representation was entirely dependent on the prior retrieval of phonological codes, which is called the obligatory phonological mediation hypothesis. Evidence supporting this view comes from the common introspective experience of how written codes are generated (Hotopf, 1980), and the phonologically mediated spelling errors such as homophone substitutions (e.g., there for their) or quasi-homophone substitutions (e.g., dirth for dearth) (Aitchison and Todd, 1982). Neuropsychological patients with writing disorders present comparable impairments in spoken and written language production (Luria, 1970; Basso et al., 1978).
However, other neuropsychological studies have demonstrated dissociations between spoken and written production. For example, Rapp et al. (1997) presented the case of a neurologically impaired individual who was often able to write the names of pictures correctly while being unable to provide the correct spoken names. Miceli et al. (1997) reported a patient who, when presented with a picture, sometimes generated different spoken and written responses (e.g., for picture of pliers, he would say pincers but write saw) (see Alario et al., 2003 for a similar case study). The agraphic patients also produced errors with phonologically illegal spelling (e.g., Caramazza and Miceli, 1990). These findings motivated the “orthographic autonomy hypothesis,” which assumes that individuals can gain access to orthographic representation directly from meaning without phonological mediation (Rapp and Caramazza, 1997).
This account, however, does not necessarily imply that intact writing is unaffected by phonological codes in normal individuals. Relatively few empirical studies have addressed the relationship between phonological and orthographic codes with chronometric tasks, and the results have not been consistent. A few studies have demonstrated that phonological codes indeed influence writing (e.g., Bonin et al., 2001; Zhang and Damian, 2010; Afonso and Álvarez, 2011; Damian et al., 2011). Bonin et al. (2001) manipulated the consistency of phonology-orthography mappings in picture names to identify the potential effects of phonological codes in written picture naming. Word-initial inconsistencies at the sublexical level were found to affect writing latencies: picture names with inconsistent phono-orthographic mapping were written more slowly than those with consistent ones, whereas no difference was found when consistency was manipulated at the lexical level. This finding further suggests that phonology affects orthographic encoding mainly via the sublexical route. In contrast, Bonin et al. (1998b) did not obtain evidence supporting the role of phonology in a picture writing task.
Overall, although some tentative evidence exists suggesting that phonological codes constrain orthographic output tasks such as handwriting, more evidence is needed to resolve this controversial issue. The experiments reported in this article contribute to this debate by comparing the WF effect and the SF effect in spoken and written production. In the following we will sketch a provisional framework which accommodates the effects of WF and SF, and previous studies on the effects of WF and SF.
The Word Frequency and Syllable Frequency Effect in Speech Production
The Word Encoding by Activation and VERification model (WEAVER++) is the most detailed theory about word-form encoding in speech production (Roelofs, 1992, 1997a,b; Levelt et al., 1999). The WEAVER++ assumes two steps for word-form encoding in speech production. A first step is to select the word's form information in the mental lexicon. There are two kinds of word form information: a word's segmental and its metrical form. A morpheme initially activates all its corresponding phonological segments and their order. In parallel to this segmental spell out, metrical codes containing an abstract grouping of syllables into phonological words are retrieved. Both segments and metrical structure (frame) are subsequently merged in a syllabification process in a strictly sequential fashion (segment-to-frame association). The second step is to compute or access the gestural score from the mental syllabary that will result in a phonological word's syllables, and this process is sometimes called phonetic encoding. The mental syllabary can provide pre-compiled gesture scores for phonetic encoding, and the mental syllabary is a store of abstract motor routines of syllabic size. The above-mentioned two steps are successive and independent in the WEAVER++ model.
It has been demonstrated that the retrieval of word form is sensitive to WF as high-frequency words are named faster than low-frequency words in picture naming (Oldfield and Wingfield, 1965; Wingfield, 1968). In Jescheniak and Levelt Study (1994) frequency effects were not obtained in either an object recognition task, or in a delayed word production task. The object recognition task taps into conceptual representations of speech production, while the delayed naming task taps into articulation process, and therefore, the absence of frequency effects in both tasks indicates that the WF effect is lexical in origin. They further demonstrated that the WF effect in word production is due mainly to accessing the phonological forms of words. Other evidence supporting the attribution of frequency effects to phonological forms comes from studies of homophone production (i.e., Stemberger and Macwhitney, 1986; Dell, 1990; La Heij et al., 1999; Jescheniak et al., 2003). However, other researchers (Caramazza et al., 2001; Bonin and Fayol, 2002; Shatzman and Schiller, 2004; Cuetos et al., 2010) failed to find a homophone frequency effect. These findings question the conclusion that the WF effect arises at the phonological forms of a word stage, and supports the lexical origin of WF effect, although they do not deny its influence at the phonological level.
Analogous to the findings for the WF effect, if the mentally syllabary consists of retrievable representations corresponding to syllables, then the stored syllables should exhibit a frequency effect, that is a syllable frequently used in language should be retrieved faster than one less frequently used. Levelt and Wheeldon (1994) tested this storage hypothesis by comparing retrieval latencies for high- vs. low-frequency syllables. They found that words with high frequency syllables were named faster than words with low-frequency syllables when WF was matched. The mental syllabary hypothesis assumes the pre-compiled gestural scores for the articulators rather than constructing the motor programs for each syllable on-line. If a syllable is retrieved from the mental syllabary rather than computed on-line, then the retrieval process should be sensitive to the frequency differences. Therefore, Levelt and Wheeldon interpreted this finding as support for the notion of a mental syllabary.
The hypothesis that content syllables are explicitly represented as chunks and retrieved from a mental syllabary has been tested by investigating whether or not speech production performance is sensitive to SF. SF effects were obtained in a number of studies in different alphabetic languages with words and pseudowords (German: Aichert and Ziegler, 2004; Dutch: Levelt and Wheeldon, 1994; Cholin et al., 2006; Spanish: Perea and Carreiras, 1998; Carreiras and Perea, 2004; French: Laganaro and Alario, 2006; English: Macizo and Van Petten, 2007; Cholin et al., 2011). The effect of SF in spoken output is usually facilitatory, which might be due to faster access to articulatory-phonetic syllable programs for high-frequency syllables (Levelt, 1989; Levelt and Wheeldon, 1994; Levelt et al., 1999). Laganaro and Alario (2006) employed immediate and delayed picture naming and pseudo word naming tasks, with or without articulatory suppression (i.e., repetition of the syllable /ba/) to investigate the assumption that stored syllables are retrieved during phonetic encoding by manipulating syllable frequencies. A SF effect was found in immediate pseudo-word naming, picture naming and in a delayed naming task with articulatory suppression but was not observed in standard delayed naming. As the process of articulatory suppression disrupts phonetic processing but not phonological encoding. This pattern of results is interpreted as evidence that SF affects the phonetic encoding stage.
In sum, available evidence suggests that WF plays a role at the lexical level while SF plays a role during accessing stored syllabic units (a later stage of word-form encoding) in speech production.
The Word Frequency and Syllable Frequency Effect in Written Production
Bonin et al. (1998a,b) have shown that frequency effects in writing are genuinly lexical because they did not find a significant frequency effect either in an object recognition task or in a delayed written picture naming task. Bonin and Fayol (2002) further investigated WF effects in written and spoken production of homophonic picture names, and found homophone frequency effects in spoken as well as in written production: heterographic homophonic picture names with high-frequency were produced faster than low-frequency picture names. They excluded the possibility that the effects arise at the conceptual level in a picture categorization task, and suggested that the WF effect in writing is lexical in origin. According to the obligatory phonological mediation hypothesis, the locus of WF effects should be the same in both spoken and written production, namely at the phonological lexeme level. In contrast, according to the orthographic autonomy hypothesis, which claims that orthographic representations can be accessed directly from semantic representations, the most likely locus of WF effects is at the orthographic lexeme level.
We are not aware of any studies examining the SF effect in written production. However, a few studies have demonstrated that syllables modulate processes of written production. Kandel et al. (2006a,b) observed that French 1st–5th graders write words and pseudowords syllable by syllable, reflecting that the children used the syllable as a unit for chunking letter strings in a coherent way. The syllable effect in handwriting has been demonstrated in other developmental studies (Kandel et al., 2006b) as well as in adults (Kandel et al., 2006a; Lambert et al., 2007). Kandel and her colleagues examined the nature of syllabic processing in children (Kandel et al., 2009). They manipulated orthographic and phonological matched or mismatched syllables in French word writing task. Third, 4th, and 5th graders were asked to write words that were mono-syllables phonologically (i.e., barque is [baRk]) but bi-syllables orthographically (i.e., barque = bar.que), which matched to words that were bi-syllables phonologically and orthographically (i.e., balcon = [bal.kõ] and bal.con). They found that results on letter stroke duration and fluency generated significant peaks at the syllable boundary for both types of words, reflecting that children use orthographic syllables rather than phonological syllables in handwriting production.
So far, word and syllable frequency effects have to our knowledge not been investigated in Mandarin Chinese, a non-alphabetic language. In alphabetic languages such as Spanish, syllables are predictable from orthography, and Dutch, French or English syllables are also predictable, are although less so than Spanish. By contrast, it is totally unpredictable in Chinese. Studies indicated that it is possible that a syllabic effect is not a phonological effect but an orthographic syllabic effect in written production (see also Kandel et al., 2009). Due to the unique characteristics of Chinese, a study of the SF effect in Chinese would clarify the role of phonology in written production.
A few studies addressed the role of the syllable in Chinese spoken production. O'Seaghdha et al. (2010) proposed a model of sequential steps in word form encoding in Mandarin Chinese monosyllabic word production. Similar to WEAVER++, content and structure are separated in the model. Activation from the corresponding abstract word flows to phonological content and structure. Phonological content is activated as syllables, while their syllabic frames are retrieved. Both syllabic content and frame are linked sequentially and metrical tone is also specified at this point. In contrast to WEAVER++ model of alphabetic languages, syllables are chunks in Mandarin Chinese.
According to O'Seaghdha et al. (2010), syllables are proximate units and are retrieved from the mental lexicon at an early stage of phonological encoding. This has been supported by several studies. For example, there are many syllable-sized phonological speech errors in Chinese, whereas segmental errors are quite rare (Chen, 1993, 2000). Chen et al. (2003) investigated the role of the syllable using a masked priming task as Ferrand and his colleagues had employed in French (Ferrand et al., 1996, 1997). Disyllabic Mandarin Chinese words were used as targets and single Chinese characters were used as primes. In Chen et al's third experiment, syllable overlap between prime and the first syllable of a disyllabic target was manipulated. They found that the CV targets were named faster when preceded by CV primes compared to the CVG (G represents glide sound) primes, whereas the opposite pattern was obtained for the CVG targets. The critical crossover interaction between prime type and target type was significant, and thus provides evidence for the notion that the syllable is a functional unit in speech production. You et al. (2012) obtained syllable priming effects across different stimuli and different tasks (word and picture naming), and provide more conclusive data regarding the role of the syllable in Chinese spoken production. In addition, studies using other production tasks such as the implicit priming task (Chen et al., 2002; O'Seaghdha et al., 2010) and the picture-word interference task in spoken production (Zhang, 2008; Zhang and Weekes, 2009; Zhang et al., 2009) and in written production (Qu et al., 2011) also attested to the important role of the syllable in Chinese. In contrast, most studies in Dutch, French and English demonstrated that the proximate unit is segments in alphabetic languages (Schiller, 1998, 1999, 2000; Brand et al., 2003). These contrastive findings suggest that the role of the syllable in Chinese is different from Dutch, English or French.
On the other hand, to the best of our knowledge, only a few experimental studies involving normal participants have investigated the extent to which the processes and the representations involved in speech production resemble those involved in written production (Bonin et al., 1997, 1998a,b; Bonin and Fayol, 2000) and then only in French.
In the present study, we aim to investigate the effects of WF, SF and their interaction, on spoken and written production latencies. Although spoken and written language production systems obviously share some processing levels, they also both have some specific processing components (Bonin et al., 1998a). Picture naming and writing are thought to differ beyond the conceptual-semantic level: a phonological lexeme level in naming and an orthographic lexeme level in writing (Ellis, 1982, 1988; Caramazza and Hillis, 1990). Phonological information can serve as input for articulation in spoken production and orthographic information can serve as input for orthographic output in written production. Writing also involves the retrieval of an orthographic plan as well as the execution of a motor program, which is different from speaking execution.
Given that the WF and SF effects are well-established phenomena in domains such as spoken production, it is plausible to predict similar effects in orthographic output tasks in the framework of the obligatory phonology mediation hypothesis, because the retrieval of orthographic codes depends on the retrieval of phonological codes. Our basic assumption was that, similar effects would indicate that similar processes are involved in both forms of language production: A SF effect in Chinese written production would provide support for the phonological mediation hypothesis due to deep mapping of orthography-to-phonology in Chinese. In contrast, in the framework of the orthographic autonomy hypothesis, the retrieval of orthographic codes does not require access to phonological codes, and orthographic and phonological representations can be accessed independently. We predict WF effects would differ in spoken and written output, and the absence of SF effect in written output.
A second purpose of the experiment was to assess the robustness of the effects over repetitions. Are the word and SF effects ephermeral, that is, do they dissipating with repeated use of the word? Or is it structural, insensitive to repeated processing of an individual item (see also Jescheniak and Levelt, 1994).
Twenty-four students (12 males, average 23.2 years, range 20–25 years) participated and were paid approximately $3. They were randomly taken from Beijing Forest University and China Agricultural University. All were native Mandarin Chinese speakers with normal or corrected-to-normal vision.
Sixty target pictures with monosyllabic names were selected from Zhang and Yang's (2003) picture database. Word frequencies were taken from the Modern Chinese Frequency Dictionary (Beijing Language Institute, 1986). The mean number of strokes of target names is 9.95. A Chinese character's pronunciation (pinyin) corresponds to one syllable, and thus SF was calculated by accumulating the word frequencies of one syllable (not counting tone). For 60 monosyllabic words, half were high frequency (all ≥130/per million), half were low frequency (≤47/per million). Among high and low frequency words, half had high SF (≥2558/per million), half had low SF (≤1479/per million). Note that, low-frequency syllables had above-average frequency of occurrence in the language. This is important as the WEAVER++ model claims that very low-frequency syllables will be formed on-line rather than retrieved from the mental syllabary. Thus, we used relatively low-frequency syllables in the experiment. Table 1 shows the properties of picture names and pictures used in the experiments. Statistical analyses showed that a significant difference between low and high WF [t(58) = 9.42, p < 0.0001], and a significant difference between low and high SF [t(58) = 9.57, p < 0.0001). Statistical analyses showed no significant difference between low and high WF on naming consistency, familiarity, image consistency, and complexity. All items are reported in Appendix.
Table 1. Means word frequency (per million), syllable frequency (per million), number of neighbors, strokes number, naming consistency, familiarity, image consistency, and image complexity of the stimuli.
The experimental design included (WF: low vs. high) and SF (low vs. high) and Repetition (1st, 2nd, and 3rd) as within-participants factors. Each participant names 60 target words three times, resulting in 180 trials in total. Each repetition was set in one block, and thus there were three blocks in total. The order of target words within a block was pseudo-randomized to prevent targets with the same onset repeating across five trials. A new sequence was generated for each participant and each block.
The experiment was performed using E-Prime Professional Software (Version 1.1; Psychology Software Tools). Participants were seated in a quiet room approximately 70 cm from a 19 inch LED computer screen. Naming latencies were measured from target onset using a voice-key, connected to the computer via a PST Serial Response Box.
Participants were tested individually. They sat in a dimly lit room at a comfortable viewing distance in front of the computer. Before the experiment, participants were instructed that their task was to name pictures. Participants first were asked to familiarize themselves with the experimental stimuli by viewing each target for 3000 ms with the correct name printed below. Then, 4 warm-up trials and 60 trials for each repetition were administered.
Participants were asked to name pictures as quickly and accurately as possible. Each trial involved the following sequence: A fixation point (+) presented in the center of the screen for 500 ms, followed by a blank screen for 500 ms. After that the target picture appeared, an inter-trial interval of 1500 ms concluded each trial. The experiment took about 30 min in total.
Data from incorrect responses (0.39%), naming latencies longer than 1500 ms or shorter than 200 ms (0.58%), and latencies deviating 2.5 standard deviations from the cell mean (2.27%) were removed from all analyses. The remaining data were used in the subsequenct statistical analysis. Figure 1 presents the mean latencies, presented by Character Frequency, SF, and Repetition in spoken picture naming.
Figure 1. Mean naming latencies in spoken responses by WF, SF, and repetitions (L, Low; H, High; WF, Word Frequency; SF, Syllable Frequency).
We used the lmer program of the lme4 package for estimated fixed effects and parameter estimation of the LMM (Bates, 2005; Baayen et al., 2008; Bates et al., 2009). The free software R was used (R Development Core Team, 2009). The data were analyzed using a linear mixed-effects model that included fixed effects of WF, SF, and Repetition, and by-participant and by-item random intercepts. Models were fit to the data using a restricted maximum likelihood estimation, which seeks to find those parameter values that make the model's predicted values most similar to the observed values. Model fitting was carried out by initially specifying a model that only included the random factors (participants and items) which was then enriched by subsequently adding the fixed factors WF, SF, and Repetition one by one, followed by the interaction between WF and Repetition, the interaction between WF and SF, the interaction of SF and repetition, and the 3-way interaction among WF, SF, and Repetition one by one. The best fitting model was defined to be the most complex model that significantly improved the fit over the previous model. If adding a fixed factor or an interaction among factors did not significantly improve the fit, this indicates that they do not produce significant influences on the dependent variables (i.e., naming latencies).
For speaking latencies, the best fitting model included WF, SF, Repetition, the interaction between WF and Repetition (see Table 2). Adding the interactions between WF and SF, χ2(1, 4180) = 0.61, p = 0.43, SF and Repetition, χ2(2, 4180) = 4.67, p = 0.10, and the triple interaction among WF, SF, and Repetition, χ2(2, 4180) = 3.41, p = 0.18, did not significantly improve the fit. Data analysis indicated a significant WF effect and a marginally significant SF effect across repetitions. In order to examine the effects of WF and SF, and their interaction, speaking data were analyzed separately for each repetition.
Table 2. LMM estimates of fixed effects for latencies in speaking.
For the first and the second repetitions, the best fitting model included WF and SF, adding the interaction between WF and SF did not significant improve the fit in the first repetition, χ2(1, 1396) = 0.86, p = 0.35, and the second repetition, χ2(1, 1397) = 1.26, p = 0.26. For the third repetition, the best fitting model included WF only, adding the SF, χ2(1, 1387) = 0.60, p = 0.44, and the interaction between WF and SF, χ2(1, 1387) = 0.00, p = 1, did not significantly improve the fit. Table 3 displays parameter estimates for fixed effects in each repetition.
Table 3. LMM estimates of fixed effects for latencies for each repetition in speaking.
A parallel analysis was conducted on the errors, but a binomial family was used because of the binary nature of the responses. For each repetition, no models including WF, SF, or their interaction significantly improve the fit, χ2(1)s ≤ 1.29, p ≥ 0.26. Planned comparisons showed no significant effects of WF, zs ≤ 0.28, ps ≥ 0.75, and no significant effects of SF, zs ≤ 0.74, ps ≥ 0.46.
The experimental results are clear-cut. First, a highly reliable WF effect (average: 49 ms) was obtained, pictures with high-frequency names were produced faster and more accurately than those with low-frequency names. Although the WF effect decreased from the first (58 ms) repetition to the third (35 ms) repetition, it was still a substantial 35 ms in the third repetition. This finding is consistent with other studies that showed that the WF effect decreases with repeated presentations of the same set of pictures (e.g., Bartram, 1973; Monsell et al., 1992; Wheeldon and Monsell, 1992; Griffin and Bock, 1998).
Second, the experiment showed that there is a SF effect in the first and the second repetitions, pictures with high-frequency syllables produced faster than those with low-frequency syllables. This was in accordance with previous findings (Levelt and Wheeldon, 1994). According to the WEAVER++ model, syllables are retrieved from the mental syllabary, therefore, a SF effect was observed. However, this effect dissipated in the third repetition. What could be the cause of the ephemeral SF effect? We suggest that it is a recency effect (see also Jescheniak and Levelt, 1994) for a similar pattern on a gender decision task]. After two repetitions, high- and low- frequency syllables became equated on recency, and thus the SF effect decreased or disappeared in the third repetition.
Third, there was no interaction between WF and SF in spoken picture naming, indicating that the SF effect is independent of the WF effect (see also Levelt and Wheeldon, 1994 for a similar conclusion).
Twenty-four students (11 males, average 23.0 years, range 19–28 years) from the same student pool participated in the experiment and were paid approximately $3. None of them participated in Experiment 1.
They were identical to experiment 1.
The experiment was run using the E-Prime Professional Software (Version 1.1; Psychology Software Tools). The computer controlled the presentation of the pictures and recorded the latencies. Written responses (the intervals between picture onset and initial contact of the pen on the writing surface) were recorded via a WACOM Intuos A4 graphic tablet and a WACOM inking digitizer pen (WACOM, Japan) connected to the computer. Other details were identical to experiment 1.
Pictures were displayed at the bottom of the screen in order to reduce participants' head and eye movements as they wrote the picture names. Participants were asked to write picture names as quickly and accurately as possible. During the experiment, participants were instructed to hover the stylus just above the corresponding line on the sheet in anticipation of the response, so that the response would not require an arm movement.
Each trial involved the following sequence: A fixation point (+) presented at the bottom of the screen for 500 ms, followed by a blank screen for 500 ms. After that the target picture appeared, an inter-trial interval of 3500 ms concluded each trial. The experiment took about 40 min in total. Other procedures were identical to experiment 1.
Data from incorrect responses (0.81%), writing latencies longer than 2000 ms or shorter than 300 ms (1.88%), and latencies deviating 2.5 standard deviations from the cell mean (2.36%) were removed from all analyses. The remaining data were used in the subsequent statistical analysis. Figure 2 presents the mean written latencies, presented by WF, SF, and Repetition.
Figure 2. Mean naming latencies in written responses by WF, SF, and repetitions (L, Low; H, High; WF, Word Frequency; SF, Syllable Frequency).
The data were analyzed using a linear mixed-effects model that included fixed effects of WF, SF, and Repetition, and by-participant and by-item random intercepts. Results are reported for the best-fitting models.
For writing latencies, the best fitting model included WF, SF, Repetition, and the interaction between WF and Repetition (see Table 4). Adding the interactions between WF and SF, χ2(1, 4102) = 0.90, p = 0.34, SF and Repetition, χ2(1, 4102) = 0.35, p = 0.84, and the triple interaction among WF, SF, and Repetition, χ2(2, 4102) = 3.42, p = 0.18, did not significantly improve the fit. Data analysis indicated a significant WF effect and a marginally significant SF effect across repetitions. In order to examine the effects of WF and SF, and their interaction, writing data were analyzed separately for each repetition.
Table 4. LMM estimates of fixed effects for latencies in writing.
For the first and the third repetitions, the best fitting model included WF only. In the first repetition, adding SF, χ2(1, 1335) = 1.58, p = 0.21, and the interaction between WF and SF, χ2(1, 1335) = 1.88, p = 0.17, did not significant improve the fit, In the third repetition, adding SF, χ2(1, 1389) = 2.49, p = 0.11, and the interaction between WF and SF, χ2(1, 1389) = 0.26, p = 0.61, did not significant improve the fit. For the second repetition, the best fitting model included WF and SF, adding the interaction between WF and SF, did not significantly improve the fit, χ2(1, 1378) = 0.36, p = 0.55. Table 5 displays parameter estimates for fixed effects in each repetition.
Table 5. LMM estimates of fixed effects for latencies for each repetition in writing.
Similar to spoken naming, we observed a highly reliable WF effect (average: 81 ms), which was larger than the effect in spoken naming. The WF effect decreased obviously but was still significant in the third repetition. The most obvious explanation is that it reflects the participants' accommodation to the task (see also Jescheniak and Levelt, 1994). Significant SF effect was only observed in the second repetition only. There was no interaction between WF and SF in written naming as well.
We employed spoken naming and written naming tasks to investigate effects of WF and SF, and their interaction. The main findings of the two experiments are these: (1) SF and WF affect naming and writing latencies; (2) the SF effect is independent of WF in both output modalities; (3) the WF effect is attenuated with the repetition of the pictures but still persisted even after three repetitions in both output modalities. The magnitude of WF effect was larger in written output than in spoken output. (4) the SF effect disappeared in spoken output after two repetitions, while it was there in written response in the second repetition only. This indicates that the phonological influence in handwritten production is not mandatory and universal, and it was modulated by experimental manipulations.
In non-alphabetic languages such as Chinese, we obtained WF and SF effects in spoken production. Pictures with high WF names were produced 56 ms faster than those with low WF names, an effect size similar to Jescheniak and Levelt's findings (i.e., 62 ms) in picture naming in Dutch. Additionally, the WF effect was invariant over the first two repetitions, and decreased in the third repetition but was still significant. This indicates that the WF effect is not easily influenced by repetitions (see Jescheniak and Levelt, 1994 for a similar finding). Given the assumption that naming pictures involves identification, conceptual preparation, lexicalization, and output preparation, and that the pictures were matched on naming consistency, familiarity, image consistency, and imaging complexity (see Table 1), in combination with evidence from previous studies with the delayed naming task (Jescheniak and Levelt, 1994; Almeida et al., 2007), we suggest that the WF effect might be lexical in origin in Chinese spoken production, although we cannot determine its exact locus (either an early stage i.e., lemma selection or a later stage i.e., word-form encoding) based on our findings.
In alphabetic languages, notably Dutch, it has been demonstrated that SF effect arise at the stage of phonetic encoding, and may relate to faster access to a mental syllablary, where syllables are stored separately from words (Levelt and Wheeldon, 1994; Levelt et al., 1999; Aichert and Ziegler, 2004; Carreiras and Perea, 2004; Cholin et al., 2006, 2011; Laganaro and Alario, 2006). These findings come largely from alphabetic languages such as Dutch, German, French, and English. Studies in Chinese as a non-alphabetic language also suggest that the syllable plays a prominent role (Chen et al., 2002; You et al., 2012). Furthermore, O'Seaghdha et al. (2010) propose a different position for the stored syllabic units in Chinese. They assume that there are proximate units which are the first selectable phonological units below the level of the word/morpheme and vary across languages. The proximate units are syllables in Mandarin Chinese (Chen et al., 2002; You et al., 2012; but see Wong and Chen, 2008, 2009) but segments in alphabetic languages (Schiller, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2008). According to the assumption of proximate units, in Chinese, phonological content is bundled in syllables with links it to the corresponding unit in the structure network and a syllable frame. Then, the segments of a syllable are linked to positions in the syllable frame. We therefore suggest that the SF effect originates at an early stage of word-form encoding in spoken responses in Chinese, rather than at the stage of phonetic encoding. This is the first study reporting a SF effect in Mandarin Chinese a non-alphabetic language. From the present results we conclude that Chinese is sensitive to SF manipulations in speaking, although its locus might be different from alphabetic languages.
As far as written production is concerned, we observed a SF effect in written responses in the second repetition only, suggesting that phonological codes may constrain the generation of orthographic output codes. However, the SF effect was not observed in the first and the third repetitions. This indicates that the effect of phonological codes in handwritten production was modulated by the manipulation of repetitions. Zhang and Damian (2010) found that the phonological facilitation effect disappeared when an articulation suppression task was performed during the preparation of written responses, reflecting that the phonological influence is not mandatory and universal, and it can be modulated via the manipulation by an articulation suppression task (see also Shen et al., 2013 for a similar conclusion). On the other hand, a large size of WF effect was observed in writing and it rapidly decreased over repetitions but still significant in the third repetition.
Concerning the SF effect, it was significant in the first and the second repetitions but not in the third repetition in speaking. Jescheniak and Levelt (1994) also observed that the WF effect was robust over repetitions in picture naming, but it rapidly decreased and disappeared by the third repetition in a gender decision task. They suggested that this reflects a recency effect: high- and low- WF became equated on recency after two repetitions, thus the WF effect decreased or disappeared in the third repetition. In contrast, we did not observe this pattern in written output. Why does the recency effect arise in spoken responses but not in written responses? Accessing phonological codes is mandatory in spoken but not in written (Zhang and Damian, 2010; Shen et al., 2013), and participants need to encode phonological information for articulation in speaking. In other words, the process of speaking is sensitive to SF. In contrast, it is not necessary to access the phonological codes in writing and thus the process of writing is insensitive to SF. However, it should be note that the magnitude of the SF effect was comparable in spoken (average 25 ms in the first and the second repetitions) and written responses (average 27 ms in three repetitions). This reflected that written production involve similar syllabic processing to spoken production in Chinese. This relatively weak effect cannot imply that syllable does not play a role in speaking and writing, because large numbers of studies demonstrated that the role of syllable in spoken production (e.g., Levelt and Wheeldon, 1994; You et al., 2012). A possibility was that writing latencies were much longer than speaking latencies (991 ms vs. 673 ms), therefore, a 27-ms SF effect was not significant in longer latencies. Chen and Cherng (2013) found that reaction times were around 680 ms from the onset of a cue character to the onset of a written response with a prompt-response generation task. Therefore, further study could use this more sensitive task to investigate the SF effect in written production.
A larger WF effect was observed in written (average: 81 ms) than in spoken (average: 49 ms), suggesting that written production may involve different processes from spoken production. The written model proposed by Bonin et al. (2001) assumes a semantic system that is symmetrically linked to both a phonological and an orthographic output lexicon. Both lexicons also directly map onto each other, implying that selection of a graphemic entry is influenced by both direct activation from the semantic system and indirect activation from the phonological lexicon. The model also assumes a sublexical phonology-to-orthography conversion route, paralleling the sublexical grapheme-to-phoneme route in dual-route models of reading aloud (Coltheart et al., 2001). From the SF effect, we infer that phonological lexeme might contribute to the WF effect in written as well as in spoken production. On the other hand, orthographic representations might be accessed directly from semantic representations. The locus of WF effect would then originate from the orthographic lexemes level (see also Bonin and Fayol, 2002). Hence, there are two possible resources for the WF effect: one is at the orthographic lexeme level, and the other is at the phonological lexeme level.
The latencies were systematically longer in written than in spoken production in the present study, therefore, differences in the WF effect between written and spoken was possibly the result of post-lexical processing (see also Bonin et al., 1998a,b; Perret and Laganaro, 2013) or other characteristics specific to handwriting such as monitoring visual control (Smyth and Silvers, 1987; Graham and Weintraub, 1996; Bonin et al., 1998a,b; Alamargot et al., 2006). Bonin et al. (1998a) suggested that the increased latencies did not arise during central cognitive processes, because this difference in latencies between written and spoken is also observed in a delay production task. In contrast, Perret and Laganaro (2013) demonstrated that only when participants can see and monitor their written output, latencies are longer for writing than for speaking. They suggested that this difference is not due to central cognitive processes or a characteristic of post-lexical processes, but the additional actions such as eye movements or control of handwriting's onset. According to these findings, the larger WF effect in written than in spoken production might originate from multiple levels, and needs to be investigated further.
In summary, we firstly observed a WF effect and a SF effect in spoken as well as in written responses in Chinese, and the SF effect is independent of the WF effect. Due to the fragility of the SF effect in writing, we suggest that the phonological influence in handwritten production is not mandatory and universal, and it is modulated by experimental manipulations. This provides evidence for the orthographic autonomy hypothesis, rather than the phonological mediation hypothesis. The findings reported in the article allow only limited insight into the exact nature of phonological codes in written production in Chinese. It is obvious that more intensive research is needed to investigate the impact of WF and SF, and their effects on spoken and written production in Chinese.
This research was supported by Grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31170977) to Qingfang Zhang.
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Keywords: spoken production, written production, word frequency effect, syllable frequency effect, Chinese
Citation: Zhang Q and Wang C (2014) Syllable frequency and word frequency effects in spoken and written word production in a non-alphabetic script. Front. Psychol. 5:120. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00120
Received: 15 July 2013; Accepted: 28 January 2014;
Published online: 18 February 2014.
Sonia Kandel, University of Grenoble Alpes - LPNC- CNRS UMR 5105, France
Cristina Baus, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
David Cottrell, James Cook University, Australia
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Pope Francis has apologized in front of a group of Evangelic Christians for persecution inflicted on Pentecostals under Italy's fascist regime during the mid-20th century and in which Catholics were involved.
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Around 200 and 300 evangelicals from the United States, Argentine, and Italy attended the July 28 meeting in Caserta, in the southern part of Italy on Saturday.
There were some 200,000 people gathered in a place said to be a stronghold of the Naples Mafia known as Camorra.
Matteo Calisi, former president of the Catholic Charismatic movement, and Jorge Himitian, an Argentinian Protestant attended.
"With men like you, there is hope for us, as Christians," saidItalian Evangelical Pentecostal pastor, Giovanni Traettino, a friend of Pope Francis, the Vatican News Service reported.
The Pope also rallied for Christian unity calling for a "church that is one in its diversity."
Francis spoke about the relationship of Catholics with Pentecostals in Italy saying "Many times we have done the same thing as the brothers of Joseph, when jealous and envy have divided us.
"That sad history, in which the same things that Joseph's brother did are repeated: denouncements, the laws of these people who 'are against the purity of the race.'
"And these laws were ratified by baptized persons! Some of those who enacted these laws, and some of those who persecuted, denounced their Pentecostal brothers because they were 'enthusiastic', almost 'crazy', who spoiled the race.
"I am a Catholic pastor, and I beg forgiveness for this. I ask your forgiveness on behalf of those Catholic brothers and sisters who did not understand and who were tempted by the devil; and who did the same thing that Joseph's brothers did.
"I ask the Lord for the grace to recognize and to forgive," said Francis.
The Pope had a three-hour meeting with televangelists Kenneth Copeland and James Robison on June, just weeks after he met with U.S. Pastor Joel Osteen and other religious leaders.
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Controversial prostitution bill passed
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Published on: October 6, 2014 | Last Updated: October 6, 2014 8:33 PM MDT
The government’s controversial prostitution bill passed in the House of Commons Monday night by a 156-124 vote.
The Supreme Court last December ruled Canada’s existing laws on the world’s oldest profession were unconstitutional and ordered Parliament to come up with new legislation within a year.
Justice Minister Peter MacKay was behind the new legislation, Bill C-36, and took the approach that it would criminalize the purchase of sex, but not its sale.
MacKay called his legislation a "made in Canada" approach and the best way to eliminate prostitution altogether.
By allowing prostitutes to sell sexual services without fear of criminalization, the law won’t prevent them from implementing safety measures such as bodyguards, MacKay has said.
Under the previous law, prostitutes were effectively prohibited from hiring bodyguards because nobody was allowed to live "off the avails of prostitution."
"The objective is to (lower) the demand and make prostitution illegal," MacKay said last month to a committee of senators.
He said the prostitution bill represents a "paradigm shift" in Canada because it deals with sex workers as victims who need help, rather than criminals who deserve punishment.
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ANEW 2018 Review
Attendees respond with their key take-aways from several of the sessions held at the Faith for Justice mini-conference ANEW: Faith for Justice Forum for Change in October of 2018. Read reviews about Abolition, Womanist Panel, and a Healing Space for People of Color.
by Jelani Ince
I had the privilege of attending Faith For Justice’s (hereafter FFJ) mini-conference entitled “Anew: Faith For Justice Forum for Change”, held at the Ferguson Empowerment Center. It has been two weeks since the conference; since its conclusion, I have processed the sessions I attended and the conversations I had with co-participants. What I offer below is a brief reflection of Montague Simmons’ plenary from Friday night, and the impact the conference had on me.
Simmons’ Friday night plenary provided a case for the necessity of abolition and community empowerment. He specifically used the word abolition, as opposed to reform, because “some systems cannot be fixed.” One such example is the Workhouse. Simmons argued that the facility is not necessary, for reasons including how it targets those who are unable to afford bond and its inhumane conditions. We are told that institutions like this are necessary for “public safety” purposes, but Simmons warned participants to be wary of this logic because it leaves the social order unchallenged (1).
To confront evil of this magnitude requires a profound commitment to bold solutions. One solution that Simmons suggested was participatory budgeting, where the interests and voices of those who are most impacted are included in the decision-making process. If people have resources (including capital of all forms) along with the access to utilize them, then their communities can be empowered rather than controlled or destroyed. Simmons charged the audience to imagine solutions that do not include the existence of oppressive systems. For instance, what would it look like for the city to use its public safety budget to fund housing and permanently close the Workhouse? What would it be look like for community residents to care after their neighborhood without hyper-surveillance from the police state?
These are the questions that an abolitionist framework, informed by the womanist tradition, requires us to wrestle through. The events from FFJ’s conference reminded me to look at institutions with a critical eye, and to consider whom they protect and erase. However, I was also challenged to apply the same scrutiny to myself. As a Black man, I am no stranger to advocacy for justice. However, that pursuit is fruitless—and ultimately incomplete—if it reproduces current systems (both behaviors and ideologies) of domination. I undoubtedly left the conference with more questions than the answers—questions pertaining to my own participation in these systems and epistemological blind spots. These questions have compelled me towards action; more specifically, towards (re)considering what a life committed to honoring the imago-Dei in all and shifting the current authority structure(s) looks like.
Public safety takes up most of the city’s spending plan, totaling roughly $290 million, $16 million of which is designated for the Workhouse. (Sources: https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/amid-debate-over-cuts-st-louis-public-safety-director-wants/article_3eeea3e8-d2b6-5457-9ccf-6291327cb0ba.html; https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ada6072372b96dbb234ee99/t/5bcca7e84785d3d9aac2513c/1540139716777/Close+The+Workhouse+Plan_Rev1+10112018.pdf)
by Ann Louise Schmidt
The first session of ANEW was given by Montague Simmons, on Abolition. Mr. Simmons is currently the lead organizer on the Close the Workhouse campaign and he discussed why the workhouse must be abolished, rather than reformed. The story of the Workhouse (the Medium Security Institution in St. Louis), is a story of injustice. The workhouse is a place where people are being kept in inhumane and unlivable conditions. The workhouse is a place where toilets are broken and cockroaches and snakes are common. Inmates are charged multiple dollars a minute, just to be able to make a phone call. The workhouse is full of people who have not been convicted of a crime yet, remain incarcerated, not because they have been found guilty, but rather because they cannot pay their bail. This is clear discrimination against those who cannot pay, against the poor. During the breakout session on abolition, we discussed that there is NEVER a reason why human beings should be treated like animals at the zoo.
Womanist Panel
by Pedro Valentin
You think you know, but you have no idea. This was the lingering self-critique as I entered a space that I thought I was knowledgeable in. From early childhood, I have always been in spaces with multiple examples of strong, courageous, fearless women. I was raised by a strong mother, and grew up as the only son and the middle child to two sisters. Married to an extremely strong and confident wife for over 20 years, we have the pleasure of raising 2 daughters who are on their own journey of following in the footsteps of their foremothers who have paved the way for them.
As the session dedicated to centering Womanist theology began, I quickly realized how much I did not know. Three panelists, Michelle, Venneikia, and Dawn, reminded us all that “womanist theology reminds us woman can exist holistically” and “you don’t have to leave anything behind”. It was powerfully pointed out that “because we are connected as imagine bearers of God, we cannot move forward without each other”. Our work, our faith, our very existence demands that we fully recognize and live out our inter-connectedness and honors what we ALL bring to the table.
What impact does this have on the work that we do and the spaces that we inhabit? These are some of the questions that this session forces us to answer. The panelist taught us that we ALL miss out on the reconciling work of the gospel if we don’t make space for the gifts womanist theology provides. The real gift and ministry of this session was acknowledging that we don’t have to be hindered by bad/toxic notions or bad/toxic theology. There is true power and freedom that comes from ridding yourself of them. We do this work collectively and when we limit another image-bearer, we in fact limit ourselves.
People of Color Healing Space
by Lexi Baysinger
It’s not often that people of color have spaces reserved specifically for them. Rarer even still that we have the opportunity to sit in a space that’s meant to heal our wounds, to provide options to protect us as much as we can from the wounds society afflicts on us. Faith for Justice provided this opportunity at the 2018 Anew Conference with Dawn Jones. For about an hour on October 13th, people of color had the chance to sit back and breathe. We had the chance to hear this important message: not practicing self-care is killing us.
Most of us don’t take the chance to practice self-care. A large part of that is because many of us are broke and society tells us that self-care is yoga retreats and bath bombs. But Dawn spoke to us about actual self-care practices. Methods that we can use to recharge ourselves because, as much as I don’t like to admit it, we really can’t give anyone anything when we are on empty. And, in a world that wants to take all it can get from people of color, it can be difficult to stop, disconnect, and say no. But when we don’t the world wins and we become too tired to do the work we’ve been called to do. When we don’t take care of ourselves, we can’t give our best, and that is something that our communities can’t afford, something we can’t afford.
When Black women are in charge, the truth is shared. And there isn’t truth I needed to hear more in this season of life than how important it is to practice self-care. That sometimes self-care is disconnecting because I’m a young biracial woman in a world that only cares about what I can do for it. The world, and my God, needs me at my best and that means that I have to take care of myself. I don’t want to be another casualty.
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Cycle Media is a burgeoning marketing and content creation conglomerate, which consists of the ad agency Laundry Service and the distributed publisher Cycle. In 2015, Wasserman acquired Laundry Service, which incubated and then spun out the influencer marketing and media network Cycle. In 2017 Wasserman placed the two under the umbrella of a new entity, Cycle Media. "We have creative, production, distribution, and talent management all in one place," says CEO Jason Stein. "That's what makes us unique." The new holding company has a goal of building a stable of digital media properties spanning sports, music, women's interests, and more. Its content studio produces shows that have attracted large audiences online such as the NBA talk show Buckets and Last Table, a Dinner for Five-style roundtable of cultural tastemakers discussing pop culture. Meanwhile, Laundry Service is the creative agency of record for Papa John's, and Cycle has leveraged its cultural cachet to win a deal with ESPN to collaborate on digital content and original programming, as well as work with Lincoln and Capitol Records.
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Leistikow: Where would this year's Iowa football team be without 'godsend' Nick Easley?
A last-minute walk-on has become the most reliable passing target for an offense that desperately needed one.
Leistikow: Where would this year's Iowa football team be without 'godsend' Nick Easley? A last-minute walk-on has become the most reliable passing target for an offense that desperately needed one. Check out this story on hawkcentral.com: https://www.hawkcentral.com/story/sports/college/columnists/chad-leistikow/2017/10/18/leistikow-where-would-years-iowa-football-team-without-godsend-nick-easley/775601001/
Chad Leistikow, cleistik@dmreg.com Published 2:55 p.m. CT Oct. 18, 2017
Nick Easley, a walk-on and Newton native, grew up a Hawkeye fan.
Nick Easley, left, has 27 receptions for Iowa this season. The rest of Hawkeye wide receivers have a combined 25.(Photo: Duane Burleson, Getty Images)
IOWA CITY, Ia. – The locker next to Akrum Wadley’s inside the Iowa Football Performance Center belongs to Nick Easley.
The Hawkeyes’ leader in touchdowns this fall, next to the guy who’s No. 2.
One was expected to do this. The other certainly wasn’t.
“He’s a great story,” Wadley says. “I love Nick.”
Yes, he is. And the Hawkeye coaches love him, too.
Offensive coordinator Brian Ferentz even calls Easley’s improbable arrival to the program “a godsend.”
And the story began late on Christmas Day.
Instead of sleeping the night before the Hawkeye contingent was set to fly to Tampa, Florida, for the Outback Bowl, Iowa director of recruiting Tyler Barnes found himself up late, sifting through junior-college all-American teams.
He came across Easley’s name, and noted he was an Iowan. Knowing the Hawkeyes were desperately seeking wide-receiver help, Barnes took an shot in the (literal) dark by sending Easley a direct message on Twitter at 10:20 p.m.
Easley responded almost immediately.
And the conversation moved quickly from there.
Barnes did some fast homework. He found out Easley’s mom, Alison Lemke, works locally as a speech pathologist and clinical associate professor at the University of Iowa.
He found out Nick grew up a Hawkeye fan. Mom and Dad are Iowa grads.
Matt Easley, a walk-on kicker at Northern Iowa from 2012 to 2016, still remembers the late-night Christmas text from his younger brother.
“I just got a walk-on offer from Iowa.”
For Nick, the surprising news brought instant excitement ... but a dilemma.
A few weeks earlier, after completing a 72-catch season with Iowa Western Community College, Nick had accepted a preferred walk-on opportunity at Iowa State over several FCS scholarship offers.
“He was fairly conflicted, because he was all set to go to Iowa State,” Matt says. “He was ready to be all Cyclone; we were ready to be all-Cyclone for the next couple years. It was a little bit jarring at first. But he thought about it, and he’s like, ‘It’s not the end of the world if I back out of this.’
“It moved quickly.”
Just three days after Iowa's first contact, and on the heels of a call from Tampa from head coach Kirk Ferentz, Easley announced on Twitter that he would be a Hawkeye.
#Hawkeyespic.twitter.com/cOUSFZ9GZR
— Nick Easley (@nick_easley) December 29, 2016
He re-applied at Iowa — he had been accepted there two years earlier, coming out of Newton High School — and within weeks was taking spring-semester classes here.
A weight-room fanatic, Easley (listed at 5-foot-11, 203 pounds) immersed himself into every facet of the Hawkeye program with a walk-on mentality he previously took to Iowa Western.
“He kind of knew what it was like to show up some place where they’ll have you,” Matt says, “but you’re not on scholarship.”
One hard-working Iowa wide receiver (Matt VandeBerg) has praise for another (Nick Easley). Mark Emmert/HawkCentral
At Iowa, Easley was sold instant opportunity at an extremely thin wide-receiver group.
And he quickly made the most of it.
Brian Ferentz noticed parallels with undersized Riley McCarron, once an Iowa walk-on from Dubuque who became the team’s top pass-catcher in 2016 and is currently earning an NFL paycheck on the New England Patriots practice squad.
“He's a guy who knows what he is and knows what he isn't,” Ferentz says of Easley, “and he knows what he has to do to get on the field. And that is to have a little courage and go to some dark places. And he's done that for us, and he's been extremely reliable.”
Those “dark places” are often over the middle and into heavy secondary traffic just before taking a crunching hit.
And Easley has shown he can make a tough catch.
“A couple plays in the Illinois game, he juked out a guy to get open,” quarterback Nate Stanley says. “… He runs good routes and uses his body well.”
The result is 4.5 receptions per game, which ranks sixth in the Big Ten Conference, and his 27 for the season (for 281 yards) are not only a team high — they're more than the rest of Iowa’s listed wide receivers combined. Matt VandeBerg (15 catches), Ihmir Smith-Marsette (eight) and Brandon Smith (two) have a collective 25.
Easley has a team-best four touchdown receptions (including one against the in-state Division I program he once committed to) — and had a fifth overturned by video review when it was ruled he fumbled just before the goal line against North Texas.
But it’s behind the numbers where Easley’s emergence has been more of a “godsend.”
His rise to the top of the depth chart has taken pressure off VandeBerg, who came into 2017 as Iowa's lone experienced receiver but was coming off multiple offseason foot surgeries.
Easley's steady hands and leadership have helped true freshmen Smith-Marsette, Smith and Max Cooper to develop and gradually become part of a growing receiver rotation.
Brian Ferentz explains the impact of the wide receiver from Newton. Mark Emmert
“When Ihmir was frustrated after a play, he hung his head on the sideline,” says Wadley, whose seven touchdowns are a team high. “I witnessed Nick come talk to him. Then the next play, Ihmir goes out and make a play.”
It’s a neat story, an unlikely path.
No doubt, scholarship money will be coming soon, just as it did at Iowa Western.
For now, though, Iowa’s leading receiver remains a walk-on.
And the Hawkeyes wouldn't have a 4-2 record or a serviceable passing game without him.
Good thing he was checking Twitter on Christmas.
“We didn't find him,” Brian Ferentz says. “We lucked into him.”
Hawkeyes columnist Chad Leistikow has covered sports for 23 years with The Des Moines Register, USA TODAY and Iowa City Press-Citizen. Follow @ChadLeistikow on Twitter.
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