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The Buzz: Redding is one of the ‘most dynamic’ metro areas, study says – Redding Record Searchlight
David Benda
Redding Record Searchlight
Published 11:48 AM EDT Jun 15, 2019
It’s an enticing place to live and among the most dynamic metro areas in the country.
That’s the takeaway from rankings released this month that show Redding cracking the list of the 30 most dynamic metropolitan areas. The report is part of the Walton Family Foundation’s Heartland Forward initiative. Children and grandchildren of Walmart founders, Sam and Helen Walton, head up the foundation.
Led by its standing as a medical hub — its two major hospitals, Mercy Medical Center and Shasta Regional Medical Center, among the area’s largest employers — and a bevy of government jobs, the greater Redding area has experienced strong economic growth, the study said.
The only downside has been Redding’s underperforming per-capita personal income level, which the Walton Family Foundation says “is to be expected among small, relatively isolated metros.”
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Redding was the 29th most dynamic metro in the study, one notch above Charlottesville, Virginia and one below Raleigh, North Carolina.
The top five metros are:
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara
Midland, Michigan
Elkhart-Goshen, Indiana
Bend-Redmond, Oregon
Meanwhile, at No. 9, San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward was the only other California metro area to make the list.
For Redding, the study touted it as 16th for medium-term GDP growth among all metros, and the North State’s entrepreneurial environment is why Redding’s young-firm employment ratio was better than the national average. Its tech sector also is growing, the study said.
The study also played up Redding’s quality of life, noting its walking and mountain-biking trail network, nearby Lassen Volcanic National Park and of course the Sundial Bridge, which has put Redding on the global map. In fact, the Sundial Bridge is pictured in the study, along with a logging truck — sort of reflecting the old and new.
There is risk in living in Redding, the study notes, and it’s called wildfire.
While recovery from last year’s Carr Fire is underway, the study said it’s too early to say how the fear of another major fire will affect the decision to rebuild homes and families from moving to Redding.
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The Walton Family Foundation’s “Most Dynamic Metropolitans” uses job growth, average annual earnings, gross domestic product gains and total jobs at young firms to base its rankings.
For more on the rankings, go to https://bit.ly/2MGOfQE.
‘Seattle is Dying’ coming to Cascade
A film billed as an exploration of the impact that drug use and homelessness has had on Seattle will be shown July 9 at the Cascade Theatre in downtown Redding.
Shasta County Supervisor Joe Chimenti said he’s hosting the film, with the help of former state Sen. Maurice Johannessen and retired Redding police Capt. Steve Davidson, as a cautionary tale.
For the record, Chimenti is pushing to put a one-cent specific sales tax measure on the county ballot to fund public safety.
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“I think it’s very telling what we can learn” from the mistakes of other cities, Chimenti told me.
Whether showing this film will generate more support for a tax hike to pay for, among other things, more police positions and more jail space is hard to know.
That’s because previous efforts to pass a tax in Redding failed, not necessarily because people weren’t convinced we need more money to fix homelessness and fight crime, but because there was a lack of trust in our elected leaders.
After Redding voters soundly rejected Measure D in 2016, the trust factor kept coming up: Council members would not have spent the money on public safety; the city’s priorities are mixed up; our elected leaders need to be held more accountable are some the things I keep hearing.
For the record, D was a general tax, but Measure E on the same ballot would have advised that the money be spent on public safety.
In 2014, Redding voters rejected Measure F, a specific tax to fund public safety. It failed because it didn’t pull the required two-thirds’ majority votes.
Mayor Julie Winter thinks the current council has won back some of that trust.
Meanwhile, “Seattle is Dying” will start to play at 6 p.m. July 9. Doors at the Cascade will open at 5:30.
After the film, Dr. Greg Greenberg and Shasta County District Attorney Stephanie Bridgett will give separate presentations, Chimenti said.
Finally, is Seattle dying?
Not according to the Walton Family Foundation — the same folks who are so bullish on Redding.
The Walton Family report ranked Seattle metro as the 10th most dynamic area in the country.
“The surge in economic growth in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, Washington metro area continues unabated as it is among the most innovative places in the world,” the Walton Family report states.
Mosquito district top bike-friendly employer
When it comes to an employer making it easier for its workers to bike to work, nobody does it better in the North State than Shasta Mosquito and Vector Control District.
The district recently was named 2019 Bike Friendly Business of the Year by Healthy Shasta, Redding Chamber of Commerce and the Shasta Bike Month Planning team.
Honorable mentions went to the Sheraton Hotel at the Sundial Bridge and Manzanita Elementary School.
Shasta Mosquito and Vector Control has secured, covered bike parking stalls for employees and locker rooms with showers. It offers bicycle information to new employees.
The district also trains its drivers on how to drive safely near cyclists, and includes bike-related topics during its monthly safety meetings.
“The Redding Chamber of Commerce knows that bicycle-friendly equals business-friendly,” chamber President Jake Mangas said in a news release. “It is important for us to honor those who are going above and beyond to encourage all modes of transportation in our city.”
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For Immediate Release: Texas Anti-LGBTQ Bill Signed Into Law by Governor Greg Abbott June 11, 2019 at 3:30 pm Shifting the Narrative — the 86th Legislative Session May 28, 2019 at 3:28 pm Personal Essay: The Testimony I Should Have Given May 19, 2019 at 11:20 am
Press Release: Statement of Samantha Smoot, Interim Executive Director, Equality Texas on the Formation of the Legislative LGBT Caucus
Posted on February 5, 2019 at 10:20 am
Statement of Samantha Smoot, Interim Executive Director, Equality Texas on the Formation of the Legislative LGBT Caucus
Contact: Angela Hale, Equality Texas 512-289-2995 angela@redmediagroup.com
Austin, TX (February 5, 2019) – Last week we shared new poll data which shows that, for the first time, equality has majority support across all groups in Texas. Every region, every ethnicity, and every religious group–and that includes white evangelicals–now support laws to protect their LGBTQ neighbors from discrimination. Indeed, Texas is at a turning point for equality.
But we didn’t need a poll to tell us what the voters already said. By electing five openly LGBTQ representatives, Texans have affirmed that equality is a mainstream Texas value. This Caucus has already made an impact–by sending a message to members of the LGBTQ community–that you are represented. You matter. You have a voice.
To those who would persecute and marginalize LGBTQ people for being different–the very existence of this caucus sends a message: you will not succeed in dehumanizing our community for your political gain.
This Caucus will lead the fight against measures to write discrimination into our state’s laws. But there’s much more.
We can look to the LGBT Caucus to advance the proactive push for real equality–for comprehensive, non-discrimination laws to protect LGBTQ Texans. It is shocking to realize that in 2019 our state laws prohibiting unfair discrimination still don’t include LGBTQ Texans. Updating our laws to help end unfair discrimination is long overdue.
There is no more powerful voice in Texas than this Caucus who can say that no one should have to worry about being fired from a job, evicted from an apartment, or turned away at the corner store because of who you are or who you love.
Equality Texas celebrates the formation of the LGBT Caucus, we applaud the impact you have already made, and we look forward to the changes you will make to improve the lives of LGBTQ Texans.
Equality Texas is the largest statewide organization working to secure full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Texans through political action, education, community organizing, and collaboration. The Equality Texas Foundation works to secure full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Texans through education, community organizing, and collaboration.
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Most of the U.S.’s success in the women’s circuit has come from Serena Williams, who since 2009 has made it to the semifinals four times at the Australian Open, three times at the French Open, four times at Wimbledon and six times at the U.S.In his final four seasons at Syracuse, White coached the wide receivers group in addition to maintaining his role as the program’s recruiting coordinator.One of the most heartwarming things about dogs is that, no matter how much suffering or abuse they’ve gone through, they can be rehabilitated with just a little bit of love and care.Buffalo: Waits for Sunday’s selection show and potentially as high as a No.
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2017- Played in 10 games with one start …I felt that I could make a difference by creating a targeted program that specifically addressed the needs of this very vulnerable group of children.The trades of Ottawa’s three highest-scoring forwards brought back draft selections and prospects.
Virginia has its pace and patience on offense and elite pack-line defense.I didn’t hear it.He’s a very raw football player that I think could really become a good player for us.The program announced Tuesday that former Penn State wide receiver Juwan Johnson has signed a financial aid agreement with the Ducks and will join the team for the its seventh practice of the spring later this week.is a rising star and Erik Brannstrom, acquired in the Stone trade, is a top-tier prospect.
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A decade ago, June 19 was officially appointed as World Sickle Cell Awareness Day. The date was chosen to honor the day the General Assembly of the United Nations began to recognize sickle cell disease (SCD) as a public health concern.
The day is an attempt to increase global awareness and understanding of the disease which affects half a billion people worldwide, according to Dr. Corey Hébert, M.D., EBONY’s medical editor. SCD is frequently known as a “Black” disease, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports it is common among individuals with sub-Saharan ancestry, in South America, the Caribbean, Central America, Saudi Arabia, India and Mediterranean countries.
SCD is a group of inherited red blood cell disorders that affects hemoglobin, the molecule in red blood cells that delivers oxygen throughout the body. SCD is a genetic condition that is present at birth. It is inherited when a child receives two sickle cell genes—one from each parent. If only one sickle cell gene is passed on, a child will become a carrier of the sickle cell trait.
Healthy red blood cells are round. However, in a person who has SCD, they become hard and crescent or C-shaped like the “sickle” farm tool. Sickle cells die early, which leads to a shortage of red blood cells. Due to the misshaped form, the sickle cells often get stuck in blood vessels and clog the blood flow, causing chronic pain episodes. These are known as sickle cell crises, they deprive tissues and organs of oxygen-rich blood and can lead to organ damage in the lungs, spleen, kidneys and brain. The most common symptom sickle cell patients report is pain that often lands them in the emergency room. Little can be done to stop the crises, and many people are sent home because the severity of the pain cannot be adequately measured.
The potentially-fatal genetic disorder affects an estimated 100,000 Africans of all ages and occurs in about 1 out of every 365 Black or African-American births. Although SCD is believed to be an “error of inborn metabolism,” Dr. Hébert says it is actually, “an evolutionary survival mechanism … The gene variant that causes sickle cell disease evolved because it made you resistant to the deadly disease malaria.” Malaria is a life-threatening mosquitoborne blood disease. The parasites from the mosquitoes that cause the disease need a lot of oxygen to reproduce in the red blood cells, and SCD evolved the C-shaped blood cells to stop the parasite’s ability to replicate.
According to a study, about 90 percent of people with SCD live to be at least 20 years old, and more than 50 percent live past the age of 50, but there is no specific life expectancy because the disease and its symptoms affect everyone differently. SCD is a disease that worsens over time.
In modern time, there has been more development in treating and fighting malaria than in addressing SCD. The only cures for SCD are bone marrow or stem cell transplants which are expensive and inaccessible to certain classes of people. There is no national data registry for tracking the condition, and overall less money goes into the comprehensive care treatment for sickle cell disease than other genetic disorders such as hemophilia and cystic fibrosis. Only two medications have been approved to help treat the disease, hydroxyurea (1998) and endari (2017) although SCD was discovered 100 years ago.
There is no single best treatment for all people with SCD. Treatment options are different for each person depending on the symptoms. SCD is passed on because many people do not know their sickle cell trait status before having babies. We can help prevent the spread of SCD by providing genetic counseling before pregnancy and by lobbying our government to get funding for more research into the disease.
Watch the above video to hear Dr. Hébert share the important facts about SCD.
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Êtes-vous un bon libertin ?!
Sondage Echangisme-rencontre
Une femme se masturbe devant vous, préférez-vous ?
Mater ou Participate
Seriez-vous prêt à assumer 2 femmes en même temps ?
Yes ou No
Êtes-vous disponible dans les semaines à venir ?
Où préférez-vous avoir vos rapports sexuels ?
Chez moi ou Chez elle
Data collected during registration is for the use of the company 2L Multimedia, the data controller, and its partners. It will be used to ensure that you are shown profiles that match your personality. You have the right to challenge, rectify, complete, update, block or delete the data concerning you, or to object to the processing of said data or to its use for marketing purposes by contacting us at the address mentioned in the General Conditions of Use.
© copyright echangisme-rencontre.com 2019
The present service is owned and operated by 2L Multimedia, SAS, registered in the trade and companies register of Annecy, under number rcs 439 055 591, with registered offices at Park Nord Le Pléiades n°33 - 74370 EPAGNY-METZ-TESSY – France, represented by its current chairman.
2L Multimedia has developed an online dating service. 2L Multimedia therefore provides an online platform to visitors, where they can communicate amongst them and therefore plays the role of technical service provider. The service is neither a consultancy nor a dating agency, and does not organise encounters between its members. The service is exclusively reserved to members registered on the platform in compliance with the present rules.
The members confirm having received all necessary documentation on the proposed services from 2L Multimedia and comply without reservation to the present service terms and conditions.
The members recognise that the use of the platform requires compliance with all the provisions defined in the present contract.
The members can benefit from the services proposed on the platform subject to compliance with the following prerequisites:
Be of legal age on the date of registration;
Have the legal capability to commit to the present terms and conditions;
Have the appropriate computer equipment to access the platform;
Have a valid e-mail address.
The terms below will have the following meaning among the parties:
'subscriber': any person who ordered one or several services proposed by 2L Multimedia.
'account': space of the platform reserved to members.
'member': any person who completed the registration process on the platform.
'platform': all the information systems for providing the services to the public. It consists of the back office and the database of members and subscribers.
'service': service and additional services proposed by 2L Multimedia, accessible online on a website supported by the platform.
4. Objective
The objective of the present document is to define the conditions of use of the services proposed by 2L Multimedia.
5. Contractual documents
The mandatory contractual documents for members are: The present service terms and conditions; The data-processing and liberties rules of service; The ethical charter of the service.
In case of contradiction between documents of different nature or rank, it is explicitly agreed between the parties that the provisions of higher rank contained in the document shall prevail for obligations in a conflict of interpretation. In case of contradiction between terms of documents of the same rank, the latest documents shall prevail on the others.
Rank criteria will be applied according to the following principles:
Obligation by obligation;
Or failing that, paragraph by paragraph;
Or failing that article by article.
6. Opposability
The present terms and conditions are opposable as soon as they are accepted by the member when subscribing to the service.
2L Multimedia reserves the right to modify the present terms and conditions as it considers necessary and useful. It shall do its utmost to inform members of the existence and date of application of new terms and conditions.
Any use of the service by the member within 30 days after a modification of the terms and conditions confirms the latter accepts those new terms and conditions.
The member may end using the service but remains responsible for any anterior use.
Members can access archived terms of use upon request by e-mail at: customer@easypayweb.com
The online terms and conditions on the platform prevail on any earlier printed version.
7. Registration to the Service
7.1 Registration
Access to the Service is reserved to persons registered on the platform.
To open an account and become a member, the user must previously register via the online form on the platform.
Two registration procedures are available:
Registration via facebook connect; Registration via online form.
7.2 Registration via facebook connect
To facilitate the service registration process, the user can use the identification information of his/her natural person facebook account and entering its username and password.
With the facebook connect application the fields to be completed will be automatically filled with the information taken from the user facebook account, under his sole responsibility.
The use of the facebook connect application is a simple technical feature provided to the user to facilitate his/her registration and complete the registration fields for the service: facebook connect is a third party service to the service and 2L Multimedia does not in any way guarantee the correct operation and reliability of the information obtained through that application.
No information on the registration to the service will be displayed on the facebook account of the user.
7.3 Registration via online form
The service registration procedure via the online form on the platform consists of the following steps:
Step 1: the user completes a registration form by completing the required fields - some are mandatory - depending on the services selected by the user. Some requested information builds the user profile and can be accessed by other members of the service: they must be correct and regularly updated.
Step 2: the user acknowledges and accepts the terms and conditions of the service by ticking the appropriate box; if the user does not accept the service terms and conditions, he/she shall stop the registration process and immediately leave the platform;
Step 3: once the profile is correctly informed, the user validates the form and receives a confirmation email at the supplied email address.
Once the user has confirmed the registration, he/she becomes a member of the service subject to formal acceptance of the present terms and conditions.
7.4 Subscription via mobile application
The purchase platforms of mobile applications for mobile phones, digital tablets or any other digital communication device connected to the internet enable downloading an application dedicated to the use of the platform. Members wishing to use it must therefore have a connection to mobile internet.
This application enables subscription to the service from a mobile phone for example. It also enables subscription to paying functions.
The services subscribed from a mobile application in integrated purchase are subject to the present terms and conditions, as well as the terms and conditions of the purchase platform for mobile applications to obtain the application, the invoicing conditions, the payment and renewal terms of the service(s). It also means that an account must be created on that platform to enable the application download.
7.5 Profiles on hold
As soon as the service is subscribed to, the member profile is displayed as 'pending': during that variable period, the member profile is checked by 2L Multimedia to ascertain that the data and information supplied by the member meet the present terms and conditions and the ethical charter of the service. Finally, the user is offered the exclusive power to multiply his chances of finding love through the orientation on other sites if already registered or wants more contact.
If the terms and conditions are not complied with, the member is informed by email of the rejection of the profile and is proposed to modify it. If the member does not modify the profile in comformity with the terms and conditions 2L Multimedia reserves the right to definitively refuse it.
Acceptance of the profile does not validate its content, nor does it mean 2L Multimedia recognises its lawfulness.
8. Financial terms
In order to enable members discovering the functions of the service, access to a limited version of the service is offered free of charge to discover some functions of the platform.
The free access does not enable the use of all the functions of the platform or to meet other members.
Women wishing to be placed in contact with a man will specially receive free and complete access to the service, with the exception of additional services which remain payable.
In all cases where access is free, either partial or total, 2L Multimedia reserves the right to modify it both for conditions of access and financial terms of the service.
Except in the above cases, access to the service is payable.
The member subscribes to the service for the selected duration by the member, at the online price at the time of subscription and according to the payment methods proposed by 2L Multimedia and selected by the member. The access Club trial allows to maintain your active profile to visit the index forms of the other members, and to use in a unlimited way the features of searches for the service of meeting.
Access to the Service is immediate if payment is made by bank card. A processing period is required if payment is made by cheque or bank transfer. In that second hypothesis and when the service is unavailable to the member after a period of fourteen (14) days from the sending of the cheque by mail or the bank transfer, it is recommended to the member to send a message to customer services by means of the form accessible from his/her account via the 'Help' menu.
2L Multimedia reserves the right to propose temporary promotional offers to new members or existing subscribed members for a certain time. The proposed financial terms are exceptional and cannot be grounds for any complaint by the other members.
Subscriptions are automatically extended at the end of the subscription period chosen by the member, under the same conditions and at the same price. The extension can be cancelled according to the conditions of the article 'termination' of the present terms and conditions.
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8.2 Additional services
The subscribers or holders of full access to the service can order one or several additional services giving them access to the advanced functions of the service.
The ordering process for one of the additional payable services is done in two confirming steps:
Step 1: the member is informed of the price of the additional service and of the possibility to use his/her usual payment method, previously and through the ordering interface: he/she can validate expressly or refuse the order or modify his/her usual payment method;
Step 2: the member is informed by the same dedicated interface that his/her order is confirmed.
8.3 Order processing
At the end of the subscription or additional service ordering process, the member can access, permanently online on the interface of his/her account, the detailed summary of his/her subscriptions and additional services ordered.
You will find the details of our subscriptions plan and pricing by following this link
8.4 Costs
Any expenses for access, either material, software or internet access are exclusively at the member's charge.
8.5 Pre-selected boxes
In accordance with the second paragraph of Article L121-17 of the Consumer Code, 2L Multimedia shall reimburse members for any pre-selected paid options on request.
9. Right to withdraw
In accordance with Article L.221-18 of the Consumer Code, the Member has the right to withdraw during a period of fourteen (14) calendar days from the conclusion of the sale, without having to give any reason and without no sum to pay. To retract, the Member will send the withdrawal form available here, by email to customer@easypayweb.com or via the following postal address:
2L Multimedia Park Nord Le Pléiades n°33 - 74370 EPAGNY-METZ-TESSY – France
In the event of the use by a Member of its right of withdrawal, 2L Multimedia will refund all the sums paid within fourteen (14) days from the date on which it was informed by the Member's decision to retract.
10. Obligations of 2L Multimedia
10.1 Quality of the service
2L Multimedia endeavours to provide a quality service. It enables members to use the available communication tools under the best possible conditions.
Because of the nature and complexity of the internet network, and its technical performance and response times for consultation, viewing or transfer of data in particular, 2L Multimedia makes the best effort according to the rulebook to enable the access to and the use of the service. 2L Multimedia cannot guarantee absolute access or availability of the platform for access to the service.
2L Multimedia cannot be held liable for the correct operation of the computer equipment of the member and his/her internet access.
10.2 Maintenance and updating
2L Multimedia endeavours to provide a performing service to members. It shall use appropriate means to maintain the service in optimal operational conditions.
2L Multimedia reserves the right, without notice or compensation, to temporarily close the platform or access to services for update, maintenance, modification or changes to operational methods, the platform and access hours, without this list being exhaustive.
2L Multimedia is not liable for damages of any nature which might result from those changes and/or a temporary unavailability of the platform or the associated services.
2L Multimedia reserves the right to complete or modify, at all times, the platform and the services available there according to the development of technologies and shall inform the members by all means.
10.3 Moderation
2L Multimedia is not subject to any obligation of monitoring, moderating or checking the exchanges and contents posted online on the platform by the members who subscribed to the service.
2L Multimedia does not intervene directly in the content of the profiles. It checks at the registration of the member that the terms and conditions are met, but does not check the truthfulness of information supplied or their validity and does not monitor the later changes to the profile carried out by the member concerned.
2L Multimedia does not intervene in the relations and exchanges between members.
2L Multimedia shall react when illicit content, behaviour or use or not compliant with the present terms and conditions were reported to it under article 'notification of illicit content' in the present agreement or signalled via an 'abuse' link present on the profile of every subscribing member. 2L Multimedia will then take measures it considers most appropriate in the situation.
2L Multimedia reserves the right to remove any content which does not comply with the present terms and conditions after informing, if conditions allow it , the member concerned.
2L Multimedia is actively working to remove fake profiles and is taking numerous measures to help in this regard.
10.4 Safety
2L Multimedia makes its best efforts, according to the rulebook, to secure the service platform.
Considering the exponential nature of technological developments, 2L Multimedia cannot guarantee absolute security of the platform or the absence of defects.
11. Member obligations
11.1 Reliability of profiles
The service enables the member at registration and later when he/she accesses his/her profile to complete the latter with data about his/her personality and his/her looks in particular. To enable reliable exchanges between members, each of them shall supply correct data, in compliance with laws and regulations and regularly update them.
The member shall not share a member account with other persons or grant access to the account to a minor.
The member shall not supply at registration or when updating his/her profile, identification data which do not correspond to reality or to unrightfully use the identity of a third person.
The photographs placed online by the member must particularly: Represent the member; Not only represent unrelated elements (landscape, animals, etc.); Not contain text; Not represent several people; Be respectful of common decency: no nude, suggestive photographs, with a sexual connotation or depicting minors.
The member is not authorised to indicate phone, address or electronic details on his profile.
11.2 Conform use
The member is responsible for the use of the service and his/her actions on the platform. He/she shall use the platform in a fair manner, in compliance with the present terms and conditions. The member's behaviour during the use of the service should comply with the rules of good conduct.
The member shall notify any manifest illicit content, conform with the procedure under article 'notification of illicit content' of the present contract.
The member also can report to 2L Multimedia the profile of a member not respecting the present terms and conditions through the link 'abuse' present on the profile of all the registered members.
The member shall not behave in an illegal or fraud-inducing way towards 2L Multimedia, other members or third parties.
Overall, the member shall report any defect of the service he/she notices to 2L Multimedia by means of the "help" menu accessible online on the platform.
Any behaviour not respecting the rules of good conduct above or those in the ethical charter of the service may be penalised under the conditions of the article 'termination' of the present contract.
It is forbidden for a member to access or remain fraudulently, in all or part of the platform. It is forbidden to use another access method beside the one made available by 2L Multimedia. Upon discovery of such method, or if the member enters a placeholder, without right, inadvertently, the member agrees to promptly inform 2L Multimedia to the following address customer@easypayweb.com so that it can take appropriate action.
The member is not authorised to remove or modify data on the platform or to fraudulently enter data or carry out an alteration on the operation of the platform. He/she shall make sure not to introduce a virus, malware or any other harmful technology on the platform or the services provided there.
Any access to an unauthorised space shall be considered fraudulous access as provided by the criminal code.
The member shall consider all the data he/she gains knowledge of during such access to an unauthorised space is confidential data and therefore shall not divulge them.
The member shall in particular not carry out any operation to saturate a page, rebound operations or any operation which could result in disturbing or distorting the operation of the platform.
The member takes all measures to ensure his/her own safety, in particular for the management of his/her usernames and access codes he/she keeps confidential.
12. Technical support
2L Multimedia provides a customer service to its members which can supply all necessary information on the use of the platform and the services.
2L Multimedia makes the best efforts to provide a service accessible to all the members in the best conditions.
2L Multimedia cannot guarantee absolute technical compatibility of the additional functions and services it proposes in the service as their correct operation is subject to the software and hardware compatibility of the computer equipment used by the members. 2L Multimedia informs the members on the minimum required configurations to fully benefit from the service and additional services.
The use of a mobile application for the use of the service requires that the member previously has a compatible electronic communication device and mobile internet connection. Before purchasing the mobile application, the member should refer to the conditions of use of the download platform of the application to learn about the necessary configuration.
Should a member experience difficulties to access and/or use one of the services proposed on the platform, he/she can contact customer services at all times via the online form accessible on the platform via the 'help' menu.
13.1 Service elements
The present service terms and conditions do not include any transfer of intellectual property rights on the elements belonging to 2L Multimedia at the advantage of the member.
The website, brands, drawings, models, images, texts, photos, logos, graphic charts, software and programmes, search engines, databases, sounds, videos, domain names, design or any other information or media presented by 2L Multimedia, without this list being exhaustive, are the exclusive property of 2L Multimedia and are protected by their copyrights, brands, patents and any other intellectual or industrial property rights they hold in accordance with valid laws.
Any reproduction and/or representation, in full or in part, of one of those elements, without the explicit authorisation of 2L Multimedia, is prohibited and would consist of counterfeit penalised by the articles l. 335-2 and following of the code of intellectual property.
Consequently, the member shall refrain from any act or action which could affect directly or indirectly the intellectual property rights of 2L Multimedia.
The member may never use, print or re-format the content of the platform or websites for purposes other than private or familial.
He/she shall not download, copy, transmit, sell, distribute or use the content of the platform and the websites.
The member recognises that the information and the databases accessible on the platform are the property of 2L Multimedia.
13.2 Elements of the third parties
The elements belonging to third parties, such as brands, drawings, models, images, texts, photos, logos, without this list being exhaustive, are the exclusive property of their author and are thus protected by copyright, trademark rights or any other right recognised by the applicable law.
The member shall not undermine, directly or indirectly, the property rights of third parties, whose content is present on the platform and shall not use, in any way, the names, brands, logos, software, information, databases and all the documents communicated to him/her, in general, in the case of the application of the present service terms and conditions.
The member shall respect the integral rights of third parties whose content is present on the platform and shall not create any analogies in the mind of the public for any purpose.
Therefore, the member shall take all necessary measures for the protection of said rights for all third parties and, in particular, maintain all the property mentions on all the data, information and more generally the consultable elements on the platform or made accessible by third parties.
13.3 Elements placed online by the member
The member grants 2L Multimedia as required a right of use of the elements he/she places online, which are his/her exclusive property and which are protected by copyrights, brands, patents, and any other intellectual or industrial property rights which are or will be granted by the applicable laws. The member has the opportunity to further disseminate his profile containing his photograph on other partner sites by visiting the "My Account"
The user right covers the right of 2L Multimedia to copy, represent, adapt, translate, digitalise, use for service purposes or sub-licence elements regarding the member on the service, or on any electronic communication medium in the context of the service (in particular email, sms, mms, Internet).
The member authorises 2L Multimedia to modify elements to comply with the graphic chart or to make them compatible with its technical performance or any format supplied in the context of the service.
The user right is granted by the member to 2L Multimedia for the whole world, and for the duration of online access of those elements by the member.
The member shall take all necessary measures to protect said third party rights and guarantees peaceful use to 2L Multimedia.
14. Responsibility and guarantee
In the context of service providing, 2L Multimedia is subject to an obligation of resources.
Conform to the valid legislation, 2L Multimedia cannot accept civil liability for activities or information stored at the request of members, unless if 2L Multimedia was duly notified of illicit content under the conditions of article 'notification of illicit content' and did not react promptly to remove it.
The members recognise and accept that the details they supply, as well as their behaviour or comments on the service can be reported by other members and a subsequent check by 2L Multimedia, based on objective appreciation criteria, without prejudice to the appropriate application of the 'Termination' article of the present contract.
The member recognises and accepts that the divulgation of information on the service is his/her sole responsibility, and relinquishes any claim on 2L Multimedia, in particular on the basis of his/her right to image, his/her honour and reputation, the intimacy of his/her private life, resulting from his/her distribution of that information. The member is sole responsible for possible prejudice caused by the divulgation of that information.
The member guarantees and releases 2L Multimedia from any claim and condemnation originating from default of obligations the member is subject to by law or the present terms and conditions of the service.
The member cannot hold 2L Multimedia liable for any delay in information provided to him/her.
The responsibility of 2L Multimedia cannot be sought in case of fraudulent or abusive use or due to voluntary or involuntary divulgation of the username and/or password for connection to the member account.
2L Multimedia is not liable for the violation of the present terms and conditions by another member, nor for their actions on the platform, whether an offence or not.
The responsibility of 2L Multimedia can only be involved in case of direct damage, with the exclusion of indirect damage, resulting from the use of the platform by the member and shall be restricted as to the sums paid by the member to 2L Multimedia within twelve (12) months preceding the generating fact of the damage.
2L Multimedia, technical provider, only provides a web platform and cannot guarantee that exchanges between members actually lead to encounters. Furthermore, 2L Multimedia cannot be held responsible for encounters on or outside the platform, nor for the correspondence between information communicated on the service and the reality.
2L Multimedia endeavours to check the reliability of information and data of the member profiles, in particular by checking compliance with the present terms and conditions and the information supplied at the registration to the service. However, each member can later modify certain information on his/her profile. 2L Multimedia cannot guarantee the truthfulness of information supplied by its members, nor protect the members against identity theft and it cannot be held responsible on that basis.
2L Multimedia provides additional services to improve the communication functions and promote the visibility of the profile of a member on the platform. HOWEVER, those services are provided up to the same services other members might subscribe to: in case of multiplicity of members' requests for a service or for technical reasons linked to the correct management of the platform operation, the member recognises that 2L Multimedia cannot guarantee an unlimited period for the promotion of visibility of the member's profile or the effectiveness and uninterrupted availability of the additional service to which the member subscribed.
15. Notification of illicit content
Any notification of illicit content to 2L Multimedia must include the following information in comformity with article 6 i 5 ° of the law 2004-575 of 21 June 2004:
Date of notification;
If the notifier is a natural person: name, first name, profession, residence, nationality, date and place of birth;
If the notifier is a legal entity: its form, name, registered office and the body that legally represents it;
The name and address of the addressee or, if it is a legal person, the name and registered office;
The description of the contentious facts and their precise location (with copy of the precise url address of the content);
The reasons why the content should be removed, including the legal provisions and the factual justifications;
The copy of the correspondence addressed to the author or editor of contentious information or activities and requesting their interruption, withdrawal or modification, or the justification that the author or editor could not be contacted.
The member shall notify such content, conform with the information indicated in present article by sending mail to the following address:
Service client / service juridique Easypayweb Park Nord Le Pléiades n°33 - 74370 EPAGNY-METZ-TESSY – France
We remind of the fact that, for any person, to represent content or activity as illicit with the purpose of having it removed or to stop its diffusion, whilst knowing that information is incorrect, is punishable by a year prison and a 15,000 Euros fine under article 6, i, 4° of the law No. 2004-575 of 21 June 2004.
16. Personal data
The personal data may be collected during your registration on our site are intended for use by 2L Multimedia.
17. Trackability
In order to provide an easily accessible and personalised service, 2L Multimedia keeps the history of the connections to the platform by the member and follows the navigation of the members on the platform with cookies, in compliance with the data-processing and liberties rules.
In order to respect the legal obligations relating to the storage and communication of data enabling the identification of any person who contributed to the creation of content posted online, 2L Multimedia stores a copy of certain contents posted online by the member, even if they are deleted by the member him/herself, for a duration of one year from the generating fact of the storage obligation.
18. Termination / end of the contract
18.1 Unsubscription
The registration of the member on the service is effective as long as the member connects to the platform and uses the service. When a member has not connected or used his/her account for two (2) years, 2L Multimedia deletes all his/her data and his/her account is automatically terminated.
The member can terminate his/her account at all times on the platform, without any other costs than those of the transmission of his/her request and without justification, via the section on his/her account accessible through the menu 'My parameters', then 'my subscription' or any other means which could be indicated to him/her in that section.
A subscribing member can only proceed with unsubscribing from the service if they have previously cancelled their membership.
18.2 Cancelling one's membership
Subscriptions are entered for the chosen period by the member during the subscription procedure.
The subscribing members can cancel the extension of the subscription after 15 days of use of the subscription to the service. The cancellation does not affect the access to all functions of the service for the initial duration of the subscription. In any case, the extension must be cancelled seventy-two hours (72) before the end of the subscription period at the latest, by using the function 'Cancel my extension' on the account accessible through menu 'Account', 'My parameters', 'My subscription', then 'Parameters'. The member shall then follow the procedure of cancelling one's membership indicated to him/her.If you unsubscribe, which automatically result in inaccessibility of all content, the subscriber will be charged the sum of one (1) euro relative to the closing of its subscription record.
If he/she has not subscribed, the member can terminate his/her account at all times on the platform, without any other costs than those of the transmission of his/her request and without justification, via the section on his/her account accessible through the menu 'My account', 'My parameters', then 'my subscription' or any other means which could be indicated to him/her in that section. HOWEVER, if the member has subscribed, he/she previously must, to unsubscribe, terminate his/her subscription according to the terms of cancellation described in the present TCU.
This request shall be considered completed the working day following receipt of the cancellation request of the account concerned by the department. The request does not include any refund for the still outstanding subscription period.
The conditions and terms for cancelling the subscription from the mobile application are those provided in the terms and conditions of the download platform of the application and/or any indication on the interface of the mobile application.
18.3 Suspension and termination
If the member does not comply with the obligations of the present conditions, 2L Multimedia reserves the right, without compensation or refund, to suspend access to the service until the reason of the suspension has disappeared, eight (8) days after an email to the user asking him/her to conform with the present service conditions.
Access to the service can for example be suspended when:
The member does not complete his profile in accordance with the present terms and conditions; The member posts a non-conform or infringing photograph online; The member behaves in a way that disturbs the tranquillity of one or several members; Overall, the member does not respect the ethical charter of the service.
If the member repeatedly does not comply with the obligations of the present conditions, 2L Multimedia reserves the right, without compensation or refund, to cancel the registration and the subscription of the member and to terminate access to his/her member space or to prohibit access to all or part of its services, without prejudice to any common law action which might be open to it, eight (8) days after an email to the user asking him/her to conform with the present service conditions remained fruitless.
If a member notifies 2L Multimedia of manifest illicit content as provided in article 'notification of illicit content', 2L Multimedia reserves the right, without compensation or refund, to cancel the registration and the subscription of the member and to terminate access to his/her member space or to prohibit access to all or part of its services, without prejudice to any common law action which might be open to it.
If the bank refuses the payment method used by the member, 2L Multimedia reserves the right, without compensation or refund, to cancel the registration or the subscription or additional services of the member and to terminate access to his/her member space or to prohibit access to all or part of its services available to him/her with its subscription or additional services, without prejudice to any common law action which might be open to it, eight (8) days after an email to the user asking him/her to pay the outstanding sums with a new payment method remained fruitless.
Initially, cases of force majeure will suspend the application of the terms and conditions of the service.
If cases of force majeure last longer than two (2) months, the service terms and conditions will be automatically terminated.
Explicitly, the cases of force majeure commonly accepted by the jurisprudence of the French courts and tribunals shall apply.
20. Good faith
The parties agree to execute their obligations in absolute good faith.
21. Sincerity
The parties confirm the present commitments are sincere.
Thus, they confirm not knowing of any element that if communicated would have modified the consent of the other party.
22. Titles
In case of interpretation difficulties resulting from a contradiction between any title of a clause and any clause, the titles shall be declared inexistant.
23. Nullity
If one or several stipulations of the present conditions are deemed invalid, or declared such in application of a law, a regulation or after a decision enforced by competent jurisdiction, the other stipulations will maintain all their power and scope.
24. Integrality
The present service terms and conditions express the integrality of the parties' obligations.
No general or specific conditions included in the documents sent or supplied by the parties could be integrated in the present terms and conditions.
25. Proof convention
The acceptance of the terms and conditions by email has the same probatory value between parties as the agreement in paper format.
The digitalised registers stored in the computer systems of the platform will be stored under reasonable safety conditions and considered proof of communications between the parties.
The contractual documents are archived on a reliable and durable medium which can be produced as proof.
The information transmitted or received by 2L Multimedia during the use of the platform is considered confidential by nature and is subject to professional secrecy and shall not be communicated externally, apart from exceptions linked to the provision of the 'data-processing and liberties' law.
This provision does not infringe communications ordered by law or administration.
27. Language
The present service terms and conditions, the ethical charter and data-processing and liberties rules were drawn up in French and later translated.
In case of conflict between the parties or divergences on the interpretation of a word or a clause, only the French versions shall apply.
The present terms and conditions are ruled by French law.
It is the same for rules of content and form, notwithstanding the locations of execution of substantial or secondary obligations.
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The following are summaries of governors' budget requests for precollegiate education and highlights of proposals on the states' education agendas.
Governor: Zell Miller (D)
FY 1996 proposed state budget: $10.7 billion
FY 1996 proposed K-12 budget: $3.7 billion
FY 1995 K-12 budget: $3.4 billion
Percent change K-12 budget: +8.8 percent
Governor proposes increasing teacher salaries by 6 percent each year over the next four years in an effort to reach the national average.
Governor wants schools to issue "warranties" guaranteeing additional publicly financed training for graduates who lack certain basic skills.
Budget would provide state-financed preschool for all 4-year-olds.
Mr. Miller also proposes revising a 1993 charter-school law to make establishing such schools easier.
Governor: Bill Graves (R)
FY 1996 proposed state budget: $3.46 billion
FY 1996 proposed K-12 budget: $1.656 billion
FY 1995 K-12 budget: $1.622 billion
Governor recommends a 4.7 percent increase in state aid for special-education services.
His budget priorities include an increase in basic state aid for K-12 education, from $3,600 per pupil to $3,630.
The budget would expand a parent-education program from 198 to 212 school districts.
Governor: James B. Hunt Jr. (D)
FY 1996 proposed state budget: $10.118 billion
FY 1996 proposed K-12 budget: $4.06 billion
FY 1995 K-12 budget: $4.04 billion
Percent change K-12 budget: +.5 percent
Proposed budget includes funds to reduce the average 1st-grade class size to 23.
Governor calls for the automatic expulsion of children caught in school with weapons or drugs.
Lawmakers are considering legislation that would force the state department of education to cut its personnel by as much as 50 percent.
Governor: George V. Voinovich (R)
Governor proposes eliminating a property-tax exemption to generate an additional $33 million for schools.
Budget includes school-funding change that would shift $32.5 million to poor districts from schools in the state's wealthiest areas.
Legislature is debating a bill calling for a statewide referendum to approve a $1 billion bond issue for school repairs and construction.
Governor: Howard Dean (D)
FY 1996 proposed state budget: $724.3 million
FY 1996 proposed K-12 budget: $211.0 million
FY 1995 K-12 budget: $194.3 million
Governor wants a $17 million increase in state aid to education, contingent on the legislature's passing his property-tax-reform bill. Under the proposal, a minimum local property-tax rate would be set, and towns with disproportionately high property wealth and low taxes would be required to share their revenue with less wealthy communities. Increases in local spending on education would also be capped under the proposal.
Governor also proposes sending the responsibility for teachers' retirement programs back to the local level and distributing the state's $26 million annual contribution to these programs to school districts through the regular school-funding formula.
Governor: Gaston Caperton (D)
Governor proposes to spend $18 million in state-lottery revenues on the state's school-building program.
Budget proposal includes a $10 million increase for computer-skills program.
State teachers' retirement fund would receive a $183 million contribution under the proposed budget.
Governor: Jim Geringer (R)
FY 1996 proposed state budget: $500.57 million
FY 1996 proposed K-12 budget: $250.71 million
FY 1995 K-12 budget: $230.92 million
Governor is seeking a one-time $4.7 million increase for the state's foundation fund to cover escalating school costs.
Despite the proposed change in the state K-12 budget, state officials expect education funding to remain steady if it passes, because the state increases would be offset by decreases in local contributions.
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Citroën marks 100 years of innovation with public display in Paris
efe-epaBy Marta Garde Paris 16 Jun 2019
Car manufacturer Citroën marks centenary with public exhibition of vintage and cutting edge cars in downtown Paris, France. Jun 16, 2019. EFE-EPA/ Nicolas Zwickel
When Frenchman André Citroën launched his first car in 1919 the engine barely reached 65 kilometers per hour and as the automobile manufacturer marks its centenary, a display of vintage and cutting edge cars in downtown Paris pays tribute to the company's achievements.
From that first Type A model, which was produced from June 1919 to Dec. 1921, to its most recent car, the 100 percent electric 19-19 Concept, the world and the challenges humanity faces have changed and Citroën now has a firm commitment to shift to electrification.
The company, now led by Briton Linda Jackson, first launched in an old artillery factory, which, after World War I, Citroën reconverted to produce cars.
"I think the legacy is about what we've brought to the industry where we've challenged some of the rules, and we've come up with some quite staggeringly different types of vehicles, and hopefully we can continue that in the future," Jackson told EFE.
The British entrepreneur (born 1959) has been at the helm of Citroën since June 2014 and is aware that the future can only be "green".
However, Jackson said that the shift to electric vehicles is something that is beyond the control of manufacturers.
"I think it depends not necessarily on the cars but it depends on the infrastructure," she continued.
"So it depends on how easy it is to be able to charge those vehicles as we are making our journey, how easy is it to be able to have a plug to be able to plug it in when we are at home," Jackson added.
The future is also autonomous, the Briton added.
"Full autonomous cars I think we are quite a long way away, I always say probably 2030 or something like that," Jackson said.
"I think we have to remember that many of the features that we now have o our cars, for example, features that you have on C5 aircross SUV are already part autonomous, with security that is helping us drive safely," the chief executive said.
The display of a vast range of vintage through to cutting edge new models in Paris' XV district has drawn in pedestrians who stop to look at one of Citroën's latest models such as the Ami One Concept.
Parked side by side the sci-fi looking electric car, vintage models such as the 2 CV or the B12, whose main innovation was to incorporate brakes on all four wheels, provoke pangs of nostalgia.
The car manufacturer has its ambitions set on expanding markets.
The PSA group, which owns Citroën, Peugeot, Vauxhall and Opel amongst others, officially announced its entry into the Indian market in April with the launch next year of its C5 Aircross model.
"We are always looking for new markets, Southeast Asia, India, it's important but we also need to make sure that we are still very strong in our markets in Europe, South America, so we are making sure we are strong in those but yes we want to have a balanced portfolio of markets because this world is chaotic and you need to be strong everywhere," Jackson told Efe.
Europe is for the moment its strongest market though.
Citroën sales in the first quarter of this year grew 4.5 percent, compared to a 16 percent decrease in Latin America or 56.7 percent in China and Southeast Asia. EFE-EPA
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South African Mine Fire Heats Up Mine Safety Concerns
Miners' union questions the safety of Harmony Gold mines after another underground fire threatens workers' lives.
Ginger Christ | Feb 23, 2015
Officials are calling it a success.
The nearly 500 minders trapped underground at a South African goldmine Sunday all were rescued.
More than 12 hours after a fire broke out, the operator of the Kusasalethu mine, Harmony Gold Mining Co. Ltd., said all 486 workers trapped had been brought to the surface.
The fire is thought to have started 7,546 feet underground while maintenance was being performed on a bulk air cooler.
“We are extremely grateful that all of our colleagues have been brought to surface, without injury. This is to the credit of our systems, employees, the unions and mine management who have worked tirelessly over the past 12 hours. I also want to extend our thanks to mine rescue services for their efforts,” CEO Graham Briggs said in a statement.
But the National Union of Mine Workers is “deeply concerned on the trend of underground fires happening within Harmony operations.”
An underground fire at the company’s Doornkop mine in January 2014 resulted in the death of eight workers, NUM said. And two more underground fires occurred at the Kusasalethu mine in 2014, but those were without injury.
“As a union, we are deeply concerned about the trend that continues to threaten the lives of many workers in Harmony operations,” NUM said.
The union issued a call to action to Harmony Gold to improve its health and system.
We call upon this mining house to pull up its socks, improve its health & safety system to prevent re-occurrence of these fires
— NUM (@NUM_Media) February 23, 2015
All operations at the Kusasalethu mine, apart from those related to the rescue efforts, were suspended, Harmony Gold said in an early statement.
The Department of Mineral Resources –in cooperation with Harmony Gold – will lead an investigation into the fire.
“We will participate fully in the investigation into the events that led to the fire. Whatever answers are arrived at, from both the official DMR investigation and our own internal enquiry will be used to inform measures to be taken to prevent a recurrence,” Harmony Gold COO Alwyn Pretorius said.
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Global LNG trade increases by a record 10% in 2017
Global trade in liquefied natural gas (LNG) increased by 3.5 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) to 38.2 Bcf/d in 2017, a 10% increase from 2016 and the largest annual increase since 2010, according to the recently released 2018 Annual Report on LNG trade by the International Group of Liquefied Natural Gas Importers (GIIGNL). In 2017, there were 19 LNG-exporting countries and 40 LNG-importing countries. Malta became the newest country to begin LNG imports in 2017.
Strong growth in LNG trade was supported by new liquefaction capacity commissioned in Australia, the United States, and Russia, which collectively added five new liquefaction trains (combined 3.4 Bcf/d capacity). The world’s first floating liquefaction plant, Malaysia’s PFLNG Satu (0.2 Bcf/d capacity), was also commissioned in 2017.
LNG exports from Australia and the United States accounted for more than three-quarters (2.7 Bcf/d) of the increase in global LNG exports in 2017 compared to 2016. Angola’s Soyo LNG plant returned to stable production in 2017, exporting 0.36 Bcf/d, after being shut down in 2014–16 because of technical issues with the liquefaction train. LNG exports from Trinidad, which have been decreasing in the past few years because of upstream natural gas feedstock shortages, decreased only slightly in 2017 (by 3%), as some progress has been made to bring online new production fields supplying the project.
Asia led the growth in global LNG imports, accounting for 74% (2.6 Bcf/d) of the increase in 2017, with 8 out of 10 LNG-importing countries registering the increase. China had the largest growth in LNG imports globally, an increase of 1.5 Bcf/d (46%) year on year. China became the world’s second largest LNG importer in 2017, overtaking South Korea, as government policies promoting coal-to-gas switching led to a record growth in natural gas imports. South Korea had the second-largest increase in LNG imports among Asian countries (by 0.5 Bcf/d, 11% year on year), as several nuclear plants were taken offline for extended maintenance. Continuing its trend to move toward more natural gas-fired power generation, LNG imports also increased in Pakistan (by 0.2 Bcf/d, 57% year on year), as the country commissioned its second Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU) at the port of Qasim.
LNG imports also increased in Europe, primarily in southern Europe (Spain, Italy, Portugal), where a hot summer and lack of hydroelectric generation contributed to the increase. LNG imports also increased in France (by 0.24 Bcf/d, 32% year on year) as the country’s third regasification terminal entered commercial service in January 2017, and cold winter and weak renewables generation in the summer along with extended maintenance on several nuclear plants all contributed to increased demand for natural gas. The United Kingdom was one of only two countries in Europe where LNG imports declined in 2017 (by 0.34 Bcf/d, 35%) as lower winter heating demand from the residential sector and a strong wind generation output reduced the demand for natural gas.
LNG imports in South America (Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia) remained essentially flat year on year. In North America, Mexico registered a slight increase in LNG imports (by 0.1 Bcf/d, 17%), as the country continued to rely on LNG supplies amid declining domestic production and construction delays in pipelines connecting the Mexican domestic grid to natural gas supply from the United States.
(For the Week Ending Wednesday, May 2, 2018)
Natural gas spot prices fell at most locations this report week (Wednesday, April 25 to Wednesday, May 2). The Henry Hub spot price fell from $2.79 per million British thermal units (MMBtu) last Wednesday to $2.73/MMBtu yesterday.
At the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex), the May 2018 contract expired Thursday at $2.821/MMBtu. The June 2018 contract price decreased to $2.754/MMBtu, down 5¢ Wednesday to Wednesday.
Net injections to working gas totaled 62 Bcf for the week ending April 27. Working natural gas stocks are 1,343 Bcf, which is 40% lower than the year-ago level and 28% lower than the five-year (2013–17) average for this week.
The natural gas plant liquids composite price at Mont Belvieu, Texas, rose by 42¢, averaging $8.14/MMBtu for the week ending May 2. The price of ethane fell by 2%. The price of natural gasoline, propane, butane, and isobutane rose by 3%, 9%, 4%, and 13%, respectively.
According to Baker Hughes, for the week ending Tuesday, April 24, the natural gas rig count increased by 3 to 195. The number of oil-directed rigs rose by 5 to 825. The total rig count increased by 8, and it now stands at 1021.
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Spot prices fall across most of the country. This report week (Wednesday, April 25 to Wednesday, May 2), the Henry Hub spot price fell 6¢ from $2.79/MMBtu last Wednesday to $2.73/MMBtu yesterday, with a low of $2.68/MMBtu on Monday.
Midwest and Northeast prices mostly fall as temperatures rise. Cold temperatures in the Midwest and Northeast at the end of last week transitioned to warm temperatures this week. At the Chicago Citygate, prices decreased 20¢ from $2.61/MMBtu last Wednesday to $2.41/MMBtu yesterday. At the Algonquin Citygate, which serves Boston-area consumers, prices went down 10¢ from $2.72/MMBtu last Wednesday to $2.62/MMBtu yesterday, with a low of $2.48/MMBtu on Monday.
At the Transcontinental Pipeline Zone 6 trading point for New York City, prices increased 32¢ from $2.44/MMBtu last Wednesday to $2.76/MMBtu yesterday despite the warmer weather. Multiple maintenance events have constrained supply on Northeastern segments of the Transcontinental Pipeline, including on the Leidy Line (which feeds onto the Transcontinental Pipeline).
Tennessee Zone 4 Marcellus spot prices decreased 29¢ from $1.93/MMBtu last Wednesday to $1.64/MMBtu yesterday, with a low of $1.54/MMBtu on Monday. Prices at Dominion South in northwest Pennsylvania fell 12¢ from $2.32/MMBtu last Wednesday to $2.20/MMBtu yesterday, reaching a low of $2.05/MMBtu on Monday.
Prices increase in California. Prices at PG&E Citygate in Northern California rose 16¢, up from $2.70/MMBtu last Wednesday to $2.86/MMBtu yesterday. The price at SoCal Citygate ended 68¢ higher, from $2.94/MMBtu last Wednesday to $3.62/MMBtu yesterday, with a low of $2.62 on Friday. The prices at SoCal Citygate remain volatile as the region deals with ongoing capacity constraints. Cooler weather also potentially increased heating demand. Southern California Gas made net storage withdrawals on both Monday and Tuesday.
Rover Pipeline receives permission to place more facilities into service. On Tuesday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission authorized Rover Pipeline to place into service the remaining facilities from its April 13 in-service request. This request includes the new market segment, the compressor station in Defiance, Ohio, and the Vector meter station. Rover is not expected to have increased flow until supply laterals come online later this year.
May contract expires up while June contract falls. At the Nymex, the May 2018 contract expired Thursday at $2.821/MMBtu, up 4¢ from last Wednesday. The June 2018 contract decreased to $2.754/MMBtu, down 5¢ from last Wednesday to yesterday. The price of the 12-month strip averaging June 2018 through May 2019 futures contracts declined 5¢ to $2.816/MMBtu.
Supply rises. According to data from PointLogic Energy, the average total supply of natural gas rose by 1% compared with the previous report week. Dry natural gas production grew by 1% compared with the previous report week, and average net imports from Canada increased by 2%.
Demand falls. Total U.S. consumption of natural gas fell by 9% compared with the previous report week, according to data from PointLogic Energy. In the residential and commercial sectors, consumption declined by 26% as temperatures warmed in the Northeast and Midwest. Natural gas consumption in both the industrial and power sectors decreased by 2% week over week. Natural gas exports to Mexico increased 2%.
U.S. LNG exports decrease week over week. Five LNG vessels (combined LNG-carrying capacity 17.8 Bcf) departed the Sabine Pass liquefaction terminal from April 26 to May 2. On Wednesday, May 2, two vessels (combined LNG-carrying capacity 7.1 Bcf) were loading at the Sabine Pass terminal and one vessel (LNG-carrying capacity 3.5) was loading at the Dominion Energy Cove Point terminal.
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Working gas storage begins refilling after an unprecedented series of April withdrawals. Net injections into storage totaled 62 Bcf for the week ending April 27, which is in line with the five-year (2013–17) average net injection of 69 Bcf and last year's net injections of 68 Bcf during the same week. Unusually cold weather for most of April resulted in net withdrawals from storage for the first three weeks of the month. In the weekly data EIA publishes in the Weekly Natural Gas Storage Report (WNGSR), which dates back to 1993, there have never been three consecutive April withdrawals. Partly as a result of the prolonged withdrawal season, working gas stocks ended the storage week at 1,281 Bcf, which is 527 Bcf lower than the five-year average and 897 Bcf lower than last year at this time.
This week’s net change includes changes to base gas for the fourth week in row. Changes to base gas were reported to EIA for the storage week. These cumulative net withdrawals of base gas were treated as negative working gas stocks and were reflected in the working gas inventories reported in the WNGSR. These changes to base gas are expected to be temporary. EIA will continue to report base gas withdrawals until base gas is replenished.
The average June 2018 futures contract price trades very close to the average spot price. During the most recent storage week, the average natural gas spot price at the Henry Hub was $2.76/MMBtu, 1¢ lower than the front-month futures price at the Nymex. A year ago, the spot price was 8¢ lower than the front-month contract. The average Henry Hub spot price is somewhat elevated relative to February or March, which is likely related to the prolonged withdrawal season this year.
Reported net injection into storage is at the higher end of analyst expectations. According to The Desk survey of natural gas analysts, estimates of the weekly net change from working natural gas storage ranged from net injections of 45 Bcf to 68 Bcf, with a median estimate of 53 Bcf. At the 10:30 a.m. release of the WNGSR, 1,758 trades were executed, pushing the June Nymex price down by about 2¢ to $2.71/MMBtu, where it settled shortly thereafter.
Temperatures are in the normal range for the storage week. Temperatures in the Lower 48 states averaged 55 degrees Fahrenheit (°F), 1°F lower than normal and 3°F lower than last year at this time. Cooling degree days (CDD) in the Lower 48 states totaled 6, compared to 12 last year and a normal of 9. Heating degree days (HDD) in the Lower 48 states totaled 79, compared with 59 last year and a normal of 75.
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Henry Hub 2.80 2.77 2.68 2.75 2.73
New York 2.40 2.37 2.68 2.58 2.76
Chicago 2.61 2.52 2.37 2.40 2.41
Cal. Comp. Avg.* 2.29 2.13 2.09 2.22 2.25
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May Contract 2.821 Expired Expired Expired Expired
June Contract 2.839 2.771 2.763 2.802 2.754
July Contract 2.873 2.811 2.800 2.837 2.791
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PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. -- Jason Day has lured Steve Williams out of retirement. And apparently it's for a longer stint than just this week's U.S. Open at Pebble Beach.
Day, who had been using a combination of friends to caddie for him over the past two years, called veteran caddie Williams last week and coaxed him into coming from his home in New Zealand to work this week and beyond.
"I am very disappointed with how this year's progressed,'' said Day, who is ranked 16th in the world but has not won in more than a year. "I didn't play well, and I need to improve that. And I need to start working harder, and that's plain and simple.
"And that started with -- this is no disrespect to my mates that were on the bag. They were very, very hard workers. They were great. But I think Steve will take me to that level and I'm hoping that's the case.''
Williams, 55, has a long career in the game that dates to the likes of Peter Thomson, Raymond Floyd and Greg Norman. He was Tiger Woods' caddie for 13 years and was with him for 13 of Woods' major victories, including the 2000 U.S. Open here. He had most recently worked for Adam Scott, who won the 2013 Masters with Williams caddying for him.
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But Williams went to more of a part-time role in 2016-17, and Scott later decided he needed a full-time caddie.
"Stevie has been around for a very long time, well before my career, and he was with all those guys and they won majors championships,'' Woods said. "And obviously won a bunch of tournaments together. He's got a wealth of knowledge. And I think Jason is trying to tap into that and trying to turn his year around.''
Day, who won the 2015 PGA Championship and was ranked No. 1 in the world for a period of time, has not won since his victory last year at the Wells Fargo Championship. He missed the cut at each of the past two U.S. Opens, and his best finish this year was a tie for fourth in February at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. He also tied for fifth at the Masters.
"It will evolve slowly over time,'' said Day, who will have Williams at next week's Travelers Championship, as well. "And we'll become a lot more efficient. And I know that if I have someone on the bag like Steve, I think in certain situations, when it comes down to the crunch ... he'll be able to calm me down. Just the experience he has, like [winning] 15 majors or something like 150 events. That's a lot of tournament wins and a lot of experience under the belt.''
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Indians C Gomes out 6-8 weeks with MCL sprain
Yan Gomes out 6-8 weeks with MCL sprain
ESPN.com news services
CLEVELAND -- Yan Gomes is expected to miss six to eight weeks after an MRI confirmed that the Indians catcher has a sprained right knee.
Gomes was placed on the 15-day disabled list Sunday, one day after he injured his knee on a play at the plate in Cleveland's loss to the Detroit Tigers.
The Indians said an MRI performed at the Cleveland Clinic revealed Gomes suffered a "moderate'' sprain to his MCL. His leg was jolted violently by Detroit outfielder Rajai Davis, who slid hard on a force play and clipped the catcher's right leg. Gomes was extended at the time like a first baseman making a catch.
The Indians expect Yan Gomes to miss 6-8 weeks after an MRI revealed that the catcher has an MCL sprain. David Richard/USA TODAY Sports
"Losing Gomes, man, that can be a season-killer," Indians manager Terry Francona said Sunday.
Before Sunday's game, Gomes hobbled onto the field on crutches to receive his Silver Slugger Award from last season.
The loss of Gomes is a tough one since he's the club's top right-handed power hitter and a solid defensive player. Last season, Gomes led all AL catchers in average (.278) and extra-base hits (49). He was second in RBIs (74) and homers (21) and handled one of baseball's youngest starting staffs.
"Anytime you lose him for any amount of time it's not good," Francona said after the Indians lost 8-5 to Detroit, which completed a three-game sweep. "In the really big picture, it could have been worse. This is about what we thought after talking to the trainers last night."
Not having Gomes in the lineup or behind the plate weakens the Indians.
"I think I used the word with Gomer a lot of times this spring where you like your catcher to be indispensable," Francona said. "I think that's a pretty big compliment to Gomer."
The Indians also recalled right-handers Shaun Marcum and Austin Adams from Triple-A Columbus and optioned lefty Kyle Crockett to the minors.
Marcum, 33, has not pitched in the majors since 2013, when he went 1-10 with the Mets. The two-time 13-game winner has worked as both a starter and reliever in parts of eight seasons with the Mets, Brewers and Blue Jays.
Roberto Perez started Sunday in place of Gomes, and the team will call up Brett Hayes from Triple-A Columbus on Tuesday. The Indians are off Monday.
Gomes' absence was felt in the first inning Sunday when Perez overthrew third base on a double steal, allowing the Tigers to score their first run. Perez went 0-for-3 with a sacrifice fly in the loss.
Francona is confident that Perez, who homered earlier this week in a win at Houston, can fill in capably while Gomes is out.
"We're so fortunate we have Roberto," Francona said. "I would say the biggest thing is that every single pitcher on the staff has not one single issue throwing with Roberto. He has a little bit less experience less than Gomes -- not a ton, but some. But they all love throwing to him. We told him this spring, 'Prepare like you're going to be an every-day guy, because you're always one injury away from being an every-day guy.'
"Unfortunately, that happened. The good side for us it that he can handle this."
Perez played in 29 games last season for the Indians, who brought up the 26-year-old in July. He batted .271 with one homer and four RBIs.
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Remnants of US fighter plane excavated in the Republic
June 30, 2019 belfasttelegraph Leave a Comment
Remnants of US fighter plane excavated in the Republic BelfastTelegraph.co.uk The first-ever licensed excavation of a Second World War US fighter plane in Ireland has taken place in a Co Monaghan field. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/republic-of-ireland/remnants-of-us-fighter-plane-excavated-in-the-republic-38267370.html https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/article38267032.ece/0070d/AUTOCROP/h342/bpanews_45139a08-f991-459b-8964-8f5e98a9e526_1 Email The first-ever licensed excavation of a Second World War US fighter plane in Ireland has taken place in a Co Monaghan field. A team including a Second World War aviation historian, Queen’s University Belfast surveyors and pupils from Foyle College in Londonderry and Ballybay Community College in Co Monaghan, working in conjunction with Monaghan County Museum, retrieved the remaining parts of a twin-engined fighter on Saturday. The P38 Lightning aircraft crashed into a stony field near Castleblayney … [Read more...] about Remnants of US fighter plane excavated in the Republic
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Queen’s Birthday Honours list 2019 in full
June 7, 2019 mirror Leave a Comment
National treasure Olivia Colman has scooped a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours. The royal gong caps an awards-littered few months for the actress, 45, who claimed an Oscar and Bafta for The Favourite earlier this year. There were OBEs for Oliver's Army crooner Elvis Costello, chief scout Bear Grylls, and Good Wife star Cush Jumbo. Along with the famous names, the list also celebrates the efforts of those working to improve people's lives. Of the 1,073 people honoured across the UK in this year's list, 47% are women - slightly down on some previous lists. 10.4% come from a BAME background - the highest ever, by a small margin, in the Queen's Birthday Honours. Olivia Colman Olivia Colman said she was "totally thrilled" and "humbled" to be made a CBE for services to drama. The Oscar-winner first found fame as Sophie, the girlfriend of David Mitchell's neurotic Mark, in the British comedy Peep Show. She said in a statement to the Press Association: "I'm totally thrilled, delighted and … [Read more...] about Queen’s Birthday Honours list 2019 in full
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The battle for the Waterside
May 17, 2014 londonderrysentinel Leave a Comment
The Waterside District Electoral Area has long been the epicentre of political unionism in Londonderry and there are four bolt-on seats for the mainstream unionist parties here this year, as always: three DUP; one UUP. It’s noteworthy that for this, the inaugural election to the new Derry and Strabane Council, it’s a bigger electoral area than previously.Gone is the old Altnagelvin ward, and in its wake comes the new Drumahoe ward.The DEA has also swollen to include the distinctly middle-class looking Summer Meadows, parts of Ivy Mead, Prehen and the Strabane Old Road.There are now 18,680 electors compared with 15,252 in 2011, a significant increase.In terms of the quota to get elected, looking at the last series of local elections, the percentage of valid votes cast versus total electorate has varied from 59 per cent in 1997, to 65 per cent in 2001, to 63 per cent in 2005 to 53 per cent in 2011.So if, say, 58 per cent of the electorate cast valid votes this time - it seems … [Read more...] about The battle for the Waterside
Jazz swings with a new generation
May 6, 2019 bbc Leave a Comment
Northern Ireland By Owen Thomas BBC News NI 6 May 2019 Share this with Facebook Share this with Messenger Share this with Twitter Share this with Email Share this with Facebook Share this with WhatsApp Share this with Messenger Share this with Twitter Share Share this with These are external links and will open in a new window Email Share this with Email Facebook Share this with Facebook Messenger Share this with Messenger Messenger Share this with Messenger Twitter Share this with Twitter Pinterest Share this with Pinterest WhatsApp Share this with WhatsApp LinkedIn Share this with LinkedIn Copy this link https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-48141638 Read more about sharing. These are external links and will open in a new window Close share panel In the oft misguided world of musical stereotypes, there are certain easy to fall into … [Read more...] about Jazz swings with a new generation
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The Big Interview: Harry McDaid learned a lot from his family in Derry and his sister ‘learnt a lot after delivering me as an 11-year-old’
April 16, 2019 belfasttelegraph Leave a Comment
The Big Interview: Harry McDaid learned a lot from his family in Derry and his sister 'learnt a lot after delivering me as an 11-year-old' BelfastTelegraph.co.uk July 14, 1953 was an eventful day in the McDaid family's Primrose Street home in Londonderry's Waterside. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/big-interview/the-big-interview-harry-mcdaid-learned-a-lot-from-his-family-in-derry-and-his-sister-learnt-a-lot-after-delivering-me-as-an-11yearold-38017189.html https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/article38019194.ece/f9509/AUTOCROP/h342/2017-08-28_bus_34041358_I1.JPG Email July 14, 1953 was an eventful day in the McDaid family's Primrose Street home in Londonderry's Waterside. With no doctor or nurse on hand, it was 11-year-old Sadie who was given the task of bringing the family's eighth and final child Harry into the world. "She always said that my birthday was the day she grew up," he says almost 66 years on. In the intervening seven-odd decades Harry McDaid … [Read more...] about The Big Interview: Harry McDaid learned a lot from his family in Derry and his sister ‘learnt a lot after delivering me as an 11-year-old’
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Fire in the Open
Fire crew called to blaze on outskirts of Aberdeen
A fire crew has been called to a fire on the outskirts of Aberdeen.
Firefighters battle blaze in grounds of former Aberdeen academy
A fire crew has put out a fire in the grounds of the former Kincorth Academy.
Fire crews called to reports of blaze in Aberdeen
Firefighters were sent to a fire in the open near a busy Aberdeen street. The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service were alerted to the blaze at 8.46am on Greyhope Road. One appliance was sent, and the blaze was extinguished on arrival at 9.08am.
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To do tonight: Watch 'Bridget Jones's Diary'; plan for April Fools' Day
Your daily entertainment update with a recipe for Grilled Fish Mustard Coating, "Bridget Jones's Diary" tonight on Lifetime and a fun website for the best April Fools' Day hoaxes of all time.
Dinner idea: Grilled Fish Fillet Mustard Coating
1/4 cup Dijon-style mustard
2 tablespoons lemon juice or lime juice
1 tablespoon prepared horseradish
1 teaspoon dried dill, or more to taste
Mix all ingredients together. Brush thickly on both sides of fish and set aside for 10 minutes* while the grill heats. Grill the fish on one side, then turn and brush and grill both sides again, if desired. Throw out any leftover coating.
Makes enough to coat 2 large or 4 small fish fillets.
*Don’t leave the spread on the fish for more than 10 minutes before grilling as citrus juice cooks fish.
On TV: ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’ on Lifetime at 7 p.m. EST; 6 p.m. CST
Bridget Jones is a thirty-something single woman struggling with her age, weight, job, men, mother and her own imperfections. As a New Year’s resolution, she keeps a diary and takes action to improve her life. A wild romance with her boss (Hugh Grant) ensues while she continues to run into a seemingly disagreeable acquaintance (Colin Firth). Rated R.
Fun website: Museum of Hoaxes, www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool
April Fools' Day is Friday, so check out this website, which has collected 100 of the best April Fools' hoaxes of all time, like when Taco Bell announced on April 1, 1996, that they were purchasing the Liberty Bell and renaming it the Taco Liberty Bell. This site will keep you entertained for quite awhile.
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You will contribute to the execution of a procurement strategy at sub-category, country and project level to ensure business needs and objectives are met. A key part of this role is to develops appropriate relationships with suppliers and vendors with the aim of delivering a beneficial advantage to the client.
Define and implement category strategies to maximise Procurement principles and cost savings for local Business
Collate & report spend across categories -
3rd party forecast spend for current financial year
Individual Category Management strategy/plan in place
Support Procurement strategy (competition, stakeholder preferences, alternatives)
Support Business Lines and bids
Manage supplier contractual arrangements
Support the development and implement of Procurement systems
Develop close working relationship with local Finance Managers
Ensure EMEIA Procurement Category initiatives are embedded into local business lines by working with Finance and other key functions
Support the Internal Client programme
Maintain regular engagement with key internal clients
Take ownership & manage escalations with 3rd party vendors
Savings / Reporting
Deliver local target savings
Track in-year & annualised savings
Produce quarterly Category strategy pack & present progress to management and other key stakeholders
Report savings against Procurement Target
Ensure issues are managed promptly and effectively across accounts via monthly review with senior management
Professional Competencies
The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate running end-to-end commercial Procurement projects within blue-chip organisations
Has the confidence to influence at a senior level
Networks and involves a range of contacts - both within the Irish business and the wider EMEIA procurement category team
Has a high level of commercial aptitude
Will be solely responsible for owning and achieving local procurement savings target
You will work autonomously, proactively and use initiative
For more information on this or other roles feel free to contact Alison on 01 6455250 or alison.byrne @ experis.ie
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How to be an interviewer that attracts the best
The search for talent is a core part of every businesses strategy and the candidate experience is paramount. As the talent market becomes more candidate driven we know that the interview process is very much a two-way street. By interview stage a candidate will already at some level be attracted to the company and role. They are then using the interview to decide is this the best next step for them. We frequently see the positive and negative impact of the interviewer on a candidate’s decision accept an offer with a company. So how can your business ensure that your interviewers attract the best? From our candidates feedback we have put together some insights and ideas Talent attracts talent – are you looking for someone who is motivated, innovative, driven - make sure that you are embodying these traits in the interview process and when you are discussing the role and the company Be prepared for the interview – make sure you have read the CV thoroughly, identify the areas you want to probe in more detail but also areas where you can find common ground and build a relationship Put yourself in the candidate’s shoes - Most candidates have the same basic questions, but you would be surprised how many come out of the interview without these being fully answered - What will be expected of me in this role? Who are the people I will be working with closely like? What is the team culture like? What is the management style? Know your candidates - Work with your recruitment partner to gain an insight into the motivations of the candidates before the interview, so that you know what to highlight about the company and the role. An hour interview can go by very fast! Success stories - be realistic, if you oversell a role you can be back in the same position looking for someone new in six months’ time Write your notes after – or make simple notes and fill in later. Spending time writing notes and not making eye contact with the interviewee can be off putting Be the person that you would like to have an interview with. We spend a lot of lives with the people we work closely with an interview is a snapshot for the candidate on what that might be like. Being friendly, collaborate and open can go a long way to getting a candidate say yes. Subscribe to our newsletter to stay up to date with all the latest industry news and trends.
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Build, Buy, Borrow and Bridge – how to solve the talent shortage in your organisation
Unless you have been avoiding the internet and all media sources for the past few years, you will have heard (likely on multiple occasions) about the skills shortage affecting both Ireland and countries across the globe. And it’s impacting every industry, with organisations simply unable to find the people they need with the right blend of technical and soft skills. As ManpowerGroup’s latest Talent Shortage report highlights, Engineers, Technicians, Management, and Professionals (project managers, lawyers and researchers) are among the top 10 most in-demand skills in Ireland. But what can organisations looking to recruit this specialist talent do to ensure that they are not negatively impacted by these shortages? As the global leader in professional resourcing and workforce solutions, working with over 80% of the Fortune Global 500, we have a deep understanding of the most effective workforce strategies in the digital age. To help you build your specialist talent pipeline, here are the four key parts we believe organisations need to develop an effective talent strategy: 1. Build - Invest in learning and development to grow your talent pipeline With specialist professionals becoming increasingly difficult to source in the market, many organisations are beginning to turn to building their own talent in-house. Over half of the organisations surveyed are investing in learning platforms and development tools to build their talent pipeline, up from just 20% in 2014. 64% of employers are upskilling people in hard skills through technical certifications, apprenticeships and programming courses. And 56% are investing to develop their employees’ soft skills. But rather than selecting who goes forward for specific training based on a gut feeling, businesses must move towards making these decisions based on data: improved people analytics, psychometric assessment, predictive performance and AI can help employers to map their workforce and upskill their talent to areas where they require specialists. Most importantly, this approach can also be very positive for the employee, encouraging them to stay with the organisation longer as they develop and progress in their career. 2. Buy – Go to external market to find the best talent that cannot be built in-house in the timeframe required Sometimes the speed that you require for business critical projects to be delivered means that organisations just don’t have the time to upskill an existing member of staff into a new role. Instead, you need to deploy someone who already has the right capabilities to fill your skills gap. In specialist markets such as IT and engineering where the talent is particularly hard to find, employers need to work harder to attract talent. This includes developing and showcasing a strong employee value proposition, a clear purpose for the organisation and an attractive culture. In the absence of this, employers should expect to be prepared to pay a premium with benefits, wages or other perks. This is all the more important given how transparent workplaces are to today’s job seekers – and it’s becoming much harder to hide when your culture isn’t up to scratch. 3. Borrow – Cultivate communities of talent outside the organisation, including part-time, freelance, contract and temporary workers to complement existing skills Businesses often require talents for a short-term project, perhaps as part of an IT infrastructure implementation or to support with a large-scale engineering project. Traditionally, HR has focused on permanent employees, but with a greater number of workers choosing to work more flexibly, particularly in markets such as IT where contractors can often attract much higher salaries, total talent management solutions will be increasingly beneficial. Organisations must learn to cultivate communities of workers inside and outside of the company, tapping into the required talent in all its available forms. 4. Bridge – Help people move on and move up to new roles inside or outside the organisation The final pillar of the talent strategy is helping people to move on and up to new roles – whether they are with your organisation or elsewhere. This is particularly important for roles which are becoming redundant within the organisation, and organisations should work to identify and nurture talent with transferable skill sets. Done effectively, this approach will help the organisation to optimise the skills they have, and find alternative pathways for those whose skills no longer fit the business requirements. Unfortunately it will not always be possible to move people into a new role within their existing organisation, and employers must ensure that they treat people with respect and dignity in helping them to transition smoothly, taking their skills to new roles in other businesses. If you’d like to find out more about how Experis can help with your talent shortages, visit our Client Services section, or get in touch. The post Build, Buy, Borrow and Bridge – how to solve the talent shortage in your organisation appeared first on ManpowerGroup.
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How Blockchain can disrupt recruitment and HR
The recruitment industry is constantly evolving alongside technology. It wasn’t long ago when traditional paper based applications were the only way to apply for roles. Now we have the convince of digital based systems and even more recently cloud based professional networking platforms like LinkedIn. Social Talent have a great infographic on the evolution of technology in the recruitment industry you should check out. What’s the next step in the technological revolution? Blockchain technology. Blockchain is the foundation of the digital currency Bitcoin however there are far more applications that blockchain technology can be utilised to help improve many industries. To put it in simply Blockchain and Bitcoin are not the same. Bitcoin uses blockchain technology but blockchain can be used in many different contexts which have nothing to do with bitcoin or cryptocurrencies. The technology behind it all is quite complicated but the blockchain is a secure public ledger which gives participating parties a way of validating the information related to a transaction. In doing so, it speeds up the process and cuts out any middlemen. A good example is in the banking sector. If you send money to a friend, you usually have to use your bank, who then sends it to your friend's bank. The ledger of your bank will show the money being taken out. The ledger in your friend's bank will show the money being put in to his account. But without a bank, how would you send money over the internet? Instead of "trusting" the banks to do the work, you can use a public blockchain, which doesn't rely on trust of any entity except the blockchain itself. It's a distributed ledger that is made in a way so that if a fraudulent transaction is attempted, or someone tries to "spend" the same token-of-value twice, the blockchain will by public consensus reject the transaction. It's a form of "trustless trust", and does not need big institutions like banks to work. This is known as a Smart Contract which can be defined as a virtual agreement of a transaction/exchange of goods or assets that may or may not involve money. Its main role is for two parties to conduct a business transaction/trade, that can be digitally self-executed and self-enforced, acutely eliminating the need for a ‘middleman’. This would transfer power away from those who currently manage or verify transactions – a seismic change to the way the world currently operates. The traditional contract like those created by legal professionals today, rely heavily on middlemen or third parties be it for validation, review or authentication. There is also risk of loss, destruction or theft. A smart contract eliminates all that. The blockchain technology makes the same problem autonomous. Since it is based on a decentralized ledger, there is no chance of theft as several copies exist on various computers that host the blockchain. Any change induced by a party, results in the other party(s) being alerted instantaneously. A Smart contract saves time, conflict and is cheaper as the middlemen are cut out and therefore there are no commission expenses. 4 ways which Blockchain can improve the HR & recruitment industry. A blockchain is a distributed, shared digital ledger made up of a trail of validated facts. These facts can be anything from money to information. As part of this digital system of record keeping, each transaction and its details are validated and then recorded across a network of computers. Everyone who has access to the distributed ledger receives this information, and the parties agree on the accuracy before the block is replicated, shared and synchronized among the entities. A blockchain is virtually impossible to tamper with since each block of information references the block before it. In an age when trust is both elusive and held at a high premium, blockchain's appeal is soaring since it presents a way to confirm, validate and authenticate both values and events. In human resources, talent identification, selection, and processing require employers and employees to engage in a lengthy process of data verification. From verifying the candidate’s educational qualifications to work experience, including consulting referees, this can be time-consuming during staffing. As seen in another use cases: once the record is created by the source and stored in ‘a block’, an HR system could link to that record and digitally accept its authenticity. Sending out payroll payments electronically to overseas employees is costly and can take a long time to process due to intermediary third-party involvement. A recent report by Deloitte highlights factors such as inefficiencies in current international payrolling and frequent changes to exchange rates which also cause problems. Knowing this, blockchain provides a way of tracking financial transactions without a central authority. Blockchain tech will disrupt payroll by facilitating the management of employee mobility through the issuing of cross-border payments via an internationally-minded solution. Settlement with blockchain is instantaneous with no requirement for reconciliation, receipt, purchase ore rot the other traditional components of a transaction. According to a PWC report, it’s estimated that the resulting reduction in back office overheads could create annual savings of US$20bn for UK financial services, US$150bn for UK plc, and US$4 trillion for business globally. Onboarding, the process where new employees acquire gain an understanding of their new organisation and attain new knowledge, skills and behaviours, is costly and convoluted. According to HR Technologist, “Oracle has applied for a new patent related to the blockchain — one that harnesses the crypto technology for bettering workflow efficiency. The patent is titled ‘managing highly scalable continuous delivery pipelines,’ and talks about leveraging ‘pipeline blockchains’ to serve as distributed information points for product delivery flows.” Subramanian Iyer, a senior director with Oracle, has commented on how blockchain-based smart contracts could simplify onboarding and help organizations get new hires up to speed in less time. It seems that the company is now ready to move at full speed in that direction. Blockchain aims to improve upon cybersecurity in human resources through how fraud prevention and data protection are handled. Blockchain’s use of consensus to establish factual data helps to eliminate fraudulent data. Due to its decentralized storage base and distributed nature, blockchain’s very presence reduces the threat of cyberattacks upon data systems. Given HR’s involvement in high-volume financial transactions and responsibility for sensitive personal data, blockchain’s support in these areas is especially important. Subscribe to our newsletter to stay up to date with all the latest industry news and trends.
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Mr Phillip Burgess
Professional Description:
Consultant Colorectal & General Surgeon
B.Sc (Hons). MB ChB. MD. FRCS. FRCS (Ed). LLB. LLM.
Ridgeway Hospital
Moormead Road
SN4 9DD
Alternate Tel: 01793 816 061
Email: pburgess@doctors.org.uk
Website: www.surgicalgastroenterologist.co.uk
Mr Phillip Burgess is a Honorary Consultant General and Colorectal Surgeon and Surgical Gastroenterologist based at the Great Western Hospital Swindon & Marlborough NHS Foundation Trust.
He is an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in Surgery at University of Oxford. He was appointed Consultant Surgeon in 1992 and is an Examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons. He is also qualified in law with the degrees of LLB (Hons) and LLM (Medical law).
He specialises in general & colorectal surgery, laparoscopic and endoscopic procedures including: gastroscopy, colonoscopy, haemorrhoidal surgery, perianal fistulae laparoscopic colorectal resection for benign and malignant disease and surgery for a rectal prolapse.
Mr Burgess has been providing expert medical legal reports for over 15 years.
Bond Solon Report Expert Witness Training (2011). Cardiff University Law School Bond Solon Civil Expert Certificate. (2014). http://www.bondsolon.com/expert-witness/qualifications National Register of University Certificated Expert Witnesses. (2018)
Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland; British Gastroenterological Society; British Medical Association; British Association of Surgical Oncology; Association of Coloproctologists of Great Britain. and Ireland.
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Is It OK to Be Mad at God?
By: Ella Hearrean
When bad things happen, is God to blame? Is it OK to be angry with God?
Nick Vujicic has faced his share of challenges in life. In 1982, three sonograms failed to reveal that Nick would be born without arms or legs. In addition to typical adolescent struggles, Nick’s childhood was filled with loneliness, depression, and frustration. Nick constantly wondered why he was different and often questioned his purpose in life.1
Many people deal with incredibly painful circumstances that cause similar feelings of desperation and anger. Like Nick, they feel deeply powerless and may question the purpose of their pain. And in the absence of answers, some people channel their anger toward God.
But is it OK to be mad at God? To answer this question, let’s turn to the Bible—which Christians believe gives insight into God’s character and righteous living. In particular, let’s look at the compelling story of Job.2
The Story of Job
Job was a blameless, righteous man who respected God. In fact, he was so godly that God himself took particular notice of Job and even boasted of his loyalty.
But then Job suffered a series of terrible disasters. In a matter of days, he lost his family, his wealth, and even his health. At first, Job continued to bless the name of the Lord, but later he broke down. “I will give free rein to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul,” Job proclaimed.3
Though he never abandoned his faith, Job felt that God was at war against him.4 He couldn’t understand why bad things were happening to him—he was a good man. Confused and angered by the tragic turn of events in his life, Job demanded that God explain what appeared to be injustice.
God spoke directly to Job about his anger:
Who is this that obscures my plans
with words without knowledge?
Brace yourself like a man;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.
Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.5
God went on to challenge Job on matters of wisdom, power, and righteousness. He reminded Job of his power over all the earth—of his omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence. The God who created all also knows all.
From the story of Job, we can make a couple of observations about anger and God. One important thing to recognize is that God never told Job that his anger and disappointment were wrong. God never chastised Job for being angry or told him that his feelings weren’t allowed. Job’s negative feelings were a natural reaction to the negative events in his life.
However, God was not OK with Job demanding that God give an explanation for his actions. God reprimanded Job when he blamed God for the turn of events, reminding Job that he did not understand everything and was in no position to accuse God.
But without an understanding of why bad things happen, what should a person do with feelings of confusion and heartache?
Responding to Difficult Times
Backtracking a few chapters provides some direction. After listening to a lengthy discussion between Job and his three friends, a young man named Elihu grew frustrated with hearing Job “justifying himself rather than God.”6
Elihu felt compelled to speak with words “from an upright heart”:7
God is mighty, but despises no one;
he is mighty, and firm in his purpose. . . .
God is exalted in his power.
Who is a teacher like him?
Who has prescribed his ways for him,
or said to him, “You have done wrong”?
Remember to extol his work,
which people have praised in song.
All humanity has seen it;
mortals gaze on it from afar.
How great is God—beyond our understanding!
The number of his years is past finding out. . . .
Stop and consider God’s wonders. . . .
The Almighty is beyond our reach and exalted in power;
in his justice and great righteousness, he does not oppress.8
From this passage, we learn two things about dealing with anger in difficult times. First, we gain an understanding of God’s character; second, we discover an appropriate response to God.
God’s Power and Wisdom
The first thing the excerpt above teaches us is that God alone is all-powerful and all-knowing. Although Job was capable and wise, he had an inflated sense of his position in this world.
Through his exchange with God, Job realized that even he, a righteous man, was in no position to accuse God of wrongdoing. When Job returned to an attitude of humility, he was able to admit that he didn’t know everything. “Then Job replied to the Lord, ‘I know that you can do all things; no purpose of yours can be thwarted. . . . Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.’”9
A humble attitude is critical in accepting tough situations, which Jesus said would be inevitable in this world. A humble person sees the futility of self-defense arguments like, “I don’t deserve this!” and “This shouldn’t have happened to someone like me!” Rather than demand answers and reasons, a humble person accepts that God’s ways are beyond our understanding.10
With that humble acceptance, we can realize that the ultimate question is not, “Why did this happen?” The real question is, “How do I live with this?” Thankfully, Job provides an answer on how we are to live with disappointing circumstances.
Praised at All Times
Although Job’s other friends failed to get through to Job, Elihu instructed Job to do one thing: remember to praise God’s work.
Humility prompts a person to seek help from the right sources in order to enable oneself to continue to give praise. Rather than fan the flames of injustice, the Bible and friends who respect God—like Elihu—help us to recall God’s goodness. They remind a suffering person of the evidence of God’s unmatched love, mercy, kindness, and justice.
With Elihu’s help, Job recognized that his feelings of mistreatment and outrage were misguided. Other people, oneself, or—in Job’s case—the devil can be the bearer of evil in this world. But God never is.11
People who remember God’s goodness can trust that God remains their advocate—even in circumstances that don’t always make sense. They remember that God equips us with the strength to deal with whatever comes our way. Their anger is replaced by feelings of acceptance and peace. As a result, they are able to praise God in the midst of tragedy.
A Restored Life of Abundant Joy
It’s important to recognize that God restored Job from anger to victory. He blessed Job with an even bigger family, greater wealth, and better health.12
In spite of his handicaps, Nick Vujicic says he has been restored as well. Although his life began with frustration, Nick sought help and inspiration from God, friends, and family. As he grew to praise God, his purpose became clear and his life was changed.
When he was nineteen, Nick shared his experience at his first speaking engagement. Today, Nick has traveled the world and shared his story with millions of people. He is a husband, an author, a musician, an actor, and the founder of the nonprofit ministry Life Without Limbs. He credits his strength and passion for life to his faith in God.
Both Nick and Job dealt with anger at circumstances that were out of their control. But both men also realized that their anger was ultimately futile and misplaced. In its place, they adopted an attitude of humility and praised God. Their praise—and the gratitude that followed—ultimately led to a deep joy that couldn’t be shaken by any life situation.
“Bio,” Life Without Limbs, http://www.lifewithoutlimbs.org/about-nick/bio.
See The Holy Bible, New International Version © 2011, Job 1–42.
The Holy Bible, Job 10:1.
See The Holy Bible, Job 19:7–12.
The Holy Bible, Job 38:2–4.
Ibid., Job 32:2.
Ibid., Job 36:5, 22–26; 37:14, 23.
Ibid., Job 42:2–3.
See The Holy Bible, Isaiah 55:8.
Ibid., Psalm 5:4.
Ibid., Job 42:12–17.
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#19 Frederik Rasmussen
Formel 1 Frede
Korsør, Denmark
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Frede gained a small back injury from karting at pro draft
Frederik was picked up by Toro Rosso after the F1 Esports Series Pro Draft had finished. He joins Cem, Patrik in the Toro Rosso line up. Frederik has only been watching F1 for 5 years. His favourite season was 2016.
Favourite Quote
Got to be in it to win it
/ 2018 Qualification:
"I think Spa is my favourite track of all tracks on all games."
Q: Who is your favourite F1 driver ever?
A: Fernando Alonso because I think he's the best driver on the grid. He's very technical and he knows what to do at exactly the right time.
Q: Which circuit is your favourite on F1 2017?
A: I think Spa is my favourite track of all tracks on all games. All the corners are so much fun and you can drive side-by-side and wheel-to-wheel.
Q: Which car is your favourite to drive on F1 2017?
A: The ones that look the best on the TV! Force India and Mercedes are probably my favourites.
Q: What is the first driving video game that you remember playing?
A: Need For Speed Most Wanted on the PS2! I was only five or six years old.
Q: How much practice do you put in on F1 2017?
A: For the semi-final I didn't have much time. I only found out a week before the event that I had qualified. During the week I only managed a few hours but was able to put in about four hours per day on the weekend before heading to London.
Q: Toughest online opponent?
A: Of the other drivers to make the Finals, Maximilian Benecke and Patrik Holzmann are really good.
Q: How well do you think you will do at the Finals in Abu Dhabi?
A: Top ten is probably my target but I'm just going to do my best and see where I can end up.
Q: In addition to Fernando Alonso, which F1 drivers would you most like to meet?
A: Kevin Magnussen - because he is Danish!
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McLaren Shadow will compete in the F1 esports series 2018. Our name comes from how our esports activities shadow those of our racing team on the track. Since the formation of McLaren Racing in 1963, McLaren has been pioneering and innovating in the competitive world of Formula 1, forging a formidable reputation which has seen the racing team win 20 World Championships and over 180 races. The F1 esports series 2018 will be McLaren Shadow’s esports debut as a team and we look forward to bringing the passion, expertise and dedication of the entire team at McLaren to the series and giving our fans around the world another opportunity to show their support for McLaren.
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Nanaimo Dragon Boat Festival
Save On Foods presents the 14th Annual Nanaimo Dragon Boat Festival July 7, 8 & 9, 2017, at the spectacular Maffeo Sutton Park.
Festival Dates
Fri. Jul. 5/19 - Sun. Jul. 7/19
Festival Type
The waters in Maffeo Sutton Park in Nanaimo will be choppy and foaming but not due to the weather. The annual Nanaimo Dragon Boat Festival presented by Save On Foods. Watch 70 teams of 20 athletes as they propel their massive dragon boats towards the finish line. Listen to the drummer keep the paddling rythym, the captain will shout commands to stay the course. The paddlers will beat the foaming water back – surging for that finish. It’s a heart-pounding, exciting event for the participants and spectators.
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Plan to spend the day watching the races but come for the on-shore events too. Fuel up at the Shriners pancake breakfast, snack at a food truck then hang out at the Longwood Brewery beer garden. Whew! That in itself is a beast of a competition. Don’t forget to support the athletes at the Carnation Ceremonies – honouring those affected by cancer.
Read our preview of the Nanaimo Dragon Boat Festival by FestivalSeekers writer Nancy Shields.
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Candle Ceremony - Swy-a-Lana Lagoon
9:15 pm Friday July 7th
The day is all about joyous celebrations but there is a moment of seriousness to pay tribute to anyone affected by cancer. A lone piper followed by the dragon boating breast cancer survivors carrying a lit candle will walk to the shore of Swy-a-lana Lagoon. It’s a touching moment – watching the participants release their candles to the currents of the waves. Candles are for sale throughout the day so anyone can participate.
Opening Ceremony - Swy-a-Lana Lagoon
Noon Saturday July 8th
The races have been going on all morning but the action on the water stops for a few minutes to welcome the racers and the spectators. The Snuneymuxw First Nations traditional ceremony will happen. Take in the blessing the water and the dragon boats and “dotting the eye”. While many racers will head back to the waters, spectators can stroll over to the beer gardens.
Dairyland Carnation Ceremony - Swy-a-lana Lagoon
This is the part of the event where emotions run high. The paddlers, many still in outlandish costumes or sporting pink life jackets walk under an arch of paddles to Swy-a-Lana Lagoon. Each carrying a single long-stem pink carnation. The Pink Carnation Ceremony is very symbolic. It pays tribute to the lives of the survivors, those battling the disease and honouring those who have lost that tough. After a few words about breast cancer awareness, the flowers heavy with silent hopes and prayers are tossed to the waters.
Silly Boat Regatta
Some of the silliest characters in Nanaimo are planning their strategy to participate in one of the craziest events this side of the Rockies! So join us Sunday, July 16th, 2017 at Maffeo Sutton Park (Swy-A-Lana Lagoon) as more than 50 teams build the silliest of ships and sail them in the Nanaimo Harbour. Boat building begins at 8 AM. - Races start at 1 PM. The Silly Boat Regatta is entertaining to watch, whether you're 9 or 90 - you will be guaranteed a great time! Interested in registering a team for the Silly Boat Race? Click here.
The schedule for the Silly Boat races is as follows:
Boat Building begins.
Join Coast Capital Savings up near the main stage (Frank Ney Statue) and design a pair of sunshades as unique as you are!
Visit the Pavilion Family Area to check out the many vendor booths for fun activities, crafts, face painting and more, proudly sponsored by Coast Capital Savings!
McDonald's Restaurants "Sports Zone" for sports oriented fun.
Children’s Mini Regatta with mini boat building, games & colouring.
Silly Boat Regatta Races start in the inner harbour.
Grand Championship Race - all heat winners will race one last time for the Grand Champion Trophy.
The events are free to all those wishing to attend the races. There are fees for participation in events and activities during the festival. For more information on these events, and to check out the itinerary for the weekend, please visit the festival website.
Grab a snack while checking out the Dragon Boat Festival and Silly Boat Regatta! Did you know Nanaimo is home to the Nanaimo Bar Trail? If you have time, take a tasty self-guided adventure through the city and sample some treats.
With so much to see and do in Nanaimo, you’ll want to make it a vacation. Check out these places to stay while visiting.
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A World War II 'western', described by verbose helmer Quentin Tarantino himself as "my Dirty Dozen or Where Eagles Dare or Guns Of Navarone kind of thing", which centres on a gang of Jewish-American assassins tasked with mercilessly scalping Nazis and spreading fear through their ranks. They put together a plot to cause chaos at a Parisian screening of a German propaganda film. Meanwhile, a teenage girl who works at the movie theatre is hatching a revenge plan of her own.
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Vintage Tarantino returns to the big screen and he’s brought all his trademark moves with him. His only standard technique conspicuous by its absence is a time-shifting narrative but he compensates with liberal doses of spectacularly sensationalized violence and joyously amoral humour.
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I have no shame in saying that this is one of my favorite films of all time. No other film has kept me captivated on the edge of witty dialogue for that long, nor have I been entranced with such mesmerizing performances and carefully executed camera work. This satire speaks to you, makes you laugh, whimper, smile sadistically with joy or just be plain mesmerized. Standout are Christoph Waltz and Brad Pitt, who equally share comedic and serious moments in ways that I've never seen possible in... More the cinema. Waltz is a revelation and his SS officer will go down as one of the best villains in cinema history. Full of plot twists, Tarantino tropes, his trademark violence and pop culture reference, this is a film buffs dream and Tarantino has proved to us he can really change history.Hide
Spaghetti WW2
BY adamatdramatrain superstar
4 stars? Only because it's by the same director as PULP FICTION. That said - this is a wonderfully skewered take on the WW2 movie genre, seen through a Sergio Leone lens. If you've seen Leone's ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST, then BASTERDS is a glorious homage. Don't expect a realistic historical document - it's a movie! Let down only by an overlong scene in which Mike (Austin Powers) Myers overacts (bad English accent!) - a scene that proves Tarantino could have easily cut 20 minutes and lost... More nothing of his originality, fun and verve.Hide
BY Mick28 lister
Funny and tense. Go figure!
Gets better everytime
BY Philip-Moore superstar
Now, Ive been to see this movie four times now. It just gets better with every viewing. Im at the point where I don't think I even need the sub-titles anymore. The acting of course is great, from Waltz in particular, but also I think a heartfelt and also a breakthrough performance from Melanie Laurent. I wouldnt be shocked if her name appears with waltz come oscar time. Of course the direction was fantastic, the plot great, never mind that hitler never really died in a theatre. The running time... More seems to fly by. I just can't enough about this film. This is quentin's best work since pulp fiction by a long way, up there with reservoir dogs and jackie brown. I just can't wait for the dvd now to come out in december.Hide
Putting Out Fire With Gasoline
BY Shay
Erroneously portrayed by its trailer as simply an excessively violent and relatively mindless World War Two parody chronicling the fictional exploits of American Lieutenant Aldo Raine and his rag tag bunch of soldiers, at its heart, Inglourious Basterds is a tragic tale of revenge portrayed through the character of Shosanna Dreyfus, a young French Jew who is a witness and only survivor of the massacre of her family by German soldiers. This slaughter is featured in the utterly captivating... More opening chapter and is an act overseen by “The Jew Hunter”, Colonel Hans Landa of the SS, who is a wickedly shrewd jester and the film’s other lynchpin character.
Divided into 5 titled chapters, QT’s distinctive style is scattered throughout the film, with a number of his trademark devices exercised, gloriously defying regular filmmaking conventions, including a twice utilised narrator whose voice will be instantly recognizable to Tarantino fans. The dialogue employed within the movie is as brisk and adroit as ever, with scenes that serve to embellish its cadence. Playing with tension is another technique that Tarantino has relished in here, whereby a number of scenes are perpetuated through his ability to elongate the palpable anxiety running just beneath the surface of the character interactions. Customarily, everything in the picture is purposeful and highly detailed right down to the characters names, which are often in homage to Tarantino’s silver screen heroes.
As a proven expert at making use of great music for the creation of classic and enduring scenes, QT was again true to form with the inspired infusion of many action complementing pieces including most notably, David Bowie’s “Cat people (Putting out the fire)”, applied during a beautifully shot and skillfully crafted montage, which features our heroine Shosanna preparing for her final act and serves as the introduction to the final chapter of the film. Imbued with moral ambiguity in its unsettling triumph, this decisive act and culmination of Tarantino’s reimagining of history is a powerful sight to behold, and one which leaves a lasting impression on the viewer while metaphorically reading as a love letter to the power of cinema.
Unsurprisingly, in a cast fronted by Brad Pitt (as Lt. Aldo Raine), it is the other relatively unknown actors (to western audiences anyway) that are the veritable treat of the film, including the brilliant performances of Martin Wuttke as Hitler, Sylvester Groth as Joseph Goebbels, August Diehl as Major Hellstrom and Daniel Brühl as Fredrick Zoller. However, it is Christoph Waltz as Landa & and Mélanie Laurent as Shosanna who undoubtedly steal the show. One, as the wild and heartless, self-serving villain and the other as the anguished and soulful, self-sacrificing heroine, they adeptly embody the two characters on which the success of the film was ultimately dependent. It is undeniable that with Basterds, QT has again created a band of bold and original characters who are surely set to be endowed into the hallowed halls of the Tarantino cult cache forevermore.
Under the self-proclaimed guise of a “spaghetti western with WW2 iconography”, Tarantino has delivered both his most purely entertaining movie yet and an unforgettable film-going experience. But more importantly, with this film he was able to grant the Second World War a somewhat burlesque ending laced with the sense of poetic justice worthy of the carnage and madness that had preceded it. Some will call it self-indulgent and pretentious, however, it is well worth arguing that most art, and the best art is just that. Ultimately, Basterds was a daring filmic celebration made by a film lover for film lovers and anyone who holds claim to the title of ‘cinephile’ would be imprudent to miss this picture on the big screen.
(Take it from a life long film lover who has watched this 5 times on the big screen.)Hide
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Dominion Post (Graeme Tuckett)
In the first and the last 10 minutes there are glimpses of what Inglourious Basterds had the potential to be: It just makes the two hours in between even more of a disappointment. Full Review
Empire (UK)
With a confidence typical of its director, the last line of Inglourious Basterds is, "This might just be my masterpiece." While that may not be true, this is an often dazzling movie that sees QT back on exhilarating form. Full Review
The film is by no means terrible -- its two hours and 32 minutes running time races by -- but those things we think of as being Tarantino-esque, the long stretches of wickedly funny dialogue, the humor in the violence and outsized characters strutting across the screen, are largely missing. Full Review
NZ Herald (Russell Baillie)
QT lets slip the reservoir dogs of war and delivers his best flick in some time. Full Review
Total Film (UK)
“This ain’t your daddy’s WW2 flick,” reckons Tarantino. Too right: this exploitation epic is a unique beast that molests history, wrong-foots expectations and royally entertains. The movies’ coolest Basterd is back on his game. Full Review
Variety (USA)
A violent fairy tale, an increasingly entertaining fantasia in which the history of World War II is wildly reimagined so that the cinema can play the decisive role in destroying the Third Reich. Full Review
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Mexico Beach, Florida's Panhandle still reeling 7 months after Hurricane Michael struck
Hurricane Michael’s eyewall roared ashore on Oct. 10, 2018, near Mexico Beach and Tyndall Air Force Base, packing 160 mph winds.
Mexico Beach, Florida's Panhandle still reeling 7 months after Hurricane Michael struck Hurricane Michael’s eyewall roared ashore on Oct. 10, 2018, near Mexico Beach and Tyndall Air Force Base, packing 160 mph winds. Check out this story on floridatoday.com: https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2019/05/23/mexico-beach-floridas-panhandle-still-reeling-7-months-after-hurricane-michael-struck/3740274002/
Rick Neale, Florida Today Published 4:57 p.m. ET May 23, 2019
7 months after Hurricane Michael ripped through the Panhandle, many homeowners are working on rebuilding. Cindy Neal’s trailer home was shifted from the cinderblocks and also experienced heavy water damage. Alicia Devine, Florida Today
MEXICO BEACH — Seven months after Hurricane Michael’s savage winds and waves unleashed cataclysmic destruction, Cindy Neal still has to count streets for reference while driving at night through the remaining ruins of Mexico Beach.
Too many buildings, road signs and longtime landmarks have simply vanished.
“I don’t recognize the town anymore. I don’t know where I’m going,” said Neal, who started visiting Mexico Beach in 1967 as an 8-year-old girl.
Neal's waterlogged vacation home floated off its foundation when Michael’s eyewall roared ashore on Oct. 10, 2018, making landfall near Tyndall Air Force Base.
Packing 160 mph winds, the Category 5 monster — the first to crash into the continental United States since Hurricane Andrew struck Miami-Dade in 1992 — devastated Florida’s Panhandle from Panama City to the Cape San Blas area, triggering ongoing economic and housing crises.
Mexico Beach, Fla. still in shambles over 200 days after Hurricane Michael
Debris fills a bedroom in Mexico Beach seven months after Hurricane Michael tore the roof off Oct. 10, 2018 Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat
Bob Pollock, a city councilman and Mexico Beach resident, stands in front of his home which had to be completely gutted after Hurricane Michael hit the Panhandle in Oct. 2018. 200 days later Pollock and his wife are living in an RV while his home is continually undergoing repairs. Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat
The ceiling in Bob Pollock's home needs to be completely redone after being terribly damaged by Hurricane Michael over 200 days prior. Pollock wears a shirt that says "A new year. A new strength. Bringing Mexico Beach back....together! 2019." Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat
The roof of a home in Mexico Beach sits on what was the front porch Friday, May 10, 2019. More than 200 days after Hurricane Michael struck the Panhandle homes are still under construction or have been completely abandoned. Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat
The wall of a home across from the waterfront of Mexico Beach is covered in gray tarps and the porch is still dismantled more than 200 days since Hurricane Michael struck the Panhandle. Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat
A home in Mexico Beach. is covered in tarps that are slowly falling apart Friday, May 10, 2019. Hurricane Michael ripped through the Panhandle and left thousands without a home to return to. Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat
A Mexico Beach home is covered by a blue tarp in place of a roof Friday, May 10, 2019. Hurricane Michael tore through the Panhandle over 200 days prior yet many homes are still left in disarray. Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat
A Mexico Beach home torn apart by Hurricane Michael seems to be abandoned Friday, May 10, 2019. Hurricane Michael hit the Panhandle in Oct. 2018 and left many families without a home to return to. Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat
Sandy Bailey, left, and her husband Tom Bailey, former mayor of Mexico Beach, share their story of hiding in their storm cellar and hearing their home being ripped apart by Hurricane Michael Friday, May 10, 2019. Hurricane Michael tore apart hundreds of homes when it tore through the Panhandle on Oct. 10, 2018. Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat
Bob Wilson, 89, shares his experience of staying in his trailer located in Mexico Beach during Hurricane Michael. The storm tore apart the Panhandle and left thousands without a home to return to. Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat
Bob Wilson, 89, shares his experience of staying in his trailer located in Mexico Beach, Fla. during Hurricane Michael. Friday, May 10, 2019. On the ceiling in Wilson's home is a large water stain where rain leaks into his home. Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat
Bob Wilson stayed in his trailer in Mexico Beach during Hurricane Michael, but has been told by officials he needs to move out. Here, Wilson defiantly sits in his recliner, refusing to leave. Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat
Bob Wilson stayed in his trailer in Mexico Beach as Hurricane Michael tore apart the Panhandle. He stands in the doorway of his trailer covered in tarps protecting his home from further water damage. Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat
A RV in Mexico Beach covered in a tarp after being damaged by Hurricane Michael Friday, May 10, 2019. Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat
What was once a home in Mexico Beach is a pile of rubble more than 200 days after Hurricane Michael struck the Panhandle. Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat
A croquet set stands on the foundation of a home in Mexico Beach while the rest of the home is demolished by Hurricane Michael. Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat
A child's stuffed snowman rests on a side table on the foundation of where a home once stood. Hurricane Michael tore through the Panhandle in Oct. 2018. Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat
Over 200 days after Hurricane Michael struck the Panhandle, a trailer sits in Mexico Beach with a branch through the middle of the structure Friday, May 10, 2019. Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat
Over 200 days after Hurricane Michael struck the Panhandle, a trailer sits in Mexico Beach with a branch through the middle of the structure. Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat
Cindy Neal, a Mexico Beach homeowner, watches as a crew begins to put her home back on cinderblocks seven months after it was pushed off of them during Hurricane Michael. Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat
Cindy Neal stands inside her Mexico Beach home, which is still in need of repairs after being badly damaged by Hurricane Michael seven months ago. Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat
Mexico Beach homeowner Cindy Neal watches as workers put her home back on cinderblocks after it was pushed off of them during Hurricane Michael. Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat
Jimmy Haga with J. and B. Mobile Home Movers works on Cindy Neal's home to put it back on cinderblocks seven months after Hurricane Michael shifted the home Friday, May 10, 2019. Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat
A tree ripped from the ground during Hurricane Michael rests on a home in Port St. Joe, Fla. Friday, May 10, 2019. Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat
Bo, a blue tick coonhound, stands in his owners' home, Friday, May 10, 2019. The home had to be gutted after Hurricane Michael ripped through the Panhandle seven months ago. The storm hit in Oct. 2018 and left many families homeless or with severely damaged homes. Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat
Kim Nobles, a Port St. Joe homeowner, stands on a sheet of plywood where her floor used to be. The home was gutted due to water damage from Hurricane Michael seven months ago. Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat
Kim Nobles, a Port St. Joe homeowner, stands on the ramp to her front porch, looking at the interior doors that were warped by water damage caused by Hurricane Michael seven months ago. Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat
“This is a killer: 13% of our schoolchildren never returned to school. Three schools had to close because of that,” Joby Smith, Bay County Emergency Management chief, said last week at the Governor’s Hurricane Conference.
“Sixty-nine percent of residential homes just in Panama City were damaged. Our largest hospital is a quarter of its size it was before. Our mall decided not to reopen. And many other businesses, the same,” Smith said.
“One of our largest industries, the timber industry, suffered over $3 billion in damages — and that just doesn’t come back with time,” he said.
While the rural Panhandle remains years from recovering from Michael’s wrath, Florida emergency officials are warily eyeing the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season, which kicks off June 1.
And Mexico Beach still resembles a war zone. All told, 1,584 of the town's 1,692 buildings were damaged, and 809 of those were destroyed, the National Hurricane Center reported.
What was once a home in Mexico Beach is a pile of rubble more than 200 days after Hurricane Michael struck the Panhandle. (Photo: Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat)
'Total survivors'
Now, an army of construction crews is swarming surviving structures for repair work, occupying Mexico Beach after driving in daily from Quincy, Panama City Beach and other locales an hour away or more.
But dozens of hurricane-bombed homes appear untouched since Michael struck, more than 220 days ago.
Water and sewer services remain spotty along the beach side of U.S. 98. Most remaining residents are camping in fifth-wheel trailers in the driveways of their storm-socked homes, like Rev. David Gieseking, pastor of Living Water Church at the Beach. Only one corner of his clobbered brick apartment still stands. His church remains reduced to a concrete slab, though it now supports a white canopy donated by a sister church in Michigan.
Likewise, housing lots across town are scoured clean. Small “For Sale” signs dot roadsides everywhere, indicating that many permanent and part-time residents are giving up and moving on.
“We have physical stress: temperature, humidity, diet changes, unusual activities, lack of sleep. There’s loss, and grief,” Dan Noah, warning coordination meteorologist at the Tampa Bay National Weather Serviceoffice, said at the hurricane conference.
“So many people after a hurricane, they’ve lost not only their homes, they’ve lost their jobs because their businesses didn’t open up again. And they’re displaced,” Noah said. “It’s very traumatic.”
Over 200 days after Hurricane Michael struck the Panhandle, a trailer sits in Mexico Beach with a branch through the middle of the structure Friday, May 10, 2019. (Photo: Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat)
Tom Bailey, who served as mayor of Mexico Beach from 2015-17, and his wife, Sandy, plan to move to Freeport — some 70 miles to the northwest — after their battered house is repaired. He said damages totaled about $300,000, including the contents of their home.
"Our perspective is, we're older. We're 67 years old. And I just don't want to look at the devastation for the next however-long-it-takes," Sandy Bailey said, standing in her driveway.
"We loved Mexico Beach. We've been here full-time 17 years, part-time 20. But I don't feel Mexico Beach will ever be the way it was," she said.
On the other hand, Bobby Pollock was inspired to run again for Mexico Beach City Council after the calamitous hurricane. He won election last month, capturing 70% of the 404 votes cast.
Pollock estimated his house and wood turning shop filled with up to 6 feet of water from the storm surge. "It's 40 years' of stuff, gone," he said. He now lives in a trailer in the driveway of his gutted home.
"The people left in Mexico Beach are strong. They are what you call total survivors. We're fighting everything: We're fighting the insurance. We're fighting contractors," Pollock said.
"But the people that are left are the strong people. A lot of times, they have no place else to go," he said.
USA TODAY's drone fleet shows the devastation in Mexico Beach, Florida in the wake of Hurricane Michael. Maureen Kenyon and Ricardo Rolon, TC PALM
Widespread destruction
Three days before landfall, Michael was a mere 50 mph tropical storm just west of Cuba. But the storm rapidly intensified into one of the most powerful hurricanes on record, pushing hurricane-force gusts as far inland as Albany, Georgia.
Seven Florida deaths were directly caused by Michael, the National Hurricane Center determined. Five victims between Panama City and Port St. Joe drowned in storm surge — they were 60 to 91 years old. The surge reached 9 to 14 feet above ground level in Bay and Gulf counties, peaking in Mexico Beach.
“The town of Mexico Beach has 1,600 permanent residents. And we found out the evening before that roughly 290 of them were planning to hunker down,” Mark Wool, National Weather Service warning coordination meteorologist in Tallahassee, recalled during a Governor’s Hurricane Conference workshop.
“And everybody was very concerned about that,” Wool said.
Bob Wilson stayed in his trailer in Mexico Beach as Hurricane Michael tore apart the Panhandle. He stands in the doorway of his trailer covered in tarps protecting his home from further water damage. (Photo: Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat)
Bob Wilson turns 90 in September. He walks slowly and struggles to rise from his living room recliner, wobbling with a metal cane. He rode out Michael inside his aging Mexico Beach manufactured home.
Tree limbs punched holes in Wilson’s roof, which have not been repaired. Today, a hole sags in his living room ceiling like a swollen brown blister, marred by discolored insulation. The retired paramedic catches rainwater using a metal pan on the floor — and he fears zoning officials will not let him repair his mobile home a block from the beach.
“I don’t want to move. I’d like to rebuild right here,” said Wilson, who wonders whether mold is growing inside his home.
“I’d like to stay here,” he said.
Panama City reeling
Across hard-hit Bay County, Michael damaged and destroyed more than 45,000 buildings. Oddly, tourists who hop off Interstate 10 and zip down State Road 79 through surrounding forests now notice scant hurricane damages in Panama City Beach, aside from occasional glimpses of blue tarps.
At Runaway Island Beach Bar & Grill, vacationers and locals enjoy blackened parrotfish and cocktails on the breezy wooden deck, overlooking blue-green Gulf waves. Tourism is a $2.87 billion business in Bay County, and Panama City Beach typically draws more than 17 million visitors per year.
But motorists who cross the Hathaway Bridge and head eastward into Panama City quickly encounter hurricane-bombed buildings.
Signs of Michael's fury remain everywhere.
Broken pine trees with brown, brittle needles.
Faded blue tarps, shredded into tatters.
Overflowing scrapyards and heaps of debris.
Photos: The devastation of Hurricane Michael in the Florida Panhandle
Much of a worksheet ended up in the pool of Janice Mikula's home in Panama City. Craig Bailey/FLORIDA TODAY
Michael Brown of Panama CIty describes what happened during Hurricane Michael. Part of his roof was removed and cars damaged by the storm. Craig Bailey/FLORIDA TODAY
The Payless Shoe Source storefront in the Panama City Square shopping center was completely gutted by Hurricane Michael. Craig Bailey/FLORIDA TODAY
A flattened business is completely unrecognizable along 23rd St. Craig Bailey/FLORIDA TODAY
Pedestrians walk and ride through a flooded parking lot in the Panama City Square shopping center in Panama City. Craig Bailey/FLORIDA TODAY
A building in Panama City, FL containing a Papa Johns pizza is completely destroyed by Hurricane Michael. Craig Bailey/FLORIDA TODAY
People stand in a flooded street in Panama City, FL Wednesday after Hurricane Michael. Craig Bailey/FLORIDA TODAY
A bicyclist rides past a downed traffic light in Panama City, FL Wednesday after Hurricane Michael. Craig Bailey/FLORIDA TODAY
The garden center of the Lowes on 23rd Street in Panama City FL was leveled by Hurricane Michael. Craig Bailey/FLORIDA TODAY
Michael Brown of Panama CIty describes what happened during Hurricane Michael. Part of his roof was removed and cars damaged by the storm. Mandatory Credit: Craig Bailey/FLORIDA TODAY via USA TODAY NETWORK Craig Bailey/FLORIDA TODAY, FLORIDA TODAY-USA TODAY NETWORK
A medical helicopter in the wake of Hurricane Michael Craig Bailey/FLORIDA TODAY
Children sit on the concrete slab that used to hold their porch in Panama City, FL. Hurricane Michael tore off the front porch along with much of the roof. Craig Bailey/FLORIDA TODAY
Sheila Dukes heads into what's left of her rental home in Panama City, FL Thursday. Hurricane Michael removed the front and back porches along with most of the roof. Craig Bailey/FLORIDA TODAY
Michael Brown of Panama City cleans up around his truck after Hurricane Michael dropped a tree on it. Craig Bailey/FLORIDA TODAY,
Sheila Dukes hugs her son Ezekiel, 8 as Quan Gloves mops up water from the floor of their rental house in Panama City, FL. Hurricane Michael tore the roof off, flooding the entire wooden structure. Craig Bailey/FLORIDA TODAY
Sheila Dukes stands in the ruined kitchen of her rental house in Panama City, FL. Hurricane Michael tore the roof off, flooding the entire wooden structure. Craig Bailey/FLORIDA TODAY
A resident of the Forest Park neighborhood in Panama City walks through her neighborhood Thursday. Many of the streets are blocked by trees blown down by Hurricane Michael. Craig Bailey/FLORIDA TODAY
A pickup truck sits in a flooded parking lot in the Panama City Square shopping center in Panama City. Craig Bailey/FLORIDA TODAY
Cyclists ride through a flooded parking lot in the Panama City Square shopping center in Panama City. Craig Bailey/FLORIDA TODAY
Sheila Dukes hugs her son Ezekiel, 8 as she stands in the ruined kitchen of her rental house in Panama City, FL. Hurricane Michael tore the roof off, flooding the entire wooden structure. Craig Bailey/FLORIDA TODAY
A patient is loaded into a medical helicopter at Gulf Coast Regional Medical Center in Panama City. Patients are being transferred to other hospitals due to the hospital being on generator power. Craig Bailey/FLORIDA TODAY
PANAMA CITY, FL - OCTOBER 11: Kathy Coy stands among what is left of her home after Hurricane Michael destroyed it on October 11, 2018 in Panama City, Florida. She said she was in the home when it was blown apart and is thankful to be alive. The hurricane hit the Florida Panhandle as a category 4 storm. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Joe Raedle, Getty Images
In this aerial view, storm damaged boats are seen in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael on October 11, 2018 in Panama City, Florida. - Residents of the Florida Panhandle woke to scenes of devastation Thursday after Michael tore a path through the coastal region as a powerful hurricane that killed at least two people. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images) BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI, AFP/Getty Images
Jim Hankins, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Panama City mops up water in his living room Thursday. Hurricane Michael tore off part of their roof, flooring the home. Hankins was once pastor at Parkway Baptist Church in Merritt Island. Craig Bailey/FLORIDA TODAY
In this aerial view, a storm damaged church is seen in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael on October 11, 2018 in Panama City, Florida. - Residents of the Florida Panhandle woke to scenes of devastation Thursday after Michael tore a path through the coastal region as a powerful hurricane that killed at least two people. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images) BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI, AFP/Getty Images
The Slaughter family saves their merchandise from their antique store inside the collapsed 15th Street Flea Market in Panama City, Florida after Hurricane Michael on October 11, 2018. - Residents of the Florida Panhandle woke to scenes of devastation Thursday after Michael tore a path through the coastal region as a powerful hurricane that killed at least two people. (Photo by Emily KASK / AFP) (Photo credit should read EMILY KASK/AFP/Getty Images) EMILY KASK, AFP/Getty Images
TOPSHOT - A man walks down the street after Hurricane Michael made landfall on October 10, 2018 in Panama City, Florida. - Michael slammed into the Florida coast on October 10 as the most powerful storm to hit the southern US state in more than a century as officials warned it could wreak "unimaginable devastation." Michael made landfall as a Category 4 storm near Mexico Beach, a town about 20 miles (32kms) southeast of Panama City, around 1:00 pm Eastern time (1700 GMT), the National Hurricane Center said. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images) BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI, AFP/Getty Images
MEXICO BEACH, FL - OCTOBER 11: Cars are piled on top of each other after Hurricane Michael passed through the area on October 11, 2018 in Mexico Beach, Florida. The hurricane hit the panhandle area with category 4 winds causing major damage. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Joe Raedle, Getty Images
MEXICO BEACH, FL - OCTOBER 11: Damaged homes are seen after Hurricane Michael passed through the area on October 11, 2018 in Mexico Beach, Florida. The hurricane hit the panhandle area with category 4 winds causing major damage. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Joe Raedle, Getty Images
MEXICO BEACH, FL - OCTOBER 11: Jim Bob looks out on the destruction caused as Hurricane Michael passed through the area on October 11, 2018 in Mexico Beach, Florida. The hurricane hit the panhandle area with category 4 winds causing major damage. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Joe Raedle, Getty Images
The overhang of a gas station is toppled over in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael on October 11, 2018 in Inlet Beach, Florida. - Residents of the Florida Panhandle woke to scenes of devastation Thursday after Michael tore a path through the coastal region as a powerful hurricane that killed at least two people. (Photo by Emily KASK / AFP) (Photo credit should read EMILY KASK/AFP/Getty Images) EMILY KASK, AFP/Getty Images
MEXICO BEACH, FL - OCTOBER 11: Members of the South Florida Search and Rescue team search for survivors in the destruction left after Hurricane Michael passed through the area on October 11, 2018 in Mexico Beach, Florida. The hurricane hit the panhandle area with category 4 winds causing major damage. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Joe Raedle, Getty Images
MEXICO BEACH, FL - OCTOBER 11: Elizabeth Hanson (R) and her daughter, Emaly Hanson hug their neighbor Cindy Clark as they become emotional after dealing with their homes that were heavily damaged when Michael passed through the area on October 11, 2018 in Mexico Beach, Florida. The hurricane hit the panhandle area with category 4 winds causing major damage. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Joe Raedle, Getty Images
In this image made from video and provided by SevereStudios.com, damage from Hurricane Michael is seen in Mexico Beach, Fla. on Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018. Search-and-rescue teams fanned out across the Florida Panhandle to reach trapped people in Michael's wake Thursday as daylight yielded scenes of rows upon rows of houses smashed to pieces by the third-most powerful hurricane on record to hit the continental U.S. (SevereStudios.com via AP) AP
MEXICO BEACH, FL - OCTOBER 11: People walk along a street blocked by a building after Hurricane Michael passed through the area on October 11, 2018 in Mexico Beach, Florida. The hurricane hit the panhandle area with category 4 winds causing major damage. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Joe Raedle, Getty Images
MEXICO BEACH, FL - OCTOBER 11: Elizabeth Hanson (R) and her daughter, become emotional as they look at their home that was heavily damaged when Michael passed through the area on October 11, 2018 in Mexico Beach, Florida. The hurricane hit the panhandle area with category 4 winds causing major damage. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Joe Raedle, Getty Images
MEXICO BEACH, FL - OCTOBER 11: Debris is seen piled in the street after Hurricane Michael passed through the area on October 11, 2018 in Mexico Beach, Florida. The hurricane hit the panhandle area with category 4 winds causing major damage. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Joe Raedle, Getty Images
MEXICO BEACH, FL - OCTOBER 11: A Coast Guard helicopter passes over a damaged home and the foundation of where a home once stood (to the right) before it was blown away by Hurricane Michael as it passed through the area on October 11, 2018 in Mexico Beach, Florida. The hurricane hit the panhandle area with category 4 winds causing major damage. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Joe Raedle, Getty Images
A fallen tree is seen in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael October 11, 2018 in Panama City, Florida. - Residents of the Florida Panhandle woke to scenes of devastation Thursday after Michael tore a path through the coastal region as a powerful hurricane that killed at least two people. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images) BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI, AFP/Getty Images
MEXICO BEACH, FL - OCTOBER 11: Debris from homes destroyed by Hurricane Michael litters the ground on October 11, 2018, in Mexico Beach, Florida. The hurricane hit the panhandle area with category 4 winds causing major damage. (Photo by Chris O'Meara-Pool/Getty Images) Pool, Getty Images
MEXICO BEACH, FL - OCTOBER 11: Debris from Hurricane Michael fills a lot on October 11, 2018, in Mexico Beach, Florida. Hurricane Michael made landfall Wednesday as a Category 4 hurricane with 155 mph (250 kph) winds and a storm surge of 9 feet (2.7 meters). The hurricane hit the panhandle area with category 4 winds causing major damage. (Photo by Chris O'Meara-Pool/Getty Images) Pool, Getty Images
Teresa Sheffield walks out of the remains of her second floor apartment in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael October 11, 2018 in Panama City, Florida. - Residents of the Florida Panhandle woke to scenes of devastation Thursday after Michael tore a path through the coastal region as a powerful hurricane that killed at least two people. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images) BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI, AFP/Getty Images
PANAMA CITY BEACH, FL - OCTOBER 11: A roof over a boat storage building is collapsed following Hurricane Michael on October 11, 2018, in Panama City Beach, Florida. Hurricane Michael made landfall Wednesday as a Category 4 hurricane with 155 mph (250 kph) winds and a storm surge of 9 feet (2.7 meters). The hurricane hit the panhandle area with category 4 winds causing major damage. (Photo by Chris O'Meara-Pool/Getty Images) Pool, Getty Images
A man works though the remains of an apartment in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael October 11, 2018 in Panama City, Florida. - Residents of the Florida Panhandle woke to scenes of devastation Thursday after Michael tore a path through the coastal region as a powerful hurricane that killed at least two people. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images) BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI, AFP/Getty Images
Storm damage is seen in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael October 11, 2018 in Panama City, Florida. - Residents of the Florida Panhandle woke to scenes of devastation Thursday after Michael tore a path through the coastal region as a powerful hurricane that killed at least two people. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images) BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI, AFP/Getty Images
A view of Panama City from the St. Andrews apartment building, which suffered significant damage during the passage of Hurricane Michael. Trevor Hughes, Trevor Hughes-USA TODAY NETWORK
Damage from Hurricane Michael is seen in Panama City, Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018. Andrew West, USA TODAY Network
Boats piled in the harbor at Panama City, which suffered heavy winds during Hurricane Michael. Trevor Hughes, Trevor Hughes-USA TODAY NETWORK
Guests of the Country Inn and Suites work to turn off a gas leak after the building was heavily damaged Hurricane Michael in Panama City, Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018. Andrew West, USA TODAY Network
On Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018 branches rest on a car in Tallahassee as a part of the damage from Hurricane Michael. Alicia Devine/Democrat, Alicia Devine/Democrat
Trees and power lines blanket the streets of Tallahassee in a look at the aftermath of Hurricane Michael on Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018. Alicia Devine/Democrat, Alicia Devine/Democrat
On Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018 the Leesburg Electric Line Crew work to restore power in Tallahassee after Hurricane Michael rips through the panhandle. Alicia Devine/Democrat, Alicia Devine/Democrat
Traffic is denied access to Interstate 10 West at exit 147 in Gadsden County, Fla. Oct. 11, 2018. Downed trees and power lines from Hurricane Michael are preventing non-essential travel to Panama City using 10 West. Portions of 10 West are closed for 80 miles. KINFAY MOROTI, USA TODAY NETWORK
Panama City resident Albert Singleton picks his way down a derby-strewn sidewalk his way back to the house that he and his cousin shared in Panama City. Hurricane Michael tore off the roof and front porch. Oct. 11, 2018; Denver, CO USA; xxx Mandatory credit: Trevor Hughes-USA TODAY NETWORK Trevor Hughes, Trevor Hughes-USA TODAY NETWORK
Hurricane Michael damaged several homes on Dog Island in Franklin County, Florida. (Picture date: 10/11/18). KINFAY MOROTI/THE NEWS-PRESS
Hurricane Michael damaged several homes on Alligator Point in Franklin County, Florida. (Picture date: 10/11/18). KINFAY MOROTI/THE NEWS-PRESS
Aerial photos of the aftermath of Hurricane Michael on St Theresa Beach. Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018. SCOTT CLAUSE/USA TODAY Network
In St. Marks, Fla. on Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018 St. Marks Seafood employees work to remove the river sludge that blankets the ground after Hurricane Michael tears through the panhandle. Alicia Devine/Democrat, Alicia Devine/Democrat
The Shell Point Fish Club in St. Marks, Fla. is left mangled by Hurricane Michael on Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018. Alicia Devine/Democrat, Alicia Devine/Democrat
Aerial photos of the roadway destroyed by Hurricane Michael on St Theresa Beach. Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018. SCOTT CLAUSE/USA TODAY Network
A home is destroyed from Hurricane Michael Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018, in Mexico Beach, Fla. Hurricane Michael made landfall Wednesday as a Category 4 hurricane with 155 mph (250 kph) winds and a storm surge of 9 feet (2.7 meters). (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara) Chris O'Meara, AP
People walk through downed trees in a heavily damaged neighborhood in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael in Panama City, Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018. Supercharged by abnormally warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico, Hurricane Michael slammed into the Florida Panhandle with terrifying winds of 155 mph Wednesday, splintering homes and submerging neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) Gerald Herbert, AP
Port St. Joe Lodge No. 111 lay in ruins after Hurricane Michael made landfall, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018 in Port St. Joe, Fla. Supercharged by abnormally warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico, Hurricane Michael slammed into the Florida Panhandle with terrifying winds of 155 mph Wednesday, splintering homes and submerging neighborhoods. (Douglas R. Clifford/Tampa Bay Times via AP) Douglas R. Clifford, AP
Brian Bon inspects damages in the Panama City downtown area after Hurricane Michael made landfall in Panama City, Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018. Supercharged by abnormally warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico, Hurricane Michael slammed into the Florida Panhandle with terrifying winds of 155 mph Wednesday, splintering homes and submerging neighborhoods before continuing its march inland. (Pedro Portal/Miami Herald via AP) Pedro Portal, AP
Dorian Carter looks under furniture for a missing cat after several trees fell on their home during Hurricane Michael in Panama City, Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018. Supercharged by abnormally warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico, Hurricane Michael slammed into the Florida Panhandle with terrifying winds of 155 mph Wednesday, splintering homes and submerging neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) Gerald Herbert, AP
Homes washed away by Hurricane Michael are shown in this aerial photo Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018, in Mexico Beach, Fla. Michael made landfall Wednesday as a Category 4 hurricane with 155 mph (250 kph) winds and a storm surge of 9 feet (2.7 meters). (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara) Chris O'Meara, AP
Haley Nelson inspects damages to her family properties in the Panama City, Fla., spring field area after Hurricane Michael made landfall in Florida's Panhandle on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018. Supercharged by abnormally warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico, Hurricane Michael slammed into the Florida Panhandle with terrifying winds of 155 mph Wednesday, splintering homes and submerging neighborhoods before continuing its march inland. (Pedro Portal/Miami Herald via AP) Pedro Portal, AP
Debris from Hurricane Michael fills a lot Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018, in Mexico Beach, Fla. Hurricane Michael made landfall Wednesday as a Category 4 hurricane with 155 mph (250 kph) winds and a storm surge of 9 feet (2.7 meters). (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara) Chris O'Meara, AP
Homes are left swept off their foundations from the effects of Hurricane Michael, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018, in Mexico Beach, Fla. Michael made landfall Wednesday as a Category 4 hurricane with 155 mph (250 kph) winds and a storm surge of 9 feet (2.7 meters). (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara) Chris O'Meara, AP
On May 9, Destination Panama City officials conducted a “re-opening ceremony” for a new temporary visitors center on Harrison Avenue, one of the storm-socked downtown’s main thoroughfares.
Two blocks away, construction workers hammered on the scaffold-covered 15-story St. Andrews Towers apartment building, which remains vacant. Storefronts remain shuttered by sheets of plywood.
And the back brick wall remains missing a few doors down at Cassandra’s Place, revealing scattered debris strewn across the former restaurant.
Nonetheless, Panama City officials expressed optimism during the ribbon-cutting ceremony, which featured a band and refreshments.
“Thank you, everyone, for coming out. We’re so happy to be in a historic building in downtown Panama City," Jennifer Vigil, Destination Panama City president and chief executive officer, told the audience.
"And we can’t wait to see what the future brings,” Vigil said.
Housing crunch
Shawnte Williams is chief development officer of Panama City Rescue Mission, which offers a soup kitchen and transitional housing. The organization lost three of its five buildings and incurred $600,000 in damages during Michael — but demand for services remains great.
Williams said some residents have left Panama City for greener pastures because of an affordable-housing crunch. Prior to the hurricane, she said experienced employees at Starbucks and Chick-fil-A earned about $14 per hour. However, since three-bedroom apartments often rented for $1,400 per month, workers needed to earn $17 to $21 hourly to secure affordable housing.
As Panama City's depleted housing stock is slowly rebuilt, Williams said those costs will only increase.
“One of the most striking denominators of recent storms has been the significant loss and shortage of affordable workforce housing," Bill Johnson, Palm Beach County Emergency Management director, said at the hurricane conference last week.
"I argue that, in spite of excellent response plans, affordable workforce housing will be the Achilles’ heel of your disaster recovery,” Johnson said.
“Without affordable housing options, the agony of economic recovery will linger throughout your community for years,” he said.
Kim Nobles, a Port St. Joe homeowner, stands on a sheet of plywood where her floor used to be. The home was gutted due to water damage from Hurricane Michael seven months ago. (Photo: Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat)
In hard-hit Port St. Joe, Kim Nobles' roof remains carpeted by large blue tarps. Inside, her family is re-plumbing and rewiring the ruined interior: About 10 inches of water swamped the ranch-style home.
After camping on the back porch for about four weeks post-Michael, Nobles squeezed into a hurricane-damaged, one-bed motor home with her three teenage children and Bo, their bluetick coonhound, until late February.
Nobles grew up in Port St. Joe, and her husband, Bobby, works for a Mexico Beach plumbing company. Like many across the Panhandle, she wants the communities to rebound, but she worries what the future holds.
"We've always been a quiet, small town. Now that most of the buildings are gone on the coast, I'm scared that it's going to come back looking like a resort area," Nobles said.
"I feel just like a lot of other people feel: You hate to say we've been forgotten, but we're a small area. It's not like being in Katrina, with such a populated area. We have family members that come down for the first time — and they're like, 'I can't believe it looks like this,'" Nobles said.
"It's just part of being the Forgotten Coast."
Bo, a blue tick coonhound, stands in his owners' home, Friday, May 10, 2019. The home had to be gutted after Hurricane Michael ripped through the Panhandle seven months ago. The storm hit in Oct. 2018 and left many families homeless or with severely damaged homes. (Photo: Alicia Devine/Tallahassee Democrat)
Neale is the South Brevard watchdog reporter at FLORIDA TODAY.
Contact Neale at 321-242-3638 or rneale@floridatoday.com. Twitter: @RickNeale1
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nieuws » political protests and migration: is there a link?
Political protests and migration: is there a link?
dinsdag, 26 maart 2019
A surprise move in Algeria two weeks ago. On Monday 11 March, 82-year old president Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced that he would not seek a fifth term. At the same time, he cancelled the elections which would take place on 18 April. Citizens in Algeria have protested his candidacy since February. Bouteflika is rarely seen in public since suffering a stroke in 2013. Some commentators link the recent protests in Algeria with the Arab Spring protests of 2011. It is not surprising then, that there exists fear of increasing numbers of Algerian migrants wanting to flee towards Europe.
But will this happen? An interesting article from last week by Matthew Herbert and Sofian Philip Naceur claims the opposite: "While the protest movement is unlikely to drive migration, there is a deep connection between the factors driving young Algerians into the streets and onto migrant boats". Can these protests be that turning point?
'La mal vie'
What Herbert and Naceur claim is that the drivers for migration are more or less the same as the frustrations felt by the people protesting. 'La mal vie', the bad life, describes this sentiment for many Algerians. It is influenced by the high unemployment rates, and underemployment where jobs do not pay enough to earn a living. But also the "sense that the youth are a blocked generation", because important life steps of having your own house and getting married are put off. These kind of frustrations, 'la mal vie', underlie the current protests in Algeria.
Last month, I was in Tunisia to research migration motives. These sentiments of 'la mal vie', is also what I've seen and heard in Tunisia. The youth would like to leave, because they don't see their future in Tunisia. However, also regarding migration from Tunisia, the profile of 'the migrant' has changed. Like in Algeria, first (right after the revolution in 2011) it were mainly young men, with limited education. Now, migrant groups are more and more mixed, including women, families with (young) children and educated youth.
Political involvement of youth
One big frustration I've heard multiple times in Tunisia is that the revolution was not a real revolution, but more like an uprising. Ben Ali is gone, but that's all, according to some. This is especially frustrating for the youth, who were at the forefront of the protests. Afterwards, they did not get included in the national political process, and still, it is very hard for them to get involved. This adds to the frustrations and feeling that for them there is no good future in the country.
This is what Herbert and Naceur also point out. "Rather than seeing protests as a risk, Europe's migration hawks should see them as working in their favour." The protests may be a first step for frustrated youth to really be part of building their country. To be a real part of the future, so that they can also have a good future. As a protest sign said: "We will not flee to Europe on death-trap boats, we will not burn our mothers' hearts with grief, we will not be eaten by fishes, we will rebuild Algeria."
The question then remains: how can real change be achieved, in Algeria and Tunisia? How do we get a situation where the youth has a chance to impact the future of their country? There need to be 'real' jobs for them, they should be represented in the media, and above all, really be part of the local and national political processes. Involve the youth and support them: take them seriously. As protests in Tunisia and Algeria show, they are interested and committed to make change in their countries happen! If people, especially the youth, have real future perspectives, they will have much less tendency to go to Europe.
By Anne van der Meer
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Man Shot and Killed While Live Streaming on Facebook: 'Tony... Wake Up!'
CHICAGO, IL (INSIDE EDITION) - A 28-year-old man live streamed his own murder on Facebook, gunned down as he recorded the clip on a Chicago sidewalk, authorities said.
Antonio Perkins laughed and talked with friends as he recorded live footage on the 1600 block of South Drake Avenue in North Lawndale at about 8:45 p.m. Wednesday.
He and a friend are first seen drinking and joking before Perkins takes the phone back, noting how warm it was before panning the camera to film the block. A stroller can be seen and a child can be heard.
But the laughs quickly turn into screams after shots ring out..
Someone yells off-camera as about a dozen gunshots are heard and the phone drops to the ground.
"Call the police!" people yell.
The phone briefly shows bloodied grass as Perkins appears to try to pick up the phone before it lands back on the ground and goes black, but continues rolling.
"Tony's f****** down, n****!" someone shouts, as people scream for help and plead with Perkins to stay with them.
"You good Tony! Tony!" a woman repeatedly screams, as another person yells that he is bleeding.
"Tony, baby -- wake up!" a woman shouts.
First responders can later be heard telling people to step back.
Perkins was rushed to Mt. Sinai hospital with gunshot wounds to the neck and head, but he could not be saved, police said. He was pronounced dead at 9:07 p.m.
His phone continued recording the muffled sounds of what had then become a crime scene, occasionally playing a song that may have been his ringtone.
The video is authentic and detectives believe the video is connected to the shooting, police told InsideEdition.com. To date, it has been viewed about 600,000 times.
Authorities believe the shooting is gang-related, while a source said Perkins is a documented gang member.
But loved ones said Perkins was no longer involved in that world and had turned his life around.
"A lot of people loved my son; he was a good person," his father Daniel Cole told WGN.
Perkins had recently been promoted at McDonald's, where he worked almost every day. Wednesday was a rare night out for the father-of-three, friends said.
"Stop judging everybody. Stop judging us like that. His life really did matter," his friend Tiffany told the TV station.
The victim's brother was also a victim of gun violence, according to reports. He died in 1999, according to Perkins' Facebook page.
No arrests have been made in Perkins' killing. The investigation is ongoing, police said.
So far this year 278 people have been killed in Chicago, more than half the number of people killed in 2015, according to The Chicago Tribune.
At least 13 other people have been wounded by gunfire on the city's West and South sides since Wednesday morning, the Tribune reported.
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Nabra Hassanen's memorial set on fire in Dupont Circle
WASHINGTON - The memorial for a teen murdered near a Virginia mosque was set on fire in Dupont Circle on Wednesday, according to fire officials.
DC Fire said they responded to the scene at about 8:30 a.m. and found the remains from the memorial for 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen on fire at the Dupont Memorial Fountain on Connecticut Avenue NW.
Firefighters were able to extinguish the flames. DC Police said 24-year-old Jonathon Soloman of South Carolina was arrested in connection with the fire.
The United States Park Police said Soloman was setting several items from the park on fire and it did not appear that he was intentionally targeting items from Nabra's memorial.
Officials said the fountain did not appear to sustain any permanent damage and Soloman was charged with vandalism.
A large group gathered in Dupont Circle and around several major cities to honor Nabra, who was killed during a suspected road rage incident as she walked to a mosque in Fairfax County early Sunday morning, according to police.
Nabra was with a group of about 15 teenagers in the Sterling area as they made their way back to the All Dulles Area Muslim Society at about 3 a.m., according to police.
Officials said the group had stopped at a McDonald's between Ramadan prayers.
The suspect, 22-year-old Darwin Martinez Torres, became enraged during a traffic argument with a teen in the group who was riding a bicycle, according to officials.
Police said the argument escalated and Torres pulled over, chased the group with a baseball bat and attacked Nabra.
After hitting her with the bat, authorities said Torres took Nabra in his car to another nearby location and assaulted her again. Her body was later found in a pond.
Authorities confirmed Nabra was assaulted twice before her death - once in Loudoun and once in Fairfax - and confirmed they were investigating whether she was sexually assaulted during one of those attacks.
A donation page was established to help Nabra's family. To learn how to donate, click here.
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'NCIS' actress Pauley Perrette assaulted by homeless man who threatened to kill her
(FOX NEWS) - "NCIS" actress Pauley Perrette tweeted Friday morning that she was assaulted overnight by a "psychotic homeless man" who said he was going to kill her.
Perrette plays forensic scientist Abby Sciuto on the hit CBS show. She posted a tweet including an image of a long document that described the incident.
"I am shaken and traumatized," she wrote. "My life changed tonight."
Perrette wrote that as she was walking from her Hollywood home to a guest house, a man grabbed her and punched her in the face and told her repeatedly he was going to kill her.
Read the full story at FOXNews.com.
Police locate missing 8-year-old boy
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Curl up with Sandra Byrd’s New Victorian-Gothic book, Mist of Midnight (Review & Giveaway)
Have you heard about the talents of Sandra Byrd? Not only can she take you back in time, but she can also spin the most compelling and mysterious tale you have ever heard. I highly recommend her Tudor series, Ladies in Waiting.
But if you want something fresh, new, and just as full of mystery and intrigue as her previous hisyorical series, then jump into this post and see what I have to say about her newest book, Mist of Midnight!
About Sandra Byrd
After earning her first rejection at the age of thirteen, bestselling author Sandra Byrd has now published more than forty books. Her adult fiction debut, Let Them Eat Cake, was a Christy Award finalist, as was her first historical novel, To Die For: A Novel of Anne Boleyn. To Die For was also named by Library Journal as a Best Books Pick for 2011 and The Secret Keeper: A Novel of Kateryn Parr, was named a Library Journal Best Books Pick for 2012. The Tudor series’ end cap, Roses Have Thorns: A Novel of Elizabeth I published in April, 2013.
A life-long lover of Victorian Gothic romances, Sandra’s new series, Daughters of Hampshire, weaves elements of that mystical, traditional genre with inspirational and literary threads. Mist of Midnight, the series’ first book, debuts in March, 2015.
Sandra has also published dozens of books for tweens and teens, and is passionate about helping new authors develop their talent and their work toward traditional or independent publication. As such, she has mentored and coached hundreds of new writers and continues to coach dozens to success each year.
More About Sandra…
Website / Facebook / Twitter / Pinterest
About Mist of Midnight: Daughters of Hampshire, Book 1
In the first of a brand-new series set in Victorian England, a young woman returns home from India after the death of her family to discover her identity and inheritance are challenged by the man who holds her future in his hands.
Rebecca Ravenshaw, daughter of missionaries, spent most of her life in India. Following the death of her family in the Indian Mutiny, Rebecca returns to claim her family estate in Hampshire, England. Upon her return, people are surprised to see her…and highly suspicious. Less than a year earlier, an imposter had arrived with an Indian servant and assumed not only Rebecca’s name, but her home and incomes.
That pretender died within months of her arrival; the servant fled to London as the young woman was hastily buried at midnight. The locals believe that perhaps she, Rebecca, is the real imposter. Her home and her father’s investments reverted to a distant relative, the darkly charming Captain Luke Whitfield, who quickly took over. Against her best intentions, Rebecca begins to fall in love with Luke, but she is forced to question his motives—does he love her or does he just want Headbourne House? If Luke is simply after the property, as everyone suspects, will she suffer a similar fate as the first “Rebecca”?
A captivating Gothic love story set against a backdrop of intrigue and danger, Mist of Midnight will leave you breathless.
Where you can purchase Mist of Midnight…
From the Author / Amazon
My Review of Mist of Midnight
I’ve been a fan of Sandra Byrd ever since reading the first book in her Ladies in Waiting series, To Die For and my love for her books continued to grow throughout the series. I learned so much about the Tudors through her books — and my interest to learn more about this time period grew because of Byrd. So when I saw that she was starting another historical fiction series, I know I couldn’t not read the book (even though I was a tad sad that we wouldn’t be delving back into life at the royal court. So much intrigue! 😉.
With all of that background given, I think it’s needless to say that I had very high expectations for Mist of Midnight. I wanted it to capture me in a time period that was so full of intrigue and tension that it pulled me effortlessly through the book.
The beginning of Mist of Midnight was rather slow — but not in a boring way. It was an intense introduction that started to build in suspense and intrigue with every turn of the page. By the time I reached the half-way mark I was enraptured in the plot and completely engaged with the characters.
I found Rebecca to be such a heroic and strong character. To have gone through so much in the Indies, and then to return home and not find the rest and welcome you had looked forward to — that would be tough! But her determined attitude just took it in strides.
Captain Whitfield (I was nearly at the end of the book before I could think of him as ‘Luke’) was such a mystery! It took me forever to figure him out…
…literally, it felt like forever!
And my favorite part about reading a suspense book is figuring out who is the real bad guy and who is the good guy. So it was somewhat frustrating that it took me so long. Good job, Sandra! 😉
Mist of Midnight was a bit stronger on the romance than I felt (or that I remember) her Ladies in Waiting series having, so if you love a good, tension-filled romance with a seemingly shady hero and cautious heroine, this book will definitely appeal to you! Personally, I’m more into the suspense aspect of this book, which was also satisfying!
If you can’t tell by now….I thoroughly enjoyed delving into this Victorian time period and walking alongside Rebecca as she tried to solve the mystery of what was haunting her beloved childhood home. Get this book, curl up on a dreary day, and get completely lost in Mist of Midnight.
Lace Bookmark Giveaway!
Because who doesn’t love to win something? And if you’re a bookworm (like me!) than this is the perfect prize for you! Isn’t this bookmark so lovely??
RULES: USA Only. Must be a Bloglovin’ follower of From My Vanity. Winner is randomly chosen using Random.org. Once contacted, the winner has 1 week to respond to email. After a week, one more email will be sent. After another week, the winner forfeits the prize and a new winner will be chosen.Giveaway ends on March 16th, 2015 at midnight.
What’s your favorite type of book to read? Historical fiction? Suspense? Romance? Non-Fiction? Is Mist of Midnight a book you would want to read? Share with me in the comments below!
I reviewed this book for the author. It was not required that I give a positive review, but solely to express my own thoughts and opinions of this book, which I have done.
Uncategorized Book Giveaway, Book Review
Ashley Bree Perez says
I love romance novels. 🙂
Sandra Byrd says
Thank you, Katie, for reading and reviewing and all the care you take. I appreciate you!!
My favorite is usually mystery/adventure. But I enjoy multiple kinds.
I’ve read some of Byrd’s books before and they are always written so well and carefully plotted. I would love to read this series sometime soon!
Danielle Porter says
I like non fiction and fiction/historical!
Kristie D. says
I love to read inspirational fiction, especially Amish fiction. kristiedonelson(at)gmail(dot)com Thank you.
My favorite book(s) to read are Amish fiction or anything by Nicholas Sparks.
Giovanna Scurti says
I’m a classic literature person, myself, but sometimes it depends!
Kelly McGrew says
my favorite is contemporary romance!
Right now I’m reading a novel about Picasso set in the Early 20th century in Paris…great read 🙂 I’d have to say it’s Historical Fiction with some Romance 🙂 I also love reading Suspense novels! Mist of Midnight sounds like it would be a great read!
Heather Bridson • last week [email protected] • 24.247.64.206
My favorite type of book to read is usually paranormal romance..or just a good paranormal book.
Alison H says
I love all kinds of books! But right now I’m really into nonfiction, books about science and memoirs.
I read many different genres. Mysteries are my favorite.
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"I am a Mac" guy defects to Huawei
by Nick Farrell on01 February 2017
MateBook running Windows 10 far better than iOS
The smug bloke who championed the Mac computer has defected to Huawei and is peddling its MateBook instead.
The Apple icon Justin Long, best known from the famous “Get a Mac” ad campaign can now be seen hawking Huawei gear instead.
His second ad popped up on YouTube yesterday, and co-starred a Huawei MateBook running Windows 10.
The ads are full of references to his previous work although Long and his agent insisted on toning down too many digs at the fruity cargo cult.
Needless to say, Apple fanboys are incandescent with rage and the comments under the advert show some seriously deranged people with no sense of humour or proportion [so Apple fanboys then. Ed]. Of course, they have been betrayed. The campaign where a smug git told them that Apple gear was superior was all a lie and the “I am an Apple” was only saying it because Apple paid him large amounts of cash. By the way Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy are not real either.
If Long was the face of Apple they might have wanted to keep hiring him, or at least paying him not to go and work for rivals. It is also possible that Apple thinks that Long is a little too old to represent the company.
Huawei’s latest flagship device, the Mate 9, launched in the US earlier this year. The Mate 9 is a $600 device with a 5.9-inch display, 4,000 mAh battery, and 4GB of RAM. It’s also the first smartphone to come with Alexa pre-installed.
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Dice set of 10 consists of 10 dices. 4 sides, 6 sides, 8 sides, 10 sides (0-9), 110 sides (1-10), sides (00 - 90), 10 sides and 20 sides, 24 sides and 30 sides....
Dice set of 10
Dice set of 7 consists of 7 dices. 4 sides, 6 sides, 8 sides, 10 sides (1-10), 10 sides (00 - 90), 10 sides and 20 sides....
Dice set of 7
Three ropes trick is a simple trick which is suitable for younger kids to perform. Can be easily used for show and tell or party performance among small kids....
three rope trick
The sea battle is a game between two players to systematically identify the positions of enemy's battle ships and destroy them. This game introduces the mathematical idea of "coordinates". ...
The sea battle
Pentago is a chess for 2 players. It is similar to tic-tac-toe but players need a row of 5 to win. To make the game more interesting and challenging, players must rotate any of the 4 plates 90 degree after every move. Have fun!...
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wooden pattern block (60 pcs) has triangle, parallelogram, trapezium, square, diamond and hexagon. It is able to made a wide variety of patterns. Kids learn shapes, colour, size and many other skills through playing with this toy....
wooden pattern block (60 pcs)
3D magic square can play up to 4 pax. A game of 3-Dimentional strategy! Occupy as much territory as possible to win the game! It is suitable for 5 to 99....
3D magic square
Time performance is a self check game for kids to learn how to tell time. ...
Time performance
Connect 5 is a game for 2 players. Objective of the game is to place the beads on the junctions of the grid such that they form 5 in a row....
Hua rong dao is to shift the generals and the soldiers to allow Cao Cao to escape from the box....
Hua rong dao
Domino cube has a wide range of ways to play. Basically the player has to use 9 pieces of the given block to complete a 3x3x3 cube....
Domino cube
Wisdom bead IQ puzzle comes with beads of different shape and size to fit into a template. There are many ways to complete the game but there are many more ways to lead you to no where. This particular set has an add on function to build py...
Wisdom bead IQ puzzle
HIQU comes with 4 pieces of template to make into 100 different shapes....
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Small engineer helps to construct stairs to move to the top of the building. There are 5 levels (Starter, Junior, Expert, Master, Wizard) for you to choose from a total of 60 Challenges for you to work ...
Small engineer
Jungle escape is a game similar to IQ car or Rush hour. There are 5 levels (Junior, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Expert) for you to choose from, a total of 50 Challenges for you to work with....
Jungle escape
“Squares” is a simple but fun strategy game. Don’t have complicated rules. Suitable for young and old in the family....
Squares puzzle
Colourful is suitable for age 3 and above. By forming the coloured pattern, player will be more aware of sequence and orientation. There are 4 levels (Starter, Junior, Expert, Master) for you to choose from, a total of 100 Challenges for yo...
Big eat small is a game to find the routine to “eat up” all the monsters on the game board. There are 4 levels (Starter, Junior, Expert, Master) for you to choose from, a total of 48 Challenges for you to work with. ...
Big eat small
Rescue game simulates the situation of few rescue boats on a mission to save survival floating on the sea. Take note that once a rescue boat is filled up, it cannot move anymore....
Rescue game
Digital game is a game similar to Majong. It has got very interesting ways to discard the tiles by separating and combining. This set is portable and hence can bring on tour....
Digital game
123 Game is an award winning game. Move 1, 2 or 3 marbles and push your opponent’s marbles out of the board!...
123 Game
Number balance is used to verify the principle of moments. It is also used in lower primary mathematics as activity for number bond....
Number balance
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Eggnog Hummus Now Exists And We're Just As Curious As You Are
Constantine Spyrou
In my mind, eggnog and hummus are definitely not two things one would pair together at first. However, somebody has decided to make eggnog hummus as a dessert item, and we're high-key curious in seeing what it's like.
Photo courtesy of The Hummus & Pita Co.
NYC-based The Hummus & Pita Co. has rolled out the eggnog hummus to their three locations as an addition to their dessert hummus lineup. It's made with chickpeas, almond butter, oatmeal, and homemade eggnog. There's also rum-spiked options of the wondrous dessert available. Options for foods to dip into the hummus include cinnamon pita chips, strawberries, and bananas.
Dessert hummus in general has been making headlines recently, as Delighted By, who sells it to grocery stores like Whole Foods, recently pitched their product on Shark Tank. Hummus & Pita's eggnog version of this new novelty is a curious holiday addition to the dessert hummus lineup, and one we're eager to try to see what it's really like.
Those just as interested as us in trying the eggnog hummus out should stop by Hummus & Pita locations by December 31st.
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Databricks And Snowflake Partner To Bring Machine Learning Smarts To Data Warehouse
Janakiram MSV Contributor
I cover Cloud Computing, Machine Learning, and Internet of Things
Snowflake Computing delivers a modern, cloud-based data warehousing platform which is giving traditional database vendors a run for their money. Built from the ground up to exploit the capabilities of dynamic cloud infrastructure, Snowflake is available as an entirely managed data warehouse on AWS and Azure.
Snowflake and Databricks Integration
Source: Snowflake
Databricks is a Big Data company that offers a commercial version of Apache Spark on mainstream public cloud platforms including AWS and Azure. Its Unified Analytics product brings together best of the breed tools and technologies to deliver an end-to-end platform for data engineers and data scientists.
Almost every data platform is getting augmented with machine learning to support predictive analytics. Customers of Snowflake and Databricks asked both the companies to deliver an integrated solution that avoids redundant processes to implement analytics. The latest announcement addresses the challenges in building integrated data pipelines that cut across both the platforms.
With Snowflake’s data warehouse as the repository, and Databricks’ Unified Analytics delivering Spark-based analytics, data scientists can train models while analysts can run dashboards, all at the same data, while new data continues to flow into the data warehouse without any downside or disruption.
The integration is available as a connector that brings together ETL, data warehousing, and machine learning without needing to set up, configure and manage complex pipelines.
Data engineers can use the API from Python or Scala to access data from Snowflake. They can exploit the power of Apache Spark by reading Snowflake data as a native Dataframe. They can train powerful machine learning algorithms on the data retrieved from the warehouse and store the output back in Snowflake. Users can rely on familiar SQL syntax to query the data stored in the warehouse.
Without this integration, customers had to deal with complex data transformation pipelines to move datasets back and forth from Snowflake, which results in duplication and redundancy of data. With Databricks API, Snowflake becomes a first-class data source to build real-time pipelines based on Apache Spark and other ML frameworks such as TensorFlow.
Every database vendor is moving towards the integration of machine learning with the database engine. Recently at Google Cloud NEXT, Google’s BigQuery got the support for machine learning. Microsoft is embedding an ML engine in SQL Server, its flagship database that runs both in the cloud and enterprise data center.
The partnership between Snowflake and Databricks is a welcome sign. It brings best of both the worlds through the combination of an enterprise data warehouse and predictive analytics platforms.
Janakiram MSV
Janakiram MSV is an analyst, advisor and an architect at Janakiram & Associates. He was the founder and CTO of Get Cloud Ready Consulting, a niche cloud migration...
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CircuitMess Taps Retro Gaming And DIY Attitude To Spark Imaginations At CES 2018
Jason Evangelho Senior Contributor
I cover the fascinating worlds of Linux & consumer PC hardware.
Albert Gajšak
CircuitMess
As he prepares for his first CES, 19-year-old Albert Gajšak is exploding with enthusiasm. I'm having coffee with the creator of the build-it-yourself, retro-inspired "MAKERbuino" game console, and the exuberance is infectious. It should be. At a young age, he's already one hell of a success story. But his excitement isn't merely about the journey he's been on; it's also about where he and his startup -- CircuitMess -- could be headed next.
When he was 11 years old, Gajšak started tinkering with electronics and robotics via technical culture communities in Croatia. Three years later -- at the time strictly as a hobby -- he was building prototypes for what would much later become a really cool educational device, disguised as a retro GameBoy-style console inspiring people to dabble with coding and electronic engineering.
A handful of the many MAKERbuino prototypes
Jason Evangelho
Ok, understand that while I'm comfortable building PCs, my experience with a soldering iron is limited to a few hours as a teenager (a necessary step to assemble a Christmas present from Radio Shack) so seeing these early prototypes and hearing how they were created was pretty amazing. Gajšak would make PCBs (printed circuit boards) at home by printing a sheet of paper with a stencil. The stencil was transferred to the copper of the virgin board with a household iron. Then, when dipped in a mixture of acid and peroxide, the proper areas would be etched onto the board. After that, it's plugging in the components, connecting them with wires using a soldering iron, and taking it from there.
Albert Gajšak with the MAKERbuino
That's probably simplifying things, but it's how one of the earliest MAKERbuinos -- which included a speaker gutted from an old radio -- was first conceived.
Prelude: The Gamebuino & Maker Faires
Inspiration to take things to the next level struck in 2014, when the Gamebuino was released via an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign. Aurélien Rodot's GameBoy-style console was powered by Arduino, and designed to get people coding and creating their own 8-bit games. However, the console shipped fully assembled. Gajšak wanted to take that concept a step further and get kids excited about building their own handheld console, while exposing them to a broader range of STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathemetics).
Before long he was attending Maker Faires with a crude version of MAKERbuino you could assemble yourself, but it was still very much a hobbyist pursuit. “Quite a lot of people said ‘wow, that’s cool, a gaming console you can assemble yourself! Maybe you should turn it into a commercial product.'" When he arrived at the 2016 Maker Faire in Rome -- an event sponsored by heavyweights like Intel and Google -- he was chosen as the official representative of Croatia, and the MAKERBuino started receiving glowing regional press.
This would give him the awareness and the initial surge of momentum he needed. The problem with taking it to the next level wasn't the product itself, though. It was a complete absence of money.
“I was spending all of my pocket money on the project," Gajšak says. "I didn’t even have enough money for lunches at school! I was borrowing money from friends [...] and skipping haircuts.”
That's when Tomislav Car, CEO at Infinum, stepped in and invested some much-needed capital in exchange for a slice of the company. He also came up with the idea of launching the MAKERbuino on Kickstarter, a 25-day campaign which cleared $90,000 more than its $10,000 goal. This lit Gajšak on fire and legitimized the MAKERbuino in his eyes, since its primary customers were coming from the US, UK, and Germany -- and not just his regional sphere of influence.
Retro Specs, Educational Appeal
MAKERbuino DIY console kit
The appeal certainly doesn't lie in the specs; a truth even Gajšak admits to. It uses a meager ATmega328 CPU running at 16MHz, has 2kB of RAM, and an 84x48 resolution inherited from a Nokia 5110 LCD screen. What sells MAKERbuino is the sense of satisfaction, accomplishment, and ownership that comes with assembling your own game console from scratch (not a far cry from how we PC builders feel -- but we're not assembling our motherboards). Besides, anything retro seems to be hugely attractive lately. But there's another reason the hardware is scaled back. “The more complicated a product it is, the harder it is to assemble," Gajšak says. "There are more points of failure and that reduces your potential audience.”
The price point doesn't hurt either. “I tell parents that you can buy a MAKERBuino as a substitute for roughly the price of a single video game," he says. “Kids spend more than 6 hours a week playing games. What if you could spend a part of that time as an educational playtime where they could learn electronics and programming?"
At $49 for the base unit it could be viewed as an impulse buy. If you need the basic tools required to assemble it, you can simply drop an additional $10. And while he won't reveal margins, Gajšak says CircuitMess turns a profit on every unit sold.
Turning MAKERbuino -- and by extension CircuitMess -- into a longterm pursuit did require a sacrifice. Following the success of the Kickstarter campaign, Gajšak dropped out of college, choosing to forego his own education in exchange for sparking an interest in the pursuit of STEM disciplines in kids.
MAKERbuino DIY kit
He doesn't remotely regret the decision. Before Kickstarter he was a one-man band. Now, despite having 3 full-time members and 6 part-time employees who assemble the MAKERbuino kits and prepare them for global shipments, he handles their web shop, spends more than 3 hours per day doing customer support (including constantly updating an exhaustive online assembly guide), leads the marketing charge, runs social media, and still finds time to do interviews like this one. However, he can't wait to get right back to creating.
“In the future, my vision is to create a series of these DIY products," he says. "There’s recently been a proliferation of these educational toys like M-Bots. The main problem I see with these products is they’re not as appealing to children as they should be. With MAKERbuino we’ve connected this DIY educational scheme with video games. In the end, they’re learning to solder to make an actual product they can touch, and take home, and play.”
CES 2018 And Beyond
So Gajšak has journeyed from crude prototypes that existed purely for personal curiosity, to launching a successful Kickstarter campaign, then being recognized as a promising startup from virtually nothing. When he arrives in Las Vegas for this year's CES, he won't even be able to legally drink. But he has loftier ambitions in mind.
He's at CES because CircuitMess was awarded "Most Promising Technology Startup" at the annual Idea Knockout -- a yearly competition in Croatia sponsored by the likes of Samsung, Uber, and several others -- that gathers the region's most talented researchers and startups to showcase promising new programs and technology.
As a result of winning, Idea Knockout awarded CircuitMess free exhibition space, free airfare, and a cool $10,000. So what's the next goal? Conquer the United States.
“We sell most MAKERbuinos to the United States, so my goal is to expand the audience even more in the U.S.," he says. "Maybe arrange a deal with retailers, because we don’t have anyone yet in the U.S. reselling our product.”
Thus far CircuitMess has sold north of 3000 units globally, and there's potential to crack that wide open after CES. I believe Gajšak and I share the same opinion here: since the MAKERbuino not only comes with pre-made games, but also supports all open-source games from both its users and the Gamebuino community, the larger the user base becomes, the more exciting the product itself becomes.
Are you listening ThinkGeek? I feel like the MAKERbuino would be right at home there.
DIY Phones and Watches?
Toward the end of our meeting, Gajšak pulls out a rectangular device housed in wood paneling, and turns it on. “Everyone thinks that making phones is rocket science, but it isn’t," he says with a smirk. It's a fully operational phone that he assembled from scratch -- and he makes a quick call to show me it works.
A working, prototype DIY phone
While I'm taking notes he pulls out a geeked-out DIY watch that displays time in binary, octal, hexadecimal, decimal, roman numerals, even the time as a square root. Oh, and of course it has programmable RGBs.
This is one hell of a smart dude, and I may be getting some clues as to where he and CircuitMess are headed next.
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Talent And Diversity Drive Barclays Digital Innovation
Lawrence Wintermeyer Contributor
I cover fintech, digital, and investment.
Barclays Super 8 : TechWomen50 Awards
Michael Crabtree, Speak Media
Barclays, the 300 year old bank founded by Quakers, has a history of innovation spanning three industrial revolutions. It is now driving innovation into the fourth industrial revolution - the digital revolution, with talent and diversity.
Barclays’ list of innovations is impressive: funding the world’s first industrial steam railway, the first credit card to be launched in the UK, the world’s first ATM machine, the list goes on. Barclays technology archive blog is worth a read for any self-confessed geek!
In 2001, I was doing my personal trading through the dot.com era with a Barclays sharing trading account online and available on my mobile phone, before “the app” changed our lives forever!
Barclays was also the first UK bank to name a female branch manager in 1958, a pioneer in what we now call diversity. Well, they have done it again with The Barclays “Super 8”: The Future of Tech!
Barclays had eight nominations from across its business in the TechWomen50 awards, more than any other organisation:
Magdalena Krön, Head of Rise London and VP Open Innovation
Gemma Trebble, UX Design Principal
Sonal Shah, VP PMO Manager in IB Strategic and Regulatory Change
Snehal Malhotra, AVP in Identification and Access Management
Charlotte Haines, Digital Security Programme Manager
Carol Morris, Cloud Business Engagement Lead
Kamila Piorowska, Agile Coach
Jodie Gilbert, Head of Cyber Strategy.
Congratulations and well done to the nominees!
Sonal Shah says the awards are a way to shine a light on the sector. “With a minimal number of women currently in the industry, it’s an opportunity to show the range of experience we bring and how broadening diversity in our profession will benefit the industry in every way,” she says.
I asked Barclays UK CEO Ashok Vaswani what is in the Barclays coolaid that drives this level of innovation from its staff.
“Barclays has been at the centre of British finance for over 300 years, and in that time the world has changed beyond recognition. However, the reason we have been able to consistently deliver game-changing innovations throughout all this disruption has been a relentless focus on our customers, their needs, their aspirations, and being there for the moments that really matter. This applies just as much to our products and services as it does to the talent and diversity of our colleagues.”
A career banker, Ashok has held executive positions in most of Barclays’ major business areas and geographies. I have always found his personal zeal and “innovation conviction” infectious whenever we have met. Ashok is a rock star CEO, and in a 300 year old bank, not a startup! Yes well, it does happen.
Barclays’ FinTech heritage is rich. In 2014 Barclays teamed up with Techstars to start the Barclays Accelerator. This was the first FinTech accelerator run by a Financial Institution, powered by a world class accelerator partner.
Over three years have passed, and in that time over 100 FinTech companies have successfully graduated through the program. Both Barclays and Techstars invest in the start-ups who get onto the program, which is statistically harder to get into than Harvard.
Many of the companies land a partnership deal with Barclays after completing the program, and the alumni have grown their valuations by an average of 160 per cent. Participants come from across the FinTech landscape, and have ranged from predicting customer behavior via machine based learning, to chatbots selling and managing insurance for property rentals.
Chris Adelsbach, the Managing Director of Techstars UK, and one of the biggest FinTech investors I know, says "the Barclays Accelerator, powered by Techstars, consistently demonstrates our program in London is the pre-eminent FinTech accelerator in the world."
I agree. When I was the CEO at Innovate Finance, the Barclays Techstars accelerator was my reference case - I called it the “poster child” for institutional banking accelerator models, and it has been copied globally.
One of the things I love about the accelerator program is how it brings external entrepreneurial talent and mentors together with internal banking talent, competencies and experience. This recipe is a truly innovate approach for an institution, albeit one with an innovation heritage, to up-skill its internal talent in digital school while getting access to tons of innovation going on outside of its four walls.
Barclays has also established a global community of top entrepreneurs and innovators called ‘Rise’. Rise has physical workspaces across seven global FinTech hubs: London, New York, Manchester, Vilnius, Mumbai, Tel Avis and Cape Town. It also has a virtual community of over 40,000 members. I have hung out in half of the global spaces attending events or working with startups. Rise is pretty cool and is a winner with local FinTech ecosystems and talent.
Ask any successful VC the most important ingredient in an innovative startup and the answer is “the talent”. The team at Barclays really seem to understand this and are delivering even greater diversity into their special talent mix to drive innovation further, and they are going to need it.
With an estimated 70 plus new challenger banks in the UK in recent years, a diverse bench of talent in digital innovation is the kind of team you need to win at the only game in town, even when you are 300 year old innovation champion.
Lawrence Wintermeyer
I cover fintech, digital, and investment and promote policies for a transparent, secure and quality digital financial future for everyone.
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Gear Club is a podcast about the art & science of music recording. Listen to interviews with artists, producers, engineers and all the folks behind your favorite records.
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Dec 13 #29: In Tubes We Trust - EveAnna Manley
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Welcome to our fifth episode from the New York AES. Our guest, EveAnna Manley, has been dubbed by some as America's Goddess of Thermionic Emissions. The tube-based gear designed and manufactured by Manley Labs is legendary. And it almost seems pre-ordained that EveAnna would be the driving force behind the creation of such great gear given that her stepdad, Albert, owned the legendary tube-powered guitar amp company AMPEG. It’s as if vacuum tubes were in her blood.
But so was music. In January 30, 1989, a 20 year old EveAnna, on sabbatical from her music studies at Columbia University, met the original Manley crew and was hired on to the production team. She quickly learned to solder and assemble vacuum tube amplifiers, and after only three years with Manley Laboratories, co-founder David Manley abruptly left the company and the country in 1996. With EveAnna now at the helm, the modern form of Manley Labs began to take shape. Studios worldwide cherish Manley’s tube-based microphones, pre amps, compressors and EQs. We were lucky to have had a chance to talk with EveAnna and learn a thing or three about tubes, bikes and why Chino is not China.
Available on Apple Podcasts, Google, Spotify and most podcast apps. Scroll down for full listing.
https://www.manley.com/
Check out her interview with Tape Op's Larry Crane.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manley_Laboratories
PSN: View from the Top: Success lies in Experience, Evanna Manley, President of Manley Labs
Playlist of the Week:
eveanna manley, manley labs, podcast, voxbox, reference mics, pro audio gear, hifi gear
#27: The Means of Production with Andrew Scheps
#9: Live from SXSW with Suzanne Ciani - Electronic Music Pioneer
Jan 8 #30: From Hell's Kitchen to LA with Rod O’Brien
Dec 8 #28: On a Mission with Terri Winston
Follow us on social @gearclubpodcast
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AT&T raises unlimited data cap from 5GB to 22GB
By Lee Mathews 09.16.2015 :: 9:29AM EDT 09.16.2015
For quite some time now, AT&T has been at odds with customers with unlimited data contracts. Now, they’ve finally decided to extend an olive branch. A rather sizable one at that.
According to AT&T’s updated support article on unlimited data plans, users can now transfer a whopping 22GB before being throttled if they’re surfing in a “congested area.” That’s a 340% increase, and a very, very welcome change for AT&T customers with grandfathered plans.
You can’t get an unlimited data plan from AT&T any more: AT&T stopped offering them way back in 2009. Then just two years later, they decided it would be a good idea to institute a speed limit to discourage “excessive use.”
Their maximum bit rate scheme throttled users back to just 0.5Mbps (as much as 1/40th peak LTE speed) once they passed 5GB on AT&T’s 4G network — or just 3GB on the 3G network. It also ran afoul of regulators. Just a few months ago, the FCC slammed AT&T with a $100 million fine for misleading customers. AT&T unsurprisingly denied any wrongdoing.
This seems like a major victor for anyone who’s managed to hang on to a an unlimited plan from AT&T. Even though AT&T has moved the finish line a long, long way, it’s still ironic that an unlimited plan does, in fact, have some clearly defined limits.
But hey, at least you can now stream music while you drive all month and stream movies on your phone while you’re at work without running into their throttling cap.
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The Ancestry of Deacon John Dunham and Other Related Issues
By Lisa Eschenburg September 29, 2014 at 04:57:18
Since these message boards are being closed tomorrow and they become read-only, this message is for future researchers.
When researching the DUNHAM family, please note that The Dunham Genealogy book by Isaac Watson Dunham (printed about 1907) has many errors. And most importantly the book’s presentedancestry of John Dunham, who is often referred to as Deacon John Dunham, is fictitious (not real/fake.)
Deacon John Dunham was NOT born in or from Scooby, Nottinghamshire, England, and Abigail Wood was not real!
Deacon John Dunham was first married to Susan Kaino/Cainhoe and secondly married to Abigail Balliou.
SEE AND READ the various well-researched and sourced articles that appear in The American Genealogist (TAG), a well-respected and scholarly genealogy/history journal. Here are just a few of them.
The American Genealogist (TAG) volume 73 (April 1998) page 101 – 104, “The Fraudulent Ancestry of Deacon John Dunham of Plymouth” by Paul C. Reed.
The American Genealogist (TAG) volume 71 (July 1996) page 130 – 133, “The English Origin and First Marriage of Deacon John Dunham of Plymouth, Massachusetts” with “Appendix: Abigail “Balliou,” second wife of Deacon John Dunham” by Robert Leigh Ward.
The American Genealogist (TAG) volume 30 (1953) page 143 – 155, “Notes on the Dunham Family of Plymouth, Mass.” by Mrs. John E. Barclay, Whitman, Mass.
The American Genealogist (TAG) volume 36 (1960) page 243 – 249, “Jonathan2 Dunham of Plymouth and Edgartown, Mass.” by Mrs. John E. Barclay, F.A.S.G., Whitman, Mass.
The American Genealogist (TAG) volume 44 (1968) page 218 – 223, “Five Jonathan Dunhams Untangled” by Mrs. John E. Barclay, F.A.S.G., Whitman, Mass.
The first TAG article listed here points out where the errors are in the lineage presented in Isaac Watson Dunham’s book and why it is impossible that Deacon John Dunham is a descendant. The second article listed, shows the true lineage of Deacon John Dunham as found in original records.
Since these articles were written in the late 1990s, the actual church records have been located by individuals in addition to the author. John Dunham and Susan Kaino’s marriage record can be found in the parish of Clophill in Bedfordshire, England. Susan’s christening record and her father’s burial record can be found in Clophill also. The christening of John and Susan’s first child, John Dunham, can be found in the parish of Henlow, in Bedfordshire, England. Deacon John Dunham’s own christening record was found in Pirton, Hertfordshire, England showing him to be the son of Richard Dunham. Richard was found to have died in Langford, Bedfordshire, England and he left a will which names a son John amongst other children. Some details can be found in the TAG articles, or naturally in the original records themselves which can be rented on microfilm from the LDS/Mormon’s through FamilySearch.
Just because something is printed in a book it does not make it true. Ask yourself, where did the author get this information. A good author will cite the sources. Even then, check the information against the original record to make sure the facts were used correctly.
See the Dunham-Singletary Family Connections organization. For more information on Deacon John Dunham and the Jonathan Dunham alias Singletary (who was found by DNA not to be a descendant of Deacon John.) The organization’s website is:http://www.dunham-singletary.org/mw/index.php/Main_Pagehttp://www.dunham-singletary.org/mw/index.php/Main_Page
Also, please note that Abigail Balliou and her parents were from ENGLAND as noted in her marriage record to John Dunham. Yes, her father had the name Thomas but her mother has NOT been identified. That they were Huguenot is a mis-identification which was suggested and disproved. See the article in The American Genealogist (TAG), "Dunham-Ball(i)ou/Billiou Note" vol 71 page 250.
A Common Mistake made is assuming she was a daughter of Thomas Balliou and Ann Amie. These two persons were in Belgium (which is NOT Zuid-Holland Netherlands). That Thomas is identified as having died in Belgium prior to the Abigail Balliou's 1622 marriage in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands, where her father was Present and Living. (He was not noted as deceased in the record.) So those two Thomas' CAN NOT be the same person.
Another mistake made is that Ann Amie is identified as dying in Leiden but buried in Langerbrugge. Langerbrugge is not in the Netherlands it is in Belgium. It is highly unlikely that she died in one country and is buried in another. It appears the death place was altered to make the family fit with Deacon John's second wife Abigail Balliou.
These discrepancies clearly are a research RED FLAGS that something is highly wrong with the lineage that people keep repeating without researching in original records to prove or disprove what was stated by someone years before. If a genealogical work does not clearly state what original record a supposed fact came from or you have not seen that original record then you need to research it, not blindly repeat it.
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Kiss Removed from Michael Jackson Tribute Concert
By Josh Hart 2011-08-17T13:43:05Z News
While Michael Jackson was certainly a fan of Kiss, the same could probably not be said of Kiss' (or at least Gene Simmons') feelings on the the King of Pop.
It was announced Monday that Kiss would be participating in a Michael Jackson tribute concert being put on by Global Live Events on October 8 in Cardiff, Wales. Of course, the media were quick to point out the public comments that Gene Simmons made disparaging Jackson's character, some within days of his death.
Simmons most famously told Classic Rock magazine: "Well, you know, where there's smoke there's fire. There's no question in my mind he molested those kids. Not a doubt."
Kiss has now been formally pulled from the event, with Global Events Live CEO Chris Hunt calling Kiss' booking an "oversight."
He continued: "Under the circumstances, we fully agree that even though Kiss is a band Michael admired, we have no choice but to rescind our invitation to them to appear in our tribute concert."
You can read more on this report at Billboard.com.
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Bluebird, Bluebird
by Attica Locke
A “heartbreakingly resonant” thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and producer of the Emmy-winning Fox TV show Empire. (USA Today)
*Winner of the 2018 Edgar Award for Best Novel*
*Coming soon to FX as a TV series*
“In Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke had both mastered the thriller and exceeded it.” –Ann Patchett
When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules–a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get as far away from Texas as he could. Until duty called him home.
When his allegiance to his roots puts his job in jeopardy, he travels up Highway 59 to the small town of Lark, where two murders–a black lawyer from Chicago and a local white woman–have stirred up a hornet’s nest of resentment. Darren must solve the crimes–and save himself in the process–before Lark’s long-simmering racial fault lines erupt. From a writer and producer of the Emmy winning Fox TV show Empire, Bluebird, Bluebird is a rural noir suffused with the unique music, color, and nuance of East Texas.
Los Angeles Times Book Prize, 2018
Genre: Fiction / Fiction / African American / Mystery & Detective
On Sale: August 28th 2018
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Entertainment Weekly rounds up their “Fall’s 20 Must-Read Books” and includes Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke. They write: “Racial tension thrums through Empire writer-producer Locke’s bluesy crime novel, in which a black Texas Ranger investigates a double murder in a still-segregated town tucked in the piney woods of Deep East Texas.”
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Winner of the 2018 Edgar Award for Best Novel
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
A Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
A Washington Post 10 Best Thrillers and Mysteries of 2017
A Kirkus Best Mysteries and Thrillers of 2017
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year
Best book of the year from Vulture, The Strand Magazine, Southern Living, Bolo Books, Publisher's Weekly, Book Riot, The Guardian, Lit Hub, The Boston Globe, Dallas News, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Minnesota Public Radio, Texas Monthly, The Daily Beast, and the South Florida Sun Sentinel
"A quick course in plotting and nimble characterizations rooted in a vividly evoked setting"—Nicole Lamy, New York Times Book Review
"An emotionally dense and intricately detailed thriller, roiling with conflicting emotions steeped in this nation's troubled past and present. . . . A rich sense of place and relentless feeling of dread permeate Attica Locke's heartbreakingly resonant new novel about race and justice in America. . . . Bluebird, Bluebird is no simple morality tale. Far from it. It rises above "left and right" and "black and white" and follows the threads that inevitably bind us together, even as we rip them apart."—James Endrst, USA Today
"Gripping, suspenseful and gut-wrenching . . . I've never bought the notion of the Great American Novel. I think when literary historians look back, they'll realize this time had many, but if Attica Locke's Bluebird Bluebird isn't on the list, I'm coming back to haunt them. . . . This is a layered portrait of a black man confronting his own racial ambivalence and ambition told with a pointed and poignant bluesy lyricism. . . . Locke's novel is America 'telling on itself.' Listen up."—Carole Barrowman, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"Attica Locke's terrific Bluebird, Bluebird (Mulholland) simmers with racial tensions . . . a story told with Locke's crystal-clear vision and pleasurably elemental prose."—Seattle Times
"In Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke had both mastered the thriller and exceeded it. Ranger Darren Mathews is tough, honor-bound, and profoundly alive in corrupt world. I loved everything about this book."—Ann Patchett
"Few contemporary writers have portrayed black Southern life with as much wit and heart-pounding drama as Attica Locke. . . . A dazzling work of rural noir that throws into question whether justice can be equally served on both sides of the race line."—Amy Brady, Los Angeles Times
"Locke pens a poignant love letter to the lazy red-dirt roads and Piney Woods that serve as a backdrop to a noir thriller as murky as the bayous and bloodlines that thread through the region. . . . Locke shows off her chops as a superb storyteller. . . . She is adept at crafting characters who don't easily fit the archetypes of good and evil, but exist in the thick grayness of humanness, the knotty demands of loyalties and the baseness of survival. Locke holds up the mirror of the racial debate in America and shows us how the light bends and fractures what is right, wrong and what simply is the way it is--but perhaps not as it should be."—Jaundréa Clay, Houston Chronicle
"Powerful . . . Locke is a master of plot who's honed her craft. . . . The deepest pleasures to be found in Bluebird, Bluebird, though, are in her renderings of those who've loved and lost but still want to believe in the world's benevolence."—Leigh Haber, O., The Oprah Magazine
"I've never bought the notion of the Great American Novel. I think when literary historians look back, they'll realize this time had many, but if Attica Locke's"Bluebird Bluebird" (Mulholland) isn't on the list, I'm coming back to haunt them."—Carole E. Barrowman, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"Brooding, timely, gripping"—Family Circle
"Locke, having stockpiled an acclaimed array of crime novels (Pleasantville, 2015, etc.), deserves a career breakthrough for this deftly plotted whodunit whose writing pulses throughout with a raw, blues-inflected lyricism."
—Kirkus (Starred Review)
"Attica Locke's Bluebird, Bluebird reads like a blues song to East Texas with all its troubles over property, race, and love. Taut where it has to be to keep a murder investigation on its toes, this novel is also languid when you need to understand just what would keep a black woman or man in a place where so much troubled history lies. This novel marks Love's (and Hatred's) comings and goings amongst black and white, and all the shades between. Locke's small town murder investigation reveals what lies at the heart of America's confusion over race."
—Walter Mosley, author of Down the River unto the Sea
"A tale of racism, hatred, and, surprisingly, love . . . [An] absorbing series launch"—Publishers Weekly
"Attica Locke's stupendous fourth novel is suffused with the blues. Pushing her classic noir plot deep into history and culture, the Houston native sings her own unshakable, timeless lament. Streaked with wit and hard-earned wisdom, 'Bluebird, Bluebird' soars."—Chicago Tribune
"Lyrical, elemental, and pulls no punches, exposing racial tensions past and present while a killer blues soundtrack plays perpetually in the background."—Boston Globe
"Attica Locke is a must-read author who writes with power, grace, and heart, and Bluebird, Bluebird is a remarkable achievement. This is a rare novel that thrills, educates, and inspires all at once. Don't miss it."—Michael Koryta, author of Rise the Dark
"With Bluebird, Bluebird Attica Locke brings freshness and vitality to a beloved form. Her storytelling touch is just so strong! From the first beautifully done scene until the finale, this is a very propulsive novel concerning old deeds that keep influencing the present, injustice and courage--a powerful and dramatic look at contemporary black life in rural America."
—Daniel Woodrell, author of The Maid's Version
"This page-turner combines heart and heat."—Patrik Henry Bass, Essence
"Bluebird, Bluebird has the impeccable pacing, memorable characters, and deepening sense of mystery and dread we expect in the finest noir thrillers. But this novel is so much more. Darren Mathews, the black Texas Ranger at the story's center, is a man caught up in the complex and at times contradictory loyalties of geography, profession, race, and family. He is a brilliantly realized character and in his refusal to settle for easy answers, he leads himself and the reader toward the most elemental of contradictions: the inextricable link between hate and love. Attica Locke has written a marvelous novel."—Ron Rash, author of Serena and The Risen
"Attica Locke knows Texas, a place that has shaped both her characters and her life. Locke's new book, Bluebird, Bluebird, is evidence of her deep knowledge and love of her community and a deep talent for writing hype thrillers that also manage to be timely, relevant and keenly insightful."—Joe Ide, author of IQ and Righteous
"Attica Locke knows how to tell a tale, her voice so direct and crisp that the dust from the side of Highway 59 will settle on your hands as you hold Bluebird, Bluebird. Nothing comes easy in Shelby County, where the lines between right and wrong blur a little more with each heartfelt page, and love and pain live together as one under the big Texas sun."
—Michael Farris Smith, author of Desperation Road and Rivers
"This is Attica Locke's best work yet-and if you've read Pleasantville you know that's saying something. Just by her choice of protagonist (an African American Texas Ranger, tacking between two worlds as he solves a double homicide) you know Locke is a writer who makes bold choices, and whose fiction is powerfully connected to our troubled world."
—Ben Winters, author of Underground Airlines
"Locke's writing is both sharp-edged and lyrical. This is thoughtful, piercing storytelling with the power to transport."—Diana Evans, Financial Times
"Locke's latest is steeped in the blood of history but alive with the racial tensions of today. It's a twisty, carefully plotted thriller."—Chris Vognar, The Dallas Morning News
"A great new book series . . . Entertaining"—Charles Ealy, Austin American-Statesman
"Locke creates a town that breathes blues and beats with familiar warmth between those whose lives have been intertwined for generations."—Las Vegas Weekly
"Attica Locke's incisive look at racial issues reaches another milestone in the gripping Bluebird, Bluebird. . . . The author packs the excellent novel with believable characters whose motives often are tied up in the complex morass of history and family. . . . Locke's superior storytelling excels in Bluebird, Bluebird."—Wisconsin Gazette
"If I were limited to bringing only one book to you it would be Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke and from eagle-eyed Mulholland Books. . . . As poignant as this story is, it's Locke's elegiac writing and her characters that make this book unforgettable, even beautiful. Locke's feelings of being black are so fervent it makes Bluebird, Bluebird a work of literature that will make you cry and read slowly to delay the ending."—Jeffrey Mannix, The Durango Telegraph
"A rural noir suffused with the unique music, color and nuance of East Texas, Bluebird, Bluebird is a timely novel about the collision of race and justice in America."—Deep South Magazine
"A sharp crime story . . . A detective story steeped with history . . . Locke has a wonderful grasp of how to tell a story about the past. . . . Locke's ear for people makes seeing how the past redoubles and affects the present a constant delight."—Nathan Jefferson, Los Angeles Review of Books
"timely thriller about race and justice"—PureWow
"a gripping page-turner with suspenseful hooks and an old-school, cinematic feel"—The Riveter
"Between the driving plot, the complex characters, and the righteous anger, Locke's latest, Bluebird, Bluebird, has exceeded my highest expectations."—MysteryPeople
"[Locke's] mystery novels are top notch...the book's hero, a black Texas Ranger, and his fight for justice make this a page-turner that brings Texas into sharp focus."—Bustle
"Locke's mesmerizing new novel bears all the hallmarks of modern crime fiction: the alcoholic protagonist with the damaged marriage; the townsfolk who close rank against outsiders; the small-town law enforcement agent with murky loyalties. But Bluebird, Bluebird is a true original in the way it twists these conventions into a narrative of exhilarating immediacy ... Locke has a vivid sense of characterisation, using everything from dialect to the fabric of one's clothes to make subtle class distinctions and depict mental states ... Locke is building a compelling body of work. In this age of enduring and renewed racial tensions, we need her voice more than ever."—Esi Edugyan, The Guardian
"A spectacular novel with so much more to offer than just mystery."—Bustle
"A native Texan herself, Locke knows how such racial animus can breed an atmosphere of dread, and she employs it deftly to spark suspense."—The Austin Chronicle
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There comes a time when the odds are against you,
Re: Wings of Dawn Lore
Reply #220 on: August 06, 2017, 09:05:24 am
Quote from: Enioch on August 06, 2017, 09:00:50 am
To put this into perspective for those less historically inclined, imagine what would happen today if the Queen of England had died leading part of an EU military force from the front, under the overall command of a German field marshal.
That made me laugh, I would love to live in a world where that happened, just to hear the howls of outrage
Enioch
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Oh, of course I get a new response while writing. Hey Gray.
Quote from: Gray113 on August 06, 2017, 09:01:15 am
I would worry about his subordinates though, if Dylatov is indeed served up as a sacrifice to the aggrieved branches would his immediate subordinates follow? Not to mention the effect on the officers of the fleet dealing with the stigma of disgrace
I can answer only this, ATM. No, they would neither be prosecuted nor stigmatised (with the possible exception of the light forces commanders who did the 'explaining' of the situation to the Governor, and that really depands on how they went about doing that). Everyone else was following legal orders. The Branches would have...issues with the man giving the orders.
'Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent' -Salvor Hardin, "Foundation"
So don't take a hammer to your computer. ;-)
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Disclaimer: the above are based on discussions I've had with Spoon and earlier material he had written and published on the forums. If anything needs to be retconned, his word goes.
Confirming this is all true
Quote from: niffiwan on August 05, 2017, 06:42:59 pm
Well done on the story; I loved it. Hopefully it can go into WoD as some sort of (nu)techroom room entry, maybe even form the basis of a player campaign. Thank you
I actually ended up removing the extra scripted, journal part of the main menu (or to be more precise, asked Axem to do it). Because I had issues coming up with stuff to fill it with... (Unlike Enioch, I'm not much of a writer)
Good forward thinking on my end.
A campaign would defintely be interesting, but hey, I should probably focus on trying to get episode 2 out of the door sometime...
Urutorahappī!!
[02:42] <@Axem> spoon somethings wrong
[02:42] <@Axem> critically wrong
[02:42] <@Axem> im happy with these missions now
[02:44] <@Axem> well
[02:44] <@Axem> with 2 of them
Quote from: Spoon on August 06, 2017, 09:52:01 am
Yes you should, Spoon-senpai.
Anytime now.
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Reply #224 on: August 06, 2017, 04:51:29 pm
Yes, episode 2 definitely has priority! Maybe someone outside the core team could try it
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I'm pretty swamped rn (mjn if you're reading this I'm scripting rn, don't execute me), but if no one's gotten to it in a month or two, I could try my hand.
Again: apologies, but I'm both swamped and burnt out for this week. There are some emotional scenes coming up, and I want to do them justice, so no epilogue this week; but, hopefully, I will be able to give you all three chapterettes next W/E.
Also, having guests over every day makes my head feel like dry cotton.
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His Grace, Callum, Exarch Consort -Exarch Regent he corrected himself- of Pegasus (and father to the little, fragile ball of misery currently rolled up in her bedclothes) softly closed the door behind him.
"Deness?" he said, noting, with a note of detached surprise, how calm and even his voice was.
There was no reply. Callum, his own grief a still-nebulous, distant thing, couldn't help but marvel at the stillness of the room, the stuffiness (for lack of a better word) of the atmosphere, which contrasted sharply with the bright light streaming in from the large windows.
"Angel?" he tried again, moving closer to his daughter's bed and sitting down on its edge. He reached out; but the lump of blankets and sheets moved away, avoiding his touch.
"Leave me alone, Papa," she said, her voice muffled, and Callum winced. There was no note of whining or complaining in Deness' voice, only raw pain and his own feelings couldn't help but rear their ugly, ugly heads in sympathetic response.
"I can't, darling," he said, sadly. "Come, come out, let us have a look at you, yes?"
"No." Again, pleading, not complaining; and breaking his heart in the process.
Callum took a deep breath; and he took his boiling anger and fury, and pain, and grief, and choked them down. He took another breath; and he reminded himself how much he loved his daughter, and how much he had loved his wife and he embraced that, reaching out again.
"Darling," he said, "please. I know it's selfish of me to ask, but I need you, right now. I need you with me, close to me, more than ever. And I think-"
A pause; to think and take everything in, and to note that the little bundle of bedsheets was very still, now, listening attentively.
"-I think you need me too. I think that it'll do the both of us only good to be...well, anywhere but here, alone. I think your mother would agree, too. So, I can't just walk out of here. Come out, Angel, please."
A moment of indecision; and then the ball uncurled, and unfurled. Deness emerged, blinking tear-filled eyes, her auburn hair (so much like her mother's, Callum noted, with a heart-wrenching pang of grief) a tangled, messy halo around her face.
She did not meet Callum's eyes for long. Instead, she shuffled closer to him, a picture of pathetic despondency, and wrapped her arms around his waist, drawing herself into a close hug and laying her head onto his chest. Callum wasted no time in returning the hug and placing a soft kiss on the crown of her head.
"It's too much, Papa," she mumbled. "It doesn't...doesn't make sense."
Callum nodded, fingers softly patting down her hair. "It doesn't, Darling. I know. It's hard to believe, in the first place. That she isn't coming back."
"It's like a bad dream," Deness said. "I want to wake up, so bad."
"I know," Callum agreed. "I feel the same. It feels like the world has changed so much, in an instant, and it's so hard to keep up. And you feel...wrong, left behind, and lost, yes?"
There was frantic nodding, and a muffled sob, as Deness shifted position into a more comfortable leaning hug. "Numb," she said. "I feel bad, but...it's so far away. It doesn't hurt like in the stories. I don't want to..." she shrugged "...to break things, or scream. It just...feels fake, Papa, like the whole world is...not all here, anymore."
She pushed back against him, looking up at him. "Is that wrong? Is there something wrong with me? I should be more sad, Papa. This should be more painful."
"No," Callum said, firmly, cutting that poison, that black, horrible thing that had somehow slithered into his daughter's mind and out of her mouth at the root. "No, no, no, darling, never think that. No, there will be pain and sadness, in the days to come, I promise you that. Once we catch up with the world, once we truly understand what happened. Once we wake up from this nightmare. And it will stay with us, for a long time. But -listen to me, now- never think that you somehow...owe your mother grief or pain, or that there's something wrong with how you deal with this loss. Can you imagine how it would break her heart if she knew?"
A deep breath.
"She and I have always wanted you to be happy, and content. Things did not go the way we planned, but I will not let you tear yourself apart or doubt yourself because of this."
There were a few heartbeats of silence, which, if not comfortable, were underlined by less dejection than before. Callum could see that Deness had not been completely convinced, but she seemed accepting for now, as she returned into his hug.
"Papa?" she finally asked, her voice still unsure. "What happens now?"
Callum sighed. "For now, darling, we pick ourselves up, as a family, first. There are things that need to happen, including a big funeral, for Aretha, with big words about glory and country and sacrifice," and with an empty coffin, he thought, feeling his grief and hate coil up again, at the thought that the Delest hadn't even left him with a body to mourn, "but we can handle those, together, I think. Eh?"
Deness nodded, hesitantly.
"And then, we'll take a short break. Go to your grandparents, for a few days, to let our minds and hearts settle, yes? And then, we'll need to come back, and there's going to be a big ceremony again, and you'll be named Exarch."
Deness tensed up, like a taut bowstring, and pulled back, shaking her head. "No, Papa! That's - Mama is Exarch, I don't-"
"No," Callum said, softly, but firmly. "Your mother was the Exarch, Deness. That's you now."
"But-"
"I will be here," Callum continued, firmly. "Do not worry, you are not expected to learn to run the entire Exarchate overnight. I will be your regent, Angel, and I will be with you every step of the way, until you grow up and into your inheritance. But the Exarchate -your people, now, Deness- needs an Exarch, to love and rally behind."
He kissed her forehead, again, above her wide eyes, and smiled. "I must say, darling, I believe you will make a magnificent Exarch. And I know that, if your mother were here, she would feel the same way. Stay strong, Deness Pegasus, Ninth Exarch of Renkin. High Mistress under God and King of the House of Pegasus."
"Stay strong, my love - and you'll make us all proud, I promise."
"Your Majesties."
Arc Champion Julius French bowed deeply over the proffered hand of his Queen; and then, accepting the command to take a seat with graceful gratitude, slid into the indicated armchair with a minimum of fuss.
He was resplendent in his dress whites for the occasion, of course; and, he had to admit, he was more than a little nervous. So far, the Palace had staunchily supported him through the inevitable criticism the Terconia deal had sparked amongst the House of Lords, not to mention Pegasus. And yet, only a few weeks into this new, restless peace that he had brought forth, French could not shake the feeling that he was walking a very thin line. His study of the after-action reports and the memorandums he had circulated for what he considered necessary fleet upgrades (not to mention doctrinal reforms for the Fleet, reforms that the war had shown were urgently required) were sure to have ruffled many feathers; the peace he had negotiated had been decried as being dishonourable; and the hawkish elements in the House of Lords were asking for a resumption of the war against the Delest.
Of course, not everything was doom and gloom. His friends in high places (and he had a significant number of those) had understood the necessity of the arrangement he had been forced to conclude with the Delest; and the Guild debt-holders were reluctantly (but with no official objections) already accepting the first Britannian payments. Payments which chipped a significant portion away from the crippling debts that the Guilders had spent decades cultivating in the Britannian economy. French was confident that, in fifteen or twenty years, what he had achieved in Terconia would be lauded in the history books as the peace which helped New Britannia stand back up on its own two feet.
For now, however, he was all too aware that he was not particularly loved amongst the Britannian political scene. And that it would be very easy indeed for his King and Queen to cut him loose and satisfy the circling sharks. So, it was with hope, but some degree of trepidation as well, that he waited for his King and Queen to address him - and either throw him to the wolves or send him back to work.
"Arc Champion," Queen Michelle said from her own seat, her voice tinged with a note of amusement, "Welcome. We apologise for the short notice, but there are some things We need to discuss in private as early as possible."
"Of course, Your Majesty," French said, his back ramrod straight. "I am at your service, as always."
His eyes found the rotund form of the fourth person in the room, Brigadier Clarice Sinclair, of Military Intelligence, in a silent interrogatory. French knew her by reputation only, as a capable but unambitious analyst, fanatically loyal to the Royal House and His Majesty in particular.
"The Brigadier is in possession of the information We wanted to discuss," King Rhys said, placing a trusting hand on the shoulder of the woman. "In fact, it was her agents that first brought this matter to our attention. Do not worry, Sir Champion; everything We say will stay within the walls of this room."
"Now," Queen Michelle said, "before anything else, let me say -let Us say- Sir Champion," a sideways look at her husband "that We are pleased, quite pleased indeed with the agreement you have brokered with the Delest. We are aware that your actions have received some criticism by the more...ill-advised members of the House of Lords and their clients; but, rest assured, Sir Champion, that you have Our full support and gratitude."
"A damn good show, Sir," King Rhys agreed. "The Delest are feuding like rabid dogs but they're still paying what has been agreed and the Guilds have been a damn sight more accommodating, lately. Not to mention...well, as God is my witness, it was a tragedy what happened to Exarch Aretha, really, but we can stand to live without her constant opposition in the House. A damn good show, indeed. You will not find Us ungrateful, I can tell you that!"
"...Quite," the Queen said, a hint of exasperation in her voice. "That said, Sir Champion, there are some things that cause Us concern. Namely-" she picked up a dataslate from the polished table between them, "-your recommendations for a reform of our fleet, as well as your preliminary statements regarding the Pegasus contribution to the war."
French nodded sharply and assumed as attentive a stance as possible; there was little to be said on his end. Here comes what pain Their Majesties see fit to dispense upon me.
"Let us start with the Pegasus matter first," the Queen began. "Your after-action reports are highly critical of Exarch Aretha's actions, especially with regards to her insistant pursuit of a decisive battle. While your arguments are valid, We would ask that you...refrain from such statements in the future."
"Yes," King Rhys agreed, his voice rumbling. "Pegasus may be difficult to deal with in the best of times, but now they're a hornets' nest. We know that you acted to the benefit of New Britannia, but they don't see it that way. Damn unreasonable, but we must oblige them."
"I have only reported the events as they transpired, Your Majesties," French objected.
"And we do not criticise you for that, Sir!" the King said. "It is your duty, after all. But you've also included your personal commentary on your reports; and you haven't been shy in defending your forces and yourself from criticism by pointing out the failings of the Exarch. That needs to stop, Sir. You have reported what happened; now let the diplomats and politicians handle the aftermath, or we're going to have Pegasus in outright mutiny within the year. If you are asked about Terconia from now on, Sir, We expect you to give no comment, until instructed otherwise."
French nodded, reluctantly. It was an understandable order, even though it meant that his fleet's honour might come to be tarnished in the upcoming days. The Delest had fallen into disarray, after the conclusion of the Terconia Peace; if New Britannia was to capitalise on that, she would need to stand together, and further fuelling the Arc Victoria - Pegasus divide would help no-one. If the absurd death of the Pegasus fleet had to be glorified into some sort of epic sacrifice for the benefit of that unity, then he could hold his tongue with very few pangs of conscience. "As you wish, Your Majesties."
"Capital!" the King said. "Now, onto the second matter. These...recommendations, that have been circulating in the Admiralty. And these requests for increased funding. Sir Champion...this must cease. At least for now. We do not have the resources to dedicate to such a massive undertaking at this point; the Delest war reparations are channeled almost entirely into the civilian economy."
"Your Majesty!" French protested, aghast. "If there is one thing we must gain from Terconia, it is that our old tactics are no longer effective. With the Delest now capable of employing effective subspace munitions, we must evolve and adapt, or die."
"Yes...about those subspace munitions." Queen Michelle motioned to Brigadier Sinclair, who produced a thin briefcase and slid it onto the table, towards French. "Military Intelligence has scored a considerable success."
"We had been working on this for some time, but only recently did my analysts manage to piece the various bits of information together," Sinclair said, her voice deep and throaty like rich syrup. "Your victory, Sir Champion, and the access it provided to Delest facilities for the more...adventurous of my agents certainly helped."
At her gestured prompting, French opened the briefcase, revealing a stack of flash-paper records (the best kind of carbon records for the suspicious spy), memos and what seemed like scans or photographs of partial design documents or blueprints.
"You will find that we have managed to, essentially, track the development of the Delest subspace missile program from its earliest phases, five or six years ago, to its recent conclusion, almost a year ago."
French was leafing through the papers, but raised his head in alarm. "The Delest have had effective subspace munitions for over a year, and this is the first we are hearing about that?" he asked, pale and incredulous.
"For a given value of 'having'," Sinclair said. "Their prototypes, apparently, were completed eighteen months ago. Fourteen Mark I copies of what they called the Dlinnoye Kop'ye torpedo."
"God help us," French breathed, "What is their effective range? Their warhead? Have they entered mass production yet? Your Majesties, I need to show this to my boffins, they might be able-"
"Sir Champion!" the Queen interrupted him, with a thin smile and a raised hand, "Peace! What the Brigadier is trying to say, is that there is a good reason we hadn't heard about this project."
"Indeed," Sinclair said. "After testing -testing that resulted in the expenditure of two of the torpedoes against stationary and moving targets- it was determined by the Delest evaluation bureau that the weapons were not practical. They were too expensive and inaccurate, for something whose purpose could easily and more consistently be achieved by a subspace-capable bomber wing. No more torpedoes were produced; the remaining prototypes were placed in long-term storage in the Paru fortress moon. They put the project on ice, Sir Champion, and never picked it up again."
"But that's impos-" French snapped, and then his mind click-click-clicked the pieces together, counting and realising. His heart raced. "That's-that-imp-p-"
Click-click-click, his mind went and he felt ill as realisation settled in. There had never been fifty subspace missiles, waiting to smash his conquests to oblivion.
"Sir Champion?" the Queen was saying, leaning forward, with a kind smile. "Nobody is blaming you for being deceived. There was no way to know for certain that Dyatlov was bluffing."
French's vision had gone red with impotent rage and frustration; the papers crumpled in his clenched fists and there was a rushing in his ears-
"Indeed," Sinclair was saying, her deep voice echoing in French's ears like distant mocking laughter, "and, given your assigned goals all of my analyst agree that your final decis-"
And then she screamed, pulling back in alarm, as the Arc Champion collapsed, insensate, his limp body smashing the flimsy table before him into splinters.
« Last Edit: August 19, 2017, 02:34:43 pm by Enioch »
Two epiloguettes for the New Britannian side of things.
Tune in next week for a view of the aftermath from the Delest side of things.
FrikgFeek
Nneat. Wonder what sort of gruesome method will be used for Dylatov's execution
[19:31] <MatthTheGeek> you all high up on your mointain looking down at everyone who doesn't beam everything on insane blindfolded
Give him to the Yonsakuren!
(Sorry for the double post)
One thing that I wanted to ask for was your thoughts and comments on the first epiloguette. Spoon started sending me tear-soaked messages ( ), but I would love to invite comments on that - and speculation on how things might develop in the NewBrit side of things.
Yes, pretty much exactly like that.
Admiral MS
Haha, I didn't see that coming. Always expected Dylatov to have at least a large fraction of those 50 torpedoes ready to use. Guess he is really good at bluffing
Now I expect French to die of a heart attack cause that is for everyones benefit. Obivously orchestrated by mixing some bad stuff into his food, courtesy of Sinclairs intelligence people and everyone was just fooling him with their friendlyness. Oh well, probably my view on the evil Britannians through those rose tinted Delest glasses is kinda skewed...
Here goes scripting and copy paste coding
Freespace RTS Mod
Checkpoint/Shipsaveload script
QuakeIV
I assume he is just salty that they didn't warn him about the lack of torpedoes. I mean, he is a fairly high ranking military dude, its not like there is any chance of the information spreading out from him and compromising some of their intel assets. It should be perfectly safe.
Just a small heart attack. He is in his seventies, after all, and he's just had a very rough time followed by a very nasty revelation.
Nothing that FUTURE MEDICINE! can't easily handle, though. He'll be alright and leading the CRF for (some) years to come.
FUTURE MEDICAL SCIENCE has also expanded the human lifespan by quite a few years, French easily has 20 more years of military life ahead of him, if he so wishes.
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Council bittersweet after Hastings Pier sale
Hastings Pier. Photo by Eddie Mitchell.
Stephen Wynn-Davies
Hastings Borough Council said it was ‘disappointed’ other bidders of Hastings Pier were not given more time to develop their plans before the popular landmark was sold.
Hastings Pier was officially sold to Sheikh Abid Gulzar, from Eastbourne Pier, after he met with administrators on Friday (June 15) to complete the purchase.
After the announcement, Hastings Borough Council said it was ‘obviously pleased’ the town’s pier had a long term future, but expressed concerns about the sale process.
Council spokesperson Kevin Boorman said: “We are very pleased that our pier, one of the town’s most popular attractions, has had so much interest, and that it has been sold as a going concern.
“We cannot comment on the new owner’s plans, as he has not yet shared them with us. We do hope that we are able to meet him very soon.
“We did meet some of the other bidders, and their plans were exciting; we are disappointed that they weren’t given the time they asked for to develop them, as they could have had a major transformational effect on the town.
“We know that a lot of people, paid staff and many volunteers, have worked very hard indeed over the past few years to secure a long term future for the pier, and we would like to pay tribute to them. If it hadn’t been for their efforts, the pier would not have been saved. We are very grateful indeed for all that they have done.”
BREAKING NEWS: Hastings Pier sold to private entrepreneur
PICTURES: Community group vows ‘it is not over yet’ in Hastings Pier sale
Amber Rudd ‘pleased to see’ community bid for Hastings Pier
Rumour of Hastings Pier sale sparks protest gig
Mum writes to Sir Paul McCartney to ‘save Hastings Pier’ in son’s memory
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Сбросим Церетели на Тбилиси
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Alex Khanuckaeff
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UC Irvine School of Medicine to Integrate Google Glass into Curriculum
Students wearing Glass can take advantage of pertinent information delivered directly into their line of sight by faculty members, who can see exactly what a student sees.
by News Staff / May 19, 2014
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This month, the University of California at Irvine's School of Medicine will become one of the first in the nation to integrate Google Glass into its four-year curriculum, according to a university release. Google Glass will join other UCI Med School tech-based initiatives such as an iPad-based iMedEd Initiative, in which every medical student is equipped with an iPad filled with electronic medical texts, podcasts, reference materials and notes for all course work and clinical experiences.
Beginning with 10 pairs of Google Glass, the initiative will begin in the operating room and emergency department. The technology has already been piloted in these and other department, said the release, in order to assess its impact on physician efficiency and patient safety. Twenty to 30 more pairs will roll out in August, and Glass will be used to transmit real-time patient-physician encounters in specific disease areas to augment the basic science lecture; the transmission will occur over the 16 miles between the medical center’s Orange campus and a lecture hall in Irvine.
Students wearing Glass can take advantage of pertinent information delivered directly into their line of sight by faculty members, who can see exactly what a student sees and thus better guide a dissection or simulation exercises, and when faculty wear the technology for instruction, it gives students a first-person perspective. And when patients are equipped with Glass, students can see how they look from that perspective.
This story was originally published by Techwire.
UC Irvine Awarded $8 Million for Creation of Brain Cell Database UC Irvine Researchers Receive Grant to Study ‘Crowdprogramming’ Google Glass: Paramedics' Next Tool
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Twitter left up Ilhan Omar death threats so law enforcement could investigate
Alex Kantrowitz
Twitter left up tweets threatening Rep. Ilhan Omar’s life over the weekend so law enforcement could investigate them, BuzzFeed News has learned.
Omar on Sunday said that threats on her life have increased after President Trump tweeted a video on April 12 that juxtaposed images of the World Trade Center being hit and bursting into flames with a clip of Omar saying, “Some people did something” in reference to the 9/11 attacks.
Twitter would’ve typically taken down the threatening tweets once they were reported, but the company left them up to enable potential law enforcement collaboration, a source close to the company told BuzzFeed News. The Capitol Hill police are working on the issue, the source said.
The incident highlights Twitter’s flawed approach to dealing with death threats on its platform. Instead of reporting death threats to law enforcement as a policy, Twitter simply deletes them. This means its users can make these threats with little fear of retribution, since the tweets usually disappear before police can review them. “This creates incentives for users of the platform,” a Democratic congressional aide told BuzzFeed News. “There’s a reason people on this platform feel comfortable making open death threats to Ilhan Omar.”
Omar’s office declined to comment.
“Death threats, incitement to violence, and hateful conduct are absolutely unacceptable on Twitter,” a Twitter spokesperson told BuzzFeed News. “Accounts spreading this type of material will be removed and coupled with our proactive engagement, we continue to encourage people to report this content to us. This behavior undermines freedom of expression and the values our service is based on.”
Omar’s “Some people did something” comment, which was just a snippet of a longer speech she gave in March at a banquet for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, provoked a widespread right-wing backlash. Some commentators framed her choice of words as a minimization of the 9/11 attacks. In context, Omar’s comments can be read as a call against punishing all Muslims for the actions of the 9/11 hijackers and their enablers.
Asked if it’s aware of the threats on Omar’s life, the United States Capitol Police declined to specify. “The mission of the United States Capitol Police is to protect and serve Congress,” a Capitol Police spokesperson told BuzzFeed News. “Our responsibilities include consulting with Members and their offices on security-related matters. However, we do not discuss how we carry out our protective responsibilities for Congress.”
Twitter has long struggled to set clear boundaries on the type of content that should be allowed on its service, and it’s currently in the midst of an initiative to improve the health of the conversations taking place on its platform.
The company’s rules are especially confusing when applied to world leaders’ comments, since it makes an exception when tweets are newsworthy. This was Twitter’s justification when it chose to leave up threats of war. More recently, Twitter removed a tweet from Iran’s Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei that appeared to call for the execution of the novelist Salman Rushdie. This week’s death threats against Omar have presented Twitter with yet another tricky situation. Amid the murkiness, what’s clear is that 13 years after Twitter’s founding in 2006, the company still doesn’t seem capable of reworking its fundamentals to the point where threatening a sitting congresswoman’s life isn’t something Twitter users commonly do.
Puntland bans trade of weapons in its regions - HOL
Rep. Ilhan Omar raises $830K for re-election campaign - Star Tribune
Ambassador Jian: China firmly supports peace and development in Somalia - Chinese Embassy in Somalia
NUSOJ Mourns the Death of Veteran Somali Journalist in Kenya. - NUSOJ
Bluebird Aviation co-founder has filed a criminal complaint against other shareholders - Business Daily
'We're excluded from the table': Somali UN staff say they struggle in 'two-tier' aid sector - The Guardian
Saudi Arabia Funds Another Regional Conflict: Libya - Haaretz
Ugandan Battlegroup Honoured For Outstanding Service In Somalia - AMISOM
Cuban doctors’ driver to be detained for 15 days - Standard Digital
U.S. slaps sanctions on alleged new Islamic State financiers - AFP
Goodbye Kabul, Hello Mogadishu: Pentagon ramps up in Somalia, winds down in Syria - TMN
NHRC signs MoU with Somalia’s ministry - Gulf Times
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A447 closed by police investigating suspected murder of Kayleigh Haywood
Main road through Ibstock is shut to traffic
Isaac AsheDeputy Social Media Editor
A bridleway leading to Sence Valley Forest Park in Leicestershire is cordoned off as police search for Kayleigh Haywood. Photo: Joe Giddens/PA Wire
The main road through Ibstock has been closed to traffic as police investigate the suspected murder of a missing schoolgirl.
The A447 through the village is shut for safety reasons, with a rolling roadblock in place to allow officers to carry out a search along the roadside verges, with motorists being redirected through Donington le Heath and Ellistown.
It is not known how long the closures will be in force, but police will most likely have to call off their searches as night falls.
Earlier today police confirmed the investigation into missing 15-year-old Kayleigh, from Measham, was now a murder investigation .
Story link - Body found by police in Kayleigh Haywood case
Kayleigh has not been seen since Friday evening when she was dropped off outside Ibstock Community College in Central Avenue, Ibstock.
Magistrates have granted detectives a further 36 hours to hold and question the two men, aged 27 and 28, who were arrested in the early hours of Monday morning. They were originally arrested on suspicion of kidnap and have now been re-arrested on suspicion of murder. They remain in police custody.
Kayleigh Haywood
Detective Chief Superintendent David Sandall, Head of Crime, said: “We have become increasingly concerned for Kayleigh’s safety as the hours have passed since she was dropped off by her dad on Friday evening. Five days on, we’ve heard nothing from her, and this is completely out of character.
“Since we started looking for her we have found her mobile phone in Melbourne Road, Ibstock, and items of clothing which we believe are hers in the Ibstock and Diseworth areas.
“In all the circumstances, we fear the worst and have told her family to prepare themselves that we are now treating her disappearance as a murder enquiry.
Police in Ibstock investigating missing girl Kayleigh Haywood
“We have searched several locations including Sence Valley Forest Park in the Ibstock area looking for her. This is a considerable expanse of land.
“The park has been cordoned off and is likely to remain so for some days yet while we conduct a thorough search of the area looking for her. A number of other locations are currently being searched, including an area in Belton and Diseworth.
“We have a number of active lines of inquiry but we would urge the public to continue calling the dedicated incident room if they have any information which could assist us. Were you in the Diseworth or Belton areas between Saturday afternoon and Monday morning, did you see anyone or any vehicles acting suspiciously?
“If you can help please call 0800 096 1233 or 0207 158 0197."
Leicestershire Police
Local NewsFour acres of land for sale with this Jacobean homeMagnificent 17th century Catthorpe Hall for sale for £1.5million
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How analytics can help boost the success of EHR go-lives
At HIMSS19, John Rekart, chief of quality management and informatics at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation will show how homegrown analytics enabled a 25 percent post-implementation reduction in sentinel events.
New electronic health record rollouts are infamously fraught with risk. At best, a they can cause workflow disruption, confusion among clinical staff and other minor inefficiencies. At worst, they can necessitate a temporary return to paper records, cost millions in remedial IT projects – or cause serious sentinel events.
As John Rekart, chief of quality management and informatics in the mental health division of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation points out, "anywhere from 30 to 80 percent of EHR implementations over the past two decades failed and went back to paper."
Health systems have gotten much better at it in recent years, but challenges related to new workflows, spotty training and poor preparation continue to put go-lives at risk.
Analytics can help. Rekart's experience – he was configuration architect for the mental health system at CDCR, and oversaw testing and implementation of systems at 35 institutions across California, including design and rollout of the EHR at a 1,700-bed correctional hospital – shows how smart use of data can target help toward those who might be struggling with the new systems.
In his role at CDCR Mental Health, Rekart leveraged data and analytics to boost the chances for a successful rollout. The insights derived from how clinical end-users were interacting with the new Cerner EHR led to successful implementations at all 35 locations, he said.
At HIMSS19, he'll share insights into the value of such data for improving go-live success rates, how quality management tools can boost training results for EHR rollouts, and show some of the metrics and KPIs used by CDCR to build a data-driven implementation customized for its own particular needs.
"Basically I used some quality management techniques of monitoring and feedback to really help the project along," said Rekart. "Our users go through 40 hours of training," he added. "Our trainers go through 80. And they have to pass a knowledge check to certified."
That test is administered via the CDCR's intranet, he added, enabling easy access to the test data. "That was one of the ways we monitored. We used that data, and if they failed, we required people to retrain."
But a more granular approach to the test score data enabled staff to make use of one its best assets – those "super users" who truly get the new EHR system and can help their peers and colleagues do the same.
"We wanted this test to divide people into three piles," Rekart explained. "We wanted to use floor questions that almost everyone should get. And ceiling questions that almost nobody can get.
"If you can't answer the floor questions, you've identified people who need retraining. Then the people in the middle are competent users. And the people who answer the really hard questions are probably going to be your super users."
Using that analytics-based approach to implementation has "worked out really well," he said. It's enabled CDCR staff, with help those superusers, to home in on the people who might need the most help and optimally allocate assistance to where needed.
"We used data to look at where people were in the process, then used focused and targeted interventions to get them going in the right direction: 'Looks like you're struggling with this, you need to focus on this,'" said Rekart. "After go-live we had a bunch of data flags that look at certain workflow variants, and we could see patterns and notice people who were veering from the workflow."
The numbers speak for themselves. "We had a 25 percent reduction in sentinel events, post implementation," he said. "Usually there's an increase."
While CDCR had "spent a lot of money on this," that money wasn't spent it on extra staff, he added. "I didn't have 30 people for this, I had three. You're basically testing people from a distance. We're government, we needed to bootstrap. But use of the data helped us be very successful in that regard."
John Rekart's session, "Analytics-Based EHRs Implementation: Improved Outcomes," is scheduled for Thursday, February 14, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in room W308A.
Healthcare IT News is a publication of HIMSS Media.
Analytics, Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR), Workflow
Apple to launch Health Records app with HL7's FHIR specifications at 12 hospitals
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Dressta North America
Address 1327 Barclay Boulevard, Buffalo Grove, IL, 60089, US
Website dressta.com
LIUGONG North America to show Tier 4 Final Machines at The Rental Show
LiuGong North America, had the opportunity to unveil its new Tier 4 Final product line in late 2016 and is taking the opportunity to bring the Dressta dozer model TD-9S, LGP with ROPS to ARA – The Rental Show, that will take place in Orlando, FL from February 27 to March 1st. The new machines feature cleaner engines, more efficient systems and improvements to the cab that enhance the operator’s experience.
Dressta launches the new S-Series hydrostatic compact dozers
Dressta has launched a new line of hydrostatic compact crawler dozers – the TD-8S and TD-9S.
DRESSTA’S NEW COMPACT HYDROSTATIC DOZER
At a March international press event in Stalowa Wola, Poland, Dressta laid out its plans for a robust expansion into the North American market. Since being acquired by China-based LiuGong just over three years ago, Dressta has been making moves to consolidate its global positioning in the crawler dozer market as well as layout plans for its growth based on leveraging LiuGong’s investment in Dressta’s research and development.
Dressta To Launch New Hydrostatic Compact Dozers
Dressta is launching its new TD9 Hydrostatic Crawler Dozer. This high-performance, compact crawler dozer has been developed by Dressta’s team of expert engineers, and is the first of three new world-class models that range from 74 to 101 Net HP.
Easier joystick control
Operating the 240-net-horsepower (179-kW) TD20M Extra crawler dozer is easy with the new left-hand, single-lever joystick control. The joystick replaces two left-hand steering levers and one gear shift lever used on the previous model. The operator can pre-select travel speed and down shift functions from the joystick. Several blade options are available, including a new 11.1-cubic-yard (8.45-cubic-metre) full-U blade, and an increased capacity 9.2-cubic-yard (7.04-cubic-metre) semi-U blade.
Maximum bucket power
The Dressta 560E features a Z-bar linkage that transfers maximum breakout force to the bucket to pry out hard packed material. The wheel loader is easy to operate ,with directional transmission and speed shifts controlled by two levers at the operator’s fingertips. It features an articulated frame with a tight turning radius of only 26 feet 4 inches (8.03 m). Hydrostatic steering provides smooth control at any engine speed. Dressta’s 560E Extra features joystick boom and bucket controls, hydrostatic steering, and a high visibility cab. It has a payload capacity of 7 to 15 cubic yards (5.35 to 11.5 cubic metres) to go along with a 92,549-pound (41,980-kg) operating weight. The turbocharged six-cylinder Cummins engine provides 427 net hp (319 kW). A 6,390-pound (2,900-kg) counterweight, previously optional equipment, is now standard.
Dressta’s new TD-40E EXTRA crawler dozer
Dressta has introduced the TD-40E EXTRA crawler dozer featuring a quieter, environmentally-friendly, Cummins QSK19 Tier 3 engine. This new model delivers an enhanced drawbar pull resulting from a higher maximum torque of 1,755 lb-ft, up from the 1,650 lb-ft of the previous model. The new engine delivers 515 net horsepower at 2,000 rpm. Engine displacement continues at 1,150 cubic inches. The TD-40E EXTRA has an operating weight of 136,509 pounds and a full-U blade capacity of 29.8 cubic yards. The cooling module has a two-speed fan with a 50 inches diameter blade to handle the cooling characteristics of the new Tier 3 engine. The low speed fan conserves power while providing a quieter operation when working with lighter loads or to deliver an extra boost of power for short periods under heavy load conditions. Also released with the TD-40E EXTRA are a gear range pre-selection system and an automatic downshift function which offers the operator the choice of various automatic operating modes; especially useful in repetitive cyclical operations. Contributing to a comfortable full day of work is the standard six-sided cab, which offers a deluxe interior with superior all-around visibility. The cab is sealed and has a built-in air re-circulation system. It has a sound suppression system and is separated from the engine compartment for a quieter, more comfortable ride. The air-suspension operator’s seat swivels 14 degrees to the right for better blade and ripper viewing and enhanced control.
Quieter, environmentally-friendly engine on dozer
Dressta NA has introduced the TD-40E EXTRA crawler dozer featuring a quieter, environmentally-friendly, Cummins QSK19 Tier 3 engine. This new model delivers an enhanced drawbar pull resulting from a higher maximum torque of 1,755 lb.-ft., up from the 1,650 lb.-ft. of the previous model. The new engine delivers 515 net horsepower at 2,000 rpm. Engine displacement continues at 1,150 cubic inches The TD-40E EXTRA has an operating weight of 136,509 pounds and a full-U blade capacity of 29.8 cubic yards. The cooling module has a two-speed fan with a 50-inch diameter blade to handle the cooling characteristics of the new Tier 3 engine. The low speed fan conserves power while providing a quieter operation when working with lighter loads or to deliver an extra boost of power for short periods under heavy load conditions. Also released with the TD-40E EXTRA are a gear range preselection system and an automatic downshift function which offers the operator the choice of various automatic operating modes, especially useful in repetitive cyclical operations. Contributing to a comfortable full day of work is the standard six-sided cab, which offers a deluxe interior with superior all-around visibility. The two doors and sliding side and rear windows provide excellent viewing from within the cab. To go along with the large view area out of the cab, excellent blade and ripper sight lines make it easier for the operator to have precise control of the machine. The cab is sealed and has a built-in air re-circulation system. It has a sound suppression system and is separated from the engine compartment for a quieter, more comfortable ride. The air-suspension operator's seat is adjustable and equipped with full arm rests and a three-inch retractable seat belt. The seat swivels 14 degrees to the right for better blade and ripper viewing and enhanced controllability designed to reduce operator fatigue. The joystick control provides up and down shifting of the transmission, Lo or Hi range selection of both left and right track drives, or full power geared turns. Pushing the right or left rocker switch selects the desired Hi or Lo range. Moving the joystick forward or backward moves the dozer in the same direction - a Front/Rear (F/R) detent provides hands-free motion. Moving the joystick left or right activates clutch-brake or pivot type turns.
Dressta 555C Extra
The newest addition to the Dressta lineup is the 555C Extra wheel loader, featuring a new turbocharged, in-line six-cylinder Cummins QSM11 engine. This 10.8-litre, Tier 3 certified engine delivers 319 net horsepower (238 kW) at 2,100 rpm, or 330 net horsepower (247 kW) with minimum fan usage. Maximum torque is 1,235 lb-ft (1674 Nm) at 1,400 rpm. This 6.5-cubic-yard-size wheel loader can be equipped with buckets ranging from 5.5 to 11.0 cubic yards (4.2 to 8.4 cubic metres) and has an approximate operating weight of 66,380 pounds (30,110 kg). Dressta has added a new cooling module and upgraded the hydraulics system to allow for a variable speed fan that provides greater cooling and potentially more horsepower. The battery has been moved to the rear of the machine above the steps for easier access. The 555C Extra features an electrically controlled, full-power-shift, four-speed countershaft transmission driven by a double universal joint from the torque converter. This provides proper ground speed match for alloperations. Other major features of the 555C Extra include hydrostatic steering, single lever hydraulic controls, and internal wet disc brakes. The “picture window” cab offers exceptional visibility in all directions.
Crawler dozers deliver higher power and torque
Dressta’s new TD-25M Extra and TD-25M LA (Landfill Application) EXTRA series of crawler dozers feature an increase to 330 hp and an 11 percent increase in torque to 1,346 ft-lb. Maximum power is now attained at 1800 rpm, 300 rpm lower than previously, reducing overall noise levels. To absorb the higher power and torque at lower engine speeds, Dressta has revised the torque converter, hydraulic pump drives, and final drives. Also new is a gear range preselection system and an automatic downshift function which offers various automatic operating modes, especially useful in repetitive cyclical operations.
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Air Transport (Passengers Carried) in Singapore
Air transport in terms of total passengers carried reached 0.749 mil in 1970 in Singapore, according to the National Statistical Office. This is 14.4 % less than in the previous year.
Historically, air transport in terms of total passengers carried in Singapore reached an all time high of 37.7 mil in 2017 and an all time low of 0.749 mil in 1970. When compared to Singapore's main peers, air transport in terms of total passengers carried in Indonesia amounted to 0.826 mil, 0.749 mil in Malaysia, 2.37 mil in Philippines and 0.764 mil in Thailand in 1970.
Singapore has been ranked 41st within the group of 116 countries we follow in terms of air transport in terms of total passengers carried.
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Hertsmere Together is the Local Strategic Partnership. It represents the public, private, voluntary and community sectors within Hertsmere.
Hertsmere Together is committed to working in partnership to deliver the best quality and most efficient services to Hertsmere residents.
Our members have the authority to speak on behalf of their individual organisation/groups and to commit resources to achieving the work set out in its Community Strategy. We undertake to:
take a strategic view
speak with authority
make decisions on behalf of our organisation
commit resources (in principle)
adjust corporate policies (in principle)
Hertsmere Together's vision is:
To shape a better future for the communities of Hertsmere through partnership working.
The three key objectives are:
To create a safer community for all.
To create a healthier community for all.
To create a thriving community for all.
We will work together with communities to identify solutions and initiatives to address local issues. You can learn more about the work we have been doing in our Partnership Review 2017.
The Hertsmere Compact
The Hertsmere Compact is an agreement between public bodies, voluntary and community organisations (VCOs). The agreement aims to ensure that public bodies in Hertsmere and the voluntary sector work effectively in partnership to achieve common goals and outcomes for the benefit of communities and residents of Hertsmere.
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GLAMOUR WOMEN OF THE YEAR AWARDS
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New Technologies' Impact on HR
5 ways emerging technologies are transforming the HR landscape
Emma Parry
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Emma Parry is Professor of Human Resource Management, Management at Cranfield School of Management.
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Across almost all industries and business functions we are seeing rapid growth in the use of technology to boost business efficiency and competitive advantage.
A good example of this is how AI and robotics are increasingly being used to automate simple, repetitive tasks such as factory work and back office processes. But it doesn’t stop there. We are also beginning to see this technology make complex decisions via predictive algorithms, normally associated with human intellect, but more quickly and accurately than their human counterparts could ever aspire to.
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According to Prof Emma Parry, Head of the Changing World of Work Group at Cranfield School of Management, this presents new strategic challenges for employers. Before diving in and adopting AI or Big Data, for instance, left, right and centre, organizations need to take a step back and create a strategy for how they can benefit from emerging technology to build efficiencies and improve decision making. This will not only require investment in the tech, but also considerations around organizational structures, people, strategies and processes.
With this in mind, let’s take a look at five ways in which cutting-edge technology can benefit the workplace.
1/ Recruitment processes
Many recruiters rely on instinct when selecting a candidate for a role, but AI could take ‘gut feeling’ out of this process by analysing Big Data and identifying traits that the human brain might be unable to recognise - and in significantly shorter timeframes. To take the use of technology further, data from social networks can be automatically pulled and added to the candidate file.
Some companies are even relying entirely on automated recruitment processes, hiring candidates without once having met them.
A successful recruitment process begins, however, with the right job description and this is another area where AI can lend a hand. Technology can be used to generate bias-free job descriptions ensuring the best candidates are reached in the first place.
2/ Employee communications
Whilst the recruitment process is predominantly run behind the scenes, the front-office can also reap benefits from using robotics.
A simple and relatable example is chatbots. Chatbots are impacting the workplace significantly allowing employees to instantly and easily communicate with HR – improving their employment experience and triggering standardised HR processes without HR personnel ever needing to touch it. By digitising these processes, employees can now have access to their HR department from anywhere in the world and at any time.
Software bots could also be programmed to automatically inform employees of their employment rights, payroll details, or pension information, removing inconsistencies in the information employees receive and ensuring workers get the correct answer every time.
3/ The digital workforce
Despite media messaging on large-scale job loss, AI and process automation need to be seen as an opportunity. In order to successfully implement and integrate an automation initiative in an organization, it is essential that the strategy considers how to get buy-in from the human counterparts and a lot of this has to do with trust. A common approach to implementation is to choose a select number of processes and begin by having bots working in parallel with humans, so in case of issues there is always a human to fall back onto.
Technical considerations need to be made too, such as how the company will approach the issue of data security, cyber breaches, ethics, permissions and access.
Emma Parry believes that “there will be a need for people with a whole new skill set in coordinating machines and managing the interface between humans and technology. Employers need to be thinking now about whether they have the workforce they need for the future and how they might develop this, as well as about re-deploying and motivating those whose work is increasingly automated.”
4/ Gamification
When it comes to HR, gamification presents an opportunity to offer a more engaging and meaningful experience for staff. Whilst many companies are gamifying the user experience, using technology to provide interactive learning for employees or even incentivising goals or KPIs could lead to increased performance.
The kinds of skills people develop through gamified experiences include failure management, working in a team and collaborating remotely with colleagues around the world. It can even help bring together staff from various departments or cultures, helping to break down the silos.
5/ Flexible working and employee engagement
Technology gives organizations the possibility of offering even more flexible working arrangements for their employees. According to Emma Parry, the increased use of technology more broadly in organizations means staff will become increasingly dispersed, and building relationships more challenging. Some employers are identifying the need to create a social hub where employees can meet less formally to develop a more cohesive organization.
While the possibilities are exciting, employers need to think carefully about how they can benefit from the new levels of flexibility that technology offers as well as ensure that employees do not suffer from a lack of support and employment security.
It is clear that AI, automation and other emerging technologies that are being developed at an exponential rate are not just a fad, but are opportunities that employers must seriously consider adopting now so as not to fall behind the competition.
Like with any business transformation, introducing game-changing technology into the business cannot be successfully done on a reactive basis but requires solid strategy and continued management.
For this reason, Cranfield School of Management has designed a three-day programme specifically for HR leaders in which they will learn to look at the internal and external contexts and develop a suitable People Strategy.
Learn more about the People Strategy Workshop here.
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Igeho 2013 and the Salon Culinaire Mondial in the new exhibition hall complex
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Igeho 2103 – clear, compact, professional
The compact design of the new hall building permits an attractive positioning concept for the exhibitors and makes for greater convenience and comfort for the visitors. The entrances take visitors through the two foyers in the so-called City Lounge, which has a striking atrium. The new Hall 1 complex has two upper storeys extending over Exhibition Square, making it possible for Igeho and the two trade fairs running in parallel – Mefa (meat trade) and Lefatec (food production) – to benefit from an attractive layout. The "Boulevard" positioning concept ensures a win-win situation for all exhibitors. In the centre of the hall are stands of up to 80 square metres, with a maximum height of 4 metres. To the left and right of the main aisle come stands of 80 square metres and above, which can be up to 9 metres high and have two storeys. Hall 1 is linked directly via a walkway to Hall 2 where Igeho will be presenting its theme worlds of "Specialities, delicatessen, wines" and the "World of Interiors".
Gratifying number of registrations – a high level of interest
Despite the difficult economic climate and the tense situation in the industry, the Igeho exhibition management is able to report a positive level of registrations already. Some 400 exhibitors have registered and are already occupying some 75 percent of the overall surface area. The key exhibitors from the relevant sectors will be attending, and the presence of manufacturers and producers has been confirmed. In addition, there is a wide selection of special presentations and accompanying events at which the industry's national and international decision-makers traditionally meet up.
6. Salon Culinaire Mondial – world-class cuisine in Basel
The Salon Culinaire Mondial is one of the world's top five culinary art shows. The ten best national teams, 20 regional teams and 40 individual exhibitors cook in different categories for awards and points that count towards the world rank order list. An international jury assesses all the work and awards gold, silver and bronze medals. The top national teams of chefs come from Singapore, Hong Kong, Canada, South Africa, Germany, Norway, the Netherlands, Italy, the Czech Republic and Switzerland. The WACS World Association of Chefs Societies, the Swiss chefs' association Schweizer Kochverband, and Messe Basel with Igeho have been behind this world-class cooking competition for many decades. Eight years after the last competition, the 6th Salon Culinaire Mondial 2013 is now being staged in the new Event Hall as part of Igeho. Thanks to its exclusive location on the ground floor, which is directly accessible from Exhibition Square, this spectacular cooking competition can also be attended by hobby chefs for the first time. The Salon Culinaire Mondial occupies an area of 2000 square metres and will be presenting hot show kitchens, cold show tables and the Restaurant Des Nations where a three-course menu will be cooked every day and sold to 200 guests each lunch time.
World of Interiors – top brands and products
The sophisticated interior and design presentation at Igeho is being staged in the new premium hall under the title "World of Interiors". In a magical atmosphere, hoteliers, restaurateurs, interior designers and decorators will find top brands, exclusive products, innovative creative boxes, the Igeho forum and the Networking Lounge.
World of Coffee – concentrated coffee competence
Caterers, hoteliers and coffee bar owners will experience their personal coffee highlight in the World of Coffee and will be able to taste the most delightful coffee varieties and blends from all over the world. For the first time, coffee know-how, coffee roasting companies and the manufacturers of the world's best coffee machines will be united in the new World of Coffee at Igeho.
Host region Appenzellerland
Culinary specialities from the Appenzellerland are a popular feature of Swiss cuisine. On a joint stand area of 600 square metres, the Appenzellerland will be presenting itself as the official host region at Igeho 2013. The two half-cantons of Appenzell Innerrhoden and Appenzell Ausserrhoden will highlight their region as an attractive tourist destination, while local producers have the opportunity to show their traditional delicatessen products and innovative specialities to Igeho visitors.
Further information is posted at www.igeho.ch, www.salonculinairemondial.com and www.appenzellerland.ch.
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The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954)
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Adventure | Drama | Romance
On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley's cheating wife Linda.
Director: John Ford
Stars: Clark Gable, Grace Kelly, Ava Gardner
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A spoiled heiress must choose among three suitors: her jazz musician ex-husband, a stuffy businessman, and an undercover tabloid reporter.
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Stars: William Holden, Nina Foch, Lee J. Cobb
William Holden ... Lt. Harry Brubaker
Grace Kelly ... Nancy Brubaker
Fredric March ... Rear Adm. George Tarrant
Mickey Rooney ... Mike Forney
Robert Strauss ... Beer Barrel
Charles McGraw ... Cmdr. Wayne Lee
Keiko Awaji ... Kimiko
Earl Holliman ... Nestor Gamidge
Richard Shannon ... Lt. (j.g.) Olds
Willis Bouchey ... Capt. Evans (as Willis B. Bouchey)
It is the Korean War and Lt. Harry Brubaker is a fighter-bomber pilot on the aircraft carrier USS Savo Island. A WW2 veteran and Naval Reserve pilot, he was drafted back into service from civilian life. This makes him quite resentful and cynical about the war. Now he has a dangerous mission to perform, and he is not sure he is up to the task. Written by grantss
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Writer James A. Michener wrote the story after spending time aboard the USS Essex. One of the pilots aboard the Essex at the time was Neil Armstrong. It is not known for certain whether any of the characters in the book or movie were based on Armstrong. See more »
The aircraft carrier on which most of the action takes place is referenced as the "Savo Island" in this movie as well as the book upon which it is based. However, in reality the aircraft carrier USS Savo Island CVE-78 was a much smaller ship, a Casablanca-class escort carrier, too small to be appropriate for an admiral to use as a flagship. Plus, Savo Island was decommissioned shortly after World War Two, several years before the story takes place. Instead the actual ship used in the movie is USS Oriskany CV-34, an Essex-class fleet carrier which really did participate in the Korean conflict. Several scenes clearly show her ship number "34" on the flight deck. See more »
Lt. Harry Brubaker: I'm a lawyer from Denver, Colorado.
Mike Forney: Judas, how'd you wind up in a smelly ditch in Korea?
Lt. Harry Brubaker: I was just asking myself that same question.
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A Forgotten War
1 April 2010 | by dougdoepke – See all my reviews
For those who remember it, the war in Korea remains an enigma from murky beginning to wobbly close (1950-1953). It wasn't even called a 'war'. Instead politicians dubbed it a 'police action', which of course fooled no one (30,000 plus, dead Americans). Toko-ri stands as perhaps the only film to capture the popular uncertainty of that conflict. Some reviewers characterize the movie as anti-war, but it's not. Instead it reflects an American public's longing for peacetime following the horrific sacrifices of WWII and the fresh sacrifices of a new war they neither understood nor desired. In the movie, Fredric March's fatherly admiral makes the official case for intervention. In a key scene with a skeptical Grace Kelly, he lectures on communist aggression and the necessity of stopping them where they stand. In a routine actioner that would have been enough. It's not enough for William Holden's Captain Brubaker, however. And the fact that the Holden character continues to question his personal role reflects the mixed feelings of ordinary Americans, who continued to be torn between patriotic duty, on one hand, and the exotic nature of the conflict, on the other. To the film's lasting credit, the ending does not cop-out in a blaze of heroics that might have undercut the script's ambivalent message. And it is this message of moral uncertainty that makes Bridges arguably the most accurate memorandum from that long-ago war.
The movie itself remains an A-grade production with some fine aerial photography, shipboard action, and special effects. It's also one of Holden's best understated performances, superior to his Oscar role in Stalag 17. Not to be overlooked is the Mickey Rooney character which remains a revealing one. His buoyant hijinks and rowdy behavior amount to a holdover of a familiar WWII stereotype. Yet the clowning here fails to gel with the prevailing mood, and would vanish from serious treatments by the time Vietnam rolled around. Then too, by the time of the movie's release (1954), audiences were eager to get back to the certainties of WWII, and studios responded with a spate of popular WWII fare, such as, Mr. Roberts (1955), Battle Cry (1955), and Operation Petticoat (1959). Except for a straggler or two, Hollywood would make no more Korean war films. And so, the process of forgetting that "Forgotten War" had begun. But, in retrospect, this was one of the few films of the decade to foreshadow the Vietnam trauma that was to follow, while the final shot of Holden's Captain Brubaker proved to be far more suggestive of war on the Asian mainland than critics could have anticipated (Toko-ri was not well received). It's only now, many years later, that viewers can appreciate the prophetic value of that final image along with the peculiar merits of this 1950's Hollywood oddity.
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Property pair pedal way to Tanzania aid
David Davidson and Morag Welsh, of property agents Cushman & Wakefield, are getting on their bikes to raise £2,500 to help build a boarding school in Tanzania.
The pair plan to cycle 155 miles over two days as part of the London-to-Bruges challenge on April30.
Cushman &Wakefield's UK Capital Markets Te am organised the sponsored event to raise money for its Schools Around the World (SATW) charity .
In total, 50 employees from the firm's Capital Markets Te am across the UK will take part in the challenge.
The charity is building a new secondary school at Miono, in the Bagamoyo district of Tanzania, and Cushman Wakefield aims to raise more than £40,000 to build a new boarding house there.
Davidson, the managing director of the firm's Scottish operation, said: "Our schools charity has thus far focused on schools in cities where we have C&W offices, but we were looking for a bigger project." Morag Welsh, who is based in the Edinburgh office, said she is looking forward to the challenge, despite not having been on a bike for more than25 years.
She said: "The last bike I had didn't even have gears so it has been an eye-opener as I'm not a big fitness fan."
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The air on cruise ships can be as polluted as the air in Beijing, new study claims
Mark Matousek
Air pollution on cruise ship decks may be as bad as in cities like Beijing.
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Air pollution on cruise ship decks may be as bad as in cities like Beijing and Santiago, Chile, according to a new study from researchers at Johns Hopkins University.
The study measured pollution levels on the decks of four cruise ships — Carnival Liberty, Carnival Freedom, Holland America MS Amsterdam, and Emerald Princess — in front of and behind the ship's smokestacks.
The researchers found that concentrations of particulate matter pollution on the decks of the observed ships was similar to levels found in Beijing, Santiago, and Antwerp, Belgium.
The study measured pollution levels on the decks of four cruise ships — Carnival Liberty, Carnival Freedom, Holland America MS Amsterdam, and Emerald Princess — in front of and behind the ship's smokestacks. The researchers found that concentrations of particulate matter pollution on the decks of the observed ships was similar to levels found in Beijing, Santiago, and Antwerp, Belgium. (The study defines particular matter pollution as "small solids or liquid droplets suspended in the air.") Pollution behind the smokestacks, including in areas intended for exercises like basketball courts and running tracks, was much worse than in front of the smokestacks, according to the study.
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Of the ships monitored in the study, Emerald Princess was found to have the highest average concentration of particulate matter pollution both in front of and behind its smokestacks.
Particulate matter pollution can harm the heart and lungs, especially particles that measure less than 10 micrometers in diameter, since they can travel further into the lungs. Most of the particulate matter pollution in ship exhaust measures less than one micrometer in diameter, which can make people more vulnerable to contracting atherosclerosis and developing more severe asthma, the study said.
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Bitdefender commits to the Southern African ICT channel
June 19, 2018 • Security, Southern Africa
Bitdefender commits to the Southern African ICT channel (Image from www.cultofmac.com)
Global cybersecurity technology company, Bitdefender has emphasised its commitment towards the Southern African channel and the subsequent growth of this all-important segment of the ICT marketplace.
“Bitdefender is a 100% channel orientated company and we endeavour to grow the business of both our subsidiaries and their channel partners throughout the various regions we operate in,” says Pablo Puig, Channel Director – Africa at Bitdefender.
“It is incredibly important to incentivise our Southern African channel partners with opportunities that will in turn grow their business. For example, if Bitdefender has a business opportunity we feed it into the channel immediately; in fact, all our opportunities go through our partners.”
“To expand market share, you have to in the mid-and long-term establish sustainable business and growing the channel is a crucial part of this approach,” he adds.
Christelle Fensham, recently appointed channel manager for Bitdefender at Black Castle Technologies, Bitdefender’s official country partner for consumer products, echoes Puig’s sentiment: “A key focus for us is to proactively grow the channel, targeting specific resellers that in turn expands our distributors’ business and feeds back into the channel. It is about fostering strong and sustainable relationships.”
Bitdefender understands the importance of local expertise and the unique challenges and requirements each country bring. “There is no doubt that you need strong partners that operate daily in the market and offer the requisite skills to grow and establish a brand,” he says.
“As a company that first and foremost focuses on technology innovation it is impossible for us to become country experts; here we rely heavily on our channel partners.
“Also, you require marketing, PR and social media to create brand awareness and the only way to effectively do this is through local partners that understand the market. That is why it’s so important to us to find the right partners from the get-go that offer the expertise and the subsequent entrenched channel business experience.”
Training focus
An important part of Bitdefender’s focus on developing the Southern African channel is training. “Most people can sell a box; however, the security software industry now requires solutions that are backed by a channel that offers entrenched technical expertise.
“Furthermore, skilled people become comfortable with a product and then automatically sell it with more confidence. What closes a deal is a good product supported by people that understand and sell its business and technical differentiators,” says Puig.
Fensham adds that a critical part of the Southern African channel programmes is upskilling all distributors and resellers. “The ongoing training of our channel partners is crucial; It’s not only about providing products but offering the tools and support to successfully sell it. Bitdefender is fully committed to upskilling the channel and our job is to drive this forward.
“Ultimately the channel can rest assured that Bitdefender and its local subsidiaries offer all the support, skills and training it requires to grow its security software business in a very competitive market,” she concludes.
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Mobily selects Nokia to modernize its IP and transport networks
June 8, 2018 • Mobile and Telecoms
Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Etihad Etisalat (Mobily), a leading mobile and data service provider in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has awarded Nokia a contract to modernize and optimize its IP and optical networks. Nokia’s next-generation routing and transport platforms will add flexibility, agility and capacity to Mobily’s networks to address the growing bandwidth demands of its subscribers. The solution will be deployed in the Central, Eastern and Northern parts of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
“This modernization prepares Mobily for 5G technology, quicker expansion of services, and gives our customers enhanced service quality. Nokia will add intelligence to the network in order to meet future requirements, and enable self-correction that will channel bandwidth and capacity where needed for improved customer experience,” said Ahmed Aboudoma, Chief Executive Officer at Mobily. “Nokia’s IP and optical technology will help us manage the diverse traffic demands arising from consumption of 4G and cloud services.”
Nokia’s Software Defined Networking (SDN) solution will enable Mobily to address the future bandwidth needs of upcoming technologies like 5G, Cloud Radio Access Network (RAN) and front haul technologies. Mobily will use Nokia’s products in its network in Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) and Dense Wavelength and Division Multiplexing (DWDM) layers to make the existing network software controlled to reduce complexity, which in turn will allow it to enhance flexibility and agility. This will make it easier for Mobily to scale quickly and will ensure a faster rollout of new services.
“We are honored to collaborate with Mobily to modernize and optimize its networks. It will allow the operator to explore new business opportunities and will further enable the company to enhance operational efficiency leading to improved quality of services and cost reduction. Nokia IP edge routers and optical platforms will provide the scale and flexibility necessary to deal with the needs of 5G and cloud, thus ensuring superior network experience for the end customers,” said Tony Awad, head of the Mobily customer team at Nokia.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is witnessing an increase in mobile data traffic. Service providers, like Mobily, are modernizing their networks to meet the demand for added capacity and enhance operational efficiency to deliver superior services to their subscribers.
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Parenting is confusing, scary, and full of sneaky misinformation. Here, Cribsheet author Emily Oster helps us get the facts straight.
By Kaelyn Forde
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Ah, parenting advice — the gift new mothers never register for and yet somehow always arrives in the milk-stained, sleep-deprived haze of the fourth trimester. It can come in the form of an offhand comment from your mother-in-law about how much milk you’re producing, the well-meaning furrow in a coworker’s brow as you say no, your baby doesn’t watch DVDs that teach them to read at 9 months, or the frantic, middle-of-the-night search through the mommy Facebook group to see if letting your newborn cry it out to sleep will turn him into Ted Bundy.
Millennials are waiting longer than ever to have kids, and are no strangers to a data-driven approach to decision-making. But while there’s no dearth of parenting advice out there, surprisingly little of it is based on the sort of information we have come to rely on to make most of our other big life choices, like peer-reviewed studies with objective truths at the end. It’s a reality economist Emily Oster saw firsthand when she got pregnant with her first child, and her quest for evidence-based pregnancy recommendations led her to write a book full of them.
Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong and What You Really Need To Know earned her a coveted place on many a woman’s bookshelf and a big shout-out from Amy Schumer, but Oster soon found that an informed pregnancy was only the first hurdle to clear. (Expecting Better ends in Oster’s delivery room with her newborn daughter and her laptop.) Thrust into caring for the tiny human she had brought home with her, the Brown University economics professor was again faced with myriad choices, a lot of misinformation, and suddenly very little sleep.
“It feels like you’re tired and everybody is yelling at you,” Oster tells InStyle of the early days of motherhood. “It was so overwhelming. I felt like with every decision, we had to make it right away, we didn't know we were going to have to make it, and it was a total surprise. It was like a fire hose, and I didn't really have time to do an analysis of the choices that I would have wanted to.”
After giving birth to her second child, she was determined to drill down into the data to help other parents with those very choices. The result is Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, published this spring, which aims to give new parents “confidence in choices,” she says, and tackles everything from breastfeeding and sleep training to returning to work and picking a preschool. Ahead, we asked Oster to break down some of the biggest myths she uncovered and why we all should stop worrying about them.
MYTH: Breast is best, no matter what.
Breastfeeding is definitely a beautiful way to bond with and feed your baby. It’s also freaking hard sometimes, and moms who can’t do it successfully often feel inadequate or shamed for using formula, and “the experience can be very, very stressful,” Oster says.
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While breastfeeding is sometimes touted as a panacea for all sorts of things (higher IQ; lower risk of childhood cancer, diabetes and obesity for babies; a natural form of birth control and postpartum weight loss for mom), Oster found that only some of those benefits are supported by solid data, and they mostly center around the first few months of life.
Breast-fed babies do experience fewer allergic reactions, fewer gastrointestinal disorders and fewer ear infections in the early days. There are also benefits for moms in terms of a lower risk for breast cancer. But Oster found no good data to support claims that breastfeeding will make your baby (or you) smarter, thinner or taller.
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The bottom line? “This general pitch that breastfeeding has benefits is right. But some of the more aggressive claims about long-term impacts don't seem to hold up in the best data. We see those things — IQ, obesity — they’re correlated with breastfeeding, but it seems like those links are driven by differences across moms who breastfeed and not by the breastfeeding itself,” Oster says. “It’s important for people to know, not because it says we shouldn’t breastfeed, or we shouldn’t support women who are doing it, but it kind of takes away, hopefully, some of the shame many women seem to feel if they’re not successful or if it doesn’t work for them. That shame is not really effective, and it’s not helping anybody.”
MYTH: You have to pump for a year.
Oster found what most new moms already know from their group texts and Facebook groups: pumping breast milk sucks. While some states require employers to have a space for working new moms to pump, others don’t, and nothing says those legally mandated spaces have to be nice. Many a working mom has had to disappear into a conference room with paper taped over the windows or a dimly-lit supply cupboard to turn on a noisy, uncomfortable pump and then spend extra time washing and sterilizing its parts. “I often hear from women who say ‘My baby is 11 months old and I’m still pumping five times a day at work and I hate it and it’s getting in the way of my job, but I know I have to get to a year because that’s what people say my kid needs to be successful,” Oster says. “There’s really no evidence in that direction.”
Because most of the benefits of breastfeeding apply to babies in the first few months of life, a mom returning to work shouldn’t feel like a slave to her Spectra. “Given how unpleasant many people find pumping, it’s too bad we generate a situation where people feel like they can't give themselves a break,” she says. Oster also found that the data doesn’t support fears about “nipple confusion,” so moms who want to breastfeed and bottle feed or use pacifiers should do feel free to do so.
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MYTH: Sleep-training your baby makes you a bad parent.
Are they sleeping through the night yet? Asking this of a new parent is practically an act of violence and yet we all hear it, all of the time. Entire sections of bookstores are dedicated to getting babies to sleep, and many of those sleep-training methods involve some form of letting your baby cry so they can learn to self-soothe. It’s a process that is gut-wrenching enough for parents without the added myth that “my kids are gonna hate me [for abandoning them],” Oster says. But the data just doesn’t back those fears up. Oster found sleep-training leads to better sleep for kids and adults. “In the short-term, if anything, people tend to say that their kids look happier and better-rested in the wake of sleep training than before, and we also see a big effect in a positive direction on maternal depression and on marital satisfaction,” Oster says.
There is also no evidence to suggest that sleep-trained kids are less attached to their parents. But people who don’t want to sleep-train their kids shouldn’t feel pressured to, either. “If it isn't for you, it's not for you, and that's totally reasonable. If it is something that you want to do, you should feel comfortable knowing that it's not going to lead to your child being a serial killer,” she jokes.
MYTH: Mom and baby should sleep in the same room for a year.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends babies sleep in the same room as their parents for the first six months to a year, and plenty of new parents know what it's like to tiptoe around a snuffling baby who went to bed at 6:30 p.m. dominating the whole bedroom (particularly for apartment dwellers, this can mean some long nights on the couch).
The sleeping-in-the-same-room recommendation stems from research about lowering the risk for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), which is important. But, Oster found, “after three or four months, the risk of SIDS is extremely low,” and research shows that babies who learn to sleep in a room “on their own at 4 months sleep better at 4 months, 9 months and at 2 and a half.”
When it comes to co-sleeping in the same bed, Oster found, there is moderate evidence that bed sharing is risky, and much more so if you or your partner smoke or drink alcohol. Co-sleeping is also not recommended for premature or low birthweight babies, Oster found. And there is one across-the-board no-no: death rates are 20 to 60 times higher than the baseline risk when babies sleep on a sofa with an adult, so stay off the couch, or put down the baby if you can't keep your eyes open.
MYTH: Your baby can learn to read and spell from expensive DVDs and artsy flashcards.
Despite their big claims — and popularity as a baby shower gift — randomized studies show no impact of these methods on 9- to 18-month-old babies’ cognitive abilities. “We don’t have good evidence suggesting it works,” Oster says. “Basically, your kid can’t learn words from a DVD, they can learn words from you, and I think the biggest message is that those things are really a gimmick.” Reading to your kids, on the other hand, is backed up by the data as being super important. Snuggle in for some story time if you want to plant the seeds of phonics.
MYTH: Working moms are less bonded to their babies.
Entire so-called “mommy wars” have been fought over whether it’s better to work or stay home, but if you want to make that choice, do it based on your own preference and your family’s budget, not on your kids, Oster says. Studies do show that there are benefits to moms and dads taking parental leave to bond with a new baby in the first six months of life, but kids of stay-at-home moms and working moms look the same as they get older. Kids in daycare aren’t less attached to their parents, studies show.
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“There just isn't any evidence that would suggest that outcomes are different for kids who have two working parents versus one,” Oster says. “When parents are making decisions about whether somebody should stay home or not, so much of that discussion tends to focus on what is best for the kids, and how to optimize things for my kids’ outcome, and so on. But in fact, a lot of that discussion should focus on what the parents want, how is that going to work for the family budget, and what people really want to do.” When it comes to picking a daycare, focus on the quality of the interactions between the kids and caregivers, not on gimmicky extras, Oster advises. And in general, more time spent in daycare centers seems to be associated with slightly better cognitive outcomes and slightly worse behavioral outcomes for kids, as well as more colds but also more immunity. The positive effects of daycare also present more for older children, Oster found.
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Ultimately, Oster hopes the book will help new parents let go of some of the stress, guilt and doubt that comes with parenting. And a healthy dose of cutting yourself a break is crucial, too. “You're making these decisions about something you've never thought about before, and they all feel incredibly important,” Oster says. Ditto on tuning out the noise from (mostly well-meaning) advice-givers. “As as a parent, people are constantly being like, ‘Well, why did you do it like this? Why did you do it like that? I would never do that,’” Oster says. “I think that having some evidence and a way to kind of think through decisions and a way to come to decisions that are right for you will hopefully give people more confidence in those interactions.” And just maybe, if all goes to plan, a little more sleep.
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Willis Bond Capital Partners to announce major Wellington property development investment after raising NZ$128 mln
13th Dec 10, 4:07pm
by Gareth Vaughan
The 3rd retail stage of the Chews Lane mixed use project in Wellington being developed by Willis Bond
Willis Bond Capital Partners, which raised NZ$128 million from institutions and wealthy individuals including Sam Morgan earlier this year to invest in property development, will reveal its first investment this week.
Mark McGuinness, Willis Bond Capital Partners managing director, told interest.co.nz the investment would be in a Wellington inner city mixed use - office, residential and retail - development, which once fully developed, would have a value of about NZ$100 million.
"We'll be announcing our first investment is unconditional next week," McGuinness said last Friday. "And we're looking very closely at a number of other opportunities that are likely to be closed in the first half of next year."
Willis Bond Capital Partners was formed last year by Willis Bond & Company Ltd to capitalise on "attractive" development and investment opportunities in the New Zealand commercial real estate market. The firm says it aims to acquire "value-add real estate investments in a once-in-a–generation economic downturn."
Willis Bond Capital Partners' directors include former New Zealand cricketer Roger Twose, ex-AMP Capital Investors managing director Murray Gribben, former Ernst & Young partner Graeme Horsley and its chairman is ex-Telecom general counsel Mark Verbiest.
Willis Bond Capital Partners is managed by Willis Bond Management Ltd, a subsidiary of Willis Bond & Co. The latter was formed in 1988. In partnership with Lloyd Morrison's Morrison & Co, Willis Bond & Co formed private equity fund manager Pencarrow Funds Management in 1993. A year later the two also jointly formed Property For Industry.
Since then Willis Bond & Co has focused on mixed-use - residential, office and retail - developments within New Zealand. Recent projects include Wellington's Chews Lane Precinct redevelopment, the NZX Centre and Shed 22 on Wellington's waterfront.
Last July Willis Bond Capital Partners announced it had raised NZ$128 million to invest in commercial real estate. Three institutions including the New Zealand Superannuation Fund and the Government Superannuation Fund stumped up NZ$80 million, and high net worth individuals such as Trade Me founder Morgan, coughed up the balance. McGuinness said Willis Bond & Co had no plans to raise money from the general public.
"We are a development company, we've got a strong balance sheet and we're simply interested in large scale redevelopment opportunities, particularly in Auckland and Wellington," said McGuinness.
The firm was looking at "a number" of opportunities in Auckland, which he declined to name.
McGuinness said Willis Bond & Co had a very old fashioned approach and took a long-term view.
"We haven't bought anything for the last six years and we will invest in, I imagine, six or eight development opportunities over the next 15 months," McGuinness said.
"Investment is about fundamentals and it's about timing and we just see this as a good time to invest."
Given the dire state of the property development sector, there wasn't much competition for investment projects around at the moment.
"There aren't a lot of people with the cash resources to deploy that we have at the moment, a couple but not many."
McGuinness said although Willis Bond & Co was getting "good lending offers" from banks, this was probably the exception rather than the rule.
"It's fair to say it (property development) is not at the top of their lending list, which only exacerbates an already challenged market for exits and so on."
ANZ chief executive David Hisco told interest.co.nz last week that his bank was prepared to lend money to "reasonable" property development projects. Hisco said these would be developments where pre-sales were arranged, there was equity and the managers had experience.
His comments come after Equitable Mortgages was placed in receivership late last month with the company's CEO, Peter Thomas, predicting the property sector could remain in the doldrums for up to another five years. The demise of Equitable means all 10 property development and commercial finance companies with total assets of at least NZ$50 million covered in KPMG's annual Financial Institutions Performance Survey last year have now fallen over.
Both the Reserve Bank and Securities Commission recently warned mum and dad investors' to be cautious about private groups looking to raise money to invest in the beleaguered property development sector.
Meanwhile, McGuinness said he believed the property development sector was in a worse state in 1991-1992 than it is now.
"The reason why was there was so much over supply of stock. There is less over supply (now) so as we recover economically, all things being equal, it's more probable that we will move back to an equilibrium of supply and demand and rents and everything else sooner rather than later," said McGuinness.
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by Horace the Grump | 14th Dec 10, 6:18pm 1292303880
I heard that the NZ Super Fund tipped in over $100m to this Willis Bond investment product... $80m sounds like... bet Sam Morgan only put in a mill or so... all of the other money would have come from the Wellington based instos... Acc, AMP, Harbour Asset Management, Axa etc...
by Gareth Vaughan | 15th Dec 10, 9:51am 1292359860
Interesting comment Horace. The Super Fund doesn't seem to have disclosed the size of its investment but I'll see if they'll tell me. I was told the third insto was a "well known name" so probably one of those you list.
by Gareth Vaughan | 15th Dec 10, 10:31am 1292362260
It sounds like the Super Fund contribution was about NZ$30 million.
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Decision on McBride up to Parliament
Politics / 29 January 2019, 09:45am / MAYIBONGWE MAQHINA
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Johannesburg - The head of the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) Robert McBride is playing his cards close to his chest on his next move in the fight with Police Minister Bheki Cele over the termination of his employment contract.
This is happening as Parliament has yet to consider whether or not to renew or extend his term of office.
Cele wrote to McBride informing him that he had decided not to renew or extend his employment contract as executive director of Ipid.
He advised him that his last official working day would be February 28.
But McBride wrote back to him last Thursday demanding that the minister withdraw his statement and also request the police portfolio committee to take a decision on whether or not to renew his term of office.
He then threatened to approach the high court for relief should Cele not respond positively to his request and also demanded written reasons for Cele’s decision by the following day.
His letter was copied to Speaker Baleka Mbete, ANC Chief Whip Jackson Mthembu, Public Service and Administration Minister Ayanda Dlodlo and the police portfolio committee.
In his reply, Cele said he did not intend to remove McBride from office but his term would expire on February 28.
“I have been advised that based on governing labour law principles you cannot claim any right or legitimate expectation to the renewal of your contract.
“My decision not to renew your employment contract will be forwarded to the relevant portfolio committee for consideration,” Cele wrote.
McBride would not be drawn yesterday into commenting on Cele’s response or his next move.
“We are not commenting,” McBride’s spokesperson Moses Dlamini said.
Police portfolio committee chairperson Francois Beukman said the committee received last week’s correspondence from Cele and McBride.
“In terms of protocol the letters should be directed to the head of the institution and in this case Speaker Baleka Mbete,” Beukman said.
He also said no committee could consider such correspondence until it was referred to it by Mbete and it being published in the internal parliamentary communication correspondence.
“It is up to the office of the Speaker when to refer the correspondence. We are to wait and consider what the nature of the referral is,” Beukman said.
The committee will meet for the first time on February 12 and 13 to consider a pre-arranged agenda which includes a briefing by SAPS on the anti-gang strategy and roll-out of units.
The committee will also receive a briefing by metro police chiefs on their budget, structure, performance and high-profile cases.
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Bangkok Fair 2009
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Bangkok does well, considering…
By Coleby Nicholson • Managing Editor
The Bangkok Fair was held during a Thai "state of emergency". COLEBY NICHOLSON was there to see how it was business as usual.
No one opens jewellery trade fairs as well as the Thais.
While "ceremonial" openings are far more prevalent at Asian shows, with a range of dignitaries and politicians usually in attendance, it is the Bangkok Gem and Jewelry Fair that exceeds all other fairs.
The Bangkok fair usually opens with a dance performance and fashion parade and then a dazzling light show, but perhaps because of the underlying political situation, the recent September edition was exceptional.
A media release from the organiser said it best: "The five day fair opened with an air of cautious optimism that the Thai jewel industry should be able to ride out the local political development".
The Thai political issues and their corresponding media coverage certainly had an impact on the event, which was hit by a wave of late cancellations that left a small amount of exhibition space vacant.
The government had declared a state of emergency in September, just nine days before the fair, Thai Gem and Jewelry Traders Association (TGJTA) president Vichai Assarasakorn noting that he had quite a few sleepless nights hoping the event would not be affected: "We received a lot of calls and faxes from exhibitors and visitors asking about the situation and asking whether they should still come or not."
After some initial investigation and some assurances, TGJTA felt confident to advise to people that, "the situation would be safe," but spreading this message to as many as possible was another problem.
Assarasakorn added, half jokingly, that his job had been tougher ever since the 2006 September fair when the Royal Thai Army staged a coup d'état against the elected government of caretaker prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
All in all, he clarified, the fair "held" its numbers and, despite the word from the stands that visitors had definitely been affected, conditions were ideal for purchasing as the accessibility to the larger and more popular stands and exhibits improved.
The Thai Department of Export promotion released figures showing that there was a 30 per cent increase in export value in the first six months of the year to $US3.66 billion. This places the jewellery industry as the country's fourth largest export; however, much of that increase is explained by the increase in raw materials, mainly gold. Figures showed all countries had increased their trade with Thailand with Australia now in second, ahead of the US and behind Hong Kong.
Given that the country was in a "state of emergency", it was amazing to note the normality of the fair - the political upheaval nowhere near distracting enough to quell the hectic business scene of Bangkok. As far as future plans go for the Thai industry, Assarasakorn said that they are still concentrating on the four emerging markets of China, India, Middle East and Russia. The first three are obvious but Russia is an important market because of that population's love of coloured stones.
Coleby Nicholson attended the Bangkok Gems and Jewelry Fair courtesy of the organiser. The next fair will be from 25 February 1 March, 2009.
Coleby Nicholson • Managing Editor
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Coleby Nicholson is publisher and managing editor of Jeweller magazine. He has covered the jewellery industry for more than a decade and specialises in business-to-business aspects of the industry.
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by Lillian Kwon
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James S Spiegel has an uncomfortable thesis to propose. He contends: Religious skepticism is, at bottom, a moral problem.
A professor of philosophy and religion at Taylor University in Upland, Indiana, Spiegel has written a 130-page book, The Making of an Atheist, in response to the New Atheists. But unlike the numerous responses that have emerged from Christian apologists, Spiegel's book focuses on the moral-psychological roots of atheism.
While atheists insist that their foundational reason for rejecting God is the problem of evil or the scientific irrelevance of the supernatural, the Christian philosopher says the argument is "only a ruse" or "a conceptual smoke screen to mask the real issue – personal rebellion".
He admits that it could appear unseemly or offensive to suggest that a person's lack of belief in God is a form of rebellion. But he said in a recent interview with the Evangelical Philosophical Society that he was compelled to write the book because he is convinced that "it is a clear biblical truth".
His goal in writing the book is neither to provoke people nor show that theism is more rational than atheism. Rather, his aim is to direct people to "the real explanation of atheism".
"The rejection of God is a matter of will, not of intellect," he asserts.
"Atheism is not the result of objective assessment of evidence, but of stubborn disobedience; it does not arise from the careful application of reason but from willful rebellion. Atheism is the suppression of truth by wickedness, the cognitive consequence of immorality.
"In short, it is sin that is the mother or unbelief."
God has made His existence plain from creation – from the unimaginable vastness of the universe to the complex micro-universe of individual cells, Spiegel notes. Human consciousness, moral truths, miraculous occurrences and fulfilled biblical prophecies are also evidence of the reality of God.
But atheists reject that, or as Spiegel put it, "miss the divine import of any one of these aspects of God's creation" and to do so is "to flout reason itself".
This suggests that other factors give rise to the denial of God, he notes. In other words, something other than the quest for truth drives the atheist.
Drawing from Scripture, Spiegel says the atheist's problem is rebellion against the plain truth of God, as clearly revealed in nature. The rebellion is prompted by immorality, and immoral behaviour or sin corrupts cognition.
The author explained to EPS, "There is a phenomenon that I call 'paradigm-induced blindness,' where a person's false worldview prevents them from seeing truths which would otherwise be obvious. Additionally, a person's sinful indulgences have a way of deadening their natural awareness of God or, as John Calvin calls it, the sensus divinitatis. And the more this innate sense of the divine is squelched, the more resistant a person will be to evidence for God."
Spiegel, who converted to Christianity in 1980, has witnessed the pattern among several of his friends. Their path from Christianity to atheism involved: moral slippage (such as infidelity, resentment or unforgiveness); followed by withdrawal from contact with fellow believers; followed by growing doubts about their faith, accompanied by continued indulgence in the respective sin; and culminating in a conscious rejection of God.
Examining the psychology of atheism, Spiegel cites Paul C Vitz who revealed a link between atheism and fatherlessness.
"Human beings were made in God's image, and the father-child relationship mirrors that of humans as God's 'offspring'," Spiegel states. "We unconsciously (and often consciously, depending on one's worldview) conceive of God after the pattern of our earthly father.
"However, when one's earthly father is defective, whether because of death, abandonment, or abuse, this necessarily impacts one's thinking about God."
Some of the atheists whose fathers died include David Hume and Friedrich Nietzsche. Those with abusive or weak fathers include Thomas Hobbes, Voltaire and Sigmund Freud. Among the New Atheists, Daniel Dennett's father died when Dennett was five years old and Christopher Hitchens' father appears to have been very distant. Hitchens had confessed that he does not remember "a thing about him".
As for Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris, there is very little information available regarding their relationships with their fathers.
"It appears that the psychological fallout from a defective father must be combined with rebellion – a persistent immoral response of some sort, such as resentment, hatred, vanity, unforgiveness, or abject pride. And when that rebellion is deep or protracted enough, atheism results," Spiegel explains.
In essence, "atheists ultimately choose not to believe in God," the author maintains, and "this choice does not occur in a psychological vacuum".
"It is made in response to deep challenges to faith, such as defective fathers and perhaps other emotional or psychological trials," he states. "Nor is the choice made in a moral vacuum. Sin and its consequences also impact the will in significant ways.
"These moral-psychological dynamics make it possible to deny the reality of the divine without any (or much) sense of incoherence in one's worldview."
The Making of an Atheist: How Immorality Leads to Unbelief is out now.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is the latest in an occasional series of 5 Questions features regarding the people and families of Johnson City shaping the city’s past, present and future as we celebrate the city’s 150th birthday. Look for more May 19, 2019 at 6:34 PM
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BY PAUL SUELLENTROP
Wichita State's players aren't worried about moving their home-court advantage six miles. They figure their crowd will travel just fine to Intrust Bank Arena in downtown.
"The fans will make it a home court," senior Gabe Blair said. "Rock the octagon. It's like eight sides in here, so I say rock the octagon."
Monday afternoon, the Shockers (8-2) practiced at Intrust Bank Arena, their home for tonight's game against Tulsa (5-5). WSU moved the game downtown as a mandated test run for the NCAA women's tournament in March, and for the chance to do something special. WSU wanted the distinction of playing the first basketball game in Intrust Bank Arena, which opened Jan. 9. As of Monday afternoon, around 13,500 tickets were sold. The arena seats 15,004 for basketball.
Tulsa makes the perfect opponent. They played 119 times — most as Missouri Valley Conference members before Tulsa left the conference in 1996. Only Bradley and Drake are more frequent WSU opponents. Tulsa trumps both with its proximity and the intensity of the rivalry.
On the court, practice looked like it does almost every day. Junior center Garrett Stutz quoted the movie "Hoosiers" by observing that the goals are 10-feet tall. Shooting might take some adjustment because of the open space behind the baskets.
"Koch's floor is a little more bouncy," he said. "Other than that, it's very similar."
The Shockers are trying to close out their pre-Christmas schedule on a four-game win streak. They should be riding high after Saturday's 70-69 win over LSU, a game Stutz decided with a three-pointer in the final seconds.
Tulsa is in a different position. Injuries and inexperience are dragging down the Golden Hurricane.
Former walk-on Shane Heirman is expected to start at point guard. Starter Jordan Clarkson sprained his ankle in a loss to Princeton on Dec. 12. He did not play in Thursday's win over Weber State and is not listed on the depth chart for tonight. Sophomore guard Donte Medder is out for the season with a knee injury.
"I like my team when we're healthy," Tulsa coach Doug Wojcik said. "We've got to get our feet under us again."
With the injuries, senior Justin Hurtt takes on more burden. He is the player WSU's defense will focus on. He scored 36 points against Weber State, making 10 of 26 shots and 3 of 11 three-pointers.
"He's become a great player for us," Wojcik said. "He can do a lot of things."
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!Women Art Revolution (DVD)
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“PASSIONATE, CONTENTIOUS, FUNNY, SINCERE, POLITICALLY ATTUNED!
Ms. Hershman Leeson’s fighting spirit is contagious.”
—Rachel Saltz, The New York Times
THE DEFINITIVE FILM ON THE HISTORY OF FEMINIST ART!
An entertaining and revelatory “secret history” of Feminist Art, !Women Art Revolution deftly illuminates this under-explored movement through conversations, archival footage and works of visionary artists, historians, curators and critics. Starting from its roots in 1960s antiwar and civil rights protests, the film details developments in women’s art through the 1970s and explores how the tenacity and courage of these pioneering artists resulted in what is now widely regarded as the most significant art movement of the late 20th century.
For more than forty years, artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson (Teknolust) has collected a plethora of interviews with her contemporaries-and shaped them into an intimate portrayal of their fight to break down barriers facing women both in the art world and society at large. With a rousing score by Carrie Brownstein (Sleater-Kinney, Portlandia), !WAR features Miranda July, The Guerrilla Girls, Yvonne Rainer, Judy Chicago, Marina Abramovic, Yoko Ono, B. Ruby Rich, Carolee Schneemann, Marcia Tucker and other groundbreaking figures.
DVD Extras Include:
- HD transfer, enhanced for widescreen viewing
- Additional interviews with Lynn Hershman Leeson, comic artist Spain Rodriguez and philanthropist Elizabeth A. Sackler
- Featurette on RAWWAR, the film’s interactive companion piece
- Theatrical trailers
- English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired
These interviews form the backbone of !W.A.R., and like the film, they’re passionate, contentious, funny, sincere, politically attuned.... Ms. Hershman Leeson’s fighting spirit is contagious.
Rachel Saltz - The New York TImes
Shirley J Velasquez - Elle.com
Could not be timelier!
Marcia G Yerman - AlterNet
Leeson's women are our own; their voices are essential.
Hilton Als - The New Yorker
Fiercely self-aware!
Guelda Voien - Ms. Magazine
Whether you’re an art aficionado or not, you simply must see and experience this revolutionary and visionary film for yourself. !Women Art Revolution reclaims women’s narratives and manifests a vocal group of dissenters rattling the cages of constriction and conformity, refusing to be silenced.
Megan Kearns - Bitch Flicks
Fusing history with memoir, Lynn Hershman Leeson enlists multiple visual strategies to produce an elegantly layered visual and sonic web of politics and powerful emotion.
Elisabeth Subrin - Film Comment
An astonishing chronicle of the dawn of the feminist art movement and a powerful, after-the-fact commentary on how obscured feminist art continues to be.
Andi Zeisler - Bitch magazine
The most comprehensive documentary ever made on the feminist art movement.
Jessica Roake - Bust magazine
A call to the next generation of female artists to keep forging ahead!
Chloe Veltman - The New York TImes
Lynn Hershman Leesonʼs upsetting, informative and cool documentary sets the stage for an important film about the womenʼs art scene which has never really received its due… I wasnʼt familiar with any of the information presented here and Iʼm now intrigued so I feel the film is a big success. Plus, the film works on an emotional level and I found myself shocked and angered by the unfair tactics of the male dominated art scene of both yesterday and today. I now know of some truly gifted and amazing female artists out in the world and thatʼs due to Lynn Hershman Leeson and !WOMEN ART REVOLUTION.
Don R. Lewis - FILM THREAT
Lynn Hershman Leeson registered two standing ovations and counting at the festival for her new documentary on the history of the feminist art movement, !WOMEN ART REVOLUTION. Full disclosure: I’m in it, so I can’t really comment. Fuller disclosure: Women kept rushing up to me around Toronto and hugging me for my comments in the film. I’ve been in a lot of documentaries, but nothing like this has ever happened before. The film is shaping up to be a come-home-to-mama moment for a lot of women, both those who lived through the early days and those who didn’t. I think Hershman Leeson may have a hit on her hands.
B. Ruby Rich - 360.org
Part social survey, but mostly celebration...helmer Lynn Hershman Leeson filmed her principal subjects over 40 years and distilled the footage into this entertaining docu. Hershman Leeson’s film is a valuable resource on a movement whose issues remain relevant. A provocateur du cinema, Hershman Leeson views docu conventions with the same contempt she does the line between fiction and nonfiction (see Strange Culture, which more or less defines the hybrid doc). Carrie Brownstein’s clever score manages to editorialize on all of it through mood, rhythm and the musical periods her work evokes.
John Anderson - VARIETY
This seminal documentary depicts the history of women artists who have used art as an activist practice to fight oppression and protest gender and racial exclusion—creating what many historians feel is the most significant art movement of the late-20th century.
After watching !Women Art Revolution, you’ll find yourself never forgetting these courageous and talented ladies.
!Women Art Revolution’s rarely seen footage and interviews uncover how the Feminist Movement transformed the art of our times.
IFC NEWS
Drawing from hundreds of hours of interviews with Leeson's contemporaries—artists, historians, curators and critics—the film presents a portrait of one of the most significant art movements of the late 20th century
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE
Lynn Hershman Leeson’s !Women Art Revolution offers remarkable footage and covers an enormous swath of territory in revealing how the feminist art movement transformed the art and culture of our times. It’s great to have the spotlight shine on so many women artists that you might otherwise have forgotten existed, or never knew about to begin with
Bay Area avant-garde artist Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Women Art Revolution is an engaging look back at the women artists who declared WAR on the old-boy art establishment in the 60s, and a reminder of what feminism really looked like back in the day.
Beverly Berning - CultureVulture.net
40-plus years in the making, the director traces one of the most overlooked, essential movements in contemporary art, critiquing, in a classic intersectional, feminist way, the power structures that traditionally determine what goes in the history book and galleries and who gets access to it....It was a thrill to see some grass roots, radical, confrontational feminist activism onscreen and in practice. For this, Hershman Leeson deserves major kudos. This is a film about equality in freedom of expression and in that respect the film is successful in actually getting the work out there for the world to see. 9 OUT OF 10.
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Their goal is to make opponents quite uncomfortable with swarming, pressuring defense.
"We would like for it to be 40 minutes of dread," Coach Matthew Mitchell said recently when asked about UK's style of play, which has made it tops in the nation in steals (16.5 a game) and in turnover margin (plus-17) and kept the Cats unbeaten this season.
"We want you to dread ... playing Kentucky," Mitchell continued. "We want you to say, 'Oh, my gosh, we have to play this for 40 minutes?'
"We want to be the most dreaded team in the country."
But as difficult as Kentucky (10-0) wants to make the game for No. 3 Notre Dame on Sunday at the Joyce Center, the Irish said they are looking forward to it.
"This game is going to be an exciting game for us," Irish senior and Lexington native Natalie Novosel said. "It's a great matchup against a defensive team that runs just like us and is just as physical."
You see, Notre Dame (9-1) wants to do exactly what Kentucky does on defense, and the Irish have been quite successful at it, too.
In this game featuring two of the nation's top defenses and top offenses, comfort will be at a premium.
While UK is first in the nation in turnover margin, the Irish are second, forcing 11.2 more miscues than they're making. They are stealing the ball 15.9 times a game (sixth).
Since losing at No. 1 Baylor, Notre Dame has been on a roll, winning six in a row, including a 66-38 pounding of No. 12 Purdue at the Boilermakers' place last out.
"I like a lot of things about the way we're playing," Irish Coach Muffet McGraw said. "I like how we take pride defensively; we're working hard defensively. ... They don't ever get complacent. That's what I like most about this team right now, among 100 other things."
The Irish's navy-blue-collar defense certainly has the attention of UK and its coach.
"We're going to play what I think is without a doubt the most intense defense that we've seen yet from a pressure standpoint," Mitchell said of Notre Dame. "They have done a terrific job of making the other team uncomfortable."
Mitchell knows that UK will have its hands full in its first trip out of the cozy confines of Kentucky at a place that was fifth in the nation last year in attendance and is averaging 8,376 fans so far this season.
"We've been waiting for this game since last year," said Novosel, referencing UK's 81-76 win over Notre Dame last season. "We're excited to get them in with our home crowd and just go at them."
The UK coach anticipates a fast-paced game, which he hopes will tilt it in the Cats' favor because of depth.
Both teams seem to have quality benches, with each of Kentucky's 13 players averaging 10-plus minutes a game.
Notre Dame has 10 players averaging 12 minutes or more per contest.
The real key in this game will be basic math. The team that forces the most turnovers while turning it over the least will win the game.
"Turnover margin is going to be so important," Mitchell said. "We can't cough it up a bunch up there and expect to win."
The coach's concerns weren't eased earlier this week when he watched his point guards repeatedly turn over the ball against his own pressure defense.
"I don't know how well equipped we are for this kind of in-your-face pressure," he said. "It's an adjustment we'll have to make."
It's an adjustment that both teams will be making.
Turnovers were a big worry for McGraw, too, even though her team is averaging just 16.2 a game.
"Taking care of the ball would be my No. 1 concern," she said, noting that UK is forcing nearly 35 turnovers a game and averaging nearly 40 points off of those.
UK's opponents are averaging just 13 points off Cats' miscues.
In the end, it could be all about 40 minutes of dread for both teams.
"What I hear everyone around here talking about is how much fun it's going to be," McGraw said. "It's going to be an up-tempo game, an exciting, entertaining game."
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Iraqi Parliament makes 13 decisions against KRG following Kurdistan referendum
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Parliament Speaker Salim al-Juburi chairs a session as Iraqi MPs raise their hands to vote at the parliament in Baghdad earlier this year. (Photo: AFP)
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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – The Iraqi Parliament on Wednesday asked the Council of Ministers to take measures against the Kurdistan Region following the momentous independence referendum.
In a session boycotted by Kurdish MPs, the Iraqi Parliament mandated the Iraqi government take strict measures against the Region that included deploying military forces in the Peshmerga controlled areas.
The Iraqi government was given authorization to deploy forces to occupy the Peshmerga controlled areas in the Kurdistani areas outside of the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) administration.
The Parliament reiterated that holding a referendum was unconstitutional, and said authorities would take legal action against those responsible for organizing the vote, including the Kurdistan Region President Masoud Barzani.
“All the border crossings outside of the control of the Federal Government of Iraq will be closed, and all goods exchanged at those borders are considered illegal,” the Parliament decision stated, urging neighboring countries to comply with Iraqi demands.
Referring to Kurdistan, the decision urged the government to seize oil fields in the “north” of Kirkuk as well as the disputed territories.
Iraqi President Fuad Masum was also urged to carry out his constitutional duties to keep the country united.
The Parliament rejected calls for dialogue by President Barzani and asked the government not to accept any conditional exchanges unless the independence referendum results were canceled.
Members of the Parliament also asked the government to fire all Kurdish state employees who participated in the Kurdistan Region’s referendum and voted yes, while ensuring “social relations” with the Kurdish people are preserved.
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If there’s one thing jakarta is known for other than its street food, it’s the traffic. One simply does not commute in this city without experiencing it. For so long the authorities have always been trying to minimise it, from changing the rules of ’3 in 1’ methodology where a car requires at least three people in it to adapting an odd-even number plate rule for a specific set of time, we now have the long awaited mrt that other foreign countries have adapted since aeons ago. Indeed when it comes to public transport, mrt is a big thing among locals who never experienced it. For me, having mrt in the city sort of pulls me back to my experience in foreign countries, specifically hong kong where, if I remember correctly, was the first country I ever rode mrt at.
It began with a phase one free trial held on the 22nd and 23rd of march. My boyfriend and I thought it’d be fun to have a mini adventure on foot since it’s free anyway and we didn’t have to go through the hassle of purchasing trial tickets from e-commerce site beforehand – which, by the way, was how it had to be beforehand. I also thought it would be a good idea to, obviously, take pictures. I barely leave home to do outdoor things simply because I hate the sunny weather and I’m too lazy to do shit but hey, if it means I can play with my analog camera then I shall conquer the wretched humidity.
the welcome statue at thamrin st
First we had lunch at a mall located in the central district of the city because the closest mrt station to my house was situated downtown. I brought my one and only film slr, the ricoh kr-5 super and loaded it with a kodak gold 200. For beginner level, the ricoh kr-5 is a basic and easy handling for analog enthusiasts. Although I have two point and shoot film cameras, I still prefer using a manually operated slr for a photo session that I really plan for if that makes sense. Trading my yashica fx3 for a ricoh kr-5 has been something I enjoyed so far. While the yashica was a sturdy, dependable camera, the ricoh is smaller and more lightweight thus reducing shoulder and neck pain.
As for the film stock, this wasn’t the first time I tried kodak gold 200. In fact, I think it’s going to be my backup for cheap film stock. I say backup because I still prefer the fujicolor c200 more than kodak gold. The former leans more towards blues and greens while kodak is more on the warmer side. An alternative iso 200 film that’s also pretty cheap is the kodak colorplus 200 but I like it as much.
Another thing about local indonesians is how easily swept up they can get when something new has arrived in town. I’m not sure if the photos justified the situation but the subway was pretty crowded and jam packed that day, specifically with families who brought their kids with them. For locals who never experienced the subway, it was a picnic with a speedy train running at 30 km per hour. Since it was a phase one trial, the route was also predetermined and won’t extend until phase two starts.
In case you’re wondering what it’s like to take pictures inside a moving train — it was quite a challenge. As I’m still an amateur analog practitioner, the difficulty was quite frustrating to say the least. I’m currently in the process of studying zone focusing for candid street photography so hopefully with more practice, my analog skill will improve. Focusing aside, you can see that the kodak gold is giving me quite a lot of fine grains. I personally don’t mind grains for that old school, nostalgic aesthetic as long as they’re this fine. I would also clarify that even though the film stock runs at iso 200 (box speed), I pulled mine two stops below which means I was shooting it at iso 50. Imagine shooting indoor with such a slow speed! I was freaking out at the end of the day and was so afraid I had to retake everything again. It wasn’t on purpose though — I had forgotten to set the iso ring and that’s how I pretty much screwed up. As a result, I had to use a slow shutter speed and the largest aperture to compensate that.
the cool thing about jakarta's mrt is how we not only have underground railway but also above-the-ground rail! everybody went "wooo!" the moment the train left underground. it was so cringey but hilariously entertaining nonetheless.
And this was the part where I got annoyed with the locals. You see, Indonesians have a habit of not following regulations yet demand others to understand that their poor habit comes from the fact that they are not privileged enough. Not only it's ignorant, it's also stupid and invalid. Since when do things like 'throwing garbage into the bin and not on streets' considered part of privileges? It doesn't matter if you are male or female, rich or poor, these things do not stem from how much you have in your pocket — they're life lessons taught to us by our parents and the circumstances around us. If you follow me on twitter, I had days where I went on and on about how ignorant the locals are. Instead of following rules and keeping the subway clean, there have been few cases where people carelessly threw garbage, children jumping up and down train seats or adults temporarily made picnic spots out of subway tunnel. In fact, news about a father telling his child to urinate behind the wall went viral. It was so frustrating that they had to limit the number of people during the second day of the trial.
Other than that one pressing issue, it was pretty fun to have a mini on-foot adventure with the boyfriend. Perhaps we’d do this again and explore the south side. Similarly, this is also the excuse activity that will justify my purchases of film stocks and cameras.
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Top 10 Spotlight: Reading Carries Priscila Lopez to Success
Registration for Pre-K, Kindergarten Under Way
LFHS FFA Accepts Donations of Prom Dresses
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Top 10 Spotlight: Reading is Priscila Lopez' Passion
When Priscila Lopez was in elementary school, she did not have the luxury other students had about reading books in English.
She came to the United States from Mexico in the third grade, and was enrolled in the English as a Second Language program at Los Fresnos Elementary, the first of two elementary schools she attended.
Priscila has come a long way from the ESL program to the fourth-ranked student in the Los Fresnos High School Class of 2014.
"I was in the ESL program, and just trying to improve my English in elementary school," she said. "Even when I went to Resaca Middle School, I was in the ESL program. It wasn't until I exited the program in the eighth grade that I was allowed to take Pre-AP (Advanced Placement) classes."
Priscila made the most of her opportunity. She read, and read, and read English and studying was her priority.
"When I was at Los Fresnos United at the end of ninth grade, I was told that I was the number five ranked student. That was not expected."
Priscila, was has not made a B in any class since middle school, was "just doing my work, and doing my best. I never thought that my best was going to get me in the top five students without me knowing."
For a student who knew little English in elementary school, she surprised her mother as well.
"My mom never expected us to be the highest students in our classes academically," Priscila said. "It was quite a surprise for her that I stayed within the top five students during my sophomore year, and that I could keep it up every year."
Priscila attributes her success to a dedication and her passion: reading.
"I really love reading – that's one of the things that helped me learn English quickly in elementary school since I lived in a household that spoke all Spanish," she said. "Books were the key for me wishing to become a better person, better student. As I read more, I increased my vocabulary of the English language."
At LFHS, she was chosen a 2013 AP Scholar with Honor , a Distinguished Achievement Program future graduate, and a 2014 National Merit Award for High Schools that work. Priscila also has a CPR for the Health Care Provider certification.
She has been offered a position in the University Scholars program at The University of Texas at Brownsville, and will have expenses paid for if she maintains grade point standards while there. She hopes to attain a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree and become a nurse.
"I want to work at a hospital, where they need as many hands as possible," Priscila said. "Nurses are critically needed in our area. I want to be able to say that I participated in saving somebody's life."
Her advice for other students: "It's all about time management and prioritizing. You need to find the perfect balance with studying and everything else in your life. If you really want to become a better person, it's never too late. It begins with oneself. If we decide to become better, it's never too late. We can work harder. Yes, it will take extra time and effort. Once you see your potential and once you see the rewards, it's a very great feeling."
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Singapore Property News Update
Property News & Updates
Buyers are willing to pay more for integrated mixed development condos
Convenience is king among property buyers in Singapore, this much is clear. They want a place to call home, but so much the better if home is part of a larger development where they can shop, run errands and seamlessly connect to the MRT as well. Property buyers are prepared to pony up premiums for projects with that extra value and accessibility, to the tune of anywhere between 7 per cent and 19 per cent within their launch year, compared to new sales of leasehold projects in the same district.
The average selling prices and rents of seven such projects - all leasehold projects - launched since 2007 were studied. All commanded premiums over other leasehold projects in their districts. (Marina One was excluded due to insufficient comparables.) These projects make up less than three per cent of the entire private non-landed residential stock in Singapore of about 294,000 units in Q2, going by Urban Renewal Authority (URA) figures, the report said. Rents also often fetch a premium going by the data in Q2. For instance, the median rent at Orchard Residences in Q2 was S$6.73 psf a month, much higher than the overall median rent of non-landed homes in district 9, which was S$4.42 psf per month.
Resale prices of two of the projects studied - Bedok Residences and The Orchard Residences, both already sold out - have also stayed above the median. For instance, Bedok Residences, which is integrated with Bedok Mall and Bedok MRT, fetched a median resale price of S$1,447 psf between Q1 and Q3 this year; leasehold projects in the area went for S$1,089 psf. Orchard Residences' median resale price was S$3,731 psf - above the S$1,849 psf recorded for leasehold projects in that district.
Exciting new condominium along Upper Serangoon Road integrated with shopping mall & Woodleigh MRT Station
The potential supply of these developments may not meet the demand of buyers in the coming years, given that there are only three projects in the pipeline.
One is the 667-unit Woodleigh Residences developed by Kajima Development and Singapore Press Holdings, which owns The Business Times. Woodleigh Residences will be linked to a 28,000 sq m retail mall, the Woodleigh Village hawker centre, Alkaff Lake and Heritage Walk; it will also offer direct access to Woodleigh MRT station and to Singapore's first air-conditioned underground bus interchange. The only integrated development in District 13 is likely to command a price premium over the vicinity's new launches.
Also upcoming are the Sengkang Central site won by a Capitaland-CDL joint venture, and a 3.8 ha mixed-use white site in Pasir Ris Central, which is up for tender now. Together, these three projects will generate a potential supply of about 2,000 units that could be sold to end-users over the next few years. Such projects are estimated to cost 5 to 10 per cent more for the convenience offered by their "package of amenities", compared to those in the rest of the district, especially those more than a 10-minute walk away.
Park Colonial conveniently located beside Woodleigh MRT, future shopping mall & aircon bus interchange
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Title 10. Energy
Chapter I. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
Part 110. EXPORT AND IMPORT OF NUCLEAR EQUIPMENT AND MATERIAL
Subpart K. Rulemaking
Appendix M_to_part_110. Categorization of Nuclear Material d
10 CFR Appendix M_to_part_110 - Categorization of Nuclear Material d
Appendix M to Part 110 - Categorization of Nuclear Material d
[From IAEA INFCIRC/225, Rev. 1]
III e
1. Plutonium a Unirradiated b 2 kg or more Less than 2 kg but more than 500 g 500 g or less.
2. Uranium-235 c Unirradiated: b
Uranium enriched to 20 pct U 235 or more 5 kg or more Less than 5 kg but more than 1 kg 1 kg or less.
Uranium enriched to 10 pct U 235 but less than 20 pct 10 kg or more Less than 10 kg.
Uranium enriched above natural, but less than 10 pct U 235 10 kg or more.
3. Uranium-233 Unirradiated b 2 kg or more Less than 2 kg but more than 500 g 500 g or less.
a All plutonium except that with isotopic concentration exceeding 80 pct in plutonium-238.
b Material not irradiated in a reactor or material irradiated in a reactor but with a radiation level equal to or less than 100 rd/h at 1 m unshielded.
c Natural uranium, depleted uranium, thorium and quantities of uranium enriched to less than 10% not falling into Category III should be protected in accordance with prudent management practice.
d Irradiated fuel should be protected as category I, II, or III nuclear material depending on the category of the fresh fuel. However, fuel which by virtue of its original fissile material content is included as category I or II before irradiation should only be reduced one category level, while the radiation level from the fuel exceeds 100 rd/h at 1 m unshielded.
e Physical security determinations will not be required for 15 g or less of plutonium, uranium-233 or high-enriched uranium, or for 1 kg or less of uranium with an enrichment between 10 and 20 pct in uranium-235.
(Sec. 161, as amended, Pub. L. 83-703, 68 Stat. 948 (42 U.S.C. 2201); sec. 201, as amended, Pub. L. 93-438, 88 Stat. 1243 (42 U.S.C. 5841))
[43 FR 21641, May 19, 1978. Redesignated and amended at 49 FR 47204, Dec. 3, 1984. Further redesignated at 55 FR 30450, July 26, 1990; 58 FR 13005, Mar. 9, 1993; 61 FR 35603, July 8, 1996]
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Accidents Jul 15th 2019 - 10am
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Superior National Forest officials on Friday set a new date for BWCAW visitors to apply for permits for the 209 summer season. Applications will open at www.recreation.gov on Feb. 27 on a first come, first served basis. The permits originally wer...
Written By: John P. Myers | Feb 8th 2019 - 1pm.
The reservation system for BWCAW permits opened and then quickly crashed Wednesday. The Forest Service is working to fix the problem and will re-start permit applications at a future date. file / News Tribune
Superior National Forest officials on Friday set a new date for BWCAW visitors to apply for permits for the 209 summer season.
Applications will open at www.recreation.gov on Feb. 27 on a first come, first served basis.
The permits originally were available on Jan. 30, but the system was quickly shut down when it became clear some applicants were not being allowed to access the application page on the website.
The U.S. Forest Service decided to nullify all permits issued on that day and start over from scratch. Anyone who got through that day can get a refund at recreation.gov.
"We deeply regret the difficulty this has caused, and I want to thank the members of the community who are working with us to make this transition to an online reservation system successful," said Connie Cummins, Superior National Forest supervisor. "Our goal is to ensure the reservation system provides a fair and open means for the public to visit the Boundary Waters and support the local businesses that depend on this special place."
More than 100,000 people visit the BWCAW between May 1 and Sept. 30 each year, the period during which permits are limited.
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The latest in cannabis legalization including laws and policies, legislators’ views, election coverage, and more. SEE ALL
The Shake: The Feds’ Big Eradication Spend and the Massachusetts Smackdown
Ben Adlin
Things are getting real in Massachusetts as election season heats up. Yesterday we told you about the launch of an anti-cannabis coalition in the state, backed by the governor and Boston’s mayor, who’ve come out against an adult-use legalization initiative. Now the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol in Massachusetts is calling out the politicians for allowing easier access to booze than cannabis. The group’s communications director called it “the height of hypocrisy.” Meanwhile, police officers and other lawmakers have come out in support of the anti-cannabis coalition. They say they’re worried legalization will roll back progress the state has made in fighting opioid addiction, because some think cannabis is a gateway drug. None of that is really rooted in fact (it actually shows promise in fighting opioid overdoses, and the gateway claims are fraught with bad science), but hey, go with your gut.
The DEA spent $18 million on pulling up cannabis plants. A group of lawmakers last year tried to pass legislation to reroute federal funds away from cannabis enforcement. It fell short. The upshot: The DEA is still dropping millions to uproot and destroy cannabis plants — $18 million last year, or about what it’s spent the three years prior. Eradication efforts even continued in legal states such as Oregon and Washington; in the latter, U.S. taxpayers paid about $26 per plant in cannabis-quashing costs. (Colorado and Alaska declined federal funds, saying they’d enforce illegal grows on their own, the Washington Post says — but then what’s up with the National Guard in Colorado this week?) Make no mistake: Illegal cultivation can sometimes come with problems — environmental degradation, harm to national parks, even violence — but it’s still bizarre on some level to see the federal government spending millions in public funds to uproot cannabis instead of taking a cue from legal states and taxing the pants off it. It’s the economy, stupid.
More and more doctors want cannabis to be legal. On Monday a group called Doctors for Cannabis Regulation will announce its formation, the Washington Post reports. The coalition includes more than 50 doctors, including former U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, as well as faculty at some of the country’s top medical schools. Importantly, the group isn’t just backing medical legalization — it also believes regulated adult-use markets are the best approach to harm reduction. It’s a split from the American Medical Association’s anti-cannabis position, and it could signal a shift in doctors’ attitudes about how to keep Americans safe and healthy around cannabis. The group doesn’t advocate for cannabis use, but as founder David L. Nathan, an associate professor at Rutgers University’s medical school and a distinguished fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, says: “You don’t have to be pro-marijuana to be opposed to its prohibition.”
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It’s Tax Day, Americans! But don’t worry, you just need your return postmarked by Monday. Thought you might like to know.
Mexico’s president will skip the U.N.’s drug policy summit. Some critics are accusing President Enrique Peña Nieto of “putting his head in the sand” after his announcement he’ll skip next week’s UNGASS meeting in New York, Vice reports. With much of Mexico pushing for medical legalization, his absence will be a blow to proponents.
Like science? Scientific American has a piece up about how rescheduling (or, even better, descheduling) could kickstart major advances in research.
One chef has a new goal with edibles. Michael Cirino, who has a background in molecular gastronomy and food science, wants you to have a nice long, low-level high — instead of one like Maureen Dowd’s.
More on the country’s 24th medical cannabis state. We told you what Pennsylvania’s newly passed bill will do for medical patients. Here’s what it means for employers.
A U.S. Senate committee thinks veterans should be able to talk to their doctors about cannabis. An amendment won a ‘yes’ vote yesterday, but it’s got a long way to go to become law.
Do you like Broad City? If your answer was “YASSS,” check out this Jimmy Kimmel interview with the cast of the hit show. And yasss, cannabis comes up.
Mixed weather in Colorado. The state may have done $92 million in cannabis sales in February, but now rain threatens to wash away Denver’s largest 4/20 festival. Looking for something else to do? Start here.
Don’t sleep on the CARERS Act. Over at the Brookings Institute, John Hudak — who’s helping change the cannabis conversation in Washington, D.C. — makes a strong case for why the act, which would protect patients in medically legal states and help streamline research. Hudak points out that many people don’t know what the CARERS Act is. Now you know.
The latest product: Nug Run wants to sell you a “Nugboxes” subscription. Each comes with cannabis, food, and a choice of a third item. Interested?
How much is your cannabusiness worth? It was only a matter of time until the cannabis movement started using terms like valuation. Attorney Vince Sliwoski at Canna Law Blog has a rundown.
Even local news media agree medical cannabis is helping patients in New York. The ABC affiliate in Buffalo touches on a child who’s been taking cannabis extract to treat epilepsy. “He’s looking around, he’s vocalizing, he’s doing really well,” his mother tells WKBW.
But we’re also learning more about cannabis health risks. Which is a good thing. Some people appear to be predisposed to have mental health consequences from heavy cannabis use, and effects can be especially problematic for young people. Scientists are calling for public education, though they’re also “keen not to exaggerate the risks,” the Guardian reports.
An Australian naturopath faces 15 years for selling cannabis oil and tinctures to patients. Crikey, that’s heartrending.
And finally, dragon balls. We hate to toot our own horn, but our piece yesterday on these gawk-worthy globes of cannabis oil contains some of the best concentrate porn we’ve seen in some time. Just look at it. Happy Friday.
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Part 1, Chapter 1 Part 1, Chapter 2 Part 1, Chapter 3 Part 1, Chapter 4 Part 1, Chapter 5 Part 1, Chapter 6 Part 1, Chapter 7 Part 1, Chapter 8 Part 1, Chapter 9 Part 1, Chapter 10 Part 1, Chapter 11 Part 1, Chapter 12 Part 1, Chapter 13 Part 1, Chapter 14 Part 1, Chapter 15 Part 1, Chapter 16 Part 1, Chapter 17 Part 2, Chapter 1 Part 2, Chapter 2 Part 2, Chapter 3 Part 2, Chapter 4 Part 2, Chapter 5 Part 2, Chapter 6 Part 2, Chapter 7 Part 2, Chapter 8 Part 2, Chapter 9 Part 2, Chapter 10 Part 2, Chapter 11 Part 2, Chapter 12 Part 2, Chapter 13 Part 2, Chapter 14 Part 2, Chapter 15 Part 2, Chapter 16 Part 2, Chapter 17 Part 3, Chapter 1 Part 3, Chapter 2 Part 3, Chapter 3 Part 3, Chapter 4 Part 3, Chapter 5 Part 3, Chapter 6 Part 3, Chapter 7 Part 3, Chapter 8 Part 3, Chapter 9 Part 3, Chapter 10 Part 3, Chapter 11 Part 3, Chapter 12
All Themes Guilt, Responsibility, and the Holocaust Secrets, Indifference, and Emotional Distance Generational and Parent-Child Conflict Reading and Illiteracy The Image as Memory and the Gaze
All Characters Michael Berg Hanna Schmitz (Frau Shmitz) Michael’s Father The Jewish Woman / The Daughter The Prison Warden The Driver The Judge Gertrud Michael’s mother Michael’s older brother
All Symbols Building on Bahnhofstrasse Cassette Tapes The Tea Tin
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Gertrud Character Analysis
Michael’s wife, and later ex-wife. A law clerk and later a judge, Gertrud is described by Michael as “smart, efficient, and loyal.” Michael marries Gertrud after she becomes pregnant with their daughter Julia. Though Michael never tells Gertrud about Hanna, he cannot stop inwardly comparing her to Hanna, which causes the marriage to fall apart. Nevertheless they maintain a friendly relationship with each other.
Gertrud Quotes in The Reader
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Part 3, Chapter 4 Quotes
I don't know what I would have done if a professor of legal history had not offered me a research job. Gertrud said it was an evasion, an escape from the challenges and responsibilities of life, and she was right. I escaped and was relieved that I could do so…. Now escape involves not just running away, but arriving somewhere…. Doing history means building bridges between the past and the present, observing both banks of the river, taking an active part on both sides. One of my areas of research was law in the Third Reich, and here it is particularly obvious how the past and present come together in a single reality. Here, escape is not a preoccupation with the past, but a determined focus on the present and the future that is blind to the legacy of the past which brands us and with which we must live.
Related Characters: Michael Berg (speaker), Gertrud
Page Number and Citation: 180
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...this point, the narrative jumps back in time to when Michael is still married to Gertrud and the concentration camps seminar professor has just died. Despite Michael’s initial reluctance to go... (full context)
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After Michael separates from Gertrud, he becomes restless. Feeling haunted by Hanna, he records himself on tape reading The Odyssey... (full context)
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Ethereum’s Joseph Lubin: Libra Is a “Centralized Wolf”
Ethereum co-creator Joseph Lubin says he has a few problems with Facebook’s new cryptocurrency Libra.
Lubin Doesn’t Care Much for Libra’s Ideals
The biggest issue at press time appears to be trust. Right now, he says he has little faith in the true goals of Libra, and comments that most of the public probably feels the same. Again, this is likely a reference to the company’s recent ties to Cambridge Analytica and allegations that it sold users’ private information to third parties for advertising purposes.
In a recent article, Lubin calls Libra a “centralized wolf in decentralized sheep’s clothing.” It has been mentioned in the past the Facebook Coin is allegedly being promoted as a means of payment for goods and services through WhatsApp and merchants’ websites that offer Facebook login options. This would align the currency with one of crypto’s primary goals.
The problem is that Libra is also likely to be controlled by a small party of its largest sponsors, which means that party’s ideals and profits are bound to come first. Maybe not right away, but somewhere down the line. This is a scary thought in the sense that Libra will allegedly become a global cryptocurrency yet will be controlled by only a small and privatized group whose interests could potentially take precedence over customers.
In the article, Lubin writes:
Trust is a slippery subject, especially when magnified to the scale of a global financial infrastructure. Ten years ago, the bitcoin whitepaper proposed that instead of relying ‘exclusively on financial institutions serving as trusted third parties to process electronic payments,’ we can instead rely on crypto-economic proof… With the Libra whitepaper, Facebook is not eliminating subjective trust, but imploring us to trust in Libra. You must trust that one Libra will have ‘intrinsic value’ by being backed by a basket of currencies and government bonds, rather than the capriciousness of daily cryptocurrency price swings. Facebook will seek trust from regulators that its Calibra wallet can comply with know-your-customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering laws by requiring government-issued IDs to verify an account. It will need merchants to trust that their initial network will responsibly run nodes to validate transactions on the system.
If We Don’t Trust It, We Won’t Use It
One of the biggest problems appears to be that Facebook is asking people to trust its new cryptocurrency “just because.” The Cambridge Analytica scandal occurred just over a year ago. Since then, all that’s really changed within the Facebook spectrum is Mark Zuckerberg’s declaration that the platform will focus more on privacy, but even that has caused executives to argue.
In addition, former players in the Facebook arena have spoken out regarding the social media conglomerate’s rise to power through its entry into the digital asset space. Among them is co-founder Chris, Hughes, who referred to the situation as “frightening.”
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Plantation building director declares all buildings at blast site as 'unsafe structures'
Coral Springs police detective sentenced to probation for kicking handcuffed suspect in head
High school student helps orphanage in Haiti
By Samantha Bryant - Reporter
Posted: 5:32 PM, December 29, 2015 Updated: 5:32 PM, December 29, 2015
Zak Myers is a junior at South Broward High School and an Eagle Scout working on a service project to help orphans in Haiti. But he won't be changing diapers or playing with the children. His focus is on solar energy.
With donations, Myers was preparing to travel to Port-au-Prince in February. His plan is to install solar panels in February.
"I would love to keep working with solar electricity and continue widening that horizon," Myers said.
His mom and members of Hollywood CARES, a nonprofit based in Broward County, will be working with him at Project Papillon, an orphanage that tends to about 30 children
They have been getting support from Hollywood Cares, a partnership between a synagogue and a Presbyterian church, for the last few years.
Myers said he plans to continue to put his interest on energy efficiency to use.
"There’s definitely a future to it," Myers said. "I’m not quite done yet."
For more information or to support Myer's efforts, e-mail EagleProject@zakmyers.com.
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Prince Of Wales Theatre Coventry Street, London, W1D 6AS
Catch the electrifying hit musical, The Book of Mormon this weekend with your loved ones! After running a successful period at Broadway, The Book of Mormon is transferred at London Westend. This is one of the immensely awaited shows and has won several massive and critical acclamations. The show marked its opening at Eugene O’Neill Theatre in Broadway.
The magnificent London show has created waves all across the world. This modern musical has been created by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone. The satirical London show takes some major potshots from religion to consumerism. The controversial musical, The Book of Mormon has stunned the whole world with its wits and satirical take on some significant issues.
The popular London musical, The Book of Mormon is the winner of Tony award for Best Musical. This is one of the most loved musicals and wooing audience successfully to the theatres. At the magnificent Prince of Wales Theatre, hit musical The Book of Mormon is enlivened up some lively performance.
The Book of Mormon has been penned by the Tony Award winning writer of Avenue Q, Robert Lopez and directed by Mr. Parker and Casey Nicholaw. So, feel the magic of the record breaking London musical, The Book of Mormon with your family and friends at Prince of Wales Theatre!
The mesmerizing London musical can be enjoyed at fullest at Prince of Wales Theatre! We offer safe and secure booking with seat allocation made before the payment done. All booking will be done from the official STAR agent Websites. So, get your tickets now and have a memorable experience!
Creative : Director : Casey Nicholaw and Trey Parker
Design Scott Pask
Lighting Brian MacDevitt
Choreog'y Casey Nicholaw
Costume Ann Roth
Sound Brian Ronan
Producer Anne Garefino, Scott Rudin and Sonia Friedman Productions
Cast : Cast:
Billy Harrigan Tighe (Elder Price), A.J. Holmes (Elder Cunningham), Alexia Khadime (Nablulungi), Stephen Ashfield (Moroni / Elder Mckinley), Chris Jarman (General), David O’Reilly, Aisha Jawando, Hugo Harold Harrison, Kevin Harvey, Christopher Copeland, Keisha T Fraser, Sia Kiwa, Joshua Liburd, David McMullan, Felix Mosse, Tanya Nicole-Edwards, Ashley Samuels, Rhys Taylor, Michael Vinsen
Immensely anticipated popular London show The Book of Mormon has already stirred the box office with its houseful shows. The show was also bit hit in Broadway and went winning several prestigious awards and acclamations.
The major highlight of the show is certainly outstanding performances by the cast members. With sizzling performances by the actors and superb orchestra, the show certainly grips the viewers tightly. The brilliantly directed satirical show has a few amazing funny moments and also some controversies to is credits as it has been directed against a specific religion followers and they are quite active.
Few performances need to be mentioned such as Elder Price and Cunnigham. They are not stunning as Mormons only but also as human beings. Most of the time, the viewers laugh with them instead of laughing at them.
The Book of Mormon is worth watching featuring chart busting musical numbers. For some audience members, it might be indecently funny or may not like taking pot shots at some religious belief. However, the show is quite entertaining and worth watching for an enjoyable weekend with loved ones!
After more than 32 years in the West End, The Phantom of the Opera continues to sound marvellous. Actually, it sounds even better these days, as it’s a relative rarity, mostly for commercial reasons, for shows to boast an orchestra of twenty-seven members (aside from the London Musical Theatre Orchestra, whose performances are one-off specials in concert format). ‘POTO’, as some of its fans and followers refer to it on social media, has become, over the years, a production without compare. Even if what sounded innovative in 1986 doesn’t always sound quite as ground-breaking at the end of 2017. There’s been a tendency – no names mentioned – to play some of the characters in The Phantom of the Opera with a tad too much melodrama, picked up on in parody numbers like ‘The Song That Goes Like This’ in Spamalot. This 2017/18 cast does not, thankfully, distract from the narrative with mannerisms or hammy performances, making this revisit to a much loved musical an absorbing experience, even when one already knows what is going to happen, and to whom. Manford puts in an engaging performance playing a tortured young woman under pressure, soliciting sympathy from the audience. Such a controlled and nuanced interpretation added depth to the production as a whole, and every high note was, in a word, impeccable. Enchanting as ever, The Phantom of the Opera remains vibrant and beautiful, and in fine form. Review by Chris Omaweng
If you’re London, you MUST see Book of Mormon. It is an incredibly intelligent, witty and hilarious play. This show is a must see, crude humor and catchy songs make for one of my favorite musicals I have ever seen. I would highly recommend anyone visiting London to consider this show, you won't be disappointed. I could not stop smiling and on many occasions laughing out loud! I would watch it again and again...
Book of Mormon...genius Go and see this. It is brilliant...music is superb, acting and cast amazing and the script is fantastic. I have not laughed that hard and for so long in years... Review by graham339
Decided to watch Book of Mormon after reading few reviews - they were mixed ones and I am not South Park fan but it is a 9 time Tony Awards musical and everyone else wanted to watch in the group, so decided on this one. It's a story of two Mormon missionaries on a quest to teach a Ugandan village the ways of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I'm so glad I went as it was hilarious, brilliant, offensively stupid at times but full of laughter. Great music, fantastic cast and set. The cast was very talented, the music and dancing was top notch and the whole theater was doubling with laughter right from beginning to end. The explanation of how the Mormon religion came into being is so funny and the way it is given a hilarious twist is just outstanding. Fantastic presentation. I am so glad got a chance to watch this master creation.
The Book of Mormon is guaranteed to have you howling with laughter! The set, choreography, music and actors all work seemingly effortlessly in harmony to create a show that's guaranteed to have you shedding tears of laughter by the opening number every time! KJ Hippensteel is, in my opinion, the perfect Elder Price. His interpretation of the character is hilarious and lovable despite his faults with his obsession with success and his Disney prince charming personality. I was in awe of his vocals, especially in You and Me (But Mostly Me) and I Believe. Brian Sears is a hilarious Elder Cunningham, the character I instantly fell in love with. His song, Man Up, is my favourite part of the show that has me in stitches every time. It wraps up Act One with bright lights, punk Mormons, smoke effects and Darth Vader. What more could you ask for? It's a hilarious contrast to the rest of the show we've seen so far. At first, I was disappointed that I wouldn't be seeing Asmeret Tyemane as Nabulungi, but Alexandra Ncube blew me away more than I could've ever hoped for! A beautiful and sweet Nabulungi with the voice of an angel. She even had me shed an emotional at her reprise of Hasa Diga Eebowai. However, personally, the real star of the show is the ensemble. Their typical Mormon enthusiasm is infectious and they each bring their own perks to their characters. Sometimes I don't know who to watch! For example, Two by Two and Turn It Off put a spotlight on a few of them and we really learn to love them as individuals. Personally, I'm a big Elder Poptarts fan! Also, we are introduced to the Ugandans with the side spliting Hasa Diga Eebowai, in which we meet key characters like Nabulungi and her father, Mafala. Overall, the Book of Mormon is an incredible experience that blows my mind and sends me away with a stomach ache from laughing so hard every time! Get your tickets now! bartlett310899
One Of The Best Shows On The West End My brother took me to see Book of Mormon for my birthday and I have to say that it was one of the best shows I have ever seen on the West End. --Venue-- The venue of the show I thought was good, although considering this is a popular show, it did get quite crowded, especially for the bar and toilet. The seats we were in were quite close to the stage in the middle and they were comfortable. The seats were also arranged in a way that the person in front of me wasn't obstructing my view. If you are purchasing a ticket and can do, I would get tickets close to the stage as the experience was amazing. --The Show-- From watching it, you can tell it is from the creators of South Park but in all honestly, I don't think it is as offensive as people think. There are some crude moments or some moments that can be considered bad but the way that it is portrayed is more funny than vulgar. I thought the show was spectacular and extremely funny. My sides were hurting when I came out. Everything in the show fitted together nicely and all the characters were amazing to watch. The acting, singing and dancing was brilliant, I have to admit that I wasn't expecting something as amazing as what I watched. I cannot congratulate the performers enough for their work. I think this is a show that anyone can enjoy but you need to go into it with an open mind. If you are someone that is extremely easily offended then I would avoid this. Although I didn't find it offensive and the way the offence is done is more funny, some people who get easily offended by anything may not enjoy this show the way it should be. It is not to offend anyone or to make fun of anyone, it is simply for humor and should be taken as such. --Overall-- It was an amazing experience and a show that didn't disappoint. The songs are stuck in my head and I would happily go watch it again.
Anna C
The book of Mormon is an amazing fun, fast paced musical that has you laughing from the first to the last minute. It does poke fun at the Mormon faith with songs and jokes but it's very light hearted. There is some language that makes it in appropriate for younger audiences (but that didn't stop people taking their kids - I'm sure they had some explaining to do afterwards!!) I would totally recommend this fun musical if you're not easily offended - remember its a production from the creators of South Park! We had a really good night in this small, intimate theater and would totally recommend this for anyone who is looking for a fun night of entertainment! Review by: Gunnersaurus71
Prince Of Wales Meal Deal Packages
The best way to catch the classic London show The Book of Mormon running with packed houses at Prince of Wales Theatre London is with online advance Book of Mormon Theatre Tickets! To make your show more exciting and memorable, it would be advisable to opt for meal before or after the show. These meal deal packages are available at great discounted rates and most of the restaurants are at a nearby distance
Address: 29 Haymarket, , SW1Y 4SP
Dress Code: Casual.
If you are looking for some great venue for eat, party and drink them this is surely one of the hottest spots to go for. With great menu which caters to every taste bud such as Chilli Con Carne topped with melted cheese and served with rice and spicy tortilla chips, Macaroni Cheese (V) with toasted chive crumb, Spiced Tuna Melt with melting Mozzarella spring onions and a salad garnish with Fish Finger Sandwich. The restaurant is located just 35 meters from the theatre and offers authentic British cuisine.
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The brand new state of the art restaurant is at a distance of 153 meters from the theater and known for private and semi-private themes area with ultra cool Hollywood style décor. The restaurant is known or some mouth watering delicacies such as Spaghetti Pomodoro, Classic PH Burger, Classic Cheeseburger or Veggie Burger (V), Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad, Southwestern Grilled Chicken Salad, Blackened Chicken Sandwich etc.
Ruby Blue
Address: 1 Leicester Place, Leicester Square, London, WC2H 7BP
Dress Code: Smart Casual
Located in the famous Leicester Square and near most of the theater, the restaurant offers lip smacking British cuisine. Other major highlights of the restaurant are BBQ half rib racks and traditional beef burgers as well as fajitas and vegetable currie and many more!
Prince Of Wales Theatre Breaks
Experience an ultimate London Theatre Break with one of the topmost five star London Hotels. The luxurious five star hotels will make your show more exciting and enjoyable. Combination of any of the five star hotel with a Westend show will be a complete value of money as you would be able to enjoy great savings. On the contrary, buying show tickets and hotel room separately will be costlier as compare to opting for London Theatre Breaks. So, have a quality time with your loved ones by booking London Theatre Break and enjoying your favourite London show at fullest!
· Andaz
· 40 Liverpool street, London, EC2M 7QN
The stunning five star hotel Andaz is located adjacent to the Liverpool Street Station in a magnificent red brick Victorian building. The hotel is at a nearby distance to some of the popular tourist attractions such as Tower Bridge, the Tower of London, St. Paul's Cathedral, and Spitalfields Market. For shopaholics, Oxford Street and Regent Street are at a walking distance along with theatres, bars and restaurants. The five star hotel dates back to 1884 with occupancy of finely appointed 267 rooms. This is undoubtedly one of the most stylist hotels of East London offering some of the finest delicacies, world class services and luxuries.
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This is another hugely famous five star hotel of London with the reputation of offering world class services at best prices. Some of the major services offered are bar, concierge, indoor swimming pool, restaurant, safe, spa, Wi-Fi, air-conditioning, cable, Gym, leisure activities, Internet, sauna etc.
Note: This accommodation is Room Only, breakfast is not included.
· Eccleston Square
· 37 Eccleston Square, London, SW1V 1B
The scintillating five star hotel is renowned for its unique fusion of old and new. The classic beauty of hotel from outside and the ultra-modern ambience from inside makes this hotel a perfect place to enjoy some great time with your dear ones. Some of the major highlights of this hotel are high ceilings, enormous original windows, Murano glass chandeliers and Promemoria furnishings. Enjoy some great lip smacking food at Bistrot and Belgravia Restaurant.
Book of Mormon – Most Searched Out Show Tickets
According to a survey conducted few weeks ago, the stupendously successful hit musical The Book of Mormon is declared as the most in-demand ticket in the London Westend Theatre.
The show which deals on all the controversial subjects such as Aids and poverty and poverty also features bad language is the most searched out show on websites for London theatre tickets.
The Book of Mormon is followed by The Lion King, Les Miserables, The Phantom of the Opera and Wicked. All of them are hugely successful show of London.
The seventh place is secured by a new entry, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory which is the adaptation of classic novel by Roald Dahl.
The year 2012 was remarkable as few comedians have made their bases shifted from screen to stage such as Tim Minchin, Stephen Fry, Mackenzie Crook and James Corden. A leading ticketing agency spokesperson stated, “With the exception of The Book of Mormon, Brits have gone for the safe option this year when investing in a night out at the theatre.” So the magnificent show.
The Book of Mormon has sure shot emerge as a winner since day one and is successfully wooing theatre lovers to Prince of Wales theatre, where it is running with packed houses.
Book of Mormon Outstanding Cast
The makers of South Park has created another blockbuster critically and massively London classic The Book of Mormon. The enthralling new London show was hugely anticipated amongst the theatre viewers.
The scintillating London show is the winner of 9 prestigious Tony awards and running with packed houses at the Prince of Wales Theatre London. The brilliant musical classic is rightly stated as the most in-demand ticket in London.
American religious satire has outrageous language with jokes on Aids and poverty. This is one of the most popular shows and is creating a rage at the box office. The mesmerizing London show has some of the most talented actors to make it a delightful experience.
Gavin Creel as Elder Price Jared Gertner as Elder Cunningham Alexia Khadime as Nabulungi Stephen Ashfield as Moroni/ Elder Mckinley Giles Terera as Mafala Hatimbi Haydn Oakley as Price’s dad/ Joseph Smith/Mission President Chris Jarman as General
New Cast Members Added in Book of Mormon
The sensational and critically acclaimed London show The Book of Mormon is adding to its glory some new immensely talented cast members from next month. Prestigious Tony award winning musical has won millions of hearts with its great performances and wonderful performers.
The current cast members of the brilliant London show has Gavin Creel, Jared Gertner and Alexia Khadime. They will stay here for some more time. On the other hand, they will be accompanied by newcomers Hugo Harold-Harrison (Grease, Fame), Kevin Harvey (RSC’s Candide), Joshua Liburd (The Scottsboro Boys) and David McMullan (Love Never Dies) at the magnificent Prince of Wales Theatre from 3rd February. Some other newcomers to be the part of sensational London show The Book of Mormon includes Christopher Copeland, Keisha T Fraser, Sia Kiwa, Felix Mosse, Tanya Nicole-Edwards, Ashley Samuels, Rhys Taylor and Michael Vinsen, while Stephen Ashfield, Chris Jarman, Mark Anderson, Benjamin Brook, Daniel Clift, Ashley Day, Patrick George, Nadine Higgin, Evan James, Aisha Jawando, Michael Kent, Daniel MacKinlay, Terel Nugent, David O’Reilly, Lucy St. Louis, Kayi Ushe and Tosh Wanogho-Maud.
The remarkable Avenue Q co creator Robert Lopez and South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have collaborated to create the popular and award winning London show The Book of Mormon.The show revolves around two Mormon Boys who have been sent for a mission at a remote place.
The Book of Mormon also includes some chartbusting musical numbers such as I Am Africa, I Believe and Man Up. The brilliant satirical musical is a complete delightful experience for the theatre goers.
The Book of Mormon Extended Booking to 12th December
Critically acclaimed and award winning London musical, The Book of Mormon has won various prestigious awards such as Olivier and Tony award. The booking period of the show has been extended to 12th December 2015 at the magnificent Prince of Wales Theatre London.
On 21st March 2013, The Book of Mormon made its debut after previews from 25th February. The show has enjoyed huge praise and appreciation for its original concept and polished production. Various journals also stated, “Cleverly written...enormously enjoyable" (Londontheatre.co.uk); "Decadent and self-indulgent musical" (Telegraph); "mildly amusing" (Guardian); "Loved it" (Independent).”
The current stars of the London musical are Nic Rouleau as Elder Price and Brian Sears as Elder Cunningham, alongside Alexia Khadime as Nablulungi, Stephen Ashfield as Moroni / Elder Mckinley, and Chris Jarman as The General.
The Book of Mormon revolve around a pair of mismatched Mormon boys who have been sent on a mission to distant place which is far from Salt Lake City. The South Park team penned, whereas book, music and lyrics by Trey Parker, Robert Lopez and Matt Stone. Casey Nicholaw and Trey Parker’s superb direction and designed by Scott Pask, lighting by Brian MacDevitt, choreography by Casey Nicholaw, costumes by Ann Roth, sound by Brian Ronan.
The blockbuster show, The Book of Mormon has nominated for six Olivier awards comprises of Best Choreography, Best Actor in a Musical (Gavin Creel) and Best New Musical.
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Outlander Classic Tour
Cultural & Theme Tours, Edinburgh to Returns to original departure point
Duration8 days
DepartsEdinburgh
We started running Outlander tours 13 years ago after meeting Diana Gabaldon. As well as visiting sites from the story we put it them in context and explore what 18th Century Highland life was like. It’s a great general introduction to Scotland too.
ItineraryDay 1: EdinburghStop At: Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, ScotlandTime to get out and about... see Edinburgh Castle with your free pass (allow at least two hours), the Royal Mile (we provide you with a guide of 'Outlander places') and the Palace of Holyroodhouse.Duration: 2 hoursMeals included: • BreakfastAccommodation included: A chic Bed and Breakfast close to Edinburgh city centre.Day 2: Moving NorthStop At: Falkland Palace & Garden, Falkland, Fife, Scotland First stop is Falkland in Fife, used in the TV series for Inverness. Next, see what it looks like to stand in the dock and be accused of witchcraft (you'll just have to imagine the baying crowd!).After lunch we are in the Highlands and on our way to the Highland Folk Museum to see the traditional village used in the rent gathering scenes. The next two nights are at a charming B&B in the Highland town of Nairn.Duration: 1 hourStop At: Highland Folk Museum, Newtonmore, Aviemore and the Cairngorms, Scottish Highlands, ScotlandAfter lunch we are in the Highlands and on our way to the Highland Folk Museum to see the traditional village used in the rent gathering scenes. The next two nights are at a charming B&B in the Highland town of Nairn.Duration: 1 hourMeals included: • Breakfast • DinnerAccommodation included: A charming B&B in the Highland town of Nairn.Day 3: InvernessStop At: Culloden Battlefield, Culloden Moor, Scottish Highlands, ScotlandThe new visitor centre at Culloden offers a detailed explanation of the battle, the background to the conflict and its brutal aftermath. Duration: 2 hoursStop At: Beauly Priory, Beauly, Scottish Highlands, ScotlandThen we head by Inverness to the Fraser of Lovat clan lands, including a visit to the tomb of the 11th Lord Lovat ('The Old Fox') and Beauly Priory (where Claire met Maisri the prophetess).Duration: 1 hourStop At: Castle Leod, Strathpeffer, Ross and Cromarty, Scottish Highlands, ScotlandAfter lunch a tour of Castle Leod by its owner, the Earl of Cromartie. Duration: 2 hoursStop At: Clava Cairns, Scottish Highlands, ScotlandFinally the bronze age Clava Cairns and stone circles. That evening, you will have the chance to hold a claymore, targe and dirk yourself and learn more about the life of a clansman and his traditional dress.Duration: 1 hourMeals included: • BreakfastAccommodation included: A charming B&B in the Highland town of Nairn.Day 4: Isle of SkyePass By: Loch Ness, Loch Ness, Scottish Highlands, ScotlandWe head west by Loch Ness and Glenmoriston (where Prince Charles Edward hid for three weeks in 1746) and by Glenshiel (site of another Jacobite battle) to the dramatic Mam Rattigan Pass. Stop At: Eilean Donan Castle, Kyle of Lochalsh, Lochalsh, Scottish Highlands, ScotlandOne of Scotland's most famous sites. Duration: 2 hoursPass By: Ratagan to Glenelg, Ratagan, Scottish Highlands, ScotlandAmazing drive to the only turntable ferry in Europe and on to the Isle of Skye.Meals included: • BreakfastAccommodation included: A small hotel on Skye.Day 5: Isle of SkyeStop At: Kilt Rock, Isle of Skye, The Hebrides, ScotlandCameras out today and we pray for good weather as we see 'Kilt Rock'. Duration: 20 minutesStop At: The Old Man of Storr, Isle of Skye, The Hebrides, ScotlandLook across to the pillar known as the 'Old Man of Storr', wind up to the dramatic Quirang viewpoint and across to Uig. This landscape is not much changed from the 18th century and helps us understand what life was like then.Duration: 15 minutesStop At: Dunvegan Castle & Gardens, Dunvegan, Isle of Skye, The Hebrides, ScotlandLunch is at Dunvegan and that afternoon we hear from a local (though internationally-known) storyteller.Duration: 3 hoursMeals included: • BreakfastAccommodation included: A small hotel in SkyeDay 6: HighlandsPass By: Sound of Sleat Beach, Sleat, Isle of Skye, The Hebrides, ScotlandWe take the ferry across the Sound of Sleat to Mallaig.Pass By: Mallaig Heritage Centre, Mallaig, Lochaber, Scottish Highlands, Scotland Arrive off ferry, then drive the west coast by Loch nan Uamh (from where Prince Charles Edward left in September 1746) Pass By: Glenfinnan Monument, Glenfinnan, Lochaber, Scottish Highlands, ScotlandTo Glenfinnan (where he raised his standard in August 1745).Stop At: Fort William VisitScotland iCentre, Fort William, Lochaber, Scottish Highlands, ScotlandTo Fort William (sadly almost nothing much left of the original fort) for lunch stop.Duration: 1 hourStop At: Glencoe Visitor Centre, Glencoe, Scottish Highlands, ScotlandHeading inland we see Glencoe (famous for the massacre of the MacDonalds in 1692) and Rannoch Moor. Duration: 15 minutesPass By: Rannoch Moor Visitor Centre, Kinloch Rannoch, Perth and Kinross, ScotlandDrive pass the the beautiful moor.Meals included: • BreakfastAccommodation included: That night we are in a family run inn by Loch Tay.Day 7: TV Locations DayStop At: Doune Castle, Doune, Stirling, ScotlandFirst up is Doune Castle, (Castle Leoch of course). Duration: 1 hourStop At: Royal Burgh of Culross, Culross, Fife, ScotlandThen to Culross, a fascinating 16th century time capsule, used for Cranesmuir and other places. Duration: 40 minutesStop At: Blackness Castle, Linlithgow, West Lothian, ScotlandFrom here we head to Blackness (Fort William).Duration: 1 hourStop At: Midhope Castle, South Queensferry, Edinburgh, ScotlandMidhope (Lally Broch). Duration: 45 minutesMeals included: • BreakfastAccommodation included: A splendid castle outside Edinburgh.Day 8: Return to EdinburghStop At: Rosslyn Chapel, Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland15th Century Rosslyn Chapel has been described as a 'Bible in Stone'. In fact it is more: full of carvings that recall tales of Knights Templar, Freemasons and the Holy Grail. After this we have a private tour of the church where Jamie and Claire were married. Duration: 2 hoursStop At: Craigmillar Castle, Edinburgh, ScotlandFinal lunch at a local pub and then visit to Craigmillar Castle, used for Ardsmuir in Season Three.The experience of several years has taught us that there are always individual things (like shopping!) that people absolutely have to do on the last afternoon and so the group gets depleted. We have therefore decided to end the tour mid afternoon. The guide will transport anyone to any part of the city that they may want to explore and departs when everyone is happily occupied at whatever they need to do. Duration: 2 hoursMeals included: • BreakfastAccommodation included: Last night at the same B&B where you started.
8x Breakfast
1x Dinner
Accommodation included: 8 nights
Jacobite Weapons Presentation
Private Castle Tour
Storyteller on Skye
Entry/Admission - Edinburgh Castle
Entry/Admission - Highland Folk Museum
Entry/Admission - Culloden Battlefield
Entry/Admission - Beauly Priory
Entry/Admission - Castle Leod
Entry/Admission - Clava Cairns
Entry/Admission - Eilean Donan Castle
Entry/Admission - Dunvegan Castle & Gardens
Entry/Admission - Doune Castle
Entry/Admission - Blackness Castle
Entry/Admission - Midhope Castle
Entry/Admission - Rosslyn Chapel
Entry/Admission - Craigmillar Castle
Entry/Admission - Falkland Palace & Garden
Day 1: Edinburgh Stop At: Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland Time to get out and about... see Edinburgh Castle with your free pass (allow at least two hours), the Royal Mile (we provide you with a guide of 'Outlander places') and the Palace of Holyroodhouse. Duration: 2 hours Meals included: • Breakfast Accommodation included: A chic Bed and Breakfast close to Edinburgh city centre.
Day 2: Moving North Stop At: Falkland Palace & Garden, Falkland, Fife, Scotland First stop is Falkland in Fife, used in the TV series for Inverness. Next, see what it looks like to stand in the dock and be accused of witchcraft (you'll just have to imagine the baying crowd!). After lunch we are in the Highlands and on our way to the Highland Folk Museum to see the traditional village used in the rent gathering scenes. The next two nights are at a charming B&B in the Highland town of Nairn. Duration: 1 hour Stop At: Highland Folk Museum, Newtonmore, Aviemore and the Cairngorms, Scottish Highlands, Scotland After lunch we are in the Highlands and on our way to the Highland Folk Museum to see the traditional village used in the rent gathering scenes. The next two nights are at a charming B&B in the Highland town of Nairn. Duration: 1 hour Meals included: • Breakfast • Dinner Accommodation included: A charming B&B in the Highland town of Nairn.
Day 3: Inverness Stop At: Culloden Battlefield, Culloden Moor, Scottish Highlands, Scotland The new visitor centre at Culloden offers a detailed explanation of the battle, the background to the conflict and its brutal aftermath. Duration: 2 hours Stop At: Beauly Priory, Beauly, Scottish Highlands, Scotland Then we head by Inverness to the Fraser of Lovat clan lands, including a visit to the tomb of the 11th Lord Lovat ('The Old Fox') and Beauly Priory (where Claire met Maisri the prophetess). Duration: 1 hour Stop At: Castle Leod, Strathpeffer, Ross and Cromarty, Scottish Highlands, Scotland After lunch a tour of Castle Leod by its owner, the Earl of Cromartie. Duration: 2 hours Stop At: Clava Cairns, Scottish Highlands, Scotland Finally the bronze age Clava Cairns and stone circles. That evening, you will have the chance to hold a claymore, targe and dirk yourself and learn more about the life of a clansman and his traditional dress. Duration: 1 hour Meals included: • Breakfast Accommodation included: A charming B&B in the Highland town of Nairn.
Day 4: Isle of Skye Pass By: Loch Ness, Loch Ness, Scottish Highlands, Scotland We head west by Loch Ness and Glenmoriston (where Prince Charles Edward hid for three weeks in 1746) and by Glenshiel (site of another Jacobite battle) to the dramatic Mam Rattigan Pass. Stop At: Eilean Donan Castle, Kyle of Lochalsh, Lochalsh, Scottish Highlands, Scotland One of Scotland's most famous sites. Duration: 2 hours Pass By: Ratagan to Glenelg, Ratagan, Scottish Highlands, Scotland Amazing drive to the only turntable ferry in Europe and on to the Isle of Skye. Meals included: • Breakfast Accommodation included: A small hotel on Skye.
Day 5: Isle of Skye Stop At: Kilt Rock, Isle of Skye, The Hebrides, Scotland Cameras out today and we pray for good weather as we see 'Kilt Rock'. Duration: 20 minutes Stop At: The Old Man of Storr, Isle of Skye, The Hebrides, Scotland Look across to the pillar known as the 'Old Man of Storr', wind up to the dramatic Quirang viewpoint and across to Uig. This landscape is not much changed from the 18th century and helps us understand what life was like then. Duration: 15 minutes Stop At: Dunvegan Castle & Gardens, Dunvegan, Isle of Skye, The Hebrides, Scotland Lunch is at Dunvegan and that afternoon we hear from a local (though internationally-known) storyteller. Duration: 3 hours Meals included: • Breakfast Accommodation included: A small hotel in Skye
Day 6: Highlands Pass By: Sound of Sleat Beach, Sleat, Isle of Skye, The Hebrides, Scotland We take the ferry across the Sound of Sleat to Mallaig. Pass By: Mallaig Heritage Centre, Mallaig, Lochaber, Scottish Highlands, Scotland Arrive off ferry, then drive the west coast by Loch nan Uamh (from where Prince Charles Edward left in September 1746) Pass By: Glenfinnan Monument, Glenfinnan, Lochaber, Scottish Highlands, Scotland To Glenfinnan (where he raised his standard in August 1745). Stop At: Fort William VisitScotland iCentre, Fort William, Lochaber, Scottish Highlands, Scotland To Fort William (sadly almost nothing much left of the original fort) for lunch stop. Duration: 1 hour Stop At: Glencoe Visitor Centre, Glencoe, Scottish Highlands, Scotland Heading inland we see Glencoe (famous for the massacre of the MacDonalds in 1692) and Rannoch Moor. Duration: 15 minutes Pass By: Rannoch Moor Visitor Centre, Kinloch Rannoch, Perth and Kinross, Scotland Drive pass the the beautiful moor. Meals included: • Breakfast Accommodation included: That night we are in a family run inn by Loch Tay.
Day 7: TV Locations Day Stop At: Doune Castle, Doune, Stirling, Scotland First up is Doune Castle, (Castle Leoch of course). Duration: 1 hour Stop At: Royal Burgh of Culross, Culross, Fife, Scotland Then to Culross, a fascinating 16th century time capsule, used for Cranesmuir and other places. Duration: 40 minutes Stop At: Blackness Castle, Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland From here we head to Blackness (Fort William). Duration: 1 hour Stop At: Midhope Castle, South Queensferry, Edinburgh, Scotland Midhope (Lally Broch). Duration: 45 minutes Meals included: • Breakfast Accommodation included: A splendid castle outside Edinburgh.
Day 8: Return to Edinburgh Stop At: Rosslyn Chapel, Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland 15th Century Rosslyn Chapel has been described as a 'Bible in Stone'. In fact it is more: full of carvings that recall tales of Knights Templar, Freemasons and the Holy Grail. After this we have a private tour of the church where Jamie and Claire were married. Duration: 2 hours Stop At: Craigmillar Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland Final lunch at a local pub and then visit to Craigmillar Castle, used for Ardsmuir in Season Three. The experience of several years has taught us that there are always individual things (like shopping!) that people absolutely have to do on the last afternoon and so the group gets depleted. We have therefore decided to end the tour mid afternoon. The guide will transport anyone to any part of the city that they may want to explore and departs when everyone is happily occupied at whatever they need to do. Duration: 2 hours Meals included: • Breakfast Accommodation included: Last night at the same B&B where you started.
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Let's Celebrate National Pollinator Week
Bug Squad By Kathy Keatley Garvey June 14, 2019
A ceramic/mosaic sculpture, “Miss Bee Haven,” anchors the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven on Bee Biology Road, UC Davis. It is the work of self-described rock artist Donna Billick of Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Did you know that next week is National Pollinator Week?
It is. June 17-21 is the week set aside to celebrate pollinators and how we can protect them.
Actually, National Pollinator Week should be every day.
Launched 12 years ago under U.S. Senate approval, National Pollinator Week zeroes in on the valuable ecosystem services provided by bees, birds, butterflies, bats and beetles, according to Pollinator Partnership, which manages the national celebration. (Other pollinators include syrphid or hover flies, mosquitoes, moths, pollen wasps, and ants. Pollination involves the transfer of pollen from the male anther of a flower to the female stigma.)
On the UC Davis campus, the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, operated by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, will be a "hive" of activity next week, announced manager Christine Casey, academic program management officer. "We'll be hosting National Pollinator Week events Monday through Friday, June 17 to 21, between 10 a.m. and noon each day." Activities include bee information and identification, solitary bee house making, and catch-and-release bee observation.
The haven volunteers also will sell bee friendly plants and bee houses to support the haven (cash and checks only).
A new event at the haven is hive opening. At 11:45 a.m. on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, California Master Beekeeper Program volunteers will open the hive in the haven "so visitors may see the girls in action." The haven, installed in the fall of 2009, is located on Bee Biology Road, west of the central campus. It is open from dawn to dark, free admission.
The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation is planning a free webinar Insect Apocalypse? What Is Really Happening, Why It Matters and How Natural Area Managers Can Help on Tuesday, June 18. The webinar, by Scott Hoffman Black, executive director of the Xerces Society begins at noon, Eastern Time, which is 9 a.m., Pacific Time.
Black says he will "explain the latest science on insect declines and highlight important ways natural areas managers can incorporate invertebrate conservation into their land management portfolio. Though they are indisputably the most important creatures on earth, invertebrates are in trouble. Recent regional reports and trends in biomonitoring suggest that insects are experiencing a multi continental crisis evident as reductions in abundance, diversity and biomass. Given the centrality of insects to terrestrial and freshwater aquatic ecosystems and the food chain that supports humans, the potential importance of this crisis cannot be overstated. If we hope to stem the losses of insect diversity and the services they provide, society must take steps at all levels to protect, restore and enhance habitat for insects across landscapes, from wildlands to farmlands to urban cores. Protecting and managing existing habitat is an essential step as natural areas can act as reservoirs for invertebrate diversity." Click here for more information and to register.
Happy Pollinator Week! Think the "b" alliteration: bees, birds, butterflies, bats and beetles. But don't forget the flies, ants, mosquitoes and moths!
Visitors to the Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven can learn what to plant to attract pollinators. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Gardening For Bees, Neal Williams, National Pollinator Week
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National Pollinator Week Is A Time To Celebrate Pollinators And Spread The Word About What You Can Do To Protect Them
Eleven years ago the U.S. Senate’s unanimous approval and designation of a week in June as “National Pollinator Week” marked a necessary step toward addressing the urgent issue of declining pollinator populations. Pollinator Week has now grown into an international celebration of the valuable ecosystem services provided by bees, birds, butterflies, bats and beetles.
The Pollinator Partnership is proud to announce that June 18-24, 2018 has been designated National Pollinator Week.
POLLINATOR WEEK WAS INITIATED AND IS MANAGED BY THE POLLINATOR PARTNERSHIP.
FIND EVENTS: http://pollinator.org/pollinator-week
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National Pollinator Week - June 20-26, 2016
National Pollinator Week is a time to celebrate pollinators and spread the word about what you can do to protect them.
Nine years ago the U.S. Senate’s unanimous approval and designation of a week in June as “National Pollinator Week” marked a necessary step toward addressing the urgent issue of declining pollinator populations. Pollinator Week has now grown into an international celebration of the valuable ecosystem services provided by bees, birds, butterflies, bats and beetles.
The Pollinator Partnership is proud to announce that June 20-26, 2016 has been designated National Pollinator Week by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of the Interior.
http://pollinator.org/pollinatorweek/
It's not too early to start thinking about an event at your school, garden, church, store, etc. Pollinators positively affect all our lives, supporting wildlife, healthy watershed and more - let's SAVE and CELEBRATE them!
http://pollinator.org/pollinatorweek/events
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Love Tequila? A Toast to Pollinating Bats
Smithsonian Science.org June 18, 2014
Do you enjoy tequila? Then you need to raise your glass to the pollinating bats that helped to make it. At Smithsonian Science they are celebrating Pollinator Week by exploring the world of pollinating bats.
http://smithsonianscience.org/2014/06/love-tequila-toast-pollinating-bats/
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National Pollinator Week: Checking in on Colony Collapse Disorder
Food Safety News By James Andrews June 20, 2014
The week of July [June] 16 is being celebrated as National Pollinators Week in an effort to bring more awareness to the integral role that pollinators such as bees, birds, and the other flying creatures play in the life cycles of an estimated 75 percent of the world’s crop varieties and 35 percent of total crop production.
The occasion is also a time to reflect on the current understanding of colony collapse disorder (CCD), the phenomenon causing a spike in die-offs of honey bee populations around the world over the past decade.
One of the biggest developments in CCD research from the past year has been a study from the Harvard School of Public Health on the effects of neonicotinoid pesticides on bee populations. The study found that, while non-lethal doses of these pesticides would not seem to harm the bees during spring and summer, they had dramatic effects on the bees during winter.
Six out of 12 pesticide-treated bee colonies in the study abandoned their hives after winter and died off, while only one out of six of the non-pesticide colonies died off — and that was from a different disease that killed the bees inside their hive. One of the trademarks of CCD is a low number of dead bees left behind, with most abandoning the hive to die elsewhere.
While research is still being done to clearly define the cause of CCD, at this point believed to be the cumulative effect of numerous stressors on bees, the Harvard study’s authors concluded that their experiment singled out neonicotinoid pesticides as the leading cause of the problem.
At the same time, neonicotinoids are facing more legal scrutiny on both sides of the Atlantic.
Last August, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency introduced mandatory labels on neonicotinoid pesticides that warn users to be wary of harming pollinators and advising them not to spray under certain conditions during which pollinators are most likely to be present.
In December 2013, a two-year ban on neonicotinoids went into effect in Europe in order to study how well European bee populations fare in the absence of the pesticides. The U.S. EPA will be keeping a close eye on how that ban plays out.
“Based on currently available data, the EPA’s scientific conclusions are similar to those expressed in the EFSA [European] report with regard to the potential for acute effects and uncertainty about chronic risk,” EPA stated. “However, the EFSA report does not address risk management, which, under U.S. federal law, is a key component of the EPA’s pesticide regulatory scheme.”
Chemical companies fought the European ban, saying that it placed an unfair blame on pesticides when evidence suggested a number of other factors, such as viruses and parasites, played into CCD.
Bee experts aren’t all ready to place the blame squarely on pesticides, either. As more research time focuses on CCD, more researchers are coming to the conclusion that it’s caused by a complex synergy of factors, said Dr. Gene Robinson, director of the Institute for Genomic Biology and the Swanlund Chair of Entomology at the University of Illinois.
“The simple fact of the matter is that no single factor can explain the occurrence, distribution and severity of colony collapse disorder,” Robinson said.
Researchers are increasingly designing studies that account for multiple stressors on bees — not a simple feat to achieve in a controlled study environment. Measuring one effect really well is difficult enough, Robinson noted.
At this point, Robinson said he viewed insecticides as receiving too much of the blame. He cautioned against focusing solely on chemicals when pathogens, parasites and environmental changes have shown to have a significant effect on CCD.
“Colony collapse disorder can be regarded as a warning sign for all of our interactions with the environment and the species that are important to us,” Robinson said. “There are a variety of different factors in different combinations that can all have serious effects.”
And, while conducting research is expensive and public attention may wane until the next dire news of massive die-offs emerges, Robinson said it’s incredibly important to continue understanding CCD and what it could mean for our environmental interactions on a bigger scale.
“Using honey bees as canaries in the coal mine, what does this say about other species?” he asked.
Read at: http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2014/06/draft-national-pollinators-week-checking-in-on-colony-collapse-disorder/#.U6QyXfldUmt
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Cool Things About Bees That Have Nothing To Do With The Beepocalypse
greenpeaceblogs.org By Jason Schwartz June 18, 2014
It’s National Pollinator Week, seven days the US government sets aside to honor the butterflies, birds, beetles, and bats that keep a lot of our plants (and food supply) going. But if you’ve been paying even the most casual attention, you probably know that that bees, particularly honeybees, are in some serious trouble.
Colony Collapse Disorder is decimating bee populations in the U.S. and Europe. For years, scientists have been trying to understand its causes. But a recent study by Harvard scientists confirms what many in the EU have already taken to heart: a group of pesticides called neonicotinoids are, in large part, to blame.
While we’re super concerned about bees and believe, like any sensible people, that their problems are our problems, we’re not here to talk about Colony Collapse Disorder right now. We think it’s a bummer that so much of the press around bees is about catastrophe, pesticides, mites, viruses, and doom and gloom, while the other great discoveries around bees — which seem to pop up constantly — get little fanfare. So here’s a little sampling, just from the past couple months.
Small brain, big maps
Animal pollinators like birds and butterflies use the sun as a navigational tool, sort of like a compass. Mammals, on the other hand, tend to create mental maps using landmarks. Recent research is showing that despite their tiny brains, bees may actually do both, creating cognitive maps using memorized ‘landscape snapshots’ to find their way home, at times when the sun can’t be relied upon.
Bees are better than water
Researchers in California found that neither lack of fertilizer nor insufficient watering were as damaging to almond yields than a lack of bees and other wild pollinators. In other words, the presence of bees is more important to crop yields than fertilizer and sufficient watering(WHAT?!) As climate change sends us down a path of food insecurity, preserving bee populations is that much more urgent.
Berries are better with bees
Pollination by bees doesn’t just make more fruit, it makes better fruit.Researchers found that strawberries pollinated by bees were redder, better formed, heavier, firmer, and had better sugar-acid ratios (a marker of flavor) than self-or-wind pollinated strawberries. Another study found similar results when diverse bee species visited their blueberry plants. The economic implications of better berries with longer shelf lives are self-evident, but for most of us, that’s not the point, is it?
Get your wag on
The waggle dance is how honey bees show hivemates the direction and distance of the good stuff. A recent study shows the waggling bees tend to urge their peers toward nature reserves and rural areas that are managed for agri-ecological diversity. Heavily managed, conventionally-farmed areas are low on bees priority list, even when they house nectar rich flowers. Why? Well don’t they sound boring to you too?
Buzzed Bees
A recent study showed that bees experience improved long-term memory (along with a predictable mild high) when visiting plants who provide them with caffeine. The caffeine acts as a kind of reward, perhaps provoking bees to remember where they found it. The report also found that bees like to visit those plants in the morning and again at 3pm, when the workday feels like it’s never going to end. Actually that last part is me.
Rambling men
Neotropical orchid bees, which evolved to depend on year-round warm and moist habitats, are really at risk, as climate change and habitat loss from deforestation have taken a toll on their homes. Fortunately for their continued survival, a sexual variation in orchid bees that has males traveling up to 7km a day means that genetic variation and vitality may be maintained, across fragmented habitats. It’s probably best not to ask where those guys have been though, unless you want to hear bad excuses. They may travel far and use their mental maps to get home, but scientists are still pretty sure bees are bad liars.
Stuff like this comes out in science journals all the time. There are thousands of scientists all over the world whose job is to figure out new things about bees. That’s their job. Where did I go wrong?
During this National Pollinator week, can we expect legislation from the White House and President Obama about protecting our bees and pollinators? Might we finally see legislation to limit the use of neo-nicotinoids?
We’re not holding our breath, but we hope so.
Read at... http://greenpeaceblogs.org/2014/06/18/national-pollinator-week-six-bee-studies-arent-beepocalypse/?utm_source=gpusafb&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=bees
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Pollinator Week 2014 Mobilizes America for Pollinators
The Pollinator Partnership (P2) announced today that its signature initiative, Pollinator Week, has reached significant new milestones in 2014. Established in 2007, Pollinator Week has grown exponentially in scope each year with this year June 16-22 being designated byU.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and 44 governors as a week to celebrate and protect the nation’s pollinating animals (a complete list of State proclamations and events is available at http://pollinator.org/npw_events.htm). Pollinators, like bees, butterflies, birds and other animals, bring us one in every three bites of food, protect our environment. They form the underpinnings of a healthy and sustainable future. From the Louisville Middle School on Main Street, Louisville, CO to the Bee Palooza at Michigan State University; from the Unitarian Universalist Church of Asheville, NC to the 3rd-5th graders at the Citizen Science Nature Camp in Houston, TX – Americans have made pollinator health an issue that they are doing something about!
Joining and supporting this effort are some of the largest businesses and most powerful voices in the country. This year has marked a strong surge in interest in the health of America’s pollinators including First Lady Michelle Obama’s first-ever White House pollinator garden. Pollinator Week marks a new dawn of wise land management across the country and new initiatives launched during Pollinator Week 2014 will multiply the efforts to support pollinators. The following items are just a start:
The Highways BEE Act has been introduced in the Congress by the joint leadership of Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) and Rep. Jeff Denham (R-CA), co-chairs of the Congressional Pollinator Protection Caucus (CP2C). Over 200 national, regional, and local organizations and 2,000 American scientists and individuals from all walks of life across the nation have already signed a petition in support. This pollinator action-opportunity continues for all interested organizations, businesses and individuals at http://www.pollinator.org/BEEAct.htm.
Pollinator Week showcases the brand new pollinator poster of the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC), Native Orchids Need Their Pollinators. This 2014 poster marks the debuts of pollinator artist Emily Underwood, a scientific illustrator living and working in central California. The poster is available at www.pollinator.org where a new web feature illuminates the intricate interactions between wild orchids and their pollinators, including video footage of orchid pollination.
To kick off Pollinator Week, the Pollinator Partnership teamed with Walgreens, Burt’s Bees, and the Evanston Ecology Center to plant a pollinator garden with volunteers from local schools and gardening groups. The garden, located at the Evanston, Illinois Ecology Center, will be a learning resource for people and a much-needed habitat for local and migratory pollinating species. The nearly quarter acre site will be completed with a second planting later in the summer. The garden has been built with funding from the sales of Burt’s Bees lip balm purchased at the new LEED-certified Walgreens in Evanston which opened in the fall of 2013. For information contact Mark@pollinator.org.
Efforts during Pollinator Week, and indeed year-round, are working to reverse and prevent pollinator declines caused by loss of habitat, disease, pesticides, parasites and other interconnected assaults on pollinator populations. Laurie Davies Adams, Executive Director of P2 said, “It’s appropriate to see the highest levels of government as well as the grassroots individuals and communities taking action for pollinators. We applaud everyone participating in Pollinator Week 2014. It’s a great starting point for actions, large and small, that support the future of our pollinators, our food supply, and our environment.”
ABOUT THE POLLINATOR PARTNERSHIP (P2)
Established in 1997, the Pollinator Partnership is the largest 501(c) 3 non-profit organization dedicated exclusively to the health, protection, and conservation of all pollinating animals. Pollinator Partnership’s actions for pollinators include education, conservation, restoration, policy, and research. P2’s financial support comes through grants, gifts, memberships and donations from any interested party. P2’s policies are science-based, set by its board of directors, and never influenced by any donor. To make a donation or for information on events during Pollinator Week, visit www.pollinator.org
(This message brought to us by CATCH THE BUZZ: Kim Flottom, Bee Culture, The Magazine Of American Beekeeping, published by the A.I. Root Company. Twitter.Facebook. Bee Culture’s Blog.)
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By Scott Munro (Metal Hammer) 2018-12-03T10:31:35Z Metal Hammer
Gary Holt leaves Slayer’s European tour to care for his ill father - former Machine Head guitarist Phil Demmel brought in for upcoming shows
Slayer guitarist Gary Holt has left the band’s European tour to travel back to the US to care for his ill father.
The band played Berlin’s Mercedes-Benz Arena last night and, with a handful of dates remaining over the course of the next week, Slayer have brought in former Machine Head guitarist Phil Demmel to take over during Holt’s absence.
Holt says: “First things first. I want to say thank you to Berlin for the amazing show – best crowd ever. But what I’ve got to say has been very hard for me these last 10 days or so.
“My father is very near the end of his journey. I’ve been playing these last several shows with the heaviest of hearts – and with that heavy heart, I have to announce I am leaving Slayer’s European tour.
“I must return home to help care for my dad in his final moments. Tonight ended with me in tears while finishing Angel Of Death, but the crowd brought out the best in me. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
“And that having been said, I want each and every Slayer fan to give their biggest screams for Phil Demmel, Bay Area legend.
“My dear friend, who having just finished a tour, agreed to help me and the band out and learn an entire Slayer set in days and come out here so I can return home for my dad.
“Thank you Phil, you are family. Love you bro! Please give him your warmest welcome.”
Holt continues: “Most of all, I gotta thank Tom Araya, Paul Bostaph and Kerry King – you guys are truly my family and have had my back through all what has been the roughest time in my life on tour.
“And thanks to the entire crew, Lamb Of God, Anthrax and Obituary and their crews for knowing you all have been there for me through this.”
Holt goes on to thank the fans, his wife Lisa and his Exodus bandmates for their support and adds: “I’ll be back in March to crush once more.”
Following the latest run of dates, which will conclude in Helsinki on December 8, Slayer will take a few months off before a run of shows in Australia and New Zealand in March and have further performances planned throughout 2019.
First things first, I want to say thank you to Berlin for the AMAZING show tonight!! BEST CROWD EVER! But what I’ve got to say has been very very hard for me these last ten days or so. My father is very near the end of his journey,I’ve been playing these last several shows with the heaviest of hearts.And with that heavy heart I have to announce I am leaving the Slayer European tour. I must return home to help care for my dad in his final moments. Tonight ended with me in tears while finishing Angel of death. But the crowd brought out the best in me. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I love you all. And that having been said, I want EACH AND EVERY Slayer fan to give their biggest screams for Phil Demmel @demmelitionmh !! Bay Area legend!!! My dear friend, who having JUST finished a tour agreed to help me and the band out and learn an entire Slayer set in days and come out here so I can return home for my dad. Thank you Phil, you are family, love you bro! Please give him your warmest welcome.And most of all, I gotta thank @slayerbandofficial , @tomarayaofficial @paulbostaphofficial and Kerry King, you guys are TRULY my family, and have had my back through all what has been the roughest time in my life on tour. And thanks to our ENTIRE crew, and @lambofgod @anthrax and @obituaryband and their crews, knowing you all have been there for me through this, FAMILY. Love all of you. To my fans, thanks from the bottom of my black heart, I’ll be back in March to crush once more. And more than anything , thanks to my wife @lisaholt777 , had I been alone for this, my melt downs would have been even greater. Love you baby. See all of you soon. Thank you. And MUCH LOVE to my bros in Exodus! They know what’s going on, and no one has my back more @exodusbandofficial @zetrodus you guys are my rock Gary Holt
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5 Ways To Cope With The Death Of A Pet
The loss of a pet can bring as much grief as the loss of some human friends and family members.
This makes sense when you consider the role our animal companions play in our everyday lives. You cared for your pet’s every need and, because they could not speak, you learned to communicate in other ways. Such caring builds intimacy similar to that found between a parent and their infant; love without conflict, jealousy, or any of the other complications found in most relationships. So when a pet dies, the depth of your grief reflects your loss of a special relationship.
“When we lose a pet, we lose a relationship unlike any other,” says Ken Dolan-Del Vecchio (www.greengateleadership.com), a family therapist and author of The Pet Loss Companion: Healing Advice From Family Therapists Who Lead Pet Loss Groups.
“Many of us love our pets the way we love our children. But in the immediate aftermath of this unique loss, too often family members and friends say things like, ‘Just get another one.’ Instead of devaluing your grief over the loss of this important relationship, as others may advise, embrace your sorrow. Your grief is important, for it will lead you to healing and teach you important things about what matters most in life.”
Dolan-Del Vecchio offers these tips for those grieving the loss of a pet:
• Share your grief with empathetic friends. Spend time with people who understand your closeness with your pet. Even some friends may be insensitive, so be careful to avoid “get over it” types of people. “Unfortunately, many people see animals as if they were non-living objects,” Dolan-Del Vecchio says.
• Attend a pet loss support group. Pet loss groups provide a concentrated dose of social support. Meeting with others who also grieve and share similar emotions can boost one’s healing greatly.
• Keep moving. Exercise is a healer. It boosts feelings of well-being and calm, improves sleep and brightens your mood.
• Be creative. Whether you lean toward writing, scrapbooking, ceramics, photography or making collages, creative projects may contribute to healing.
• Spend time in nature. Nothing quiets the mind and soul like a stroll through a park, nature preserve, or by the seashore. “The natural world brings special benefits when your heart has been torn by grief,” Dolan-Del Vecchio says. “The sights, sounds, and smells of nature connect us to eternal, circular stories of life and death in ways that go beyond our usual thoughts and feelings, and this experience brings solace to many people.”
“It’s important to care for yourself when you’re grieving your pet,” Dolan-Del Vecchio says. “This requires some planning and acts of will, as grief can diminish energy and motivation. You can lessen your distress through self-care. Above all else, be gentle with yourself.”
About Ken Dolan-Del Vecchio
Ken Dolan-Del Vecchio (www.greengateleadership.com) is an author, speaker, family therapist, and leadership and life skills consultant. His books include Simple Habits of Exceptional (But Not Perfect) Parents, The Pet Loss Companion: Healing Advice From Family Therapists Who Lead Pet Loss Groups, and Making Love: Playing Power: Men, Women, and the Rewards of Intimate Justice. Ken founded GreenGate Leadership® after retiring from his role as Vice President, Health and Wellness, at Prudential, where he was responsible for behavioral health services for the company’s 20,000 U.S. employees.
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Strictly Come Dancing professionals waltz into Blackpool for Winter Gardens show
Nicola Jaques
The Strictly Come Dancing professionals will waltz into Blackpool next week with their greatest show stopping performances from the award winning show.
Fans of the BBC One favourite will get the chance to see 10 of their favourite dancers live on stage at the Winter Gardens next week for the 2019 Strictly Come Dancing - The Professionals UK Tour.
The exciting line-up of magnificent dancers and Strictly TV favourites performing on the tour are: 2017 Strictly champion Katya Jones; 2017 semi-finalist AJ Pritchard; three-time Strictly finalist Giovanni Pernice; 2016 Strictly finalist Oti Mabuse; Australian Open Champion and 2018 finalist Dianne Buswell; Professional World Mambo Champion and former Strictly finalist Karen Clifton; Two-time Ballroom and Latin World Champion Nadiya Bychkova; undefeated four-time British National Champion Neil Jones; 2014 Strictly winner Pasha Kovalev and 2017 Strictly finalist Gorka Marquez.
The cast of multi award-winning world-class dancers have been wowing audiences on their 35 date tour with a stunning programme of Ballroom and Latin routines in exquisite costumes, with all the glitz, glamour, sequins and sparkle of the TV show.
Show director Jason Gilkison couldn’t be looking forward to it more, he said: "‘It’s so exciting to have the Pros going out on their own tour.
‘When we sat down to talk about what it would be, we really wanted these amazing dancers to show what they do best.
"They're all incredible choreographers and teachers – we see that on the TV show – but, first and foremost, they’re the best dancers in the world.
"In fact, many of them have been World Champions so this is their chance to show everybody what they can do.
"This tour is like the'rebellious little sister' of the main show – even the Strictly band has had a makeover The Pros will be showing their Strictly fans numbers that have never been seen before and a few of their favourite group routines from past seasons.
"We'll also get to know the Pros just a little bit better as they chat to the audience about their professional lives.
This spectacular extravaganza will cover more than 25 separate dance routines, each one performed to a live band.
For Pasha Kovalev, 39, this tour will be extra-special, he says, because it will be the last time he dances with his fellow professionals having recently announced his retirement from Strictly.
‘After scoring 93 perfect tens, reaching four finals and lifting one Glitterball with Caroline Flack, it’s time for me to find a new challenge.
I’ve decided that 2018 was my final season on Strictly. I’ve had eight fantastic years, full of wonderful memories.’
‘I want audiences to leave the show charged with positive energy, an experience that has taken them out of their everyday lives and transported them into the beautiful world of ballroom dancing.
‘I love touring,’ says Giovanni Pernice, 28. ‘It’s always such good fun. And I also love meeting the fans in the flesh and dancing for so many people. It’s a completely different experience from doing the TV show.
"When you’re in a theatre, you can see the faces of the audience out front. That gives you a real buzz.’
Strictly Come Dancing – The Professionals UK Tour comes to Winter Gardens on Wednesday May 15.
For tickets: strictlytheprofessionals.com or visit www.wintergardens.co.uk
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Home / Development / Marmalade opens game publishing division
Mobile tech provider aims to give developers a ‘pain-free route to market’ with Marmalade Play
Marmalade opens game publishing division
MCV Staff 25th October 2013 Development
Marmalade has launched its own dedicated publishing division, Marmalade Play, to provide game developers with a “pain-free route to market”.
Marmalade Play will give participating developers access to support on quality assurance, monetisation, interface design and number of other areas, many of which are vital for shipping a polished title.
The company’s suite of mobile tools is also included, as are the technology and relationships to get developers’ games on to a wide range of app stores.
Marmalade has cemented the launch of Play with an agreement to publish a number of Activision-owed titles, the first two of which are The Activision Decathlon and Blur Overdrive.
Both titles will be available on Google Play later today and on Apple’s App Store from November 1st, with further platform versions to follow.
“Marmalade has been steadily growing its publishing activity over the past few years to bring well known and hit titles to multiple platforms and the widest range of players possible,” said Massimo Caporale, head of Marmalade Play.
“Today we underline this by bringing these amazing Activision titles to market at the same time as creating our new publishing division. We look forward to Marmalade Play further strengthening its position as a leading publisher of top class, cross-platform content.”
This publishing division is the latest step in the mobile middleware provider’s expanding enterprise, which includes its own in-house studio.
Earlier this week, entertainment company Endemol opened a publishing division of its own.
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Troy Baker: ‘Good games are worth more than money to voice actors’
MCV Staff 2nd August 2016 Development
Prominent games voice actor Troy Baker has insisted that smaller studios can afford to get major performers involved with their game – if they consider rewarding them with more than money.
Speaking to Develop in an extensive interview, the Uncharted 4, Metal Gear Solid V, Last of Us and BioShock Infinite star said: “I look at small studios specifically and I’ll say this for me, I can’t speak for everyone, what I’m drawn to is the content.
“There’s a few projects that I’m doing right now that are not big-budget games. They don’t have the ‘money’ to get me, but because I want to be a part of that, we’re getting creative about how we can make it make sense for me to give the amount of time that I’m willing to give to be a part of the project, because I believe in the project.”
Baker went on to explain that the innovation and originality exhibited by smaller studios should be championed as a major draw for actors, comparing the artistic appeal of the indie games sector to low-budget filmmaking, which has seen a number of Hollywood stars offer their talents at cut-price rates.
“People will throw out ‘Oh my gosh, I can’t pay double scale’ or ‘I can’t pay Kevin Spacey for what he wants to do’,” he continued. “No, you can’t, but what you can do is create content and say: ‘Do you want to make some art? If you want to make some art, and you’re in a position that you can maybe sacrifice a little bit in order to make that art, we want to give you a platform to do that.’
“That’s why you see so many actors that do these small indie movies, because they’re like ‘It’s just guerrilla filmmaking’ and ‘It’s this great play that I’ve always wanted to do’ or ‘It’s this really cool game where I love the character’. ‘Did you make a mint on it?’ ‘No, but I made art.’”
He summarised: “If developers will entice people by just really crafting good experiences and creating incredible characters, that will attract more actors and higher-quality actors than any amount of money will.”
Read our full interview with Baker here
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Serfer, whose Mignonette has been so successful he is opening a second location near his home at 139th Street and Biscayne Boulevard in December, fell in love with Jacobsen’s original oyster tome, “A Geography of Oysters,” which won a James Beard Award for writing in 2008.
“We read that book through and through,” Serfer said. “It has so much information in it, but it’s also engaging and gripping.”
In his new book, Jacobsen tells the backstories of the endless varieties of oysters and the farms where they can be found, and offers a guide for the best oyster bars in America. He puts Mignonette on that list.
Mignonette regularly flies in oysters from all over the country to offer a wide range of flavors for both oyster novices and connoisseurs.
“We learned about places that take the time and care to do things right,” Serfer said.
In Jacobsen’s honor, Tuesday’s dinner will include a tower of raw and cooked oysters, a brown oyster stew, snacks of clams and oysters, a main course of striped bass and Mignonette’s fresh-squeezed Key lime pie.
Carlos Frías: 305-376-4624, @Carlos_Frias
What: Oyster expert and author Rowan Jacobsen is the “guest shucker” at Mignonette
Where: Mignonette, 210 NE 18th St., Miami
Tickets: Cost $120 a person and includes a signed copy of Jacobsen’s new book, “The Essential Oyster.”
More info: For reservations, email tess@mignonettemiami.com or call 917-972-3481
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Romney VP Nomination: LIVE Paul Ryan is Top Pick
By Courtney Hodrick
Speculation about when presidential candidate Mitt Romney will announce his vice presidential nomination has been swirling for months, with most rumors centering around the GOP convention to be held in the last week of August.
At a benefit in New York City on the morning of Thursday, Aug. 9, fundraiser Emile Henry told supporters that Romney was about to receive a ton of momentum from the announcement of his VP pick, the convention, and the debates.
Cryptic ... but also very exciting.
Both Sarah Palin and Joe Biden’s Wikipedia pages received heavy edits in the days before their announcement as vice presidential nominee, and the Wikipedia pages for Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan, and Rob Portman have all begun to receive more edits. Romney has said that he will be releasing his announcement through an app, available to download on iTunes. Some analysts have pointed to this Friday as the day that the guessing games will come to an end.
Though the list of choices is narrowing down, there are still a number of frontrunners: House Budget Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) seem to be the most likely picks.
Of course, there’s also a couple of dark horse contenders: former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and CIA Director David Petraeus are all options as well. Here are the basic stats on the most likely options.
PolicyMic will be providing live updates (below) and the most up-to-date analysis on Romney’s vice presidential choice. Bookmark and refresh this page for the most recent news.
The Frontrunners:
Pros: the Wall Street Journal just called him the best pick for VP, citing his proactive focus on entitlement reform as the factor that sets him ahead of other candidates. National Review Editor Rich Lowry wrote for Politico that Romney’s campaign needs “to have an unmistakable substantive content” and that Ryan would help pull Romney away from “a presidential campaign devoid of real interest.”
Cons: In some senses, the same as the pros. If Romney wants to avoid bringing up concrete plans about issues like the House budget, he’ll avoid choosing someone as proactive as Ryan.
Rob Portman:
Pros: According New York Times analysis, Portman is the most likely candidate to swing the national election in Romney’s favor (the odds were computed based on likelihood that the VP swings their home state for Romney, and that that swinging swings the election.) The Wall Street Journal called him “well respected nearly everywhere for his thoughtful, disciplined brand of conservative politics.”
Cons: His role in the Bush administration is hanging over him like a cloud, and won’t help Romney to differentiate himself from America’s most recent Republican president and the public’s low opinion of him.
Marco Rubio:
Pros: If Romney is looking to pick a VP nominee who appeals to a broader voter base, Rubio could be his guy. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani just said that Rubio is the best choice, pointing out that the child of Cuban immigrants will appeal to Hispanic voters as well as the youth.
Cons: Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said that Rubio has less chief executive experience than Sarah Palin had, and he’s not wrong. Despite critics who roll their eyes at a mini-me VP pick, Romney may be hesitant to rock the boat but choosing someone this new to politics.
The Dark Horses:
Tim Pawlenty:
Pros: This two-term Minnesota governor’s “working-class roots and middle American values would counter the stereotype of Mr. Romney as too rich and disconnected to average concerns,” the Wall Street Journal argued. He’s unlikely to bring many surprises, so he’ll be a good choice if Romney decides to play it safe.
Cons: The New York Times’ analysis found that Pawlenty would actually lower the odds of Romney winning the electoral college, not to mention the risk that voters nationwide would approve of him even less than his home state does. Also, there’s a thin line between “safe” and “boring,” and there’s not much more that Pawlenty adds to the ticket that a clone of Romney himself wouldn’t add.
Condoleezza Rice:
Pros: The conservative Drudge Report incorrectly named her as a VP frontrunner last month, but there’s a decent case to be made for Condi. She brings foreign policy experience, appeals to African American voters, and might help the Republican Party to overcome the bad press their “War on Women” has earned them.
Cons: Like Portman, Condi has a connection to Bush—especially to his unpopular foreign policy—that might make Romney’s ticket look more like a blast from the past than the next step into the future. While calling herself “mildly pro-choice” would win Condi approval from more socially liberal independents, it could also alienate Romney’s ticket from the most enthusiastically conservative parts of his base.
David Petraeus:
Pros: The CIA director might be “too good to be true” as a VP pick. Between his Princeton PhD in International Relations and his four-star General rank, he’s got a long list of qualifications and seems like one of the most competent people in Washington.
Cons: He just made a statement that he “will not seek elected office,” so even if Romney picks him, he might not accept. George Washington may have been chosen as our first president precisely because he didn’t want the job, but those days are long behind us.
Friday, Aug. 10: Will it be Paul Ryan? By PM Pundit Joesph Doolen:
This week, we are once again experiencing a slew ofspeculation on Mitt Romney’s VP pick, as reports come in that we can expect the choice to become public in days, if not hours. Wonks nationwide are monitoring their social media and RSS feeds more than ever (let’s hope they are not driving or walking in public) in anticipation that the news will come ahead of, or during, Romney’s weekend trip through four swing states.
While Beltway insiders are calling for, or at least expecting, Mitt Romney to play it safe, others claim that a bold, unexpected, or potentially controversial choice could electrify what has been a lackluster campaign. The Wall Street Journal contends that Rep. Paul Ryan (WI) is that choice.
Wednesday’s editorial claims that Ryan provides a starker contrast to Obama on the topic of deficit reduction, in which Ryan has championed entitlement cuts as the path to fiscal discipline and deficit reduction. For years, the famed Ryan Budget has been posited by Republicans as the cure to all that ills the post-economic crash economy.
While undoubtedly controversial, a Ryan pick would definitely put a charge into a campaign dogged for weeks by accusations ranging from unethical business practices to tax evasion by the former governor.
If elected, Ryan’s reputation portends that he would be a more “hands-on” type of public figure than others who have held the office. Former Ryan staffer Stephanie Kundert told me in a July message that “Ryan would have an incredible amount of influence as our nation's Vice President - even more than his predecessors.”
While Romney is typically a soft-spoken character with amorphous ideas and plans, this has worked quite well for him in his career. It would follow that (according to insiders) a “safe” choice like former director of Bush 43’s Office of Management and Budget Rob Portman is at the top of the list.
This may swing Ohio, but Portman's resume deserves serious scrutiny. See Michael Luciano's excellent analysis for elaboration.
The Nation’s John Nichols (a fellow Madisonian) has parallel criticisms of Ryan, calling his budget plans “austerity.” Denial of this as a Republican platform is difficult, especially considering that conservatives are largely comfortable with such measures.
An adept fundraiser, Romney would be wise to go with Ryan if he plans to continue to run as the anti-Obama rather than a New England moderate. Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes would definitely be put back into play after the Badger State has been trending toward Obama recently.
Conversely, fears of another disastrous vice presidential pick by a Republican nominee may sway the campaign away from a Ryan pick. Liberal talk show host Stephanie Miller was licking her chops this morning, contending that such a choice would be Palinesque and a boon for Obama.
If a Tea Party favorite like Ryan would cause an October boondoggle for Romney, who wouldn’t do the same? Purely for the electoral math, after careful consideration, I have previouslyrecommended that Romney pick another Tea Party darling, Marco Rubio.
Portman and Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, another VP shortlister, were on the campaign trail for Romney in Colorado this week. Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty, also under heavy consideration, campaigned in Michigan.
Get ready, fellow journos, the choice is coming. Definitely before the convention in 18 days, at least. What would you do in Romney’s place? Make a safe or risky choice? Be boring or bold?
Thursday, Aug. 9: Rob Portman Isn't Just Another Old White Guy: Check out this great reporting from Ohioian and PolicyMic Pundit Mariah Dunsing:
Senator Rob Portman of Ohio (R-OH) is said to be on Romney’s short-list for the VP nod, but would Portman be of any value to former Governor Mitt Romney?
By now we’re all familiar with Portman’s impressive credentials. He’s spent time in the House as well as the Senate, was head of the Office of Management and Budget, and served as U.S. Trade Representative a cabinet-level position. This unique combination of experiences makes him a man that Ohio voters (some of the most fickle in the nation) feel they can trust when it comes to matters of the economy and the budget — two of Romney’s main areas of emphasis during his campaign.
While Portman would do little to address the demographic problems faced by Republicans each election cycle –– since he is old and white –– he brings other things to the table, which may prove more valuable in the long run. Portman is a roll-up-your sleeves, let’s have a down-home lunch kind of guy, making him a man who will (and does) resonate with Mid-Western and Southern voters. Speaking at a recent campaign event in Ashland, Ohio, Portman interacted with businessmen, farmers, college students, and got along well with each group. His ability to navigate these different demographics in a personable manner will be of great importance to Romney, who frequently comes across as awkward and out-of-touch.
Moreover, we can’t lose sight of the elephant in the room: Portman is from Ohio, and he recently won a huge majority in his Senate race here. Some commentators have chocked that up to a terrible democratic opponent and pro-Republican election year, but there’s more to it than that. Portman is a man that Ohioans trust because he’s personable and because of his experiences in Congress, the OMB, and abroad. He’s experienced in economic matters without reeking of big business and that’s certainly not something Romney can say.
In the end, Portman is another old, boring, white guy from Ohio. But, he’s also a proven leader whose experience aligns quite well with the issues Romney cares most about — the economy, job creation, energy resources. Plus, we all know how important winning Ohio’s electoral votes are, so some good old-fashioned Ohio loyalty certainly can’t hurt Romney.
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