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Early 2014 my wife Eveline and I come across a picture of a beautiful Swiss Made vintage chronograph watch which was sold at an auction by Christie’s. We print the picture and stick it to our fridge. Being struck by the beauty of this timepiece we start our research of this unfamiliar brand and their former owners. The study leads to Lebois & Co, a brand founded in 1934 by Raymond Dodane who belongs to the third generation of the Dodane watchmaking family. Upon the approval of the Dodane family Lebois & Co is resurrected, exactly eighty years after the original company was founded.
With its new owners Lebois & Co can continue its mission to create aesthetic and affordable luxury Swiss timepieces. Thanks to over 150 investors Lebois & Co is back on the wrist of watch enthusiasts around the world and its collection of new models grows slow but steady.
At Lebois & Co we are fine-tuning and mastering the art of the perfect Swiss mechanical watch, keeping the careful balance of history, heritage, and a bit of something new, in every single watch we create.
The Lebois & Co shield was designed in 2016 when Eveline and I agreed it was time to have a more meaningful logo designed. The shield is derived from the coat of arms of the Van Wylick family. The Van Wylick family dates back to 1550 and the coat of arms has been used for hundreds of years. Linking the shield to Lebois & Co symbolises that Lebois & Co is now under careful stewardship of the Van Wylick family.
Tom van Wijlick
It is 11 days before Christmas 1934 when Lebois & Co is founded by French watch manufacturer Raymond Dodane, who represents the third generation of the Dodane watchmaker family. Its mission is clear and simple: create aesthetic and affordable Luxury Swiss timepieces.
The Dodane manufacture is founded in La Rasse in the Doubs in 1857, by Alphonse Dodane and his father-in-law François-Xavier Joubert. In 1929 the Dodane family settles in Besançon, where Raymond Dodane carries on the traditions of complex watch fabrication.
Image: Sonia Dourlot © Région Bourgogne-Franche-Comté ; ADAGP, 2014
Lebois & Co gets Italian
After World War II the brand Lebois & Co is handed over to Italian importers who outsource production to Dodane aswell as other Swiss watch manufacturers.
With its new owners Lebois & Co’s primary market is Italy but the brand is also well established in the rest of Europe.
The brand ceases to exist
Lebois & Co ceases trading 40 years after it was founded, the original Lebois & Co stops producing watches and the brand ceases to exist.
Despite the disappearance of Lebois & Co the brand is still known today and popular with watch collectors all over the world. This beautiful 1945 Lebois & Co Chronograph sold for over $ 6,000 at Christie’s Important Watches auction in 2012.
The finding of an unfamiliar brand
Early 2014 Tom & Eveline come across a picture of a beautiful vintage watch, a Lebois & Co Chronograph which was sold at an auction by Christie’s. They print the picture of this watch and stick it to their fridge.
Being struck by the beauty of this timepiece they start their research of this unfamiliar brand and their former owners.
Lebois & Co is reborn
Upon the approval of the Dodane family the brand is resurrected, exactly eighty years after the original company was founded. Continuing its mission to create aesthetic Luxury Swiss timepieces.
Fitting for these times the new logo for Lebois & Co is crowdsourced and the first model named Avantgarde will be crowdfunded.
Lebois & Co launches its crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to part-fund the first Re-launch Edition of the Avantgarde Date watch.
The campaign is funded at 126% of its goal making it the first luxury Swiss Made mechanical watch successfully funded on Kickstarter! The first watch is sold to over 20 countries around the world. To find out more about our Kickstarter campaign, visit the Kickstarter project page.
Lebois & Co returns to Kickstarter to part-fund the second Re-launch Edition of the Avantgarde Date watch.
The campaign is funded at 104% of its goal and Lebois & Co is proud to be able to start producing its second batch of watches! To find out more about our Kickstarter campaign, visit the Kickstarter project page.
Lebois & Co returns to Kickstarter to part-fund the 3rd Re-launch Edition of the Avantgarde Date.
The campaign is funded at 161% of its goal and Lebois & Co is proud to be able to start producing its third batch of watches! To find out more about our Kickstarter campaign, visit the Kickstarter project page.
Lebois & Co launches ‘Become a shareholder’ campaign
Lebois & Co is ready for the next big step and launches its ‘Become a shareholder’ campaign to seek € 500,000 in investments from shareholders.
Lebois & Co has 3 new models under development and an innovative concept to combine both online and brick and mortar sales.
Lebois & Co introduces… the Venturist
Lebois & Co reveals the second watch model in their new collection: the Venturist. With its certified precision, certified anti-magnetic properties and highly legible dial, the Venturist is a sturdy yet refined tool watch for those who dare to venture. For a limited time, it is available as part of a unique proposition that allows every watch enthusiast to purchase the watch along with shares of the company.
Lebois & Co announces its Venturist to be certified by TIMELAB’s new OC+ certification
After introducing their newest model, the Venturist, in October 2018, Lebois & Co announces that the Venturist will come with TIMELAB’s new Observatoire Chronométrique (OC+) certification. The OC+ certification is based on more thorough and comprehensive testing than the standard ISO 3159 (‘chronometer’) test program, used and followed by laboratories such as COSC.
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With four children and eight grandchildren, Tom has a passion to help families create and build a family legacy that will carry on for generations to come.
Three words, CLARITY, ALIGNMENT, and COMMUNICATION, are at the heart of what Legacy by Design does with families. We help them gain clarity around their goals in five areas of their legacy (personal, family, financial, business, and charitable).
Next, we review their existing plan to see how well it aligns with that clarity.
Finally, once that plan is aligned, we assist them in communicating and discussing that plan with the next generations. This is done in family meetings.
We do all this through the Legacy by Design Coaching process. This process helps families gain clarity and confidence around what they believe God wants them to do with their resources. It helps them quantify their needs for the future, what they wish to leave for their family, what they will do with their business, and how the remainder of their resources can be released to organizations that reflect their values. It often leads to a zero estate and IRD tax situation.
He believes the lack of clarity around their legacy issues keeps many people from maximizing the use of their resources. In addition, many families do not know whether their existing plans match up with what they believe God would have them to do with what He has entrusted to them.
Tom is a CPA by training whose career has led him serve with numerous financial service and ministry organizations such as Ernst & Young, Cru, Ronald Blue & Co., Perimeter Church, Generous Giving, Inc., National Christian Foundation, Kingdom Advisors, and Haggai Institute. Tom is a Qualified Kingdom Advisor (QKA™) and contributing author to two books: unHERITAGE – The 11 Pitfalls of Family Legacy and How to Avoid Them and unPREPARED – 14 Elements of Successful Wealth Transfer.
Living and serving in Africa for a number of years and working extensively in Europe, Asia, and Russia enhanced Tom’s global Christian perspective. Tom and his wife Susan have been married for 39 years, have four children and eight grandchildren, and live in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Three escape injury after car overturns crashing into gates and fence in Melton
'The main thing is no-one was hurt'
by Alan Thompson
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The damage left by a car which left the road ending up on a driveway on its side.(Image: ©Lionel Heap 07977 597674)
Three people had a lucky escape when the car they were in crashed into gates and a fence before overturning on a neighbour’s drive trapping them in the vehicle today.
Emergency services, including an air ambulance went to Gartree Court, in Melton, shortly after 9.15am.
Fire crews from Melton and Leicester’s Southern fire station helped free the man and two women from the vehicle which had rolled onto its side.
Air ambulance doctors assessed all three people in the car who managed to escape injury in the incident.
The woman driving the car, who asked not to be named, said: “I put the car into first gear and let the handbrake off and the car shot forward. I tried the brake, but it wasn’t working so I turned the wheel and the car rolled over onto its side.
“We were wearing seatbelts and thankfully, no-one was hurt, although when we thought about it afterwards we were all trembling in shock.
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"The firemen, who helped us get out, were here very quickly.”
She added: “All the neighbours were very good, helping us and one young lady took my hand to calm me down. They were all fantastic. I would like to say thank you to them and to all the firemen, police, ambulance and air ambulance doctors who were so helpful to us.
“Everyone was very professional an empathetic towards us.”
Wrought iron gates and a fence at the neighbour’s property were damaged during the incident.
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The neighbour said: "It’s caused a bit of damage and it was lucky our car was parked a bit further away or that would have been hit, but the main thing is no-one was hurt.”
A Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service spokeswoman said: “The ambulance service requested the fire service’s attendance at a single vehicle road traffic collision into a building. Three people were trapped.
“Crews in attendance confirmed 1 vehicle on its side on driveway, three persons stuck in vehicle. The fire service stabilised the vehicle.
“Police and air ambulance were in attendance. The air ambulance doctors are assessing the casualties. All the occupants of the were car assisted out of vehicle and being assessed.”
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3-Day Amazon Jungle Tour at Sinchicuy Lodge
Explore the magnificent Amazon on this 3-day adventure from Iquitos! This all-inclusive 3-day tour is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see the amazing landscape and wildlife of the Amazon Rainforest. Visit a riverside community to see how locals live, and learn about their customs and culture. Take a boat ride to the Sinchicuy Lodge, where you'll spend two nights sleeping with the sounds of the jungle. If you're looking for a unique and fun experience, this is the perfect 3-day tour for you!
3-Day Iquitos Amazon Jungle Adventure at Heliconia Lodge
Visit the spectacular Amazon Jungle on this 3-day adventure from Iquitos! Cruise along the Amazon River both during the day and at night and see native animals from the water, including monkeys and exotic birds. Hike through the jungle, visit a sugarcane distillery, and be amazed at the impressive jungle landscape. With all your meals included plus two nights’ accommodation at the Heliconia Lodge with round-trip airport transportation, this once-in-a-lifetime experience is one you won't want to miss!
3-Day Amazon Jungle Small-Group Tour
Travel down the Madre de Dios River and explore the Amazon jungle. Visit the Monkey Island and its population, the Tambopata Candamo National Reserve, and the diverse of its Lakes and rivers, all of which have a variety of species to offer and delight the sight.
3-Day Amazon Jungle Tour at Hacienda Concepción
Discover the Tambopata National Reserve and the vast Madre de Dios River on this 3-day tour in the Peruvian Amazon. Stay overnight at the Hacienda Concepción, a comfortable, 3-star eco-lodge located just 45 minutes from Puerto Maldonado by motorized canoe. Walk along nearby nature trails and hike to the secluded Lake Sandoval for wildlife viewing by dugout canoe. Ascend to the treetops on the Inkaterra Canopy Walkway in search of three-toed sloths and listen to nocturnal nature sounds at dusk. Full board and round-trip hotel transfers are included. Numbers are limited to 8 people, ensuring an intimate experience with a small group.
3-Day Amazon Jungle Tour at Inkaterra Reserva Amazónica
Find yourself surrounded by the Peruvian Amazon on a captivating 3-day tour, with luxury accommodation at the 4-star Inkaterra Reserva Amazónica, including full board and elegant, private cabanas. This exclusive eco-lodge, accessed by motorized canoe over the Madre de Dios River, boasts a canopy walkway through the treetops and a wooden bridge walk over the wetlands. You’ll be captivated by the exuberant wildlife of the Amazon Basin—including river otters, caiman and capybaras—as you explore the Tambopata National Reserve and Lake Sandoval, with your choice of 13 excursions led by expert guides. Numbers are limited to 8 people, ensuring an intimate experience with a small group.
Tamishiyacu Reserve, Curassow Amazon Lodge 3-Day Wildlife Tour
This 3-day tour explores the Tamshiyacu Tahuayo Natural Reserve, one of the best spots in the Amazon rainforest to observe wildlife. This expedition GUARANTEES traveler will observe a lot of fauna. Among the easiest species find are: River dolphins, monkeys, sloths, birds, alligators, and more in their natural habitats. Your English/Spanish speaking guide will take you into virgin jungle far from Iquitos, Peru. This all-inclusive tour combines nature and wildlife with a rooms at the jungle Eco-lodge with facilities as private rooms, private bathrooms, 24-hour fresh water shower, toilet and electricity provided by solar panels that allows you to charge your cameras' batteries.
Peruvian Amazon Rain Forest 3-Day Tour from Puerto Maldonado
Experience the true lush Amazon jungle in person as you travel to Puerto Maldonado and the Madre de Dios River. Participate in a diverse selection of exciting activities that will get you to interact with nature and see a wild variety of native flora and fauna.
Iquitos to Ceiba Tops Lodge 3-Day Amazon Jungle Adventure Tour
Embark on the journey of a lifetime through the Amazon Jungle and spend three days at the deluxe Ceiba Tops Luxury Amazon Lodge. Your adventure takes you into the heart of the Peruvian Amazon, where you'll get a taste of local culture, spot wildlife and enjoy leisurely nature hikes. Step back in time and relax in the Amazon Rainforest as you discover the natural beauty of this untouched world.
3-Day Amazon Jungle Tour at Posada Amazonas
Immerse in the natural wonders of the Peruvian Amazon from the comfort of a unique rainforest lodge, owned by the local indigenous community. Your 3-day eco-tour begins with a 45-minute boat ride from the town of Puerto Maldonado. Enjoy a guide-led rainforest expedition to Tres Chimbadas Lake in the Tambopata National Reserve, watch a riot of colorful birds at Parrot Clay Lick and embark on several easy walks—from the forest floor to the treetops! You’ll see Amazonian wildlife, such as rare river otters, caiman and toucans. Full board and round-trip hotel transfers are included. Numbers are limited to 8 people, ensuring an intimate experience with a small group.
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Take part in this 3-Day trip to the Amazon, taking place 220 kilometers up the river from Iquitos. Primary Rainforest, Pacaya Samiria National Reserve in Iquitos.
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NYT: Apple's MobileMess
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, 3:35 PM EDT, July 24th, 2008
Even though Apple has apologized to subscribers for the glitches in the MobileMe launch, MobileMe's problems are nowhere near over, according to David Pogue at the New York Times on Thursday.
Mr. Pogue suffered through some of the initial problems along with everyone else. However, by July 14, several days after launch, MobileMe worked as advertised.
"Well, actually, not quite 'as advertised.'," Mr. Pogue noted. "... Unfortunately, MobileMe's problems were nowhere near over."
Mr. Pogue noted that after he finished his initial review, e-mail problems cropped up that Apple said affected a mere one percent of the subscribers. That was estimated to be about 20,000 people, and it seemed like every one of them e-mailed the NYT writer.
"Maybe it wasn't such a hot idea for Apple to launch four enormously complex initiatives -- the iPhone 3G, the App Store, the iPhone 2.0 software update and MobileMe -- all on the same day," Mr. Pogue wrote. Worse, when Mr. Pogue, deluged by complaints, contacted Apple to find out what was being done to solve the problem, Apple provided only an apology.
"It's amazing that Apple doesn't recognize this situation. This is an airplane that's stuck on the runway for hours with no food or working bathroom. And the pilot doesn't come on the P.A. system to tell the customers what the problem is, what's being done to fix it, how much longer they might be stuck, and how he empathizes with their plight. Instead, he comes on once every three hours to repeat the same thing: 'We apologize for the inconvenience.'," Mr. Pogue noted with restraint.
"MobileMess, indeed," was his conclusion.
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How Scotty Allen Managed to Add a Headphone Jack to an iPhone 7→
Scotty Allen wanted an iPhone 7 with a headphone jack, so he set out to build his own. Jason Koebler at Motherboard chronicles Allen’s epic quest:
This sorcery took four months of engineering, Allen told me. Many iPhones were sacrificed, and lots of grey-market parts purveyors were enlisted in the quest.
The process wasn’t cheap either:
"I shifted everything up a little bit and took out protective brackets and shields and shaved things down," Allen said. "I lost three full phones trying this, a good handful of screens, a stack of components. I broke easily close to $1,000 worth of parts in the last week, which just about broke my will. But it got to a point where I told myself—I am going to keep doing this until I prove to myself it can't be done."
Allen also had to design and connect a custom flexible circuit board that allowed switching between the lightning connector and his custom 3.5 mm headphone jack.
Allen’s elaborate iPhone hack isn’t something most people could accomplish and even if they could, it isn't economical at this scale. Still, the story is an incredible tale of ingenious DIY engineering and a fascinating window into the electronics marketplaces in Shenzhen, China. I highly recommend watching Allen’s detailed account of his efforts on YouTube.
One Night on Earth
Apple posted a new video to YouTube called One Night on Earth. The video, which is part of Apple's 'Shot on iPhone 7' series, features photographs taken all over the globe on one particular night, highlighting the iPhone 7's low-light capabilities. The mashup of user-created shots is set to Snowfall, a beautiful jazz piece by the Ahmad Jamal Trio.
Stress-Testing iPhone 7 Plus’ Portrait Mode→
Linked By Federico Viticci
Brian L.W. Moore on iOS 10.1's Portrait mode:
While a lot is super good, there are a couple areas where the Portrait Mode just ain’t gonna cut it. Complicated foreground and background combinations seemingly overwhelm it and the blur edges get confused throughout the photo.
Portrait Mode doesn’t even begin to successfully work with translucent or shiny objects. Though this is pretty understandable considering the hardware — attempting to detect depth on objects like these is probably difficult. Not sure if Apple will ever be able to get over this one unless their machine learning becomes near-perfect.
He concludes:
People have asked me what camera I used to take these photos, which is I’d call a good sign. I like how they look, and this is a camera I can keep in my pocket all day as I walk all over a beautiful country. That’s a win for me.
Check out his examples here and here. They're not technically perfect, but I think they're beautiful, and they were made on a portable computer. Impressive.
iPhone 7: Computer from the Future
By Federico Viticci
After nearly two years spent using a 5.5-inch iPhone, I'm accustomed to not having a compact phone anymore. The iPhone 6 Plus and 6s Plus have reshaped my iPhone experience for a simple reason: they give me more of the most important device in my life.
Thus, I was a little skeptical – even surprised – when Apple gave me a gold 256 GB iPhone 7 review unit (with a leather case) two weeks ago. I didn't think I would be able to enjoy a smaller iPhone, but, despite my initial resistance, I set up a fresh install of iOS 10 and used the iPhone 7 exclusively for two weeks.
I'm glad I did. While I'm still pining for a 7 Plus1, using the iPhone 7 showed me that there's more to this year's iPhones than the lack of a headphone jack.
In many ways, the iPhone 7 feels like a portable computer from the future – only in a tangible, practical way that is here with us today.
iPhone 7 Plus Depth Effect Is Legit→
Fascinating take by Stu Maschwitz on the iPhone 7 Plus' Portrait mode, coming with iOS 10.1:
So don't ask if Depth Effect is perfect. A better question is if its failures are distracting. And I have certainly taken some test photos where they are. But the funny thing about test photos is that there's often nothing worth photographing in them, so you just stare at the problems. In my own testing, whenever I've pointed Portrait Mode at something I actually care about, the results have been solid.
So back to the question of whether we should care about a fake blur applied in post to a telephone photo. When I tweeted the above shot, someone replied with a reasonable question: wouldn't I love the photo just as much without the effect? I replied no, and added:
Composition matters, and focus is composition in depth.
System Haptics on the iPhone 7
Apple introduced the Taptic Engine with the iPhone 6s, where it replaced the old vibration motor and was also used to provide haptic feedback for when you activated 3D Touch. This year with the iPhone 7, Apple has improved the Taptic Engine and it plays a critical role in simulating the press of the Home button, which is no longer a physical button. But the Taptic Engine in the iPhone 7 goes even further with the introduction of System Haptics, where a number of UI elements in iOS will now also provide tactile haptic feedback when you activate them.
I have had my iPhone 7 for nearly a week now, and these new System Haptics have been a great delight to discover, and use. These System Haptics are mostly subtle and feel very natural, so you may not have even noticed them. Below I've compiled a list of all the places in iOS that I've noticed them appear.
Apple Releases Ads Spotlighting the Apple Watch and iPhone 7
Apple posted three advertisements to YouTube, one featuring the Apple Watch Series 2, and two showcasing the iPhone 7.
The Apple Watch Series 2 ad, titled Go Time, highlights the Watch’s fitness features and water resistance. Backed by Sinnerman, a classic song by Nina Simone, the ad begins at dawn showing a swimmer getting ready for an early morning workout. The swimmer adjusts his goggles and pulls his hand out of the water to start a workout on the Apple Watch. Through a series of quick cuts, the ad shows other people involved in all sorts of activities, including yoga, running, jumping into a pool, biking through a rainstorm, dancing, and sprinting out of the subway. In between each activity are clips showing off features of the Watch like the Activity app, Messages, notifications, the Workouts app, and the Breathe app, which is new to watchOS 3.
Morning Ride starts with a man looking out into a thunderstorm while checking Apple’s Weather app on an iPhone 7. AC/DC’s Thunderstruck starts playing in the background as he gets ready for his morning bicycle ride despite the rain. He mounts his iPhone to the handlebars of his bike, starts a tracking app, and prepares to take off into the rain. The thirty-second spot ends with the lines ‘the water-resistant iPhone 7’ followed by ‘practically magic.’
Midnight highlights the iPhone 7 Plus in Jet Black. The ad follows a young man as he skateboards around a city in the middle of the night taking photos with his iPhone. Backed by In A Black Out by Hamilton Leithauser, he takes videos as he passes through sprinklers, showing off the water resistance of the phone, captures moths flying around a single light bulb, and photographs a deer that wanders into a gas station. The ad concludes with the young man on a hill overlooking the lights of the city and ends with the tag line ‘low-light camera on iPhone 7’ followed by ‘practically magic.’
Each of the three ads does a good job focusing on the personal side of the new features of Apple Watch Series 2 and the iPhone 7. The ads don’t focus on specs; instead they emphasize how the advancements of each device expand their utility in everyday scenarios.
You can watch each of the ads after the break.
Austin Mann’s iPhone 7 Plus Camera Review in Rwanda→
I consider the iPhone a computer with a camera more than a computer that makes phone calls. Therefore, Austin Mann's annual iPhone camera review is my favorite of the bunch. I've been linking them for the past couple of years, and I find Austin's approach always fascinating and well-presented.
This time, Austin has outdone himself. To properly test the iPhone 7 Plus' camera with optical zoom, they've flown to Rwanda in collaboration with Nat Geo Travel and Nat Geo Adventure to track gorillas and take close-up pictures, timelapses, test wide-color gamut photos, and more.
He writes:
As many of you know, in the past I've created this review in Iceland twice, Patagonia and Switzerland, but this year I wanted to really change things up. With indicators pointing toward possibilities of optical zoom I asked myself: where's the best place in the world to test optical zoom? Africa of course.
So this year, in collaboration with Nat Geo Travel + Nat Geo Adventure we’ve set out to get you the answers. I'm writing you from deep in the Nyungwe rain forest in southwest Rwanda… we've been tracking gorillas in the north, boating Lake Kivu in the west and running through tea plantations in the south… all with the iPhone 7 Plus in hand.
I've had a blast playing with the wide spectrum of new features and tech but as always, our mission is to find out the answer to one question:
How does all this new tech make my pictures (and videos) better than before?
The result is beautiful. The video "review" is a mini-documentary/short film about tracking down mountain gorillas, and it's 9 minutes long. Seeing how they found the gorillas brought a big smile on my face, and you can notice how the zoom interface of the iPhone 7 Plus was useful for that purpose.
Watch it below, and go check out Austin's photos and summary of the experience here.
Apple Explains Why It Eliminated the Headphone Jack→
Apple seems to get that eliminating the headphone jack will be a tough sell in some quarters. In a packed keynote, Phil Schiller spent a fair amount of time laying out Apple’s case for why switching to the lightning connector for wired headphones and moving to wireless AirPods is the right thing to do. But Apple also spoke to BuzzFeed’s John Paczkowski to add context and the detail that couldn’t fit into the keynote.
Apple’s Dan Riccio explained the challenge this way:
”We’ve got this 50-year-old connector — just a hole filled with air — and it’s just sitting there taking up space, really valuable space,” he says.
Eliminating the headphone jack helped enable the iPhone 7’s new camera, waterproofing, and better battery life. As Paczkowski explains:
The 3.5-millimeter audio jack has been headed to its inevitable fate for some time now. If it wasn’t the iPhone 7, it might have been the iPhone 8 (or, for that matter, the iPhone 6). In the end, it was simple math that did the audio jack in, a cost-benefit analysis that sorely disfavored a single-purpose Very Old Port against a wireless audio future, some slick new cameras, and the kind of water resistance that anyone who has ever dropped an iPhone in the toilet has long wished for.
Anyone who has used Bluetooth headphones knows that they promise freedom, but at the price of friction – charging, spotty connectivity, and poor audio quality. Apple’s answer to those headaches comes in the form of its new W1 chip that adds a layer of ‘secret sauce’ to its newly announced wireless AirPods that promises to eliminate the pain points.
According to John Ternus, vice president of Mac, iPad, ecosystem, and audio engineering at Apple:
“As you can imagine, by developing our own Bluetooth chip and controlling both ends of the pairing process there’s a lot of magic we can do,”
I was sold on wireless headphones a long time ago despite their limitations. That said, I hope Apple’s secret sauce is every bit as magical as claimed because the issues with Bluetooth are real and fixing them is a challenge that no other headphone manufacturer has fully conquered.
You can also follow all of the MacStories coverage of today's Apple's keynote through our September 7 Keynote hub, or subscribe to the dedicated September 7 Keynote RSS feed.
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By Jake Watt
Directed by Paul Currie, ‘2:22’ centers on Dylan (Michiel Huisman, ‘The Age of Adaline’, ‘The Invitation’, TV’s ‘Game Of Thrones’), an air traffic controller who notices the patterns in life (as stated in an eye-rolling opening voiceover). He notes different people doing the same thing in the same order - women laughing, a person saying “Can I help you?”, a car horn, a dude picking his nose (not really), etc. His life is rocked when he narrowly escapes being involved in a mid-air collision between two passenger planes, caused by a mysterious blinding light that happened at 2:22pm. These strange occurrences continue and lead Dylan to meet Sarah (Teresa Palmer, ‘Hacksaw Ridge’, ‘Lights Out’), with whom he feels inexplicably linked, which disturbs her wanker ex, hologram artist Jonas (Sam Reid, ‘The Limehouse Golem’).
'2:22' TRAILER
Dylan had prepared to be a pilot like his father but altered his career out of a fear of flying, and Sarah had prepared to be a dancer but broke her knee, altering her decision to stay in the arts but as the employee of an art gallery. Together the two discover uncanny similarities with their current predicament and a double murder committed a generation ago. With a grisly fate looming (a possible re-enactment of a 30 year-old murder scene in Grand Central Station), Dylan must solve the mystery of 2:22 to preserve a love whose second chance has finally come.
Huisman is a good-looking bloke with an impressive head of hair, a limited emotional range and a general lack of charm and charisma (furrowing his brow is his signature move). Palmer is also an aesthetically-pleasing human specimen but she actually has some serious dramatic chops which she’s rarely allowed to show (watch ‘Berlin Syndrome’ if you don't believe me). ‘2:22’ gives Palmer a particularly thankless role – the lady seriously needs to push for better films. “I was on that flight,” she says in one key scene. “I nearly killed you,” Huisman replies, to which Palmer gasps: “No, you saved me!" Meanwhile, I squirmed in embarrassment.
In the throes of trying to figure everything out, he writes on a glass pane the extremely deep phrase, “2:22 - BOOM!” High-brow shit, my friends.
Both actors play their characters as fated lovers, defined by matching birthdays and influenced by the dying Hamlin star, its light finally reaching Earth. Additional drama is supplied by Jonas, a hilariously self-important artist who can’t get over Sarah and whose latest work is a hologram display of Grand Central Station, filled with the same details as Dylan’s visions.
As crafted by screenwriters Todd Stein and Nathan Parker, ‘2:22’ has a fart-sniffing, pretentious script that frequently dips into the embarrassing, with loads of metaphysical mumbo-jumbo and contrivances. See the scene where Huisman has one of those classic “visionary who scrawls random symbols and bullshit all over a room to work out a problem” moments. In the throes of trying to figure everything out, he writes on a glass pane the extremely deep phrase, “2:22 - BOOM!” High-brow shit, my friends. While it aspires to be a mind-bending tale about time and intransigence, the movie doesn’t have the creative drive to be anything more than a tepid mystery with a few ridiculous twists and turns. It also comes replete with a grand finale that attempts to explain everything, finishing the effort off with some screen poetry and half-baked closure.
There are some really good time loop thrillers around - stuff like Christopher Smith’s ‘Triangle’, Duncan Jones’ ‘Source Code’, Tony Elliot’s ‘Arq’ on Netflix, and Nacho Vigalondo’s ‘Timecrimes’. Seek these films out! Unfortunately, ‘2:22’ has more in common with turds like Joel Schumacher’s ‘The Number 23’ or Alex Proyas’ ‘Knowing’. Like those films, it isn’t nearly as brainy as it believes itself to be, and direly needed stronger writing, editing and casting to give the film the impact needed in order for the conceptual and the philosophical to be transformed into something even remotely captivating.
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New private Halifax clinic ‘deeply troubling’ Nova Scotia NDP says
HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's NDP says the emergence of a new private Halifax clinic that aims to reduce the strain on the public health-care system is "deeply troubling."
Unified Health bills itself as a “community triage centre” where patients are assessed for a fee by nurse practitioners, not doctors.
Unified Health, which opened late last month, says it aims to help “redirect some of the non-emergency traffic that visits the emergency room.”
In the legislature Tuesday, NDP Leader Gary Burrill suggested the clinic only exists because the provincial government has been unable to fix a chronic doctor shortage that has left many Nova Scotians without a family physician.
“Is it right that a person in our province should have to pay $35 for a medical appointment?” Burrill asked Premier Stephen McNeil.
“A person could fairly conclude that the emergence of a private, for-profit clinic providing a service that is supposed to be provided in Nova Scotia free indicates that the job the government is doing on providing health care is missing the mark at a pretty basic level.”
In a July news release, Unified Health said patients will be re-directed to emergency services if required, but otherwise nurse practitioners “can provide both acute and ongoing care.” The centre also has on site physiotherapy, massage and osteopathic services.
“This system ensures that only medical cases use medical resources and that non-medical cases don’t go untreated,” it said in the release, which says the clinic aims ”to help reduce the strain” on the public system.
Unified Health calls its clinic on Joseph Howe Drive in Halifax a pilot project, and suggests there will be more locations. Its website says it is “bringing wellness and efficiency back into Canada’s health-care system.”
“It’s not that doctors can’t or don’t want to help, we just don’t have enough of them to go around, but we do have other resources that we can start with to pre-screen certain things, like a sore back or shoulder. You just need someone to point you in the right direction,” Alan Attwater, president of Unified Health, said in the July release.
A legislature committee heard last December that 42,000 Nova Scotians are actively seeking a family physician, although federal statistics place that number at closer to 100,000 – including people who simply aren’t looking for a doctor.
McNeil said Tuesday the province has recruited new family doctors, created new residency positions and taken other measures to provide Nova Scotians with primary health care.
As to the NDP’s questions about Unified Health, McNeil said simply: “The health care system is publicly funded in this province and we expect all of the institutions that are providing health care services to meet the Canada Health Act.”
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Just Work in Greater Manchester
Alliance MBS’ European Work and Employment Research and Fair Work Research Centres - EWERC and FairWRC – are joining forces to undertake this ambitious programme of research which builds on the combined activities of the centres in recent years.
The Just Work programme is set against a backdrop of changing regulatory, economic, political and technological conditions. For instance managers are forging new social contracts in the workplace which are both enabling and hindering the long-term capacities of UK organisations to develop productive, dignified and sustainable work.
The team is specifically developing a set of resources:
A qualitative data-set of organisational case studies in the North West region to investigate a range of challenges for equality, fairness and sustainability in the workplace
Qualitative interviews with those excluded or on the margins of formal employment such as migrants, the disabled and young people
Secondary data analysis, including longitudinal panel analysis and statistical modelling, to understand employment trends
International comparative analysis to disentangle the systemic and societal conditions shaping the capacities of the UK to sustain just work
The data collection and analysis will be guided by four research questions:
How are organisations in the North West restructuring their activities and work/employment practices in the context of changing technologies and changed economic conditions?
How are employers responding to the increasingly diverse workforce (reflecting varied life courses, care responsibilities, careers, skills and employability)? What are the prospects for the development and promotion of inclusive labour markets?
What new institutions are needed to enforce fair rights and responsibilities at work given the changing global business environment and regulatory capacity of the state?
How are questions of dignity and fairness understood by different actors (managers, unions, workers) in the workplace, and how do these connect (or not) with wider societal norms?
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Project Lifesaver helps find elderly woman
Project Lifesaver tracked missing woman; RCSO wants more people to get on board.
Project Lifesaver helps find elderly woman Project Lifesaver tracked missing woman; RCSO wants more people to get on board. Check out this story on mansfieldnewsjournal.com: http://ohne.ws/1IFNptq
Mark Caudill, Reporter Published 6:51 p.m. ET July 6, 2015
An elderly woman who wandered away from Menards recently had been missing for 45 minutes when law enforcement was notified.
With the help of Project Lifesaver, she was found unharmed only six minutes later.
A joint effort among the Richland County Sheriff’s Office, Lions Clubs and the Ohio District 5 Area Agency on Aging, Project Lifesaver helps locate people who may have wandered away from their caregiver because of Alzheimer’s, autism, Down syndrome or other developmental disabilities.
Project Lifesaver places personalized radio-transmitter bracelets on such people. Unlike GPS, the bracelet device works on radio waves, enabling the signal to penetrate walls of buildings or other obstructions. It has a tracking capability of 1.5 miles.
Emergency teams with receivers can quickly respond to calls, resulting in an average rescue time of fewer than 30 minutes.
In the recent case, Karen Schweyer, 77, went missing from Menards. She suffers from several medical conditions and a severe loss of memory.
Karen’s husband Carroll reported her missing to Menards employees, who searched the store without success.
Ontario police subsequently got involved in the search. Lt. Tommy Hill collected the Project Lifesaver equipment and dialed in to Karen’s frequency.
After getting a signal, Hill got out of his patrol car to move the portable antenna. He spotted an elderly woman walking from the front of Country Inn & Suites toward the curb line.
Hill met the woman and immediately noticed her Project Lifesaver bracelet. Karen was safe. She had wandered about 274 feet.
“I don’t know how we would have found her without it,” Carroll Schweyer said. “It’s a wonderful thing.”
Carroll said he and his wife signed up for Project Lifesaver last December.
“I can’t say enough praise for it,” he said. “It’s a big relief.”
The sheriff’s office would like to see other people take advantage of Project Lifesaver.
“We know there’s people out there who could utilize this,” Deputy Chuck Hosey said.
Hosey said Richland County got involved with Project Lifesaver — established in 1999 — after an elderly man walked away from his house on Millsboro Road. Authorities searched for the man for two days. He was no more than 700 yards from his house.
The man died a few days later.
Lions Clubs in Richland County heard about the case and got involved.
“The more we heard about it, the more we thought it would be great equipment to have,” Gene Berrier said.
The Lions Clubs have paid for the Project Lifesaver equipment, raising $55,000 in the last few years.
“We wouldn’t be able to do something like this without the Lions,” sheriff’s Maj. Joe Masi said.
Hosey and Deputy Gary Kiener are in the office’s community policing unit and handle Project Lifesaver.
Hosey said the equipment is stationed in Mansfield, Ontario, Shiloh, Bellville and the sheriff’s office.
“We’ve got the county pretty much covered,” he said. “Time is always of the essence.”
There are 21 clients, including 14 children and seven adults. Most of them are affiliated with Richland Newhope.
“It’s being underutilized,” Hosey said.
The cost of a bracelet is $300 for the first year. It’s then priced on a sliding scale. Hosey said if people need help to cover the cost, they will receive it.
The sheriff’s office and Lions make monthly checks on the units and change the batteries.
Anyone who is interested in Project Lifesaver should contact the Agency on Aging at 419-524-4144 or 1-800-860-5799. Hosey can be reached at 419-774-3572, and Kiener is available at 419-774-3571.
The sheriff’s office also is in the process of acquiring an unmanned aerial vehicle, or drone, to search for people who are not part of Project Lifesaver.
“We’ll be able to cover a larger area,” Kiener said. “We can search a lot faster than we could on foot.”
Again, the county Lions Clubs are covering the cost.
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Ms. Geralyn R. Breig is President-Americas Region at C&J Clark Ltd. and Independent Director at 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc. She is on the Board of Directors at Welch Foods, Inc. and 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Inc. Ms. Breig was previously employed as Senior Vice President & President-North America by Avon Products, Inc., Vice President-Marketing-Pepperidge Farm by Campbell Soup Co., Vice President-Marketing by Pepperidge Farm, Inc., President by Godiva Chocolatier, Inc., Vice President by Mondelez International, Inc., and Vice President-Beauty Care Division by Procter & Gamble Co. She also served on the board at Personal Care Products Council and Avon Foundation. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Imperial Brands profit, revenue rise
By Anthony O. Goriainoff
Published: May 8, 2019 2:47 a.m. ET
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Imperial Brands PLC's (IMB.LN) pretax profit and revenue both increased in the first half of fiscal 2019, the company said Wednesday, adding that it is on track to meet full-year expectations.
The tobacco company, which houses Davidoff, Gauloises and JPS among its brands, said that for the six months ended March 31, pretax profit rose to 1.02 billion pounds ($1.33 billion) compared with GBP600 million in 2018--restated for new accountancy IFRS 15 protocols.
Revenue for the period was GBP14.39 billion, compared with a restated GBP14.0 billion the year before. The company said net revenue was driven by strong growth in its next-generation products and a solid underlying tobacco performance.
Total tobacco volume fell to 115.2 billion stick equivalents compared with 123.6 billion stick equivalents in the first half of the previous fiscal year.
The group said tobacco net revenue increased 2.5% to GBP3.65 billion.
The company declared an interim dividend of 62.56 pence, a 10% rise on the year before.
Chief Executive Alison Cooper said the board has set the foundations for accelerated revenue growth and that the second half is focused on further omnichannel expansion and new product initiatives.
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Media Highlight How GOP "Carping" Secured Hugh Hewitt's CNN Debate Moderator Gig
Research ››› December 15, 2015 5:01 PM EST ››› CRISTINA LóPEZ G.
Media outlets have called out CNN for selecting conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt as a moderator of the December 15 Republican primary debate, noting that the inclusion of this "highly [...] partisan" conservative media figure is the result of Republican Party "carping." The Republican National Committee (RNC) has pressured networks to include conservative media figures as debate moderators, a move received with criticism from former debate moderators and network executives.
CNN Announces That Hugh Hewitt Will Moderate The Last Republican Debate Of 2015
CNN: Hugh Hewitt Will Join Wolf Blitzer As Questioner In Last GOP Debate Of The Year. CNN announced on December 13 that conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt would be joining CNN's Wolf Blitzer and Dana Bash as moderators of the last GOP primary debate of 2015, held in Las Vegas, Nevada. [CNN, 12/13/15]
Media Outlets Highlight How Hewitt's Inclusion Reflects GOP Pressure On The Networks
NPR: CNN "Agree[d] To The RNC's Hardball Play" To "Get More Control Of The Debates" By Including Hugh Hewitt. On the December 15 edition of NPR's All Things Considered, host Audie Cornish explained that "The presence of Hugh Hewitt came out of a demand by the Republican Party to change the way the debates are conducted." The segment featured Sean Spicer, a chief strategist for the RNC, who said, "The party needed to get more in control of the debates," which included the demand for conservative moderators. NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik called the demand "a policy without precedent" and reported that CNN "did agree to the RNC's hardball play":
AUDIE CORNISH (HOST): At tomorrow's Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas, nine candidates will face questions from CNN's Wolf Blitzer and Dana Bash and also from a popular conservative radio talk show host. The presence of Hugh Hewitt came out of a demand by the Republican Party to change the way debates are conducted.
SEAN SPICER: The party needed to get more in control of the debates.
DAVID FOLKENFLIK: Sean Spicer is the chief strategist of the Republican National Committee, the party's governing body.
SPICER: The media controls all aspects of the debate - when they were going to debate, how many there were, where they were. And really, what this came down to was the party recognizing that while the media has a huge role to play, that ultimately, people are seeking our nomination and that we should have the responsibility to make sure that that process is a little bit more orderly.
FOLKENFLIK: It is a policy without modern precedent, and the Democrats have made no such stipulations. No one from the liberal Mother Jones or The Nation magazines are on stage. Hewitt says he's not interested in softball questions toward Republicans, just informed ones. And he says the Democrats should consider copying the Republican approach.
FOLKENFLIK: The RNC's Spicer argues the Democrats and the press are already in tune. Take ABC's chief anchor George Stephanopoulos, a former top aide in the Clinton White House. He had to recuse himself from the debates after acknowledging recent six-figure donations to the Clinton Foundation despite Hillary Clinton's ties. And Spicer pointed to the 2007 primary GOP debate moderated by MSNBC's Chris Matthews, a proud liberal who worked for president Carter and late Democratic speaker Tip O'Neill.
SPICER: That, to me, is where you borderline political malpractice, saying that you have a far-left debate moderator supposedly questioning people seeking the Republican nomination. And the idea of allowing that was insane.
FOLKENFLIK: The networks do not accept that analysis, but they did agree to the RNC's hardball play. Those that did not accept a conservative panelist stood to lose a big night to draw viewers, sell ads and generate buzz. Notably, Fox News was exempt. Spicer says that in future cycles, he'd love to find ways to convince donors to pay the $2 million cost of staging each debate and that maybe the networks wouldn't get to produce the debates at all. [NPR, All Things Considered, 12/15/15]
Vox: Hewitt Is "A Proxy For The Republican Establishment" Among The Moderators. In a December 15 piece profiling the three CNN debate moderators, Vox described Hewitt as "highly -- and self-consciously -- partisan" and a "proxy for the Republican establishment working from inside the debate moderating team":
Hugh Hewitt, a conservative talk radio host, is going to be on hand to lend some conservative authenticity to the proceedings.
He's also highly -- and self-consciously -- partisan in a way that's not always true of conservative talkers. His books include such titles as If It's Not Close, They Can't Win: Crushing the Democrats in Every Election and Why Your Life Depends on It and Painting the Map Red: The Fight to Create a Permanent Republican Majority. He wrote a book designed to make mainstream American Christians feel comfortable with voting for a Mormon president.
He's the kind of person, in other words, who's likely to be concerned with making sure the GOP picks an electable and reliable standard-bearer -- a proxy for the Republican establishment working from inside the debate moderating team. [Vox, 12/15/15]
Washington Post: Hugh Hewitt Moderating Debate Is The Result Of "Republican Carping." In a December 15 post for The Washington Post's blog The Fix, Callum Borchers wrote that CNN included Hewitt on the moderator team after much "Republican carping," pointing out that GOP candidates and the RNC "flipped out over CNBC moderators' handling" of the October GOP debate and pushed for more "conservative media personalities" this time around:
When Republicans flipped out over CNBC moderators' handling of the third presidential primary debate way back in October, a popular proposal was to replace the "attack journalists" (Ted Cruz's term) with conservative media personalities. Cruz suggested Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus was less specific but called for moderators who "give a rip about the Republican Party."
What did all the Republican carping produce? Nothing but another round of Hugh Hewitt, the conservative talk radio host who was a panelist during the second GOP debate. And Hewitt seems to understand that he is The Great Conservative Moderator Hope.
Hewitt, no doubt, will do his best to be the voice of conservatives on the stage in Las Vegas. But he likely won't be enough to satisfy Republican candidates and voters who were hoping for a dramatic shift in the tenor of debates. [The Washington Post, 12/15/15]
Former Moderators And Network Executives Slam GOP For Attempting To Control Debates
Former Debate Moderators, Network Executives: GOP Demands "Overreaching," Debate Structure "Has Gone Off The Rails." Former debate moderators and media insiders have criticized the GOP's attempts to control debates, calling its demand for conservative moderators "overreaching" and questioning whether CNN's decision undermines the debate's "independence." As reported by Media Matters:
The RNC's unusual requirement is drawing criticism from several veteran journalists who have served on debate panels in the past, with most calling it improper and saying it waters down the effectiveness of tough questioning.
"I think this whole idea of trying to adjust debates and judging them according to ideology lead to nothing but trouble," said Elizabeth Drew, a 1976 presidential debate panelist and moderator of a 1984 Democratic primary debate. "Presumably, journalists are supposedly non-political and the Republicans dine out a lot on attacking the 'liberal media.' But that doesn't mean that that's what happens. What they are asking for is sympathetic questioners."
Drew, also a staff writer at The New Yorker from 1973 to 1992, said the debate loses its independence when such demands are met.
"It never used to be this way," she said. "I think the problem is putting so much of the power with the parties ... They're looking for safer and softer questions than they might otherwise get. The structure has gone off the rails."
Marvin Kalb, a 1984 presidential debate panelist and former Meet the Press host, agreed: "It should not be an issue for the Democratic debates, nor for the Republican debates. The selection of questioners must remain a decision for the networks."
Max Frankel, a 1976 presidential debate panelist and former New York Times executive editor, said he would have refused to be involved if the RNC made such a request at his debate.
"My politics is none of their business," he said. "And if I had to identify myself by my politics I would tell them to go to hell and not to participate."
He later added, "more times than not they need the network more than the network needs them. For the moment they need the debates because the presence of Trump is bringing the cable networks a bigger audience than they have ... It's all a mess because several of these cable networks have their own agendas."
Richard Valeriani, a panelist for the 1976 general election presidential debate and a 28-year NBC News correspondent, called the RNC demand "overreaching."
"The debates should be open," he said. "For the parties to set requirements is not good for the system. It impugns the integrity of the media. Saying we can't do our jobs."
He added, "You have sort of a controlled environment, which is not what the free press is about ... One of the values of a debate is to challenge a candidate's ability to think on his or her feet as any president will have to do."
Asked how this compares to his debate, he said: "The parties had nothing to do with it, this is quite unusual to try to dictate who the networks should provide. The next will be to dictate the questions we should ask." [Media Matters, 12/15/15]
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ASCO: RT Alone OK for Some Node-Positive Breast Cancers
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by Crystal Phend Crystal Phend, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today June 03, 2013
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This study was published as an abstract and presented at a conference. These data and conclusions should be considered to be preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
Breast cancer patients with a positive but nonpalpable sentinel lymph node have a reduced risk of lymphedema with radiation compared with surgery.
Point out that recurrence rates came out similar, at 0.5% with completion axillary lymph node dissection and 1.0% with axillary radiotherapy over 5 years.
CHICAGO -- Breast cancer patients with a positive but nonpalpable sentinel lymph node may be better off with radiation than with further axillary surgery, the AMAROS trial affirmed.
Recurrence rates came out similar, at 0.5% with completion axillary lymph node dissection and 1.0% with axillary radiotherapy over 5 years, Emiel Rutgers, MD, of the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, and colleagues found.
Overall survival didn't differ between the groups either, they reported here at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting.
But surgery doubled the lymphedema risk compared with radiation alone, at 40% versus 22% at year 1 and 28% versus 14% at year 5 (both P<0.0001).
These findings were seen as largely confirmatory of those reported at the meeting 2 years ago from the ACOSOG Z0011 trial, which showed no advantage in survival or relapse prevention from routine axillary node dissection after discovering a positive sentinel node.
It also confirms the importance of radiation for these patients, commented Elizabeth Mittendorf, MD, PhD, of the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, in an interview with MedPage Today.
"Those of us who have adopted Z0011, which in the U.S., we mostly have, have contended that a very important part of Z0011 was the fact that every patient was undergoing breast conservation so every patient was getting radiation," she said. "You do need some treatment but it doesn't have to be surgery, the radiation is adequate by itself without doing further surgery."
The lower lymphedema risk of radiation in AMAROS was somewhat a surprise though, she suggested.
"If you had asked me before, I would have told you surgery and radiation are probably comparable with respect to the complication of lymphedema and this clearly shows that's not true," Mittendorf said.
The randomized AMAROS trial included 1,425 women with early-stage, invasive breast tumors up to 5 cm in size that were clinically node-negative but yielded a positive sentinel lymph node biopsy. They were enrolled in the trial from 2001 to 2010.
Disease-free survival rates were 87% with completion axillary node dissection and 83% with axillary dissection, which wasn't statistically significant at P=0.1788.
Overall survival was 93% at 5 years in both treatment groups.
The surgery group also tended to have more shoulder movement impairment early in the trial and to report poorer quality of life with regard to movement but better quality of life related to swelling, but none of these differences were statistically significant.
The researchers cautioned that the planned non-inferiority test was underpowered because of an unexpectedly low number of recurrences and deaths.
Also, the trial enrolled a select group of women with relatively small tumors and no evidence of nodal metastases at presentation, so the results wouldn't generalize to those who come in with more advanced disease or have known large nodal metastases, Mittendorf added.
Another limitation was the lack of a definition for lymphedema, which can occur across the spectrum from arm swelling resulting only in a feeling of heaviness to cases requiring compression garments and lifestyle changes, she noted.
The study was supported by the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Charitable Trust.
The researchers reported no conflicts of interest.
Mittendorf reported no conflicts of interest.
last updated 12.12.2013
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Source Reference: Rutgers EJ, et al "Radiotherapy or surgery of the axilla after a positive sentinel node in breast cancer patients: final analysis of the EORTC AMAROS trial" ASCO 2013; Abstract LBA1001.
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FINAL ELECTION RESULTS, mental health measure loses, AF loses, AI wins
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MENDOCINO Co. 12/1/16 -- County election officials have finished their counting and the final election results are in! Here's the complete list of results.
The mental health law, Measure AG, has lost with 66.22% of the vote, it needed a full two-third super-majority, or 66.66% to pass. It came up 161 votes shy.
The citizen initiative cannabis Measure AF, also known as the heritage initiative, has lost, garnering only 37.93% of the vote.
The board of supervisor's cannabis tax initiative, Measure AI, has won, with 63.04%. Its supporting advisory measure, Measure AJ, won as well.
In Ukiah Measure Y which will raises sales tax to fund road repair won, along with the advisory Measure Z.
In both Fort Bragg and Point Arena the temporary occupancy tax measures, Measure AA and Measure AC, passed, raising the tax paid on overnight stays in those cities from 10% to 12%. Both cities also passed the advisory measured associated with the taxes, which direct revenues to promotion of the cities, and maintenance of trails and other items.
The Point Arena cannabis tax measure, Measure AE, also passed.
CITY COUNCILS
In the Fort Bragg race, Will Lee (35.77%) and Bernie Norvell (33.66%) have won.
The winners of the Willits City Council race, in order of votes are, Willits Chief of Police Gerry Gonzalez (27.41%), Saprina Rodriguez (18.99%), and Councilwoman Madge Strong (18.35%). In a stern repudiation of his policies sitting mayor Bruce Burton lost, coming in last place in the five way race, and trailing behind the next candidate, Bill Barksdale, by 85 votes, or 2%. Barksdale lost to third place winner, Strong, by only four votes. Gonzalez, in turn, won a resounding victory, leading the next candidate by fully 344 votes, or about 8.5%.
In Point Arena's elections Scott Ignacio (29.78%), Richard Wasserman (23.33%), and Jonathan Torrez (21.78%) were elected to full term seats.
Barbara Burkey (45.37%), and Anna Dobbins (30.35%) were elected to short term seats.
Ukiah's elections were all effectively uncontested, R. Allen Carter won the position of treasurer and Douglas Crane (54.85%), and Stephen Scalmanini (42.53%) won the city council race.
STATE AND NATIONAL
In the presidential election Mendocino had a significantly different result than the country: Hillary Clinton won 58.23% and Donald Trump won 28.72%. Perhaps more interestingly third party candidates won 12.65% of Mendonesian votes, with 5.56% going to Jill Stein of the Green Party, write-in candidates getting 3.58%, and Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson garnering 3.51%.
In statewide races Proposition 64, which legalized recreation marijuana, passed in Mendocino with 54.27% of the vote. This is a slightly narrower margin than in the state as a whole where it won with 57.1% of the votes.
Incumbent Democrat Jared Huffman won the 2nd Congressional District and carried Mendocino with 72.68% of the vote. Incumbent Democrat Jim Wood won the assembly seat with and carried 73.64% of Mendocino.
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Is 90 Day Fiancé Scripted? The Truth About TLC's Most Addictive Show.
All that drama can't be real...right?
By Temi Adebowale
If you've ever wondered why people are obsessed with 90 Day Fiancé, it's because the relationship drama is both cringeworthy and...so entertaining to watch. Remember when Danielle threw that binder at Mohamed? Or when Pedro and Chantal's family got into a fight one time....and that second time...and also this other time?
There's just something about watching someone try to bring to their foreign partner to the U.S. while also trying to convince everyone around them that they're actually in love and not just looking for a green card that's oddly compelling.
But this overflow of drama has led some people to ask if the show and its many spinoffs are actually real, or if producers are scripting scenes to entertain viewers. So what's the deal: Is 90 Day Fiancé scripted?
Is 90 Day Fiancé scripted?
The answer is mainly no...but also a little yes. The couples on 90 Day Fiancé are real, and the producers never put anyone together. As Screen Rant reports, the couples have to complete the K-1 visa process on their own, and they have to be in a real relationship before applying to be on the show.
However, some of the show's most memorable scenes have had some influence from the producers. Screen Rant also listed scenes from the show that are real, and a bunch of others that are fake. That scene in season 5 where David's friend Chris asks his fiancée Annie for a massage? Totally scripted.
"Yes, the awkward scene of Chris asking for a massage was SCRIPTED," Chris' wife Nikki wrote on Facebook, according to inTouch Weekly. "The producer asked him to say it & Chris had to say it more than once because it didn’t come off as natural. We were fed our lines while sitting at the table, which is why no one reacted. WE ALL KNEW WHAT TO EXPECT."
Speaking about the show in general, Chris said: "Well, absolutely part of it is [scripted]. No question. Some of it is real and then teased with and added to subtracted from."
According to inTouch Weekly, Nikki added, "I wouldn't say that there's a written script that's like, 'Hey, read this line, read this line. But there are times where there are different people or producers that come up to you and say, 'Oh, I think it would be cool if you do this,'" or "'I think you should say this.'"
Here's the awkward "massage" scene, by the way:
Other former cast mates have spoken out about the validity of the show. Ashley and Jay appeared on the show's sixth season, and reports of their breakup and divorce rocked the Internet earlier this year. Ashley later countered those rumors, and Cheat Sheet reports that she made a lengthy Instagram post about her time on 90 Day:
"We have been asked to be very deceptive about many things during our run with the show. We have been asked (and agreed for some time) to fake our relationship by not posting anything that makes us appear that we are together. Personally, I thought this show was just for entertainment & that’s what we were told. Since the show has ended I never confirmed the status of our relationship due to the contract.
"As for fellow cast members popping off: YOU WORK FOR THE SAME SHOW, so — acting like you’re mortified about the falsity of things that happen is COMPLETELY hypocritical. Most of you from Season 6 went on a social media TIRADE about the editing and fraud of the show, so don’t suddenly act like you have no idea how this goes."
But while the truth about the TLC show may be a bit murky, we kinda don't care if our favorite scenes are scripted or not. I mean, as long as we get to see couples like Fernanda and Jon fight after the club, who are we to complain?
Temi Adebowale Temi Adebowale is the Editorial Assistant at Men's Health.
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cess·pool | \ ˈses-ˌpül \
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After all, YouTube is home to both nursery rhymes and coming out videos, sports recaps, makeup tips, tech reviews, and what critics have said are a cesspool of conspiracy, hate speech and racist videos. — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, "Why YouTube's kid issues are so serious," 22 June 2019 Once a cesspool of vice and prostitution, the neighborhood was reclaimed in the early 1900s by squatting artists. — Michael J. Bailey, BostonGlobe.com, "In Milan, a low-tech saunter through a mecca of high fashion," 18 June 2019 This idea that Twitter is really valuable, has a lot of news, but is also a cesspool and a home for Nazis and other malcontents, that seems like that’s a relatively recent sort of conventional wisdom about Twitter. — Eric Johnson, Recode, "Former Ticketmaster CEO Nathan Hubbard explains why live venues are leaving money on the table," 11 Oct. 2018 For too long the Human Rights Council has been a protector of human rights abusers and a cesspool of political bias. — Fox News, "Haley on the New York Times, Kavanaugh and US foreign policy," 20 Sep. 2018 For three frenzied days and nights, some of the best improvisers known to mankind descend upon the city and turn it into a riotous cesspool of comedic talent. — Kasia Pilat, New York Times, "6 Comedy Shows to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend," 28 June 2018 In the mid-to-late 1970s, New York was a bit of a cesspool: Crime was out of control, repeated requests for federal aid were denied, and the city was on the edge of bankruptcy. — Vogue, "The 55 Best Romantic Comedies of All Time," 1 Feb. 2019 And, yeah, the Earl Thomas situation still has the potential to erupt into a cesspool of recrimination despite the ceasefire of hostilities once the whistle blows. — Larry Stone, The Seattle Times, "In win over Cowboys, Seahawks show they can thrive amid the Earl Thomas chaos," 24 Sep. 2018 What used to be a home for funny, irreverent comedy and harmless gags gradually transformed into an unaccountable cesspool of toxic actors and bad-faith harassers. — Bijan Stephen, The Verge, "Sweden’s official Twitter account will no longer be run by random Swedes," 5 Sep. 2018
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The Bachelor’s Lauren Burnham And Arie Luyendyk Are Expecting A Baby
Celebrities / By Mimoza Nuka
While they are still prepping for their January wedding, The Bachelor’s Lauren Burnham and Arie Luyendyk revealed they’re expecting their first child. Burnham is currently working with designer Hayley Paige for her wedding dress, and it seems like they have to make room for the baby now. So exciting!
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The bride-and-mom-to-be shared the couple’s first reaction when they found out she was expecting, saying:
The first thing we thought of was, ‘Oh, my gosh. Our wedding!’ Obviously we’re not married yet, but this is the way it happened. And this is probably the way it was meant to happen!
As for how she found out she was pregnant, Lauren said she told her friend to bring a pregnancy test because she ‘kind of had a feeling’ she might be pregnant. Arie was the one who read the result and ‘confirmed’ her pregnancy with tears in his eyes. Lauren adds that they bought six more pregnancy tests, you know, just to make sure.
The former auto racing driver said:
Lauren took all of them and they were all positive. We weren’t trying, but we are so excited. It’s going to be a whole new chapter in our lives.
Lauren revealed for Us Weekly that she hardly left the house because of the morning sickness. But in these last few weeks, she started feeling better. She also said Arie has been really helpful since they got the exciting news, and does everything around the house. Lucky her!
The only parenting experience they have is that with their dogs, but Luyendyk, 37, believes he will be a ‘softie’, while Burnham, 26, is quite the disciplinarian.
The couple got engaged in March after Luyendyk broke up with his then-finacée, Becca Kufrin. They shared the wedding date in May, and engagement pictures in July. Lauren already had her bridal shower in August. Quite a busy summer!
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NATO and the French military continue to deny that a secret report exists concerning the loss of ten French soldiers last month in Afghanistan. For the record, I have no intention of publishing any part of the secret report. Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper heavily cited the report, and I merely confirmed that the report does in fact exist, that the newspaper article accurately reflected the contents of the report, and warned that if NATO and the French military maintained their position that the report was either inaccurate or nonexistent, they might find themselves contradicted by its publication. More importantly, the document was handed to me with zero expectation that I would keep it secret. In fact, there seemed to be an expectation that I might publish something, though I did keep it secret, other than to verify the Globe and Mail story.
Below is my original post:
I was able to carefully read the secret NATO/ISAF report cited in this news story, which does a good job of reporting the facts in the report. Photographs published in the report showed very accurate fire on vehicles, which supports the claim that the Taliban are becoming more proficient with their small arms fire. The document also indicated that the Taliban had used armor piercing bullets in the ambush. The French soldiers were completely unprepared for this level of combat. Apparently, the survivors were rescued by American forces, including “Green Berets” who were nearby.
We can’t win this war if the people at home think the military here is deceiving them.
One of the reasons we succeeded In Iraq was that, for the most part, the American and British militaries had an open and truthful approach to journalists. They let us see the good, the bad, and the ugly, though few journalists spent much time down in the “trenches.” From the perspective of working journalists, most of us didn’t believe we were being systemically deceived by the military (except for a few notable exceptions). This was especially true beginning in early 2007 when General David Petraeus took command. Sure, the military constantly tried to shunt journalists to school openings, water projects and hug-fests, but that was fair play. They wanted to get their message out. Most of us saw nothing wrong with that, except that few journalists care to cover school openings or new clinics. The military was trying to emphasize the positives (of which there were many) while journalists were more apt to cover the negatives (again, there were many). Car bombs were more likely to get airtime and column inches.
Here in Afghanistan, I sense a storm brewing between NATO and the media. The official denial of the secret report on the 18 August Taliban ambush on French forces is not an isolated incident. There have been other instances which give the impression of a pattern of denial and cover-up. NATO credibility is critical in this war. Support is already weak in several NATO countries. The Afghani and, even more so, Pakistani populaces are often skeptical of our efforts and question our honesty. For example, when the U.S. was recently blamed for the deaths of nearly 100 innocent people in a single attack, the basic facts of the case were highly disputed. Who are the people supposed to believe? Because they know the impact on the propaganda war, the Taliban routinely lies about casualties, exaggerating the number of civilians killed and claiming their own fighters were civilians. If NATO is found to be spewing propaganda, they will not be able to counter Taliban propaganda. Western journalists here already do not believe the Taliban or al Qaeda. We know they lie. But enemy shams do not translate into NATO credibility. Frankly, I do not know who to believe about the alleged killing of nearly 100 people. I wanted to believe our side, but they don’t always inspire confidence. If we didn’t kill 100 innocent civilians, why not invite some journalists out to the village to verify the facts for themselves? And if we did kill them by accident, why not just admit it?
In Iraq, Al Qaeda and other groups undermined themselves. Our people wrestled away the high ground, but it was a long, hard fight, requiring diligence, discipline, and a sometimes painful honesty. In Afghanistan, maintaining our credibility could be even more difficult than in Iraq. Many people, such as Pakistani cab drivers, will likely never believe a word we say. That comes with the territory. What NATO cannot afford is to be seen by fair-minded journalists as being no more trustworthy than the enemy.
Denials like the ones recently made by NATO and the French military only undermine credibility and create an atmosphere of cynicism and distrust. If both the Taliban and NATO are propaganda machines, the Taliban wins. Also, these denials put the burden of proof on those journalists who have written about the report. The Globe and Mail and I now must prove that the document exists, otherwise our own credibility is undermined.
The photos I published on the 21 September of the damaged Afghan Police vehicle were not from the secret report. Those photos were from a separate, non-classified source. Exactly how the damage was sustained was unknown by the source, but it could have been an accident during the fighting.
The French and NATO should come clean, make a straightforward accounting of the facts and move on. Yet this morning, here’s the news:
BRUSSELS, Sept 21, 2008 (AFP) - NATO denied Sunday that French soldiers
had been ambushed by better armed Taliban fighters in Afghanistan last
month but expressed concern about increasingly sophisticated
cross-border attacks.
"We have no information and have seen no information that would indicate
that the French forces were in any way ill-equipped for this mission,"
chief NATO spokesman James Appathurai said.
Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper, citing a "secret" NATO report, said
Saturday that Taliban fighters who ambushed French soldiers on August 18
-- killing 10 of them -- were well-trained and better armed than their
enemy.
But Appathurai said: "I am in a position to say that there is no such
report, either from NATO or from ISAF," the International Security
Assistance Force in Afghanistan.
"Neither the secretary general (Jaap de Hoop Scheffer) nor indeed NATO
headquarters has any knowledge of such a report's existence. After some
research we are still unable to find any evidence of such a report," he
I get the foreboding sense the AfPak war might become far worse than Iraq ever was. Everything here feels wrong. In Iraq, I didn’t trust the enemy to tell the truth, but found that our side was generally honest. Here in Afghanistan, the enemy is deceitful, but why should I trust NATO when their story keeps changing? Now the French Defense Minister admits there was a report, but says it was not official, just a “fragmented” email expressing “a personal opinion.”
'Account' of ambush of French troops in Afghanistan: minister
PARIS (AFP) — France's defence minister confirmed Monday the existence of a NATO officer's "account" of a deadly ambush of French soldiers last month, after a newspaper cited what it said was a report that said the force was ill-equipped.
Herve Morin told RTL radio the description of the battle in Afghanistan was a "fragmented written account done in the heat of the moment the day after or 48 hours after the operation, using elements at the officer's disposal."
Yet it gets worse. The sixth paragraph of today’s denial:
There had been no official report "but there was email correspondence between an ISAF officer and command HQ in Kabul, in which the officer expressed his personal opinion on what happened during the ambush," the source said.
The French and NATO should make their own on-the-record statements instead of using journalists as their messengers who can later take the blame for any “misinterpretations.” They should say exactly what was “wrong” about the report and the Canadian newspaper article. There might not have been an “official report”, but that seems to be a rather meaningless distinction, except that the obvious intent is to discredit the source. Same with calling it an email (do French soldiers still file their reports on paper?) The secret report was a genuine After Action Report. The document was not an email missive done on the fly, but a detailed eyewitness account, written in an official manner that I have seen many times before. NATO and the French officials are almost begging someone to publish the actual document.
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carol · 10 years ago
I've just got back from business in South Africa. The people there are amazing, really wonderful. They all want to know about Obama. Nothing beats a face to face chat.
Here I find another Michael Yon crusade - tell the truth guys or I'll expose your communications for what they are.
Word to the French and to Nato. Michael won his crusade in Iraq. Just surrender and start telling the truth. You'll find it an awful lot less painful and embarrassing.
You keep fighting Michael. No one on the planet has your power - power used for good.
I haven't been reading here in a while. Have you been writing about the Afghan people? What about the girls? Are they learning English and computers? That's one way to beat the bad guys.
Very best and I'll tip once I've got some wiggle room on my credit card again.
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Nomenklatura · 10 years ago
Telling the truth doesn't come easy to French officialdom. Remember the story told about Chirac - you could walk in on him when he had an open jar of jam in his hand and jam dripping from his mouth, and still he would look you right in the eye and tell you he didn't like jam and would never even consider eating it. Part of the prestige of the French state involves being above any necessity to tell the truth. After 200 years, it's a hard habit to break.
dtc · 10 years ago
This report is full of crap, and if you don't like that, you can put it in your fat ass.
franchie · 10 years ago
yeah, apparently the repot = crap
who does want to self prise here ? OK, the Canadians are great fighters, but they also do die !!!!
http://secretdefense.blogs.liberation.fr/defense/2008/09/afghanistan-q-1.html#more
Rix · 10 years ago
NATO and the West in general have never been good at media ops. Somehow there is the feeling that propaganda is evil, even though we know that it is is part of the battle space of fourth generation warfare. The military needs to learn ""4th Generation Media" and prepare the battlespace.
Wind Rider · 10 years ago
Go ahead and publish the 'secret' report - and a question - is it 'secret' because of the method that NATO used to forward it, or because of the content? I used to argue constantly with Marines who insisted on stamping a 'system-high' classification on every piece of hardcopy out of the printers on some systems, even if it was a .jpg of a hand drawn picture of Mickey Mouse.
anon · 10 years ago
What would happen if French troops were withdrawn from AFG because public support is lost? Likely implications for AFG and for the western alliance?
The Thunder Run · 10 years ago
The Thunder Run has linked to this post in the blog post From the Front: 09/22/2008 News and Personal dispatches from the front and the home front.
http://thunderrun.blogspot.com/2008/09/from-front-09222008.html
Rick · 10 years ago
Michael: Very disturbing news from Afgh. What in the world are the French doing here? If their guys were ill equipped or not carrying the right gear just say so and make sure it doesn't happen again.
We're shaking our heads here stateside about this.
Stay safe and keep reporting!
gomer · 10 years ago
who cares about obama. he's a favorite of the french i'm sure. he is just as deceitful as some of the french leaders. it's called integrity...neither obama nor the french involved in this coverup seem to have much of this in their character. thank you michael for the updates. stay safe.
Obama, we fuckin don't care of your candidates, your just talking of abortion, God, drilling, Gore, where we should hear from your economy, externe policy, even wealfare that is of french inspiration of course, eh forget about brainwashing sometimes, we never inspired you, your still ontempting us wether your right wing or left wing, since Burke the puritain !
don't believe your MSM about the supposed percentage of Frenchs that would suport one of your nuts candidate
"But other analysts have looked at the incident in a broader context, speculating that trends in the Uzbin valley, and beyond, may have contributed to the deadly incident. Some observers connect the French ambush with attacks that killed nine American soldiers in July and another that killed three Canadians earlier this month, all of them examples of bold strikes against international forces by insurgents who seem increasingly skilled at guerrilla warfare"
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080919.wparatroopers20/BNStory/International/home
though Nato is supposed to deny :
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iDwn8zccMzTknwAyey-DBMoQGoMA
http://www.armees.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=63922&pid=711788&mode=threaded&start=#entry711788
I recall you that our actual government has the majority at the national assembly, plus that a certain number of socialists also agree on the war plan
so have you got anymore sure objective truth ?
yeah, your a great army, how dare those surrender monkeys to show off at war ???
argonaut · 10 years ago
Concerning the 100 citizens killed, I believe during that particular action an embedded reporter and camera man were present and they stated they did not see anywhere near 100 bodies when they went into the village soon afterword. You just can not find their accounts in the mainstream media. When the media won't even believe/publish the media reports, one has to ask why blame the military?
RCO · 10 years ago
Keep it up, Mr. Yon. And when you get back to Iraq, peek in on the NATO HQs there in the Green Zone. Find out the differences between what they're doing and what they say they're doing. Talk about opening eyes ...
Lira · 10 years ago
We'll it's nice to see some folks like to mention Obama talking. I have one expression to say about him with our miltitary. "He is like Nero..Who played the flut while Rome burned to the ground." If he were in office our troops would be dying and no support given with a increase of troops, no communication, just a lot of whislting in the grave yard like we are now. Just enough to piss you off. That's why we need McCain in office.
Cover up with NATO and French folks. We'll we can say lack of commucication within themselves. Lack of better firearms. Last but not least "deny the truth with a lesser amount of information leaked to the public, and world.
America is losing the war. If our leaders had any since they would see the patterns our soldiers are faced with everyday. For example, old providences are always a target. Look at the old biblical days and past recent attacks of fighting. Look at how they placed tatic's then. Now they are just using bombs and amor piercing bullets. The simple crap just kills us. We look at the lack of experience as well. Kill a "Terry" for every lost NATO, French, American, British, etc after America calls for a draft. That's next. I wouldn't be surprised. America needs to win to clean a mess up.
Ernest Lane · 10 years ago
I have heard the NATO soldiers have to operate with an ROE that is basically don't fire unless fired upon. Is this true? If so, it seems to me that that ROE si guaranteed to do only one thing: get more NATO soldiers killed than would otherwise be the case.
Howard E. Morseburg · 10 years ago
One might say that the stories in Iraq and Afghanistan are both symbolic of battles between Good and Evil. It's surprising how they can kill each other over perceived slights, daughters over a supposed violation of the family honor, and suicide bombings that are almost beyond belief because they are so indiscriminate and those killed could even be related to the bombers. Let an American or United Nations patrol make a mistake and it is world-wide news. Our own media are the worst at it, villiifying our men above all.
That mission to install huge generators to supply power to one of the most primative regions are earth, the perils and risks involved, but it is shown only on Michael Yon's website, is another instance where the truth is hidden from the public around the world. The soldiers guarding the convoy and the civilian engineers participating in the project are truly heroes, but the world knows nothing about it. The Taliban want us all to return to a 14th century world, because yes, they'd like to conquer or convert us as well. It is not the religion that is at fault, but those who use particular parts of it to justify the continued violence and hatred.
At least some of what is hidden from us is brought to light in this continuing story. Those of us who read it are behilden to a man who stands out in the field of journalism and photo journalism, Michael Yon. Let's all send out his URL to ten people a week so that here in the U.S. (and elsewhere) we can get a better understanding of the overall picture in Afghanistan.
Papa Ray · 10 years ago
Just want you to know that I am linking your stories. Everyone is amazed at and very interested in your reports. They (and I) are very worried about you leaving your embed and going off on your own. Yes, I understand that is where you will find truth and reality, but I lost one good friend (even though I never met him face to face) who did the same in Iraq. I'm sure you remember Michael, who was murdered in Basra a few years ago. I told him that he wasn't bullet proof and he replied in his light manner that he knew that and didn't intend finding out.
As far as NATO goes, there are many great Warriors there, but mainly in the enlistedr ranks. The NATO Officer Corp mainly is nothing but rank seekers and do nothings. Not picking on the French but they seem to have forgotten how to take care of their troops and keep them supplied with what they need. It amazes me and my buds that they can't supply helicopters and other things that are badly needed.
Take care and tell the real Warriors that they are admired and remembered.
Papa Ray
a few video reports on the supposed bad prepared soldiers, in this one it's the group that was hit, some of the guis are dead
http://www.france24.com/fr/20080826-patrouille-taliban-parachutiste-rpima-afghanistan-reportage-embarque&navi=MONDE
the legionaire in tha video was killed while taking care of the wounded
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4sh9r_envoye-special-une-guerre-au-nom-de_news (?ÿ suivre)
Talibani who run away
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4sem2_envoye-special-une-guerre-au-nom-de_news
http://patdollard.com/2008/09/french-army-firefight-with-taliban/
The Frenchs were not bad prepared or not well cared, just that was a "routine" mission as they did tens of times
the problem is that the talibani have good snipers now, they ruined the radio first, it tooks quite several minuts before their responsable could call for help. the munitions were normal for a normal reconaissance trip.
it could have happened to any other Nato Cies, comprise yours
Juan · 10 years ago
I'm gonna take a guess and say someone who wasn't thinking was in the bed of the truck with a RPG and fired that sucker to the trucks six o'clock. Also who's to say that that truck was in perfect condition right before getting in the ambush?
Mike Boyce · 10 years ago
Michael, I want nothing more than to see the Western Allies execute operations in Afghanistan/Pakistan efficiently and effectively. I agree with your assessment that credibility in press reports of good, bad and indifferent occurrences must be maintained. I want to and will continue to support our troops and their missions, but it makes some things difficult if there is evidence of cover up at the command level. It throws all reports, positive especially into suspicious light. The war in this region is at best difficult for NATO/ISAF troops and a loss of credibility by the command structure leads to loss of credibility of our presence and the mission. There is always cause for specific types of "cover up and deceit" for the sake of sensitive information and operations, that is a given. If a damaging attack occurred, then admit it and carry on with renewed intent and concentration. NATO/ISAF forces will suffer tactical defeats, that is the nature of war. Keep up your good work and demand for truth. Take care of your personal security, as well.
Scott K · 10 years ago
Michael:
I will continue to support you. As a father of a soldier heading over there, I am concerned about what you are seeing. I bought and read your book, and continue to read your dispatches. Stay safe, and god bless you.
Your dispatches remind me of a great quote by a great president.
"I never gave anyone hell. I just told them the truth, and they thought it was hell."
-Harry Truman-
Barry · 10 years ago
Michael, unfortunately public life in Europe sways to constant deceits, while there are many exceptions, political artfulness and manipulation of events is quite normal, indeed it is not that far fetched to say that the prevailing ethos of modern European ideals lay centred on trying to prevent debate about the obvious.
The second point that might be made is that failure in Afghanistan may suit the agenda of certain extreme European political manipulators desirous of trying to establish Europe as a force capable of standing above the US and anyone else in the realms of international affairs. While this is pure fantasy, it should be borne in mind when assessing motives for denial.
Stephen Carter · 10 years ago
The Left wants to lose in both Afghanistan and Iraq. Any European military personnel are either largely uninvolved in direct combat, or are deliberately underfunded & underequipped by their nations in order to achieve failure & defeat. Why? The multiculturalist paradigm long ago defined these wars as American imperialist payback for 9/11, while European elites believe America only got what it deserved re 9/11. They (Euro-elites) want to see America defeated & humiliated & America's form of hard power discredited so the (delusional) EU soft power can step into the breach. Europe truly believes history has moved on & hard power will never be needed again. The Democrats have such an inferiority complex vis-a-vis Europe that they've bought into this & try to advance it in the US. Democratic policies of surrender, withdrawal, & unconditional negotiations only make sense in this light. This (Left-inspired) betrayal would just be an extension of Europe's own decline & imminent demise. It is absolute lunacy to listen to Europe at all. They're gone, they're history. France seriously dreams it can attain la gloire francaise through its proxy use of the EU; they've been on the wrong side of history repeatedly ever since Louis XIV 300 years ago. So the French soldiers' participation in a Crusader combat mission & deaths will continue to be denied. The essential nature of the EU is totalitarian & tends towards constant deceit. They're deceiving their people about the extent of the immigration chaos as well of course, but they're so far down that inferno there's no turning back ...
Ian Bach · 10 years ago
It does seem there is no informed public conversation or practical debates taking place RE: Afghanistan.
Almost all parties involved seem to be at a loss of word. However, the enemy is at no loss for words.
So where is the disconnect ?
- Many of us who looked at Afghanistan saw a nation ripe for change.
- The tight grip the Taliban have on the Pashtun community seems unending.
- Many world gov's saw how well working with the Sunni and Shia militias (in Iraq) created a new environment - now they look to incorporate Taliban into the political process in hope they will change mindsets and help reign in terrorism.
Well Afghanistan is not Iraq, not by a long shot. For over a year I made a strong effort to talk with people in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, & Pakistan.....but those in Afghanistan and Pakistan I never felt connection and never felt any love or trust. This stems from many sources, but adds to what must be accomplished to bring about a safer Afghanistan. The biggest hurdle is trust. The Afghans have been helped by the US when they fought Russia and then abandoned. That piece of history weighs heavy on afghan minds. If they assist in helping coalition forces they fear being abandoned and left to be swallowed up by the next regime change and rebellion. They fear the Taliban will come back. The Taliban who hold strong Wahhabi views and sympathies, and they fight against Shia and western ideals. They see us as foreign invaders who mean to subjugate the Afghan people and Islam. But perhaps the Paki influence is the most daunting. Afghanistan is 25 mil people Iraq 25 mil but Pakistan is 190 million most with anti American and anti afghan views. The numbers of recruits to the Taliban cause is growing with no sign it will ebb soon.
We should also think about Obamaƒ??s views where he says ƒ??he should go into Pakistan tribal lands to get bin ladenƒ?. I say he is jumping the gun and the result will be nothing less than devastation.
We will not see success until we can start to insure security and until we start to wage information warfare on the Talibanƒ??s misdirected views. The Taliban will continue to receive money and men for their cause until we can show their cause to be misdirected and false.
a Brit · 10 years ago
Stephen Carter @ 24 . IMHO, an accurate analysis of French-led EU delusion. God only knows why my country wants to be part of it.
Bach, I am afraid, but you are right
stephen carter, so what ! are you a Brit ? actually they are likely "jaelous" of our position in EU with Germany, though, at the origin, EU was created by a French and a German, not to keep the "grandeur of France" as your remanent whinning keep showing, but to prevent from the happening of another war between our two countries, ans sorry if Sarkozy is actually president of the EU while a virtual major conflict with Russia could have occured, Tony Blair had his time either, but he did nothing for the externe relations, just made sure that UK kept his avantages from EU. Sorry if only Frenchs in EU have the balls to make that things move on in EU.
Don't say that our government don't do the maximum for our soldiers, it has the majority at the national assembly, and 343 vs 210 voted the maintening of our forces in Afghanistan, but we are there with our means, then not with a budget like your army's, but just 2,5 % of our national PNB, that are shared with the other troops that we have in Lebanon, former Yougoslavia, Chad, Central Africa, Senegal, Ivory coast, Gabon... and the Dom Tom (our expat islands)
Also I recall that Chirac (UMP) and Jospin (socialist prime minister) decided to send troops in Afghanistan at the first hour.
Gismo Fly · 10 years ago
Dear Mike,
Thank you for the insight. Just back from a short stay in France. I watched the very moving ceremony at Les Invalides for the French soldiers killed in Afghanistan.
What's at stake here is French involvement with NATO in Afghanistan. The number of soldiers killed was a shock to the nation and the subsequent allegations that they were not prepared, inadequately trained or somehow sloppy in the job is causing great offence to both the French military and more importantly; the French public.
Now, if the media want the French to withdraw from Afghanistan then they just have to press on with public laundry washing. This is the enemys objective and a good example of the western media being manipulated, once again, by the bad guys.
The time and date for examining alleged mistakes in Afghanistan is sometime in the future. Not now - in the middle of a war.
You did right, Mike. You are a man of preception.
What's the H..l are you talking ?
the national assembly voted 343 vs 210 for staying in Afghanistan
Of course the Talibani are making a propaganda war on the french opinion as they also do on your country fellows
Sarkozy made a great deal with the official bury of the soldiers, cause he has something to be forgiven among the army, cause of his "whie boocket", that says 60 000 jobs would be cut, mostly administrative and reserve. He haso had words with the former army head (in place from ages) and that he removed, another grief the army had, while Sarko was visiting the new president of Lebanon, he cancelled the visit to the french blue helmets. He just wanted to show to the army staff that he cared.
Bonjour Franchie,
What worries me is that 210 minority who voted against sending French troops to Afghanistan. It's way too high to for any NATO field commander to be happy with.
The professionalism and abilities of French forces are not in question. What is of great concern is the staying power of the French public. If the enemy get wind of Sarkozy becoming unpopular in France and the Taleban inflict another ten casualties on the Marine Infantry Paratroopers then that minority 210 may turn into a 343 majority to quit or at least cut back on offensive operations.
If the French public don't want to turn their soldiers into priority targets in Afghanistan then they had better keep 'mum' about the downside of the war while it's being fought. Yes, censorship saves lives.
Sarkozy is popular abroad and has put France back on the international map. You must admit that France had become introvert under his predecessors and was losing influence in the councils of the wise. All that's changed. I hope that makes you smile?
hi Gismo
I wouldn't worry too much about the 210 votes, this was a political reaction of the socialists that wanted to show that they still count in the spectre, they knew that the positive would won because of the assembly composition, therefore that their vote was not important, though they are divised, quite a few want to become "caliphe", and in private some of them are pro war in Afghanistan
Comment on Franchie@27. ƒ??EU was created by a French and a German ƒ??to prevent from the happening of another war between our two countries ƒ??. Maybe. But the threat to peace post WW2 was the Soviet Union. They were faced down by NATO, US troops in Germany and nuclear deterrence. The revisionist propaganda that ƒ??the EU has kept the peace post WW2 ƒ?? must not be allowed to take hold.
Good luck, Michael. Just donƒ??t underestimate the disdainful arrogance of the French ruling class. Or their potential vindictiveness
you forgot to mention that you were prompt to leave us facing the Bliztkrieg after that Belgium and Nederland surrendered in 1940, Dunkeerque anyone ?
"Just donƒ??t underestimate the disdainful arrogance of the French ruling class. Or their potential vindictiveness"
yeah, a Joan of Arc syndrom LMAO it's in regard to your contempt, sharia laws anyone ?
Brian Hart · 10 years ago
Michael, in both our public and private correspondence you've been truthful. If you say you read the report that supposedly doesn't exist, one must fall back on trust. When truth ends, trust follows. Regrettably NATO is on the verge of losing the trust of the French people. Once that goes, so will any remnant of public support. ....
If you have any doubt, read Lt. Gen. Moore and Joseph Galloway's new book, "We Are Soldiers Still" chapter eight entitled "back to the Hell that was Albany". It basically talks about how LZ XRay was talked up while the disaster at LZ Albany was completely covered up ... or at least lied about. On page 114 in that chapter I quote Gen. Moore, "With that began a years-long Army effort to cover up what had transpired in this haunted jungle clearing halfway around the world from home. The memoirs of Westmoreland and others speak glowingly of the battle at X-Ray but not a word is written of the battle they wanted to forget. Joe told me once that he dates the rot at the heart of our effort in Vietnam to that very moment when Westmoreland told Larsen to 'let it slide.' Valuable lessons are there to be learned from every battle, even the disasters or maybe especially the disasters. But you can't learn a thing from a battle you have tried to hide, for whatever reason."
What more needs to be said? In a democracy, victory or defeat hinges on public trust.
Another Brit · 10 years ago
ƒ??Dunkeerque anyoneƒ? - what is that supposed to mean ?
Lets just rewind for a minute; at the start of WWII the French army was the: Biggest, the Best trained and Best equipped army in the world. It had I believe more than 200 combat divisions. Even Winston Churchill said at the time ƒ??Thank God for the French Armyƒ? now he may have said this more in hope than in expectation, but he said it never the less. The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in France in 1940 numbered 10 divisions; this was just about the whole of the British regular army.
In 1940 The French Army fighting on their own soil to protect their own families friends and homes, collapsed, the French army collapsed on the flank of BEF. The BEF were left with no alternative but to withdraw to Dunkirk or be encircled Luckily at that time we still had the biggest and most powerful navy in the world, they were there to lift our soldiers from the beaches. I believe about 150,000 French and Belgium troops were also rescued.
Two Things to leave you with: where is Dunkirk ƒ?? yes its in France; if 200 divisions of the French army could not be bothered to defend their homeland this would hardly inspire 10 British divisions to stand and die for France.
It always amazes me that when the French are in trouble they expect everyone to ride to their rescue ƒ?? when did the French ever lift a finger to help anyone else. Also the French never faced the Blitz, you surrendered; the British faced the Blitz and they endured.
Frenchie - ƒ??Dunkeerque anyoneƒ? - what is that supposed to mean ?
Kent Mitchell · 10 years ago
You asked about the rifles hanging on the shop wall.
They Martini-Henry rifles. Brits used them in colonial times. Those might have been gathered in some Khyber Pass massacre.
Marie Claude franchi · 10 years ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dunkirk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_France
in Patrick Buisson's last book :"les ann??es ??rotiques 1940 1945", not honorific for us, neither for the Brits :
"as the weeks went on, the autochtone male element happened to show off more "reserved". The time will not be very long over till the Brit soldiers will be reproached not to be numerous enough, and not placed where they should, though where they are, they are overwhelming. Despite its efforts, the Information Office has more and more hard time to hide the brit "wimped" participation to the strategic organisation.In February 1940 only 10 divisions stay on the french soil, instead of the 25 promissed at the end of 1939 october. Then again these divisions camped far from the german border, in the north, Normandy, and the Atlantic coast. The joke among the troops at the Maginot line was "Did you see the Englishman ?", afterword translated by the german propaganda : "the Brits offer their "machines", the Frenchs their chests" or in the french paper "Paris-soir" " the Brits will fight till the last French"...
... There is more pernicious, the "passe-droit" (pass-right) and the privileges that the expeditionnary Brit corps take for granted, that irritated the Frenchs, that was echoed in all the population strates. On the belgian border the brit commendement allows habitation tickets to its troops without even refering to the local mayors. In Wanquetin, near Arras, the "tommies" live in individual houses, while the french soldiers must sleep in barns cob. Fighting are regular in the cities where both troops have to stay : in Lille, the Mecca for the Brits that are off, where the latters invade dancings, make beer abuses, tighten too narrow the local girls, all that ends in boxing parties with the "continental gitanos"... Anglophoby starts to overwhelme Anglophily. The Frenchs can't stand anymore the insolent contempting and overwhelming Brits, enough is enough with saccage, roberies, brigandage... "
Marie Claude
I do not know the author or the book to which you refer or the reason for its inclusions in your post, other than it being just another example of the numerous ways the French have of expressing their disgust and dislike of the British. The passage from this book is no more than name-calling. Name-calling is normally what is resorted to when you have lost the argument, but if you feel it necessary to immerse yourself in this type of sentiment as a means to reinforce your contempt thatƒ??s your prerogative.
There is, however, the small matter of historical fact; I believe actions speak louder than words. It may not be good enough for the French that hundreds of thousands of British service personnel died defending and liberating France. Maybe this is why our war dead have their graves in France desecrated by spray-painted graffiti with the words: ƒ??dig up your trash its contaminating our soilƒ?.
Anyway my original point in my last post was: why do you expect the British or anyone else to fight for France, if my home was being attacked I would want to be the first line of defence not stand by and later complain that my neighbour did not help me defend it, but if my neighbour chose to help I would be grateful and thank him for it. In this analogy there could be two reasons why my neighbour would chose to help me: because we are very good friends or there are vested interests involved; for friends the help given is: unquestioned, unswerving and unconditional.
I do not think that Britain and France are good friends.
To the British the expression ƒ??The Blitzƒ? refers to the bombing campaign direct at British cities; Blitzkrieg (lighting war) is a battlefield tactic to project maximum force on a narrow front to achieve breakthrough, just in case you misunderstood my previous post.
Wikipedia is okay for some things but I have many more ƒ??reliableƒ? books and encyclopaedia to refer to.
Marie Claude · 10 years ago
um, the Brits, medias and elites, had/have the skills to arrange the history facts at their best, thus a legend in their honnor
actually we can see how they manage with their communoties, shariah laws are going to be your rules, they can escape to France, some do, quite a lot though
When you said you were French I thought you meant you were from the France on Plant Earth, not the France on Plant Zeta Reticular Prime.
Have you got anything sensible to say, what is all this nonsense about shariah law?
Please bear in mind it was not Londonƒ??s suburbs and British cities that were up in flames night after night with rioting it was Paris suburbs and French cities.
Also more than 500,000 French people live in London alone, some call it Franceƒ??s fifth largest city.
My work takes me to France quite regularly, have you ever been to the UK
I will do my best to refrain from replying to anymore of this nonsense.
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Unicornland – Authentic New Web Series about Polyamory
14 Feb, 2017 | Feminism > LGBTQIA
In authentic new web series Unicornland, polyamory is explored through the eyes of Annie, a solo poly exploring new possibilities. Stream for free.
Unicornland is a touching and thoughtful new comedy about polyamory starring Laura Ramadei (Orange is the New Black) as recently divorced New Yorker Annie. The show has been well-received by the sex-positive and poly communities, shot by a 70% women cast and crew, with a cast that’s 60% non-white including trans, disabled and genderqueer actors. Now that she’s divorced, Annie is open to possibilities and experience. She heads out into a world of adventure and poly dating, and her development is both “feel you, sister” comedic and warm and honest to the core.
Stream the entire Unicornland series on Vimeo
Episode 1 – Julianne and Ethan
Episode 2 – Martha and George
Episode 3 – Shira and Mikal
Episode 4 – Veronica and Archie
Episode 5 – Gina and Julio
Episode 6 – Samara and Kim
Episode 7 – Masha and Peter
Episode 8 – The Party
Why is Annie exploring polyamory? The show’s writer, creator and producer Lucy Gillespie has this to say to anyone who asks: “Because she’s horny. Why does she need a reason? I don’t understand that.”
In the first episode, Annie has what may be her first-ever poly experience with Julianne and Evan. There’s a lot to love about this episode. Evan is presented as a controlling partner, micro-managing every detail of sexual encounters (that’s not the bit to love, of course). The scene where Julianne dances in her underwear initially seems in danger of playing into the stereotype of the exoticised, eroticised black woman – not because she’s enjoying her body, but because it seems shot from a male gaze perspective. This is undercut by Julianne outright challenging her husband’s controlling behaviour and objectification of women. You’ll want to cheer when Julianne calls out Evan for using polyamory as a tool to play out his sex fantasies as part of a dysfunctional relationship.
Another wonderful detail of the opening episode is when Annie makes a point of asking for Julianne’s consent rather than taking her pressurising husband’s word for it. Ensuing episodes reveal that consent is, without doubt, key to the series. Whether Annie is attending her first sex party, exploring kink or meeting a couple in their home for a first date, every encounter displays an understanding of how important consent and communication is to Annie and the other characters in the show.
In a later episode (Faking It – Veronica and Archie), Annie fakes coming because she’s never orgasmed during sex. Archie’s response, played with warmth and humour but nevertheless important: “I feel so small. Do you think I get off on abuse?”
In an interview with Self-care with Writers, Lucie Gillespie explains that her divorce played a role in inspiring her to make the show. “Part of it was I had not been fully honest with myself about my reasons for wanting to be in a relationship, and I didn’t communicate with my partner. I felt like something was wrong with me and I didn’t know how to be in a relationship. I met a lot of people and asked a lot of questions, specifically about how to make your love work.”
Though the characters in Unicornland are entirely fictional, Gillespie’s perspective and insights may have been influenced by previous personal experience of being in an open relationship and solo poly. Her insider perspective on the kink scene has also helped to give the show its authentic voice: “it was a really interesting place to figure out people who really stretched their relationships”.
After a Kickstarter campaign to help fund production, Gillespie and the team also sought insights from members of the wider community who provided their “time, homes and in-kind donations”.
Lucy Gillespie describes the series as a “dramedy”, and the result is sensitive and big-hearted with a lightness of touch about the topics it covers. In the first episode, Annie’s social anxiety in a new situation, confidence pep talks and ultimate honesty with herself and others is good to see. She’s carving her own path in unfamiliar territories, and wants to do so in a way that feels personally authentic.
With each episode named after a different couple, Unicornland places its key focus on exploring the etiquette, boundaries, goals and freedoms of poly dating from the point of view of Annie the beginner. It goes (hopefully) without saying that poly people don’t just think about sex. They have whole lives to lead. Some of them may have additional concerns relating to housing, discrimination or parenting. Lifing in a non-normative way has challenges involved. While the series doesn’t overtly explore these elements, each short episode – under five minutes long – gives a sense of real people living their lives. As the Masha and Peter episode shows, being a new parent isn’t easy, and balancing a baby’s needs with having guests over for kink evenings doesn’t make it any easier.
Ultimately, Unicornland is warm, funny and encourages honest conversation about polyamory. It derives its name from ‘unicorn hunting’, a term which has negative connotations to some. It’s sometimes used in the poly community to describe a couple looking for a third member (who may be a HBB or ‘hot bi babe’, the unicorn in question) to participate. This partnering may come with rules and caveats as set by the ‘primary couple’, and the ‘unicorn’ may be viewed as a less integral or permanent part of the relationship structure. In Unicornland, Annie actively seeks experiences and people. It could be said that she is exploring what she wants on her own terms, and isn’t being ‘hunted’ or used in any way. The couples that she spends time with all appear to be transparent and communicative about their expectations of the date, too.
A web series of eight episodes, each five minutes long or less, cannot cover all bases. Polyamory means so many different things to different people. Even so, the series is a warm and wonderful insight into a broad community who can’t be placed in a ‘one size fits all’ relationship pantsuit. Annie may be casually dating, but many of the people she meets are in longterm poly relationships. Some are on the scene; some aren’t. Age doesn’t play a factor. Nor does orientation, race, gender or ability. Admittedly, the homes and settings featured do all look ridiculously glossy and interior-design-oh-my-god-yes, but that’s more down to high production values and visual aesthetics. In no way is Unicornland suggesting that poly dating is the province of the rich!
As the series progresses, it’s clear that every poly couple has their own needs and expectations, as individuals and as a couple. It may hurt, but you don’t get to join in just because you want to. Couples who have it all sorted on the surface may be dysfunctional underneath. Relationships that may be looked down on or dismissed as ‘otherly’ by society can be extremely rewarding, empowering and secure. Every polyamorous couple is as different as any other couple on earth. Communication is always key.
At the very least, Unicornland is a show that will make polyamory easier to discuss and relate to. In an interview with Conscious Polyamory, Lucie Gillespie says: “I hope that Unicornland will start conversations about how we relate, how it’s serving us, and what else is possible.”
And now for some really good news: The whole series was released on February 14th 2017. Aw. That means you can stream all of it on Vimeo right now. For free. Enjoy!
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Mike Lopresti | NCAA.com | October 29, 2018
John Beilein, back from heart surgery, is grateful for another season with Michigan
2018 One Shining Moment
John Beilein’s world is different now. You ask the coach of Michigan what it means to have his players around him, after what he went through this summer, and he rubs his fingers up and down his chest. Never had to do that before.
“You’re talking about this?”
Yeah, that. The scar that shows where the doctors did their work during double bypass heart surgery in August. He’s doing well now. Oh, in preseason practice he’s had to watch the chest passes, do his rebab, and get his rest. As Wolverines guard Zavier Simpson was saying, “He’s still the same Coach B, but his voice is a lot lower. He’s not yelling as much, but you can tell he wants to jump in. You can tell he’s holding himself back. Sometimes he gets to yelling, that’s when I come in, `Coach B, let me talk to them. Relax.’”
It was so wonderful to be back on campus this past weekend with 〽️ Nation. Thanks for the amazing reception.
Celebrating the 2017-18 season 🏆🏆 was another memory we won’t forget & we look forward to more great seasons ahead #GoBlue pic.twitter.com/lyDHLdlZZc
— John Beilein (@JohnBeilein) September 12, 2018
But Beilein has come a long way from August. Four months after coaching the Wolverines in the national championship game, he was being wheeled into surgery. He can talk now about the one-on-one game going on in his mind then, between confidence and alarm.
“I wasn’t scared of the pain or operation but when they say 1-in-100 mortality rate, you’re not used to 1-in-100,” he said. “But we had great doctors, and I was taking that 99 percent and thinking I’m in good shape. But then you look at my life, the blessings I’ve had in my life, sometimes things are going to even out. You’re going to be dealt some tough things.”
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College kids sometimes consider themselves invulnerable. Comes with youth. But coaches can get caught up with that, too. Beilein admits he did.
“It’s (heart issues) hereditary in my family, but I thought, `I’m going to dodge that.’ Then reality hits.”
Before the surgery, he gathered his Wolverines to give them the news. This was a far different meeting than how to try to beat Villanova.
“I try to lead in the best way possible and when I am at my best I can help this team win.” - Charles Matthews pic.twitter.com/qev7bqOIll
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Charles Matthews: “It was such a scary moment. It puts so much more in perspective; you enjoy each and every day you have with your loved ones. You just try to tell everybody you love them, because you just never know.”
Simpson: “I thought there was a little more to it than what he was telling us, which I’m pretty sure there was, because he obviously doesn’t want to tell his players everything, because he doesn’t want to leave us too heartbroken. But it was kind of like a dropoff. It was difficult for us a team.”
Moments such as that, the meaning of being a team echoes loudly.
“I think they felt it as much as I did,” Beilein said. “I was walking into the locker room after I told everybody and Zavier Simpson says, `Coach, let’s pray together.’ That’s good stuff.”
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Beilein is, of course, a changed man now, having gone through that experience. More laid back. Less intense. Right? Right? Well . . .
“The answer is unfortunately no,” he said. “I’m still way too passionate about winning and providing our kids with the best opportunity. Sometimes (wife) Kathleen gets mad at me about that; I don’t smell the roses enough. I’m trying to. I am trying to every single day. But I hate to lose so much, I do everything I can to win, and sometimes that gets in the way of this great perspective on life I’m supposed to have after that, the airplane crash (before the 2017 Big Ten tournament), everything. But I’m working at it.”
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Talk about your tough matchups, try new perspective on life, going against a deep revulsion to losing.
“If I played blackjack, if I won a thousand dollars playing blackjack, it would mean nothing,” he said. “If I lost $50, I’d hate it. That’s the way many coaches are wired, actually.”
Speaking of losing, about that national championship game against Villanova. At the risk of bringing up a distressing memory to a guy recovering from heart surgery, has Beilein watched the tape of the 79-62 thumping yet?
Rivalries can get intense, as we saw Saturday in East Lansing.
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“Not one time,” he said. “Why put yourself through that pain again?”
But then he mentioned, “I’ll probably get a glass of wine and watch it,” and added it might not be that horrendous. Not that like watching the 82-76 championship game loss to Louisville in 2013. That was awful.
“The Louisville game made me feel worse. When I finally watched, I saw we could have done some things, I could have done some things. I think this one is actually going to be make me feel better.”
Better?
“Because I think they were really a better team. When I see (Donte) DiVincenzo’s shots again like I saw them first hand, I’ll know no matter what we did, he was making those shots.
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“This year, nobody was beating Villanova, I think they may have won the last 10 Final Fours, they were so good. When we lost to Louisville, a bounce of the ball, anything could have changed that.”
So now the 65-year-old man with the repaired heart prepares for his 12th season in Ann Arbor. And if he tries to push too hard and forgets how he spent August, he has a family to remind him, doctors to advise him and players to share prayers.
“I’ve got a bunch of people looking out after me.”
Mike Lopresti is a member of the US Basketball Writers Hall of Fame, Ball State journalism Hall of Fame and Indiana Sportswriters and Sportscasters Hall of Fame. He has covered college basketball for 43 years, including 39 Final Fours. He is so old he covered Bob Knight when he had dark hair and basketball shorts were actually short.
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'Poor man's Google Fiber' might be in your future
Four finalists competed for $5,000 at the B2B Go BIG Pitch Competition on Thursday
'Poor man's Google Fiber' might be in your future Four finalists competed for $5,000 at the B2B Go BIG Pitch Competition on Thursday Check out this story on news-leader.com: http://sgfnow.co/1vB6up1
Sony Hocklander, News-Leader Published 1:40 p.m. CT Oct. 2, 2014 | Updated 6:33 a.m. CT Oct. 3, 2014
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Local entrepreneur Matthew Thomas won today’s Go BIG Pitch Competition, a new event that was part of the 23rd annual B2B Expo at the Springfield Expo Center. News-Leader
Matthew Thomas and his idea for Share-A-Gig won the B2B Go BIG Pitch Competition.(Photo: Nathan Papes/News-Leader)Buy Photo
The passionate pitch for his Share-A-Gig startup won $5,000 and six months of free rent at the eFactory for local entrepreneur Matthew Thomas. His idea, a "poor man's Google Fiber," is a way to bring fast Internet service to a dense area.
Thomas was one of four finalists in Thursday's Go BIG Pitch Competition, a new event that was part of the 23rd annual B2B Expo at the Springfield Expo Center.
The other finalists, culled from 20 applicants, were Brandon Freeman, Tylor Hindery and Sampson Yi. Each already had a developed a startup idea that was improved through coaching as part of the pitch contest process.
Yi pitched his Panda Laundry Factory, a way to automate laundry service. Freeman's product INSPXTR is a way to inspect pipes for water to treatment plants. Hindery presented his app, Safe Food for Me, to help people with special dietary needs find a restaurant more easily.
Thomas' idea would be bring full Gigabit Internet access to residents and businesses of small, dense urban markets through wireless technology without the traditional costs of building a high-capacity gigabit fiber network — and he could start with downtown Springfield.
Will Thomas' idea become reality?
"I would love to see this expand and take off. I don't see any reason why it can't. It's inexpensive enough to get done as a good test market for our downtown area to get it going. It can happen," said Thomas.
Thomas also founded U-Link, a local Internet service.
Judges at Thursday's pitch contest were Jim Michels, who owns the coworking space Creative Foundry; Jeff Schrag, owner of Mother's Brewing Company and chairman of the board for the Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce; and Christine Daues, an entrepreneur who with husband Joe Daues, created Granolove.
The pitch competition was planned as a way to look at early-stage companies that could use a boost to get started, Ryan Mooney, senior vice-president of economic development for the Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce, explained in an earlier story.
"The chamber has had a pretty significant commitment to entrepreneurs and to assisting entrepreneurs, and we thought this would be a good way to showcase the exciting things that are happening surrounding startups in our community," Mooney said.
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By: Bernama - July 10, 2019
Bank Negara retains Overnight Policy Rate at 3 percent
KUALA LUMPUR: Bank Negara Malaysia’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) in its meeting yesterday decided to maintain the Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) at 3 percent as latest indicators point towards sustained economic expansion.
The central bank in a statement said while the external sector’s performance is likely to be weighed down by slower global growth and trade tensions, economic growth will be supported by domestic demand.
“Household and capital spending will continue to be driven by stable labour market conditions and capacity expansion in key sectors such as manufacturing and services. The baseline projection remains within the range of 4.3 percent to 4.8 percent.
“This projection, however, is subject to downside risks from ongoing uncertainties in the global and domestic environment, worsening trade tensions and extended weakness in commodity-related sectors,” said BNM.
The bank said the local economy grew within expectations in the first quarter of the year, supported by both domestic and external factors.
It noted that the global economy continues to expand moderately, while labour conditions in the advanced economies remain firm, with domestic demand continuing to support growth in Asia.
“Leading indicators, however, point to a softening of the near-term global economic outlook, with considerable downside risks remaining primarily from prolonged trade tensions.
“While the prospects of monetary easing in the major economies have somewhat eased global financial conditions, heightened policy uncertainty could lead to excessive financial market volatility,” it said.
While headline inflation has remained low in the recent period, it is projected to rise in the coming months as the impact of the changes in consumption tax policy lapses.
For 2019 as a whole, average headline inflation is expected to be broadly stable compared to 2018.
“The trajectory of headline inflation will be dependent on global oil prices and policy measures such as the timing of the lifting of the price ceiling on domestic retail fuel prices.
“Underlying inflation is expected to remain stable, supported by the continued expansion in economic activity and in the absence of strong demand pressures,” it said.
BNM said at the current level of the OPR, the stance of monetary policy remains accommodative and supportive of economic activity. – Bernama
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Riyadh : A 49-year-old Filipino worker, Joselito Lucero, a welder and native of Ilocos Sur, Philippines, committed suicide inside the fabrication department of Oger Metal Works in Riyadh Monday.
Before committing suicide, he told his officemate that his head was “getting crazy” due to several months of delays in receiving his salary, said a Facebook user on Monday.
Arab News tried to contact colleagues at the same company for additional details.
According to some, Lucero was “one of those who suffered from a delay of four months salary while his Iqama expired.”
But other sources said that the Filipino just returned from his vacation and it seemed that he suffered some serious illness.
The source said that he was brought to the hospital on Sunday as he was in state of hysteria and when he calmed down he went home, but in the morning he was found dead.
Quoting an Oger officer, Buko Clores, who works in the same company said the OFW had extreme anxiety since he had a medical check up last week. “He may have had a serious illness and he did not want to share the results of his medical checkup with his colleagues.”
“This could be the reason behind his death, not the issue of salary,” the company official said.
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Psychedelic Honda: 1972 Honda CL350 Flying Dragon
A 1972 CL350 Honda Flying Dragon sports a tank and side covers painted in an unusual tie-dye scheme.
By Margie Siegal
| September/October 2014
1972 CL350 Flying Dragon
Photo by Nick Cedar
It is unknown how Honda created the paint swirls, but the sets have been confirmed to have genuine Honda Japan part numbers.
1972 Honda CL350 Flying Dragon
1972 Honda CL350
Owner Don Stockett's low mileage Honda CL350 has been restored to show quality. Remarkably, it still wears its original tires.
Although not really trail ready, the CL350 looked like a winner.
Flying Dragon sets including silver/purple CL450 tank and gold/purple CL350 side cover.
Claimed power: 33hp @ 8,500rpm
Top speed: 90.63mph (period test)
Engine: 325cc air-cooled OHC parallel twin, 60mm x 50.6mm bore and stroke, 9.5:1 compression ratio
Weight (dry): 351lb (159.5kg)
Fuel capacity/MPG: 2.4gal (9ltr)/45-55mpg
Price then/now: $775 (est.)/$1,500-$3,500
Believe it or not, once upon a time, Honda offered its customers a tie-dyed motorcycle. Available in at least four different combinations, the paint flowed across the body panels like psychedelic rivers of color, fluid and eerily formless.
To explain Honda’s Flying Dragon, we have to revisit the era that produced it. Starting in the mid-1960s, America and Europe experienced an upwelling of creative energy, much of which went into the visual arts. Advanced artistic thinking became part of everyday culture and advances in technology were harnessed into creative expression, such as the light shows that were a part of many musical events. Visual artists such as Peter Max, Andy Warhol, Diane Arbus and Roy Lichtenstein became household names.
At the same time, clothing and textiles became modes of self-expression. Tie-dying, a traditional fabric decorating technique used in Japan and India, as well as other places, became the hallmark of the counterculture. Restrained traditional tie-dye effects became loud, exuberant and psychedelic in the hands of young experimenters dancing to a new beat.
The changing styles must have been difficult for the Japanese manufacturers to comprehend. Although celebrations of individuality were foreign to their culture, their motorcycles were as popular in Sixties and Seventies America as sex, drugs and rock n’ roll, and it was important for them to understand their customer base in the U.S. Honda and the other factories worked hard to please their American customers, and someone in the paint department decided that a tie-dyed tank option might make some customers happy. Enter the Flying Dragon paint set.
The Flying Dragon
Don Stockett, the owner of this 1972 Honda CL350 K4, has spent considerable time tracking down the history of paint sets that pop up for sale under the name Flying Dragon. The sets consist of a gas tank and side covers to fit either a CL350 or a CL450 Honda twin, model years 1972 or 1973. The sets come in a box marked “Honda Japan,” with a graphic depiction of the tank, but in a standard scheme with horizontal striping. A part number (06171-456-810 for the CL350 version followed by a two-letter color code) is stamped on the box, which is lucky, because no one would believe that the Honda factory would come out with something like these paint sets without a part number to trace back.
So far, Don has been able to confirm that sets came in four colors: gold/purple, silver/purple, green/purple and blue/dark blue. Don only recently verified the blue/dark blue set after locating one in Florida. According to Bob Kelly, writing in the Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Magazine, the official publication of the Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Club, American dealers were notified of the availability of the paint sets in a parts bulletin. The sets were also supposedly mentioned in a Honda accessories catalog. Bob has been looking for the parts bulletin and the accessories catalog for some time, but has not located either item yet.
Don has also invested considerable time and effort trying to uncover the details of how the paint sets came to be produced. Despite having contacts with many retired American Honda employees, he has come up largely empty. The only sure things he has confirmed are that the parts numbers are genuine Honda Japan numbers, not American Honda numbers, and that the sets were probably the work of a special project team in the paint department. At the time, Honda had special project teams within each department. The projects these teams worked on were authorized, but the existence of the project would not be widely known outside the team’s department.
It is also unknown how Honda created the paint swirls, but period customizers created similar effects by spraying a base color on the part to be painted, then floating a second color on liquid and dipping the part into the mix. So far, the green and purple sets have been the more common sets to surface, and Don thinks the reason they’re most likely to appear for sale is that they were the least popular, and thus the most likely to be put back on the shelf, to be found in a back storeroom years later.
Rising coverage
The special paint sets were only made for CL350 and CL450 Hondas. Although the CB750 Four grabbed most of the spotlight for Honda in the late Sixties and early Seventies, the 350 twins were actually some of Honda’s best-selling motorcycles. About one third of Honda production in the late Sixties and early Seventies was 350 twins, with an estimated 650,000 of all variants sold in the U.S. during the 1968 through 1973 model run.
The 350’s popularity is easy to understand. At the time, small motorcycles were traditionally simple devices, typically single-cylinder jobs with overhead valves. Honda broke with tradition and gave the 350 twin cylinders, an overhead cam and two Keihin diaphragm constant velocity carburetors. And all but the SL version had electric start. For the first five years, front stopping power was provided by a twin-leading-shoe drum brake. In 1973, the drum was swapped for a disc, but only on the CB model.
The 350 twin came in three styles. Most people bought the CB roadster, but about 20 percent of production was the CL high-pipe version, which looked mildly offroad capable but was best suited to street use. There was also a real offroad 350, the kickstart-only SL, with a dual-downtube cradle frame and metal headlight case.
The first 350s could rev up to 10,500rpm, but for reasons unstated (Don thinks it was due to emissions issues), Honda degraded the performance each year; by 1972, max revs were down to 9,200. The 350s were discontinued in 1974 in favor of the CB 360. In the last few years, Honda 350s have become something of a cult bike, popular for turning into café racers or as a platform for artistic customization. However, a significant number of 350s are being restored to stock — which is where Don comes in.
The find
Don’s first Honda was a CL350, bought new when he was 18. He was making $2 an hour at the time, but was able to finance the purchase and was soon out on the local roads, humiliating owners of Corvettes. “I was taking on all the muscle cars and winning races — I was quicker off the line and stopped shorter. 350s are nimble bikes and a joy to ride,” Don says.
Unfortunately, Don was going to college, and a hard lesson in personal economics led to the sale of the Honda. “I never forgot that bike,” he says. “I retired from the practice of law and wanted my bike back. There weren’t any Honda 350s around that weren’t pieces of junk. Finally, I bought a bike on eBay and had it shipped to me. Everything was rusted and corroded, but it was orange, like my old bike, and it ran.”
Wanting his “new” Honda to look and run like the bike he had when he was 18, Don started looking for parts. It took him four years. The most difficult pieces to find were the fork ears and headlight case. He wanted to use stock rear shocks, but just about all of the originals (sprung with nitrogen) had long ago given up the ghost. “I bought a lot of shocks to find some with gas in them,” Don says. “As a result of my experience, I’m working with Hagon to produce reproduction Honda 350 shocks.”
Along the way, Don met up with Honda expert Geoff Sprague, who was named after Fifties British racing champion Geoff Duke. “Geoff is a superb mechanic. He can make a carburetor sing!” Don says. The pair are now working together as Vintage Motorcycle Rescue, specializing in vintage Honda restorations. Don buys new-old-stock and used parts, and paints to original finishes, while Geoff puts the bikes together. Awhile back, Don saw a Flying Dragon tank and side cover set offered for sale on eBay and showed the page to Geoff. Geoff was convinced the paint set must be the work of some addled customizer and discouraged Don from buying it. Four months later, a second set turned up, in the Honda Japan box, with the seller asking twice as much. Don bought the set and went looking for a CL Honda to install it on. In one of those great coincidences that occasionally pops up in life, a 1972 CL350 shortly turned up on eBay in good condition with only 1,400 miles on it. To top things off, the tank and side covers were Candy Panther Gold, Don’s least favorite stock color.
Geoff and Don took the bike apart and found it to be quite original. Don painted the engine with high temperature silver paint, covered with high temperature clear coat. His aim was to produce a finish that mimics the original factory aluminum metal color, but with stain-resistant paint. He also sanded the frame, then recoated it with rustproof primer (a step Honda left out) followed by high gloss enamel. “Powder coat chips easily and you can’t repair the chips. We never powder coat.”
Not surprisingly, the carburetors were gummed up and in need of a rebuild. Fortunately, that’s not a problem as Canada-based Sirius Consolidated sells diaphragms and a lot of other carburetor parts. “The 350s had very complicated three-stage carburetors — Honda did not skimp,” Don says. Don managed to locate a new-old-stock seat for this restoration.
The wiring harness was, fortunately, in excellent condition. “The bike must have spent winters in a warm basement,” Don concludes. In fact, the original tires still held air, although Don warns that original tires should not be installed on a bike that travels farther than around the display area at a show. “All the bikes we restore have new Dunlops or Heidenaus.”
CB350s are generally reliable, with one weak link — the cam chain tensioner rollers. Don explains that, with time, the black rubber tensioner rollers become hard, and pieces start chipping off. “Check whether the rollers have started to disintegrate by taking the centrifugal oil filter cover off. You get it out by carefully prying all the way around the cover — there is a half inch sleeve inside so be careful. That is where the pieces end up. Little fragments will get into the motor, and the cam chain tensioner may completely disintegrate, causing disaster. If you don’t see any large chunks, clean the filter, replace the two O-rings and put the cover back on. If you do see chunks, get the top end done — you only have to do this once.”
Don says that, once restored, a 350 Honda is great for everyday commuting and fun riding on weekends with just a little extra care. “Only use oil with a high zinc content, such as Red Line or Motul motorcycle oil. It’s important to get oil into the valve train as soon as possible on cold starting. To do this, turn the stop switch off and crank with the electric starter for several seconds to get oil into the valve train. Stop, turn the stop switch to ON and then start. Don’t rev it for the first minute. Let it idle for one minute and then take off.”
With the restoration finished and the paint set installed, Don has been taking the Flying Dragon on the show circuit. With the original Bridgestone Safety tires installed, he isn’t taking it on any long rides, but that’s OK. For now, this is a bike to show, a unique piece of Honda history that highlights some of the curious paths manufacturers will follow trying to entice customers. MC
Honda Flying Dragon: Making sense of the numbers
Don Stockett’s pretty serious about nailing down all the variations on the Flying Dragon theme. So far, his research has yielded four confirmed color combinations for the CL350, and four confirmed sets for the CL450. The Flying Dragon option (there’s no record of why the name Flying Dragon was chosen) was apparently only made for those two models, and only for the 1972-1973 years.
The part numbers follow Honda convention, with each set of digits having specific meaning. For example, the 1973 CL350 sets all utilize the same base part code, 06171-456-810. The first five digits represent the “function area” of the bike, in this case the fuel tank. The second three digits represent the model fitment, 1973 CL350 K5. The final three digits represent the Flying Dragon option. For a 1973 CL450, the second three digits are 347 (the official Honda model code for a 1973 CL450 K5), with the rest the same. Finally, each color combination has its own unique two-letter designation: SM (gold metal flake base), SN (silver metal flake base), SP (green base) and ST (blue base). Confirmed set part numbers are as follows:
1972-1973 CL350:
06171-456-810SM: Gold/purple
06171-456-810SN: Silver/purple
06171-456-810SP: Green/purple
06171-456-810ST: Blue/dark blue
The 350cc was bullet-proof...perfect sized engine.
RONW
I had a 69 CL350. I bought it around 1980, and rode it to high school until I could afford to buy a shiny new GPz550. I have to admit, that old Honda got me where I needed to go. Sometimes I wonder what happened to it after I sold it.
ROBERTK
This is a very informative article about a little know piece of Honda history. Thanks!
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This collection of essays is the third revised edition of Dr Krishna Kumar’s UGC national lectures. It updates several issues in the context of recent concerns such as globalisation and external funding for education. Some of the issues discussed are – the textbook, culture, learning by rote, failure of village primary schools, the merits of Gandhian ideas of education, and the interpretation of history. Printed Pages: 144. View more info
Learning from Children What to Teach Them
By: Malavika Kapur
This enriching book explores quality education at the grassroots level for disadvantaged children. It evolves and evaluates strategies for the promotion of the overall development of children in the motor, cognitive, language, emotional, social and moral domains. The methods used revolve around children, with a larger purpose of shaping young minds as opposed to solely enhancing academic skills. The essence of the book lies in what adults can learn from children while teaching them. Though the book stems from case studies of schools in rural Karnataka, it has implications for effectively prov... View more info
Total Quality Management in Education (Second Edition)
By: Marmar Mukhopadhyay
This is a completely revised version of a very successful text first published in 2001. It incorporates the author`s rich experience (at both the micro and macro levels) in the actual implementation of TQM in various educational institutions. He has deftly adapted the TQM philosophy and methodology—which originated in industry—to suit education, and anchored it in the Indian cultural ethos. Printed Pages: 232. View more info
The Great Indian Education Debate: Documents Relating to the Orientalist-Anglicist Controversy, 1781-1843
By: Martin Moir and Lynn Zastoupil
Publisher: New Delhi, India, Manohar: 1999
The Journey for Inclusive Education in the Indian Sub-continent
By: Mithu Alur and Michael Bach
Publisher: London, UK, Routledge and Kegal Paul: 2010
Edition: Special Indian Edition
Inclusive Education Across Cultures: Crossing Boundaries, Sharing Ideas
By: Mithu Alur and Vianne Timmons (eds)
This comprehensive collection provides a global perspective on inclusive education. The existing literature delves into whether inclusive practice is about educating children with disabilities or children from diverse backgrounds. The articles in this compilation assert that it is both. Inclusive Education Across Cultures: Crossing Boundaries, Sharing Ideas brings together multiple perspectives to present a compelling case for inclusive practice in different areas of inclusive education, ranging from policy initiatives to practices on the ground level, and advocating and creating awareness. T... View more info
Introducing Second Language Acquisition
By: Muriel Saville-Troike
Written for students encountering the topic for the first time, this is a clear and practical introduction to second language acquisition (SLA). It explains in non-technical language how a second language is acquired; what the second language learner needs to know; and why some learners are more successful than others. The textbook introduces in a step-by-step fashion a range of fundamental concepts – such as SLA in adults and children, in formal and informal learning contexts, and in diverse socio-cultural settings – and takes an interdisciplinary approach, encouraging students to conside... View more info
The Primary School Child: Development and Education
By: Namita Ranganathan
Learning Disabilities in India: Willing the Mind to Learn
By: Prathibha Karanth and Joe Rozario (eds)
This important volume, perhaps the first of its kind in India, brings together professionals from diverse fields who share their experiences of tackling the problem of Learning Disabilities (LD) in India. Highlighting the nuances and specificities of learning disabilities and disorders in the Indian context, the contributors cover a wide range of important issues, including: - the neurological, psychiatric and neuropsychological aspects of LD - problems of language and reading acquisition in the bilingual and multilingual situation prevailing in India - issues of identification and assessment ... View more info
Negotiating Empowerment: Studies in English Language Education
By: Premakumari
The book is a collection of key papers presented at an international conference held at the Indo-American Centre for International studies, Hyderabad, India, in 2004, and includes a few other contributions of an equally high standard. Together, they offer an international perspective on language use and pedagogy, relating to both theory and application, in various countries including Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Switzerland and the United States of America. The volume highlights issues such as identity construction, self-esteem, economic and intellectual empowerment, and ... View more info
Women in Technical Education
By: R. Indira
Publisher: Delhi, India, Sharada Publishing House: 1989
Printed Pages: 95. View more info
Learning and Teaching English in India
By: Ravi Sheorey
This book presents empirical studies on the various factors that influence English language learning and teaching in India. In particular, the author examines whether and to what extent the variables which have been shown to influence second language learning in monolingual countries also apply to the Indian situation which is characterized by multilingualism and multiculturalism. Among the various aspects discussed in this book are Indian students` (and their teachers`) ‘theories’ about learning English; their preferences or styles for language learning; the learning and reading strategi... View more info
Teaching Young Children with ADHD: Successful Strategies and Practical Interventions
By: Richard A. Lougy, Silvia L. Deruvo, and David Rosenthal
This indispensable resource provides general education teachers with a solid understanding of ADHD, detailed descriptions of how it manifests in preschool and the primary grades, and research-based approaches for designing and adapting instruction to meet the needs of all young children. Together, the authors offer decades of experience from the fields of school psychology, special education, and medicine. Their combined knowledge clarifies and informs the what, why, and how of inclusive strategies that work, particularly for children with attention disorders. In reading this book, you will di... View more info
Autism Spectrum Disorders: Interventions and Treatments for CHildren and Youth
By: Richard Simpson et al.
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) present a perplexing challenge for parents and school professionals. Literally dozens of interventions and treatments are available, so how does one know which intervention strategy works best for any given child or situation? This essential new resource, Autism Spectrum Disorders, was developed to respond directly to the extraordinary difficulty school professionals and families face in selecting and applying appropriate, effective interventions and treatments for the children in their care. The information is presented in a straightforward and simple format, ... View more info
Collaborative Learning in Practice: Examples from Natural Resource Management in Asia
By: Ronnie Vernooy (ed.)
Publisher: New Delhi, India, Foundation Books: 2009
Children with Developmental Disabilities: A Training Guide for Parents, Teachers and Caregivers
By: S. Venkatesan
This manual is designed as a guide for parents, teachers and caregivers dealing with children up to the age of six who are afflicted by developmental disabilities. The author provides details of more than 400 non-formal activities along with guidelines on how to use them both at home and in pre-school settings. The book is divided into three sections: - the first describes a wide range of impairments, disabilities and handicaps along with information on their manifestations and characteristics. The author also outlines steps to handle negative or problem behaviour during training. - the next... View more info
Dictionary of Education
By: S.J. Edwin
Publisher: New Delhi, India, IVY Publishing House: 2008
Education in Ancient India
By: S.M. Rakhe
The Economics of Elementary Education in India: The Challenge of Public Finance, Private Provision and Household Costs
By: Santosh Mehrotra (ed.)
This volume discusses key aspects of the economics of the elementary education system in the poorer and educationally backward states of India, while also examining one high-achiever state—Tamil Nadu. Providing the first state-by-state analysis of major cost and financing issues, the book is based on data gathered from one of the most comprehensive surveys conducted in recent times in these states, which was specifically commissioned for this book. The survey covered 120,000 households and a thousand schools spread over 91 districts in eight states. Written by leading educational economists... View more info
Education with Children with Special Needs: From Segregation to Inclusion
By: Seamus Hegarty and Mithu Alur (eds)
This important book discusses the principles and practice of moving from segregated education to integration and then inclusion in the context of educating children with disabilities in present day India. The actions to be taken are examined at two levels: the level of the system and that of the school. The contributors accordingly discuss a number of important issues including legislative measures, administrative and financial support, equality of opportunities, teacher training, classroom organisation, curriculum modification and parental involvement. Examples of inclusive schooling at work ... View more info
Understanding Education: A Sociological Perspective
By: Sharon Gewirtz and Alan Cribb
Publisher: Cambridge, UK, Polity Press: 2010
The Indian National Education
By: Srimath Swami Chidbhavananda
Publisher: Tiruchirappalli, India, Sri Ramakrishna Tapovanam: 1993
Edition: Fourth Edition
History of Education in India
By: Suresh C. Ghosh
Development of Educational Services 1879-1896: Selections from Educational Records of the Government of India
By: Suresh Chandra Ghosh (ed.); Foreword By General Editor: Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
Publisher: New Delhi, India, Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd.: 1992
ISBN: 81-215-0528-1
Politics of Minority Educational Institutions: Law and Reality in the Subcontinent
By: Tahir Mahmood (ed.)
Publisher: New Delhi, India, ImprintOne:
The right of the minorities to establish and administer educational institutions of their choice guaranteed by the Constitution of India has from the very beginning been entangled in a labyrinth of political vicissitudes and changing judicial attitudes. The resulting uncertainties in this matter have had the effect of perpetuating tremendous inequalities in respect of literacy and education between various sections of the Indian citizenry. This anthology examines in depth the constantly changing rulebook and the persisting realities relating to the educational rights and institutions of the mi... View more info
Facets of Continuing Education
By: Yerroju Bhaskaracharyulu
On Education and Development
By: Yogesh Atal
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Close To The Sun Brings Tesla-Inspired First Person Horror To Switch This Year
Would you kindly not mention Bioshock?
by Gavin Lane Tue 25th Jun 2019
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Coming from developer Storm in a Teacup, Close To The Sun has been confirmed to arrive on Switch along with the previously announced platforms some time later this year. It follows a journalist called Rose on a mission to save her sister in an alternate 19th century that's been revolutionised by futurist Nikola Tesla.
Playing as Rose in this first-person horror, you'll find yourself trapped on a seemingly empty ship designed by the inventor and it's not long before you find that - surprise! - things went south onboard and the word 'Quarantine!' scrawled in ominous red liquid across the entrance doesn't bode well for the journalist.
'6-7 hours' in length with ten chapters, the devs cite Soma, Outlast, Layers of Fear and Firewatch as 'core inspirations'. Bioshock is conspicuously missing from that list despite the following sentences from the official blurb:
Born of Nikola Tesla’s vision, the Helios serves as a haven for the greatest scientific minds. An unbound utopia for research, independent from state and isolated from the gaze of society. Free to push the boundaries of matter and time.
Hmm. In fact, the devs state explicitly that the game is not (among other things) 'survival horror', 'walking simulator' or 'Bioshock'. The screenshots below would seem to indicate a plasmid-esque shot of Ken Levine's game in there, though:
Close To The Sun was built using Unreal Engine 4 and received mixed reviews on Windows, but that sure is an impressive list of inspirations - we'll have to wait and see how this measures up against them when it releases on consoles sometime this year.
Are you getting strong whiffs of Rapture from this one despite the developer's insistence? Do you think it's wise to bring up such hallowed influences and set expectations so high? Let us know below.
Close To The Sun (Switch)
About Gavin Lane
Gavin loves a bit of couch co-op, especially when he gets to delegate roles, bark instructions and give much-appreciated performance feedback at the end. He lives in Spain (the plain-y bit where the rain mainly falls) and his love for Banjo-Kazooie borders on the unhealthy.
Severian
Bioshock. Bioshock. Bioshock.
Oh, I'm going to hell for this.
That's a short game
I like games with more meat too them, myself.
EpicBadge
@kalmaro I'd rather play six or seven hours of an amazing game than 20 hours of mediocrity. Here's hoping "Close to the Sun" is amazing.
asaprowen
I feel like they definitely know that Bioshock influenced their game, but want to distance their game far enough from the insane popularity of that series that was such a mixed bag of critic response. I can see where they're coming from since it does have a huge feel akin to Rapture/Columbia especially being a floating paradise and all... But despite I feel like it's different enough to warrant separation from such a massive franchise.
NintendoFan4Lyf
I wonder if they afraid to say Bioshock because it so closely resembles Bioshock that they don't want to be accused of stealing Bioshock - but damn if the game doesn't look like Bioshock!
Ryu_Niiyama
Wow that does look like bioshock. That may garner them a goodwill buy from me since the bioshock collection isnt on switch.
Mrbayram92
Interesting will keep an eye on this. I really want all 3 bioshock games on switch tho
Daldra
There is no combat in this game.
@EpicBadge I'd rather skip both and just pick up something that has quality AND quantity. Unless this game is pretty cheap I probably won't take it up.
Erchitu
Really Bioshock inspired imho, seems beautiful. I'll keep an eye on it.
ShaiHulud
I was expecting a car-based game with that title
Switch needs the Bioshock collection!
ThanosReXXX
So, game with mad scientist and secret hideout for anti-government people equals Bioshock... hm...
I own all the Bioshock games, and other than some passing similarities,
I don't think this is a Bioshock derivative or anything. And seeing as there isn't even any combat in this game, the comparison is skewed anyway.
All game genres have titles that share some similarities. That doesn't mean that all first person shooters are COD or COD-inspired, or that all adventure games are Zelda-inspired.
Radioactivesuit
They used the same typeface as Bioshock, or if not exactly the same it’s damn close. Seems to have those art deco sensibilities too. Maybe it would help if they gave it a mohawk and a wheelchair?
6-7 hours ?!
Shame, this looked like a good alternative for BioShock...but maybe will be good enough for 2k to finally get up their asses and port BioShock.
6-7 hours is better than a 20 hour game than drag it to hours of boredom.
Tesla inspired. If it featured Nikola Tesla, i would be even more interrested.
Nikola Tesla is the only reason why i completed The Order 1886 on PS4.
BulkSlash
In the absence of the Bioshock Collection on Switch, 2K’s loss will be Close to the Sun’s gain.
AG_Awesome
Considering bioshock trilogy is one of my fav game series ever... why not compare it. 😂🤣
brandonbwii
Maybe they want to distance themselves from Bioshock because this is more walking simulator than FPS.
Eh, the walking simulator genre isn't my cup of tea. That won't stop me from grabbing a physical copy at a steeply discounted price though.
gamekill
Ripping off other people's work is so s****y.
Work as in, concept art creation, world building, art style direction etc.
And oh saving on marketing because people will remember the marketing Bioshok spent money on.
These guys should be sued.
Michaelrojelio84
I never played Bioshock so I really don't care if the developer admits Bioshock as inspiration or not. I only care about it's quality and I might give it a go since its a change of pace for me.
Oh hell yes. Bioshock 1 is perhaps.my favorite video game of all time, and even though they don't specifically mention Bioshock as an influence, the writing is on the wall. It's influence is everywhere, even if unintentional. That being said, I am incredibly stoked for this one. I can't wait to play it myself.
@gamekill
Dude Bioshock didn't actually invent any of that.
@Pod
I agree Bioshock did not invent the aesthetics, and maybe, general story background (utopian city, etc).
But as a game, it was pretty much original.
It is like saying that a story about having to go on an adventure through forest, snow, and lava, and fight a dragon of sorts at the end, to save a princess is not original so any game can blatantly copy Super Mario Galaxy and use that excuse, for example.
True, true.
Dahn_
For those hoping that it's good... You probably didn't read the part in the article that says it's already out and with mixed reviews.
It released in May. Go check reviews if you're interested.
Terrible_Majesty
I’d much rather a Dead Space inspired game
Says pre order now, but it isn't on eshop at all.
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Storm in a Teacup
2019 (US/Canada)
2019 (UK/EU/AU)
Pre Order on Amazon
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Last year, she lobbied the White House for clemency for Alice Marie Johnson, who served more than two decades of a life sentence without parole for non-violent offences. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
Oxygen Media greenlights Kim Kardashian prison reform documentary
Kardashian has said she is studying to be a lawyer
Oxygen Media has greenlighted a two-hour documentary that will capture Kim Kardashian West’s efforts to free prisoners she believes were wrongly accused. It’s a move by the network to expand its true-crime programming.
The project has the working title, “Kim Kardashian: The Justice Project.” It comes after her disclosure that she’s studying to be a lawyer.
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Last year, she lobbied the White House for clemency for Alice Marie Johnson, who served more than two decades of a life sentence without parole for non-violent offences. President Donald Trump commuted her sentence and signed bipartisan legislation that gives judges more discretion when sentencing some drug offenders and boosts prisoner rehabilitation efforts.
Oxygen said in a statement Kardashian West has dedicated “personal resources” to the cause of reform.
Disney slates Fox films, ‘Avatar’ pushed another year
Headstones, Tom Cochrane, Tragically Hip members to perform at the Kingston Pen
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In this Friday, May 3, 2019 photo, Rozi Khan, a 26-year-old Pakistani who shares a resemblance to the U.S. actor Peter Dinklage, 49, who plays Tyrion Lannister on the TV series “Game of Thrones,” works as a waiter in a small cafe in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Khan does not only have a similar look, haircut and beard as Dinklage, but the two share a genetic condition that results in small stature. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
Pakistani waiter finds fame as ‘Game of Thrones’ look-alike
26-year-old Rozi Khan has customers asking to have selfies taken with him
Until recently, a Pakistani waiter working in a small cafe in the city of Rawalpindi knew nothing about the TV series “Game of Thrones” — or its antihero character played by U.S. actor Peter Dinklage.
But now, 26-year-old Rozi Khan has customers asking to have selfies taken with him and fields constant questions about his uncanny resemblance to Dinklage, 49. The American actor has played Tyrion Lannister, a witty and wily nobleman, since the series began in 2011.
People even stop Khan on the streets, he says, also for selfies.
Khan does not only have a similar look, haircut and beard as Dinklage, but the two share a genetic condition that results in small stature. The Pakistani waiter says his height is 1.33 metres, or 4 feet 5 inches.
Dinklage’s Pakistani doppelganger confesses that he likes his newfound popularity and that he has hopes the resemblance could help pull him out of a life of poverty — and maybe even take him to Hollywood.
“It is my wish to work with Dinklage in movies,” Khan told The Associated Press as customers crowded around him. “For me, it will be a dream come true to meet Dinklage.”
Besides working as a waiter serving flatbread, mutton and other traditional Kashmiri dishes in the cafe in the garrison city of Rawalpindi — and thanks to the striking resemblance to Dinklage — Khan has already starred in a commercial for a food delivery service in Pakistan.
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Khan says the first person to notice and tell him about the resemblance was the restaurant owner’s son, Malik Aslam, who shared a photo of Khan on social media about two months ago.
That prompted Khan to take a look at some episodes of “Game of Thrones,” which is airing on Pakistani cable channels. And although he couldn’t read the subtitles — he never went to school or learned to read and write — he enjoyed watching his look-alike.
“God created two similar men, one is a popular actor and the other is a poor waiter,” Khan added, recounting how smirks and laughs of strangers and even family members had hurt him in the past.
“Those people, passers-by and relatives who used to laugh at me because of my short height now take selfies with me,” he said. “I may live and die as a waiter, but I am happy that a person (Dinklage) who looks like me is treated with respect.”
The American actor has done a lot to help dwarfs everywhere fight against the stigma over their height, Khan also said.
“Some men like Dinklage were blessed with fame by God. I am happy over his success.”
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Campania is a very special land, because here Nature with a one hand takes away and with the other gives. In fact the eruption of Vesuvius of 79 d.C. was a tragedy, but without it today we could not admire the ruins of Pompeii and have an "instant photo" of a Roman city of the I century. A.D.; Likewise, bradyism, a typical volcanic phenomena of the Phlegrean Fields, has caused not only a few disadvantages to the phlegly towns but, literally sinking into the sea a portion of the ancient Roman city of Baia, created a unique marvel in the world: the submerged marine archaeological park of Baia. Here you will be able to see Roman remains at the bottom of the sea.
To enjoy this archaeological treasure that the sea has for centuries preserved, you don't need to be sub-experts; because thanks to Cymba, the boat from the a glass bottom, anyone can admire the ruins of the submerged bay, safely and comfortably sitting on his seat.
Contact Naples Tour Service and arrange your half day boat excursion with Cymba , the transparent bottom boat. It will be enough to communicate with you a little while in advance on the day you wish to go hiking; To the rest (availability check, booking, advance ticket payment ) will think Naples Tour Service. You will be picked up from your hotel, port or any other point and boarded by comfortable air-conditioned minivan and wi-fi through the Phlegrean Fields; During the trip our driver will be at your disposal for any information about the places and possible stops at the most beautiful and picturesque spots to take photos.
Once you reach the quaint harbour of Baia, you will get aboard Cymba glass boat and lead to Epitaffio cape.
Here the on-board staff will invite you to sit in turn to seat at bottom of the boat, all made of glass so in order to see the sea bottom.
What marvels will open before your eyes, carefully illustrated by the on-board expert guide? Here is a little anticipation for you.
The Ninfeo of Claudio, which is the only building that can certainly be attributed to the villa built by the emperor in Baia. Other Caesars also built residences or monuments in the town , whose remains are visible during the guided tour, such as the "Complesso della Sosandra" attributed to the villa of Nero or the room known as "Temple of Venus" attributable to Adriano or Finally, the so-called "Temple of Diana" was erected in honor of Mother Julia by Emperor Alessandro Severo. The remains of the entrance channel to "lacus Baianus", a lake quoted by some Latin authors but disappeared due to bradyism.
The villa of the Pisoni, an important and powerful family of the Roman aristocracy of the I century. d. C .. The explanations of the guide will lead you through the various environments of the huge building: you will visit the remains of the spa district, the porch and the nymphaeum, you will notice the double row "pilae" that protect the docks of the villa from the wind, You will see the remains of fishermen, that is, tanks used for fish farming, very common in all maritimae villas. The name of the Pisoni is linked to an important historical event of the Nero age, the so-called conspiracy of the Pisoni: the Pisoni and other Roman senators in 63 d. C. organized a conspiracy against the despotic Emperor Nero, who however discovered the plan and punished all the conspirators with death. The villa then passed to the Imperial democracies: for Adriano's will the building was restored and resembled "Villa Adriana" in Tivoli. Do not you feel excited about thinking of visiting the residence of those who dare to challenge Nero?
Remains of a villa with a "protiro" entrance: it is a building that stretches for about 120 meters and is preceded by a series of shops. Inside it is possible to distinguish two areas, the spa and the residential one separated by a rectangular basin originally connected to the sea and decorated with statues (those visible on the sea floor are all copies, as the originals are kept in the Baia's Castle Museum ). The mosaic flooring of the house is still visible.
At the end of the boat excursion, you will meet again at the port our driver who, if you wish, will be happy to accompany you to the Aragonese castle of Baia, where you can visit the museum that collects all the finds found in the Phlegrean Fields, not just those of the submarine Archaeological Park, but also those found, for example, in Miseno as the famous "Domiziano Nerva", a statue depicting the emperor Nerva on horseback; Originally, however, the emperor depicted was not Nerva, but Domiziano. The death of the latter was changed: Domiziano's head was replaced by that of Nerva. Because? The Senate had decreed for damnatio memoriae, for Domiziano, the oblivion of his memory because of his irreverent behavior towards the senators: his name and his face had to disappear from all monuments!
Let's tour with Naples Tour Service to discover the Baia Sommersa (with the boat from glass bottor) and other Phlegrean' s beauty.
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Where’s The Value at Belmont? - Plus A Preakness Primer
Submitted by Jim Hurley on Friday, May 8, 2015 at 12:00 AM
THE WEATHER IS WARM, THE BELMONT SPRING/SUMMER MEET IS UNDER WAY...SO WHERE ARE THE HORSES AND WHERE IS THE VALUE?
While it is still early in the process to fly the alarm flag it can’t be lost on veteran horse players and public handicappers alike that the Belmont Park Spring/Summer Race Meet has had at best an inauspicious start...and that can be clearly traced to the average size of the pari-mutuel fields.
Over the course of the first six racing days of the meet (Weds.4/29 - Weds. 5/6) racing officials have been pulling teeth to get horses into the entry box. That is clearly reflected in the average number of runners in the 56 races run those six days...just 6.8 runners per race.
The 32 dirt races were particularly sparse as they averaged 5.9 horses per race. The 24 turf races found better attendance at 8.1 runners per race.
These kind of short fields tend to leave serious betters going elsewhere for value, but as you know, there is always value to be found and although 6 days is a small sample let’s take a "sideways" look at how you might want to approach those six days in order to draw an overview.
FIRST OFF... DIRT RACES HAVE HELD THEIR OWN IN AVERAGE WIN PAYOFF DESPITE SHORTER FIELDS.
I mentioned above that you can take a "sideways" look at the sample so far and what I mean by that is, for example, looking at what the average dirt winning payoffs have been compared to the average winning turf payoffs.
Despite just 5.9 horses per race the winners in the 32 dirt races have averaged a payoff of $8.75. On the other hand, the turf races, with an average of 8.1 horses have paid $9.52.
These numbers are also a bit "off kilter" in another manner because in the 32 dirt races there have been 14 winning favorites, or 44%, a number that given the short field and high favorite percentages should have yielded a much shorter average payoff. The reason that this has occurred is seen in which horses have won when the favorite hasn’t.
In these dirt races the 14 winning favorites had an average payoff of just $4.05. Yet when the favorite doesn’t win the average payoff is $11.57.
In the 24 turf races, despite the bigger fields there were 10 winning favorites or 41.7%, another relatively high number.
And in these turf races the 10 winning favorites had an average winning payoff of $6.12, a 100% higher profit than the favored dirt winner payoffs. However, the non favored turf winning payoff averaged $11.95, which was not far from that of the dirt non favored winners’ average.
In the abstract these might seem like just numbers...BUT THERE IS SOMETHIG TO BE DRAWN IN CONCLUSION.
First off, long time studies have more than proven that the psychology of horse players leads them to further "over bet" the favorites the shorter the fields. When you think about it this might not make sound handicapping sense but it does speak to human nature. The shorter the field, the less horses they have to beat, the stronger the backing of the choice.
This might sound simplistic, but think about it because until the fields begin to expand and the level of opposition becomes more competitive, a bettor is operating within these wagering parameters and as I have told you many times over the years, handicapping and releasing information to the public has always been about finding the Right Horse under the Right Circumstances and at the Right Price.
This practice can also apply to betting the turf races, especially in the shorter field races that have so far been prevalent in the early days of the Belmont Spring/Summer Meet.
However, there is also another dynamic at work regarding these early in the meet turf races at Belmont and why despite the larger fields the payoffs are very similar. What I would offer in that regard is this consideration. Right now with turf racing back on the schedule in New York, a number of trainers who have tried horses on dirt a number of times to no avail as their charges can’t seem to reverse their off enter them on the grass. Many of these runners have no experience at all, but as last gasp effort at something and with a hope against hope the conditioners go to the grass to maybe reverse the form of the horse.
Most serious handicappers and bettors know that bad form is bad form. And just because there are more runners on average in the turf race, it doesn’t mean there are a larger number of live contenders. In that sense there are simply a larger number of runners that can be eliminated in the bigger size turf fields whereas the smaller dirt fields with a few better contenders and with fewer horses contributing to the prospects for cleaner trips, those things, as the resulting payoffs show, even out.
WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR MAKES...AMERICAN PHAROAH SCARES OFF VERY FEW - PREAKNESS FIELD HAS EXPERIENCE, SPEED AND SOLID FRESH FACES!
Last year, California Chrome’s decisive Kentucky Derby win was so emphatic that only 7th place Derby finisher Ride On Curlin and 11th place finisher General A Rod took another shot in the Preakness.
This year, as of one week out and the prospective Preakness runners still in place, players get a much better shot at cashing a series of solid winning combos as second, third, fifth and sixth place Kentucky Derby finishers; in order Firing Line, Dortmund, Danzig Moon and Materiality as well as Carpe Diem and Mr. Z.
No matter where a serious Preakness player looks he’ll find plusses and minuses so to say that this year’s second leg of the Triple Crown presents all sorts of possibilities that will demand very specific information and knowledge is an understatement.
American Pharoah did get the job done, but the way Firing Line and Dortmund set it up for him and the way he got a perfect trip, he still needed to be whipped repeatedly by Espinoza and still needed every ounce of energy to get by Firing Line.
As for the second place finisher, there are two ways to view his comeback two weeks after his hard try in the Derby. His Sunland Derby win came 6 weeks after the Robert Lewis head defeat to Dortmund and the Run for the Roses placing was 6 weeks after the Sunland triumph. Does that mean he is better when his races are spaced or will he be even fitter now that the Derby is under him and he can use his speed to an advantage a sixteenth of a mile shorter?
Is Dortmund going off form right now, if a third in the Derby can be called off form or was he compromised by the rail? And what about Danzig Moon’s sneaky decent fifth place finish in the Derby. He was closer up to the pace than in recent races and that was either a sign of the slower pace or maybe that quicker early attention added some speed which means he could sit off what might be a contested early pace.
Materiality, who broke horribly in the Derby but still got up for sixth is right back at it for Todd Pletcher and a cleaner break could even have him on the lead, but certainly he’ll also contribute to the pace.
Carpe Diem, a huge disappointment in the Derby is also on the prospect’s list as of now and one thing the racing industry does know is that regardless of results, Pletcher (who also saddles Carpe Diem) will not run a horse if he isn’t well meant.
And of course if the plot wasn’t thickened enough by all of those, local wire-to-wire Federico Tesio Stakes winner Bodhisativa and impressive Lexington Stakes winner Diving Rod and equally impressive Pat Day Mile (formerly the Derby Trial) winner Competitive Edge, who blistered the Churchill surface on the Derby undercard are also looking for a spot in the starting gate.
There is little gimme in this year’s Preakness...the field should provide plenty of solid return for the Right Choices.
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Seals, Sea Lions Across California Turning Up Sick or Injured at Record-Setting Pace
Monterey Bay algae bloom partially to blame
By Chase Cain
Published Apr 17, 2014 at 8:01 PM | Updated at 3:55 AM PDT on Apr 18, 2014
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Seals and sea lions are turning up sick or injured at a record pace this year. Chase Cain reports. (Published Thursday, April 17, 2014)
Seals and sea lions in California are turning up sick or injured at a record pace this year.
Sausalito’s Marine Mammal Center has more animals in its care right now than ever before in its 39-year history.
There are three factors at play: First of all, this is the time of year when pups get stranded or separated from their mothers for an unknown reason. Alsoast year's sea lion epidemic sent malnourished, sick pups onto California shores at record levels.On top of that, a Monterey Bay algae bloom is making a lot of animals sick. Experts say it’s creating the worst kind of perfect storm.
A sea lion pup nicknamed "Hoppie" is on the mend now, but he was near death when the little guy was rescued, not at the beach, but 100 miles inland in an almond orchard along the San Joaquin River.
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"That's unusual,” the Marine Mammal Center’s Jeff Boehm said. “How he got there we can only speculate, but (he’s) a little guy, trying to find food, not experienced, not mature as he should be."
Unfortunately, Hoppie has a lot of company. The Marine Mammal Center currently has 195 sick or injured sea lions and seals. The Marine Mammal Center in Southern California was caring for more than 200 mammals Thursday, most of them California sea lion pups.
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"It was definitely linked to food availability or the distribution of their normal food source last year," said David Bard, the director of the San Pedro center, of last year's epidemic. "If we see the same sort of thing this year, well, we are certainly hoping it's on a downward trend."
Boehm says the numbers are extraordinary.
"Out of the gates this year, it's a record-setting pace,” he said. “We don't know what May is going to bring us yet. We don’t what June is going to bring us yet. We've had peaks of activity as late as October some years"
"Hoppie" the sea lion pup is seen recuperating in this image captured at the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito.
"Is it related to human activity along the coastline? Is that what's causing the numbers, or is it something of a natural source?" Bard said.
Experts hope what they were dealing with last year was an anomaly rather than a new normal for California's sea lion pup population.
In January, scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the cold water conditions in the Pacific Ocean have caused a crash in the number of sardines, which may be one contributing factor.
Back in Sausalito, Volunteers are working around the clock caring for and feeding the animals.
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Some of them eat just a couple of pounds of fish a day, but some of them are eating much more than that.
With all the seals and sea lions being cared for at the Marine Mammal Center right now, they're going through a whole lot of fish: 1,000 pounds a day to keep everyone fed.
"Our volunteer teams are running full tilt,” Boehm said.
The Marine Mammal Center has about 1,100 volunteers. They’re asking for donations so they can buy more fish to feed the animals. They say every $1 donated will bring in about a pound of fish.
Link: The Marine Mammal Center's Donations Page
Hetty Chang contributed to this report.
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Rebirth of the Thief Chapter 348
Chapter 348 – Smuggling
Nie Yan and Warlance walked past many streets before arriving at a small tavern. The furnishings were old-fashioned, and the lighting was a dim yellow. An old fat man stood behind the counter muttering something under his breath.
Rows of shabby-looking chairs and beaten-up tables filled the tavern. There weren’t many players about, as only those with a specific purpose came here. No one would choose to waste their time sitting around such a dingy place.
A man who looked to be in his late twenties sat quietly at a table in the corner. He wore an ash-grey robe and his hand rested on a bonewood staff. The man raised his glass in greeting as Nie Yan approached.
Nie Yan’s gaze immediately sharpened. The familiar figure before him brought back yet another tide of old memories.
This was the head of Fallen Angel!
During the interfaction conflicts of the previous timeline, Plenty had personally led an army of tens of thousands on a slaughter in Calore. They kicked off their campaign by steamrolling Lincoln Village before seizing control over 6 strongholds near Calore. At first, Victorious Return and Radiant Sacred Flame tried to avoid fighting them, but public outrage forced them into waging a massive war between factions. Fallen Angel managed to hold out for over a month before finally succumbing to Calore’s war of attrition. They retreated to the Underworld, but their conquest would forever be a stain on the Viridian Empire’s history.
Many images of Fallen Angel’s guild leader had been taken and shared, leaving an extremely deep impression on the players of Calore.
At the time, Nie Yan had been a complete nobody. Legendary figures such as Plenty wouldn’t take note of him. He never expected to one day sit down at a table with this man.
Nie Yan activated Transcendent Insight.
Plenty: Level 51
Health: 2,112/2,112
Level 51…! Damn!
Nie Yan was finally certain. It was him! There was a joke in the previous timeline: “Plenty of money, Plenty of people.” Fallen Angel at its peak was an existence even Radiant Sacred Flame and Victorious Return could only look up to. With over 100 master-class players, six major branches with a total of 600,000 members, and over 300 strongholds to their name, they were a true behemoth. Their influence reached across the entire Underworld. This was why Victorious Return and Radiant Sacred Flame were hesitant to go to war against them, and why they ended up resorting to a war of attrition.
“Hello,” Nie Yan greeted, calmly observing Plenty.
“Sit,” Plenty replied, unfazed by Nie Yan’s gaze.
Nie Yan sat across from him, inwardly marveling about how things had changed. Having seen so much in his two lives, he naturally wasn’t fazed by Plenty’s status. He was confident Asskickers United would grow to be no weaker than Fallen Angel at their prime!
“I didn’t expect you to hide in plain sight by pretending to be a member of the Evil Faction! I’m surprised you managed to get past the guards. I assume you used some sort of alignment-concealing accessory?” Plenty asked. His knowledge of the Mad Rogue was limited to only a handful of videos, However, it was enough to recognize Nie Yan as an important personage of the Viridian Empire. Only a few members of the Righteous Faction were worthy of his attention: Angyi Tianshi from Angel Corps, Mad Blade from Bloodlust Blades, and Nirvana Flame from Asskickers United.
“A necklace.”
“How long does the disguise last?”
“Three hours.” Nie Yan decided there was no need to conceal this information.
“Three hours! Yours is much better than mine,” Plenty exclaimed as he took out a black ring. It featured a nail-sized black gemstone that gleamed with a dark light. “Here’s mine. It only hides my alignment for half an hour.”
Nie Yan was startled for a moment when Plenty admitted he possessed a similar item. Even when most players were over Level 100, very few had faction-disguising items. However, it made sense. Even if equipment with such effects were rare, it wasn’t too far-fetched for the guild leader of the Undead Empire’s biggest guild to have one already.
Nie Yan knew better than anyone what two pieces of faction-disguising equipment meant!
It was easy for the NPC guards to track illegal trade between factions, but this didn’t account for the ability to change one’s alignment. With two pieces of faction-disguising equipment, a pair of business partners could easily make trades free of oversight. However, they would still have to be careful when making the transaction. People had done this in the previous timeline, to mixed results. Some made a fortune and got off scot-free, while others were imprisoned and had their illegal assets seized.
However, under the allure of immense profit, many still took the risk. It wasn’t easy to go from the surface to the Underworld or vice versa. Players had to traverse the Gates of Hell and Endless Caverns. It was extremely dangerous, living up to the saying that great rewards came with great risk.
“How about we form a partnership?” Plenty asked knowingly. As he waited for Nie Yan’s reply, he sipped his drink with a carefree smile on his face. In the face of such potential riches, he refused to believe Nie Yan could resist his offer.
Nie Yan took a deep breath and paused for a moment. Exchanging equipment from the two factions would be an incredibly lucrative business. The possible profit was utterly incalculable! He replied, “I can think about it.”
Asskickers United and Fallen Angel certainly wouldn’t clash with each other anytime soon. Even if a war between factions broke out, such behemoths with shared interests would naturally avoid each other.
A partnership would be a win-win situation!
“How long does it take for you to go through the Gates of Hell and Endless Caverns? I tasked people with finding a route through once, but they couldn’t do it. They estimated that players would have to be around Level 100 before even being able to make a serious attempt.
Plenty looked intently at Nie Yan, genuinely curious this time. Just how did he get here?
“I didn’t take that route, but I’m afraid I’ll have to keep my means of transportation a secret for now.” Even if they were partnering up, Nie Yan couldn’t lay all his cards out on the table.
“So you didn’t go through those danger zones. No wonder!”
“I can probably make a trip every 10 days,” Nie Yan said. The Dark Portal could be used every 5 days, so if their partnership went through he could trade five bags’ worth of equipment every 10 days.
The two of them fleshed out a rough outline of their cooperation and exchanged contact information. Nie Yan gave Plenty his phone number, since real-life phones couldn’t be traced to either faction. Every time he came to the Underworld, he would use it to call Plenty and inform him of his location. Fallen Angel would immediately send someone disguised as a member of the Righteous Faction to take the surface equipment from Nie Yan. Then, Nie Yan would receive the Underworld equipment from a separate individual while disguised as a member of the Evil faction. Finally, Nie Yan would return to the surface to sell the smuggled goods for a massive profit.
Most smugglers from the previous timeline did things this way. Because faction-disguising equipment was simply too rare, it was very difficult to run into someone from the opposing faction who had one. Plus, it was far too difficult to pass the Gates of Hell and go through the Endless Caverns. Usually, only a massive team could make this journey with any sort of reliability, so the expenses were sky-high. Topping off all these hardships was the sheer danger of the act itself. If even the slightest mishap happened with their trade, the whole operation could get exposed and both sides would be in deep trouble.
Because Nie Yan could go through the Dark Portal, the transaction costs were practically negated. However, they still had to be extremely cautious when making the trades.
This wasn’t unlike what Nie Yan’s parents did in the real world. Harsh government regulations and strictly enforced customs still couldn’t eliminate the problem of smuggling, so people took the risk to smuggle rare goods for sky-high prices.
Nie Yan and Plenty began discussing the details of their partnership. Plenty ordered his men to go gather items for Nie Yan to bring back to the surface. Night Vision equipment and similarly specialized equipment weren’t all that valuable in the Underworld, but were worth hundreds of times more on the surface.
“You should give that Black Kingsnake Shield you picked up back to us. After all, it’s not that useful for you,” Plenty tried to persuade Nie Yan. To Fallen Angel, that shield was still of vital importance.
Nie Yan thought for a moment. Even if the Black Kingsnake Shield was valuable, it was still only around 5,000 gold. If his trade deal with Fallen Angel went through, he would make far more than just that amount.
“Once your men come back with all the equipment, I’ll take that chance to trade them the shield,” Nie Yan replied. Trading equipment was much safer than dealing with money.
Plenty thought for a moment before understanding Nie Yan’s meaning. He nodded in understanding. “Sure.”
He raised his glass and toasted, “A pleasure doing business with you.”
“And with you too,” Nie Yan smiled. Making direct contact with the leader of Fallen Angel saved him a ton of trouble.
“You have to be careful. Don’t get exposed, or the Evil Guards will be after you.”
“I know my limits,” Nie Yan reassured. If he got on the Evil Guards’ watchlist, he would have no place in the Underworld from then on out. Even worse, they would carefully monitor any transactions dealing with him.
“To avoid suspicion, I’ll leave first. We can communicate further outside the game.”
“Alright.”
Plenty stood up and left the tavern as Warlance followed closely behind.
Watching Plenty’s back disappear through the doorway, Nie Yan mused about his ignorance of Plenty’s background. He would have to ask Guo Huai and Ah Chen to look into him. Someone who could gather so much power in the Underworld certainly wouldn’t have a simple origin.
As Nie Yan sat in the tavern, he tried to remember as much as he could about the previous Fallen Angel. Suddenly, he recalled a tidbit that made him chuckle: Fallen Angel and Angel Corps weren’t on good terms in the past. With Angel Corps’ Angyi Tianshi and Fallen Angel’s Plenty both leading an Angel guild on opposite factions, things were going to get interesting.
Finally, quite some time after Plenty left, Nie Yan got up and exited the tavern. He went in search for a market of sorts to buy some basic consumables. Since he would be in the Underworld for three more days, he needed to restock on supplies.
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All Hallows Eve is a good evening to beginning looking for the Taurid meteor showers and then through the next week just before dawn. They originate near the Pleiades, a small cluster of stars also called the 'seven sisters'. They will be dimmed by the full moon rising on Saturday, November 4. It is called the Hunters Moon (the first full moon after the Harvest Moon) or Kasi-sa 'cold begins' among Kashaya Pomo.
A prescribed burn is being ignited today along Limantour Beach Road. This fire was delayed by last weeks warm weather. It is intended to create a 'fuel break' - remove materials that might feed a larger fire. Use caution when driving on the road and watch for emergency vehicles and personnel.
A Palm and a Nashua warbler are reported at the Chimney Rock trees. A golden plover at Abbots Lagoon! Bird migration continues and with upcoming storms predicted for this week, more unusual birds may find haven by the weekend!
Ladybugs or more properly ladybird beetles are beginning to seek hibernating places especially among oak leaf litter. They have been seen flying and crawling about the Earthquake Trail.
All park visitor centers will be open on Friday, November 10, the Veterans Day Holiday.
Permits have been issued for a foot race on Limantour Beach to Coast Trail and through to the Hostel on Saturday, November 11 from 8:30 am to 1:30 pm. Expect some congestion on the trail and parking areas.
Update -Bear Valley Trail CLOSED on WEEKEND
Bear Valley Trail will now remain closed between Mt. Wittenberg and Meadow Trail junction through this weekend and through next Friday, November 3rd. Contractors will be working in the area to repair a culvert. Hikers and horseback riders may access Mt. Wittenberg trail and go up and around the closure. We will advise when the work is completed and the trail is open.
Bear Valley Trail CLOSED this week
Bear Valley Trail is closed beginning today, October 24 through October 27 between Mt. Wittenberg and Meadow Trail junctions. Hikers and horse riders may access Mount Wittenberg to go around the closure. A contractor is working to repair a drainage area/culvert. It is estimated that the trail will be open by the weekend.
The pale light of the new moon this weekend allows good late night (after 11:00 pm) viewing of the Orionid meteor showers. Expect 20-25/per hour swift meteors - falling stars, caused by dust particles from Halley's comet falling through earth's atmosphere. They originate - fall out of the constellation Orion the Hunter; usually appearing in the southern sky.
The local soundscape is full of the yowling, grunting and snorting of the fallow deer rut which can be heard 24/7! Rangers investigated a report of a mountain lion scream and determined it was fallow deer. How to tell? Mountain lions make a high-pitched scream during their mating season encounters, typically in the early morning or evening not in daylight hours. It is possible to hear the 'caterwauling' by both males and female cats year round as they don't have a specific breeding season like deer. Fallow deer are noisy all the time, they are heard from the visitor center porch throughout the day - a lower pitched, raspy, heavy breathing sound.
Buckeye seeds are seen now as the trees drop their leaves; the heavy green fruit splits open to reveal a shiny brown seed. The trees have an odd appearance as the bare branches with the fruits look like they are growing 'green tennis balls' in the words of a recent visitor. The pollen and nectar of the flowers are poisonous to honeybees and the brown seeds are considered poisonous to humans - traditionally Coast Miwoks reportedly buried them in mud to make them edible as back up food when other foodstuffs like acorns or bay nuts were not available.
Permits have been issued for a USGS teacher workshop (35) on October 20 to Kehoe Beach and Bear Valley; parking at Kehoe Beach may be congested in the afternoon. The car company permit continues this week; with drivers arriving for lunch at Limantour and circling back to Sausalito.
Additional work on Chimney Rock Road is tentatively slated for this Thursday, October 19; the road will be striped in the morning hours. No car, foot or bike traffic will be permitted.
"Olema, dear valley, sheltered by hills; Far from the city; it's noise and it's ills..."
--poetry by Payne Shafter - Pioneer weekender who lived in Oakland and at "The Oaks" now the Vedanta Retreat. The Shafter Family owned much of the Olema valley throughout the 19th century.
The full moon on October 6 is the nearest one to the autumnal equinox and thus is called the Harvest Moon - leaving enough daylight for farmers to complete their annual harvests. The full moon falls on the same day as perigee and there will be higher tides than usual - 6.2 and 6.5 mid-day high tides across the weekend. Among the Cheyenne it is the "moon when water begins to freeze on the edge of the stream."
More on the pink lilies sprouting everywhere - Proper name is Amaryllis belladonna (Brunsvigia rosea) - common name naked lady or belladonna lily. Native to South Africa it gets all it's moisture from winter rains. This year's flowering is particularly impressive because they received so much water last winter according to nursery workers.
Slow It Down! Deer are on the roads! As the tule elk rut winds down the black tailed and fallow deer rut heats up. Coastal black tailed deer lose weight in the summer and begin to fatten up after the first fall rains bring new growth and the acorns ripen. The males are solitary and usually active throughout the morning and evening, resting mid-day. Seeking water, areas like the Nicasio Reservoir and along Bear Valley Road are good places to watch for deer - especially as their darker coats blend in so well. Fallow deer rut is marked by the barking noises the males make!
A variety of permits have been issued for activities in the park:
Friday - October 5 - Cross country run at Bear Valley Visitor Center - race monitors will be in place during this annual West Marin School event
Saturday, October 7 - Annual 'Piper On The Ridge Event - expect congestion on Mt. Vision Road
Friday/Saturday, October 6 - A celebration/wedding at Bear Valley Picnic area and in the Rift Zone meadow
Saturday, October 6 - Weddings on the Chimney Rock Trail between 11:00 am - 2:00 pm and at Limantour Beach
Saturday, October 14 - a picnic at Drakes Beach - Master Mariners - 2:00 pm - 11:00 pm
An event permit begins October 15 - a media event for Ford Motor company where a new model car will be driven to Limantour beach for activities ("automotive sand sculptures"!) and lunch will be served before they drive the car back to San Francisco. Various drivers will be there each day until October 19.
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Point Reyes Station, CA 94956
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Brushstroke
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Brushstroke presents an inspired modern adaptation of Kyoto's kaiseki cuisine; seasonally focused tasting menus that change throughout the year. A collaborative effort between David Bouley and the Tsuji Culinary Institute of Japan, Brushstroke believ... more
Brushstroke presents an inspired modern adaptation of Kyoto's kaiseki cuisine; seasonally focused tasting menus that change throughout the year. A collaborative effort between David Bouley and the Tsuji Culinary Institute of Japan, Brushstroke believes each meal should be highly attuned to the season and the person enjoying the food. It should be noted that meals here are not offered a la carte but via a choice of nightly kaiseki menus that showcase a wide range of Japanese cuisine. In the main dining room, the kaiseki cuisine is designed to be an expression of “Ichi-go Ichi-e,” taking the unique ingredients of the season and preparing them in a way that is just right for the time. Flavors obviously change with the seasons; for example in the spring Brushstroke might use the bitter flavors of young plants to clean the body of toxins built up over the winter. Each meal is presented differently as well: at Brushstroke each serving of sashimi is plated according to the demands of the unique cut of the fish. Brushstroke believes that every time someone comes in it should be a unique experience, one that adapts to how the customer is feeling at the time. If a customer has already ... more
Brushstroke presents an inspired modern adaptation of Kyoto's kaiseki cuisine; seasonally focused tasting menus that change throughout the year. A collaborative effort between David Bouley and the Tsuji Culinary Institute of Japan, Brushstroke believes each meal should be highly attuned to the season and the person enjoying the food. It should be noted that meals here are not offered a la carte but via a choice of nightly kaiseki menus that showcase a wide range of Japanese cuisine.
In the main dining room, the kaiseki cuisine is designed to be an expression of “Ichi-go Ichi-e,” taking the unique ingredients of the season and preparing them in a way that is just right for the time. Flavors obviously change with the seasons; for example in the spring Brushstroke might use the bitter flavors of young plants to clean the body of toxins built up over the winter. Each meal is presented differently as well: at Brushstroke each serving of sashimi is plated according to the demands of the unique cut of the fish.
Brushstroke believes that every time someone comes in it should be a unique experience, one that adapts to how the customer is feeling at the time. If a customer has already enjoyed one of Brushstroke's menus and comes back before it has changed, so they work hard to give them something new. And they also works hard to create rich, full menus for customers with food allergies and other restrictions.
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Brooklyn special needs student, 21, chokes to death on muffin
By BEN CHAMPMAN , Kerry Burke and Thomas Tracy
A 21-year-old special-needs student, identified as Dyasha Smith, died after choking on a muffin at her Brooklyn school on Tuesday. (Sam Costanza/New York Daily News)
A 21-year-old special-needs student died after choking on a muffin at her Brooklyn school on Tuesday.
The student, identified as Dyasha Phelps Smith, was eating the muffin in a classroom at the School for International Studies on Baltic St. in Cobble Hill when she began choking. It was not clear if the Heimlich maneuver was performed.
Paramedics rushed her at about 12:15 p.m. to New York Methodist Hospital, where she died, authorities said. Schools officials were investigating.
Smith, of Canarsie, attended the Star Academy, a special education program housed within the School for International Studies.
Her mother, Catherine Smith, 70, adopted the young woman when she was a 3-year-old. Smith was autistic and hyperactive but otherwise healthy, her devastated mother told the Daily News.
Catherine Smith, mother of Dyasha Smith, holds a photo of her daughter in the doorway. (Sam Costanza/New York Daily News)
"I want to know why my child passed away at the school like that. She was supposed to have one-to-one attention, I want an autopsy," Catherine, a retired home health aide, said.
"She never choked at my house, how could she choke at school?"
Catherine said the school officials didn't tell her that Smith was dead. She learned it from the doctors at the hospital. They said the 21-year-old was already gone when she was brought in, the mom said.
"This is negligence ... They would always try to calm her down with food ... I expected to see her alive and I saw my baby dead in a hospital bed," the heartbroken parent said.
Smith, was rushed from the School for International Studies on Baltic St. near Court St. in Boerum Hill around 12:15 p.m. She died at New York Methodist Hospital, officials said. (Jeff Bachner for New York Daily News)
Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña said guidance counselors would be available at the school on Wednesday to "support the community during this tragedy."
"I am deeply saddened to hear of this loss, and my heart goes out to the student's family and the entire school community," Fariña said in a statement.
Her words were no consolation to Catherine.
"She died like a dog. Why would this happen to a child amongst so many qualified people?," she grieved. "It's total carelessness."
With Joseph Stepanksy
ttracy@nydailynews.com
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Opinion|I Thought the Web Would Stop Hate, Not Spread It
I Thought the Web Would Stop Hate, Not Spread It
This is what the internet has come to: thugs like Mohammed bin Salman funding tech companies to host the vitriol of thugs like Cesar Sayoc and Robert Bowers.
By Kara Swisher
Ms. Swisher covers technology and is a contributing opinion writer.
CreditCreditKagenmi/iStock, via Getty Images
When I was a reporter at The Washington Post back in the pre-Internet days, there was a man who would write me a letter every time I had a story that had a name in it that he perceived to be Jewish.
His anti-Semitic screeds were intricate and obsessive. He would cut my article out of the paper, highlight the names, and in a chicken-scratch scrawl write endless lines of venomous bile about how the various businesspeople he noted were secretly plotting to take over the world and kill the “real” Americans. It was riveting — the care he took was clearly apparent — and nauseating at the same time.
It frightened me, but it was only a letter, sent only to me. Fast forward to today, when everyone has the ability to see the toxic online stylings of Cesar Sayoc, the Trump supporter who has been arrested and charged for a series of mail bombs that he sent to CNN and a list of prominent Democrats. He was all over social media spewing his bile, which escalated on Twitter and Facebook starting in 2016.
It was the same with another radicalized man with issues, Robert Bowers, who has been charged in the murder of 11 people at a synagogue in Pittsburgh. His preferred outlet was an internet underbelly site called Gab, an alt-right platform with an adorable name and a dead-ugly purpose. As The New York Times’s Kevin Roose noted, Gab was the “last refuge for internet scoundrels — a place where those with views considered too toxic for the mainstream could congregate and converse freely.”
Internet companies like Stripe, GoDaddy and Joyent have now “deplatformed” Gab, as they did with Alex Jones this year. It took the Bowers attack for them to notice exactly who their customer was.
Of course, they said their usual so-sorrys for facilitating this dreck. And Twitter did yet another elaborate apology dance for not removing Mr. Sayoc from the platform after at least one complaint about his behavior.
But it takes only seconds to draw a line between the public posts of these internet goblins and their real-life attacks. What is happening on social networks and across digital communications platforms is disturbing and ever metastasizing. And preventable.
I wrote my first column for The Times on this, months ago. Let me say it again: Social media platforms — and Facebook and Twitter are as guilty of this as Gab is — are designed so that the awful travels twice as fast as the good. And they are operating with sloppy disregard of the consequences of that awful speech, leading to disasters that they then have to clean up after.
And they are doing a very bad job of that, too, because they are unwilling to pay the price to make needed fixes. Why? because draining the cesspool would mean losing users, and that would hurt the bottom line. Consider this: On Monday, New York Times reporters easily found almost 12,000 anti-Semitic messages that had been uploaded to Instagram in the wake of the synagogue attack.
That was after the killings. And please do not saunter over to YouTube or Twitter or Reddit if you want any relief, as you will only find more of the same.
The negligence does not stop at the platforms but includes who pays for these platforms, which is how I found myself at a dinner party recently where the guests were ranking Silicon Valley funders from most to least toxic: Russia, China, Kuwait, Qatar, along with various dicey high-net-worth individuals across the globe.
“They are all linked to awful behavior in some way if you are being really honest with yourself,” a well-known entrepreneur said. “Thank goodness for Singapore.” (Apparently “Crazy Rich Asians” had been good for the brands of funds tied to the Singapore government, like Temasek and GIC.)
And of course there is Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, who has flooded tech with Saudi investments. His glossy reform sheen has worn thin in the wake of the brutal murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi at what appears certainly to have been the behest of the government Prince Mohammed heads — or more precisely, beheads.
His government also jails activists and decimates Yemen with a war, but it was only a few months ago that he was squired around Google headquarters by Sergey Brin. In hindsight, the obsequious reception now looks unfortunate, to say the least.
So where are we now? Far too much of the money social media companies are using to host thugs like Mr. Sayoc and Mr. Bowers was paid for by thugs like Prince Mohammed. And, other than some tut-tutting about the horror of it all, there are no signs that the industry that considers itself the most woke on the planet is thinking of giving the money back or talking about not taking it in the future.
I cannot tell you how sad that is to write, because when I first saw the internet way back when, I hoped that it would help eliminate the attitudes that had fueled those horrible letters to me. I naïvely thought a lone man sending a reporter a missive of malevolence could not find such refuge on the wide-open internet, where his hate would be seen for what it was and denounced and exorcised.
I was obviously very wrong. Instead, the internet gave people like him the space to grow and thrive. Tech made no real rules, claiming the freedom from any strictures would be O.K. in what is the greatest experiment in human communications ever.
We have no idea how to deal with this situation, except to watch it play out over and over again, and allow it to kill us cell by cell.
Or not. “You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain,” Zadie Smith wrote. “We are creatures of consequence.”
We have met the creature and it is a monster. I shudder to think what the consequences will be.
More from the writer about the ethical failings of Silicon Valley.
Opinion | Kara Swisher
The Expensive Education of Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley
Who Will Teach Silicon Valley to Be Ethical?
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Kara Swisher, editor at large for the technology news website Recode and producer of the Recode Decode podcast and Code Conference, is a contributing opinion writer. @karaswisher • Facebook
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MetService Weather Christchurch: November 10th
9 Nov, 2017 12:01pm Quick Read
Coastline search for elderly Warkworth woman
Norovirus cruise ship passengers keeping positive
We catch up with some passengers from the Celebrity Solstice, which arrived in Tauranga today with more than 200 people sick with a norovirus. Passengers disembarking say the outbreak hasn't got them down.
By: John Cousins
John is a senior reporter at the Bay of Plenty Times
john.cousins@nzme.co.nz @ Bay_Times
A cheerful Sydney family is not letting an outbreak of Norovirus spoil their cruise aboard the Celebrity Solstice that docked at Mount Maunganui today.
John Harrison, who is cruising with his mother and sister, said the crew was working an extra three hours every day just to sanitise the ship.
"They are doing very well."
Harrison said they were not aware when they boarded the ship at Sydney that norovirus had been present aboard the Celebrity Solstice on three previous legs of the cruise.
"A lot of passengers are on multiple legs."
Harrison said he was satisfied with the huge efforts being made by the crew to try and contain the outbreak and they weren't letting it spoil their holiday.
Sister Katy said cabin doors with little dots on the outside indicated that a quarantined passenger was inside. However she had seen a lot of passengers leaving rooms with dots on the doors.
"Big bosses have flown in from the USA to inspect the ship because cases were increasing rather than decreasing. It's up to 150 from 115."
She said the Celebrity Solstice held 3000 passengers.
In a statement provided to the Bay of Plenty Times, it said more than 200 passengers and crew had been struck by the vomiting and diarrhoea bug but it's shipping scheduled was not affected.
Chris Webber from Sydney said he would not eating from the buffet because you could never be too sure.
They are keeping things very very clean. Every day they are stressing washy, washy washy.
A couple who declined to be named said norovirus had not affected the enjoyment of their cruise, saying there were hand sanitisers everyone on board the ship to prevent the spread of the illness.
They had experienced the same precautions on previous cruises where norovirus had broken out. It was caused by some people not being hygienic and then it spread because hundreds of people were living in such close proximity to each other.
An American couple Marc and Jan Brashares also said the outbreak was not impacting on the enjoyment of holiday, saying they were happy with the extra precautions being taken on board ship. It included cover being put over the buffet food dishes and staff dishing out the food from the dishes so that passengers were not handling the serving utensils.
"They are keeping things very very clean. Every day they are stressing washy, washy washy," she said.
The Celebrity Solstice arrives in Tauranga. Photo/Buddy Mikaere
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The Motivation of Stewardship - Alternative View - February 26
The Motivation of Stewardship
In His Presence: Mark 10:25
When churches aren't receiving tithes from their congregation, there is something drastically wrong in the hearts of those churchgoers. After all, stewardship is a matter of the heart. Jesus drove this point home in Mark 12, where He talked about the motivation behind our stewardship.
Money is an indicator of where our hearts really are. God isn't interested in our money; He doesn't need a dime. Our cars all have indicator lights to tell us when we are about to run out of gas or if the engine is overheating. Well, money is a good indicator light for the state of our inner selves.
In this particular account, Jesus went to church with His disciples, "He sat down opposite the treasury, and began observing how the people were putting money into the treasury" (v. 41). Jesus' watch was very intimate as He sat down close to where the offering was being collected. The temple they were in was very ornate and plush, and the rich people were easy to spot because they "were putting in large sums" (v. 41). Jesus could see how much they were putting in because He was watching.
Someone else came along whom Jesus noticed—a widow who dropped in two small copper coins. Those two lepta equaled less than a penny; it was the smallest currency made in that day. In order for Jesus to see such a small offering, He must have been quite close to the scene. He was watching the giving intimately.
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The offering was important enough for Jesus to watch closely—remember its importance as you make your offering.
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Dr. Tony Evans is founder and senior pastor of the 10,000-member Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, founder and president of The Urban Alternative, former chaplain of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys, and present chaplain of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks. His radio broadcast, The Alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, can be heard on more than 1000 US radio outlets daily and in more than 130 countries.
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Calabogie Peaks Keeps On Improving
13th November 2011 | Mike Terrell, Midwest Editor
News Regions: Midwest
Resorts in this article: Calabogie Peaks
Sometimes it's nice to have a choice close to home, and [R95R, Calabogie] and its 760-foot vertical drop offers Ottawa snowsports enthusiasts that choice. It's located less than an hour from Canada's capital city.
Entering its 41st year, Calabogie Peaks marks its third consecutive year of adding new trails, making improvements to old trails and improving its snowmaking system.
Two new trails were built on some of the Peak’s best terrain offering more skiing and riding options on the Solar side of the mountain, and the Exhibition Trail underneath the Solar chair has been widened. Now a major laneway it provides alternate access into Barrett Chute and High Falls, which will offer more intermediate and advanced terrain.
Slopestyle and Double Mogul terrain parks have been moved to Barrett Chute and Whistlin Paddy. The treeline separating these areas has been removed and the mountain was reshaped to create a new mogul park.
New beginner terrain has been added to smooth the transition from Beginner Bowl to the chairlift, and more tower-mounted fan guns were added to improve snowmaking.
A Capital Cup Snowcross Championship will be taking place Dec. 3-4. Snowmobile racers from across Canada and the U.S. will gather to compete for the second annual Capital Cup.
Calabogie plans to open for the ski and ride season the following weekend on Saturday, Dec. 10.
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OSRAM SYLVANIA
Global overview: OSRAM websites in different regions and countries at a glance
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Press Releases...
OSRAM SYLVANIA Partners with Senmatic A/S to Advance LED Lighting Solutions for Horticulture
OSRAM SYLVANIA and Senmatic A/S Bring High-Quality Horticultural Series of LED Fixtures to the Americas
Lighting leader OSRAM SYLVANIA is announcing an exclusive partnership in North America with Senmatic A/S in Denmark to bring total greenhouse system solutions to the horticulture market that enhance operational performance and offer optimal lighting. OSRAM SYLVANIA will work directly with Senmatic A/S in the design, development and distribution of high-quality horticulture LED fixtures sold under the OSRAM brand.
Resulting from this partnership, OSRAM SYLVANIA will offer horticultural OSRAM ZELION® HL300 and HL100 series of LED lighting fixtures that are fully spectra tunable and dimmable, which is ideal for use in various phases of crop growth and development.
“Our LED lighting technology and expertise allow us to bring SSL technologies into horticulture applications through our partnership with Senmatic A/S,” said Hossein Aghamehdi, business unit manager, OSRAM SYLVANIA. “Together we offer total greenhouse system solutions and controls enhancing our reach and support to our horticultural lighting customers.”
"Our partnership with OSRAM SYLVANIA allows us to bring high-quality, tunable LED lighting solutions to the horticulture market in North America," said Mads Sckerl, CEO of Senmatic A/S. “Combined, our LED lighting and market expertise will not only help enhance operational performance and offer optimal lighting, but will further accelerate technology evolution in crop horticultural applications.”
The OSRAM HL300 and HL100 series are part of the ZELION HL Horticulture LED Grow Light Fixtures with state-of-the-art Oslon® LEDs from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors. Both the HL300 and HL100 series use the Senmatic LCC4 greenhouse controller offered by OSRAM. In addition, the ZELION HL300 series is interface ready with other commercially used greenhouse control systems.
About Senmatic A/S
Pioneers in the field of LED lighting, Fionia Lighting, division of Senmatic DGT in Denmark, has successfully researched and developed the application of energy-saving LED for horticultural practice since 2005. A focus on research ranging from basic photosynthesis to advanced light guide control enable Senmatic to combine numerous advanced elements into a new state-of-the-art, air-cooled LED top-light fixture: The FL300 Senmatic products are now installed at some of the world’s largest greenhouse growers, and are also utilized in many research facilities, universities and plant schools. Based on extensive knowledge about optimal plant growth, Senmatic has since 1975 produced and marketed climate computers and fertilizer mixers for the horticulture industry.
About OSRAM SYLVANIA
OSRAM SYLVANIA is part of OSRAM Americas, a group of OSRAM companies located in North and South America. As a leader in lighting solutions and services, specializing in innovative design and energy saving technology, the company sells products for homes, businesses and vehicles under the brand names OSRAM, Traxon, ENCELIUM and SYLVANIA. The company's portfolio covers the entire value chain of components, ranging from lamps, control units and optical semiconductors such as light-emitting diodes (LED) to luminaires, light management systems and lighting solutions. The OSRAM SYLVANIA and OSRAM Americas regional headquarters is located in Wilmington, Massachusetts. For more information, follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
About OSRAM
OSRAM, based in Munich, is a globally leading lighting manufacturer with a history dating back more than 100 years. The portfolio ranges from high-tech applications based on semiconductor technology, such as infrared or laser lighting, to smart and connected lighting solutions in buildings and cities. OSRAM had around 33,000 employees worldwide at the end of fiscal 2015 (September 30) and generated revenue of almost €5.6 billion in that fiscal year. The company is listed on the stock exchanges in Frankfurt and Munich (ISIN: DE000LED4000; WKN: LED 400; trading symbol: OSR). Additional information can be found at www.osram.com.
OSRAM, ZELION and Oslon are registered trademarks of OSRAM GmbH.
SYLVANIA is a registered trademarks of OSRAM SYLVANIA Inc.
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1966 Sindy outfits and separates
“Who's the swingingest girl in town? Who rates high on everyone's best-dressed list?
Sindy of course!”
1966 introduced another new range of Sindy outfits. A redesigned bridesmaid dress, four new complete outfits and four new separates. Whilst most of her previous outfits are listed in this year's style brochure, 'Skating Girl', 'Shopping-in-the-Rain' and 'Undie World' were not listed, although they were listed in the years that followed. Some of the previous separates were also not listed, these were 'Sloppy Joe', 'Windy Day, 'Out-and-about', 'Cape', 'Duffle Coat' and 'Springtime'. These were also available in the years that followed. In addition, 'Country Walk' is not listed and is not listed ever again. However, we do think that it was still available. We do not know why these items are not listed and perhaps they were available but just omitted from the brochure. Or perhaps they were not available for a year whilst their production lines were switched to the Far East. We would be keen to know if they were, or were not, available and we would be grateful if someone could tell us. It is the case that more and more Sindy outfits were now being manufactured in the Far East.
Bridesmaid (Ref 12S09)
The rather formal lemon chiffon long dress and jacket introduced in 1964 was replaced by a much more contemporary design. A fine white lawn dress with short sleeves, a fitted round-necked bodice and a tiered skirt. The dress was fastened with two white poppers at the back. The sleeves and tiers were trimmed in broderie anglais. There was also a matching elasticated, half-slip trimmed with broderie anglais to add to the fullness of the skirt. This pretty dress was complimented by a sky-blue satin tie-belt and Alice band which fastened with one white painted metal popper. She wore white kitten heel court shoes and she carried a posy made with matching blue flowers. She still wore the bridegroom's gift of a gold and pearl necklace around her neck which had featured in the previous outfit. The ribbon belt in this photo is modern, the rest of the outfit is original.
Happy Traveller (Ref 12S13)
A wonderful outfit featuring another beautifully tailored coat. The coat is made of thick grey wool decorated with red overstitching along the hems and around the two patch pockets. The coat had two silver, globe-shaped buttons which fastened though two hemmed buttonholes. Underneath she wore a red turtle-neck, short-sleeved top fastened by one red popper at the back of the neck. She also wore a grey pleated skirt with a red waistband, which again fastened at the waist with one press-stud. She carried a camera and a grey holdall bearing a green “Paris” sticker, and she wore red flat lace-up shoes. There appears to have been two versions of the camera, some were packaged with the same camera as that used for Paul's 'Seaside' outfit, later versions of this outfit were packaged with a square-shaped camera (see inset).
Air Hostess (Ref 12S14)
By the mid 1960s, commercial flights were becoming increasingly accessible and to be an air hostess was thought to be a very attractive job. Unsurprisingly, Sindy was given her own uniform, which was a copy of the BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) air hostess outfit. It was a trim, tailored gaberdine suit in blue. The jacket was fastened with four smart silver poppers and the skirt by one silver popper at the back of the waistband. She wore a matching regulation hat bearing BOAC's emblem in silver. Her shirt was white cotton with a rounded collar and long sleeves gathered at the cuff. It was fastened at the front by two white poppers. She carried a BOAC shoulder bag and a passenger manifest. On her feet she wore black kitten heel court shoes.
Centre Court (Ref 12S15)
A white cotton tennis dress with a blue “S” in a shield emblazoned on her left hip. The dress had a pleated skirt and fastened with two white poppers at the back. The dress came with matching white cotton knickers and a white cotton headband which fastened behind the neck with a white popper. She wore short white socks and white lace-up tennis shoes (her white sneakers reused). She carried a tennis racket in a press and three tennis balls in a container.
Bowling (Ref 12S16)
A red brush cotton T-shirt emblazoned with the same blue “S” as on the tennis dress and fastened with a red popper at the neck. This was worn under fawn cord shorts fastened with a white button on the front fly-opening and a cream cotton 'knitted', sleeveless cardigan fastened at the waist with one white popper. She wore long white socks, and white lace-up bowling shoes (the same shoes as her tennis shoes). The set included a miniature 'CocaCola' bottle, a black bowling ball (with two finger holes so that Sindy could actually hold the ball) and three white pins.
Cosy Nights (Ref 12S64)
A snug red flannel dressing gown. It was trimmed with a thick white cotton lace at the neck, cuffs and along the bottom hem. It had a matching tie belt.
Casual Moments (Ref 12S65)
A white crew-neck, short-sleeved cotton knit jumper with a ribbed pattern. It fastened with one white popper at the back of the neck. This top was later issued in sage-green (see 1969 Sindy).
Summer Walks (Ref 12S66)
A pink linen skirt which was fastened by one white popper at the back of the waist. With its front centre-pleat and two flap pockets at the hip, this was a very simple but stylish addition to Sindy's separates.
Bra and Pants (Ref 12S67)
Pretty underwear consisting of just a bra and pants made of white nylon trimmed with lace. The bra had white ribbon straps and a white popper fastening at the back.
To return to the top of the page click on the Sindy logo
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LeBron James Compares NFL Owners To Slave Masters
Posted on December 22, 2018 by Clay Travis - OKTC
Last night LeBron James compared NFL owners to slavemasters further cementing his status as the dumbest man in athletics who has ever been taken seriously as smart by woke sports media obsessed with pretending a man with a high school education who has never made an intelligent statement unrelated to basketball is somehow the Albert Einstein of our era.
What’s most remarkable about the commentary is that it occurred on a taped television show airing on HBO meaning LeBron and his posse viewed this footage and considered it to be worthy of airing on television. Again, this wasn’t an offhanded comment uttered in jest in a locker room after a game, it was taped footage that was chosen out of hours of commentary to be featured on a television show.
Here is exactly what was said: “In the NFL they got a bunch of old white men owning teams, and they got that slave mentality. And it’s like, ‘This is my team. You do what the fuck I tell y’all to do or we get rid of y’all.’
“The players are who make the ship go. We make it go. Every Sunday, without Todd Gurley and without Odell Beckham, Jr. without those players, those guys, there is no football. And it’s the same in the NBA.”
The comments are so dumb and so uneducated it’s amazing that anyone can take them seriously.
But many in our modern day WokeCenter media will take them seriously so let’s unpack this stupidity once and for all.
First, every NFL and NBA player, regardless of race, is being paid, on average, millions of dollars to play a game. If they don’t desire to play that game for millions of dollars, they are welcome to leave and find another job.
I’m going to write this in all caps because it’s important: NO PAYING JOB IS SIMILAR TO SLAVERY.
Any comparison at all of a modern day job to slavery, other than for comedic affect via outrageous hyperbole, is so absurd and ridiculous that it doesn’t merit the speaker ever being given serious attention any longer.
Second, all these quotes do is demonstrate how out of touch modern day pro athletes are with the real world. When LeBron says this, ‘This is my team. You do what the fuck I tell y’all to do or we get rid of y’all.’ and suggests that is evidence of a slave owner mentality, guess what, THAT’S WHAT ALL BOSSES SAY TO THEIR EMPLOYEES!
Every single employee in America, which is what pro athletes are, employees, do what the fuck their bosses say or they get fired!
That’s the very essence of labor and employment.
Anyone who has ever had a job understands this. Only someone like LeBron, or other pro athletes like him, who have never had a real job in this world thinks being told what to do by a team owner or coach is anything like slavery. The very essence of work in a capitalistic society is this, someone tells you what to do and you do it. In exchange for this, you receive money.
LeBron claims he wants to lift up young black kids in America, but the message he’s sending with quotes like these is the exact wrong one. He’s telling them not to be good employees. What young kids of all races need to be taught is the opposite, if you want to get ahead, do a good job and make your bosses happy. Maybe one day that will allow you to be the boss. And if you do a good job as a boss maybe one day you will be able to become an owner too. That’s what everyone in America should aspire to, becoming the owner instead of the labor.
That’s why I constantly say — “Think like an owner not like an employee.”
LeBron and his ilk are in a unique position that a tiny percentage of entertainers ever achieve — they are being paid millions and millions of dollars for their labor, so much so that one day they might be able to ascend to ownership. But this isn’t how most people become team owners in this country.
Most of the time laboring for someone else doesn’t make you a billionaire.
Hell, it isn’t even how most people become wealthy in this country.
Most of the time you can only become a billionaire — or extremely wealthy — if many other people labor on your behalf. Most people become team owners — or attain extreme wealth — by creating a business or taking over a business when it’s very young. (Granted some people win the genetic lottery, like LeBron’s kids, and are born the children of the extremely wealthy).
LeBron is actually a really bad role model for anyone interested in business because the lesson he’s teaching is this: be born as the greatest natural athlete in the history of America and then get paid a ton of money by someone else because you’re good in sports. That’s great, LeBron, but what if I’m 5’8″ and can’t jump? Has LeBron taught those kids anything?
Furthermore, his statement doesn’t even make sense even if you ignore the stupidity of the slavery analogy: the NFL would be fine without Todd Gurley or Odell Beckham, Jr. The league would only suffer if about twenty of the top quarterbacks, most of whom happen to be white, suddenly left the sport and went on strike. Quarterback talent is truly rare and the league suffers when top quarterbacks aren’t in the game, but almost every other player at every other position really doesn’t matter that much.
(This also points out further the absurdity of LeBron’s analogy too. Are the white players slaves of white owners too or just the black players?)
LeBron isn’t even right about NFL players. Almost all NFL players are easily replaceable. It’s why the league is such a good business, because one player being out doesn’t impact the league very much at all. LeVeon Bell, one of the most successful running backs of his era, set out this year on a contract dispute and his replacement, making a fraction of the salary he turned down, went to the pro bowl and the Pittsburgh Steeler offense was even better than it was last year. Odell Beckham, Jr. didn’t play for most of last season and he’s missing this third straight game this week and do you know what happened? Nothing. The league was fine, it went humming right along.
But if LeBron truly believed the players control the league, guess what, they could all sit out on strike because they have a union to negotiate on their behalf. NFL players and NBA players all collectively bargain their working conditions and pay with the owners. Hell, if NBA or NFL players don’t like the deal they are getting they could truly become owners and start their own leagues. No one is requiring them to play in those leagues. But they haven’t done that, have they? Most players are content with playing in these leagues as employees because, newsflash, they make far more money as athletes than they could make doing anything else in the world.
Furthermore, did slaves have unions to negotiate with plantation owners on their behalf? Did I miss that part of history? Also, if LeBron, or any other player, doesn’t like an owner he can become a free agent and sell his talents to the highest bidder. Did slaves have free agency? Did I miss the part of Roots where Kunta Kinte traveled around on private jets to different plantations to see who would pay him the most to pick cotton? Did LeBron himself have to take the underground railroad when he left Miami via free agency for freedom in Cleveland?
Third, LeBron and many other players like him really don’t even understand the business they’re in. They aren’t paid by the owners, they’re paid by the fans, who pay the owners and players by consuming the product they produce. The players and owners are actually in a partnership and the success of that entire partnership is determined by how many fans choose to consume their product.
Again, owners and players are partners in all modern day leagues. That’s why player protests are so mind-numbingly stupid, you are just hurting yourself when you alienate any of your audience.
The owner and the plantation isn’t even a good business analogy for what pro sports does today. On a plantation an owner produced a raw product — cotton, rice, whatever was raised — that was then sold to another buyer to eventually manufacture goods.
If you wanted to adopt a plantation analogy to the modern day sports business it would be like if the owner and the slaves/players both sold tickets to the plantation and everyone showed up to watch the players pick cotton. And owners and the slaves/players both worked together to ensure they maximized revenue so they could all make the most possible money. (This, of course, would require that cotton picking was an actual sport as opposed to a harmless adjective that a man gets fired for using if he’s employed to call NBA games.)
Which means, you know, this slavery analogy is broken on a historical level, but it also doesn’t even apply in a rudimentary business context either.
The point is — FANS PAY PLAYER SALARIES.
If fans aren’t interested in watching the players the NBA becomes the WNBA.
So when you make comments like these you alienate the people who are making you millionaires, the fans who are spending their hard earned dollars to take their kids and families and sit high up in the rafters of your arenas and stadiums. If players were more sophisticated about understanding the business, they’d understand that comments like these undercut the entire league.
Fourth, LeBron didn’t even criticize his own league’s ownership, he criticized another sports league he doesn’t play in. This is an attack by the woke NBA on the NFL, which is far more popular than the NBA. Yet do NBA players really have that many rights NFL players don’t have? I don’t see it. NBA players have to stand for the national anthem, NFL players don’t. I mean, NBA talent is rarer, which means top NBA players make more money — the NBA has 1/3rd as many players as the NFL — but the NFL is responsible for creating more black millionaires than any business ever created in the history of America.
Far from being slavemasters, the NFL is the greatest wealth creator for black Americans of any business ever made in world history. If anything, black Americans need more businesses like the NFL, not less. The NFL is the ultimate meritocracy in this country, it pays the best players regardless of race, gender, religion or sexual orientation. Far from being an example of racism in America, it’s what all American business should aspire to be like, a company that only employs the best, and pays the best incredibly well.
Fifth, if anyone is a slave master in the modern day sports marketplace, it’s LeBron. His posse has recently boasted about his billion dollar lifetime contract with Nike. Do you know what that billion dollars going to LeBron is built upon? Virtual slave labor in Indonesia where his high-priced shoes are made.
What does it cost Nike to make a pair of LeBron’s shoes? Reports are that the latest Air Jordan’s total cost is around $16.25 — it costs $10.75 for materials, $2.43 for labor, overhead is $2.10, and factory profit is at $0.97. The most recent LeBron shoe costs $175 on FootLocker’s website. Assuming costs are roughly the same for those shoes this means the potential profit built into one of these shoes, profit that goes to Nike, LeBron, and the eventual retailers, is nearly $160.
How can Nike make that much money on a pair of shoes?
By making the shoes overseas and paying workers an average of $3 a day.
Yep, you read that right, the average person making LeBron’s shoe is being paid .25 cents an hour to work a 12 hour day in an overseas Nike factory.
Since I’m a capitalist who believes in making as much money as you possibly can, I don’t begrudge Nike (and LeBron) for taking advantage of virtual slave labor wages to produce its shoes overseas — that’s even though the average Indonesian Nike worker makes 1/76th of what an American factory worker would make doing the same job.
But if LeBron’s going to accuse team owners — who are paying their employees hundreds of millions of dollars a year to play a game — of being slave owners, shouldn’t he have to answer for why he doesn’t pay the makers of his own shoes better? Has LeBron ever traveled to Indonesia and walked through the huts — our own modern day slave labor camps if you want to truly analogize modern day voluntary employees to slaves — to see how they live? Has LeBron Woke James ever asked Nike why his shoes can’t be manufactured by Americans in America? Has he ever offered to take less than a billion dollars in exchange for a factory to be opened in inner-city Akron to employ poor black kids who otherwise can’t find jobs?
LeBron is behaving exactly like the old white men he’s criticizing, except worse. At least those old white men are employing Americans and paying them very high salaries. LeBron — via Nike — is taking a billion dollars in profit skimmed off the hard work of poor factory workers in Asia so he can skim more profits off hard working Americans whose kids beg them to buy LeBron’s insanely overpriced shoe so he can pocket more money. And he isn’t employing Americans to do any of this.
LeBron is the slavemaster in this equation and his plantation is in Indonesia, a country he’s probably never even bothered to visit.
Now, again, this is global capitalism — and global capitalism has lifted more people out of poverty than anything in world history — so I don’t begrudge LeBron his money, but don’t you think LeBron should have to answer questions about this if he’s going to call American team owners slave masters?
Sixth, imagine the reaction if an NBA or NFL owner responded to LeBron’s comments by saying, “Our league is made up of mostly uneducated black men and they sometimes make dumb comments and this is just another example of that.”
The owner might well be forced to sell the team.
I’m not even joking. Don’t you remember the insane overreaction when Houston Texans owner Bob McNair said they couldn’t let the inmates run the prison? This would be that times a thousand.
It would also be a dumb comment for an owner to make even though it would be objectively true in the NBA. The NBA is, in fact, made up of mostly uneducated black men. But attaching someone’s decision to their race, as LeBron did when he referenced the race and age of the NFL owners is, wait for it, RACIST!
Yet most in the woke sports media will give LeBron a pass and would crucify an owner who responded in kind.
Worst of all, the inflammatory nature of the owner’s comment responding to the inflammatory nature of LeBron’s comment would just further create more division in this country.
And none of it would be productive.
That’s why it’s so disappointing to me that LeBron’s posse decided to use this taped comment as commentary they wanted to feature on their show. Again, this wasn’t an off the cuff comment made in a locker room, this was something, f-bomb and all, that LeBron’s posse chose from the hours and hours of footage they’d taped to share with the country. They thought the wokeness of LeBron’s comments — comparing NFL owners to slave masters — would advance the national discourse.
Which is why I think the ultimate lesson of LeBron’s comments is this: we have to stop treating celebrities as authorities on any subject in this country. It used to be when actors or actresses stood up at the Oscars and made political statements everyone rolled their eyes because we all knew they weren’t that informed about the issues they wanted to preach to us about and we didn’t need celebrities to lead our national discourse on complex issues.
Now we treat actor and athlete political opinions as worthy of serious contemplation and we’ve all bowed down to the altar of celebrity, including the election of Donald Trump as president. We have serious issues in this country and most celebrities aren’t capable of talking about them in a serious way. They aren’t helping things get better or making our national discourse smarter, they’re actually making things worse, dumbing down our national debates.
The ultimate truth of the matter is this: when LeBron makes comments like these he really should just shut up and dribble.
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This PhD in Health Sciences and Social Work at University of Portsmouth is committed to delivering research to the highest ethical standards in order to improve knowledge and services for the health of the community.
Our postgraduate researchers have access to seminars and tutorials in epidemiology and statistical methods, database management, qualitative research, and development and assessment of quality of life measures.
Research within the field of Health Sciences and Social work may also be closely linked to: Biomedical Science and Pharmacy, Psychology, and Geography.
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The Allergic and respiratory disorder research group is focused on improving the quality of life for those with allergies. We research into how these conditions develop, improving diagnosis, effectiveness of management strategies, and the impact on quality of life.
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Philip calls the decision to abolish the role of Disability Rights Commissioner "disgraceful"
The post of disability rights commissioner should never have been abolished and must be re-instated, an MP has warned.
Shipley MP Philip Davies branded the decision by the Equality and Human Rights Commission “disgraceful” and urged Government to intervene and ensure the candidate who was given the job secures the role.
Mr Davies said: “Last year the Government advertised for a disability rights commissioner and Lord Shinkwin applied for the post, was appointed to the post and was then promptly told the post had been abolished by the EHRC. Will the Secretary of State reverse the disgraceful decision to abolish the post of disability rights commissioner and restore Lord Shinkwin to his rightful position in that post.”
Lord Shinkwin was told just 36 hours before he was due to attend his first EHRC board meeting that the role of disability commission had been made “redundant” and that he had only been appointed as a commissioner.
Equalities Minister Nick Gibb said: “The disability rights commissioner role was an operation role and matter for the EHRC itself and the secretary of state has no powers to appoint to reinstate a disability commissioner.”
Mr Davies said a disability commissioner was vital in ensuring disabled people are protected and their rights heard.
The EHRC claim that instead of having one disabled champion in the form of a disability right commissioner, all staff play a part in championing the needs of disabled people.
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Philip Davies MP demands increased sentencing powers for convicting dangerous drivers
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Philip Davies MP has demanded government increase sentencing powers available to courts after a Bradford judge jailed a “complete menace” on the road to less than two years in prison – lower than half the sentence he wanted to hand out.
Shipley MP Philip Davies said dangerous driving was a huge problem across the district and more must be done to get the hazardous drivers off the road and behind bars.
Judge Robert Bartfield who presided over the trial wanted to sentence Jonathan Nudds, 28, of Clayton, Bradford, to four years but could only hand out a 20 month sentence.
Raising the issue in Parliament Mr Davies said: “A judge in Bradford recently jailed what he described as a “compete menace” on the roads for dangerous driving, driving while disqualified, failing to provide a specimen, driving while uninsured and possession of a small bag of cocaine. He had 18 previous convictions for 33 offences and the judge complained he was only able to sentence this individual to a maximum of two years in prison, he would have sentenced him to four years in prison if the law had allowed and he urged Parliament to address this issue.
“This issue of dangerous driving is a massive problem in the Bradford district so can we have a minister before the House to explain what government is going to do to give judges the power they need to take these menaces off the road and put them in prison where they belong.”
Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom urged Mr Davies to raise the matter with the Attorney General at the next Commons session later this month.
She added: “He is absolutely right to raise this issue, dangerous driving has appalling consequences for far too many people across the country.”
Nudds pleaded guilty to dangerous driving on December 15, driving while disqualified, failing to provide a specimen, driving while uninsured and possession of a small bag of cocaine.
He was sentenced to 20 months and banned for driving for three years and 10 months.
Mr Davies added: “When we are in a situation where judges are saying in court Parliament need to act then we must do so. Judges need to have the powers to hand out appropriate sentences so they can get criminals off the streets and protect innocent people from becoming victims of crime. In the case of dangerous driving this is vital as irresponsible driving can kill.”
Philip Davies MP urges Government to put victims of crime first
Philip Davies MP has accused Government of failing to sufficiently extend a scheme which allows unduly lenient court sentences to be challenged – and urged them to act to put victims of crime first.
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John Brigham Pleads Not Guilty to Charges in PCP-Fueled Naked Carjacking Spree
Matthew Hendley | July 19, 2012 | 4:19pm
John Brigham says he's not guilty of the multiple felonies he's charged with related to the alleged PCP-fueled naked carjacking spree in Scottsdale a few weeks ago.
The former Chandler high school teacher and real estate executive pleaded not guilty today to multiple counts of robbery and endangerment -- charges that were brought from a grand jury indictment last week.
According to court documents obtained by New Times, Brigham's spree started on the afternoon of June 29, when he blew through a red light and ran into two cars -- which sounded bad enough, until he got naked and started running.
After shedding his clothes and jogging down Via de Ventura, Brigham jumped on top of one of the cars he'd crashed into and started "chanting unknown statements," the documents say.
Police say Brigham then made it onto Hayden Road and carjacked a woman driving a Toyota Prius.
After making it onto Shea Boulevard and heading toward the Loop 101 entrance, Brigham hopped the median and crashed into three more cars, while the Prius flipped a few times.
Brigham kept going, as police say he tried to "forcibly enter" three other cars that were stopped on Shea before officers showed up and arrested him.
One of the people he hit on Shea was a woman who sustained two broken legs from the crash. She's also eight months' pregnant, according to the documents.
Three other people were hospitalized after their crashes with Brigham, and Brigham himself also was hospitalized.
According to the documents, the initial toxicology report showed a presence of PCP in Brigham's body.
Brigham's next court date is September 6.
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A Flip-Flop That’ll Cost Evangelicals.
January 19, 2018 by Captain Cassidy
A Flip-Flop That’ll Cost Evangelicals. January 19, 2018 Captain Cassidy
During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump famously boasted that he could literally “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot someone” and still “not lose any voters.” He turned out to be right, metaphorically at least. White evangelicals are standing behind their chosen champion through all manner of scandals. I was surprised at first that this particular scandal is sticking so hard to our Jerkweed-in-Chief, but really, it isn’t all that surprising–and I’ll show you why it isn’t.
(Carole Raddato, CC-SA.)
The Abortion Stick.
Turns out that you morons [the Republican base] have been voting with your middle finger for a very, very long time. And the America you now supposedly can’t stand—with all of its inequality and racial tension—is the result of it. You did this. You created an America where Larry the Cable Guy can somehow prosper… where Donald Trump can openly talk about grabbing pussy and somehow NOT be publicly exiled. Great job, shitbirds.
Drew Magary, GQ, October 2016
Decades of hard work have paid off for the American Republican Party. Their noses might be brown and their knees might be bruised, but they long ago successfully convinced fundagelicals of two things: that first, Republicans are the one and only Jesus Party, and second, that no other issues in America matter as much to Jesus as ending abortion rights for women.
The elites in the party might care a lot more about stuff like giving the 1% much-needed tax breaks and making sure corporations’ unfettered greed continues to grow without restriction, but they long ago figured out that the way to get that stuff is to lie to the 99% base about exactly what the Republican Party’s all about and what its goals are.
You’d think that it would be difficult to think of anyone less savory to represent fundagelical interests. And yet here we are, 360 days into the presidency of a man who may well go down in history as the most inept and embarrassing person to ever hold the office. And he got there thanks to white fundagelicals. When these specific voters were asked how in the world they could possibly support someone as monumentally inexperienced and morally repulsive as Donald Trump, one reason kept coming up more than any other:
They wanted a candidate who’d do his best to destroy abortion rights in America.
Donald Trump either figured that out on his own or–let’s face it, more likely learned this truth after one of his advisors put in the tremendous effort required to teach a tame walrus anything.
See, nobody ever went wrong by betting on just how hateful and controlling extremist Christians are–or on how high their ambitions fly.
Flip-Flops in the White House: Suddenly Fashionable.
The 2016 election laid out graphically what is in essence the loss of Christian America.
Wayne Flynt
Donald Trump, not someone anyone would ever describe has having firm or fixed morals, made a switch of his own when he decided to go after the Republican vote. Before going into politics himself, he’d described himself as pro-choice person who even supported Hillary Clinton initially. That would have to change for him to gain the fundagelical vote–and it did. He completely flip-flopped on the topic, just like he did on a lot of other positions he’d held during his long life.
But fundagelicals themselves also changed quite a bit over the same period. A 2011 survey by PRRI indicated that Christians across the board didn’t think that elected officials could effectively fulfill their duties if they behaved immorally in private. White evangelical Protestants–in other words, Donald Trump’s future tribe–condemned that idea the hardest; only 30% of them thought such a combination was possible.
The same survey discovered that 64% of white evangelicals thought it was very important for their ideal presidential candidate to hold strong religious beliefs, while 28% felt that this quality was somewhat important.
By 2016, both of those opinions had dissolved. Now white evangelicals were the most likely of all Christians to say that elected officials could do something hugely immoral in private and still perform adequately in office: 72% of them said this combination was possible. PRRI blandly noted in their report that “no group has shifted their position more dramatically than white evangelical Protestants.”
Not only were white fundagelicals way more likely than other Christians to be okay with immoral behavior in a politician, they were way more likely to be okay with it than Nones were. In fact, over the same period Nones had become slightly less likely to agree with the idea.
As for holding strong religious beliefs, by 2016 white evangelicals had shifted there too. Now only 49% felt that it was very important for candidates to have strong religious beliefs, with 39% thinking it was somewhat important. The number of white evangelicals who thought it wasn’t important at all for a President to hold strong religious beliefs, meanwhile, had doubled from 3% to 6%.
Things change, and so especially, it seems, do the people involved with a religion they proudly declare to be, like their god, to be “the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.” They don’t remember that almost a year before the Presidential election they were talking about how much they needed a “pastor-in-chief” — until six months later, when their candidate turned out to be anything but their ideal pastor, at which point Jerry Falwell Jr. shilled for him by declaring on Twitter that “we’re not electing a pastor. We’re electing a president.”
Mitt Romney’s own instability regarding a number of issues including abortion might have become part of his doom during his failed run(s) at the office. I say “might have” because by 2012, a Christian Science Monitor study indicated that Christians were a little less concerned by those shifts than they had been earlier–as long as the final shift aligned with their own agenda. If Donald Trump’s handlers knew about that study, it might well have gone into their advice to go ahead and flip-flop to pander better to the enraged, belligerent Christians he was aiming for.
White fundagelical Christians in particular have demonstrated on numerous occasions that they are totally okay with metaphorical-if-not-literal flip-flops in their White House. They can deal just fine with a villain in the highest office in the land, too–as long as he’s their villain.
A Post-Christian Nation, Thanks to Christians.
By 1994 Newt Gingrich and Richard Armey’s Contract with America had accomplished two things, neither of which was explicitly stated in the contract. It had used middle-class Christian voters to secure Republican Party control of both houses of Congress for the first time in 40 years, and its welfare reforms had cemented the vilification of America’s poor.
Regina Nippert, The Hill, May 29, 2015
To be sure, this overt control-grab and over-politicization might be yielding inconsistent-but-occasional big returns for fundagelicals–but overall, it appears to be costing them more than they’ll ever be able to recoup.
The Hill, a DC-insider gossip and politics blog, noted in 2015 that “mixing Christianity with politics is killing the church,” but also that this isn’t really a recent development. It began decades ago (as we observed recently ourselves) and began to reach its flowering in 1994 with Newt Gingrich and Richard Armey’s “Contract With America.” That post’s writer implores her fellow Christians not to allow politics and religion to mix, on the grounds that it damages “both our democracy and our churches.”
Her plea fell upon deaf ears, obviously.
So did a similar plea from Joan Walsh in The Nation.
The people these wiser voices wanted to reach are past masters at filtering out information they don’t like. They already think they know why they’re losing so many people, and the answer they’ve come to doesn’t have anything to do with reality–but it does absolve them of all their “sins” and encourage them to stay the course (or get even worse).
Because vast numbers of Christians are unwilling to look at the real reasons why they’re losing so many people, they’re at a distinct disadvantage in solving that problem. They’re going to keep throwing their dwindling resources at non-solutions based on what they think is causing their problem, but those non-solutions don’t even tangentially intersect with the real causes of their problem. Their non-solutions alienate more and more people from their tribe and cause them to lose more and more credibility in observers’ minds, which provokes these Christians to behave in even more controlling, authoritarian, judgmental, and hypocritical ways, which will only alienate and repel us more quickly.
Literally the only way that they could avoid that result would be to find a way to coerce us into playing along with their theocratic nightmare-fuel. But they mostly lost the power to coerce years ago.
Enter the American Republican Party, which assures their Christian Right fanbase that they will work tirelessly to return to them their lost ability to coerce others. Oh, yes, they will have their onetime power again. They will have their dominance back.
And they’ll get it all back without giving up their culture wars OR changing a thing they’re doing that they enjoy.
All of their past mascots and champions have made similar promises over the years, but it was Trump who turned out to be just as hateful, belligerent, willfully ignorant, and opportunistic as they were. Trump bet that extremist Christians would care way more about winning their culture wars–thus regaining coercive power over their tribal enemies–than they would about regaining their lost credibility.
Ya know, gang, I don’t give a casino operator–even a failed one--any extra credit for knowing better than to bet against the house, nor a hotelier–even a suspiciously-politicized one--extra credit for knowing better than to reckon without his hosts.
Oh My Stars and Garters!
[FitzGerald’s overview in The Evangelicals], in tandem with an array of more pointed books on the subject, suggests that evangelical support for Trump is not a deviation at all—not a sign of hypocrisy or declining influence. On the contrary, that 81 percent figure makes perfect sense.
Molly Worthen, The Atlantic
This whole situation is what’s making the current scandal around Donald Trump’s “shithole” remarks all the more hilarious in a way.
Just to recap anybody who isn’t in the know: In a meeting concerning immigration a week ago, it’s reported that Donald Trump referred to African nations, along with Haiti and El Salvador, as being “shithole countries.” He wondered aloud why “all these people from shithole countries” were allowed to come to America. Some of the folks attending the meeting dispute that he said it (some, weirdly, are saying he actually said “shithouse,” which in my opinion doesn’t change anything–though Stephen Colbert had a great time with that splitting-of-hairs), while others insist that yes, he totally said it. Given Trump’s childish giddiness over the controversy he sparked, it seems almost completely certain that that’s exactly what he said.
A bunch of those countries’ ambassadors and leaders are now wondering if they count as “shithole countries” with Donald Trump (probable answer: yes) and are strongly condemning his comments, with many demanding he apologize (probable answer: hahahaha NO).
Since he contrasted these “shithole countries” with Norway, which he apparently thinks is the gold standard of countries, many of Norway’s residents wasted no time in informing Trump that they consider the United States to be way too much of a shithole country to ever want to move to it.
And a human rights official with the United Nations (UN) roundly condemned the remark as racist, though that might just give fundagelicals a thrill given their longstanding (and entirely misplaced) hatred of the UN. The same goes for Vice, an online magazine not exactly known for its support of extremist Christians generally, which ran a post called “Christ, Trump is an Asshole” that led with the question “How many more ways can he show everyone what he is?”
In customary Donald Trump fashion (and–to say the least–in customary fundagelical fashion as well), he’s gone on the offensive against those saying he did indeed say “shithole.”
He must respond somehow, because for some reason this scandal isn’t going away for him like all his previous ones have (especially considering that Trump decided today to ban Haitian immigrants from applying for seasonal-worker visas).
The funny thing is, it would neither be out of character for Trump to have said it, nor an unusual outburst for him to have made. As the New York Times said recently in a devastating timeline of Trump’s racism, he’s said and done deeply racist things for many years before deciding to hitch a ride on the 2016 Republican Clown Car. He didn’t have to stretch far to meet his fans where they were.
But this particular racist outburst combines two things that are really sensitive topics for fundagelicals right now.
There are, incidentally, a bazillion or so bars and hotels called “the Star and Garter.” Here’s one. (Matt, CC-SA.) Here’s a possible explanation of the phrase.
Hitting Them Where It Hurts.
Of course people from Norway would love to move to a country where people are far more likely to be shot, live in poverty, get no healthcare because they’re poor, get no paid parental leave or subsidized daycare and see fewer women in political power.
Christian Christensen, Twitter
First, it’s deeply profane, obviously.
Most of us could easily attest that Christians will tolerate any amount of systemic injustice and hypocrisy in themselves and their groups–but they faint like hothouse orchids at the very mention of a naughty word.
Oh, sure, a few of them might rail against those injustices and instances of hypocrisy while also condemning the naughty words. Others might recognize that policing language of necessity creates a Designated Adult dynamic that makes real communication impossible and art less authentic. But these Christians are very much in the minority. Their pals have created a whole mythology around profanity and the people who use it, making opposition to profanity possibly a more universal doctrine in the religion than the Trinity.
So in that sense, obviously some fundagelicals aren’t happy about the exact language used. (That archive link comes from The American Conservative, and the comments there are exactly what you’d expect to see when conservative Christians’ champions are criticized.)
Endemic, systemic, deep-rooted racism is perfectly okay with them–hell, it’s a bedrock covert doctrine in fundagelicalism. But profane racism is not okay with them.
But second, Trump’s “shithole countries” comment combines his explosive profanity with a racist insult to people of color (POC) from developing and economically-challenged countries, who are surging in importance with the Christian Right for a variety of reasons, most of them sketchy.
White fundagelicals are well aware of how poorly their tainted brand is faring with consumers in the religious marketplace in the United States. They’ve been quietly moving for years to offload their simple, universal message of hatred, abuse, cruelty, viciousness, exclusion, class warfare, -isms, and warmongering “Good News” to countries that haven’t learned yet just how hypocritical, wicked, and dysfunctional fundagelicals are as a group.
That’s why Scott Lively, a homophobic crackpot preacher from the United States, ended up in a very serious trial over his exportation of fundagelical bigotry and hatred to Uganda. (The lawsuit was dismissed this past summer on what the SPLC describes as “a narrow jurisdictional ground.”) Lively is joined in his efforts by hundreds of other white fundagelical bigots who recognize that the United States simply isn’t as fertile a field as it used to be for their predations. Even Christians who see themselves as kinder, gentler bigots look at countries like Uganda and Haiti as the next big harvest for their religion–in fact, as one of the very few places on Earth still receptive to their message.
Those countries’ people, like pretty much everyone else on Planet Earth, know that Donald Trump speaks for white fundagelicals. That demographic put him in the White House because he learned to pander to its members like nobody else ever had.
So it’s very logical for these countries’ people to wonder if the white fundagelicals flooding their countries also see them that way.
And white fundagelicals themselves rightly fear what impact their champion’s words might have on their future sales.
Tish Harrison Warren, an Anglican priest in Pennsylvania, said of Trump’s “shithole” comment, “It hurts evangelism.”
The Wichita Eagle notes that Vic Gordon, a pastor from Wichita, is specifically concerned about what Trump’s outburst will mean for his missions work in Haiti–and that his fellow pastor Jeff Isaacs condemns the comment specifically in light of the so-called Great Commission: “There’s no asterisk beside that Great Commission by Jesus. We are to go to all the nations.”
I found comments like that everywhere. When a fundagelical could be found at all to condemn the “shithole” comment, chances are they were couching that condemnation in concern over future sales and lost credibility–or else by relating people from those countries to Christian missionary efforts in some other way, like condescendingly and paternalistically talking about how oh, well, you see, we’re alllllllllllll “God’s” children, including Haitians.
They literally talk about the people Trump insulted in the exact same way they talk about LGBTQ people.
Always Assume the Mic is Live.
Fire is not so easily contained. This month Trump has shown himself once more as an arsonist, and insofar as they let his vulgarity distract from his inhumanity, his evangelical supporters act as accomplices.
Bonnie Kristian, The American Conservative, January 18, 2017
Trump’s evangelical council, which hasn’t had any trouble supporting their holy paladin through all manner of other scandals and gaffes, is somewhat split over this one.
Not all of them had moral qualms about the profane phrase, of course. Robert Jeffress, one of the brownest-nosed and sore-kneed of Trump’s tribe of yes-men, probably made fundagelicals look worse with his own full-throated support of his Dear Leader’s racism because, he decided it meant that Trump was putting Americans ahead of other people, which he felt was perfect in a President. Vox concluded that “Jeffress’s statement may even be interpreted as acknowledging that Trump’s position is incompatible with core Christian doctrines of charity toward those in need.” Jeffress wasn’t even the worst attempt to justify the unjustifiable.
And none of it matters to fundagelicals themselves. The alt-right base in particular is going wild over the controversy Trump has created. Trump himself appears to be as giddy as a schoolchild over it all. There’s nothing a narcissist likes better than yanking chains, after all.
Folks around Trump predict that his core of dedicated fans won’t mind his remarks at all–and might even like them. His staffers might be simply exhausted dealing with his recklessness and childishness, but his fans are the only people Trump really cares about–and as long as he performs the one job they put him into office to perform, they won’t care what damage he causes along the way.
That said, the gaze of the world misses nothing.
We can totally hear them talking about us.
Their mic is still live.
The cameras are always rolling.
And we’re becoming more and more aware of how dangerous these religious zealots really are, especially when they get a little taste of the power they seek.
Join us next time as we dive into some clobber verses’ clobber verses–and a list of Bible verses and stories I wish I’d known when I was actually Christian, but somehow never heard till after I’d left. See you then!
Speaking of “this mic is live,” this interview happened in 2013. At one point the racist rhetoric is flying so fast and thick that Aasif Mandvi asks then-GOP Precinct Chair Don Yelton if he’s actually aware that people can hear him talking right then. Yelton went on to lose his GOP position over that interview. Even better, in 2016 this interview was cited by an appeals court as part of its decision to strike down the law Yelton was gloating about. Yelton “went bonkers” in an extensive series of rants on social media after the current GOP Chairman of his county, in referring to that decision, said Yelton was “like a chronic case of hemorrhoids.” Yelton still pops up around his local area’s news–and he hasn’t changed a bit! A pity for him that this whole scandal happened a few years before Republicans went Peak Neo-Nazi. Dude might have ended up in the Cabinet.
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28th February 2017 Features
PCs are set to continue their historic sales slump, hitting a decade of decline in 2021 according to new research from IDC. It is predicted that 418.2 million units will ship in 2021, down from 435 million in 2016, making a compound annual growth rate of -0.8 per cent.
While the overall PC market doesn’t look great, future sales of touch-screen PCs with detachable screens (i.e. 2-in-1s such as the Microsoft Surface) will double in the next five years. The market for notebooks and laptops will also grow by about five or six million units. Traditional tablets and desktop PCs will continue their decline – desktops shrinking from 103.3 million in 2016 to 89.8 million in 2021; tablets going from 153.5 million in 2016 to 109.8 million in 2021.
While the market may look as though it is in the favour of 2-in-1s, asserting that they will be the dominant force in computing is premature. "Regardless of what marketers are saying, detachable tablets are simply not putting pressure on notebooks yet," said Jitesh Ubrani, senior research analyst, Worldwide Mobile Device Trackers.
"Consumers are just starting to graduate from old, consumption-based, slate tablets to a more productive detachable tablet. At the same time, the benefits of having a thin, touch-sensitive, productivity-based machine is shining light on the traditional PC category, causing vendors and consumers to focus on more premium devices in the Convertible and Ultraslim space."
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Qualcomm gives Sharp another $60 million to develop next-gen MEMS displays
By Jay Alabaster
Reporter, IDG News Service | PT
Japan’s Sharp said Monday that it has received a second $60 million investment from Qualcomm, as the two companies work together to mass produce low-power, high-performance displays for mobile devices.
Qualcomm, through subsidiary Pixtronix, has teamed with Sharp to mass produce displays based on its MEMS (microelectromechanical systems) technology, the pixels of which are based on tiny mechanical shutters that flash open and closed to display colors. The technology has the potential for much faster response times and uses a fraction of the power required by LCDs, but cost-competitive manufacturing has proven difficult.
“We are moving toward eventual commercialization,” said Sharp spokeswoman Miyuki Nakayama. The companies are still in the research phase and have announced no target dates.
In a deal first announced in December, Qualcomm agreed to invest $120 million in Sharp in two blocks, the first of which was paid later that month. The second half was to be made in March if Sharp met certain guidelines for financial health and sufficient progress was made on the research, but that was postponed until this month.
Traditional LCD screens have a white back light that sits behind an array of liquid crystal pixels, each paired with a color filter to allow light of a certain color to pass. MEMs screens use a back light that cycles through a sequence of colors, synchronized with an array of tiny shutters that serve as pixels, flashing open briefly to let certain colors through.
The MEMS shutters have a faster reaction time than LCD pixels, and don’t require color filters so the back light needs less power to operate. Qualcomm has been trying to popularize the technology for years, and also sells a variety under the Mirasol brand with no backlight that relies on reflectivity.
The deal makes Qualcomm one of Sharp’s largest shareholders, with a 3.5 percent share in Sharp. That is slightly more than Samsung Electronics, which invested $110 million in Sharp in March in exchange for a steady supply of LCD panels made for large screens. Sharp has made a series of deep losses and is seeking partnerships to steady its finances.
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StartUp Sussex Awards - The Winners
Friday 4th May
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The founder of a subscription box service with a mission to empower and inspire women received a prize worth £10,000 to help develop her business at last night’s StartUp Sussex awards.
The annual enterprise programme, delivered by Sussex Innovation for students and recent graduates from the University of Sussex, reached its climax with the announcement of several prize winners. The 2017-18 competition was the biggest ever, with more entrants, finalists and winners than ever before.
The 2018 StartUp Sussex winner is final year undergraduate student Molly Masters. Her business, Books That Matter, was inspired by reading for her English Literature degree. The book club and subscription box service is designed to empower women and girls through literature, delivering and debating great works of fiction every month.
A Social Impact Prize of £10,000 was also awarded to the enterprise with the most potential to bring about positive social change. The winners were Joanna Kmiec, an MA student reading for a Project Management degree, and co-founder William Halle. William is diabetic, and designed their product, Deadline.Live, as a safety net for people living alone with serious illnesses. It combines an app and a Bluetooth bracelet and acts as a ‘dead man’s switch’, alerting friends and family when the owner doesn’t check in regularly.
As well as earning the title of Sussex Student Entrepreneurs of the Year, the winners received a £10,000 prize consisting of a cash award and ongoing membership, consultancy and marketing from Sussex Innovation.
“I’m thrilled, it’s completely overwhelming,” said Molly Masters, founder of Books that Matter. “I was completely shocked when my name was read out, because of the calibre of the other finalists. Winning the prize means that I’ll be ready to launch Books that Matter in September, which feels amazing!”
“We’re very excited, it’s a dream come true for us to start making our idea a reality” said Joanna Kmiec and William Halle, founders of Deadline.Live. “It feels unreal – the next step for us is to launch a crowdfunding campaign to build our wearable, so we can’t wait to start using our marketing support from Sussex Innovation.”
The winners were revealed at an awards ceremony held at the Sussex Innovation Centre and attended by members of the local business community, University staff and students, and the Mayor of Brighton and Hove. They emerged victorious from an initial pool of more than 80 students, who began the programme all the way back in October.
The 10 finalists each presented their business plans in a pitch earlier this week to the StartUp Sussex judges, a ‘Dragons’ Den’-style panel consisting of local investors, entrepreneurs and representatives from the University. The panel were extremely impressed with the high standard of all the presentations.
“As always, the panel saw a great selection of finalists,” said Mike Herd, Executive Director of Sussex Innovation and a member of the StartUp Sussex judging panel. “Books That Matter is a particularly fitting winner in a year where we’ve tried to do more to support female entrepreneurs – we were pleased to see so many women presenting their ideas in this year’s finals. Ultimately, Molly won because she has clearly identified and already successfully engaged her target market. Her pitch on the day really blew the judges away.”
“The standard was extremely impressive and gave us a real challenge as judges,” said Peter Lane, Innovation Support Manager at Sussex Innovation and a member of the Social Impact Prize judging panel. “Deadline.Live stood out for us with a professional brand image, a working prototype, and an innovative solution that could deliver real social value to diabetic care. William and Joanna had direct experience of the problem, knew their market well, and demonstrated real ambition to take their app and next stage wearable product to market.”
“We were particularly impressed with the presentation skills of all this year’s finalists, as well as the professionalism of their financial plans – it’s testament to our experienced support team who deliver the programme and mentor the finalists through the process. We urge the other finalists to carry on developing their ideas and work with us in the future – they’re all capable of being successful enterprises.”
As well as one-to-one mentoring with the Sussex Innovation support team, the finalists were advised by previous winners Chris O’Hare, Nick Musto and Darren Tenkorang, received presentation skills coaching from improv troupe The Maydays, a social enterprise workshop from The Platform, and financial guidance from Santander Universities.
The Social Impact Prize is funded by a generous private donation from a Sussex alumnus, who was so impressed by the quality of the finalists that a second and third prize were also awarded. In a surprise announcement on the night, there were six winners for the first time ever.
The other winners:
In second place in StartUp Sussex 2018, Julian Bourne (4th year Finance) and co-founder Matt Pritchard received an £8,000 prize for their idea, Waffle. The chatbot that recommends real-time restaurant deals also won the People’s Choice Award in the nationwide Pitch@Palace event just last week.
In third place, Portia Cronje (4th year Finance and Business) received a £6,000 prize for her enterprise, Beauty By Me. Her product is a web application for self-employed beauticians and small salon owners, helping them to manage bookings and administration.
In second place in the Social Impact Prize 2018, Hlanganiso Matangaidze (BSc Economics & Finance, 1st year) received an £8,000 prize for his idea, Renewable Energy Development (RED). The project will distribute low cost alternative energy sources such as wind and solar power to rural communities in Zimbabwe.
In third place, Dinda Jelita (BSc Economics & Management, 3rd year), Conor Kelly (BSc Economics, 3rd year), and Camilo Castañeda (BSc Mechanical Engineering, 3rd year) received a £6,000 prize for their enterprise, Vorteil, a sustainable consumer technology brand developing several products, starting with a solar-powered bike light.
The remaining finalists were:
Tammy Littlejohns (MA Strategic Innovation Management) – Hector, developing creative content and access to it, designed for immersive home projection
Cristina Loma (MSc Management of Information Technology) – Smart Fashion, a service to help online fashion buyers get the right size in every shop
Rosie Robinson (Anthropology, graduated 2017) and Charlie Kew – CliC, a mental health toolkit, developing sound design workshops for wellbeing in the workplace
Simon Spencer (MSc Robotics & Automation Systems) – Rushboard Technologies, a modular wearable for head-mounted displays, improving virtual, augmented and mixed reality for disabled users
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Andrew Playfair & the history of Playfairville, Ontario
Further reading on the 104th (New Brunswick) Regiment of Foot and Perth Military Settlement
The list below contains external links to documents, images and maps which provide more detailed information on historic winter military march of the 104th (New Brunswick) Regiment of Foot and the Perth Military Settlement. All links open in a new window/tab.
A Very Canadian Story – New Brunswick’s 104th Regiment of Foot
Illustrated maps, images and detailed report on the mapping of the 104th (New Brunswick) Regiment of Foot’s epic winter military march from Fredericton to Kingston by W. E. (Gary) Campbell, 21 June 2011 from the St. John River Society
The Canadian County Atlas Digital Project (McGill University) Map of Lanark County
Perth Military Settlement Map from the Perth & District Historical Society
The Mapping Project Interactive Perth Military Settlement Map and Searchable Database
Map of the march from Fredericton to Kingston
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The Last of Us, Shadow of the Colossus Content Headed to Diablo 3: Ultimate Evil Edition
Jason DunningWednesday, June 11, 2014
Releasing for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 on August 19th, the Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls – Ultimate Evil Edition already has a bunch of content packed in, but as announced at E3, there will be some exclusive The Last of Us and Shadow of the Colossus content as well.
Diablo 3 Community Manager Lylirra talked about what you can expect:
The Last of Us Nephalem Rift
Get ready to endure and survive, nephalem. For the Ultimate Evil Edition, we’ve teamed up with Naughty Dog to create a unique Nephalem Rift inspired by their award-winning The Last of Us. Featuring hand-picked environments from the Diablo III universe and an ominous yellow spore effect, this randomized dungeon level is sure to awaken the survivor in us all.
Oh! And did we mention the monsters? The Last of Us Nephalem Rift is teeming with a series of ravenous creatures modeled after the infamous Stalker, Clicker, and Bloater infected.
Shadow of the Colossus Transmog Set
Players who purchase Ultimate Evil Edition for PS4 and PS3 will be rewarded with the “Guise of the Colossi,” a unique set of transmogrification plans that unlock six armor appearances inspired by the influential PS2 game, Shadow of the Colossus. These striking appearances will be available to all six larger-than-life classes.
It’s important to note that this exclusive content can’t be transferred to any other platform and will have to be downloaded from the PlayStation Network.
[Source: PS Blog]
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House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters is proposing a sweeping set of changes to how Equifax, Experian and TransUnion collect data on consumers and repackage it for lenders. | Zach Gibson/Getty Images
Waters begins crackdown on credit reporting industry
By ZACHARY WARMBRODT
House Democrats this week are kicking off work on the biggest overhaul of the consumer credit reporting industry in years, marking the first major legislative effort launched by new Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters.
The California Democrat is proposing a sweeping set of changes to how Equifax, Experian and TransUnion — the industry's three dominant firms — collect data on consumers and repackage it for lenders to gauge a borrower's creditworthiness.
While Waters and consumer advocates have been pushing consumer-focused reforms for years, the effort got an unexpected jolt of energy in 2017 when Equifax revealed that millions of individuals' information had been exposed in an historic cybersecurity breach.
There is now a bipartisan appetite for a credit reporting revamp, and interest is only expected to grow when members of the Financial Services Committee grill top executives from Equifax, Experian and TransUnion at a hearing Tuesday morning.
"It's still going to be an uphill struggle with the Senate and the House split and the president on the side that he's on, which is not usually my side," said U.S. Public Interest Research Group consumer program director Ed Mierzwinski. "But we have the best opportunity we've had in a long time."
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The credit reporting oversight hearing and subsequent work on legislation will be one of the first big tests for Waters and House Democrats who have pledged to use their new majority to rein in corporate America.
The nearly 200-page bill that Waters has circulated would impose numerous new restrictions on the industry. Among the biggest concerns for the credit reporting firms: The bill would give consumers more tools to dispute errant information on their credit reports, so the industry would carry more of the burden of making sure inaccurate data isn't reported. Another worry is a provision that would restrict the use of credit checks for employment purposes.
Separately, Waters has drafted legislation intended to shield federal employees and contractors from negative credit reporting information arising from a government shutdown.
An industry fear underlying the whole debate is that the reforms could make the firms more susceptible to lawsuits.
In testimony prepared for Tuesday's hearing, Equifax CEO Mark Begor conceded that errors occur, "which result in consumer complaints or media publicity" but "these complaints and publicity do not mean that the current system is broken."
Democrats disagree. They point to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau statistics showing that the agency handled about 213,000 credit reporting complaints between November 2016 and October 2018, with many involving frustration about fixing mistakes.
In a report released before Tuesday's hearing, the National Consumer Law Center said part of the problem is that lenders and other companies that furnish data to the reporting firms conduct "pro forma, perfunctory investigations" in reporting disputes and that the reporting firms "continue to blithely accept what a furnisher tells them."
"A data company that doesn't invest in quality control for accuracy is also a data company that's not going to invest in adequate security measures," said Chi Chi Wu, one of the National Consumer Law Center report's authors and a witness at Tuesday's hearing. "It's about culture. It's about an attitude — whether you do it right or whether you cut corners."
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By AARON LORENZO
It's not just consumer advocates who are calling for change.
The National Association of Realtors has also put its weight behind proposals that would give consumers more control over their reports to ensure accuracy and give them a better chance at buying a home.
"Credit report companies play an important role safeguarding our economy, and we want them to be able to make money to sustain their operations," said National Association of Realtors senior financial services policy representative Vijay Yadlapati. "At the same time, they need to have policies and procedures in place that ensure consumers have the most accurate credit reports. And, if they aren't accurate, consumers should be allowed to dispute any inaccuracies and get them remedied in a reasonable and timely manner.”
The credit reporting industry is taking the legislation seriously because there are signs that some proposals could attract bipartisan support, including in the Senate.
One of Senate Banking Chairman Mike Crapo's top priorities this Congress is data privacy legislation, and he has asked for feedback on potential credit reporting provisions. The Idaho Republican said earlier this month he was interested in "what data is contained in modern consumer reports, how the information is gathered, who compiles it, how it is protected, how consumers can access it and correct it, and how privacy is respected."
Capital Alpha Partners President Charles Gabriel told clients in a note Monday that he was raising his odds of a credit reporting bill being enacted to 35 percent from 25 percent "partially due to how impressed we are with Democrats' commitment now that they're in partial control.
"Indeed, House passage during 2019 seems highly likely," he said. "But Senate action will depend on a practical approach emerging in the lower chamber."
The credit reporting companies and their allies will try to make the case that it's not just Equifax, Experian and TransUnion that could be affected by the proposals but also lenders that will face changes in the quality of data they have come to rely on to size up potential borrowers.
The Consumer Bankers Association told Waters in a letter that there could be "safety and soundness implications" with the bill "as lenders make loans with less information, leading to loans that may be at greater risk for default."
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce in its own letter to the committee said the potential negative impacts of "unwarranted or punitive changes" to the existing system of credit reporting were significant.
"In effect, consumers will be able to take things off their report that are negatively impacting them," said Francis Creighton, president and CEO of the Consumer Data Industry Association, which represents the credit reporting companies. "And we think that's really problematic."
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Evaluating the Integration of Health and Nutrition Messages Into Self-Help Groups in India
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2012 - ongoing
Project Concern International
Rajiv Gandhi Mahila Vikas Pariyojna
Adolescent Girls’ Empowerment
Maternal and Newborn Health
Population Policy and Demographic Analysis
Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
In Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India, Population Council researchers are evaluating the effect of behavior change communication interventions among women in self-help groups.
More than a quarter of the world’s reported maternal and child mortality occurs in India and within India, the states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar account for around half of the country’s maternal and child disease burden. And three out of every five children and/or adolescents are anemic. Rural and marginalized poor face considerable barriers and are among the most vulnerable populations, lacking both access to services and basic health information. There is an urgent need and opportunity to explore community-based solutions that can extend the reach of health and nutrition services and link to the lower levels of the state health system.
The Progress
In recent years, women’s self-help groups have been shown as an effective social platform for empowering marginalized populations and improving access to micro-finance. There are currently more than 800,000 active self-help groups in Bihar and 175,000 more in Uttar Pradesh. Typically, such groups include spaces in which eight to twelve women can come together and learn financial literacy, save money, and support each other. Since 2012, Population Council evaluations have demonstrated these groups as a promising platform for supporting maternal and newborn health, through the sharing of pertinent health and nutritional information and providing mutual support.
Today, the Population Council is working to rigorously evaluate whether and how a broad range of interventions through self-help groups can lead to positive behavior change and access to services in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition. Interventions include behavior change communication, access to frontline workers and services, nutritional awareness for mother and child, mobile phone engagement to provide women with key messages, and women’s financial autonomy and empowerment approaches.
From 2012 to 2020, a series of quasi-experimental studies will be conducted in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, India to document the effects of integrating health and nutrition messaging into empowerment pathways across three different groups of women with young children:
Women with young children who belong to households where a woman is a member of a self-help group and has received messages on maternal and child health and nutrition through the groups’ efforts;
Women with young children who belong to households where a woman is a member of a self-help group but has not received messages on maternal and child health and nutrition; and
Women with young children who belong to a household with no self-help group member.
Preliminary results suggest a significant increase in healthy maternal and child behaviors among those women who were exposed to health and nutrition interventions through self-help groups. In just two years of integrating health programs into self-help groups, there is a significant improvement in life-saving maternal health and newborn care practices. This has proven to be a cost-effective mechanism in saving lives, especially among the most marginalized populations.
Based on the Population Council’s evidence, the Government of Bihar, together with the World Bank, decided in 2016 to scale-up health and nutrition interventions across 685,000 groups, reaching almost seven million women.
This rigorous evaluation will add to the evidence-base regarding a promising intervention platform and will address several gaps in the evidence to ensure that potential scale-up of the approach is undertaken effectively, efficiently, equitably, and is sustainable by state governments.
Laili Irani Associate II and Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, India
Niranjan Saggurti India Country Director, India
Disrupting gender norms in health systems: Making the case for change
Authors: Katherine Hay, Lotus McDougal, Valerie Percival, Sarah Henry, Jeni Klugman, Haja Wurie, Joanna Raven, Fortunate Shabalala, Rebecca Fielding-Miller, Arnab Dey, Nabamallika Dehingia, Rosemary Morgan, Yamini Atmavilas, Niranjan Saggurti, Jennifer Yore, Elena Blokhina, Rumana Huque, Edwine Barasa, Nandita Bhan, Chandani Kharel, Jay G. Silverman, Anita Raj, on behalf of the Gender Equality, Norms and Health Steering Committee. The Lancet Publication Date: June 2019
Utilization of maternal health services and its determinants: A cross-sectional study among women in rural Uttar Pradesh, India
Authors: Ranjana Singh, Sutapa B. Neogi, Avishek Hazra, Laili Irani, Jenny Ruducha, Danish Ahmad, Sampath Kumar, Neelakshi Mann, Dileep V. Mavalankar. Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition Publication Date: 2019
Effect of behavioral change intervention around new-born care practices among most marginalized women in self-help groups in rural India: Analyses of three cross-sectional surveys between 2013 and 2016
Authors: Niranjan Saggurti, Akash Porwal, Yamini Atmavilas, Monika Walia, Rajshree Das, Laili Irani. Journal of Perinatology Publication Date: 2019
Cost and cost-effectiveness of health behavior change interventions implemented with self-help groups in Bihar, India
Authors: S. Chandrashekar, S. Saha, B. Varghese, L. Mohan, G. Shetty, Akash Porwal, Avishek Hazra, Subrato Mondal, Rajshree Das. PLoS ONE Publication Date: March 2019
Increasing knowledge of home based maternal and newborn care using self-help groups: Evidence from rural Uttar Pradesh, India
Authors: Arupendra Mozumdar, M.E. Khan, Subrato Mondal, P.S. Mohanan. Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare Publication Date: December 2018
Perceived social networks and newborn health: Evidence from self-help group communities in northern India
Authors: Jenny Ruducha, Xinran Huang, James Potter, Divya Hariharan, Danish Ahmad, Sampath Kumar, P.S. Mohanan, Avishek Hazra. Societies Publication Date: September 2018
Effect of health intervention integration within women’s self-help groups on collectivization and healthy practices around reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health in rural India
Authors: Niranjan Saggurti, Yamini Atmavilas, Akash Porwal, Janine Schooley, Rajshree Das, Narender Kande, Laili Irani, Katherine Hay. PLoS ONE Publication Date: August 2018
Care-seeking behaviors for maternal and newborn illnesses among self-help group households in Uttar Pradesh, India
Authors: Kumudha Aruldas, Aastha Kant, P.S. Mohanan. Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition Publication Date: 2017
Research Publications (1)
Baseline evaluation of Project Mesha in Bihar: Factsheet results 2017-2018
Author: Population Council. Publication Date: 2018
Data Sets (2)
Evaluating the impact of the Uttar Pradesh Community Mobilization Project in improving maternal and child health behaviors in self-help groups in Uttar Pradesh, India
Author: Laili Irani. Publication Date: 2018
Evaluating the impact of the Parivartan project in improving maternal and child health behaviors among women in self-help groups in Bihar
Authors: Niranjan Saggurti, Laili Irani. Publication Date: 2018
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Crime Briefs: Snowmobiler with ‘anger isusesh’ rams Ford
Rifle | February 17, 2017
Ryan Summerlin
rsummerlin@postindependent.com
A 32-year-old man snowmobiling at Marian Gulch near Carbondale in January returned to the trailhead to find his truck had been battered and a note that read “Sorryy anger isusesh,” according to a police report.
Two witnesses said a 53-year-old man who they’d been snowmobiling with who had been drinking all day had smashed up the truck with a baseball bat.
The truck owner had parked behind the man’s vehicle and a friend of his parked in front, though he said they’d left plenty of room to get out.
Both the witnesses heard whacking sounds; one saw him swinging a baseball bat around. They insisted that he leave a note to pay for the damage.
The owner found multiple dents in the truck and his trailer. The plastic bug shield on the hood and the Ford emblem were broken. The license plate was dented. One door appeared to have been kicked in.
One of the witnesses added that the 53-year-old was able to back up a little and get out of the spot without a problem.
He was arrested Feb. 7 on a felony charge of criminal mischief.
Homeless man charged in CAR BREAK-INS
A 48-year-old homeless man from Oregon picked up three felony cases in about 10 days after police tied him to multiple vehicle trespassing cases.
On Feb. 4, a woman’s wallet was stolen from her vehicle in the St. Stephen’s Catholic Church parking lot. And in the following days transactions started showing up from City Market, then for drinks from the Hotel Colorado.
The woman’s purse was found a couple days later at a construction site on 19th Street, where the suspect was captured on security camera footage. Likewise, police were able to spot him on City Market cameras, and a Hotel Colorado bartender identified him.
He was eventually arrested on charges of felony first-degree criminal trespass, along with theft and unauthorized use of a financial transaction device, both misdemeanors.
On Feb. 9, Rifle police responded to a theft at Blush Hair Salon. The owner reported that a man attempted to steal a necklace from the store, but the owner confronted him quickly and he eventually gave it back. An officer found this man at the Rifle library and arrested him in the theft.
Officers later responded to two vehicle trespasses in Rifle, one right outside of the salon.
A woman in a hurry near the salon had left her keys in her car door. She returned to find her keys missing, and her car appeared to have been rummaged through. Officers found on the man a set of Ford keys that the woman identified as hers.
Another woman reported that as she was leaving the Rifle City Market earlier that day she found a man sitting in the driver’s seat of her car. She didn’t positively identify him in a photo lineup, but her description of the man and some of the items he was wearing convinced the officer that he was the same man.
He was arrested in this case on two felony counts of first-degree criminal trespassing, another felony count of first-degree introduction of contraband, along with misdemeanor theft and petty offense theft.
In a third case, an Alpine Bank employee in Rifle reported on Feb. 15 that someone had entered his vehicle and taken several items.
Security footage from the building showed a man entering a red Dodge Dakota and rummaging through it for about a minute. A Rifle officer recognized the man as the same 48-year-old who was arrested about a week prior. He was arrested on charges of felony first-degree trespass and misdemeanor theft.
Revoked driver found with cocaine
Just past midnight Jan. 21, a Carbondale police officer spotted a red Subaru Legacy with a license plate he recognized from a stop earlier in the month. He knew the 31-year-old to which the license plate was registered had a revoked licensed and that the plate was registered to a Land Rover.
The officer stopped the vehicle and arrested the 31-year-old driver.
In the vehicle, in a loose compartment below the radio, officers also found five small bags containing a total of up to 5 grams of cocaine.
The 31-year-old said he had just bought the Legacy and there might be some marijuana inside. He denied any knowledge of the cocaine.
He was arrested on distribution/manufacturing a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance, both drug felonies, along with misdemeanor driving under revocation.
man tased at Rifle Kum & Go
Rifle police responded to reports on Tuesday that a man with a Mesa County warrant for fraud/forgery of checks was spotted at Wal-Mart.
An officer found him in a nearby Kum & Go parking lot, rummaging through the passenger side of his truck.
An officer identified him and informed him he was under arrest. The man began to pull away and started to put his hands in his pockets. The officer pulled his Taser and commanded the 29-year-old to keep his hands out, but the man continued to try to put his hands in his pockets and in the vehicle.
The officer eventually fired his Taser and reactivated it multiple times to gain compliance.
The officer believed the man was under the influence of a stimulant.
The 29-year-old’s brother later told police that he’d spotted his brother in his truck that morning, where their mother’s credit card had been. Officers found in the 29-year-old’s wallet receipts for gift cards for a total of $550 purchased with the credit card.
In his truck they found a digital scale with methamphetamine residue, a used syringe, another man’s checkbook and a backpack containing multiple “slim jims” used for breaking into vehicles.
He was arrested on possession of a controlled substance, a drug felony, along with criminal trespass and possession of burglary tools, which are both felonies. His misdemeanor arresting charges also included resisting arrest.
Shoplifter found with meth pipe
Glenwood Springs officers were dispatched to Wal-Mart for a report of theft the evening of Feb. 10. A woman had stolen a purse, which she had also filled with other merchandise she hadn’t paid for, according to Wal-Mart’s loss prevention officer.
She took these items into the restroom, and when she came out a police officer was waiting for her.
In the purse, which she claimed as her own, the officer found $48.11 worth of items matching what the Wal-Mart employee described. The woman said she had taken the tags off these items and thrown them in the trash in the restroom.
The officer searched her and also found a glass methamphetamine pipe with a substantial amount of residue still inside and a torch lighter, according to an affidavit.
She was arrested on charges of possession of a controlled substance, a drug felony, along with possession of drug paraphernalia and theft, both petty offenses.
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Nigerians complain as ‘Loom’ Ponzi scheme ‘slows down’
June 5, 2019 Ayodeji Adegboyega
Barely a few weeks after it took over the social media, targeting young Nigerians to participate in a pyramid scheme, Loom, a Ponzi scheme has slowed down, as fewer people now reportedly invest in it.
Probably garnering lessons from the bitter experience millions of Nigerians had when another Ponzi scheme, MMM, crashed in 2016, various Loom groups have become inactive lately.
Like every Ponzi scheme, Loom was actually expected to last for a short time.
Some Nigerians have started complaining of the slow pace at which the scheme is going.
Nigerians Share Experiences
“The progress is not encouraging at all, once I cash out in this round, I won’t put my money again,” said Rose, a phone outlet attendant, whom this reporter had earlier interviewed.
Rose said, “For the past one week, no new person has joined the group.”
“People are afraid it might crash soon, so once they collect their, nobody markets for the group again.”
According to her, she has “cashed-out” N88,000 so far with the N11,000 she ‘invested.’ She said she put in N2000 three times to get N16,000 each and also invested N1000 in five places to get N8000 each.
Femi Smart, another investor, said, “Loom is a teamwork, if everybody is working, we will all get our money and if we don’t invite people, then the scheme will go off”.
Mr Smart, who also confirmed the slow pace of the scheme said, “everyone is being careful to invest because of what happened with MMM.”
Rabi Yusuf, a hairstylist, said she believes she has lost her money as she has not been able to convince anyone to join her group.
“I paid 2k into someone’s account since last week, I have not heard from her since I am not on WhatsApp. Any time I call, she will say I should look for somebody to join the group so I can get my money fast.”
Ms Yusuf said she would not mind having her capital back without gain.
Government’s strident plea
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), just as it did during the inglorious MMM era, had warned Nigerians against Loom Ponzi scheme saying, it is ‘a looming danger’.
According to the Acting Director-General of the SEC, Mary Uduk, an inter-agency committee, Financial Services Regulation Coordinating Committee (FSRCC) is collaborating with security agencies to track the group and shut it down.
“We, therefore, wish to notify the investing public that the operation of this investment scheme has no tangible business model, hence it’s a Ponzi scheme, where returns are paid from other peoples’ invested sums. Also, its operation is not registered by the Commission,” she said.
It is not clear what progress the commission has made ‘in tracking the masterminds of the scheme.’
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Registers of convicts' applications to marry
In the early years of the Colony, most marriages followed the publication of banns in a church on three successive Sundays. Convicts were married by banns having first sought official permission.
These registers record the names of the parties applying for permission to marry, their ages, the date of permission or refusal, ship of arrival, sentence, whether free or bond, and the name of the clergyman. Arrangement is either by date of permission or refusal, or alphabetical by the male applicant's name.
The first permission to marry recorded in these registers was granted on 6 January 1826, and the first refusal on 9 June 1826.
The registers are partially indexed (see page 76 of the Guide to Using the Archives Resources Kit for an item list of these). In addition, an index to convicts' applications to marry for the period January 1838 to March 1841 (to volume 4/4510) has been compiled by Elizabeth Ann Roberts, a copy of which is held in State Archives reading room at COD401.
(4/4508-14, 4/1117.4; microfiche copy SR Fiche 780-802). 8 vols (part).
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Other copies available as follows: of 4/4508-14, 4/1117.4, microfilm copy SR Reels 713-715; photocopy of 4/4508-10 at COD11-13 and 377-379, of 4/1117.4 at COD14 and 380, and of 4/4514 at COD15 and 381).
Microfiche copy of [4/4508-14, 4/1117.4] State Records Fiche 780-802. This series forms part of the Archives Resources Kit which can be used in many locations throughout New South Wales.
Other copies available as follows: microfilm copy of [4/4508-14, 4/1117.4] State Records Reels 713-715 - available in reading room. Photocopy of [4/4508-10] at COD11-13 and 377-379, of [4/1117.4] at COD14 and 380, and of [4/4514] at COD15 and 381).
An index to 1841 is available at Applications to Marry.
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Mobile CCTV solution in Nottingham
By : Andy Clutton
When Mercury Fire & Security was asked to create a mobile CCTV solution for Magpie Security, it turned to Hikvision to confront the triple perils of dust, vibration and the British weather.
The new system can be spotted in the Nottingham area: a pair of surveillance vans deployed with guards to patrol sensitive and high risk sites where a strong security presence is required. The vans feature Hikvision cameras and network video recorders and Mercury also installed a solar panel and batteries to power the system without continuously running the vehicles’ engines and sourced a 3G router from Eseye Communications. Depending on the success of the project over an initial trial period, the new solution will be rolled out to additional vehicles in the near future.
Both vehicles are fitted with 4 HD turret cameras, with one van also equipped with a PTZ camera and NVR to act as a kind of mobile HQ. But this equipment faces an environmental and durability challenge far beyond the majority of conventional stationary CCTV solutions.
Lewis Foster, General Manager at Mercury Fire & Security, says: “Being vehicle mounted, the cameras and recorder are obviously in a harsh environment. The vehicle is expected to still drive at 70mph, to withstand the usual potholes and speed bumps, and to be operable 24 hours a day. Vibration is the main challenge with this setup but, so far, the Hikvision cameras have withstood several months without a hiccup. Obviously the large PTZ camera that we fitted is a little more delicate and so, for reliability, this is strapped during transit. In any case, it has been very reliable and performed faultlessly.
“Magpie Security requested internet access to the cameras meaning a capable 3G router was required and this streams the video live to guards on site on their mobile phones so they can patrol and still utilise the vehicle. Fortunately the IVMS-4500 app allows this to securely be easily set up on a number of guards’ phones.”
Lewis says each vehicle is equipped with four DS-2CD2332-I turret cameras. “In trials, we found that dome cameras can suffer from reflection of the IR but the turret cameras are absolutely perfect. They’re sealed, so there’s no risk of moisture getting into the camera, they’re easily adjusted if necessary. They give 360 degree coverage around the van and ensure nothing is missed while tracking with the PTZ for further detail.”
“We were confident that the turret cameras themselves would withstand any vibration and so we have mounted them securely to the vehicle using standard brackets mounted to a bespoke frame created especially for the vehicle. The NVR is a little more sensitive due to the hard drive, so foam insulation was placed around the NVR to offer some cushioning during motion. Care was taken not to block up the vents in the NVR and this solution has proved to be very reliable.
“All the CCTV equipment is powered through an inverter, including the on-board 40 inch monitor that gives a great view of all the cameras.”
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Development, Governance
Mobilising civil society support for tax reform needs donors to get political
Sam Sharp
Civil societies like to stay on comfortable ground but they can encourage countries to raise revenues by becoming more politically savvy, says the ODI’s Sam Sharp.
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This week the world’s tax and domestic resource mobilisation (DRM) community gathered in Berlin for the ATI/ITC Tax and Development Conference, organised by the Addis Tax Initiative and the International Tax Compact.
With donors increasingly looking to move DRM programming beyond mere technical support to governments, one issue expected to get attention this year is the role of civil society in tax reforms.
However, there is a risk that donor efforts to support civil society’s engagement in tax can be somewhat unimaginative. Echoing broader development practice, there can be an impulse among donors to stay on comfortable ground, and assume that all that civil society organisations need be effective advocates for DRM is technical training and capacity building.
There are clear gaps in civil society’s technical capacity to engage in and influence tax debates and policymaking processes. But this approach skirts around questions that are more fundamental: why would civil society organisations want to engage in tax issues to begin with? And is it simply a lack of technical skills that constrain their engagement and influence?
These are some of the issues that my colleagues Stephanie Sweet, Alina Rocha Menocal and I seek to address in an upcoming report that the Transparency and Accountability Initiative commissioned from the Overseas Development Institute (ODI).
Through interviews with civil society working on domestic tax issues, donors, and governments, our research provides snapshots on the state of domestic civil society engagement in tax reform in eight countries across Africa, Asia, and North and Central America. Our study also teases out implications for grounding donor support in the contextual realities that shape civil society’s interests, influence and capacity.
Among the many emerging findings from this research, one thing is clear: the nature of the challenge of how civil society organisations (CSOs) engage in tax, why, and to what effect is above all political.
The most notable feature of CSOs that have proven influential in the tax space across the eight cases we analysed was that they all tend to work in politically savvy ways.
They often combine analysis with advocacy; public mobilisation with behind-the-scenes structured engagement; and built coalitions for reform across government and civil society. These are the kinds of soft skills that technical training alone cannot provide.
Working on tax is difficult for CSOs, especially when public trust in government is low. It’s easier to mobilise public opposition to unpopular taxes than to campaign to increase domestic resource mobilisation through taxation.
Rather than assume that CSOs naturally want to work on a progressive agenda for tax reform, donors would do well to start by deepening their understanding of where the pressures to reform tax systems are coming from, and where this aligns with the interests of different civil society actors. The CSOs we spoke with as part of this research, disproportionately favoured work on international and extractives taxation and excise duties (as opposed to income taxation for example).
Existing discussions on civil society and tax in international development circles have focused on the potential role of CSOs as educators: communicating tax rights and obligations, and making links with expenditures (both to increase tax compliance and spur accountability demands).
However, most of the domestic CSOs interviewed in this research prioritised engagement in national tax policy debates over tax education. To what extent donor support can, and should, spur more tax education work from civil society is worth testing.
A tax ecosystem
So what does this mean for donors? One implication is that they need to prioritise working in more politically savvy ways. How can they do so?
The Addis Tax Initiative (ATI) commits members to increasing domestic revenues and improving ‘the fairness, transparency, efficiency and effectiveness’ of tax systems. But how different states and societies work towards achieving these goals will be part of a process of contestation and bargaining among an ecosystem that includes diverse actors with diverse interests.
We encourage donors to engage with this ecosystem and develop a more holistic approach to support DRM efforts. This includes working not only with governments, but also with other actors that can advocate, analyse and build awareness on tax. But we also encourage donors to take the political nature of ongoing contestation within and between stakeholders in state and society seriously. Improvements in DRM efforts will not emerge from simply building the technical capacity of these different actors.
As a result, as we argue in our report, which will be launched in July, donors need to think more strategically about who they support in a given context, how, and why, in ways that may influence the outcomes of these ongoing contestations.
This blog was first published on the Transparency and Accountability Initiative website.
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Canadian Female doctor stripped of her Medical license for having s*x with cancer patient & Dumping Him
Dr. Theepa Sundaralingam, has been stripped of her medical license for having an affair with a cancer patient and also having s*x with him in his hospital bed.
The 37-year-old female doctor according to The Star reports, she started flirting with the man just one day after diagnosing him with cancer. She gave him her personal phone number and Instagram handle. They then followed each other and she began sending him flirty messages.
From sexting the man, the oncologist, from Toronto, Canada, took the relationship to the next level by staying with him during treatment for his illness and having s*x in his hospital bed.
She, however, told him to keep the relationship secret as she was concerned the college would become aware of their s*xual and inappropriate relationship.
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But the patient, who will not be named, was devastated when Sundaralingam ended the affair and explained to him that she was in love with a colleague.
The man, who cannot be named, said:
It’s difficult for me to talk to anybody about it because the reality is that I’m a male so for me to say, ‘Hey, I dated my oncologist,’ it wouldn’t be a surprise for someone to say ‘Cool.’ But that’s not cool.
‘That’s not the case because I feel abused, and it’s very difficult as a male to come out and say that about a female. It’s usually the other way around.
I was physically emaciated and emotionally exposed and the loss of a critical relationship defeated me. What compounded this toll was her refusal to continue providing medical care at the same time.
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At the time, I was unable to see the ramifications of dating my treating oncologist. I couldn’t see how vulnerable I was and how much power she had over me.
Sundaralingam, who treated the man 23 times between January and July 2015 and once in March 2016, was stripped of her license on Wednesday, January 30, after pleading no contest and being found guilty of s*xually abusing a patient.
Female doctor disgraced and stripped of her license for having sex with cancer patient in his hospital bed Sundaralingam leaves a disciplinary hearing.
Discipline panel chair John Langs said at a disciplinary hearing:
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From virtually the beginning of your doctor/patient relationship, you crossed boundaries and ultimately sexually abused an extremely vulnerable patient suffering from a life-threatening illness.
The committee can only hope that this process prompts you to undergo a long, hard searching self-examination of what lies behind your abusive and abhorrent behavior.
You were responsible for your patient’s health, care and support, but instead you took advantage for your own personal satisfaction.
You then withdrew that support for your own personal preference at a time when your patient was at his lowest point. You have disgraced yourself and the profession.
Sundaralingam must now pay $16,000 to cover patient therapy costs, and an additional $6,000 to cover the discipline hearing costs..
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Kanye West Called Out Grammys Because of Voices In His Head, Will Boycott Awards In Future
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Kanye went on the Ryan Seacrest radio show yesterday to explain why he rushed up to the Grammy stage when Beck was about to give his acceptance speech after he was announced as winning the Album of the Year award.
The closest the rapper came to an apology was to praise Beck for being a nice guy and well respected as a musician. Other than that, Kanye stuck to his guns, talked about voices in his head urging him to storm the stage. He even went further and said he would boycott the Grammys until they start to respect creativity. Read his rants below....
"You know, I felt like just the whole Grammys, right when that happened, everybody was looking at me and then people started screaming, ''Kanye! Kanye! Go do it!'". Ok, that didn’t really happen, these were voices in my head. So the voices in my head told me go and then I just walked up like halfway up the stage.'
You know, what I really wanted to do is just joke around about what had happened before, but I just really didn’t want to take away from Beck’s moment or the time he’s having to talk because you know the Grammys, they play music really quick no matter who you are and everything. So I just walked back down because you know, it was kind of a joke like the Grammys themselves.'
First of all Beck is one of the nicest guys and one of the most respected musicians in the game. So, there’s nothing that I will want to do as a fellow musician to disrespect him in any way.'
'It’s almost like a chiropractor. You know, you just get a little crook out like, ''Wow, this crook has been there!” It’s just a little jolt of truth, right? And then you know, everyone feels better after the fact, or everyone is way more famous after the fact, or everyone sells way more albums after the fact, and then Kanye just goes on being an a**hole to everyone.'
Well you know what happened? It’s because I sat there and I kind of let that smoulder and I was asked my opinion and I was given a platform. And when given a platform, it’s very hard as we know - and I'm going to talk in third person like I'm a crazy person - but it's very hard for Kanye West to not be very true and vocal to what he feels.
'When I said that thing about respect artistry, I think it came off the wrong way, and that was a mis-wording on my part because obviously Beck is one the most respected artists and respects artistry... but I felt that even though the Grammys sometimes gives awards to people who you wouldn’t think should win in the category, as a respect to artists, we mention the other artist’s name in our speech.'
'I will not go to the Grammys [again] until I sit with Neil [Portnow], sit with Jimmy Jam, and fix the voting system so that it is more in line with the popular vote as those who are popular are the ones selling their advertising. There has to be some level of respect for the people that have there that sell advertising for them.'
'The Grammys are the dream, the dream, you know when my wife got divorced... and sorry Kim to discuss this but it's the best example of what I have right now, she got a lot of backlash from the fans over it because somehow there dream was broken because she is a dream girl and they live vicariously through her.'I feel like [the Grammys] divorce from us every year, every year. '
'Beck afterwards literally said ''I think Beyonce should have won."
'I believe she didn’t move and run to the stage because she’s a respectful individual. But because she is so successful, a lot of times, success disables your ability to communicate exactly what the f**k you want to say!'
'I also wanted to stress to people that it’s not a black or white thing at all. It’s not me always standing up for a black artist.'
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Analysis: Cooper's Wallabies chances slim
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Analysis: Six blunders that may cost Quade Cooper a spot in the Wallabies
By Tom Vinicombe
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Tom Vinicombe
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Quade Cooper last played for the Wallabies in June 2017.
He was dropped from the squad for the Rugby Championship and has yet to make a return for the national team. He was also omitted from Brad Thorn’s 2018 Reds squad, instead playing out his contract with the Brisbane City NRC side.
Prior to the Wallabies’ 2017 end of year tour, coach Michael Cheika was confident that the team was adequately covered in the crucial 10 position without Cooper’s inclusion.
“We feel like from a playmakers perspective, we’ve got … [Bernard] Foley first up, and then [Kurtley] Beale and [Reece] Hodge. I see Hodge playing in there at some stage eventually,” Cheika said at the time.
Given that Cooper was already on the outs with the national side and he played no role in Super Rugby in 2018, it wasn’t a surprise that he wasn’t selected in the Wallabies at all in 2018. Foley, Beale and Matt To’omua all received game time in the first five role.
2018 was a less than successful year for Australian rugby, to put it mildly. The team mustered a paltry 4 wins from 13 games played, with Ireland securing a first-ever series win in Australia.
Whilst there were a number of deficiencies in the Wallabies’ game, the lack of confidence and inspiration coming from the playmaker role was clear to everyone. Foley, once considered the ‘safe’ option to Cooper’s more maverick approach, was dropping balls and missing goals at a rate considerably higher than any international should be permitted to do. Beale and To’omua simply looked like midfielders that had been shifted into the first receiver role.
The 2019 season has seen the return of Quade Cooper to Super Rugby – now at the Rebels – and calls were reignited for the New Zealand-born first five to be reinstated to the Wallabies after a stellar start to the season.
After little more than a month of competition, the halves duo of Will Genia and Cooper were the form combination, contributing to more try and line-break assists than any other pairing in Super Rugby. Wallabies supporters were sure that the Rebels were being treated to Australia’s halves combo which could lead the country to World Cup glory.
Cooper has played 6?? games this season to Foley's 5?? in the battle for the Wallabies 10 jersey. @superrugby @melbournerebels @nswwaratahs #superrugby #waratahs #rebelsrugby #melbournerebels #wallabies #aussierugby #rugby
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As has now become an annual tradition, the Rebels successes quickly started to dry up as the competition went on, with the Melbourne side losing seven of their last nine matches. In the final two games of the competition, the Rebels were pasted 66-0 and 59-8 by the Crusaders and the Chiefs.
It’s no coincidence that the lack of success in Melbourne has come at the same time as a drop in form for Cooper.
Some will still be calling for Cooper to make a return to the Wallabies on the back of his overall season with the Rebels, but it’s become painfully clear in recent weeks that the man simply doesn’t have the composure to guide the Wallabies to any great success.
If the early season showed what Cooper can do when his team is on the front foot, then this past weekend’s match with the Chiefs highlighted the kind of player that Cooper can be when his team is under pressure.
The Chiefs scored nine tries in Friday night’s match. Cooper played a part in six of them.
1 Sam Cane try
The Rebels were hard on attack but were struggling to compromise the Chiefs’ resolute defence and get past the 10m line in Chiefs territory.
Cooper received the ball and, with other options not working, opted to put a chip through behind the Chiefs defence. The ball found space but bounced away from the Rebels chasers – instead finding its way into the arms of Jack Debreczeni.
Whilst a chip wouldn’t always be a poor option, the Chiefs cover defence were already waiting back in anticipation of the move. Debreczeni, Solomon Alaimalo and Sean Wainui were all camped in the 22. The bounce of the ball did not help the Rebels’ cause.
Ex-Rebel Debreczeni sparked a counter attack and the Chiefs raced 80 metres to score under the posts. Halfback Brad Weber ran almost 20 metres on his own – easily stepping around a flailing Cooper in the process.
2 Shaun Stevenson try
Less than 10 minutes later, another Cooper kick went horribly awry.
This time, the Rebels were launching an attack from inside their half and Cooper opted for a grubber – not for the first time. Early in the match a wrap then grubber had gained the Rebels a solid 20 metres without losing possession – evidently Cooper thought the move could work again.
Cooper wrapped around Tom Banks and tried to slot a kick between Anton Lienert-Brown and Shaun Steveneson. His left footer, however, was easily blocked by Stevenson. The gangly wing chased and collected the rebound, then dashed away to score untouched.
3 Lachlan Boshier try
With the final play of the first half, the Rebels once again fell on their own sword.
A loose pass on the Rebels 10 metre line from another Wallaby, Reece Hodge, was scooped up by Stevenson. Stevenson raced away, stepping around the covering Cooper. To his credit, Cooper eventually brought Stevenson to ground – but it wasn’t enough to prevent a try, with Lachlan Boshier on hand to collect Stevenson’s offload.
The game was barely half complete and the Chiefs had three tries all stemming from Rebels errors.
4 Sean Wainui try
While the Chiefs had to play with a bit more structure to score their fourth try – only two minutes after the second half kicked off – the score still came on the back of a number of missed tackles from the Rebels.
From a scrum on the Rebels 22, the Chiefs managed to spread the ball out to Sean Wainui who was parked out on the left wing. Wainui proceeded to step off his left foot, bamboozling Cooper, and score in the tackles of Hodge and Campbell Magnay.
5 Jack Debreczeni try
Come the 57th minute of the match, the Rebels were already behind by six tries. Things were about to get worse.
From a scrum on halfway, Weber made mince meat of the Rebels defensive line. The tiny tyro ran sideways then straightened up to burst through the line – fending off Cooper in the process. Weber then passed inside to the supporting Debreczeni who scored untouched.
6 Marty McKenzie try
The Chiefs’ final try, courtesy of replacement first five, Marty McKenzie, was more a product of the lack of cohesion between Cooper and the recently returned Matt To’omua than any lack of skills.
The pair tried to launch an attack off a scrum on their 22m line, but the short pass from Too’mua to Cooper found only Cooper’s outstretched fingertips. The ball hit the turf and McKenzie kicked it through to dot down.
The six tries that Cooper played a role in were not all his doing; others were just at much as fault as he was. Unfortunately for the flyhalf, however, he was the common denominator.
Cooper also made a number of other errors, including an up-and-under attempt that finished up about 5 metres outside of play and two kick-offs that went out on the full.
No time for wild risks
Some of his errors show a lack of skill, but some are simply a sign of the impact that confidence (or lack thereof) can have on a player.
Cooper has been known to crack under pressure – and the 2019 World Cup would probably be the highest-pressure situation that the Rebel could ever find himself in, given how high the expectations would be.
If Cooper had maintained his form from earlier in the season then perhaps Cheika would be willing to take a shot on the man who can create something from nothing. As it stands now, however, Cooper would be required to learn all the various systems and gel with the new players that have been introduced since he last represented the side.
World Cup year is not the time to be taking a punt on an unknown quality. With Foley, Beale, To’omua and Hodge all likely to make the cut, Cooper could well find himself missing out on selection once again.
At his absolute best, Quade Cooper is one of the most talented first fives in world rugby. Unfortunately, Cooper’s best is something that we have rarely seen – even in a season that promised so much.
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Jack Henry & Associates, SAS announce partnership to provide regional and community financial institutions with access to leading financial crime solution
Jack Henry & Associates, SAS Announce Partnership to Provide Regional and Community
Financial Institutions with Access to Leading Financial Crimes Solution
Monett, Mo. (Oct 16, 2017)
This release was issued by Jack Henry & Associates on October 16, 2017.
Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. (NASDAQ:JKHY) is a leading provider of technology solutions and payment processing services primarily for the financial services industry. Today, it introduced JHA Enterprise Risk Mitigation Solutions™, a single, fully hosted anti-money laundering (AML), fraud identification and analysis solution for regional and community financial institutions.
JHA Enterprise Risk Mitigation Solutions is powered by analytics leader SAS, recognized by many industry analyst firms as foremost in financial crimes predictive analytics software. Jack Henry & Associates has an agreement with SAS to provide its cloud-based analytics solution to banks and credit unions in the United States below $30 billion in assets as well as Jack Henry & Associates’ core clients.
As the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market, SAS traditionally serves tier one and tier two financial institutions, working with 99 of the top 100 global banks. Offering its advanced risk and analytics solutions through JHA Enterprise Risk Mitigation Solutions expands financial institutions’ access to efficient and comprehensive AML and fraud solutions.
Boston-based Brookline Bancorp, a bank holding company with approximately $6.7 billion in assets, is an early adopter of JHA Enterprise Risk Mitigation Solutions, gravitating toward its flexibility to set parameters specific to the institution’s own risk needs. Janice Costa, Brookline’s Director of BSA/AML Compliance, said, “JHA Enterprise Risk Mitigation Solutions is scalable, configurable, and intuitive. We are in control of creating a number of scenarios and variable conditions to target activity specific to our area, and have already successfully identified instances of abuse and fraud that might have gone unnoticed. We can visualize the efficiencies delivered via this solution by receiving even higher quality, meaningful alerts, which results in giving our bank more time to focus on other areas of risk.”
Costa added that Jack Henry & Associates’ partnership with SAS was also a huge selling point. “Jack Henry & Associates and SAS are giving more banks ease of access to advanced and intuitive risk identification and management.”
A customization of SAS® Visual Investigator, the analytic giant’s financial crime investigative case management product, JHA Enterprise Risk Mitigation Solutions centralizes intelligence from multiple sources, combining transactional and user data for more complete customer risk assessments. Merging fraud and AML prevention strategies allows financial institutions to identify complex risk events by layering a common view of e-fraud, suspicious activity, insider fraud, and real-time threats. The solution’s intuitive workflow and case management capabilities enable users to manage investigations and reach resolutions more efficiently, reducing false positives and increasing productivity.
“Fraud is an ever-growing and ever-evolving challenge for financial institutions of all sizes,” said SAS CEO Jim Goodnight. “Together, Jack Henry & Associates and SAS can empower more mid-tier and community banks and credit unions to take on that challenge with robust prescriptive and predictive analytics.”
Ryan Schmiedl, SAS Vice President of Product Management, explained, “Banks need every advantage to detect suspicious activity and stop fraud in its tracks, and this platform delivers just that. From surveillance and alerting through case investigation and beyond, cloud-ready JHA Enterprise Risk Mitigation Solutions translates disparate data into powerful insights – all shared across the entire investigative team via a simple and dynamic visual interface.”
The first module of JHA Enterprise Risk Mitigation Solutions emphasizes AML data such as risk rating, transaction monitoring for AML patterns and due diligence. Additional intelligence brought into its enterprise risk assessments in subsequent releases will combine cross-channel fraud events, including:
Check, deposit, and insider fraud;
Electronic transaction fraud such as faster payments, online banking, mobile, RDC, P2P, bill pay, and ACH; and
Debit and credit card fraud.
Advanced reporting features also allow for data to be reported to an institution’s board of directors, as well as examiners, in any format.
David Foss, president and CEO of Jack Henry & Associates, added, “SAS and Jack Henry & Associates are like-minded companies; we are committed to positioning our businesses for the future through R&D, dedicated to providing superior work environments, and passionate about advancing the financial services industry. The powerful fraud solution resulting from this partnership will be a great differentiator for both core and non-core clients. Banks and credit unions do not have to be daunted by the tasks associated with the sheer volume of false positives, or unstructured and structured data. The stronger reporting and faster responses delivered by SAS can enhance processes and reduce losses across deposit and payment channels.”
About Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.
Jack Henry & Associates, Inc.® (NASDAQ:JKHY) is a leading provider of technology solutions and payment processing services primarily for the financial services industry. Its solutions serve more than 9,000 customers nationwide, and are marketed and supported through three primary brands. Jack Henry Banking® supports banks ranging from community banks to multi-billion dollar institutions with information processing solutions. Symitar® is a leading provider of information processing solutions for credit unions of all sizes. ProfitStars® provides highly specialized products and services that enable financial institutions of every asset size and charter, and diverse corporate entities to mitigate and control risks, optimize revenue and growth opportunities, and contain costs. Additional information is available at www.jackhenry.com.
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Beyond the Canvas, Cover Art
Classic Covers: Music of the Sixties
Do you remember the sixties? We do!
Diana Denny
The Beatles – photo by John Zimmerman
The BeatlesPhoto by John ZimmermanMarch 21, 1964
Photographer John Zimmerman was one of the best. His lens caught famous politicians and newsmakers, and even strange new groups from Britain. But this 1964 photo of the Fab Four is a classic. The cover promised “a probing analysis of their incredible power to evoke frenzied emotions among the young.” Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. What do you expect from stuffy old editors who worked Eight Days a Week? To simplify: the Beatles just made us feel Glad All Over. Okay, I’ll stop now.
Sonny and Cher – photo by Jerry Schatzberg
Sonny and CherPhoto by Jerry SchatzbergApril 23, 1966
Another classic! Cher is looking hot and Sonny is looking, well, not the least bit Republican. Always up-to-date on the latest lingo, the editors informed us that Sonny and Cher were “what’s happening, baby”. Cher was known for her mod fashions, but here’s a description of Sonny backstage at the Hollywood Palladium: “Although the musicians were wearing tuxedos, Sonny had on a yellow turtleneck sweater, a white, double-breasted pirates’ jacket with wide lapels, epaulets and yellow puffs for buttons. His trousers were white, tight, and ornamented with a wide, silver-buckled, brown-leather belt, and black boots completed the outfit.” You can’t get more hip than that. That description, by the way, was from the author of the article, Peter Bogdanovich.
Roger Miller – photo by Maurie Rosen
Roger MillerPhoto by Maurie RosenFebruary 12, 1966
It wasn’t just rock and roll. There was a “big boom in country music”. Anybody over fifty remembers the “King of the Road”. From “Engine Engine No. 9” to wishing you had a “Do Wacka Do” (okay, you had to be there), Roger Miller was big time. What is country music? “It’s soul in a rhinestone suit”, the article said, “honesty with amplifiers, a new ‘uptown’ sound that city folks like—and it’s back in the big time again.” Remember “A White Sport Coat” by Marty Robbins? The Carter Family? Sonny James? This was “that new sound from Nashville”. But no one could do “You Can’t Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd” like Roger Miller.
The Mamas and the Papas – photo by Dan Wynn
Mamas and the PapasPhoto by Don WynnMarch 25, 1967
“Monday, Monday,” “Calfornia Dreamin’,” “I Saw Her Again” – the hits just kept coming for the Mamas and the Papas, proving they weren’t just hippies – they were hippies with talent. But they were on the wild side. A guy in one audience stood up and shouted, “Cass, Cass, I love you.” Cass “peered into the audience from the footlights. ‘Dynamite! Where are you staying?’” The article by William Kloman stated that once “the Mamas and the Papas instigated a riot, mainly to test their theory that it could be done scientifically. John got a black eye for his efforts, and they have since tried to keep their audiences under control.” Mama Cass (whose voice on “Dream a Little Dream of Me” I will always remember) died of a heart attack in 1974, John passed away in 2001 and Denny in 2007. Happily, lovely Michelle is still with us.
Frank and Nancy Sinatra – Supremes photo
Frank and Nancy SinatraSupremes PhotoJuly 15, 1967
“It has been 15 years now since rock ‘n roll was laughed off as just another fad,” the Alfred G. Aronowitz article states. “Frank Sinatra called it ‘the martial music of every sideburned deliquent on the face of the earth.’ The police in Atlanta, Ga., ruled that teen-agers couldn’t dance to it without written parental consent. Roman Catholic leaders in Boston called for a boycott of it, to be enforced by a censor. And the head of the White Citizens Coucil in Alabama saw it as part of a Negro plot to ‘mongrelize America.’” Welcome to the 60’s, folks. The diversity in music was a sign of the jumbled times: Herb Alpert, The Supremes, The Byrds, Simon and Garfunkel, Petula Clark. 27-year-old Nancy Sinatra, “has already collected three gold singles, which is two more than Frank Sinatra ever got in his entire 26-year career.” And then Frank and his little girl have a smash love duet, “Something Stupid.” Something Crazy was going on.
Bob Dylan – photo by Elliott Landy
Bob DylanPhoto by Elliot LandyNovember 2, 1968
Okay, I confess: once, hearing a guy on a radio program dedicate a Bob Dylan song to our troops, my response was “haven’t they suffered enough?” Not a fan of the voice – sorry. This 1968 article covered “the royal family” of pop. From Hendrix to Buck Owens, Joplin to Merle Haggard, B.B. King to the Beach Boys. And oh yes, the Stones, Simon & Garfunkel and Johnny Cash. Then, “Enter the King, Bob Dylan”. Author Alfred G. Aronowitz makes Dylan’s lyrics sound almost biblical, “….the mysterious Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest” he says, is “a parable of friendship and temptation.” And “the moral of one of his songs, he recites, is that no man should be where he does not belong, that each man should help his neighbor, that no one should envy his neighbor’s lot.” But I can’t argue about the unending beauty of “Blowin’ in the Wind,” which became something of a civil rights anthem. Indeed, how many roads must a man walk down…
Art, Norman Rockwell
The Rockwell Files: The Holdout
Jeff Nilsson
Art, Norman Rockwell, The Art of the Post
The Art of the Post: How Norman Rockwell Got the Last Laugh
The Rockwell Files: Love at First Fight
Clearer Vision says:
I LOVE these photo offerings – keep them coming Ms. Denny!
I am a 60’s woman, and i loved all the groups that were around at that time. One person I never payed much attention to was Bob Dylan until I watched him receive an award at the Kennedy Center. Gregory Peck read lines from some of his songs, and also let all of us know a bit of his past. I don’t know if it is because I am older did I appreciate the talk Mr. Peck gave or the fact that he was giving it that I opened up to Mr. Dylan after all these years.
I enjoyed this entire article; some things I remembered, but some were new. Thanks
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Da Vinci Robot Recall: Robot Arms May Stall
December 6, 2013 — Intuitive Surgical has announced a Class II recall for the da Vinci robotic surgery system. The recall involves nearly 1,400 components used in the robotic arm. Intuitive warns that surgeons may feel friction or resistance. If the surgeon pushes through the resistance, the arm can momentarily stall and then suddenly catch up, resulting in imprecise surgical cuts.
According to the Class II recall notification, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) believes there is a remote chance of serious complications, but the defect may cause “temporary or medically reversible” complications.
Out of approximately 55,000 procedures, the FDA has received 1 report of an imprecise cut and 2 cases of perceived resistance. The problem affects 1,368 Patient Side Manipulators (PSM), also commonly referred to as the “instrument arm,” which hold and drive the EndoWrist instruments. The daVinci S, Si, and Si-e Surgical Systems use the PSM component.
Intuitive started warning surgeons about the problem in November 2013, and they have reportedly inspected about 70% of the components. The Wall Street Journal reported that a spokeswoman for Intuitive said that “The number of arms requiring any adjustment is minimal.”
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Govt to set up separate division for Islamic banking: Miftah
KARACHI: Advisor to the Prime Minister on Finance and Economic Affairs Dr Miftah Ismail Monday said the Ministry of Finance would soon set up a separate division for increased support to the fast growing Islamic banking.
A meeting of the Committee for Implementation of The Recommendations of Steering Committee for Promotion of Islamic Banking would also be convened soon, Dr Miftah said while speaking here at a two-day World Islamic Finance Forum (WIFF-2018).
The international forum has been organized by Institute of Business Administration’s Centre for Excellence in Islamic Finance (CIEF) in collaboration with key partners with the theme “Expanding the Footprint of Islamic Finance: Innovation, Fintech and Regulations.”
The advisor said the government would soon launch Rs 100 million Sukuk bonds for Islamic banking industry to strengthen its liquidity position in pursuance of its mission of fast growth of Islamic financing in the country.
Highlighting the performance of PML-N government, Dr Miftah said, “We are set to achieve 6 per cent gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate, the highest rate during the last decade.”
He hoped that the 6% GDP growth rate would help create a lot of job opportunities. The country had the potential to even achieve 8 to 10 per cent growth rate. It had huge coal deposits in Tharparker with estimated market value of Rs 9 trillion. There was a big stock of copper and many other natural resources in Balochistan, which should be utilized to the optimum level, he added.
He said the government had removed the basic bottlenecks in getting higher economic growth, including energy shortage, law and order, and red tape for the businessmen and industrialists.
He underlined the need for further simplification of procedure of doing business and reducing the number of taxes, saying the government was moving forward to achieve those targets.
“I am trying to resolve the business community’s problems.” The next budget would aim at maximizing the economic growth instead of maximizing revenue, he added.
Miftah said the government was going to announce an amnesty scheme during the current month. However, there would be certain checks to stop its misuse, he added.
He said in the coming budget, the rate of tax on individuals income would be reduced to support the common man.
Chairman, Shariah Board of The Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI) Shaikh Muhammad Taqi Usmani said the people of Pakistan origin, who were holding key positions in Islamic banking industry around the world, were making contribution in developing regulatory framework and above all developing products that were meeting the emerging needs of trade and industry.
He urged the government to take concrete steps for making the economy riba (interest) free in absolute terms.
Taqi Usmani pointed out that Islamic financial institutions had excess liquidity and the government should work on creating avenues for its investment.
“I would suggest the ruling party to include in its election manifesto that riba would be eradicated totally from economy at the earliest,” he said.
Chairman AAOIFI Board of Trustees, Bahrain Shaikh Ebrahim Bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, who was the chief guest, said, “It is heartening to note that Pakistan is striving to become another hub of Islamic finance. It has all the basic ingredients — a population of 200 million predominantly Muslims, a robust banking and finance sector, vibrant agriculture, industrial and services sectors.”
The apex regulators – State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) and Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan, he said, were playing a proactive role. The progress made over the last decade was encouraging, which guaranteed that achieving the target would not be difficult, he added.
Meezan Bank President Irfan Siddiqui requested the federal government to set a target to acquire at least 25 per cent of the local funding through Islamic banking as Islamic financial institutions had excess liquidity and limited avenues for investment.
SBP deputy governors Jameel Ahmad and Shamsul Hasan spoke of the central bank’s initiatives to promote Islamic banking in the country.
CEIF- IBA Chairman and former SBP governor Dr Ishrat Husain deliberated on Islamic banking and its future potential.
CEIF- IBA Director Ahmed Ali Siddiqui, welcoming the delegates, said the centre had emerged as a regional platform for excellence in Islamic finance.
He said focus areas of CEIF included development of Islamic finance professionals and new human resources talent pool through industry linkages and international collaborations.
Panel discussions were also held, which were participated by senior bankers. – APP
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▪ A trailer full of holiday donations was delivered to the Fresno VA Hospital and CLC/Rehab by Gary and Donna Donovan, and Ron and Liz Schmitt. Donations included handmade knitted afghans, coffee and supplies, sweat outfits, puzzle books, reading glasses and cases, calendars for patient rooms, undergarments, toiletries, playing cards, etc. Total non-cash value: $15,217.
▪ San Luis Obispo Veteran Center donations included decaffeinated coffee, sugar-free candy and an assortment of peanut butter crackers and cookies, for a total value of $59.40.
▪ San Luis Obispo VA Clinic donations included cans of orange juice and an assortment of peanut butter and cheese crackers for diabetics with low blood sugar symptoms, and candy canes for the snack cart, for a total value of $124.
David Freeman of Arroyo Grande has been named to the Dean’s List at Simpson University for the fall 2017 semester. Freeman is an accounting major.
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“Every one of the players put in a proper shift!” Assistant Chapman praises Skegness Town side following Glasshoughton point
Nick Chapman.
NCEL Division One
Skegness Town 1 Glasshoughton Welfare 1
How important this point proves to be for the Lilywhites remains to be seen, but it felt like a huge bonus in their quest to avoid relegation.
Against an in-form side who had beaten them 2-0 only two weeks earlier it was a tough ask for the seasiders, but they dug deep to engineer a Vertigo Stadium stalemate.
Spalding loanee Luke White opened his account to give the home side the lead after 20 minutes.
But they conceded on the stroke of half time and that was how it finished as neither side could find the key to unlock the three points after the break.
The draw leaves Town 10 points clear of the relegation zone, but the sense is, following bottom side FC Bolsover’s victory over league leaders Campion, that the fight for safety is a long way from over.
Clubs desperate to avoid the drop to step seven in the football pyramid have started to pick up points and no side in the bottom half of the division can afford to take their eye off the ball.
Indeed things are so tight that one win would be enough to leave any of the league strugglers knocking on the door of the top half of the table.
Lilywhites assistant manager Nick Chapman was delighted with the point.
“We ground out a result against a decent side,” he said after the match.
“It was a game of few chances and I believe a draw was a fair result.”
It certainly stopped the rot after a run of six straight defeats which had started to threaten the seasiders’ NCEL future.
“Every one of the players put in a proper shift; we are just disappointed to have conceded such a bad goal right on half time,” said Chapman.
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“We just didn’t react to a short corner and defended it so badly.”
It was a bit of a gift for Welfare’s Adam Walsh, who strolled unchallenged into the Skegness penalty area and slotted home the equaliser.
The strike cancelled out White’s earlier opener, a neat finish after Josh Morrall had headed on James Lambley’s kick from his hands.
White still had plenty to do when he received the flick on, but he outpaced two defenders before pulling the trigger to find the back of the net with a left foot shot.
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Labor fights to split tax cut package
The Coalition is being accused of playing ‘pig-headed political games’ by refusing to split its income tax cuts package. Labor has agreed to wave-through the first stage to provide immediate relief for workers earning up to $90,000 each year. However, the party's withholding its support for stages two and three despite previously suggesting it might be willing to reach a compromise. Image: News Corp Australia
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Plastun Airport
Plastun Airport is one of the many airports scattered across the vast country of Russia. It is located in the urban locality of Plastun, the most populous settlement of Terneysky District of Primorsky Krai in Russya, and is one of the minor airports in the area. Plastun Airport has services going to and from Kavalerovo and Vladivostok, which are also part of the Primorsky Krai region like Plastun. The services are provided by Aurora Airlines. The IATA identifier for the Plastun Airport is TLY, while the ICAO code is listed as UHWP.
Plastun Airport has a single terminal that handles all departures and arrivals. The terminal also handles the check-in and boarding services, air traffic services, and security services.
Services and facilities for Plastun Airport are rather stripped down to the basics, which include check-in and boarding services, air traffic services, security, and parking spaces. No information has been found regarding other services, including emergency and rescue services, general aviation, and the like.
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Orlando Killer Worked For Company Transporting Illegal Immigrants Inside US; Was Interviewed By FBI 3 Times
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Editor’s Note: And the plot thickens as reported by Zero Hedge. Is it possible that Orlando shooter Omar Mateen helped to transport Islamic Terrorists deep into the United States via Mexican smuggling routes?
Related reading: Border Patrol Confirms Islamic Terrorists Have Been Smuggled In Through Mexico
Also read: Shooter’s Father Says This Was Not About Religion
Via Zero Hedge:
In a surprising discovery, the Palm Beach Post first reported that according to state records, Orlando shooter Omar Mateen – who as we reported earlier was licensed as a security guard and also holds a firearms license – was employed by the US subsidiary of G4S plc, a British multinational security services company, whose US-headquarters are located in Jupiter, Fla, and which also happens to be the world’s largest security company by revenue.
Shortly thereafter, G4S confirmed that Omar Mateen has worked for the company since 2007. This is the statement released from G4S:
“We are shocked and saddened by the tragic event that occurred at the Orlando nightclub. We can confirm that Omar Mateen had been employed with G4S since September 10, 2007. We are cooperating fully with all law enforcement authorities, including the FBI, as they conduct their investigation. Our thoughts and prayers are with all of the friends, families and people affected by this unspeakable tragedy.”
In other words, Mateen who according to preliminary reports, had been on a terrorist watchlist, and who still managed to obtain weapons thanks to his various licenses and permits, was employed by one of the world’s largest security companies, where he may have had extensive clearances well above his pay grade.
But where it gets more disturbing is that as Judicial Watch reported several days ago, in a post titled, “DHS Quietly Moving, Releasing Vanloads Of Illegal Aliens Away From Border“, border patrol sources said that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was quietly transporting illegal immigrants from the Mexican border to Phoenix and releasing them without proper processing or issuing court appearance documents. As a reminder, the government classifies them as Other Than Mexican (OTM) and this week around 35 were transferred 116 miles north from Tucson to a Phoenix bus station where they went their separate way. Judicial Watch was present when one of the white vans carrying a group of OTMs arrived at the Phoenix Greyhound station on Buckeye Road.
And this is where the Mateen-G4S link emerges: as JW reported previously, a security company contracted by the U.S. government is driving the OTMs from the Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector where they were in custody to Phoenix, sources said. The firm is the abovementioned G4S, the world’s leading security solutions group with operations in more than 100 countries and 610,000 employees. G4S has more than 50,000 employees in the U.S. and its domestic headquarters is in Jupiter, Florida.
Judicial Watch noted that it had filed a number of public records requests to get more information involving the arrangement between G4S and the government, specifically the transport of illegal immigrants from the Mexican border to other parts of the country. The photo below shows the uniformed G4S guard that transported the OTMs this week from Tucson to Phoenix.
Outraged Border Patrol agents and supervisors on the front lines say illegal immigrants are being released in droves because there’s no room to keep them in detention. “They’re telling us to put them on a bus and let them go,” said one law enforcement official in Arizona. “Just move those bodies across the country.” Officially, DHS denies this is occurring and in fact earlier this year U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner R. Gil Kerlikowske blasted Border Patrol union officials for denouncing this dangerous catch-and-release policy. Kerlikowske’s scolding came in response to the congressional testimony of Bandon Judd, chief of the National Border Patrol Council, the labor union that represents line agents. Judd told lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee that illegal immigrants without serious criminal convictions can be released immediately and disappear into the shadows. Kerlikowske shot back, telling a separate congressional committee: “I would not stand by if the Border Patrol was — releasing people without going through all of the formalities.
Meanwhile, the Hill reported that Mateen’s employment, and gun licenses, were untouched even though the FBI confirmed it had interviewed the 29-year-old three times before the shooting took place early Sunday morning. An official said that the FBI first became aware of the suspect, Omar Mateen, 29, in 2013 when he made “inflammatory comments to coworkers alleging possible terrorist ties.”
In the course of that investigation, Mateen was interviewed twice, but the FBI was unable to verify the substance of his comments.
Then, one year later, in 2014 the FBI conducted an investigation into possible ties between Mateen and an American suicide bomber. The FBI conducted another investigation, which included an interview with Mateen, but determined that the contact did not constitute a threat at that time.
The FBI said it is looking into any and all connections, both domestic and international to the shooting that killed 50 people and injured 53 at a crowded gay nightclub.
The agent at Sunday afternoon’s press briefing also confirmed reports that the shooter called 911 before the massacre, and said his remarks had general connections to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terror group. The content of those calls is now federal evidence.
It gets even more bizarre: despite his chequered history and his numerous FBI encounters, the Orlando Police just reported that he had managed to purchase firearms in just this past week.
ATF: The gunman legally purchased the firearms within the last week. In Florida.
— Orlando Police (@OrlandoPolice) June 12, 2016
A Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives spokesperson confirmed that Mateen legally purchased 2 firearms — a handgun and a long gun, “within the past few days.”
Armed with all this information, the big question, now that it has emerged that Mateen worked for the same company that has been tasked – under questionable circumstances – to transport illegals into the US, is whether or not this individual who swore allegiance to ISIS moments before the worst mass shooting and who was also employed by G4S for almost a decade, and who had been interviewed by the FBI three times and yet still managed to buy guns just last week, was also tasked in any way in facilitating the transport of illegal immigrants across the border, and if so, whether he helped other like-minded radical islamists enter the country.
We are confident all these questions will be addressed by the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and the government, and that the media – liberal or otherwise – will promptly follow up on these key questions.
This report originally appeared at Zero Hedge
Author: Tyler Durden
Views: Read by 14,938 people
Website: http://www.zerohedge.com/
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Well, it’s no secret where these islamic savages gather.
FreeSlave says:
I usually like Sarcasm. This time I’m just freaking irritated.
GenEarly says:
Say what ever happened to the “investigation” into the two lying FIB agents concerning Lavoy Finicum’s death?
I do believe in “coincidences”, but with the FIB hitting 100% on having known or investigated every mooslem terrorist to attack in the domestic USSA……
Ah well, just a coincidence, Good Amerikans all, I’m sure.
I guess it depends on *who* is doing the interviewing.
To me, it appears as the purpose of interviewing potential radical moose lims is that *when* they go off the deep end, at least we can say we talked to them.
When people talk about the good-ole-days, they are talking about last month.
WhoWTFKnows... says:
The DHS has been Hijacked by the Zionist Organization a decade ago and run by Jews. In fact one DHS Chief Michael Chertoff was a Dual Israeli Citizen. LIKE WTF is a dual citizen running the highest security position in the US? We are High-jacked. And the DHS moving illegals into the Country like Phoenix, is TREASON. We need to Hang these ZIONIST BASTARDS who are in charge of this. Where is Federal Law Enforcement stopping these crimes against us by Federal DHS Employees??????????
Be prepared people, we are under attack from the Enemy within. Star well armed and prepare to fight. This is going to get real bloody, they keep this shit up. This shooting is at my back door in FL.
We are an open boarder, rogue hijacked government and this is exactly what the Powers in control want to do, create chaos and fear, to disarm the population, and turn everybody into their slaves.
~WWTI…
Fran Hoke says:
Like Europe, the United States has not yet learned to become multicultural enough:
Obama may be relieved that this didn’t occur in a Chicago “bath house”.
How long will it be until Obama starts talking about this being a “lone wolf” terrorist. And uses that as a reason to increase government spying on American citizens, and to further shred (Hilary is good at shredding)the United States Constitution?
Looks like another False Flag Wack Job to me. Pay very close attention to the very first news broad casts right after this kind of incident. Listen to witnesses and what they say. One lady radio call in, said, there is a lot of security in place for this night club. She said there are many layers you need to get through to even get in the place. So she asks how could this guy possible even get any gun in this place at all. It is impossible.. Of course the Radio interviewer ignores what she said and went on to something else.
Then They say well he called 911 and committed his oath to ISIS. Well Lets here the 911 call. OOPS you cant, Florida law says they can block public access to any 911 call where there is murder involved. Like WTF, What has that got to do with the mind set of this alleged shooting. Give us the tape or your COP 911 call story about Isis affiliation is BS!!! ISIS was invented by the CIA, trained by the CIA and Funded and Armed by the CIA and that is a fact, nobody can dispute.
They the alleged killer’s Mother calls in and says well he hated Gays. He got so upset when he saw 2 gay men kissing, that was just months ago. So is this a Hate crime. His Mother seems to think so. Does she know more than Bill Nelson?
Of course Democrat FL Senator “Bill (BOZO) Nelson” & sell out, comes on and claims this is terrorism and we need a lot more money for the Industrial Complex Mafia, aka: My buddies that fund my campaign to keep me in office.
So there are a lot of Holes in this BOGUS News story. And again, they leave the dead piled up for a day inside the building so the Public does not know who was killed.
I think this was a Hate crime, vs, terrorism. If you believe LEO’s BS Stories, they you are dumb like sheep.
They are putting their own version of the shooting to capitalize on more funding.
Then he only got the Guns a few weeks ago. So he planed this entire shooting in a week and trained to change magazines and rip off hundreds of rounds in a week. Uh,… I think not. Sounds like another Sandy Hook scam to me.
Well EVERYBODY better Start asking and DEMANDING TV and News Organizations, why the DHS gives 95% of all Security Grants to Jewish Organizations exclusively. None for night clubs, theaters, or Christins organizations, IN fact 54% of these incidents happen at schools and universities, bot Jewish Organizations as they claim to steal Tax Payers moneys. Its all goes to JEWS and Zionists Cults, yep Hundreds of Millions of US Tax Payer Monies) to the Zionist Jews. So when you see this Muslim Pointing over here with one hand, the Jews are Picking America’s pockets clean from the back end with their other hand.
Do your Job New Reporters. Start asking the tough questions. Otherwise your are just BS Too.
Remember this is Obama’s last chance to try and Outlaw Assault like type rifles, as he claims, and I will not pass his mental state to do what ever it takes to exploit tragedy. This shooting stinks to high heaven for BS of the real story. How about who set this all up to create more gun laws. Who really gave him the Guns? Who really trained him and paid for his Guns and Ammo.
~WWTI… Just give us the truth, NO BS.
WWTI, I agree wholeheartedly. Google “Who Created The DHS”. Markus Wolf, head of the now defunct East German STASI and 2 retired high-ranking members of the Soviet KGB were secretly brought into the US to help design and create the DHS BEFORE 9/11. WHY WERE FOREIGNERS BROUGHT IN TO HELP SET UP A US GOVT. AGENCY? HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!
stolz Vorfahren says:
Brave, I don’t comment much lately but just can’t ignore your educated comment above. Thank You Sir for spreading the truth along with WWTI.
Stolz, glad to see you back. Everyone go to jimstone.is. He has an interesting take on the Orlando incident and some other issues as well.
Here is WWTI News Reporter, at the Orlando Shooting Scene asking the FBI Questions.
MR FBI Guy, this is WWTI from SHTFPlan, as it seems all these shooting occur at Schools, Movie theaters and night clubs. Why does the DHS run by Jews Give 95% of all the DHS Security Grants exclusively to Jewish Organizations that have experience no attacks? Answer that??? Where are those Million of dollars really going??? I thought the Muslims enemy was the Jews, and not fat Gay people. Explain that please, why innocent Gays were targeted.
Question #2, Mr FBI Agent, You bring in 200 Agents to a shooting crime scene, where the assailant is already dead. There is no more threat here. How about you re-assign these 200 Agents to go look for the 95% of the DHS Grant Monies, into the Hundreds of Millions of Dollars that the JEWS at the DHS stole and looted from US Tax Payers all over decades, all for their Greedy Jew Zionist Clan?? Do you have FBI Agent investigators looking at that? Yes or No and Why not?
Quest #3. Mr FBI man, How did the long Gun get inside the building? There was a lot of layers of security as many patrons claimed. How did the Killer decide to make a prank call to 911 while inside the club with his Guns in his hands, before he went and shot up the place. Was the call rerouted from another location, was there any phone company workers in the building in the last few weeks poking around this night club? And the Mother thinks this is a Hate Crime, cause he was really pissed off seeing 2 gays kissing just months before this incident. Do you dispute the killers Mother? You think she is lying?
Question #4. Will this incident Prop up your already over bloated FBI Budgets so you can squander more Tax Dollars on Patsy false terrorist programs like many in the past, you created for no reason? Please explain.
Quest #5. Why are there Israeli Dual Citizens running the DHS, or even working at any Government positions of security? Especially those that over see the TSA, and FBI, and Border Patrol, which all seem to be pretty ineffective these days. The DHS is giving Van rides to illegals well beyond the border and into Phoenix and releasing these illegals into the public. It this TREASON by government officials? Who’s Side are you on Mr FBI Man? Are you investigating that crime of treason by smuggling in illegals?
Answer all of that, Mr FBI Man. The public is awaiting your answers.
This is WWTI Reporting from SHTFPlan, live at the Press conference shooting in Orlando. Stay alert people, stay armed, for the enemy is already here on our shores and has infiltrated our Government for decades and creating this Chaos designed to disarm us. Only the Truth Here Folks, WWTI signing out. Back to you Mac at HQ…
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Jim Stone has, with multiple reports from eye witnesses saying there were 2 shooters, All common and similar early statements from various separate individuals. “There were 2 Guys shooting pow pow pow, it was constant.” The Muslim Patsy and the Israeli Killer who got out of there, escaped with help, and onto a plane back to Israel. The Patsy got scared when the Jew got out of there with a ride, and the Cops showed up so the Patsy OMAR ran back into the night club as witnesses reported. The Israeli shooter was long gone by then, probably lifted out of there via Mossad van drivers, like on 911, and is most likely already back in Israel tonight getting pinned with a Medal as a Hero and drinking Champagne and laughing.
This Guy Jim Stone put this together like a puzzle like I do. After looking in depth into each of these incidents, the Markers begin to line up again and again with a similar finger print. So why is the FBI taking so long to get their story out of what happened? Like How Many shooters? It is also very possible the Orlando Cops or first responders that went into the building also shot up innocent people. Maybe there were only 20 dead by the attackers and 30 more killed by the Cops. You know damn well they will never admit a Cop shot an innocent person. They would be sued. So out comes the BS Story and the Cops are made to look like heros, They get a medal, the agencies get more budget money, and this will help push a Gun Ban.
Nobody wants US Citizens disarmed, more then Israel. Remember that. Their political Shills are working hard in Congress to get that done and open the door to full Zionist control in the US, with no resistance left by the people.
I heard on the Radio today, that now claimed. “There is only one shooter and he had no help.” Really just 12 hours after the shooting, and they already determined officially he was a Lone Wolf. Its BS from the Word GO.
They did the same thing right after the Boston Bombing. The FBI comes out within hours and says these are the only 2 guys we are looking for, so don’t look any place else. These are the 2 guys. That was on a TV press conference. Very Bizarre to say that in the least, so early in an investigation.
You see if it was terrorism these agencies get more funding. If it is just a hate crime they don’t. They need to decide the “Truth vs. more Funding.”
Orlando was a similar set up just like Oswald in the Book Depository cleaning a 30-06. Does that Dallas Shooting of JFK, sound familiar to the Orlando Shooting? You bet.. Multiple shooters, one Patsy. F-n Eh right jack!!
The Problem with the JFK Shooting was that the Patsy Oswald Lived and started saying he was set up. That’s where the Jew Strip Club Owner Jack Ruby, formerly Jack Rubenstein (Very Jewish) went down and shot and killed the Patsy Oswald, so he would quit singing the truth. Once dead, then it was all covered up by the Zionist controlled Media, feeding the US public BS.
We have been fucked as a nation since the JFK Shooting, and like parasites that suck the life blood out of an animal, the Zionists are about to carve up this country like a final feast, BUT ONLY if we let them. We cannot let them. Keep Telling these facts, and it will sink in to the brain of average sheep.
Brave, Why is it allowed at all for Foreign Security companies to come and run security here in the US at all. Israeli security company ran the Boston Marathon Bombing. They Run the DHS as dual citizens. Michael Chertoff was a freaking dual citizen? He picked the Boston marathon security from Israel to run it.
Why are there Israeli Security firms running entire security at many US Airports? They do. Oh I’m sure the Jews sitting up in the offices watching Americans get molested by the TSA for 15 Years was a real hoot.
Why is any foreigner or dual citizen in any Government position at all. I sure hope President Trump ends that BS Program of plunder and rape on Americans. Build the Wall and kick out all illegals and Dual citizens.
Here Read this Article: ht tp://www.whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/ICTS.html
Every 9-11 Hijacker went through a US Airport that was run by the same Israeli Security Company.
All 9/11 Airports Serviced by
One Israeli Owned Company
It’s one of those times when an innocuous comment in an unrelated news report triggers a revelation.
In the article at ht tp://afrocubaweb.com/news/israelispying.htm there is the following paragraph:
“To make the situation worse, a private security company called ICTS, owned by an Israeli, Ezra Harel, and registered in the Netherlands, was employed at Charles de Gaulle airport to screen passengers boarding US planes. Most of its personnel are ex-Shin Bet officers. The company covers security at Boston’s Logan airport, where the American Airlines plane came down after flight attendants and passengers overpowered Reid.”
The point of the article was that ICTS knew shoe bomber Richard Reid was dangerous, but allowed him on board a flight from Tel Aviv to Paris. Maybe they did and maybe they didn’t. But the idea that an Israeli owned company had inside access to the airport used to launch an abortive terror attack brought to mind the strange message Odigo Systems, another Israeli owned company with offices near the World Trade Towers, received that warned of the impending attacks before the hijacked planes had even left the ground.
Then there was the story of crotch-bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who was allowed to board Northwest flight 253 from Amsterdam on Christmas Day 2009. And again, gate security that allowed him to pass was ICTS!
So, I went back to another story that had surfaced briefly, reported at ww w.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26626 about how at least one hijacker had smuggled a GUN aboard one of the hijacked planes. Even prior to 9-11, getting a gun on board a passenger plane represented a serious lapse of security. I wondered why this story of a gun was being concealed behind talk of box cutters and screwdrivers.
Then I went back to the first article and its mention that ICTS handled security at Logan International Airport, from which two of the 9-11 hijacked planes had departed.
Sure enough, a visit to ICTS’ own web site at http://www.icts-int.com/ confirms that ICTS is in fact an Israeli owned company, and that it sells services to every airport from which the hijacked planes operated, including security, sometimes through wholly owned subsidiaries like Huntleigh USA Corporation.
It has been suggested that the incredible feat of hijacking four aircraft without a single arrest at the gate would require the resources of a nation-state. This is even more true with the revelation that at least one gun had managed to be aboard a hijacked plane. One company had automatic inside access to all of the airports from which hijacked planes departed on 9-11, and to the airports used by Richard Reid, the shoe bomber. An Israeli company. One that Mossad agents could easily find employment with without the management knowing who they were or what their purpose really was.
But one thing is clear. By virtue of the Odigo warning, someone knew enough about the planned attacks to warn Odigo before the planes had even departed the airport gates, yet they did not call the Israeli security company at the airports which could have stopped the flights from leaving.
Think about that one for a while.
Hours before the House version of the first Patriot Act went to a vote, “technical corrections” were inserted into the body of the legislation whereby foreign security companies such as ICTS-International would be immune from lawsuits related to the events of 9/11. Talk about not being available for deposition! This “Patriot” act legislative sleight of hand occurred before the inception of the 9/11 Commission when Fearless Leader George W. Bush was still resisting the very IDEA of an investigation into 9/11. Hence, in the face of an institutional cover-up, citizens were denied the possibility of a discovery process which is normally afforded to litigants. Without such discovery process, ICTS-International would never be compelled by a court of law to give testimony and show evidence related to the missing airport video surveillance tapes of 9/11 or any other aspect of security measures in place on 9/11. [rense.com]
“Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It’s classified information.”
US official quoted in Carl Cameron’s Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring.
“Investigators within the DEA, INS and FBI have all told Fox News that to pursue or even suggest Israeli spying … is considered career suicide.”
Carl Cameron, as quoted in The Spies Who Came In From The Art Sale
“While I agree with you, if I say anything about US geopolitical interests with Israel, I might as well clean off my desk.”
Unnamed reporter as quoted in American Media Censorship and Israel
~WWTI.. You like FACTS? WWTI is giving you the facts. Like it or not, here it is.
WWTI, that’s some very interesting information you presented. Damn good post. also a good post with the questions you have for the FBI.
Not every tragedy is a false flag.
Kulafarmer says:
Yup,
Theres nuts people who do nuts shit,,
Am actually surprised there isnt more of this going on
Tw says:
chaing says:
WWTFK- to play devils advocate here…
“Then he only got the Guns a few weeks ago. So he planed this entire shooting in a week and trained to change magazines and rip off hundreds of rounds in a week. Uh,… I think not. Sounds like another Sandy Hook scam to me. ”
if he was planning an attack, he probably practiced with other guns before he bought the guns he used. just because he bought the guns a few weeks ago, doesn’t mean he had no experience.
At Breitbart.
Afghanistan migration surging into America.
99% support Sharia Law.
Now go look how many are here already.
Then look at how many MORE they want to resettle here.
Prepare for War.
DustyFae says:
So this is why Obama wants no one to stop them from crossing the Border.. so this guy keeps walking free, well, now he will not walk free.
But someone will take his place Muslim Brotherhood will see to that.
Taxdn2poverty says:
blah, blah, blah…the bottom line is the gays or dead because they didn’t have guns with which to protect themselves. Period.
Yohan Smythe III says:
“Gun free zone” ? I think this infringes on my rights, gaurenteed by the Constitution. Has this ever been challenged? If not, why not?
Actually it was challenged in United States v. Alfonso D. Lopez, Jr., and successfully won but they rewrote it.
Interestingly the above case was the first time that the ‘Interstate Commerce Clause” was used unsuccessfully by government attorney’s. The gist of their argument, I shit you not, by an Attorney, in front of the highest court was this.
1. A child needs a good education.
2. Guns in schools interfere with that education.
3. If the child does not receive a good education can effect interstate commerce as their work productivity as an adult is compromised.
4. Its therefore within the scope of Constitutional Authority for the Federal Government to mandate this law.
The above is connecting non existent legal dots framing an illogical basis for a hollow argument.
Kevin2, why doesn’t that surprise me? leave it to someone with a law degree to come up with some real BS.
Braveheart1776
I believe that they been doing what they want to do for so long uncontested that they never thought that there would be a legal challenge. This defense of the law was an ad hock piecemeal afterthought.
Kevin2, sadly I have to agree. I’ve had an attorney at one time back in the late 80s who screwed my case so I speak from personal experience.
To sum up I think that the US Supreme Court is somewhere between a pot hole and a mere speed bump on the road to tyranny. The Democrats are the paving company filling in the holes and removing the bumps.
Kevin2, I’m at the point now where I just totally disregard what ANYONE’S court says about anything. The system is just totally illegitimate.
YEAR 0 says:
I do not care what religion you are, or your sexual preference is
or your racial background.
What this guy did was WRONG!!!!
My question is if the FBI knew who this guy was?
What did they do ??????????
Sorrow for all the families ……
My bet is all those in the club were radical democrats. In which case what he did would not be wrong, just illegal.
Well, if they were gay gangbangers they should have a lot more holes to use. Just a thot.
WOW says:
And when the Muslims attack your church you will have a lot more holes to use while taking your holy sacraments. AMERICANS were murdered on AMERICAN soil, that is what matters.
Agreed,, 100%
People are just mental
So this means he was working for DHS?
straight shooter says:
Shoot who knows?????
Why is it that people like these that do illegal stuff to begin with are not in jail??????
Freeillinois says:
I have been reading the various comments and headlines regarding the Orlando shooting. Here is an example; Raghead Rampage, Muslim Anchor Baby goes on Jihad.(rense.com)
Sounds like the common man on the street is starting to figure out what’s actually happening in this country.
Meanwhile the far left is calling for more gun control. I don’t think the left knows anything but gun control. We have a clear act of terrorism directed at a specific group of people and the left screams for gun control. Totally NUTS!
Absolutely no mention by the left of addressing our immigration policy failures.
Again all the left knows is “Gun Control”
The CO. Theater Bat Man shooting, someone wedged the back exit door open, so that guy could come in from behind the screen, and do his shooting. He used a high capacity Magazine that jammed in the idle of his shooting. Lots of Holes in these Shooting Stories that never comes to light or questioned.
The only gun control i am going to comply with is the kind that says you need to have effective shot placement and effective fire,,,
With crap like this happening i am even less likely to entertain any further infringement on my right to protect me and mine,,,,
Kula, same here. I’m not giving up anything I have and I still claim all the rights that God gave me. Anything to the contrary anyone says is null and void to me.
Winston Smith says:
Yup. What we need is not more gun control, but more Muslim control. Specifically, we need to end immigration from Islamic countries. We can’t do anything about the ones that are already here because of the first amendment, but I am not about to give up the second amendment so that these foreign invaders can be brought into the country.
Also, ever notice how these idiots are fleeing sharia law countries but want to see sharia in their new country? If you want sharia, stay where you are and live the dream. You may be beheaded or dismembered for some minor offense but hey, at least you get to live under Islam in all it’s backward glory. If you really don’t agree with sharia (and by default, Islam), then why continue to practice it once you get into a Western country? Leave the faith and find a new one.
ppod says:
Well put FREEILLINOIS! The left has tunnel vision. They will never get to the ROOT of any problem. Democrats = Doomed
B from CA says:
There is no room for the people just walking across the border. Turn them around and send them back in the other direction.
It is time for civil disobedience. The border patrol should have more sense than to take orders from our Zionist Ocupied Government. Border patrol has become complicit in these terrorist murders. Start enforcing immigration laws, if not sooner than later Americans will have to go rogue. If Trump loses, there will be an armed Revolution. The lawmakers, actually lawbreakers, are going to become the next victims of terrorists.
B from CA
Many Border Patrol Agents have Quit because of insane laws, and S.O.P. that is imposed on them.
the border patrol will CONTINUE to catch and release, just like their boss, obammy, SAYS they should…..until WE get off our asses, and pick up the pitchforks and torches, and SURROUND these traitorous sons o bitches….until then…..YAAAAWNN. i’m going back to sleep.
Buttcrack
How are you doing ?
I have not seen anything from you in awhile….
things are ok here…thank you for asking! plantar faceitous is kickin’ my ASS. if you can’t walk you can’t accomplish much. at least my vw repair business is slow, so i don’t have to work much.LOL..how about you?
Doing o.k. I am hesitant to wake up every day and look at all this S–T going down wondering when it’s all going to break loose.
I feel that sometimes I just want to pack up everything and go 2 mountain ranges over and let people have at it and come back when it’s all over.
These asshole can not or do not want to tackle the real problems
They seem to be zeroed in in disarming the public and creating a CIVIL WAR.
I remember awhile back the AK-47 was the gun of choice for bad guys, now its the AR-15.
Pretty soon it’s going to be slingshots, bows, and arrows, and body gas that’s farts for all the nit wit politicians out there.
It’s all disgusting…………
Most of the dead and injured are probably Hispanic, I’m guessing. It was a latin themed night at the club and Orlando has a high Hispanic population. The released names of victims have been Hispanic that I’ve heard. This guy bringing in illegals all over the country, that’s Obamas policy. Do they all get to vote for Killary illegally? Arrest Obama for treason.
Makes me sick when i hear this crap about illegals voting, locally you cant vote if you 1. Arent registered and 2. Dont show ID, i just dont understand these idiots saying that you dont need an id to vote, total BS,
This will make the far left call for a crackdown on guns and moderates go all over the freakin place, watch for more of this crap, leading up to an emergency ratification of the UN small arms treaty and foreign soldiers on US soil to confiscate guns, i hope this is wrong and doesnt happen but it fits with the socialist and communist bullshit. And fits with the globalist crap too, that will not go unanswered i can assure you
Kula, when they come for mine, all they’ll get is hot lead.
Another government operative with green lights all the way? It’s sure being used for government-supremacy’s benefit. This is the latest event to be used to usher in more police- statism.
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Well how do you like that shit?
Lone wolverine says:
Killed50 people? An AK with hollow points? 50 more wounded. 100 rounds minimum , probably 300 , 10 30 round mags. .? Moving targets. 100 hits out of 300 rounds? Or 200 rounds 5 magazines. That’s 50% hits . In a dark night club? Maybe he cornered them? Muslem anchor baby? Anchors away.
LW, they said he had an AR-15 and a handgun. If that nightclub was dark enough inside, he had to have some type of night scope on it in order to line up on his targets. They haven’t yet said how much ammo he was carrying.
The video outside sounded like a big bore round . But that could just be the situation. If a 5.56 for one guy to get that many kills he must of had expensive ammo. That why I thought anAK with hollow points. FMJ rounds usually aren’t one shot kills? 50 one shot kills on moving targets in a dark night club? . The shooting sounded slow fire. 200 rounds is 7 mags? 50 more hits wounded. 100 rounds to hit them all one time. A laser with light? And high grade hollow points?
restelle says:
5.56 Nato rounds are known to tumble at high velocity and cause horrific damage. Much more than hollow point in other calibers. A hit with a 5.56 55 grain FMJ @ >2800 FPS spinning at more than 200K RPM in a 1/7 is extremely nasty.
But then again, this entire shooting is a FAKE as fake can be. There would have been blood running out of that place. Also, why is it that NOT a single person in that fag bar took and photos with their phones, etc.? Not one photo, ZERO video.
The Real Common NATO round is called a Green Tip. It is a 5.56 M855 62 Gr, solid steel core wrapped in copper, and travels 3200 FPS out of a 16 Inch barrel with a 1/7 Twist. It will not split apart like a Hollow point. It will go through all the mass or multiple people lined up until it decides to stop. There are great videos on the Green tip penetrating steel and block walls..
Vid – Here you go, for entertainment purposes.
5.56 mm 62 gr NATO “Green Tip” vs. 1/4″ Welding Steel – ht tps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dGxRw8Jq70
A FMJ .223 / 5.56 will go through one and into one more at the least. A dance floor is packed. Masses fleeing a door are bottlenecked with the illuminated exit sign overhead saying, “shoot here”. Just about every trigger pull, say 75% is one dead and another wounded. Rarely will a round not find a victim in close quarters and high target density.
Safest thing to do if your unarmed is hit the deck and remain motionless. First chance run once you figure out where to run. If his back is turned rush him and dig the eyes out of his skull and bite anything, finger, ear, face, nose. Any weapon available use. A beer bottle fractures a skull before it shatters, I seen it, its a bar room black jack.
Ar/ak with slide fire or modified trigger group, bang
anona says:
They didn’t have to be good shots. They just had to be hit. The three hours it took the police to come in, gave them time to bleed out. Not sure why they took so long to come in. They probably could have saved some more lives.
If false-flag, 3 hours = Staging, possibly…
Spray and pray to allah
I didn’t know it toke the cops 3 hours. Do FMJs work on coyote or deer? I don’t hear much about hunting with FMJs. I guess we will see 50 ambulances hauling off the wounded on the news? Paramedics everywhere scrambling to save the wounded. Unless this is bull. And cell phone cameras like restelle said.
ARE “we are confident all these questions will be addressed by the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and the government, and that the media – liberal or otherwise – will promptly follow up on these key questions? WHY would we be confident of that? We could, however, be confident that the spin will be pro-government-supremacy and anti-self-defense against such clearly government-facilitated attacks.
Certain things have to be written into articles like this to try and stem retaliatory acts on behalf of the public. That is why you will always see things like that in such articles.
Just fantastic !
So, this guy, interviewed by the FBI THREE TIMES and is reported to have been pro-muzzie-killers by co-workers; is helping to transport illegals and other than Mexicans !
No, no possible security hole there to develop and bring in more ISIS muzzies, develop ISIS muzzie networks and plan to have weapons or other things delivered. No, not at all.
Those gays are lucky he didn’t really think things thru. With a little more planning, he probably could’ve blown them all up.
Adding.
This proves what a POS the usa immigration system is. All levels of govt and both parties are to blame for this attack for being so pathetic at protecting the people since before 9-11.
I do hope Trump reads this story and goes off on every govt elected official there is.
I bet this sumbitch is an “anchor baby” for his parents who are most likely NOT naturalized citizens. This “anchor baby” bullshit has got to stop. The kid takes the nationality of the mother, period.
It seems that every time you turn around our Nation’s Flag is at HALF STAFF.
It also seems that whatever powers that are in charge that they seem to be HELL BENT on CIVIL WAR, or GUN CONTROL in this Country.
Lets not forget that all the President has to do is SUSPEND our CONSTITUTION, and there goes the BILL OF RIGHTS FOLKS……..
And you know what that means…….
Millions and millions of dead Democrats.
#1 target is the power grid.
#2 target, the power grid.
Get the idea?
Wonder how many 14″ poles you can cut on 1 tank of gas?
Using the monster saw you have, quite a few.
Using my four saws maybe more.
The one with 32″ bar goes through a 24″ kiawe branch in just under a minute
A .22 can pierce the round barrel electrical transformers that hang on poles. A few holes near the bottom and the Liquid drains out causing the transformer to overheat and catch on fire, killing the grid beyond that point. Wait till SHTF and everything gets shot up. The Grid is not your friend. Once the Grid is down the looters come in and pick your estate clean. So if you keep all your preps in once place, you are screwed. And you sure as hell can’t protect every pole transformer between your house and the power station.
~WWTI… Another reason to go solar, and off the grid. Check!
Just sayin,,,
Straight Shooter, I’ll still claim those rights which come from GOD, NOT from any manmade govt. Doesn’t matter what Obola says. Not going to follow it.
Why would God kill all those kids in soddom and Gomorrah just because thir parents were sodomites? Why does he hate these people so much? There must be a reason we can’t understand? And if God hates them enough to kill their kids.. I better not be neutral on this? Sorry I guess I can be called a disliker? Or a cover my ass er. If Gods that pissed at them he must have a good reason? And I’m not arguing with him.
Every soul has the opportunity, somehow, even if we can’t see it, to say yes to God and thus save their souls. It’s not about this world, but the next. If a life is cut short by our standards, somewhere along they way they were offered the possibility of Salvation before their soul left the body.
Note to self: say Yes to the offer…and keep saying yes. This world is a blink of an eye. It’s eternity that counts.
If Sodom and Gommorah were cities full of gays then how were there any children produced to keep these cities going?
Dudes who like dudes and ladies who like ladies dont tend to reproduce, so this buy bull story has holes in it.
Godsoldier says:
Ya all need to start listening to hicks cus he called it a month ago when he said it would start in the south and he named tex fla Arizona cal ect because i posted asking him if he heard anything reguarding Midwest
smokey says:
ISIS said they were going to attack Florida, and they just did. More to come.
Frank Thoughts says:
Trump is the only Western politician actually telling the truth. Why is that? Are all other Western politicians on Saudi payroll? Maybe?
Look under the dirty rock that is global Islamic terrorism and you will find two worms wriggly around: Britain and the City of London; and Saudi Arabia. Surprise, surprise this guy worked for a British company, G4S.
Most Americans do not know this but in the early 1970s, Britain went completely bust. I mean flat broke. The country was falling apart fast and needed a cash injection quick and a way to make constant new wealth. And they came up with the Eurodollar: flushing Arab oil wealth through the City of London, rinsing it squeaky clean and then fire-hosing it out around the global economy. By the 1980s, Britain was filthy rich again, thanks to Muslim money. When your paymaster is Arab wealth, you kind of start dancing to that tune.
As the two got very comfortable with each other, they decided there was something they both disliked: America. Britain didn’t like America because America took away its empire and kicked sand in its face. Saudi’s didn’t like America because it insulted Islam by putting bases near Mecca. The two had a big bully that needed taking down. And the tool to do that? Crazy-ass Muslims, lots and lots of them, since they were over-breeding all over the Islamic world and none of the countries could run an economy capable of employing all these horny Muslim men. So, what better thing to do than send them to the West to make mischief. And so they do.
The US moves lockstep with the UK as both are employees of the globalist bankers. There is no rivalry.
The crazy muslims are the ostensible excuse to justify in the eyes of the US public, and the world US military action. Such actions work in Saudi and Israel’s favor. ISIS was created by the US and used to overthrow governments that were selling, or planning to sell oil in something other than US dollars. Syria is over the refusal of Assad to run a Saudi natural gas line through to facility competition with Russia’s natural gas sales to Europe.
The US, UK, Saudi’s and Israel are in 100% collusion.
Kevin2:
I agree 100%.
That sounds right except you failed to mention that Britain and the City of London has the Rothschilds underground facility which controls all of the above.
Them Guys says:
B from CA And Kevin: There is also another angle at play with mid east region wars etc.
It is due to “british-israelism”, a religious faction belife system that is claimed by his followers to be started by Herbert W.Armstrong and his church he began in Calif back around the early 1940’s or so(?). Called “The Worldwide Church Of God”.
Basically it consists of the belief that England= Ephraim, and the USA= Manessah…The Twin brother sons of Joseph which was one of the orig 12 tribes forefathers and 12 sons of Jacob.
What they promote is that the very same kings throne chair which was last used to coronate the prince of wales/england…Prince Charles.
And otherwise always remains as an exibit inside the royal british museum displays….That throne chair also has a huge rock-boulder stuck into its lower chair legs cross members…They believe it is the “Jacobs Pillow Stone”….That Jacob laid his head upon to sleep when jacob had his vision of “jacobs ladder”…
Where jacob saw angels running up and down that ladder, from heaven down to earth and back up to heaven etc…Its a bible story contained in the old testement books.
They consider that very throne chair to be the exact same throne that a “one world govnt leader wil sit upon when he arrives to be global Prez of all worlds nations etc.
But this also ties into it all.
They also believe that Now Today, USA and England Are fullfilling the ancient prophecies that were spoken By, Jacob when he first arrived into egypt during the world famine, and then first saw his son Joseph after thinking all along joseph was Dead, as his Other 11 sons told jacob had happened…recall those 11 other jacob sons beat their brother joseph, threw him into a deep dried out well, killed a sheep for dinner and smeered sheep blood over the multi-colored Coat joseph got from his father Jacob as proof joseph was indeed dead!
Well…This current British-Israel religion belief also known of as “Armstrongism” and is a Cult based belief.
Believes that the parts of the jacob blessings/prophecys spoken by Jacob To all 12 sons at that time when first saw joseph was still alive upon entering Egypt then.
Are that Jacob told them all that the tribe of Judah would remain for ALL time the holder of the “Sceptor Staff” which is what a King holds while seated at throne as a “Symbol” of his Rulership as king…Usually a long Rod/pole with a large round Orb afixed at top.
And that Ephraim and Manessah…Josephs twin boys then would grow up to become the Top two leaders of the 10 Northern tribes after the huge split away when the 10 in north split apart from the Southern Two tribes of judah and benjamin…Jacob told all present He was Now adopting the two grandkids aka josephs sons as his, jacobs very own sons…So that Jacob can Now officially and while remaining Under gods rules of who can bless whom etc..
Can now Bless them two grandkids..That was done Prior to the remaining overall blessings to the 11 other actual sons of jacob.
The Main part concerning Now tdoay, and the recent past wars like WWI and WWII etc…Are that while Judah retains that rulers sceptor to maintain a god promice to king David prior, that always only a son of david and of tribe of judah will ever sit upon that throne period…and Untill “Shiloh” comes.
Okay stay with me..That shiloh stuff comes meant Jesus Christ as a true judah tribe and son of davids “line” comes as true only world ruler king.
BUT armstrongers ignore a vital thing so to make Their beliefs all “Fit”…They don’t even mention Christ as that shiloh figure…They believe that promice to king David is still 100% intact and true and soon to get fullfilled by Their global ruler man to sit in that british throne chair.
HERES where usa and england fit into their scheems etc.
When jacob gave out his long winded written in bible blessings to all 12 sons/tribes…What he spoke about Ephrain and Manessah was that them two tribes would not just be the rulers of Israel, and Keep Jacobs new changed name of Israel for 1000 gens aka forever…and which means that once the north ten tribes split away from judah and benjamin in south kingdom…ONLY the north ten shall be called “Israel” which also proves todays claims of jewry being true israel a fraud lie. Only the north ten kept that name of Israel since solomons death when that split apart began!…Ever since aprox 3000 yrs ago, judah was forever then called the “southern Kingdom of Judah” and never again is called Israel which the bible OT books confirm as well…hence reason they believe brits and americans are true israelites in modern day era.
Jacob also declared that ephraim and manessah aka england and america would become the “HORNS” of…Judah!
What was meant by Horns refred to..Like the Horns of a Oxen or Bull and as such since horns in That context biblically always means…MILITARY Powers! aka Vast powerfull ARMYS that exist soley for bennefit Of Judah tribe as the kingly sceptor rulership.
SO…Basically what these modern day devils has been doing all along, and armstrong didn’t invet british israelism as claimed since it existed at least as far back as mid 1700’s era!
What they been doing is these mid east wars and european wars and acting Out the old testement prophesys and god/promices etc…
Then convincing duped brits and deluded usa followers of his churches that all we now see occure with such wars is God in action! Fullfilling His ancient promoces and prophetic utterances.
But Thats not correct…Its NOT gods doings but Rather Their doing it all to Gain a NWO one global govnt and religion so they can rule entire globe.
Armstrogs now dead..but he left behind many many deluded followers…Many started up their Own “church of God” church branches since he died…Most claim to be THE one true followers branch of course!
he had over 8-Million worldwide followers prior to death.
He ammased a huge fortune of well over $200 Million and had at least another $200-Million Per year comming in as “tithes” from around the world followers.
Armstrong was so convincing he was able to worm his way into the Highest officialdom places and palaces…He regulary met with Kings-Queens-Many usa pres’s and all types global honchos and leaders etc. Like a Billy Grahm on Steroids! only Globally!
And had Most convinced that that ancient blessing of america and britian equals Two Horns aka Mighty Military armys that were gods plan to have exist soley to protect-bennefit,Israel and jewry…And also to promote by Force the final fullfillings of said amcient promiced blessings etc.
WHAT…Armstrong and his flock has overlooked or ignored(bingo on ignored!) is that Christs first comming to earth Fullfilled that part of “Untill Shiloh Comes”.
Very Important since that throne of King David to always be occupied By a Son of Davids ancestors and No others can occupy it ever…ENDED when Shiloh aka Jesus arrived on scene 2000 yrs ago….it also ended way prior to Christ when due to Judah sinned via married two black women cannanites and spoiled their sons dna aka seed so those sons can never ever sit on that david throne.
That Sin of race mixing got Judah the man and head honcho of tribe of judah a huge Curse that stated None of Judahs sons will ever occupy the throne nor possess that kingly sceptor for the next Ten generations!…And by then was probably the time Christ arrived on scene anyways.
But those armstrongers ignore such “Details” and Plunge ahead at warp speed now to create their dream of a global govnt rulership with one of Their Own upon that museum chair!
You can watch armstrongs self claimed top current leader, Gerold Flurry on his weekly TV pastor show and listen as he tells folks how “Soon! Very very Soon now folks…WE the real true church of god and ONLY real one are going to work as The main earth rulers UNDER of course those of “judah today” aka israeli/New york jewry, to Rule entire world and do so under gods old testement laws like an “Rod of Iron”! and under the actual OT Laws of book of duteronomy and leviticus etc.
Which IS exactly what apostle Paul in NT warrned us about that, we never allow anybody or any pastors to lead you astray by convincing you to go Back Under the Old covenant law! For them what do so are going to Lose their salvation and be Unable to regain it again period.
Thats all wrote of in NT books paul wrote.
So what is realy the well hidden agenda has zero to do with Gas lines or pipe lines or Oil etc..
It Is mostly about Wars to exterminate the hundreds of millions of Goyim-non tribe residnts in mid east, take and occupy those entire lands, Re-Build a 3rd Temple to resume Animal sacrafical burnt offerings to do Tikun Olehm aka “Repair of the World” and rid it of all the Goyims sins etc…And tell the worlds goyim folk especially christians that finally gods promice to keep a david-son on that throne is now ready to happen!
A Israel judah or perhaps a NY member zio is what they mean, with Them “armstrongers” and them alone acting under him as the worker bee global govnt to make OT old covenant laws a world mandate or else.
They Are Makeing it all “FIT’ so to claim “Looky there folks gods work is being done as written prior”.
But if true?…That negates most if not all of the entire New testement and new covenant and Christ is no longer necessary for salavtion etc eh.
So Yes as many much wizer folks has said it…That armstrongism british-israelism is no more than a well concieved Cult of apostate falsehoods.
but when so Many world leaders and top high up officials buys into it all?…it spells disaster for all of Us goys worldwide no?…unless someone or something Halts these nefarious dealings and plans.
May I suggest a course in concise writing?
Them Guys:
My head is exploding. I’m Really tired. Some of what you wrote I have heard, wanting to build on the temple and make sacrificial (holocaust) burnt offerings to their God Bal. Or whatever. I have also read and heard that the whole Bible is nothing more than plagiarism in that the Jews are cons. They were illiterate. Took tales from the Babylonians, and others and made up the characters based on ancient myth. Yiddish is a German dialect. Hebrew is a mishmash of many languages. There is no archeological evidence for King David or Solomon. It is all concocted from others. The laws of the Ten Commandments already existed and none of it came from the so called chosen. It is all bogus. None the less, people, me too, are so heavily invested into believing, it is too traumatic to believe it is bogus. I don’t know what’s what. I’m tired. I’ll get back with you. But I never heard of Armstrong till your post.
For me, the bottom line is genocide. The not really chosen are out to kill the rest of humanity so they can have the world to themselves. They may want to keep a few of us around as toys but that’s about it. If they have any Religion, it is merely a tool to promote their agendas.
There is a letter written at the time the Spaniards expelled all who would not become Christians. It was written in the 1600s. This letter instructs the chosen to become Christians in order to destroy Christianity. It also instructs them to become doctors and pharmacists in order to kill the enemy Christians. It tells them to convert to Christianity outwardly but to maintain their own faith actually and to become lawyers and leaders,judges, politicians so they will control the courts and the laws.
We can see this in practice. These TV Pastors and other leading Christians are leading the Christian flock to their deaths because it is all part of the plan.
Churchill was an alcoholic. His maniacal bombing of civilians, it’s genocidally quality, becomes clearer the more I learn. I attributed it to the Banksters, Rothschilds, and I still do; but, I see there is also a fanatical Religious fervor underlying the greed and general homicidal madness.
HA! You, as the rest of the world, have been led astray by Hasatan thru his ekklesia/church/CIRCE for the last 1700 years. You have what Paul was saying EXACTLY backwards and twisted. Like Peter warned of those who are unstable and uneducated would do…..not understand Pauls writings. Yahshua was the WORD as it says in John 1. Do your homework on what the WORD is. Yahshua was the walking Torah in 3-d….not the Talmud, but the written word/commands/instructions/laws of the father Yahovah.
Nairb says:
John Brennan personally vouched for him. Have to support fellow believers.
Aint he a dandy,,, SOB has no business being in his position
stevor says:
So, the FBI interviewed him 3 times. The CIA heard about it and figured that the guy would make a great Patsy? The CIA got him all drugged up, helped him get a gun, and probably even drove him to the place? (those are just guesses by me, based on what it seems the CIA has done in the past)
It wouldn’t surprise me!
Houston/Cypress/Katy/Shtf says:
Texas, we are a little different.. jihadist will get there asses shot up in this city and may not help from Law enforcement.
You muslim jihadist try that crap with me in public, you better get ready to die.
HCKS..
Welcome to my city jihadist. You start it, we finish it
If their manipulating people to go on shooting sprees to get gun control . It seems to be having the opaset effect. I bet gun sale will sky rocket next week. And who cares about a permit. Carry or die. And you cops should be disregarding unconstitutional laws . You swore an othe to do just that . If you can’t see it or hear it don’t ask. Don’t tell.
You know, I was in the market for just one more firearm, dang, there goes the inventory and sales.
PTPO, I’ve got a couple of more purchases in mind myself. Obola is going to prove once more he’s a great gun salesman. Gun dealers are going to get overwhelmed again and SOON. Feels like Sandy Hook all over again.
I read on beforeitsnews.com that Mateen was a registered Democrat that supported Obama. Another story there stated that a witness was giving an account stating that there was more than one person involved, and that the feed was immediately cut by media. He also stated that there were people inside the club holding the doors so no one could escape.
1vet says:
Wow, ain’t that the cat’s meow!!!
If this is true, we ain’t seen nothing yet…
Carry everywhere you go…I do…
The guy was a Muslime, and Muslimes are to kill the infidel. Gays are on top of there list right under Jews.
WW4 Muslimes VS. Gays
You make a good point. More and more, ISIS have focused on the gays (throwing them off buildings etc.). They have done this for years now and not a single gay in the West has spoken up or denounced this; instead, most LGBT groups have been banging on about refugees and Muslims needing to be let in in the millions and we need access for trans to women’s toilets. ISIS probably saw that as a giant weakness and a perfect wedge issue (the Turks are running newspaper headlines that are far from sympathetic for those killed). Remember: the Turks are the future of Europe and they definitely do not like gays. ISIS know most of the world is anti-gay (Africa, etc.)and most people are not going to go to war to defend sodomy and gay marriage, no matter what they may say.
Basically, the LGBT lobby has but one choice now if they want to be defended from radical Islam: vote Trump.
Yet they traffic sex slaves and are known to like little boys….go figure!
Can it be that under wars and rumors of war,
Rumor:Archaic. a continuous, confused noise
late 14c., from Old French rumor “commotion, widespread noise or report” (Modern French rumeur), from Latin rumorem (nominative rumor) “noise, clamor, common talk, hearsay, popular opinion…..
that this is a false flag?
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-13/multiple-suspects-loose-orlando-why-media-blackout-eyewitness-accounts
I’m just putting it out because of the bathroom laws etc., and now you have near perfect setup to counter that arguement.
I question EVERYTHING
Oh, for sure there is more to come and not a damn thing will be done about it. You wait and see. Kill one of those scumbags and Allahu Arkbar, ten more jump up.
How about those Sleeper Cells. Awake little Jihadist.
Might have an Obama sticker on the car and be registered
Democrats. Hahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
Aljamo that’s some shit, just saw on. Quayle about, is your city on the Islamic list?. I am sure mine is, don’t come to me directly if your a jihadist, you may get a not so good supprise., your face smashed up, one of your arms are legs broken if you engage me directly, following shock and panic will cause me to respond to that attacker. I have been practicing.
HCKS
Don’t try that in my area, it’s a health hazard.
Why are the supposed victims declared dead while still inside the building? I thought that had to be done in a hospital. Why were there no ambulances at the scene after the event? It all seems fake to me. Obama wants your guns. All of these incidents have been carried out by government, first and second WTC bombings, OKC Murrah attack, Columbine, Sandy Hook, Boston Marathon, San Bernadino, those I’ve forgot and more coming.
It is indeed fake. That’s why there are so many inconsistencies. You would think they would be better at pulling this shit off after the SH FAIL.
aljamo, never thought of that. You are so right…where were the medics and ambulances working side by side with the swat and other law enforcement.
When you have multiple victims you declare the dead to be dead and direct the responders to the living. It’s called Triage.
rednek101 says:
“Outraged Border Patrol agents and supervisors on the front lines say illegal immigrants are being released in droves because there’s no room to keep them in detention. “They’re telling us to put them on a bus and let them go,” said one law enforcement official in Arizona. “Just move those bodies across the country.”
A few items…
The action of moving the illegals with a contractor is just covertly sidestepping the same issue which cropped up a year+- back. I guess now instead of using big buses they’ve decided to use vans. I little more discrete but still the same practice that caused the NIMBY ruckus in several US towns.
WTH are they moving them INTO the U.S. when the nice little white van can just as easily cross the border and drive them back to mehico?? So they’re OTM?? If you really want to move them around, maybe back to their own country, put the Air Force to work with their nice C-17s and C-130s and ship the OTM back to their country of origin. OR…Lease a few civilian aircraft. A couple of runs per day will move thousands of illegals. The cost of shipping the people home will easily be offset by keeping them off of our entitlement programs. htt p://rense.com/general81/dtli.htm
So as to not seem like a totally heartless bastard…
In the US we spend $350 BILLION on the illegal issue annually, as cited in the rense article. Maybe if we spent $50B and tried to help these folks in place, in their own country it would be a tremendous help on both sides of the equation. Corruption in the countries in question is the killer however.
It Might have been a false flag..
HCKS.
Can I just add this guy worked for a world class security company. This wasn’t a two bit night watchman company. These people constantly monitor employees. They would watch your online activity and constantly scan for your presence on the web. Totally ignoring other employees reports of strange behavior and Jihadist rhetoric they signed for this guy to get special weapons permits and training.
They are either in on it with the FBI, or they are idiots. The company this guy worked for is bigger than Black Water.
turdsondehorizon says:
just like my name says, thats there is folks in our future
Enemy of the State says:
So , taking OUR guns away would be considered an act of war , right Hilary?, and Obama
Because now that the false flag is being told to us as coming from a Terrorist group
By anyone’s account you two disarming any Americans would be the absolute wrong thing for home land security , as you are to be protecting this country and its citizens as under oath now , right?
talon1776 says:
I wonder if we will see 50 funerals in the next week…which goes to restelle’s observation…did this really happen?
Live Free or Die…the time for discussion is coming to a close
Talon1776
Archivist says:
Maybe we should check the Orlando newspapers for all the obituaries.
That sounds like a good idea.
I think I’ll do just that tomorrow morning.
Here’s the official victim list, which is supposed to be updated when the families get notified.
ht tp://www.cityoforlando.net/blog/victims/
Here’s the obituary listings for the local paper, which will need to be checked over the next week or two.
ht tp://www.legacy.com/obituaries/orlandosentinel/
Buzzfeed is supposed to have some recent photos of victims.
JD says:
Open borders in the US and throughout Europe is no coincidence, nor are these policies the result of political naïveté, idiocy, stupidity, incompetence, or inexperience.
These open borders policies are DELIBERATE.
In order for tyrannical global government to be instituted, first must come the collapse of sovereign nations/Western civilization.
Savage 3rd world invaders are being welcomed into the US, Canada, and throughout all of Europe, and every government and government leader is complicit.
Our “leaders” know that the result of these open border policies will be massacres, chaos, financial collapse, lawlessness, and death for the citizens of their respective nations.
“We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.”
“In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn’t such a great idea after all.”
Strobe Talbot, President Clinton’s Deputy Secretary of State, Time Magazine, July 20th, l992.
“The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is dedicated to one-world government, financed by a number of the largest tax exempt foundation (i.e. Rockefeller), and wielding such power and influence over our lives in the areas of finance, business, labor, military, education, and mass communication media, that it should be familiar to every American concerned with good government and with preserving and defending the US Constitution and our free-enterprise system. Yet, the nation’s right-to-know machinery, the news media; usually so aggressive in exposures to inform our people, remain silent when it comes to the CFR, its members and their activities. The CFR is the establishment. Not only does it have influence and power in key decision-making positions at the highest levels of government to apply pressure from above, but it also finances and uses individuals and groups to bring pressure from below, to justify the high level decisions for converting the US from a sovereign Republic into a servile member of a one-world dictatorship.”
Congressman John R. Rarick
“Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil.”
Dr. Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference, Evians, France, 1991
Very true: with the level of mass surveillance we know is going on, it is just not plausible that the government does not know about the illegals. It is part of the plan. Nothing on this scale happens by accident. We are being taken into a third world hell-hole and the first step is to fill the West up with third world people with third world views and attitudes. I wouldn’t want to be gay in the 21st century with this stuff going on.
And who’s paying for all these cameras on every street corner? And are they really nesesary for what ? You can track anyone by there cell phone. I’ve seen the tactics they use to put people in prison . That’s why there isn’t. Rioting That’s were the work force is . We have know idea how many patriots have been set up and sent away. Any thing you say on the phone is recorded and stored. And will be used against you in the round ups. Threatening the life of a gov. Employee manitory 20 years. Advocating violence mandatory 15 years. And you will die of cancer long before you get out. This is standard Bolshavic communist tactics .and while your rotting in prison your family will be persecuted and starved. Because their daddy was a traitor to the new world order.
Heads up.
A few days back I told you I was checking my medical supplies.
Now we have the shooting.
Might be good to get a few military combat dressings. They are 4x7in bandages and with the wrapping stop the bleeding.
Do not remove after applying bandage. Put in your Car First Aid Bag.
Pampers make good inexpensive absorbant dressings. You just have to tear off the strips of stretchy material down the sides.
I like this tweet!!!!!!!
✔ @realDonaldTrump
Is President Obama going to finally mention the words radical Islamic terrorism? If he doesn’t he should immediately resign in disgrace!
12:58 PM – 12 Jun 2016
Robbie41 says:
http://www.stevequayle.com/index.php?s=33&d=1791
EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT FROM WOMAN WHO WAS SHOT WITH 12 BULLETS AS 2 OTHER MEN ALSO WERE IN THE CLUB FIRING AT PEOPLE
Earlier I had posted about my employees sister who was at the club when the whole situation went down .I just got some updates. She took 12 bullets ,11 were removed and one is in her liver and can’t be taken out. She is coherent, fairly stable, and VERY lucky to still be alive .But that not the point of this post. There are bits the media are not telling us. Mind you, this is coming directly from a survivor of the attack: there are two others that were in the club slaughtering people last night that were not caught. They are still out there and they are armed and dangerous. The media is not reporting this as they don want to scare everyone, but I think it’s important that people know. Friends please stay safe. I would probably avoid theme parks, clubs, shopping malls, or anywhere with high concentration of people for little while. Cody Agnew
Mr Smith says:
G4S is a company from Israel that has spread like cancer all over the world and many people here in the UK hate them and see them for what they are.
Taking guns away from people won’t save anyone and just makes them tagets of the terroirsts or the police who allowed are to get away with murder in the US of A these days.
Gays will get more rights as a result of this and your government will use it as an excuse to spy on you even more and you may live to see the day of “the internet of things” all being thrown in the bin as your washing machine grasses you up for not not being “Gay” friendly in your own house.
Yes people you are being watched more than you will ever know thanks to USA based software corporations all being owned by zionists bankers.
Standard Bolshavic communist Jews. Read Carl Marx. Real name Mordicia Levy. Read Leon Trotsky Real name Lev Bronstien. Punch up. What famous men have said about the Jews. Especially George Washington , Thomas Jefferson , Ben Franklin, The people that got us into ww2 . FDR Real last name Rosenfeld. A Jew . The. man that led ww2 . Year book nick name was . The terrible Swedish Jew. Eisenhower. Statins real last name translated meant . Son of Jew. Jack Rubys real name . Jacob Rubinstien. Jew . Did he do us a favor or avoid a trial for the maybe killer of one of one of our presidents that told of secret coveting groups . And tried to stop the FED . By issuing treasury notes.? Jews are 2% of the American population . And own what % of our media . Supreme Court . Congress and senate. And the FED and banks? You could say what’s wrong with that . If it wasn’t for the fact that our economy is imploding are media is lieing . And our gov. Is obviously doing things that will destroy our country. So who’s responsible ? The people that have somehow gained control and ownership of nearly everything? Or someone else? Jesus himself warned us of the children of satan. God himself told us that he knew of the blasfamy of those that call themselves Jews but are of the synagogue of satan. How can you argue with that . Jesus and God are racist antisemite Nazi liars? And the facts are . That God Jesus and Hitler are the ones that warned us the most . Can you argue against that fact? Satans greatest weapon is the lie . And his children are so good at it that they fooled even the elect . Ww2 was a total lie. Believe God Jesus or the ones who control the media . Satans liers. Pick a side . And live for eternity with the consequences of your pick.?
Punch up. Pravda.Ru. Italians in uproar over child porn. Or. Live leak. Blood libel .
Sen. Burticus says:
False Fag!
Funniest two words I have read in weeks! Well done.
If you want a good laugh, go check out the Brits having their asses handed to them by the Russians at Euro 2016.
Thanks, Frank. Please re-use the phrase liberally until it gains widespread acceptance. Anything that heaps disrespect on fedgov or its favored groups like queers, gun-grabbers, Muzzies and Mexinicasalvaguatahonduricans is legal game.
Good tip, as I don’t follow sports and didn’t know about the gangs of Ruskie thugs opening cans o’ [email protected]$$ on the hapless Limey hooligans.
Read at veteranstoday: MK ULTRA Triple Play in Orlando. This will clear up any doubts as to what’s going on here.
navyguy says:
Major Factor liberals..
Garland Texas…. Texas 2 Jihadis 0
Orlando FL. Liberals/LGBT 1 Jihadi 50+K/60+W
Now which was a gun free zone..
No, No….these are not false flags in the sense of being orchestrated by the govt. That would be too risky to exposure. What the govt is doing is flooding the country with 3rd worlders and jihadists. They know that these events will then multiply by default, and then giving them the ability to garner more and more power, by taking more & more rights from the citizens….all in the name of security.!!!!! The eventual outcome will be martial law, declared after the horrific events that are coming down the pike. There will be no election. They will be suspended, and Obama will retain power “temporarily”, whilst the country works thru the crisis. Like temporary taxes, once levied, they always become permanent. Hail Obama. SigHeil
Observer says:
When it all goes south, I listen to Mel Tillis singing, “Guide me home by Georgia moon”, on you tube.
https://www.intellihub.com/man-overheard-shooters-phone-conversation/
Hello, I hope this info is help-ful to you. Just passing along if it is important..
lolzngiggles says:
Total false flag imo. Have you seen the “hero” swat team member trending on facebook? Supposedly his kevlar helmet took a shot from a .223 or a 5.56 without penetration *lol* and all he had was a bruise on his forehead. Just youtube what a .223/5.56 does to a level 3a hevlar helmet.
molonlabe says:
It makes we wonder that if he was transporting illegals from the Mexican border to Phoenix, if that he could have possibly transported any other people. By that I mean any other terrorists, it would be the perfect means to get them inside without drawing any attention.
TheGuy says:
YES MORE GUN CONTROL!
… except…
guns are illegal in Paris.
… uhhh…
Hmmm. Scratches head in liberal confusion.
Shotty behind the bar would have solved this extremely quickly…
The news reported several times that an off duty police officer was there as a security guard and I heard no more about it. I’m trying to find it on line and can’t. Anyone have an update regarding what interaction he had with the shooter?
According to AOL a gay gun rights group, the Pink Pistols, is recommending that gays get carry permits. In light of this and the recent 9th US Court of Appeals ruling stating that government can require a special need to grant issuance of a carry license their sexual orientation might just qualify.
I would like to see this liberal court simultaneously claim that gays are a persecuted group and then deny them the means of protection.
While Muslims are not the only a-holes out there who have attacked innocents in mas casualty attacks, they are the all-time record holders for numbers killed in pretty well all Western countries (USA, UK, Spain, France, etc.). You just can’t take that winning accomplishment from Akbul and his merry band of desert-dwelling dirtbags.
So, for the President to go out of his way to dismiss it as ‘domestic terrorism’, is dense at best. There is a pattern and that pattern is to kill as many people as possible, no warnings (the gents they were, the IRA used to at least give you a warning to reduce civilian deaths). But Muslims don’t do warnings because they want deaths. That makes them the lowest of the low.
One can only hope and pray the devil is ac-dc and he has just lubed up his 12 incher and is settling in for an all-eternity ass-banging orgy with those dead jihadis (no 70 virgins for you!).
Rafer Janders says:
Looking at all possible motives, Hmmmm just
for a minute if you will entertain the idea
Reports say he had been to the club before.
So just for the exercise, the Shitneck Muslim shooter
is nothing more than a jilted self loathing Gay Muslim
Democrat, Knowing that his family and Muslims friends
would admire him as Martyr for ISLAM, and he would
advance the gun control agenda his party, instead of
just being a Gay Muslim self Loather getting even for being rejected…
Jäfer Janders:
Na. Don’t think so.
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Florida's Callaway cleared to play in opener vs UMass
FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2015, file photo, Florida wide receiver Antonio Callaway (81) runs the ball in for a touchdown after making a catch against Mississippi during the first half of an NCAA college football game in Gainesville, Fla. Callaway, suspended
Gary McCullough, File
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) No. 25 Florida will have its top receiver available for Saturday's season opener against UMass.
Sophomore Antonio Callaway, suspended much of the spring semester because a fellow student said he sexually assaulted her, has been cleared to play against the Minutemen.
Coach Jim McElwain said Callaway was given the go-ahead Friday. A university hearing officer cleared Callaway of sexual assault on Aug. 12, saying Callaway was not responsible based on a preponderance of evidence. The woman, her attorney and witnesses boycotted the hearing, saying the hearing officer was biased because of his financial contributions to the Gators.
The woman had until last Friday to appeal the ruling.
Callaway's return could be big for the Gators. The Miami native had 35 catches for 678 yards and four touchdowns as a freshman last season and returned two punts for touchdowns.
''We're fired up to have Antonio in the lineup,'' quarterback Luke Del Rio said. ''He's done a tremendous job in practice. He's been consistent every day and worked really hard to get it shape. And when he came back, we embraced him with open arms and he's done a great job getting back into the groove. It can be difficult for some people.
''Definitely going to be an advantage to have him out there because he's such a great player both on offense and on special teams. It will be fun.''
Callaway was suspended in January for violating the university's code of conduct policy. The accuser did not go to police. Instead, she reported the incident to the university's office of student affairs. Callaway was not allowed on campus, forced to take classes online. He was partially reinstated in June, allowed to return to campus and work out with teammates.
There was some belief that Callaway might be suspended for at least a game, especially after he testified that he was high on marijuana at the time of the alleged sexual assault in early December.
But McElwain said two weeks ago that Callaway has ''dealt with a lot, obviously not being allowed on campus, not being part of the family, not being part what we can do to help, be supportive.''
The Gators will have at least five players suspended for the opener.
Freshmen receivers Tyrie Cleveland and Rick Wells won't play because they are facing felony charges for allegedly firing BB guns into a residential hall last month. All-Southeastern Conference cornerback Jalen Tabor and tight end C'yontai Lewis will join them on the sideline. They were suspended for fighting in practice. And McElwain said one senior - he declined to name him - won't play.
''You know, we've had some guys that obviously made some choices not to play in this game,'' McElwain said. ''Those guys will join us when the time's ready.''
AP college football website: www.collegefootball.ap.org
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Lifestyle in Symmes Township, OH
Attractive estates, homes, townhouses, condominiums and growing retail and commercial areas now grace the hills of Symmes Township where wildlife once roamed the sycamore woods; where farmers worked the fertile soil near the Little Miami River; where industrious Germans founded mill villages.
It's quite a change since the first pioneers came to this area in the 1790s, but a link remains between the first settlers and today's suburban dweller - an appreciation for open spaces, privacy and a less hectic life. Symmes Township bears the name of John Cleves Symmes whose purchase of the lands between the two Miami rivers (the Miami Purchase) in 1788 led to the founding of Cincinnati. The township itself was founded in 1824. Early residents were German and Scotch-Irish. Interstates I-71 and I-275 have opened up Symmes to increasing development. Homes are beautiful examples of today's architectural brilliance, gathered together in warm, friendly communities. And while industry and commercialism have ensured Symmes Township's growing prosperity and contemporary services, a sense of history still lives in some older buildings, villages and even in life-long residents.
Easy access to I-71, I-275 and I-75 takes Symmes residents to downtown Cincinnati and the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport is within 30 minutes.
"Bethesda North Hospital" – a Level III Trauma Center – is located south in Montomgery, with well-used emergency room facilities. "Jewish Hospital Kenwood" is within a ten-minute drive and is located on Kenwood Road in Sycamore Township. This hospital features a state-of-the-art patient tower as well as a 24-hour emergency department. It also offers the region’s only adult Blood & Marrow Transplant Center.
Other Cincinnati area hospitals, such as The Christ Hospital, Good Samaritan Hospital, University Hospital and the Children’s Hospital Medical Center are located within a 20-minute drive.
The largest retail shopping centers are Harper's Point and Governor's Plaza II. Harper's Station and the Fields Ertel corridor offer many exciting retail choices. Specialty shops, boutiques and large supermarkets also serve the area. The Kenwood Towne Centre is located within a 10-minute drive and features 180 specialty stores as well as Nordstrom's, Macy's and Dilliard's department stores. Also nearby is The Kenwood Collection and Sycamore Plaza which feature national brand retail stores.
"Symmes Township Park" has 3 picnic shelters, playgrounds, basketball and volleyball courts, walking trails, a bark park and bird sanctuary. The "Camp Dennison Nature Trail" has a half-mile hiking trail that is quite scenic. Beautiful "Seven Gables Park" covers over 8 acres at the intersection of Seven Gables and Montgomery Road and has a picnic are, playground and walking trail. "Home of the Brave Park" has 54 acres with soccer, and softball fields, a Veteran's memorial area as well as wet and dry playground areas. "Stonebridge Park" features a ball field and playground. "Blong Memorial Park" is a small park that memorializes those citizens killed by the April 1999 tornado. "Meade Park" is located on Lebanon Road and is highlighted by the 1900s Greek-Revival House that is used by the Cincinnati Horticultural Society. You will also find a reconstructed log house in this park along with walking trails. "The Little Miami Bike Trail" runs through the township and offers a great place to ride, run or walk. "Kings Island Amusement Park" is nearby, as are The Beach Waterpark, golf courses, swimming clubs and much more.
The Symmes Regional Branch Library is the largest branch in the Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library System.
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9992 Southport Ln
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Strictly favourite confirms she’ll perform
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2018 8:39pm
Stacey Dooley has told worried fans she WILL perform on Saturday night - despite suffering a serious and painful injury in rehearsals.
It has been revealed the documentary maker tore an intercostal muscle behind a rib just days into practising for her next dance.
She is under strict instructions not to move for a couple of days, meaning she won't have long to rehearse for Saturday night's show.
Stacey's agent told The Sun Online: "It's very painful. She is strapped up and the doctor has said she should be able to move in a couple of days."
The 31-year-old saw a medic this morning for an update on her injury and was relieved to find out nothing was broken.
She told fans: "Nothing's broke! All the drugs and all the cuppas gonna hook us up! See you Sat! THANK YOU SO SO MUCH TO ALL THE STAFF. You are all bloody amazing."
Last night Stacey posted a picture of a woman wearing a cast over her right breast, arm and collar on social media.
Nothings broke! 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼 All the drugs and all the cuppas gonna hook us up! See you Sat! 👊🏽 THANK YOU SO SO MUCH TO ALL THE STAFF. You are all bloody amazing ✨
A post shared by Stacey Dooley (@sjdooley) on Oct 30, 2018 at 5:14am PDT
It was captioned: "Current sitch" alongside emojis including a bandaged head, face-palm and distraught face.
Stacey - who is going from strength to strength on the BBC show alongside pro dancer Kevin Clifton - made fans fear she had broken a bone.
One said: "Oh no, hope you’ve not broken anything."
Another added: "What happened and I hope you can still be on strictly."
Someone else said: "Noooooooooo...what happened?!"
For Halloween Week, Stacey performed an incredible Doctor Who-themed Tango earning her an impressive 35 points.
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Foxsister to close and become Italian-focused Great Gold
Justin Phillips July 5, 2019
Foxsister on 24th Street will close on Aug. 2.
Photo: Foxsister
The Mission District’s soju-slushie serving hangout, Foxsister, will close next month and reopen as a red sauce joint called Great Gold. The new Italian fare-fueled venture will remain under the control of current Foxsister business partners Brandon Kirksey and David Steele.
Foxsister’s final dinner service is slated for Aug. 2 and Great Gold will open in its place at 3161 24th St. on Aug. 9.
“A year or so after we opened Foxsister, Brandon and I began developing the menu and concept and started the process of looking for a location for what would be our second restaurant together,” Steele said in reference to Great Gold. “After spending almost a year without finding a location that we felt suited us and having the itch to start cooking this food we so desperately wanted to cook, we decided to start doing so in the (current Foxsister) space.”
Great Gold is the duo’s take on classic American red sauce joints, but with a focus on seasonality and sustainability, evident in its support of carbon neutral farming efforts through participation in Anthony Mynt's non-profit Zero Food Print, an organization that counts Steele as among its board members.
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Pasta will be made in-house daily at Great Gold and the opening menu has a section dedicated to spaghetti — $14 for red sauce, roasted garlic and parmesan, $18 for red sauce and meatballs and $14 for aglio e olio (anchovy, garlic, chile and parmesan). Other highlights include a handmade cavatelli cauliflower cacio e pepe, chicken al mattone and a family-style lasagna night every Sunday.
(See the full menu here)
The new direction also fits Kirkey’s culinary style. Previously he was executive chef of Italian destinations Tavolata and Rione XIII in Seattle, and was also chef de cuisine of Flour + Water in San Francisco. Former Chronicle Rising Star Chef Timmy Malloy, who rose to prominence at Local’s Corner, is joining Kirksey in the kitchen as chef de cuisine.
Flour + Water and Central Kitchen sommelier and wine director Sam Bogue is joining the Great Gold team as a consultant on the beverage front. A focus will be placed on Italian wines at affordable prices, Steele said.
As for the aesthetics, Steele said the team will not make any dramatic changes to the restaurant’s look. The facade by graffiti artist Apexer will remain in place as will the wheat paste mural created by Cheyenne Randall.
“When we designed the restaurant, we made decisions that we felt fit the neighborhood rather than the concept, and we love the space and the neighborhood so much that we don't really want to change it,” Steele said.
At a glance, Great Gold appears to simply be a new iteration of a business that has changed and evolved multiple times over the last two years. In 2018 alone, Foxsister added a fixed-price menu, started dabbling in Italian fare and incorporated a brunch pop-up on the weekends called Benedict. But the story of Foxsister’s evolution is a bit deeper for Steele who began his restaurant career working in Italian American restaurants around the Philadelphia area, starting as a dishwasher and eventually managing a restaurant on the Jersey Shore.
He moved to San Francisco, met business partner David White and opened Flour + Water in 2009, which found runaway success under chef Thomas McNaughton. Steele, White and McNaughton would go on to open Central Kitchen, Salumeria and Trick Dog (with partners, the Bon Vivants) all under the Ne Timeas Restaurant Group umbrella. Great Gold is just Steele getting back to his first passion.
“We feel (Great Gold) is innovative and fills a niche as currently diners have to choose from either farm to table ‘Cal-Ital’ spots like Flour + Water, Delfina, SPQR or Cotogna, or restaurants like many of those found in North Beach that have classic and familiar dishes but may not be embracing the ideology of California cuisine,” Steele said. “With Great Gold, we hope to bridge this gap with dishes that most everyone will know and are familiar with.”
Great Gold: 3161 24th St.; Opening Aug. 9; Hours to come.
Justin Phillips is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: jphillips@sfchronicle.com. Twitter: @JustMrPhillips
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Justin Phillips joined the San Francisco Chronicle in November 2016 as a food writer. He previously served as the City, Industry, and Gaming reporter for the American Press in Lake Charles, Louisiana. He extensively covered the growth and transformation of Southwest Louisiana’s multibillion dollar energy sector. Justin also served as a columnist for the American Press where he won a Louisiana-Mississippi Associated Press Media Editors award for his weekly food column. In the past, Justin spent time working in the newsrooms of the Contra Costa Times, the Tri Valley Herald, and the Oakland Tribune. He studied journalism at Louisiana Tech University.
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Gold corner→
Analis: tidak ada hal lain selain bullish pada emas setelah menembus $ 1.400
You Can't Be Anything But Bullish On Gold After $1,400 Breaks – Analysts
Gold OutlookGold Corner
Patience has finally paid off for the gold bull, as demand for the precious metal has pushed prices to levels not seen in nearly six years.
Although gold prices are off their highs after breaking above $1,400, the market is still seeing its best weekly gains in more than three years. August gold futures last traded at $1,393.70 an ounce, up nearly 4% since the previous Friday.
According to it some analysts, gold's major breakout could be just the start of a long-awaited rally as investors adjust to shifting interest rate expectations. Gold saw most of its gains the previous week following the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy meeting, which opened the door to a rate cut as early as next month.
"I don't think you can be anything but bullish on gold in the near-term after this significant technical breakout," said Colin Cieszynski, chief market strategist at SIA Wealth Management.
Cieszynski added that gold's focus on global interest rates is helping the market decouple from volatile day-to-day safe-haven flows. He noted that growing dovish monetary policy is coming from all major central banks.
"When central bankers start talking about the stimulus that is generally weak for currencies, and this sentiment doesn't just shift overnight. That is why I think gold's break out is particularly significant. It’s not on the news of the day; it's because of the shift in monetary policy."
Specifically, in the U.S., markets expect the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates as early as July with the growing expectation of a 50 basis point move, for the year markets are pricing in nearly four rate cuts.
U.S. Dollar Weakness Supports Higher Gold Prices
Although there is a lot of bullish sentiment in the marketplace, investors still need to keep an eye on the U.S. dollar, as this will continue to impact gold prices. The U.S. Dollar Index last week trading near a one-month low, pushing below critical support levels at 97 points.
Jasper Lawler, head of research at London Capital Group, said that he is a little concerned about the growing bearishness in the U.S. dollar. He explained that although markets are expecting the Federal Reserve to cut rates next month, they are still not as dovish as other central banks will be this year.
He added that the bearish bets on the U.S. dollar could reverse fairly quickly if central banks in Europe and Japan pursue more aggressively looser monetary policy. Both economies, he noted, are in worse shape than the U.S.
G20 Meeting Poses A Risk For Gold Market This Week
Although the idea of looser monetary policy is supporting gold prices above $1.400 an ounce, there is still a question of the timing of expected cuts; according to some analysts, this weekend Group of 20 meeting, a gathering of leaders and central bankers of the 20 largest countries in the world, could create some volatility in the marketplace.
Ole Hansen, head of commodity strategy at Saxo Bank said that any comments on a possible resolution to the ongoing trade war between U.S. and China could reduce gold’s safe-haven appeal and take some momentum away from its current rally.
However, he added that it is unlikely any material agreements will be made at the conference.
Christopher Vecchio, senior currency strategist at DailyFX.com, said any positive comments on trade from the G20 could shift the outlook on the global and U.S. economic growth, which could push the timing of rate hikes down the road.
"Right now markets are having to grapple with a wide disparity in interest rate expectations, right now the most likely outcome is that the Federal Reserve will cut rates by 50 basis points this year, but there is also another likely scenario where trade improves and the Fed leaves interest rates unchanged," he said. "With the first cut expected in July, we could see a good deal of volatility this summer."
Lukman Otunuga, research analyst at FXTM, also said that he will be watching headlines from the G20 meeting, which kicks off on June 27 in Japan.
"If the United States and China do find a resolution to the long-standing trade tensions, this will cause a rapid shift in the economic outlook and could even mean that the Federal Reserve throws the keys to lower U.S. interest rates out of the fast-moving car," said Otunuga in a recent report.
Gold Doesn't Need To Fear Record High Equity Market
Gold isn't the only market that is reacting positively to the latest dovish sentiment from global central banks. The S&P 500 is trading near records. According to some reports price action, this month, has been the seventh best June in the index's history.
However, analysts aren't worried about equity markets taking momentum away from the gold market. Lawler said that there is still too much uncertainty surging through financial markets.
"Although equities are rallying, investors still see value in holding a secure asset like gold," he said. "Even though the Fed has backstopped growth and is supporting equity markets, they haven't removed all the risk from the marketplace and that will help gold.
Hansen said that he doesn't think this is a great environment for equity markets because central banks are cutting interest rates to support slowing economic growth.
"The focus on lower growth and lower interest rates are potent factors for gold that will continue to drive gold prices higher," he said.
Otunuga also said that he is not worried about gold prices, even if equity markets continue to record fresh all-time highs.
"The precious metal remains heavily supported by Dollar weakness, uncertainty revolving around global trade developments and rising speculation over major central banks cutting interest rates," he said in an email comment to Kitco News. "For as long as these core themes remain present, Gold is positioned to be shielded from downside shocks."
Gold Needs To Hold This Support Level
Although analysts are optimistic on gold through the rest of the year, some also see this breakout as fragile until it tests critical downside support.
Vecchio said that the market appears a little frothing and he would not be surprised to see the market take a little breather in the near-term. He added that gold's uptrend is still in place as long as support holds at $1,360 an ounce.
Ole Hansen said that he is looking for gold prices to hold support between $1,355 and $1,375.
Lawler is looking at a wider support area for gold and remains bullish as long as prices hold above $1,300.
"It not surprising to see a larger correction in gold after a significant breakout like this," he said.
The Final Say
According to some analysts, markets are expected to tread water through most of the week, with traders unlikely to make big bets one way or another ahead of the G20 meeting.
However, some critical economic data could create some volatility in markets. Hansen added that investors will continue to watch data to determine the timing of the Federal Reserve’s expected rate hike; weaker economic data will continue to support a July move, he said.
The economic calendar starts on Tuesday with the release of U.S. consumer confidence data and new home sales numbers. Mid-week markets will get a glimpse of the health of the manufacturing sector with May durable goods orders. Markets will see the final reading of second-quarter GDP and pending home sales data on Thursday. Finally, the week ends with the release of relevant inflation data.
Source: Kitco News
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June 2018 Report
Mexico: children toil in tobacco fields as reforms fail to fix poverty - The Guardian
A boy and his father threading tobacco leaves in Santiago, Nayarit. Photograph: César Rodríguez for the Guardian
Tobacco pickers in Mexico often come from the poorest regions and are some of the most marginalised, looking for seasonal work in fertile states like Nayarit, in the north-west of Mexico. Previous exposés have revealed widespread child labour, and schemes were put in place to improve the situation. However as recently as March this year, a visit showed 7 out of 10 plantations had children working. The government paid out $500million to 6.1 million families in 2016, but poverty still drags families and children back to these plantations.
How we can fight child labour in the tobacco industry - The Guardian
Tiyamike Phiri, 14, at work on a tobacco plot in Kasungu district, Malawi. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian
The world's leading cigarette companies may be using tobacco from farms with labour conditions and human rights problems, from research carried out in the last 5 years. Many of these children from tobacco firms worldwide complain of nausea, vomiting, headaches, and dizziness while they worked – all symptoms consistent with acute nicotine poisoning, or green tobacco sickness.
Brazil has established penalties for child labor violations – not just for farmers, but for the companies purchasing their lea, as well as provided extensive information to tobacco farmers about the hazards of nicotine and pesticide exposure, particularly for children. Which has seen positive changes, although not eliminating child labour completely.
The tobacco companies say they are doing all they can, have instructed their suppliers not to allow it and fund programmes to take children out of the fields and put them in school. But it isn’t working. In fact, the ILO says, child labour is increasing.
Combating child labour through unconditional cash transfer
Child labour in Nigeria is largely fueled by poverty, rapid urbanisation, lack of regulations - and money earned by child family members forms a significant proportion of families' incomes. United Nations Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF) introduced an unconditional initiative called the Cash Transfer Programme (CTP) supported by UK Department for International Development (DFID). Since its inception, there has been a tremendous surge in the reduction of girl-child labour, resulting in an increase in enrollment of children especially girls, in benefiting communities.
Child labour in Sabah: Children only accompanying elders at work - The Sun Malaysia
It was reported that around 200,000 children aged five to 18 were found to be working, including helping out their parents in various sectors in Sabah. "They were found to be involved in various plantation activities, such as plucking oil palm, harvesting, cleaning and others." The Ministry of Human Resources concluded that there was no compulsion on the children to work, explained that the children and youths were only seen to be helping out their parents at work, and not viewed as child labourers. But is this really the reality of the situation? Some of us may not agree.
Since Rana Plaza, Have Fast Fashion Retailers Actually Materially Improved Conditions For Their Workers? - Huffington Post
What do fast fashion retailers think about the environmental impact of the attitude of treating clothing as cheap and disposable? Their pricing structure and collection release cycles has resulted in the fashion becoming the world’s second most polluting industry, with billions of tonnes of discarded garments in landfill. Most companies still operate in broadly the same way that enabled the Rana Plaza disaster to occur, relying on auditing for basic legal compliance. Fashion brands had repeatedly audited the factories in the Rana Plaza complex, but the risks went either undetected or ignored.
It is also increasingly prevalent that brands might have a lengthy rules on child labour within their supplier code of conduct but are they put into practice? 426 fashion industry workers died in “workplace incidents” in 2017 alone, with workers’ rights remaining extremely compromised and any form of workers union and protest against unfair treatment can be highly risky.
Are consumers any better off with fast fashion or would they be wearing higher quality clothing, saving money in cost per wear, reducing their impact on the environment and supporting fairly paid and ethically treated workers in the fashion industry by opting to #FckFastFashion?
Child Labour: the true cost of chocolate production - Raconteur
Who doesn't love chocolate, but it may come at great cost to those who produce the cocoa, notably child labourers in West Africa, to who chocolate is a source not of pleasure but of hard, sometimes hazardous, work. Poverty is often the primary reason, with farmers hit by slumps in global prices, as well as their plots being too small, too old and agricultural methods too dated to make farming profitable.
A number of businesses and charities have been working to address this through an array of initiatives from building schools to training farmers in more efficient growing methods. Nestlé is experimenting with a similar strategy and are moving from a strict compliance approach, to a Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation System which seeks to get farmers to self-declare instances of child labour and then take actions within the community itself to prevent it - a more collaborative approach keeping the issue visible and stops it being buried.
Child labour in agriculture is on the rise, driven by conflict and disasters - Relief Web
There has been a steady decline in child labour but recent reports show that child labour in agriculture is increasing, driven by conflict and climate-induced disasters resulting in forced migration. It is very challenging to eradicate child labour in agriculture, due to rural poverty and the concentration of child labour in the informal economy and unpaid family labour. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation and its partners are trying to end the dependence of family farms and enterprises on child labour through improving skills of small family farmers, providing access to credit, and implementing sustainable agricultural practices to improve productivity and make farms viable enough to employ adults in decent work.
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U.S. Rep. Paul Tonko selected as leading Dem on environment
Jan 13, 2017 Spotlight Newsroom Albany County, Government, News, Rensselaer County, Saratoga County, Schenectady County, Towns
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Local US House Representative Paul Tonko (D-NY) was selected today to serve as the lead Democratic member on the House Committee on Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Environment. As Ranking Member, Rep. Tonko has said that he will serve as a national advocate for policies that promote clean air, protect water systems, improve chemical safety, and respond to the growing threat of climate change.
“I want to thank my colleagues, especially Energy & Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr., for the opportunity to serve in this vital role,” said Tonko. “As Ranking Member of the Environment Subcommittee, I will continue to fight for protections for our air, investments in water infrastructure to keep our families safe, and policies that slow or reverse the devastating effects of climate change that threaten America’s industries and the jobs and opportunities that depend on them.
“Preventing environmental degradation is more than an ecological issue. Pollution in our environment is increasing health care costs as rates of heart and respiratory illness rise. We have seen tragic effects from failing water systems that continue to deliver unsafe drinking water. And climate change is already having devastating economic effects as food growing seasons shift and extreme storms displace millions of families and destroy critical infrastructure. These issues demand our immediate attention and urgent action and I look forward to continuing to advance these priorities in the new Congress. ”
Tonko was also selected to serve on the Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Energy as well as the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. More information on the Congressman’s leadership on this issue can be found at Tonko.house.gov.
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Frequently Asked Questions for Flag Football
Q: When does the 2019 season start?
Evaluations/Assessments for the Spring Flag Football Program will be held on August 4th.
Q: When are games played?
All games will be played on Sunday afternoons. Games times are 12:00 - 6:00. Playing games on Sunday afternoon will help to avoid conflicts with other sports.
Q: How many days a week are practices held?
Teams may practice twice a week until the first game of the season. After that, teams may only practice once a week.
Q: Can my child play Flag Football if they are playing other sports?
YES! We are scheduling practices and games to avoid conflicts with other sports.
Q: What is the cut off date for determining player placement according to age?
Players are aligned in Divisions according to their age as of March 1st of the year in which the season is played.
• If a player is 5-6 years of age on July 31st, then that player will be eligible to play in the 5/6 year old Division.
• If a player is 9-10 years of age on July 31st, then that player will be eligible to play in the 9/10 year old Division.
• If a player is 11-12 years of age on July 31st, then that player will be eligible to play in the 11/12 year old Division.
• If a player is 13-14 years of age on July 31st, then that player will be eligible to play in the 13/14 year old Division
Q: What equipment is included in the fees for football?
The registration fee for the season includes your game jersey, game shorts, game socks. Flag belt with flags will be provided for use during the season.
Q: What size footballs do the teams use?
Our teams will use the following size footballs:
• 6-7 year old : K2 (peewee) Size
• 9-10 year old : TDJ (junior) Size
• 11-12 year old : TDJ (junior) Size (optional to use the TDY (youth size for this age)
• 13-14 year old : TDY
Q: What equipment do we need to purchase?
Players will need football cleats and a strapless mouth guard.
Q: How will I know if practice/games are cancelled due to rain?
After teams have been selected, all communication concerning practices will come directly from your coaching staff. In general, we do not cancel practices due to light rain. If it is pouring or if lightning is in the area, we will not practice. Your coach will have the final say of your practice schedule.
Q: How are coaches certified?
Coaches are required to complete a Coaches Training Clinic (online course) provided by USA Football to be a certified Spring Hill Hawks coach.
Q: How do I become a coach?
See the Coaches Info page for more information: Coaching Info
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Boomers, your privileged, tax-deducted time is up: Millennials have arrived
By Kim Johnstone
November 16, 2018 — 8.24am
Here’s some breaking news for Baby Boomers. You’ve had a very good run and you’re just about done.
The luckiest generation in history, at least in the developed economies, entered the world from the end of World War II through to the mid-1960s. They’ve never known global catastrophes like the world wars or the Great Depression, when millions went hungry, including in Australia.
Millennials ... a voting force.
Many experienced the advent of sewered homes, clean town water and free medical care and universities – massive public investments. As they matured they rose to positions of power in business and government. For decades, they’ve called the shots and in Australia arranged things into an edifice of self-interest.
Now they and the policy settings they put in place are on the endangered list. We live in a democracy with compulsory voting. Generationally, the biggest voting bloc is now the Millennials, born from the mid-80s to the turn of the century – and it is growing by 30,000 every year.
Generalising a bit, as we must in such discussions, Millennials care about the environment, the crisis in housing costs and employment. Many are ashamed of our policies towards refugees.
Created by Kim Johnstone, source data from ABS, Catalogue No. 3101.0.
They perceive the Earth as afflicted by looming and possibly disastrous problems with pollution and climate change. They believe these problems were caused by humans. Logic tells them the people who made this mess are fading from history, leaving the wreckage for them and their kids to deal with.
In our cities, where most of us live, they can’t afford rent, much less a toehold in insane property markets. Shelter is among the most basic human needs. They are shut out of a place of their own to call home. They’ve had a gutful of lectures about living with parents and avocado toast.
Making home ownership utterly unimaginable for the great majority is a singular generational achievement. It has been driven by policy settings designed by the people who got in when property was cheap, watched the value skyrocket and gave themselves tax holidays on each additional property they accrued.
Every tax concession is an additional burden on those who don’t receive it, so the bulk of this Millennial generation is working to pay for the rorts of the already-rich old people. Those who can least afford housing or anything else are subsidising those who cleaned up on home ownership, concessional superannuation and negative gearing.
Millennials are better educated than any previous generation, yet struggle to find secure work. Youth unemployment has been above 10 per cent ever since they entered the workforce. A third of 15-24s are un- or under-employed. The sheer size of the Millennial generation means there is intense competition for the available jobs, such as they are.
The "gig economy", for those engaged in it, must feel a lot like the early 20th century, before the invention of luxuries like award wages, holiday pay, sick leave and the rest that Boomers took as birthrights.
As we approach our next round of elections, Australian politicians had best take note. Millennials are now numerically dominant. They are about to take charge and many are not happy.
They see a deck stacked against them by the greediest generation in Australian history: self-satisfied with its wealth, loath to pay its taxes, happy to saddle the youngsters with eye-watering public debt and indifferent to its legacy of environmental degradation.
By all means, go on TV and defend the perpetuation of tax rorts for wealthy property owners and their self-managed-super shareholdings. But if your hair is grey, you’ve already lost the argument.
It’s just a question of which election finally delivers the message.
Kim Johnstone is a demographer with Astrolabe Group.
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I cannot thank them enough for the entire experience.
UNI SA COLLEGE
Sam and Denis, from Smith & Collins, were an absolute pleasure to work alongside for a recent UniSA College student testimonial project.
The entire project was made to be so enjoyable and, what appeared to be so easy – from the initial planning stages where I came to them with an idea, to the implementation and filming days, to the editing process and the delivery of the final product.
Nothing was ever too hard for the pair and the finished student testimonials were fantastic. So polished and exactly what we were after. They captured everything and more, and created a marvel in 30 seconds and 1minute videos showcasing what UniSA College is all about.
I cannot thank them enough for the entire experience (and confess that I was a little sad when the project was complete – we had a lot of fun!)
Ashleigh Ebert, Marketing & Communications Coordinator.
Passionate, professional and exceptionally talented.
UNI SA ONLINE
Passionate, professional, and exceptionally talented, Sam and Denis always strive to go above and beyond. Our brief was ambitious – but there was never a time when anything was impossible.
The care and attention to detail in the planning, production and post-production phases was evident – these guys know their stuff.
Many of our interview subjects walked in extremely nervous, but through their coaching, left feeling like a star. Sam and Denis know how to make people feel at ease in front of the camera, just as if they were talking to a friend. And more importantly, they made it a fun! The positive energy they brought to all stages of the process (even the really stressful times!) made working with them a really enjoyable experience.
Sam and Denis have been instrumental in the launch of UniSA Online and have played a vital part in bringing our degrees to life. Our brief was no easy feat – but together we worked as team to deliver a suite of high-quality videos that I’m extremely proud of.
Amy Tran, Content Communications Coordinator.
Smith & Collins not only deliver impeccable results, but make the experience enjoyable for all involved.
UNI SA BUSINESS SCHOOL
It was a great pleasure working with Sam and Denis to develop a suite of videos to showcase the diverse career journeys of some of our students and graduates. They managed the end-to-end process seamlessly, demonstrated outstanding technical and interpersonal skills, making our video ‘stars’ feel relaxed and comfortable in front of the camera to share their stories. The dissected and translated the brief to produce a visually engaging, authentic and informative video, capturing key moments and telling a story in a few short minutes. With great skill, passion and enthusiasm, Smith & Collins not only deliver impeccable results, but make the experience enjoyable for all involved.
Anna-Maria Kalaitzis, Content Communications Coordinator.
I can’t thank them enough on how fantastic it was to work with both of them on this video.
I had the pleasure of working with Sam and Denis on a video that promotes the various marketing careers students can aspire to after undertaking an undergraduate marketing degree. I can’t thank them enough on how fantastic it was to work with both of them on this video. Both Sam and Denis take the time to get to know their clients, to understand the organisation and to make sure they understand the brief in order to produce a great end product. They made all of our talent feel very comfortable in front of the camera and their creative execution throughout was excellent. The quality of work produced by Smith & Collins is of such a high standard and I couldn’t have been happier with the end product – they are both extremely talented professionals in their field. I’m looking forward to working with both of you again in the future!
Brittany Warren, Content Communications Officer.
The end results speak for themselves.
Answering our extensive brief of needing more than 40 videos and accompanying photography, Smith & Collins played a crucial role in the launch of the new SAHMRI website. With their flexible and adaptive style, Sam and Denis successfully integrated themselves into SAHMRI for the duration of the project. They helped us tell our stories the way we wanted them to be told, and did so with great skill and finesse. The end results speak for themselves – video content that is authentic, engaging, and meaningful, and photography that captures our staff in their best light.
Alice Robinson, Strategic Engagement.
Denis is a natural at teaching students, warm and engaging.
PRINCE ALFRED COLLEGE
Denis recently provided my Year 11 students with an amazing educational experience with outdoor and portrait light painting techniques. His planning is meticulous and his regular contact with me prior to the evening masterclass guaranteed the success of the experience. Denis is a natural at teaching students, warm and engaging and knowing just the right pace to both maintain concentration but not to overwhelm. He was inclusive in his presentation and was interactive with all the participants when it came to technical support with field and studio work. Denis was also particularly generous with the use of his photographic equipment. He had a wide range of professional and bespoke equipment which he invited all students to creatively use on the night. However, by the far the most impressive feature of working with Denis is just that, working with Denis! He is so passionate about photography and so excited by what the students were creating and experimenting with, that the evening became an amazing learning journey where everybody was caught in the moment, he was so sincere in his commitment to everyone learning and having fun. As a masterclass session or as a kick-start to creative photography, Denis’ is excellent value for money and has left a lasting impression on the students and has been an exciting catalyst for their learning. They left the evening with a detailed understanding of night photography and with a respect and admiration for Denis, whom as an accomplished Photographer, showed such a down to earth and genuine interest in their learning.
Scott Parker, Design and Photography Teacher.
Denis and Sam are fantastically talented in their respective fields of photography and film making.
DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT
With a very broad brief and a very short timeframe, Smith and Collins were able to help us build on our image library with photography that capture the essence and heart of public education. Denis understands the importance that good images play in telling a story and building a brand. Through imagery, Smith and Collins helped us define and bring to life the personally of our organisation. Denis and Sam are fantastically talented in their respective fields of photography and film making – and two of the most accommodating and easy to work with people I have had the pleasure to work with.
Nathan Hubbard, Manager, Marketing Communications
I had a fantastic experience working with Sam and Denis.
I had a fantastic experience working with Sam and Denis. They were professional and extremely easy to work with, putting all our ‘actors’ at ease in front of the camera. They understood the brief straight away, asking the right questions and contributing their own suggestions and insights to deliver a great end product!
Jasmine Vreugdenburg, Manager, Innovation and Collaboration Centre
Their passion and positive energy transfers across to anyone they meet and they instantly make you feel comfortable!
It is a pleasure working with Denis and Sam. Their passion and positive energy transfers across to anyone they meet and they instantly make you feel comfortable! Denis has also been doing some generous voluntary work with scosa’s clients and his enthusiasm to support people living with disabilities to maximise their potential has been fabulous. A fantastic team who deliver great results.
Marie Scali, Manager, Marketing & Communications
Denis is approachable, has a bright bubbly personality and a can do attitude.
NORTHERN SOUND SYSTEM
Working alongside Denis has been an exciting artistic experience from start to finish. Denis is approachable, has a bright bubbly personality and a can do attitude. He has the ability to interact with people of all ages easily. He explains the art of light painting with clear direction and the final product of the images are outstanding. The workshops are engaging and enjoyable for all. The City of Playford has worked twice with Denis and both times he has brought a sense of uniqueness to photographer that community members thoroughly enjoyed.
Nina Kennedy, Youth Development Officer. Northern Sound System, City of Playford
Professional, friendly and true to his word, we will certainly be working with Denis again.
We needed updated photos to relaunch One Small Room’s website. Denis worked to our simple brief of providing flat lay images as well as some styled images suitable for printed and online use. He was a pleasure to work with, listened to what we wanted, and accommodated our need to shoot in our premises to avoid lugging heavy pieces of furniture to a studio, Denis came to us and set up a studio onsite! We were provided with a clear upfront quote and received numerous edited images clearly labelled and easily accessible on dropbox. Professional, friendly and true to his word, we will certainly be working with Denis again.
Rebekah Cichero
The empathy and sensitivity Sam and Denis showed during the development of this project was incredible and the results speak for themselves.
Having worked with Sam and Denis on four separate projects, (soon to be five and one of them being very large), I feel I have a good understanding of their methods of working and of them as individuals. The fact that we’ve used them for so many individual projects is also testimony to the great work they do. Both Sam and Denis are extremely approachable and reliable, always arriving for meetings and filming at the time they’ve stated -expected but not always the case so worth noting! They ask all the right questions during their proposal stage so that they get right to the nub of what is required from the very start. They are more than happy to re-visit proposals and to tweak elements to ensure they deliver the outcomes required. Having said that, they are also not afraid to express when they feel what is being proposed by the client isn’t necessarily the best way to go about things and will always suggest alternatives for consideration. They have a wonderful manner which totally relaxes those who may be a little nervous in front of camera and are able to ‘draw-out’ the pertinent information from interviewees by great question choice. Their judicious editing, shot selection, interviewing and voice-over scripts invariably mean very few changes are required to their ‘first-cut’ and the results are beautifully shot pieces fulfilling their briefs perfectly.
The most satisfying project I have ever worked on was with Sam and Denis, it was for Mental Health Awareness Week in 2014 and showcased both of their immense talents through a series of personal videos and also a portrait exhibition in the style of Humans of New York, the popular photo blog. The videos and exhibitions were seen and appreciated by literally thousands of individuals and brought tears to many an eye. The empathy and sensitivity Sam and Denis showed during the development of this project was incredible and the results speak for themselves.
Tracey Dancer, Project Officer – International Student Centre
I had a great time working with Sam and Denis, they were genuinely connected to my project and vision, and made my job very easy with their enthusiasm.
MAGGIE BEER FOUNDATION
Maggie Beer
I cannot recommend Sam and Denis highly enough.
Working with Sam and Denis on the creation of a promotional video about the Experience Adelaide program was inspiring. Experience Adelaide, a social integration program at the University of Adelaide, offers new international students the opportunity to venture out of their cultural comfort zone and meet Australian families. It is all about connecting people and guiding them toward genuine cross-cultural dialogue and thus rewarding human interaction. Denis and Sam understood these principles of the program and I felt in very good hands that they would be reflected in the promotional video. Observing the creative process was very interesting. Denis is not only a fantastic photographer, but also a bridge builder. He prepared the international students and local families I had selected for the video by engaging with them in a very calming and personal manner, telling them stories, listening to them and encouraging them to be confident despite the cameras and filming about to happen. On the filming days, Sam joined and also engaged with the ‘actors’ in a very personal and calm manner. Denis and Sam did this while at the same time demonstrating excellent artistic professionalism, with deep knowledge of human emotions and behavior, and always an eye for aesthetic details. The result is two beautiful videos I am very proud of. I cannot recommend Sam and Denis highly enough
Annette Wheatley, Project Manager – International Student Centre
Working with Sam and Denis is an absolute delight.
Working with Sam and Denis is an absolute delight. Notwithstanding their first class skills in cinematography and photography, in an unassuming yet most powerful way they capture the heart of the project in an authentic and respectful way. Sam and Denis know your vision so well you can’t possibly script the finished product any better. Sam and Denis just get it. They get the job, but more significantly they get you – they get everyone. This is their cutting edge. As expert social observers, they know who to capture and how to capture them. Sam and Denis relate and they value relationships – to such a point they become seamlessly integrated within the group. For us, they are now considered significant members of ‘our mob’ and our relationship continues. Because Sam and Denis capture the true essence of people you end up with a product that is really about beauty on multiple levels – but mostly about the beauty of the human spirit. Just wow!
Dr Roma Aloisi, Senior Education Advisor: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education
Every time they impress me with their ability to ‘get it’ from the very first conversation.
I have had the opportunity to work with Sam and Denis on a number of diverse projects – videos, a portrait exhibition, awareness raising campaigns and documentary. Every time they impress me with their ability to ‘get it’ from the very first conversation. Their genuine and compassionate approach has resulted in products that have exceeded our expectations. Our most recent venture drew on Denis’s ability to capture the vulnerability and humour of the human condition on camera. This combined with Sam’s ability to draw out peoples stories with ease and care, resulted in a truly beautiful exhibition that engaged all those who saw it. Collaborating with Sam and Denis is an extraordinary experience and one that gets results.
Colleen Lewig – Counselling, Disability & Elite Athlete Services Manager
Making this video with Sam and Denis was a highlight of last year for us.
Making this video with Sam and Denis was a highlight of last year for us. They quickly caught from us our excitement for our story, and then reflected it back tenfold. Everyone working with them couldn’t help but shine when Sam and Denis provided their characteristic enthusiasm and encouragement. With a keen eye and ear for exactly those things that told the story best, they crafted a video that was beyond our expectations. We definitely will want to work with them again in the future!
David Butler, Lecturer – Maths Learning Centre
Collaborating with Smith & Collins is one of the smartest decisions I have made, in a long history of managing training & development projects.
PATHWAYS TRAINING
Collaborating with Smith & Collins is one of the smartest decisions I have made, in a long history of managing training & development projects. The Stand Up for Healthy Ageing video is testament to the expertise and professionalism of Sam and Denis, whose combined talents are a force to be reckoned with. Sam was the driving force behind this production, using his considerable creative talents and communication skills to weave real people’s lived experiences into a cohesive narrative with the power to inform and influence an industry sector. Denis used his prodigious talents as a photographer, to both profile and truly celebrate the beauty and diversity of ageing. The strength of his work lies not only in his technical expertise but in his ability to relax and engage even the most reluctant starters with often magical results. If your project ambition is to work with highly creative people and enjoy a hassle free process from beginning to end, then I encourage you to contact Sam and Denis.
Mary O’ Toole, Director
Sam and Denis are professional, engaged and always understand our requests.
We have been working with Smith & Collins for three years on a variety of projects. Our briefs have included exclusive or combined video and photography projects and we have always been pleased with the output. Sam and Denis are a pleasure to work with. One of the reasons we have continued to engage Smith & Collins is because of the way they engage and build relationships with our stakeholders; clients, staff, students and the academic community. Sam and Denis are professional, engaged and thoroughly understand our requests. Since 2013 Smith & Collins have felt like a part of our team.
Julia Atterton, Industry Liaison and Project Leader – Careers Service
From the beginning I knew I was in safe hands.
THE ROBINSON INSTITUTE
When I saw the final version of our video I was blown away. Sam and Denis really captured the essence of our research and the video was full of hope and promise for those who’ve suffered a stroke. From the beginning I knew I was in safe hands. Sam researched the content very thoroughly and expertly translated complicated research into an easy to understand product for the general public. The video instilled a sense of pride in me for working in the industry I do.
Sarah Turner – Marketing & Fundraising Coordinator
We couldn’t have been happier with the end product.
THE EHRENBERG-BASS INSTITUTE
Sam and Denis were wonderful to work with. Right from the beginning we knew we had made the right choice for our project. They made the process easy and stress free and showed an intimate understanding of the business and the complexity of our needs. They were extremely professional and made our staff feel at ease whilst being filmed. We couldn’t have been happier with the end product. Not only was the quality of the highest standard, but Sam was more than happy to accommodate our tight deadline. I would certainly recommend Sam Collins Media to other busy corporates looking to produce stand out videos.
Lindsey Peshanoff – Domestic and Brand Officer
Nothing was too hard, rather everything was an opportunity.
AURECON
I have thoroughly enjoyed working with Sam and Denis. Their creativity is amazing, the quality of their work is fantastic and their ability to work with a broad range of people is highly commendable. Nothing was too hard, rather everything was an opportunity. They are truly talented people that will continue to make a great impact and contribution to the film-making and videography professions in South Australia and beyond.
Brett Nilsen – Major Pursuits Leader
Sam was wonderful to work with – patient, informative and engaging.
MIND AUSTRALIA
Sam is an amazing film maker. With sensitivity, skill and creativity, Sam documented the lives of people with a mental illness moving out of long term institutional care to live in the community. Sam was wonderful to work with – patient, informative and engaging. The film is a beautiful piece – highlighting the impact of serious mental illness. I would strongly recommend Sam if you are considering developing a documentary or short film.
Dorothy Belperio – General Manager
Sam is a gifted documentary storyteller who consistently delivers high quality work.
I have commissioned three video projects from Sam Collins Media for the South Australian Museum. Sam is a gifted documentary storyteller who consistently delivers high quality work. He is professional, resourceful, and a natural collaborator. Sam personally headed up each stage of production so that the works had a clear voice and to me, as the client, seemed effortless. I feel very fortunate to be able to call on Sam for special projects and would recommend his work wholeheartedly.
Jenny Parsons – Head of Development
Working with them was lots of fun too!
Sam and Denis were easy to work with and produced a very professional video for the Barr Smith Library, just as we had envisaged. They fitted in with our tight deadline with minimal fuss and communicated with us at every stage of the process. It really helped that they had produced previous work for the University and so came highly recommended – easy to see why.
Ellen Randva – Research & Reference Services Librarian
His creative talents and meticulous care shine through in his work.
HUB AUSTRALIA
Sam’s videography work is phenomenal. He really gets to know the client and the story they’re seeking to tell. His creative talents and meticulous care shine through in his work. I was delighted by the work I’ve done with Sam and am looking forward to our next collaboration.
Caroline McLaren – Hub Activator
His genuine interest in our project and personable manner put students and staff at ease, contributing to an excellent outcome.
Sam has just completed a promotional video for our Peer Assisted Study Session (PASS) program. The video captures the ‘flavour’ of PASS and conveys all the key messages articulated at the initial meeting. Sam is a good listener and was able to creatively translate ideas into film.His genuine interest in our project and personable manner put students and staff at ease, contributing to an excellent outcome. I highly recommend him and would use his company again for similar projects.
Audrey Stratton – PASS Coordinator
Sam was able to get the most out of those very new to the experience of being filmed, helping them feel relaxed and at ease in front of the camera.
This was the first time we had ventured into the world of commissioning a video, and Sam and his team were able to guide us from the very beginning by helping us develop the overall concept through to providing ideas about a social media strategy. It wasn’t a straight forward brief just requiring ‘a man with a camera’. We had a broad idea of what we wanted and Sam was able to draw out and help articulate the details of the project to eventually create an end product which ticked all of the boxes and more. Once the concept was teased out, Sam took ownership of the project and covered every stage of production, including writing, filming, interviewing, editing and voiceovers. Sam was able to get the most out of those very new to the experience of being filmed, helping them feel relaxed and at ease in front of the camera. When the final video was complete, he then worked with us to develop a strategy to ensure it was accessible to our particular audience. This was a major help given the complexities of the social media world. We are really pleased with the end result and have been able to utilise it in a range of forums beyond our initial idea. The feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, and we are keen to do more as we can see how engaging, inspiring and informative video can be.
He managed to bring out the authentic nature of those involved and the quality we constantly strive to achieve.
Sam recently created our new Heartland Wines promotional video, combining on-site vineyard and winery footage with interviews to create a cohesive whole. He managed to bring out the authentic nature of those involved and the quality we constantly strive to achieve. The editing brought it all together in a way that made the story well defined and seamless. I would recommend Sam Collins Media to any business looking to create a positive awareness of their company and products.
Nick Keukenmeester – Marketing Manager
We now have a gem of a video that we are proud to show.
I am delighted to have the opportunity to say how much I, in my role as the Manager Art & Heritage Collections at the University of Adelaide, appreciated the work Sam Collins did for a project at the University. His ability to engage people in the project from Vice-Chancellor to students and the artist was extraordinary – he grasped the project content and was able to drive it independently ensuring all institutional boxes were ticked. We now have a gem of a video that we are proud to show. He is a delight to work with – I recommend him wholeheartedly.
Mirna Heruc – Manager, Art & Heritage Collections
His capacity to distill key issues, extract essential statements from talent and frame ideas in both vision and music, makes for compelling viewing, whatever the topic.
THE FOOD FOREST
Sam Collins is a truly independent filmmaker/video producer, musician & photographer. With the grounding of a life in London he has adapted to the optimistic and ethically driven nature of his new home, Adelaide, South Australia, and made a quick name for himself, winning the Best Documentary in the South Australian Screen Awards 2012 and pumping out a tranche of films that explore what it is to be human and how we interact with our planet.
Sam is something of a chameleon, quick-changing from writer to editor and cameraman to interviewer in quick succession. His depth of knowledge about film, music, history and literature, powers his calm and considerate treatment of subjects and talent, making him a trusted and popular collaborator for people with strong messages for the community. His capacity to distill key issues, extract essential statements from talent and frame ideas in both vision and music, makes for compelling viewing, whatever the topic.
Graham Brookman – Managing Director
When I was asked to ‘star’ in a video on my latest work to be sent to our corporate clients I was secretly (actually not so secretly) terrified. But fortunately for me Sam and Denis were commissioned. They made me feel relaxed, comfortable and even confident.
I am a researcher, not a TV presenter, so for me the thought of getting in front of a camera to talk about my work chills me to the bone. When I was asked to ‘star’ in a video on my latest work to be sent to our corporate clients I was secretly (actually not so secretly) terrified. But fortunately for me Sam and Denis were commissioned. They made me feel relaxed, comfortable and even confident. The outcome of this is a video that looks natural, fun and completely relevant to my research area. They are amazing – will definitely work with them again.
Dr Karen Nelson-Field – Senior Research Associate
I admire the way he takes a journey to develop a customised product.
Sam truly brings to life stories through his videos. They are more than rolling pictures and sound – they explore real people, real emotions and real issues. I admire the way he takes a journey to develop a customised product. He first gets to understand the people before even looking through the lens, and then he takes the time to get the shoot right. Sam has made it easy to work with by taking this approach. I know that I will get a genuine product at the end that others can relate to.
Jo Close – Strategist
His reassuring and personable nature made the project seem effortless – ideal for those of us who have no previous experience with video creation.
Working with Sam Collins Media was a great choice. Sam provided the direction and guidance needed to pull the concept together whilst allowing me as the client to influence the process. His reassuring and personable nature made the project seem effortless – ideal for those of us who have no previous experience with video creation.
Cathy Miller – Research Data Librarian
We were very pleased with the professional service and quality of the video.
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY OF SA & NT
We recently used Sam Collins Media to make a video of our MS Mud Run event. We were very pleased with the professional service and quality of the video. It was creative and captured the fun vibe on the day perfectly. Subsequently we will be using him for two more projects this year.
Renee Meredith – Communications Coordinator
Sam is always professional, punctual and the finished product always exceeds my expectations.
Sam is an excellent filmmaker who I have no qualms in hiring time and time again. He has produced numerous web videos for me at the South Australian Museum, delivering a full-service product. From pitching the concept to filming and delivery. Sam is always professional, punctual and the finished product always exceeds my expectations. He can work from a brief, or develop a concept using just an idea, and is involved in every aspect of the filmmaking process. His storytelling has a wonderful aesthetic and I would – and have – recommended him to other organisations or individuals who want to share their stories.
Angie Hua – Brand & Digital Strategy Manager
He is highly productive and able to work quickly and creatively under pressure from tight deadlines.
MANOTO TV
Sam worked for me for a number of years as our in-house Editor & Music Producer, creating audio stings and long-form music for idents, bumpers, and promos. His compositions were always original and fitted well to the briefs. He is highly productive and able to work quickly and creatively under pressure from tight deadlines.
Robert Le Merle – Operations Director
He went above and beyond, and the photo shoot was a real successful collaboration. I walked away from that day with a portfolio I was proud of.
As soon as we met, I felt he was completely receptive to my product and to the different looks I wanted to create for my new line. Even if my business is small, I never felt like I was a little fish in his eyes. Denis was genuinely interested and took the project seriously. His enthusiasm and his involvement made me confident that the results were going to be exactly what I wanted. I knew the photo shoot was going to be fantastic! And indeed, it was! The studio itself is so beautiful and welcoming, my model and I felt instantly comfortable.
Marie-Pier Labelle – Owner
Denis has nailed the brief each and every time.
E FOR ETHEL
We worked with Denis to develop a profile of images including styled product shots for advertising, still product shots for our online shop and instore shots capturing the energy of our space. Throughout all of these sittings, Denis showcased his apparently unlimited energy, and apparent skill. We have loved each and every shot he has presented to us, and he has nailed the brief each and every time. We feel honoured to be able to work with such humble local talent, and we regularly shout it from the rooftops!
Amanda Matulick – Owner
He has such excellent people skills that I know I can brief him then let him roam, and can trust that he will deliver what we need.
The South Australian Museum’s philosophy is about honesty and integrity – telling authentic stories in an engaging way. And Denis’s approach to photography is a perfect match. We first engaged Denis to help us communicate our programs and displays from a visitor’s perspective – capturing real members of the public interacting and discovering in the Museum. His ability to engage people and put them at ease is integral to this approach. He has such excellent people skills that I know I can brief him then let him roam, and can trust that he will deliver what we need. When we launched our new website, we wanted to communicate the enormous depth and breadth of the collections and the research that goes on ‘behind the scenes’. Denis was given unlimited access to the stores and the scientists, and his wonderful communication skills and creative eye have enabled us to show the wonder of parts of the Museum that many don’t normally see. I have zero hesitation in recommending Denis – both as a photographer and as the nicest guy you’ll ever work with.
Cameron Midson – Senior Designer
Denis showed absolute professionalism and skill, along with a sense of humor that helped create true joy in the shots created for our coffee brand.
BAROSSA COFFEE ROASTERS
When we needed some beautiful imagery for our Coffee Roasting Website and online store, Denis was our only choice. We’d seen his work, thought he was amazing, but we especially loved how Denis came to be a photographer; not through strict training but rather through a tug at his heart. This is exactly how coffee roasting popped up in our lives too. Denis showed up with absolute professionalism and skill, along with a sense of humor that helped create true joy in the shots created for our coffee brand. There’s only two of us working on our little roasting brand so its so wonderful to have such inspiring people like Denis get involved and be a positive part of it.
Paul and Janelle Amos – Owners
He made us feel very relaxed and comfortable during the day and was genuinely interested in what we were trying to do.
MICK’S MOTORCYLES GAWLER
Denis came to our shop and we made a plan for the day to ensure that we were all on the same page as to what we wanted to achieve out of the day. Denis spent the whole day with us in the Barossa Valley, taking many shots for us to choose from. He made us feel very relaxed and comfortable during the day and was genuinely interested in what we were trying to do. Denis’s professionalism and attention to detail was evident during the day and in the photos that he produced for us. I am happy to recommend Denis for any project that you may be considering!
Mick and Lynda Tucker – Owners
Denis has so much joy about what he does, he loves to make sure everything is perfect
We have used Denis smith photography for various types of shoots now, fashion/clothing shoot with a model, soft furnishings, fabric and craft. Denis has so much joy about what he does, he loves to make sure everything is perfect with colours (very important in our business) , layout , expert in lighting and also listens to what the client wants but is always willing to suggest what other possibilities there are! He is always looking to improve as well. I can’t imagine that we could ever use anyone else apart from Denis, we love him and his work and he just keeps getting better and better if that’s possible
Moyra Jones – Owner
Denis is a professional and highly skilled photographer who has the ability to work with individuals at all levels.
GOVERNMENT SERVICES GROUP
We approached Denis Smith to assist us in creating a digital suite of images (similar to an I-stock collection) of some of the services that we provide, and of our employees carrying out their roles. The assignment, carried out over a 3 day period, required Denis to work collaboratively with the Organisational Development Team and with a large number of our Government Services Group employees and visit a number of different internal and public facing locations with minimal disruption. On all occasions, the professionalism displayed by Denis was exemplary, as was his attention to detail and sensitivity to privacy issues when meeting the assignment brief. Likewise, Denis worked tirelessly to ensure all of the employees participating in the photo shoot were comfortable and at ease with having their images taken. When engaging with our employees, Denis was always incredibly friendly, cooperative, patient and approachable – and we believe his superior interpersonal skills and ability to connect with our employees in an authentic and genuine way, significantly contributed to the overall success of the assignment. The images have been highly sought after from others across our organisation since the completion of this assignment.
Denis Smith is a professional and highly skilled photographer who has the ability to work with individuals at all levels, deliver quality products and work within short timeframes. The Organisational Development team within the Government Services Group would highly recommend Denis Smith Photography Video and Media to others that are about to embark on similar assignments and looking for an expert in this field.
Tammy Joachin – Manager Organisational Development Workforce Relations and Strategy
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Caltex Socceroo defender wins K-League fans award
Caltex Socceroo Matthew Jurman has capped off a fabulous 2017 by picking up the K-League Newcomer of the Year award, as voted by fans on www.kleagueunited.com.
Signed from Sydney FC last January, the left-sided central defender immediately made an impact with his K-League club Suwon Samsung Bluewings.
His form got him into the mix for the Caltex Socceroos and the former Brisbane Roar stopped - who played under Ange Postecoglou at Suncorp - stepped up seamlessly on debut against Syria in an AFC World Cup playoff.
The 27-year-old kept his place in the national team for November's intercontinental playoff against Honduras in November, helping Australia qualify for a fourth consecutive World Cup after an assured display.
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Former prison inmate Matthew Charles moves into new Nashville home
"He picked up the keys yesterday and is excited to move in," his friend Tim Hardiman told The Tennessean on Saturday.
Former prison inmate Matthew Charles moves into new Nashville home "He picked up the keys yesterday and is excited to move in," his friend Tim Hardiman told The Tennessean on Saturday. Check out this story on Tennessean.com: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2019/03/23/former-prison-inmate-matthew-charles-has-found-home-nashville/3254708002/
Natalie Neysa Alund, Nashville Tennessean Published 10:06 a.m. CT March 23, 2019 | Updated 6:23 p.m. CT March 23, 2019
Former prison inmate Matthew Charles moves into his new home Larry McCormack, lmccormack@tennessean.com
Matthew Charles, the former prison inmate whose rent is being covered by celebrity Kim Kardashian-West for the next five years, glanced out the front door of his new home into the sunlight and took a deep breath.
"I'm starting over from scratch," the 52-year-old man said, then smiled while standing in the unfurnished kitchen of his new two-bedroom Nashville home, the bare white walls around him smelling of fresh paint.
Behind him in the living room, his friend Tim Hardiman sat on the ground piecing together a new marble-colored kitchen table the two picked up earlier in the day. By the day's end, the table, along with four chairs in its set, would be the only furniture built.
Matthew Charles gets help of his friend Tim Hardiman to put a new table together in his new home. Charles, a former prison inmate who Kim Kardashian offered to pay rent for five years now has a home Saturday, March 23, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. (Photo: Larry McCormack / The Tennessean)
But so much more was to come, Charles promised as he placed cleaning supplies in a wooden cabinet under his kitchen sink.
The Tennessee man, who recently garnered national attention after he was denied an apartment in the city this month because of his lack of credit and criminal record, moved into his home in a duplex Saturday on a residential street less than two miles from downtown.
"I'm spending time today unpacking items and building a few things with my buddy," he said. "I couldn't have done it with out so many peoples' help."
Matthew Charles celebrates moving into his new home with the help of his friend Tim Hardiman. (Photo: Larry McCormack / The Tennessean)
Just one day prior, the Tennessee man took to social media to express his joy and thanks, writing, "My Friday now shines brighter since I now have housing." The Facebook post thanks Kardashian-West, her husband Kanye West, The Tennessean and a slew of others for their "help, searches and encouragement in overcoming this nonsensical barrier."
Charles, who was released from prison under a criminal justice reform law signed by President Donald Trump in December, told USA TODAY NETWORK-Tennessee he was denied a lease application at Forest Park Apartments in Madison earlier this month.
When Kardashian-West learned of his plight, she offered to pay five years of his rent and took to Twitter asking Nashville landlords for help.
Matthew Charles’s lease application was rejected again bc of his criminal record (even w me paying his rent in advance). If there are any landlords w a 2 bedroom in Nashville willing to give Mr Charles a 2nd chance, contact mocapt615@gmail.com Serious inquiries only, thank you 🙏🏼
— Kim Kardashian West (@KimKardashian) March 15, 2019
Kardashian-West and other celebrity activists brought attention to the reform push that eventually became the law. Reporting by Nashville Public Radio helped raise the profile of Charles' case and others like it.
"He picked up the keys yesterday and is excited," Hardiman said Saturday.
Since his release, Charles has bought a car, has been staying with a friend in the city's River Glen neighborhood and working full-time with Families Against Mandatory Minimums — a nonprofit justice reform advocacy group.
But when he went to apply to rent a town home on March 5, he was denied on the basis of his criminal history and his lack of credit after being incarcerated for more than 20 years.
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Charles, who was convicted of a non-violent drug offense, was released from prison Jan. 3 under a new law known as the First Step Act, a criminal justice reform law signed by President Donald Trump in December. The law allows judges to retroactively apply the drug sentencing reforms of the Fair Sentencing Act.
Matthew Charles begins the process of setting up his kitchen at his new place on move-in day. (Photo: Larry McCormack / The Tennessean)
Inside his new home Saturday, Charles encouraged other people like him — who come out of prison with a criminal background and no credit — to keep hope in their housing hunt.
He said he prays legislators make moves soon in an effort help others in similar situations.
Reach Natalie Neysa Alund at nalund@tennessean.com and follow her on Twitter @nataliealund.
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Tesla to raise over $1 billion to help offset risk for Model 3 production
Tesla is looking to raise a total of around $1.15 billion from stock and convertible senior notes as a way to help “further reduce any risks” that it’ll incur as it scales its business to handle its aggressive Model 3 production schedule, the company said on Wednesday. Tesla’s decision to pad out its balance sheet with more capital was anticipated by many analysts, and a fair number of Wall Street watchers actually thought Tesla would seek more to help it grow based on recent comments made by Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
The Model 3 is set to begin full production this year, with pre-production begun in February with a temporary production line pause to help get processes ready at its Fremont factory ready for the new vehicle. The split of the new funding efforts will see Tesla pursue $250 million in common stock offering, with $750 million raised via convertible notes due in 2022. Elon Musk himself will personally contribute by buying $25 million in Tesla stock, Reuters reports.
Tesla last raised cash via stock offering in May 2016, selling $1.4 billion worth of shares to help it expand its production capacity.
Musk said on the company’s earnings results conference call in February that while Tesla could finish its production preparations for Model 3 without bringing in new funds, that would put the company “close to the edge” in terms of its overall cash position, and said it was then sensible for the electric carmaker to bring in new funds to help offset the risk that cutting it that close would entail for shareholders.
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The Legend of Zelda: Heroes Alliance
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a boy born again and again, aided by his past lives to fight the impending evil
Deep in the forests of a kingdom of old, lies a hidden tribe. The tribe had seperated from the kingdom, as well as the rest of the world. Inside the tribe lives an orphaned boy of sixteen. On his own, he's become self reliant, building his own home and furniture, preparing his own meals with homegrown vegetables and fish caught by the river. Currently, he's assisting the tribe elder by moving around storage boxes. The elder watches him.
"Here. Come and rest, child. You've been working nonstop since the fog was still high."
The boy walks over, taking the cup.
"Thank you, elder."
He sips at the drink, resting in a chair. The elder watches him.
"You've come so far since we found you. But, I still wish you would rely on us. Even a little."
The boy chuckles.
"If I were to do that, it would go to my head. I cant let that happen."
The elder grins.
" Well, Im still here should you ever need anything, Link. We all are. "
He points to the other tribe members watching them as they pass by, pulling a laugh from the teen.
"I know. The gesture is more than enough."
He finishes his drink, washing the cup before returning to move the boxes. The elder watches him once more in silence, one of the men approaching the elder.
"I checked it as you asked. There was a new one as you predicted."
"I see. Once again, he will be dragged into such despair. And it will only warp him."
The elder lowers his head with a frustrated sigh.
Link wraps up the last of the moving after the sun has moved past the highest point in the sky, now tending to his crops.
"It's going to rain soon. Right on schedule."
The beau commences to harvest the ripe vegetables, carrying them inside with a basket woven by his own hands. The boy faces a mirror as he ties a bandana around his head.
". . ."
His image in the mirror distorts, a familiar but unfamiliar face staring back at him, causing him to move backwards and overturn the table, landing on his back.
"Aah!"
His breath quickens, standing back up and staring into the mirror, only his face now reflecting back.
"Why is this happening to me? These hallucinations."
Sitting down, he grips his hair in frustration. Once calmed, he prepares his dinner, the rain starting to fall. With a want to make short work of his meal, he devours it promptly, briskly changing into his pajamas and climbs into bed, hugging a stuffed animal.
"Please, let me sleep peacefully tonight."
He rests his eyes, the wish hovering over him like thick smog. Within the contents of his dream, the beau is poised in the middle of an everlasting white haze, a watery mirror below his feet.
"What do you want from me? I just want to sleep."
He shifts his gaze in front of himself, five shadowed figures stand before him, each holding out a hand to him. Enveloped in fright, he backs away.
"Stay away! Why are you doing this to me? What are you?"
The shadow lowers its arm, lips moving, but soundless. He observes, unable to make out the words.
"I can't hear you. You aren't saying anything."
Changing route, he saunters towards them, only for whatever surface he was standing on to vanish, his body falling. A scream erupts from his throat as he does so. In the next instant, he is awake, sweating and breathing heavily.
"Someone....tell me what's going on."
<a href="https://www.storiesspace.com/stories/adventure/the-legend-of-zelda-heroes-alliance-1.aspx">The Legend of Zelda: Heroes Alliance</a>
Wing's of the Wind - Chapter One
Crimson Flow
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Caribbean Hurricane Network
- 2 0 1 8 Season -
| home | tools | pleas for help | QHWRN | guide | climatology | archive |
2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season
| Alberto | Beryl | Chris | Debby | Ernesto | Florence | Gordon | Helene | Isaac | Joyce | Kirk | Leslie | Michael | Nadine | Oscar |
I will write a little recap soon...
Below links to local reports from the special hurricane correspondents on the islands:
- Nevis [May 15 14:08]
- Trinidad & Tobago [May 9 5:43]
- St.Maarten/St.Martin [May 3 18:46]
- Anguilla [May 3 18:03]
- Antigua [May 2 9:38]
- Dominican Republic [Apr 28 18:09]
- St.Thomas [Apr 16 14:47]
- Grenada [Apr 13 6:38]
- Tortola & Virgin Gorda [Apr 3 9:00]
- Barbados [Jan 21 8:44]
- Dominica [Dec 30 8:20]
- St.Lucia [Dec 4 20:45]
- St.Croix [Nov 30 17:52]
- St.John [Nov 9 1:30]
- Curaçao [Oct 18 19:03]
- Belize [Oct 7 10:21]
- St.Vincent & Grenadines [Sep 28 10:39]
- Martinique [Sep 28 8:38]
- Vieques (PR) [Sep 19 20:53]
- Montserrat [Sep 12 21:52]
- Haiti [Sep 7 7:44]
- Bermuda [Sep 6 9:42]
- Cayman Islands [Aug 28 12:19]
- Bonaire [Aug 17 5:51]
- Puerto Rico [Jul 9 15:00]
- Guadeloupe [Jul 9 7:08]
Following is an archive of all weather discussions Dave and I posted. They are in reverse chronological order, with the most recent storm discussion on top. If you want more background in formation on specific storms, I have found the 2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season section in the Wikipedia a great resource. Also, visit the National Hurricane Center's website for 'best track' data of all 2018 storms. The track map below is from that website as well.
- - 2018 Hurricane Tracks - -
- - Source: National Hurricane Center (click on image for larger size) - -
- - - 2018 Season - - -
For the latest hurricane statements and satellite images see our Quick Hurricane Web Resource Navigator
Tools: How Close is it? - How close can it get? - My Satellite
Weather discussions by Gert & Dave during the 2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season. The homepage with the links to local reports from the islands, latest satellite image, current weather outlook can be found here.
Monday, March 18, 2019 10:55AM PDT - Mozambique
March 19 Update: The situation is still quite dire, check out this comprehensive article in the Washington Post. Good places to donate: Crisis Relief - United Nations, Medecins sans Frontieres (Doctors without Borders) or Unicef.
Not a place where you would normally expect a hurricane, but cyclone Idai made landfall in Mozambique (east coast of Africa) last week. Now reports are coming out that the death toll could be as high as 1,000. It seems that the storm surge, not the wind itself, was the most deadly factor... More news on Google News. -Gert
Thursday, February 7, 2019 15:53PM PST - Hurricanes getting stronger faster
It has been awhile, but I saw this interesting article in the Washington Post about a paper just published in the scientific journal Nature Communications on rapid intensification of hurricanes. We have seen it unfortunately with Irma and Maria 2 years ago, where a hurricane would all of a sudden be much stronger than forecasted. Now researchers have indeed found that hurricanes these days seem to intensify faster than earlier. They blame the warmer sea surface temperatures caused by climate change.... Quoting Jim Kossin from NOAA: "More rapidly intensifying storms means both that there are more strong storms overall, but also that there are more risky situations near land. Rapid intensification is exceedingly dangerous because people, they’re not warned adequately, they’re not prepared, many of them don’t evacuate.” Evacuation is often a moot point for us in the Caribbean, but indeed, this does not bode well for our future. Let's just hope that the forecasted El Nino, which dampens hurricane activity, will last all the way through September... -Gert
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Monday, November 12, 2018 20:45PM EST - 96L
Have not posted lately due to numerous personal events so sorry if you have missed my posts and updates. However, I am still here! Thanks to Gert for holding my end up!
Potential named storm Patty, now 96L, is located a few hundred miles to the east of Guadeloupe as a discombobulated, wind sheared system. Moving to the WNW at about 8 mph, 96L is naked below the waist, aka south of the low pressure center, due to the wind shear force field that has been protecting the island chain all year long. This means almost all of the strong thunderstorms and winds are to the north of the "center". Winds are approx. 35 miles an hour technically meaning TD status but there is no defined closed circulation hence still it remains a strong tropical wave, at this time.
Due to the strong wind shear, 96L is not expected to develop around the northern Leeward Islands but will drop 1-6 inches of rain with gusty winds and angry up to 10-12 foot seas. Down the road, wind shear will lessen and the seas will be a bit warmer leading to probable Patty named status, giving the Turks and Caicos and maybe the lower Bahamas some worries. But, that should be the extent as a strong front coming off the coast should intercept probable Patty and turn her out to sea, giving Bermuda a dousing on the fast track by while the Florida coast breathes a late season sigh of relief.
For those who wonder where all the rain is coming from all of a sudden, November is one of our historically rainiest months. The rains are not surprising and neither is a late season spin up. Official season ends in 18 days. It has been so far, a lucky year here around the eastern Caribbean as the continuous wind shield just to our east has been a formidable adversary to approaching systems since May.
Stay safe and stay blessed.
Monday, November 12, 2018 09:02AM PST - Patty?
It looks like we might have a late season storm on our hands. Invest 96L, located just east of the Leeward Islands has a high change to develop into tropical storm Patty. It is expected to travel west to west-northwest. Hopefully it will pass a bit more north to avoid the northeastern islands, like St.Maarten, Anguilla and the Virgin Islands since they already had a lot of rain over the last couple of days. It doesn't look like this storm will ever become a hurricane, but it might be a significant rainmaker for the islands. Stay tuned! -Gert
- - - Invest 96L and its projected path - - -
Sunday, October 28, 2018 12:39PM PDT - Oscar
And indeed, as forecasted, Invest 95L has developed into tropical storm Oscar. It is even expected to become a hurricane, though not higher than a Category 1. Looks like that the forecast models were pretty much spot on. It will not be a threat to the islands, and it is expected to stay a safe distance from Bermuda when it will pass about 460 miles to the east in 2 days or so. Still one more month of hurricane season, but hopefully this was the last one! -Gert
Thursday, October 25, 2018 08:58AM PDT - Oscar?
Looks like we might have another named storm this year! Invest 95L is about 800 miles east-northeast of the islands, and has a 70% chance to become a tropical cyclone over the next 48 hours. Looking at the spaghetti plots (see links above) it doesn't seem to be a threat to the islands. And if it makes that sharp turn north before it gets to Bermuda they should be fine as well.
In the Pacific on the other hand, the Northern Mariana Islands got slammed by an Irma-like storm named Yutu yesterday and Mexico earlier by Category 3 storm Willa (which was a Cat.5 just a day earlier). Remarkable about both storms is the rapid intensification. Wunderground reports that Willa went from a tropical depression on Saturday to a Category 5 storm on Monday, a record setting 54 hours, and similar to Maria in the Atlantic last year. Yutu as well went from 75 mph (Cat.1) to 180 mph (Cat.5) in just 30 hours. As you can imagine the situation is not good. The islands, close to Guam, are part of the US Commonwealth. But not sure if that really helps with the recovery seeing what the US Government did for Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
Finally, check out the pictures from the not-storm related flooding in Trinidad last weekend send in by our special hurricane correspondents. Many aid organizations have offered to help, including Nicki Minaj, who is born there. -Gert
Wednesday, October 10, 2018 10:28AM PDT - Michael
The eyewall just came ashore between St. Vincent Island and Panama City. This is a strong Category 4 hurricane, maximum sustained winds 155 mph, minimum central pressure 919 mb. It is the first Category 4 storm to strike the Florida Panhandle (since records began in 1851). The central pressure is lower than Andrew's at landfall and only third lowest on record to make landfall in the US. The other two were the 1935 Labor Day hurricane and Camille in 1969. The picture below (adapted from NOAA's GOES-East Image Viewer) speaks for itself. I am keeping an archive of full resolution images here. -Gert
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Tuesday, October 9, 2018 20:22PM PDT - Michael
This is a post for the US Gulf Coast. Michael is now a strong Category 3 hurricane packing 125 mph. It is expected to strengthen even more, and is expected to be a Category 4 hurricane at landfall. The Closest Point of Approach for Panama City, Fl is only 20 miles. The eye of the storm is expected to be there in 19 hours. Tropical storm force winds will arrive a lot sooner! This is a big storm, see images below where I show the same track with CPA relative to Panama City, with and without the satellite overlay. Again, the storm surge will be catastrophic, esp. to the right/east of the track. If the local authorities tell you to evacuate then do it! You cannot defend yourself against a 10+ feet storm surge! -Gert
- - - Michael relative to Panama City, FL - - -
Tuesday, October 9, 2018 09:53AM PDT - Three storms
The tropical disturbance far east has been upgraded to tropical storm Nadine. So now we have three storms at the same time in the Atlantic this late in the season. A first? Nadine is not a threat for the islands. It is turning more northwest where it will find colder water and higher wind shear, so not a very long lived storm it seems.
Meanwhile, Leslie is still churning around in the Atlantic, it formed September 28 not far from where it is now. But it looks like it is finally on the move, heading towards Madeira and Portugal/Morocco, the wrong way indeed.
Last but not least Michael, which is heading toward Florida, where it will make landfall tomorrow. The storm surge will be the most dangerous aspect of this storm because of the geography of the area. This storm, and esp. when it was just a blob, has already caused a lot of flooding in Central America, esp. Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador. Thirteen fatalities have been reported so far... You can use the above tools to see how close the storm can get to you. I have listed several cities along the Gulf Coast to the Closest Point of Approach-tool. But as always, don't focus too much on the exact track. Esp. if you live near the coast be aware of the potential catastrophic storm surge. Listen to the local authorities. If they tell you to get out, do it! Don't be stubborn (=stupid). -Gert
Monday, October 8, 2018 09:46AM PDT - Michael
2PM Update: Michael is now expected reach Category 3 (major) status before making landfall in Florida.
As Dave wrote below, we now have Hurricane Michael. It is moving just about 120 miles to the east of Cancun and western Cuba as I write this. It is expected to make landfall on the Florida Panhandle in about 2 days as a Cat-2 hurricane. For people on the Gulf Coast you can use the closest point of approach calculator to see how close it can get to you (there is a pop-up with coordinates of cities). Remember, because of the counter clockwise rotation, the strongest storm surge will be on the right/eastern side. -Gert
Sunday, October 7, 2018 11:20AM EDT - Soon to be Michael
While the Pacific Ocean has quieted down a bit and the Atlantic still has TS Leslie wandering around the park looking for a date, any date it seems, the SW Caribbean and the GOM have activated right on cue weather timing wise with the introduction of TD#14, with a christening event later today introducing TS Michael which should happen as or after recon has investigated the system. This flight just took off.
TD#14 has definitely consolidated his chances of reaching named status this morning while fighting some dry air intrusion from the west plus a healthy prescription size dose of wind shear. However, that wind shear is expected to lessen as it moves slowly north about 3 mph. Flooding rains and landslides have already affected the Central American countries of Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Belize, and Guatemala. Honduras, the Yucatan Peninsula, and Cuba will be next.
Soon to be Michael's intensity will grow slowly at first as it consolidates further it's core and spiraling bands emerge. Moving over untapped energy potential in the GOM in the form of very warm SST's, the official forecast has TS Michael making a Cat 1 hurricane at the time of landfall. I suspect as the wind shear diminishes as it rides a trough to the NE, Michael will grow faster than anticipated, landing as a Cat 2, possibly RI to a Cat 3 beforehand after sucking up that ripe warm SST's of the GOM.Â
Track forecast is trickier with most models landfalling Michael between Miss/Alabama border and the Florida Panhandle. We all know, that those points are not very far apart. It appears the bulk of the action and moisture will be on the over loaded east side at the moment and that will not be good for the SE although many areas can use the rain from southern SC to Central Florida. West coast of Florida, do not be complacent. A Tampa hit is not out of the question at this moment. Cones have errors and the Tampa shield will not last forever.
All in all, at this point, the gulf coast will get a hurricane and it will bring drenching rains to the SE coast and also to the Carolinas and Virginia where no more rain is needed courtesy of Hurricane Florence's unwelcomed visit last month. And one other thing, October hurricanes have been pretty nasty over the years.
Preparation folks is the key.
Thursday, September 27, 2018 13:54PM PDT - Kirk is coming
Kirk is struggling with wind shear, but it is nearing the islands. Check out the Martinique radar (meteo.fr) or the composite (Barbadosweather.org) to see its approach... Don't be misled about how the storm looks right now on satellite images, the center of circulation is kind of ahead of the deep convection. When you overlay the GOES image on the closest point of approach-map it becomes more obvious. So I guess: wind first, rain later. -Gert
Wednesday, September 26, 2018 20:41PM EDT - Captain Kirk
A revitalized TS Kirk was reenergized by warm ocean waters and low wind shear this morning after rising to TS status then being relegated back to an open tropical wave after trying to fend off a late season slug of Saharan Dust. Now, with the comma shaped head of a wind sheared tropical system, it sets its sights on this years common area of tropical attraction: Martinique, Dominica and Guadeloupe.
TS warnings are up for those islands in addition to St. Lucia and Barbados. With it's elongated stature, the 60 mph winds it currently boasts will not be the main impact. Rain, and a lot of it will be. Speeding along at about 18 mph and fighting increasingly volatile wind shear, Kirk is expected to weaken but weakening means spreading out like Florence did. So, main impacts will be very gusty winds, heavy rains and dangerous seas across most of the island chain. That is the forecast.
Devils advocate says Kirk could fight off the wind shear to the extent of becoming a Cat 1 hurricane before it's forecast demise. We definitely have seen uglier presented hurricanes. Even so, main threat is flooding, landslides, and more damage to people who still live in blue tarped houses. A blue plastic roof will not hold during a 60 mph sustained bashing normally. Shelters on some islands are also in short supply due to last years twin Cat 5's. So lets hope the Star Trekkish wind shear force field protects us from this scenario like it's protected us all year starting with Beryl.Â
Since it is speeding along, expect conditions to deteriorate tomorrow among the outlying rim islands and Friday the impacts will be considerable among the northern islands. A weaker Kirk will likely trek more westerly while a stronger Kirk will want to use the earths spin and a weak spot in the ridge to the north. Lets just hope for all of us, wind shear does it's job again.
Down the road, as I shared a few days ago, once Kirk or the remnants get into the Western Caribbean, it could get interesting again. About 30% of the official hurricane season is still ahead with a small peak in October so please, do not let your vigilance down. We have all seen and experienced what Mother Nature can due emulating Felix the Cat with his bag of tricks!Â
Wednesday, September 26, 2018 09:05AM PDT - Kirk is back!
Kirk has been upgraded again to a tropical storm. The storm is about 350 miles east of Barbados and the center is expected to pass just north of Barbados tomorrow and then close to Martinique and Dominica. See below closest point of approach with Barbados. Although looking like an impressive blob on satellite imagery the future doesn't bode too well for Kirk. It is not expected to become much stronger. Mostly due to wind shear ahead. See the confusing picture below (source: CIMSS Tropical Cyclone Group, U. Wisconsin-Madison). The straight white line is the forecasted track. The red, yellow and green lines is the wind shear in knots. Red is unfavorable (high). So the image shows that high shear (red lines) lie ahead of Kirk. It is expected to be still a tropical storm when it crosses the island chain, but will weaken after that. The storm is also relatively fast moving at 18 mph, so hopefully it won't dump too much rain on the islands (esp. Dominica). -Gert
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Tuesday, September 25, 2018 13:39PM PDT - Kirk
The remnants of Kirk are approaching the islands. It looks pretty impressive on the satellite images, but since there is no closed circulation it cannot be called a cyclone. Sea surface temperatures are pretty warm, wind shear is not too high, but the dry air is inhibiting strengthening. However, the National Hurricane Center still gives it a 60% of redeveloping in the next couple of days. The storm is moving pretty fast at 20+ mph. It will pass through the Lesser Antilles on Thursday, so be prepared for some squally weather, wind gusts can still reach tropical storm strength and locally you can expect a couple of inch of rain. You can use the MySat-tool to view high resolution satellite loops centered on your location to monitor the approach of the storm. -Gert
Saturday, September 22, 2018 14:55PM EDT - Brief respite but now...
After last weeks frenetic activity in the Atlantic culminating in a tumultuous Hurricane Florence landfall in the Carolinas, a few days respite was observed in the Atlantic basin. How short lived that was.
First we have a non tropical low which spun off from a front that was carrying the remnants of Florence across the North Atlantic. This will probably become first sub tropical then tropical over the next few days and being a 'cut off" low, it will have weak steering currents leaving it a wandering name with no particular place to go until the next front swoops in and carries it to the UK and Europe possibly affecting the Azores directly on the way. Interesting enough, they have been pretty busy dodging storms there this season already. This is 90L and maybe even Leslie.
Next is 98L, a few hundred miles south of Bermuda, the spawn of Florence. However, it will not be renamed Florence if it attains named status. Current forecast thinking is it does minimally develop and head towards the Carolina coast but on the way, the cavalry will ride to the rescue in the form of that weather super good guy, wind shear. Seems like wind shear is almost every where in the Atlantic right now and has been particularly strong across the Caribbean. At this time, 98L or whatever it becomes is expected to skirt the Carolina coast and OBX before the next front carries it away. Still, even the thought of this is creating anxieties where Florence plodded ashore. Something to keep a close eye on if wind shear doesn't arrive timely.
TD#11 is going to have a short shelf life if forecasts are accurate. Once again, wind shear is expected to be ferocious as it makes it's way WNW towards the islands. If this holds true, it will be nothing but a regular tropical wave with some vigor as it passes through. Some flash flooding is a possibility. Like Isaac and Beryl, no match for the dynamic duo of wind shear and dry air.
On to what we know now as TS Kirk. Kirk has formed at a very low latitude, about 8.3 N with 40 mph satellite derived winds. It's till September and CV storms are still in vogue. Kirk is not an anomaly and definitely warrants our attention here in the islands but it has some usual suspects to overcome.
Two of those are well known and mentioned above: wind shear and dry air with a big dose of Saharan Dust which seems more prolific this late in September than other years. SST's are conducive and will be for the remainder of his travels so they are not an issue. The one unusual suspect is his formation below 10 N. This puts TS Kirk closer to the equator where he cannot take full advantage of the earths rotation to spin up and start circulating. Kirk is expected to develop another issue soon and that's a fast forward speed. Once he starts trucking along about 20-25 mph it will be hard for the COC (center of circulation) to keep up which will negatively affect his structure and growing prospects. Once Kirk makes his way close to the Caribbean, wind shear is expected to slam his door shut on further development and might even tear him apart as has been customary so far. But that is 4-5 days out. Still, never trust a CV storm. Plus, if he muscles his way through the islands, the Western Caribbean and GOM could have a real problem on their doorstep.
Saturday, September 22, 2018 10:18AM PDT - TD 11 and Kirk
The tropical wave just off the African coast is now tropical storm Kirk. The storm is at quite a low latitude, only 8.3N. Its projected path is pretty much due west, which could take it close to Barbados on Thursday. So far it is not expected to become a hurricane. Waters are plenty warm, and wind shear is not that high, but the low latitude and expected speedy forward motion won't help. Let's hope that holds true! Use the closest point of approach-tool to check when and how close it can get to you.
Tropical depression 11, much closer by us, is not expected to be much of a threat. It is kind of stationary, and about to fall apart and become a tropical wave.
Meanwhile, this morning I saw on TV an interesting report about Vieques, the "Forgotten Island". It showed that the electrical grid has not been restored at all, and that they are totally dependent on generators. The hospital is not operational either, patients fly to Saba for dialysis apparently. See it on the CBS This Morning website. On Sunday there will also be a one-hour special on CBSN about Puerto Rico: Puerto Rico: The exodus after Maria. -Gert
Tuesday, September 18, 2018 14:55PM PDT - Last year...
One year ago today, Hurricane Maria slammed Dominica. Maria was a slow moving Category 5 storm with Sustained winds were at 160 mph. Lots of scary pictures (like the one below) in the archive. At first we were dependent on HAM radio relays to get some info out of Dominica. Things have a lot improved things. The medical school has left the island though. It will move to Barbados upcoming January. This year Dominica had a scare with Isaac, but luckily it weakened enough before it reached the island and didn't do much harm. -Gert
- - - Maria over Dominica 2017 - - -
Friday, September 14, 2018 09:38AM PDT - Florence Path
The ECMWF (European) model is now also agreeing more with the other models and official NHC forecast. It is not showing the big dip southward. See: this image (source: Tang/UAlbany), black line is last model run, blue ones are earlier runs, red is actual track. -Gert
Thursday, September 13, 2018 18:29PM PDT - Bye, Bye Isaac?
Well, it looks like Isaac was an almost non-event, judging from the reports from Dominica and surrounding islands. Although it has not passed totally, there is still some significant rainfall coming, judging from the satellite image above and radar loops of Martinique and Guadeloupe.
Meanwhile, Florence is taking aim for the US East Coast. Just a heads up if anyone is listening on the East Coast, the European ECMWF model forecast is still (see my earlier posts) predicting a different path than the official NHC forecast. It keeps Florence off-shore for a little while, dipping south, before making landfall close to the Georgia/South Carolina border (around Beaufort, SC, hard to see) and then move inland. Just to keep in mind if you live in Charleston, Savannah, or thereabouts... See Tropical Tidbits (click through the images). Stay safe everybody! -Gert
Wednesday, September 12, 2018 23:07PM EDT - Florence and the afterthoughts
Good evening from upstate NY,
Late post since I was traveling but found signal and time for a bit to write.Â
My subject, as you are wondering what, is just that. Once a major storm is headed to and about to strike the mainland or Hawaii, and the Caribbean islands have a similar situation at the same time, we here in the Caribbean become an afterthought. Focus is directed mainly at what can/will happen there. Yes, I understand the variables of population, economy, etc. But we have US Islands here too as in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands plus all of our wonderful neighboring islands stretching from Central America to Barbados. I heard one meteorologist on national cable say the other morning, and he was being honest to his credit, " Sorry we can't pay much attention to you as you can see we have Florence to deal with." Now, that is not word for word but that's 90% of it. I started contributing to this site back in like 1998 as I was disenchanted with the fact we were always ignored down here and there was a huge lack of information and communication. So,Â
As this is mainly about the Caribbean, I will start with what is about to really affect the Caribbean and that is Isaac. Now, TS Isaac has not played in the sandbox with forecasters very well since his humble beginnings west of the Cabo Verde Islands. Forecast to become a hurricane of even a Cat 2 possibly, he never has reached his potential and that is GREAT news for all of us in the Eastern Caribbean, especially those of us who experienced Irma and Maria last year. However, some of the islands those storms did impact, regardless of Isaacs potential or not, will be experiencing TS force winds and up to possibly 8 inches of rain. Montserrat, Dominica and the butterfly island of Guadeloupe are all under TS warnings. TS force winds do extend outwards of up to 175 miles and much of that is to the south which is quite uncommon as Gert mentioned previously. Rainfall that affects Puerto Rico, the BVI's, and down to St. Maarten will be in the form of squalls and thunderstorms about 1-4 inches. But as we all know, one thunderstorm can drop 1-4 inches in just one hour so flooding in isolated locales is a possible issue.
As TS Isaac moves through the middle islands tomorrow, it is forecast to weaken due to the relentless wind shear attack. That is what some models say and is entirely possible. Isaac then enters the Eastern Caribbean graveyard where most storms never form or fight to stay alive if they have life already. Where am I going with this? If Isaac, and remember, he is an "I" storm, makes it with it's basics intact through the graveyard, then we could have a major problem in the Gulf of Mexico or even Central America depending on the steering currents at that time. Jamaica and the Caymans could feel a rejuvenated TS. Time will tell for that scenario.
Behind Isaac, Hurricane Helene is showing no interest in chasing a weakening Isaac, which again is GREAT news for us here. She thus sets her sights on a date with the Azores this weekend. Might be a brush by or a direct impact as a weakening TS but effects will be felt nonetheless.
Sub Tropical Storm Joyce, a newbie to the scene, will meander aimlessly in the Atlantic for a few days SW, turn abruptly NE and follow then TS Helene to the Azores region. So the Azores will probably have issues over the weekend and into the beginning of next week. Joyce does have the chance to become a real TS over the next day if she can acquire more "tropical like" characteristics and that is the official forecast. But it will be short lived.
95L is throwing a temper tantrum in the Gulf of Mexico with the SW Texas coast as it's main objective. Here we have another area that does not need anymore rain. Forecast to become a tropical depression, maybe a minimal TS if time over the water provides, wind will not be the problem regardless of those classifications. Once again, it will be the heavy rainfall accumulations over already saturated ground.
Hurricane Florence, as I have shared for days, will be devastating especially in the storm surge and flooding arenas. Wind damage will be the same along the coast and if she meanders along the coast for a few days as projected at this moment, a relentless ocean pounding will be epic. By the way, just because Florence is forecast to drop in intensity right before the coast does not mean your in the clear if you refused to evacuate. It does not make it right you stayed. As Gert shared, your stupidity and arrogance could cost you your life or someone elses who tries to rescue you. Leave now if you still can and are under mandatory evacuation. Material things can be replaced. The joyride is not worth it.
Wednesday, September 12, 2018 09:23AM PDT - Isaac weaker
Isaac looking worse today, but a hurricane hunter plane still found 60 mph wind. The convection now seems to be to the south-east of the center. So while I was saying that the northern part of the storm was strongest, now it looks like the southern part of the storm carries the brunt. So islands south of Dominica pay attention! See screen grab below (from the closest point of approach (CPA) tool). Not much else has changed qua track, but I wouldn't focus too much on where the center is right now. Tomorrow is the day! After Isaac crosses the island chain it is expect to weaken into a tropical wave.
And anyone on the US East Coast, esp. the Carolina's, Georgia and yes, Florida... don't underestimate Florence! If local authorities are telling you to evacuate than do it! Like I wrote before: don't be stubborn (ie. stupid)! The wind probably won't kill you, but the water (storm surge/flooding) definitely can! -Gert
- - - CPA for Dominica + storm relative to center - - -
Tuesday, September 11, 2018 15:27PM PDT - 5PM Update
Just a short update... looks like wind shear is taking its toll on Isaac, looking more ragged than this morning. So hopefully it doesn't become a hurricane again. The track is just a tad more southward. This is not much of a reprieve for Dominica, because keep in mind that the forward motion of the storm (currently 17 mph) can be added to the current wind speed in the northern half of the storm due to Isaac's anti-clockwise rotation. Also keep in mind, regardless if Isaac strengthens again into a hurricane, the rainfall will not be much different. Since flooding probably will be the biggest problem, don't focus too much on the classification. -Gert
Tuesday, September 11, 2018 09:23AM PDT - Isaac
Isaac has now officially weakened to a tropical storm, but with 70 mph winds, is still a borderline hurricane. Forecast show that is will be around this strength when it arrives at the Islands, although it might be a lot weaker. The forecasted track has been pretty consistent, taking it over Dominica on Thursday. Tropical storm and hurricane watches have been posted (see the advisories). Water not the wind will probably be the biggest threat. Isaac is moving at 16 mph, and is not expected to slow down, so hopefully the rains won't cause too much flooding on Dominica and surrounding islands. The punch of this storm will be in the tail end, so keep that in mind.
Meanwhile Florence is still a Category 4 storm, it might become even a Category 5 storm before it makes landfall in the US. People in the US can also use the closest point of approach tool to see how close it can get to you. Biggest threat will be storm surge and if it stalls widespread flooding like Harvey. Please heed warnings by local authorities! See also this helpful blog post by Brian McNoldy, a researcher at Univ. of Miami, and who is also part of the Capital Weather Gang of the Washington Post. -Gert
Monday, September 10, 2018 13:49PM PDT - Isaac and Florence
Not much has changed with Isaac with the new advisories and since Dave updated us (see below). It hasn't strengthened more, max. winds still 75 mph (Category 1), and still going due west. The eye is expected to cross the island chain at Dominica, who is still recovering from Maria, in three days... The only positive I see is that Isaac is relatively small and that it is expected to weaken in about 2 days. So hopefully it will weaken enough that it will not cause too many problems. See how close it can get to you with this handy tool. Keep in mind that it is still 3 days away, so it can go north/south in the meantime! Not sure where it will go after it moves into the Caribbean Sea. Hopefully it will just degenerate into nothing.
As for Florence, it is now a Category 4 storm, packing 140 mph winds! It should stay safely (350+ miles) south of Bermuda. See screenshot below from the Closest Point of Approach-tool, showing distance vs. size of Florence relative to Bermuda. It is expected to make landfall as a Category 4 storm in the US... If you live on the US East coast, I added a list of US cities to the Closest Point of Approach-tool, so you can see how close it can get to you, and how forecasts are 'trending' over time... See also the Florence tools above for more info. Remember, most storm deaths are due to water (storm surge or flooding), not wind force... In the Carolinas the storm surge could be as high as 15-10 feet, see Jeff Masters' blog at WeatherUnderground. His bottom line: "if you are told to evacuate for Florence's storm surge, get out! And don't wait until the last minute, or it may be too late to save your life.". Don't be stubborn (ie. stupid)!
Finally, two cool animations I received in my email: Close-up movie of the eye of Florence (GOES-16 30s scans) and a GOES-16 loop showing the three hurricanes in the Atlantic. -Gert
- - - Florence relative to Bermuda - - -
Monday, September 10, 2018 08:54AM EDT - Historic Sept. 10th
Today. Sept. 10th. The historical "Peak" of the hurricane season and this 2018 season is one to remember already. It is apparent, especially with Florence, it might never be forgotten.
Pandora's Atlantic and Pacific boxes have been opened and the jailbreak of September commenced. Hurricane Olivia in the Pacific will degrade to a TS by the time she makes history herself by approaching and striking the Hawaiian Islands from the NE, probably around Maui. This will be the third names storm to hit Hawaii this EPAC season.
3 hurricanes are on the map today in the Atlantic along with two areas of interest. Hurricane Helene and one of the AOI's up by the Azores will not be affecting any land masses in the Caribbean or the mainland US. Helene is throwing a scare into the Cabo Verde Islands and actually has the potential to turn into a Cat 2 before going fishing. The AOI up by the Azores appears to be non threatening and will go fishing as well, development or not.
Hurricane Isaac. Historically "I" storms have a bad reputation and that is well deserved. "I" is late in the alphabet of storm names which means we have had a lot of activity already and they usually show up in the heat of the season. 10 "I" named storms have been retired from the name list, the most of any letter. Irma, Irene, Isabel, Ike, and Ivan to name a few. Fortunately, at this point, compact little Hurricane Isaac is not trying to get on the "I want to be retired list" of storm names.
Isaac is forecast to strengthen into a Cat 1 and maybe even a Cat 2 before encountering our favorite storm devourer, wind shear. Look what the wind shear did to Hurricane Beryl earlier this year. Isaac is expected to follow, for the most part, a westerly track and will start to affect the islands Thursday and pass in between Montserrat and St. Lucia Thursday evening as a cat 1 or strong TS. This track puts Dominica squarely in the front sight of Isaacs barrel. With these islands still in recovery mode from last years Irma/Maria onslaught, Isaac couldÂhave major impacts evenÂin a reduced state.
The possibility of Isaac to traverseÂon a more southerly track is doubtful while the possibility of Isaac taking a more WNW track is a possibility if the ridge to the north reveals any slight weakness for him to exploit. This means any islands north ofÂMontserrat should still be vigilant until Isaac passes through and is past. Isaac is a small compact system and is vulnerable to large variations in intensityÂeither strengthening or weakening and a stronger system tends to lean more WNW. Just something to keep in mind. Isaac could be an issue down the road once into the Caribbean Sea so he will be around for awhile.
Last but definitely not least is Florence, starting her RI phase on her way to a potentially catastrophic meeting with the Carolinas. As I shared days ago, this scenario was plausible with the ridging potential. Anywhere from northern GA to VA is technically in play for a landfall. The winds will be a major issue on the coast and inland for several hundred miles. The flooding has the potential to be epic. After landfall, Florence will be like a girl standing against the wall with no one to dance with and no where to go for what will seem like an eternity.
Be prepared and make conscious, common sense decisions.
Saturday, September 8, 2018 06:13AM EDT - Zero to 60
Good morning all,
From nothing to hectic. That is what just happened over the last week. From no storms to many and the wave train continues. "Tis the season but this is could be a nightmare for some.
I'll start with TD#9, west of the Cabo Verde Islands. Forecast to move mainly west, TD#9 is expected to become a hurricane sometime Monday with it's sights set on our islands, still recovering from Cat 5's Irma and Maria just a year ago. The dreaded "I" name will be Isaac and initial thoughts are soon to be Isaac will affect the islands as a high Cat 1 or mid Cat 2, only due to higher SW wind shear dampening it's strength on approach. The SST's are plenty warm to support this storm and it will have a moisture envelope surrounding it which will insulate the system from dry Saharan air intrusion. It's track is determined by the strength of the high pressure ridge to the far north which is the same one steering dangerous Florence to the east coast. This means pretty much due west with potential landfall in the middle of the Lesser Antilles. While we have time to watch this scenario play out, we do not have much time to prepare. There is still a chance it can go north after finding and exploiting a weakness in the ridge but that appears unlikely at this point. Stay tuned.
TS Helene, soon to become a hurricane, is affecting the Cabo Verde Islands and a hurricane watch has been issued for some of them. Helene is expected to move to the WNW and not affect any other land masses.Â
Invest 94L, ahead of TS Florence, will live a very short life, not reach named status, and will likely be absorbed by Florence who I fear will be making a devastating impact somewhere on the east coast as a possible Category 4 storm.
Now to Florence. Already a wild child for defying earlier predictions of a "fish storm" Florence also intensified into a Cat 4 which was not forecast either. Recently, having been beaten down by serious wind shear, Florence is now a TS but this is a precursor to what is to come with potentially dangerous consequences, a direct hit on the east coast as a major hurricane. From north Florida to the OBX, preparations should be starting if not started already. Florence isn't looking good now but ahead of her is very low wind shear, good mid level moisture, and very warm waters. All conducive to transforming Florence back into a major hurricane with explosive potential. The impacts will not just be felt on the coast either. For a few hundred miles inland and northward, Florence will cause immense damage and flooding as she slows down after landfall.Â
Next weekend could be a calamitous one. Not definite but very possible. Be prepared.Â
Friday, September 7, 2018 10:47AM PDT - Invest 92L
9:11PM PDT Update: Invest 92L is now Tropical Depression Nine. The 'potential tropical cyclone' just off Africa is now Tropical Storm Helene. Invest 94L is north (northwest) of us, no worries with that one for us. Confusing with 5 active systems!
Hmmm, there I thought that Invest 92L would veer nicely to the north. Now the latest model runs show 92L actually heading for the islands! The timing is around Thursday/Friday next week. Still far out, so a lot can still change. The strong high pressure system to the north is pushing this Invest more south. The same for Florence, now expected to pass at a more safe distance of 300+ miles south of Bermuda. The European model (ECMWF) and now the spaghetti plots more so as well (see above) show a landfall on the US coast somewhere. We also have a new 'potential tropical cyclone' close to the African coast. That one looks like it is going north... Lots of storms this year forming so far east. So a lot going on! Stay tuned! Use the tools above to see how close the storms can get to you and more. -Gert
Thursday, September 6, 2018 08:39AM PDT - One year ago + Florence
One year ago Irma, a strong Category 5, packing 180 mph (!) winds, struck the northeastern Caribbean, changing the lives of many (incl. mine). The pictures below speak for itself, still very scary when I look at them. In one year the islands have recovered amazingly well, but there are of course still a lot of issues that need to be resolved. Tourists are slowly but surely coming back as well, since the beaches are still as gorgeous as ever.
Back to today..., Invest 92L is still just an invest, but that might change in a few days. It looks like it will still move north of the islands. Florence on the other hand is aiming for Bermuda and the US East Coast. Right now (according to my closest point of approach calculator) it looks like that the center of Florence will pass about 200 miles south of Bermuda in 5 days. At that time Florence is forecasted to be a Category 3 hurricane. Hope it will stay that way.
As for the US East Coast, we usually don't cover it (there are many other sources), but I want to stress that although many spaghetti plots show that Florence is staying off shore, the well respected ECMWF (European) model, does not show it (and is often not included unfortunately in the spaghetti plots). It now shows a landfall around Cape Hatteras, Thursday next week, and near Virginia Beach/Norfolk Friday next week (see image I made below). Model forecasts are not reliable this far out, but it is for sure a possibility, so when you live in the US East Coast don't think that this storm won't affect you... -Gert
- - - Left: Irma over the Virgin Islands, right: over
St.Maarten/St.Martin. Original source: Navy/NRL Monterey - - -
- - - ECMWF Model Output for Next Week - - -
Wednesday, September 5, 2018 16:03PM PDT - Florence now a Category 4
Florence is now a Category 4 hurricane, packing 130 mph winds. It is expected to weaken to a Category 3 soon again, but we have seen many times before that intensity forecasts can be hard to forecast (ie., they are often wrong). I wanted to give a heads up to the East Coast and Bermuda, like Dave wrote earlier today. Below I put together the output of the well respected ECMWF model. It shows where Florence (big dot top left) is next week from Wednesday to Saturday. As you can see it is targeting the East Coast and will stay around for awhile. It actually first goes north a bit and then comes back south... Of coarse, forecasts this far out can/will be way off, but this might be what is happening, hopefully not of course...
As for Bermuda, the ECMWF model shows that it will go just south of the island (not shown below). On the image you can also see Invest 92L. That one looks like it will not target the islands. Hope that will come true. Use the tools above to asses your risk. Esp. the Closest Point of Approach for Florence will be helpful. I included some locations on the East Coast to make it easy for you guys over there. Stay safe! -Gert
Wednesday, September 5, 2018 10:24AM EDT - Heads up!!
Just a quick update on things which are rapidly heating up as was mentioned previously. First things first though. One year ago today, evil Hurricane Irma was clamping down on the NE Caribbean as the first of twin category 5 hits in a 12 day span. Unforgettable times. Unforgettable damage. I really hope no one forgets the lessons that Irma and Maria taught us.
Major Hurricane Florence is the first major of the 2018 Atlantic season and is poised to make a liar possibly out of many who considered her a "fish storm" in the beginning. If she strengthens some more and the ridge stays weak, then a fish storm she may well be. However, and it's looking more likely right now, first Bermuda and then the Mid to Upper Atlantic coast could be in for a nasty surprise or a heckuva scare. This scenario plays out if the ridge strengthens, the trough that is supposed to pick up Florence doesn't, and Florence is then forced westward. Lots of variables with this one. The only good thing for us here in the Caribbean is I do not see an Irmaesque like trek sinking south towards us.
If I was anywhere on the east coast though, say from mid Georgia northward, I would be a bit nervous and start doing some preparations just in case. Florence will not be a polite visitor.ÂBermuda, you too.
Out in the Atlantic, 92L, soon to be TD#8 and eventually Helene, has our attention here in the islands as does future Issac who is just a toddler at the moment over land on Africa. The latest model runs have shifted 92L more southerly and westward which is not a good track for the Caribbean. Something to pay close attention to as well as future Isaac, who the NHC has given a 30% chance of development over the next 5 days.
Preparation is the key. We cannot stop them. Only be wise and prepare.
Saturday, September 1, 2018 10:58AM EDT - Climatologically speaking
Since early season Hurricane Beryl, the three named storms after have been unremarkable and short lived. That's a good thing. Now, we are entering the high time of hurricane season aka the month of September. Right on historical cue, the bowling alley across and off the coast of Africa has plenty of contestants lined up to take their strike at a name.
TS Florence has been designated this morning by the NHC not long after exiting the coast. Florence has been tracked and analyzed for several days with great intensity while over land which doesn't happen very often. But, she was born to spin the moment she hit the Atlantic. Forecast track has Florence riding the southern periphery of high pressure until a weakness is felt resulting in curving to the NW mid ocean. This would keep her far away from land as a possible minimal hurricane. However, the chance to move west and not curve is possible. If the mid ocean weakness between the two high pressure systems does not develop, Florence will take an unlikely course west. Time and high pressure will tell. For the mean time, TS warnings have been dropped for the Cabo Verde Islands and Florence will continue on her WNW track as a TS for the most part.
The next wave behind it will probably be unremarkable as well and become another "fish storm" but number three and four behind this one, still over land, will need to be watched with more interest and concern as that ridge to the north should solidify, leaving only a heading to the west as the only direction to take.
It's easy to become complacent after getting hit in one year, especially twice in 12 days. History does repeat itself and that is a given. Not saying we will have a repeat but hopefully lessons have been learnedÂthat preparations and a watchful eye are necessary requirements every year. Several islands like Puerto Rico and Dominica still have not really recovered from last year and will be in dire straits should Mother Nature choose to be a meanie. Lets use our experiences from the past guide our intelligent decisions going forward.
Thursday, August 30, 2018 09:54AM PDT - Number 6
The strong tropical wave that just rolled off the African coast has now become more organized and was 'upgraded' to Tropical Depression Six. The 'center' is actually just off the coast of Africa, so it is even east of the Cape Verde Islands. It is expected to move just south of the Cape Verdes and a tropical storm warning has been issued. It is expected to become a hurricane (Florence) in about 3 days. So far it looks like the storm is going way north of the islands. In 5 days the center is already at 20N (the northerestern nmost islands, like Anguilla, St.Martin, are at about 18N) while still only at 42W, which is over 1000 miles to the east of the islands. -Gert
Tuesday, August 28, 2018 11:36AM PDT - Puerto Rico Maria death toll update
A new study by George Washington University and requested by the governor of Puerto Rico states that Maria caused an estimated 2,975 excess deaths. A lot more than the 'official' number of 64... See news article in the Washington Post.
On another note... we should be happy our islands are not in the Pacific. Four storms are lined up in the image below. Better enjoy the remarkable quietness of the Atlantic! -Gert
- - - Active Tropical Storms (wunderground.com) - - -
Thursday, August 23, 2018 11:12AM PDT - Where are the storms?
Interesting blog post by Brian McNoldy in the Washington Post: We’re entering the peak of Atlantic hurricane season, but where are the storms?. Spoiler alert: cool Atlantic water, dry air and a looming El Nino. Another spoiler by me... remember, it takes only one big storm in your backyard to make it a horrible season... -Gert
Tuesday, August 21, 2018 15:19PM PDT - 7.3 magnitude earthquake off Venezuela. Tsunami warning for Caribbean (cancelled)
At about 17:30 AST there was a big earthquake centered just north of Venezuela. A tsunami warning has been issued. Earthquake details: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us1000gez7#executive. Tsunami warning: https://ptwc.weather.gov/text.php?id=caribe.TSUCAX.2018.08.21.2154. It was felt by my sister-in-law on Grenada... Oh, I just see that the tsunami warning has been cancelled! (https://ptwc.weather.gov/ptwc/text.php?id=caribe.TSUCAX.2018.08.21.2217. See also Pacific Tsunami Warning Center for the latest (yes, they cover the Caribbean). -Gert
Thursday, August 16, 2018 11:01AM EDT - 99L
I thought I had sent this early this morning but here it sits in my draft pile. Ooops! Sending now.
It has been a while since my last post, partly because of a lack of activity in the Atlantic to even ponder about. That's the good news. However, it is about that time we historically see an uptick in activity and that is going to happen soon. Hurricane Beryl started things off in rapid fashionÂbut then the Saharan Dust Layer aka SAL, along with cooler than normal SST's, combined with that omnipresent wind shear to put a clamp down on Atlantic Basin development. The GOMEX aka Gulf of Mexico has plenty of heat contentÂto play with but wind shear and lack of opportunity has clamped that as well.
So, while sub tropical Ernesto makes a beeline towards Ireland and the UK from the Central Atlantic, we in the Caribbean and the Atlantic are staring at newly designated invest 99L, located about 900 miles to the east of the lower Windward Island chain or about 790 miles east southeast of Barbados.
99L does have a slight chance of development as it approaches the lower Windwards and Barbados but it's broadness plus a healthy ingestation of dry air and dust should limit it's potential for now. In addition, as it is below 10N, 99L is unable to take advantage of the earths spin, also know as the Coriolis effect which would enhance it's storm structure. Current consensus forecast track of this poorly defined system takes it's passage through the island change anywhere from St. Vincent and the Grenadines south to Trinidad and Tobago. Look for squally weather and some needed rain.
Down the road things might get a bit more interesting in the Western Caribbean but first, itÂmust survive the Eastern Caribbean graveyard. The next 4-6 weeks look to be heating up with potentialÂwith the Gulf of Mexico looking particularly vulnerable.ÂNevertheless, wherever you are, be prepared!!ÂWe have the active part of the season just ahead!
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Wednesday, August 15, 2018 06:57AM PDT - Number Five
Subtropical depression number Five formed about a thousand miles to the east northeast of Bermuda. Another one in the Northern Atlantic. No threat to (is)land. It might become a tropical storm (Ernesto) soon though. It is on the way to Ireland, but not sure what form it is if/once it arrives there. -Gert
Tuesday, August 7, 2018 08:29AM PDT - Debby
Uh, oh, did I jinx it? Yesterday I wrote how we hadn't posted since July 8 because there was nothing to report. Now we have (sub) tropical storm Debby. But don't worry, this one is high up in the North Atlantic, no threat to the islands or actual any land at all! Debby should be short lived (2 days) as well. We like fish storms like these! -Gert
Monday, August 6, 2018 10:25AM PDT - Below normal season?
The last post here on the main page was from July 8. Nice that there was nothing to report! A few days ago an updated hurricane forecast was issued by Klotzbach et al at Colorado State University. They still expect a below normal season with a total of 12 tropical storms (we have had 3 already), 5 hurricanes (we have had 2) and 1 major hurricane. The probability of at least one major hurricane tracking anywhere into the Caribbean Sea is 28% ('normal' is 42%). The lower expected activity is mainly due to cooler Atlantic waters and an about 55% chance of an El Nino developing in September. Let's hope it holds true, but remember, just one major hurricane in your backyard will spoil your whole season. So still be prepared, you never know. -Gert
Sunday, July 8, 2018 08:49AM EDT - 1 Up and 1 down
While beautiful weather is here in central Pennsylvania, the same cannot be said off the coast of the Carolinas and soon, the mid to northern Leeward Islands and Puerto Rico.
Closest to home, we have TS Beryl, once the Atlantics first hurricane of the 2018 season. About 190 miles ENE of Barbados as of 8 am this morning, the second smallest TS on record in the Atlantic basin is moving at a motivated 20 mph towards the WNW putting it on a collision course with Dominica, Guadeloupe, and Martinique. With wind shear increasing ahead plus a healthy ingestation of dry Saharan dust to it's north, TS Beryl will be on life support very soon. Its anticipated to drop to a TD just before tonight or after passing through the island chain. The islands will see some gusty, squally rains and wind gusts to maybe 50 mphÂwith accumulations in isolated spots of 4-6 inches but at her current forward speed, these spots should be a rarity. Regardless, these islands do not need Beryl as recovering from Hurricane Irma has been a slow progression. Some have no power still nor roofs. Further down the line, St. Croix will be the closest to Beryl's core, about 60 miles with again, squally and gusty rains and winds. Puerto Rico's SW coast and Hispaniola might see higher rain accumulations as well. By then, Beryl should have been disconnected from life support and officially become a remnant low of her former self.
Farther out east, a new wave have fell off the African continent drawing scant attention with Beryl and Chris in the picture already. Later on this one around 14W.
Off the Carolinas, about 150 milesÂsouth of Cape Hatteras lies a lurking TS named Chris. Set to sit and spin for a few days due to weak, almost non existent steering currents, Chris is eventually expected to be swept up by a mid week trough and carried outÂto the Canadian Maritimes possibly affecting Halifax and St. Johns with rains saved for a later date with the UK. Main effects continue for the Carolinas in the form of increasing beach erosion, strong dangerous rip currents and scattered pockets of rain. At this time, no US landfalls are predicted although there are a couple spaghetti models making landfall around Rhode Island and Boston. These are in the 1-3% category.
Either way, for both of these systems, it's a good time to get your seasonal hurricane preparations up to speed.ÂThrow out the old stuff expired from last years hurricane kit. Update with fresh. Even bottled water goes stale.
DaveÂ
Friday, July 6, 2018 18:35PM EDT - July Storm Trio?
I am traveling so this will be short as my layover is very short.
Hurricane Beryl, small, compact and the little engine that could and did, is making a bee line for the island of Dominica as a Category 1 hurricane and the first of the 2018 Atlantic season. Beryl strengthened quite rapidly, going from TD to hurricane in just over 18 hours and it is possible, maybe probable that Beryl will reach Cat 2 in the next day or so.
Beryl is not expected to grow in leaps and bounds and it also entirely possible it could slip in between islands due to its small, compact size. It also could actually drop down to TS status before it reaches the islands. With that said tomorrow will be a teller as there is much uncertainty with a storm of midget proportions. It can ramp up quickly; it can drop just as quickly, especially if it ingests some yummy Saharan dust to it's north. Chugging along at 15 mph, whatever Beryl remains or becomes remains to be seen. Heavy rainfall will definitely be an issue along it's path although that rain will be in a narrow range.
Computer models are in good agreement of the forecast track and for the VI, Beryl should remain far to the south but still throw some gusty winds and rain squalls our way. Something Dominica and Guadeloupe do not need, especially with the ,mountainous terrain and valleys.
Soon to be TS Chris is making a rambling, wandering appearance off the NC coast but eventually evacuating the area off the outer banks as the second hurricane of July. main effects as it's not supposed to make landfall will be high surf, rip currents, beach erosion, and heavy rain along the NC coast.
Rounding out the spectrum could be the possibility of Debby making her entrance on the stage this July, spawned from the latest tropical wave to hit the Atlantic off the coast of Africa.ÂHer short term potential trek takes her more northerlyÂat this time but time will tell.
Please prepare!! Even if you do not get affected, it will be a good practice run! More detail tomorrow. Have to catch a plane!!
Friday, July 6, 2018 10:09AM PDT - Hurricane Beryl
Greetings from the Netherlands! Tropical Depression 2 has surprisingly become a hurricane. Quite unusual for a storm that far east this early in the season. It is a very small storm, with hurricane force winds extending only 10 miles outward from the center. Nevertheless, it might strengthen a bit more and even become a Category 2 storm before it reaches the islands. Right now it is forecasted to cross the island chain at Dominica late Sunday/early Monday. Just what they need... It should be moving fast, so not much time to drop a lot of rain, but still... Because it is such a small storm its intensity is hard to forecast, so hopefully it won't be more than a Cat-2, but actually lower. -Gert
Wednesday, July 4, 2018 08:35AM EDT - 95L
Good morning on this 4th of July,
Hard to imagine it's hurricane season again but time moves inexorably on and we are now in the second month of official Tropical Atlantic hurricane 2018 season. Many still haven't recovered yet from the 2017 season with no power still, blue roofs, and non paying insurance companies.
Normally the average for tropical storm development in July is one a year and are usually weak in intensity. Hurricane Bertha, a bare 10 months after Hurricane Marilyn's appearance, in July of 1996, was an anomaly. Now it's possible we could see not one but two named systems within a week although the window is not open for long for both of them.
The first, not even labeled an invest yet, is a trough of low pressure a couple hundred miles south of Bermuda, which has a chance to become Beryl but must do so by Sunday when a trough is expected to sweep it out to sea. SST's are warmer in the sub tropical Atlantic and wind shear moderate so it has a good chance. All models forecast no interaction with Bermuda or the East Coast except high surf and dangerous rip currents.
The second, definitely more interesting to us here in the Caribbean, is an invest and it's 95L. Yes, the NHC skipped a few numbers but that's their prerogative. Categorized at the moment as a "vigorous" wave, 95L is located approx. 33W with most convection south of 16N and a 1009mb center located at 10N. Moving mainly west at 10-15 mph, 95L is showing slight signs of organization as it moves toward warmer, more friendlier waters. The computer models are in pretty tightÂagreement already, with a few outliers of course, that 95L will be over the Lesser Antilles late this weekend but as a what? Due to increasing wind shear and a ton of dry air courtesy of the Saharan Dust annual invasion, 95L is forecast to develop into a TS but peter out before reaching the islands on Saturday. 95L also has to break free from the ITCZ and strengthen in order to turn more WNW as if it remains weak, it will take a more westerly track. Will or can it make Cat 1 status? Yes, possible but probably not although, as evidenced by the last few years, do not take anything for granted.
Bottom line is a good rain producer with windy conditions are to be expected this weekend at some point. We do need the rain but not the wind. If you still have a blue roof, I suggest you tighten it up. Good time to upgrade your hurricane supplies as well as I'm sure some have expired. This season has been downgraded forecast wise due to the possible formation of El Nino and cooler than normal SST's across the MDR or Main Development Region. While that may be true, it only takes one.
Stay safe and aware!
Tuesday, June 12, 2018 10:25AM PDT - Sargassum
No hurricane news, but I saw this interesting article in Science on the Sargassum that is washing up on some of the beaches in the islands since 2011. A lot of research has been done on this new phenomena. I always thought that the Sargassum came from the Sargasso Sea, a gyre (a large basin-size circulating current) between the Caribbean/North Atlantic Equatorial current and Bermuda. But apparently it is coming from the south and is possibly a different species with wider 'leaves' Researchers from U. Southern Mississippi traced the Sargassum mats all the way back to the east of Brazil. They report 3 generic pathways for Sargassum to float into separate regions of the Caribbean (see this article).
Researchers from U. South Florida publish monthly outlooks based on satellite data. The latest outlook unfortunately shows that this year might be a bad one, with a high chance that the Sargassum will be polluting some beaches through August. It might actually be a worse year than 2015, the worst so far. Unfortunately there is not that much that can be done about it. It is very labor intensive to clean it up, and then what to do with it? There is some good news, a company in Guadeloupe has developed a system that can remove large quantities of Sargassum out of the water using a conveyor belt that dips below the surface. Apparently the 'Sargator' can collect up to 10 tons of Sargassum before it reaches the beaches (see this article). -Gert
Thursday, May 31, 2018 09:56AM PDT - Forecast lowered
Tomorrow is the official start of Atlantic Hurricane Season. Are you ready? Let's hope it won't be as disastrous as 2017! On a good note, the forecasters at Colorado State have just lowered their forecast a bit from their April 5 one. Now they expect 13 named storms (was 14, 12 is 'normal'), 6 hurricanes (was 6, 6.5 is normal) and 2 major hurricanes (was 3, 2 is normal). The probability of at least one major hurricane tracking through the whole Caribbean region (a big area) is 41%, which is about average. Although it doesn't look like an El Nino will be forming this Summer (lowering activity), they base the lower estimate mainly on the current cooler sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic. Read more on their website.
But as always, it only takes one big one to spoil your season! Be prepared as best as you can. Check your hurricane shutters and see what you can improve about your house's structure to better withstand high winds and torrential rains... -Gert
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 11:15AM PDT - Puerto Rico Death Toll
A Harvard study came out in the New England Journal of Medicine that estimates the number of people that died because of Hurricame Maria at about 4,600! That is far higher than the official number of 64. It is very sad how Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands are mostly ignored by the United States, esp. if you compare how the US dealt with Houston vs. Puerto Rico. There are still people without power and running water on the island... Very frustrating! More info in this New York Times article. -Gert
June 1 update: Maybe some clarification needed... The researchers did not estimate the number of deaths at about 4600. The 95% confidence interval is 793-8498 casualties. 4,645 (a much reported number) is the average of those two extremes. Other studies have estimated the death toll at about 1,000. Read more in this Washington Post article.
Friday, May 25, 2018 10:08AM PDT - Number 1
Subtropical storm Alberto formed just to the east of Tulum, Mexico. It is subtropical because the heavy thunderstorms are far removed from the center. If they move closer to the center it might become a tropical storm. Don't confuse this with an extratropical storm. Those have a cold core and don't derive their energy from the warm seawater. Rain, rather than wind, will be the main threat for the Yucatan and later the Gulf states.
This one sneaked in just before the official start of the hurricane season. This doesn't mean a more active season. But there seems to be a trend of an earlier start of the season over the years...
Incidentally NOAA's Climate Prediction Center came out with their hurricane forecast. They predict a 35 percent chance of an above-normal season, a 40 percent chance of a near-normal season, and a 25 percent chance of a below-normal season. Not really sure how they came to this conclusion because they also write that sea surface temperatures are expected to be near-normal and that a weak El Nino might be forming. This would result in a near-normal or below-normal season. But they also note that "atmospheric and oceanic conditions" in general are more conducive to more and stronger hurricanes forming. I guess they mean climate change, but are not allowed to call it that... See the NOAA website for more.
-Gert
Tuesday, May 22, 2018 21:10PM EDT - It's time for Invest 90L (Again)
Good evening all,
Doesn't seem right now does it? Already, here we are about ready to start off another hurricane season and we haven't even fully recovered from last season's twin sister Cat 5's Irma and Maria.
Congratulations to Lisette Stevens on the island of Dominica who went 8 months without power and just received it yesterday, May 21st. To put it inÂperspective, I went 111 days without power.ÂLisette went 258 days and nights!! Sadly, there are still others without power and will continue to be down island and in Puerto Rico.
Invest 90L. Starting things off a tad early to the start of the 2018 hurricane season but not unusual at all. Having been declared an Invest by the NHC, 90L will get more scrutiny from the high end hurricane models the NHC uses is addition to more attention from the local authorities potentially in 90L's path. That path is uncertain right now as, east of Belize, there is high wind shear and unfavorable SST's which will deter development, for the meantime. However, as 90L moves slowly towards the NNE, it will pass over marginally warm enough waters with diminishing wind shear which should enable it to become a TD and potentially our first named system, Alberto.
Not expected to reach hurricane status, the main issues will be coastal erosion, gusty winds which some models have reaching 65 mph at landfall, and copious amounts of rain between Louisiana and Florida. Florida and the SE coast look to pick up plenty to wipe out any remaining drought which is one plus to this system regardless of development.
More in the next few days. Be vigilant people. Start stocking up your hurricane supplies now. If you went through any of last years systems, you should know better and if you didn't, I hope you learned some hard lessons from those of us who did.
Thursday, April 12, 2018 06:50AM PDT - No more Irma and Maria
The World Meteorological Organization has retired the names of Irma and Maria, as well as Harvey and Nate. They will be replaced with Idalia, Margot, Harold and Nigel, resp. Irma was retired on its first use (after replacing Irene in 2011). The 'I'-storm are apparently notorious since it is the most commonly retired, so far 11 times. -Gert
Friday, April 6, 2018 09:46AM PDT - Another forecast
Yesterday I wrote about the hurricane season forecast released by Colorado State University. They expect a slightly above normal season. Another forecast was issued yesterday by the British company Tropical Storm Risk. They call for a below normal season with 12 named storms (the 68 year climate normal is 11), 6 hurricanes (6 is normal) of which 2 become a Category 3 or higher (3 is normal) with an Accumulated Cyclone Energy Index (ACE) of 84 (103 is normal). They say that there is a 40% probability that we will have a below average season, 33% normal and 27% probability of a above normal season. However they do note that the forecast skill of the April forecast is pretty low, not much better than using climatology as a forecast. The skill is a lot better for the August forecast. They show that the forecast by Colorado State University has surprisingly even less skill... So I guess we really should not focus too much on these early forecasts, and as we all know, regardless of the forecast we have to prepare as best we can. It only takes one! -Gert
Comparison TSR and CSU (Colorado State)
TSR CSU
tropical storm 12 14
hurricanes 6 7
major hurricanes 2 3
ACE index 84 130
Thursday, April 5, 2018 10:09AM PDT - "Normal" season ahead?
It is that time again! Klotzbach et al of Colorado State released their new forecast for the upcoming Atlantic Hurricane Season. They forecast a total of 14 named storms (12 is normal), 7 hurricanes (6.5 is normal) and 3 major hurricanes (2 is normal). So a bit above normal hurricane season...
The probability of at least one major hurricane tracking somewhere through the Caribbean is 52% (42% is normal). They also publish a spreadsheet with landfall probabilities for the Caribbean and Central America. For example, for the USVI the probability that at least one major hurricane will pass within 100 miles is 16%, for Anguilla (which I guess includes St.Maarten/St.Martin, St.Barths) it is 11%.
The slightly above forecast is based on two major factors, the state of El Nino/La Nina (ENSO) and sea surface temperatures (SST) in the Atlantic. Right now it looks like that the ENSO conditions during the peak of the season will be neutral or maybe slightly positive. An El Nino (positive ENSO) will normally reduce activity, a La Nina the opposite. There is also some uncertainty regarding SST in the Atlantic. Right now the far North Atlantic is cooler than normal, which is a good thing, but the western tropical Atlantic is warmer than normal. The balance of forecasted neutral or slightly positive ENSO conditions and above normal SST results in the slightly above normal forecast of hurricane activity. More technical details on the Colorado State website, or read the blog post by Brian McNoldy in the Washington Post. Regardless what the forecast is, be prepared! Now would be a good time. We for sure don't want another Irma or Maria! -Gert
Saturday, March 10, 2018 12:13PM PST - GOES imagery
GOES-16 (aka GOES-East) is a new and improved GOES satellite that became operational in December, 2017. It features more spectral bands and a higher spatial and temporal resolution. These enhanced images should improve forecasts of hurricane tracks and intensity. Nice! NOAA did changed the way they distribute the images. They now get served from the GOES-East Image Viewer. I would recommend checking out that website, the 'GeoColor' images look beautiful (see example below). Unfortunately, this resulted in many 'broken' images on my website, incl. the one above and on the Satellite Imagery page. I have updated my scripts and links, so all should be ok now. Enjoy! -Gert
- - - New GOES-East imagery, focused on N.E. Caribbean (large island is Puerto Rico) - - -
Wednesday, February 14, 2018 10:02AM PST - Possible downtime
Update Feb.17: The move has been completed. There were only minor issues. All is good!
My website will be moved to 2 new servers. They will be faster and have more memory. Hopefully we will never need this extra power though, because that means another Irma/Maria! Since the operating system will change, as well as newer versions of PHP, MySQL, etc., there might be some glitches. I will try to fix them asap, but I would not be surprised if there will be some downtime. Thanks again to my excellent web host pair Networks! They have been very supportive of stormCARIB. -Gert
Monday, January 1, 2018 19:37PM EST
Good evening and Happy New Year!
While 2017 was devastating to many Caribbean islands who still
struggle to recover from the 2017 hurricane seasons events, 2018 will
start off on the same note but positiveness resounds, albeit
tentatively.
Lets pray and hope 2018 starts another period of many years of
relative peace, both worldwide and weather wise!
Monday, January 1, 2018 10:46AM PST - Happy New Year
A happy new year to all my stormCARIB friends! Hopefully 2018 won't bring us the devastating hurricanes last year did from which we still try to recover. Normally the forecasters at Colorado State issue a forecast in early December. They only give a qualitative forecast (no exact numbers) at this time. Apparently, it all depends on the phase of the Atlantic Multi-Decadal Oscillation (AMO) and if there is going to be an El Nino or not. If the AMO is strong, but no El Nino, it is expected to be a well above normal season. If the opposite, then it is going to be a very slow season. Chances are about 60-40, so a slightly higher chance for an above average season... In April we will know more when they come out with a quantitative forecast. But as we saw last year, it all depends where a hurricane makes landfall..., so let's be prepared as best we can and hope for the best! -Gert
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Home / Blog / The Duke’s School for Young Ladies by Emily Tilton
The Duke’s School for Young Ladies by Emily Tilton
When her governess catches eighteen-year-old Anne Solmes in the act of pleasuring herself, Mr. and Mrs. Solmes conclude that drastic action is required. Anne soon finds herself on her way to Miss Halton’s Preparatory Academy for Girls, a school founded by the famously strict Duke of Panton for the correction of young women of marriageable age. The girls of Miss Halton’s have disgraced themselves, but their future prospects may still be salvaged by means of proper discipline and training. Anne quickly discovers that her new schoolmistress will not tolerate disobedience, and that punishments for misbehavior are both harsh and humiliating.
Though he samples the pleasures his position offers, the duke does not keep the girls of the academy for himself. It is not long before one of the duke’s associates, a handsome, dominant gentleman in his own right, seems ready to ask for Anne’s hand. But is Anne prepared to spend a lifetime with a man who expects her obedience to his every demand and who will not hesitate to punish and pleasure her as he sees fit, no matter how deeply she might blush at his mastery of her body?
Publisher’s Note: The Duke’s School for Young Ladies is an erotic novel that includes spankings, sexual scenes, anal play, exhibitionism, elements of BDSM, and more. If such material offends you, please don’t buy this book.
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Author: Emily Tilton
“B-but, your grace,” she stammered, as if returning her mind to an unwelcome thought that she had tried to thrust away, but that now returned with redoubled force. “That is not my—I mean…” She bit her lip and whispered. “Was she… jesting… I mean, about my… bottom?” She compressed her lips tightly together, as if she wanted to prevent further words from escaping them—words of protest and words of alarm.
The duke heaved a sigh. He could not deny that Mrs. Fayerweather’s vicious humiliation of Clarissa’s girls aroused him, despite himself. He could not deny that the thought of making Anne get the bolster and lay it upon the bed herself, and then lay herself over it so that the duke could win from her backside her final maidenhead, fired his blood. But the apprehension in Anne’s face brought out his tenderness as well.
“No, sweet Anne,” he said. “She was not jesting.”
Anne nodded, trying, the duke could see, to look brave. “I understand, now,” she said. “When she… flogged me, and Sarah Crawley…” Her eyes widened then, suddenly, and she whispered, “Three times?”
The duke felt his own brow crease. “Three times, my dear?”
“She—Sarah—said… I mean, Mrs. Fayerweather asked how many… and Sarah said…” The girl’s face had turned crimson.
The duke remembered his visit with Sarah, and smiled. “Yes, well,” he said, “when a girl has a bottom as nice as Sarah’s—and as yours, for yours is just as fine—I will sometimes wake her in the night to have her there again.” The fear in Anne’s eyes made the duke’s cock leap. “And then Sarah had a spanking in the morning, because of things in her past…”
“What things?” Anne asked curiously.
“She observed her sister fucking and told a tale of it, which was very naughty. I spanked her for that, over my lap like a little girl who has told a naughty tale, and then her bottom looked so very rosy that I found I must fuck it.”
“Will you spank me?” Anne said, as if to divert her attention from the prospect of bottom-fucking.
“I may,” the duke admitted. “I like to spank girls over my knee. Would you like to be spanked over my knee, sweet Anne?”
Anne looked thoughtful. It had certainly never occurred to her that a person could wish to be spanked. “If I must be spanked,” she finally said. “I would like it to be over your knee, your grace. Would you… would you do the other thing… too?”
“Fuck your little bottom-hole, you mean?” the duke asked, chuckling a bit.
Anne’s blush returned full force. She nodded.
“I am going to put my cock there, spanking or no spanking,” he said, “in a little while.”
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Atletico, Barca in battle to chase Real
Fernando Torres celebrating one of his two goals in Atletico Madrid's 5-0 walloping of Sporting Gijon. Atletico play Barcelona.PHOTO: EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY
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MADRID • Fernando Torres believes Atletico Madrid travel to Barcelona today at just the right time after emphatically bouncing back with three wins over the past week.
The showdown is the first major clash of the La Liga season, but, despite their free-scoring form, both Spanish football sides face the prospect of being cut adrift from league leaders Real Madrid even at this early stage.
"It's a good time to visit Barcelona," Torres said after netting twice in Atletico's 5-0 thrashing of Sporting Gijon on Saturday. "It seems like they are playing as we have become accustomed to.
"They are the most difficult opponents we have faced in the last few years without a doubt and we know how difficult it will be. But when you are winning and playing well, it always gives you that little more confidence."
Atletico scored 10 times and kept three clean sheets in seeing off Celta Vigo, PSV Eindhoven and Sporting in eight days.
However, they already trail city rivals Real by four points after disappointing draws with Alaves and Leganes to open the campaign.
"We just needed to find the goals because we have been consistent in the way we have played despite the two draws," said Torres.
Despite dumping Barca out of the Champions League twice in the past three years, Atletico have not won at the Camp Nou since Torres scored twice in a 3-1 victory during his first stint at the club in 2006.
Barca also hit five against newly promoted Leganes to back up their 7-0 hammering of Celtic in the Champions League with Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar scoring 10 times in their first two starts of the season together.
However, a shock home defeat by Alaves earlier this month leaves Luis Enrique's men three points behind Real in the early running for the title. Real can extend their lead at the top before Barca and Atletico kick off and set a La Liga record with a 17th straight win at home to Villarreal earlier today.
Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale missed Sunday's 2-0 win at Espanyol due to illness and injury respectively. However, both returned to training on Monday and are expected to start.
Villarreal are unbeaten in the league this season as back-to-back wins have taken them up to sixth.
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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on September 21, 2016, with the headline 'Atletico, Barca in battle to chase Real'. Print Edition | Subscribe
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Yarmouth swimmers score with dive into national anthem
By Jocelyn Van Saun
YARMOUTH — The high school girls’ swim team is making waves in more ways than one.
The team has a winning record. And since the beginning of the season, six teammates have also captivated their audiences with their singing of the national anthem prior to the start of each meet.
Coach Dave Cox said it is a “remarkable rendition” and a reminder of what is best about sports.
“This group singing the anthem, with the harmonies and passion, puts the event and sports into perspective and brings us all together,” Cox said. “There is no better way to start a competition.”
The sextet – known as “Yarmony” – is made up of YHS Chamber Choir participants and senior swimmers Bay Hanson, Isabelle Dow, Lauren Orser, and Emilie Hardel and freshmen Izabel Cox-Faxon and Zoe Siegel, who are both members of YHS Concert Choir.
The girls agreed that singing the anthem doesn’t add much stress to their lives in terms of practice time or pre-meet jitters, since the Chamber Choir already had a rendition of the anthem prepared for a naturalization ceremony at YHS last December. Nor do they think acoustics around the pool have posed an issue.
“The acoustics of the pool honestly make things sound better in my opinion,” Hardel said. “Since sound travels better over water it makes us sound a little louder and more echoey, which is nice.”
Hanson, who is captain of the swim team, occasionally sang the anthem on her own last year, but says it’s much more fun to sing in a group.
Her mother, Meegan, said she loves hearing the girls sing together.
“I think from hearing how well their voices blend, you can get a sense that the kids are bonding really well as a team, too,” she said.
Although most news reports about the national anthem today involve politics and mention former NFL player Colin Kaepernick, Dow said Yarmony didn’t start singing as any kind of political statement.
Hanson said in today’s political climate, she supports people’s decisions to kneel during the anthem, but feels the song is a “powerful reminder of the values and ideals of our country, including people’s right to protest peacefully.”
“The anthem brings all of us swimmers together before the meet in a moment of solitude,” Dow added. She said she hopes Cox-Faxon and Siegel will carry on the tradition in years to come and Yarmony will become a permanent group at YHS.
Her father, Mike, said he thinks it’s great to see a group of young women singing the national anthem in light of all that has occurred nationally.
“It conveys a sense of optimism and pride in their country,” he said. “But I’m sure to them, they’re just having fun singing a great tune.”
The next time the girls can be heard will be Friday, Jan. 19, at the Casco Bay YMCA prior to their meet against Windham.
They have also been invited to sing the national anthem at a South Southwesterns regional meet in Cape Elizabeth on Saturday, Feb. 10, and the girl’s Class B state meet at Bowdoin College on Monday, Feb. 19.
“It’s important to sing the anthem before meets mostly because it brings everyone who’s there together for a second,” Hardel added. “It’s nice to remember that even though we are divided on so many issues … we’re all one nation.”
Jocelyn Van Saun can be reached at 781-3661, ext. 183 or [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @JocelynVanSaun.
Zoe Siegel, left, Izabel Cox-Faxon, Isabelle Dow, Bay Hanson, Emilie Hardel, and Lauren Orser make up “Yarmony.” The six members of Yarmouth High School’s swim team have caught the attention of spectators this season, singing their rendition of the national anthem before every home meet.
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Augustinian, Alumni, Events
Mike Swanson
Midwest Augustinians Honor St. Rita President Ernie Mrozek '71
A fitting tribute was bestowed on St. Rita President Mr. Ernie Mrozek '71 on the evening of Friday, April 22, 2016 at the Augustinian Gala. The Fourth-Annual Augustinian Gala, part of the year-long 75th-Anniversary Diamond Jubilee of the Midwest Augustinians, took place at the Drake Hotel in downtown Chicago. Mr. Mrozek has continuously supported the Augustinians through his service at St. Rita High School.
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St. Rita High School Chairman and Midwest Augustinian Prior Provincial Very Rev. Bernie Scianna, O.S.A, Ph.D. '83 said, "Ernie has given of himself tirelessly to support the Augustinians through his service at St. Rita. His commitment to the order has been exemplary."
At the gala, Mr. Mrozek addressed the crowd and commented, "Fr. Tom McCarthy, O.S.A. '83 often tells our current students that they are standing on the shoulders of the roughly 25,000 Ritamen who came before them. But the truth is, all of us, including me, stand on the shoulders of several hundred Augustinians, men who dedicated their lives while at St. Rita to building men of faith and character, developing them to their full and unique potential, and preparing them to succeed, not just in school, but in all aspects of life."
It's true, Ritamen are prepared to succeed in college and beyond, this is a testament to the centuries-old Augustinian philosophy of education. Mr. Ernie Mrozek is a shining example of success; but also of someone who has used his success to strengthen St. Rita High School and the Midwest Augustinians.
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Oct 15, 2013. Hidden deep in the hills of Appalachia, there's a tradition of worship music that has not changed. The hymns of the Old Regular Baptist Church are sung in the so-called "lined-out". Association for Cultural Equity YouTube.
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Gaffer on O's test
Blades boss Nigel Clough says he has admiration for what Russell Slade has achieved at Leyton Orient this season, but is adamant his players will be going all out for victory at Bramall Lane on Saturday.
Speaking ahead of the clash with the O's, Clough remarked: "Russell (Slade) has done a tremendous job down there and deserve a lot of credit.
"They might be disappointed with a few recent results, but if someone had told them they would be third in early April, I am sure most Orient fans would have snapped your hands off.
"Orient are a high energy team with some exciting attacking players, we had to play well to get a point at Brisbane Road earlier in the season and Saturday will be another very tough game, but one we want to win."
Clough is demanding United finish the season off well, despite acknowledging a top six finish is looking increasing unlikely.
He concluded: "We want to finish as high up the league as possible, if we can't get sixth, we want seventh, that is our approach.
"We are building for next season, we want some strong performances as we look for some good omens for the future."
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