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2014 Chrysler 200 – 2014 Chrysler 200 is a true contender in the highly competitive car class middle class and offers added value through a high level of standard equipment. For 2014, the 200 S is not set up as a stand-alone in the sedan body style. Instead, it is available in packs of 200 Touring and Limited. 2014 Chrysler 200 gets only minor changes, with the popular S replaced as an adjustment package for the Touring and Limited. A new Power-train Warranty 5-year/100 000 miles, and supports 200 Cabrio features an improved driving experience attractive suspension. The change in his life as a useful resource for new car reviews, used car reviews, comments, new cars, used cars, critical reviews of new cars, used cars, cars notation view created new and used notation of our visitors, real people and car enthusiasts.
2014 Chrysler 200 Engine Power
Touring 2014 Chrysler 200 LX and come standard with a four-cylinder 2.4-liter that produces 173 hp and 166 lb-ft of torque. A four-speed automatic transmission is standard on the LX and six-speed automatic is optional on the LX and standard on everything else. Fuel consumption for the sedan EPA estimated 21 mpg city/29 mpg highway and 24 mpg with the four-speed automatic transmission and 20/31/23 with the six-speed combination. The convertible comes with four cylinders about 18/27/21.
A 3.6-liter V6 optional on Touring and standard on the Limited. It produces 283 hp and 260 lb-ft of torque. A six-speed automatic transmission is standard. In Edmunds performance testing, limited sedan with this engine went from zero to 60 mph in 6.9 seconds. A limited Cabrio 7.5 seconds equipped as required. The two times are on par with the class. EPA-estimated fuel economy with the V6 is 19/29/22 for both body styles.
2014 Chrysler 200 Exterior
2014 Chrysler 200, as the name suggests, it is more like a Chrysler 300 in the form of an entry-level mid-size sedan. LED headlights flank the grille emphasizes the new company. Chrome accents are plentiful but tasteful and 17 – and 18-inch wheels to add its presence in the premium. The 200 sits lower to Sebring for a more aggressive stance and Chrysler even tried to unsightly visible in the basic old Sebring hide. The overall effect is a car to go to school instead of done was put on the market.
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2014 Chrysler 200 Review Interior
Chrysler 200 2014 cabin is nice, with seat coverings and trim that feel soft and luxurious. Seats and seat support should be comfortable for long driving. The panel contains the usual three round instruments with gray on gray graphics that are pleasing to the eye, while the white accent lighting is wonderful at night. A covered three-spoke flange buff center and padded with commands for the audio system and cruise control. The armrests are pockets of flexible and generous doors. Some models have two USB ports, handy for phone and laptop charging.
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Fun farewell to ‘The Sixties’ at UNCG
It’s been quite a tied-dye, revolutionary year. But UNCG’s “The ‘60s: Exploring the Limits” series is coming to a close.
An encore performance by UNCG Spartans Play Dead, a cover band of faculty, alumni and staff, closed the year with festive cheer Saturday night downtown. (In visual at left, Dr. Rebecca Adams welcomes everyone before enjoying the band.)
That performance came on the heels of the daylong academic conference “UNCG Dead Scholars Unite!,” examining the Grateful Dead and Deadheads from various perspectives. It included a reunion of those who participated in UNCG classes that did field study on Deadheads in the summer of 1989.
The year’s “The Sixties” events on campus have included Weatherspoon art exhibitions, UNCG Dance concerts, jazz legend Herbie Hancock, a photography exhibit about the Freedom Riders and Freedom Schools, films and discussions dedicated to protest and music, and much more.
One more big “The Sixties” event remains:
UNCG Theatre and Triad Stage present the musical “Man of La Mancha” at Triad Stage. Tickets are still available, and can be purchased at the Triad Stage box office.
Photos from Saturday’s performance by Martin W. Kane. At top, symposium co-organizer Dr. Rebecca Adams speaks before the cover band plays their opening number, as alumnus David Bryan and vocalist Dr. Melissa Floyd-Pickard look on. Right, a song early in the performance Saturday night, with Dr. Jamie Anderson taking a harmonica solo, alumnus Bob Worrells on guitar, and drummer Jeremy Fountain, an alumnus.
By Mike Harris
Please indicate below the emails to which you want to send this article: Fun farewell to 'The Sixties' at UNCG
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You are here: Home » Sport » Rugby: Much-needed opening win for Uckfield
Monday, September 12, 2016 | Last updated about 6 hours ago
Rugby: Much-needed opening win for Uckfield
Recently demoted from London SE 3, Uckfield faced their first opposition of the Sussex 1 2016-17 season at Hempstead Playing Fields.
A scrappy first half saw Uckfield begin to dominate possession, although the set-piece was woeful, writes head coach James Robinson.
Uckfield finished the first half 7-0 up, following an excellent try as a result of consecutive offloads in the tackle, with Guy Cornick going in under the posts (conversion by Charlie Buckland).
After a stern half-time talk from Lee Evans, Uckfield came out for the second half a different side, and the weather had taken a turn for the worse with gusts and driving rain.
Nevertheless, Uckfield’s determination to put things right saw more possession and solid defence heaping the pressure on Horsham, who eventually wilted, conceding four further tries from Page-Mitchell, Scott, Matt Evans, and a cunning five metre line-out try from Stephen Hartfield; Buckland converted the final try to give Uckfield a 29-0 win.
Overall, in spite of the best attempts of the weather and a few unnecessary yellow cards to spoil the party for Uckfield, the team laid down a marker for the season with an excellent and much-needed opening win, sitting Uckfield at the top of Sussex 1 after Game 1.
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On a scorching hot day at Victoria Pleasure Ground, Uckfield hosted top of the league Herstmonceux, writes David Tungate.
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The Ugly American Book Club
Americans in Southeast Asia – in books and films
Facts about Fiction
Tag Archives: missionaries
Hustle the East – by Mark Tawen, 2018
Posted on November 7, 2018 by uglyamericanbookclub
Black Rose Writing, November 2018
Hustle the East is a new novel that tells a touching story of love and loss while touching all bases of Ugly Americanness. Three narrators trace the tragic history of Laos as a pawn in the Cold War, shedding light on America’s immoral and inhumane bombing campaign.
In what the author calls “faux memoirs,” we witness the turbulent downfall of a centuries-old monarchy through the eyes of an American teacher and two Laotians of starkly different backgrounds. The future of the Kingdom of Laos and the lives of the narrators come under the shadow of reckless Americans back when America thought it was invincible. The repercussions of what happened in the Seventies last for decades, into the new Millennium.
The American narrator Paul “Benny” Bendit is a straight-arrow straight out of college in Illinois. As a newbie, he naively imagines he can help erase the image of the Ugly American in Southeast Asia. On his first day in Laos, Bendit glimpses Henry Kissinger on a historic peace mission that has dark implications for the 600-year-old Kingdom. Bendit also meets Jack Gaines, a feckless fellow teacher who’s siphoning money out of hopeless situations. From the get-go, Bendit marks Gaines as a charlatan. But seen through other eyes, Gaines is a complex con artist, a loathsome and lovable bad guy. In retrospect, Bendit recalls: “… It took me a while to figure out that in Laos the good guys were the bad guys.”
The second narrator is an orphan of colonialism who became a monk and a gravedigger. Sangkhom notes wryly that he and Gaines were born on opposite sides of the world and they started out on opposite side of the war. When East twains with West, their fates become entwined — but only as far as the next plot twist.
In the opinion of the third narrator, the enigmatic Lao ingénue Chansamone, Gaines is like a centipede: “The first two legs don’t tell the whole story.” A complicated love triangle arises out of chaos but the course of love doesn’t run true in a country on the verge of collapse.
Borrowing pages from The Ugly American, this new novel is like a Who’s Who of (Fictional) Americans Mucking About in Southeast Asia. Apart from Bendit and Gaines, we meet half a dozen Americans attempting to influence history or hustle the East. Tommy Mangold was a helicopter pilot and bona fide war hero in Vietnam before giving up his Air Force wings to work as a civilian in Laos. As an aid worker, he worked behind the scenes and below the radar to defend democracy in Asia. On the day Kissinger comes to Vientiane, Mangold curses all he’s done in the name of the democracy, and does a 180.
Mohawk Jones was born to missionaries in the mountains that merge northern Thailand with Laos. His knowledge of highlands culture and languages made him invaluable to America’s efforts to win the hearts and minds and military service of the Hmong and other mountain dwellers. Recruited by the C.I.A., Jones abandons the Gospel and trains the highlanders to kill for Freedom and Uncle Sam.
Ernest Leitner is a widower who landed in Laos after selling his farm. If he wasn’t so short, Leitner could have stood in for the pitchfork-wielding Iowa farmer in Grant Wood’s “American Gothic.” Obviously patterned after one of the good guys in The Ugly American, Leitner is an agricultural adviser who’s spending his life savings to lift Hmong farmers out of poverty. A saint among the scoundrels sent by USAID, Letiner makes personal sacrifices to improve the lives of Laotians displaced by bombs.
Warren Rippington delivers the milk and hard rice (ammo) for the C.I.A.’s Air America. The fearless mercenary pilot admires President Nixon’s anti-Communist gumption. But when the course of history takes a wrong turn, even a gung-ho guy like Rippington can shed a tear. Unbelievably it’s not the Communists but Congress that brings Humpty Dumpty down.
Stanford Oh is a Korean-American Vietnam War veteran who serves as a Consular Affairs Officer for the U.S. Embassy in Vientiane. When a fellow American is arrested by Lao Communists, Consul Oh advises him to confess to everything. In a newly Communist country, the diplomat doesn’t know if it’s worse for an American to be charged with murder, espionage or anti-social behavior.
The author rejected the standard Disclosure Statement that states: “Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.” That’s because the fictional sweep of Hustle The East takes place against a backdrop of actual historical events. It’s no coincidence that readers learn more about the actual persons named Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Kissinger, Dr. Tom Dooley and a pair of American ambassadors who directed the bombing of Laos.
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Published 60 years ago, The Ugly American by William Lederer and Eugene Burdick remains paramount in the pantheon of novels about Americans bungling about in Southeast Asia. The book touched a nerve, and half a century later, its title remains a catch-phrase for incompetent and insensitive U.S. diplomats, arrogant entrepreneurs, and even travelers and tourists from the States who act badly abroad. Nearly all of the books and films discussed here are reflections on the Ugly American theme.
We’re focused on American characters, primarily fictional characters, mucking about in Southeast Asia during the Cold War, Vietnam War era and the new Millennium.
Spoiler alert: Many of the characters you’ll meet here are seriously flawed or downright evil, deserving of the appellation Ugly American. It seems that whenever America is striving to reclaim its dignity in the world, someone comes along to poison the reputation of good-natured, well intentioned Americans everywhere. President Trump, if you’re listening, pay attention.
Some of the works discussed:
The Ugly American (book and film)
The Ambassador by Morris L. West
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Saint Jack by Paul Theroux
The Consul’s File by Paul Theroux
Hustle the East by Mark Tawen
With Hearts Aflame by Dr. Victor M. Ordonez
Deliver Us From Evil by Dr. Tom Dooley (non-fiction)
Crazy Rich Asians (book and film)
Miss Saigon (musical)
South Pacific (musical)
The Beach (film)
Brokedown Palace (film)
Apocalypse Now (film)
Platoon (film)
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Arts and Culture of Newport - Museums, Movies, Music, and More
For such a small destination, Newport has plenty to offer those seeking a splash of culture to spice up their beach vacation, including 2 music festivals held at Fort Adams State Park. Newport locals work hard and passionately to keep old-time art institutions up and running, which are worth visiting for their sense of history as much as for the art itself.
Newport has only one museum devoted solely to art, the Newport Art Museum. However, you'll also find works of art among the exhibits at other local venue, such as the Museum of Newport History. If you'd like to purchase as well as peruse, there are plenty of art galleries throughout Newport, especially on Thames Street.
This cultural venue is both a house for art and a piece of art in its own right. The museum’s 19th-century building is a leading example of Modern Gothic architecture, while its exhibits primarily feature contemporary American art.
76 Bellevue Avenue, Newport, RI 02840. Tel: +1 401 848 8200
Newport Art Museum website
Movies and more
There's only one movie theatre in Newport, but it's a special one. The Jane Pickens theatre doesn't just screen movies - it also hosts themed events to accompany them. For example, when it screens the original "Great Gatsby," movie-goers get to enjoy breakfast and a tour of the Newport mansion where it was filmed.
Jane Pickens theatre
Built in 1834, the Jane Pickens theatre's single screen and gold curtains might not take you back quite that far, but they will evoke vintage theatres of the 1950s and ‘60s.
49 Touro Street, Newport, RI 02840. Tel: +1 401 846 5474
Jane Pickens theatre website
Newport's religious institutions
Rhode Island has a rich religious history. As early as the 17th century, the state welcomed Jews who were being persecuted in their home countries, and Newport is home to America's oldest synagogue. You can also visit historically significant churches, such as St. Mary's Church, where Jacqueline Bouvier married John F. Kennedy.
Touro Synagogue
Built in the 1700s, the Touro Synagogue is now a National Historic Site. It's an active place of worship, but also open for tours.
55 Spring Street, Newport, RI 02840. Tel: +1 401 847 4794
Touro Synagogue website
In the summer, St. Mary's Church offers a weekly walking tour that covers lots of interesting ground. Visitors can learn about everything from religion in the colonies to the church's famous Camelot wedding.
12 William Street, Newport, RI 02840. Tel: +1 401 847 0475
St. Mary's Church website
Festivals in Newport
If you’re planning to visit Newport in the warmer months, consider timing your trip around one of the lively festivals. The 3 most popular include the Newport Folk Festival in late July; the Newport Jazz Festival in late July or early August; and the Newport International Boat Show in mid-September.
The Newport Folk Festival
While folk legends like Joan Baez and Bob Dylan made the Newport Folk Festival famous 50 years ago, contemporary folk musicians keep it going, including recent acts like Iron & Wine, Calexico, and Mavis Staples.
90 Fort Adams Drive, Newport, RI 02840. Tel: +1 401 848 5055
The Newport Folk Festival website
Like the Newport Folk Festival, the Newport Jazz Festival is held outdoors at Fort Adams State Park. It also has a rich history and attracts many of the big names in its genre.
Newport Jazz Festival website
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Christiansfeld Hotels
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If you're looking to discover somewhere new, look no further than Christiansfeld. Whether you're planning to stay for a night or for the week, the area around Christiansfeld has accommodation options to fit every need. Search for hotels in Christiansfeld with Hotels.com by checking our online map. Our map displays the areas and neighbourhoods around all Christiansfeld hotels so you can see how close you are from landmarks and attractions, and then refine your search within the larger area. The best Christiansfeld hotel deals are here with our lowest price guarantee.
Where are the best places to stay in Christiansfeld?
Below are the number of accommodation options by star rating in Christiansfeld and the surrounding area:
How to get to Christiansfeld
Flights to Christiansfeld
• Billund (BLL), 29.4 mi (47.3 km) from central Christiansfeld
• Sonderborg (SGD), 30.3 mi (48.8 km) from central Christiansfeld
Things to see and do in Christiansfeld
Things to see near Christiansfeld:
• Koldinghus (9.3 mi/15 km from the city centre)
• Haderslev Dampark (7.5 mi/12 km from the city centre)
• Vor Frue Kirke (7.6 mi/12.2 km from the city centre)
• Torning Molle (8.8 mi/14.1 km from the city centre)
• Skamlingsbanken (6.2 mi/10 km from the city centre)
Things to do near Christiansfeld:
• Tyrstrup Kirke (1.3 mi/2.2 km from the city centre)
• Haderslev Golf Club (7.1 mi/11.5 km from the city centre)
• Haderslev Museum (7.3 mi/11.8 km from the city centre)
• Dyrehaven Ved Haderslev (9.2 mi/14.8 km from the city centre)
• Haderslev Domkirke (7.5 mi/12.1 km from the city centre)
When is the best time to visit Christiansfeld?
• Hottest months: July, August, June, September (average 19°C)
• Coldest months: January, February, March, December (average -1°C)
• Rainiest months: October, March, September and January (average 3.50 inches of rainfall)
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Germany's new conservative leader distances herself from Merkel's migration legacy
Andreas Rinke
BERLIN (Reuters) - The new leader of Germany’s ruling Christian Democrats, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, unveiled plans for a tightening of immigration rules, part of a move to distance the party under her leadership from her mentor and predecessor, Chancellor Angela Merkel.
FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: Christian Democratic Union party leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer gives a statement after a meeting in Seeon, Germany, January 5, 2019. REUTERS/Andreas Gebert/File Photo
Some of the proposals, including plans for “intelligent spot checks” at German borders for as long as the European Union’s external borders are not secured, could strain ties with her Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partners.
But officials hope the plans, announced after two days of internal party discussions to which Merkel was not invited, will show the party has moved on from the Chancellor’s signature decision to let in over a million refugees in 2015.
“What happened in September 2015 and after was a humanitarian exception,” she told her CDU party. “We must make sure nothing like it ever happens again, that we have learned our lessons.”
Both coalition parties are gearing up for four European and regional elections this year which could determine the fate of the loveless marriage they sealed after both seriously underperformed expectations at last year’s election, leaving theirs the only possible alliance in a fragmented parliament.
Like the CDU, the SPD has been trying to rebuild support, pushing for more generous unemployment benefits and pensions - appealing to some of its core voters, but anathema to the CDU’s pro-business wing.
The CDU’s also proposes to make it possible to expel asylum seekers if they commit a crime carrying a prison term of more than 90 days, after which they would be prevented from re-entering.
Despite the tensions, the SPD’s dire position in polls has led many to assume the coalition will last its course.
“I expect that the grand coalition will carrying on governing until 2021,” said Christian Lindner, leader of the pro-business Free Democrats in an interview with Reuters. “That is not what I would like but it is what I expect.”
The CDU’s planned reset was somewhat overshadowed when Kramp-Karrenbauer, whose centrism already has her regarded with suspicion by her party’s arch-conservatives, bungled her welcoming remarks, causing embarrassed laughter when she referred to her own party as the “Social Democrats”.
German media jumped on the slip-up - the tabloid Bild called it an “embarrassing mishap” - and the SPD poked fun at Kramp-Karrenbauer, dubbed AKK after her initials, by offering “solidarity” and reminding her to address party colleagues as “comrade”, the SPD’s customary greeting.
Kramp-Karrenbauer’s election as CDU leader put her in pole position to become Germany’s next chancellor and she is trying to put her own stamp on the party. Merkel has said she will not seek re-election after this parliamentary term, ending in 2021.
Writing by Thomas Escritt, additional reporting by Paul Carrel, editing by Larry King
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The conflict in Azov: online
Posted By newsmaker on November 25, 2018
The conflict of Russian and Ukrainian ships in the Azov sea began on the morning of November 25
The clash of Russian and Ukrainian ships in the Azov sea: the online chronicle of recent events. What happens in the Kerch Strait?
November 25 morning in the Kerch Strait was a clash of Ukrainian and Russian ships. Was rammed Ukrainian boat, and in the evening in the course of direct clash, there are wounded among Ukrainians.
As at 22:00 during the conflict in the sea of Azov to the Russian Navy seized three Ukrainian ships. What is happening in society now? The correspondent is an online broadcast of events.
Events in Azov. Online:
23:01 Russian media reported that the Ukrainian Navy ships left the Strait of Kerch and went to your port to Berdyansk. The FSB claimed to have evidence of provocation and will soon publish them.
22:40 six Ukrainian military were wounded. Captured ships Berdyansk and Jana tray – they are towed. Nikopol blocked and should be accompanied by the Russian Navy. Berdyansk was struck by enemy fire and lost in the course.
This is the latest information from the Ukrainian Navy.
22:00 Ukraine wants an emergency meeting of the UN security Council. Petro Poroshenko has convened a war Cabinet.
“Russia’s actions – a real desire to capture the sea of Azov. We work with our partners. Russia must pay for it,” – said the Minister of foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin.
21:22 Direct clash. Of the Ukrainian Navy reports that near the Kerch bridge, the Russian special forces seized Ukrainian ships. Two of the sailors were wounded, the Ukrainian military has closed in the ships.
“Small armored artillery boats Berdyansk, Nikopol struck by enemy fire and lost in the course. RAID tug Yana Kapu also forced to stop”, – stated in the message.
21:07 Russia seized three Ukrainian ships
14:45 of the Ukrainian Navy reported the interception of the Ukrainian ships flew attack helicopters of Russia. The ships of naval forces of Ukraine allegedly have to await the passage through the Strait, to which the boom of the Russian Federation were put on a stranded tanker on the part of the Azov sea.
13:41 the Kerch Strait was closed for the civil courts after the collision. Russia accused the Ukrainian naval provocations.
11:00 of the Video RAM of the Ukrainian ship (WARNING: there is profanity):
10:20 Russia and the Crimean “border guard service” Taran explained by the fact that three ships of Ukraine at 7 am crossed the border of Russia and sailed toward Kerch Strait.
FSB showed in the video, as the Ukrainian ships trying to evade the ships of the Russian Federation:
10:08 the Ukrainian Navy Command reported that the edge ships of the Russian Federation conducted aggressive action against 3 ships of naval forces of Ukraine, when the Ukrainian vessel was transferred from Odessa to the port of Mariupol. Russian ship don rammed the Ukrainian tow Yana mouthpiece. As a result, Ukrainian tugboat damaged.
The conflict between Ukraine and Russia on the Azov
NATO and the EU made a statement on the conflict in Azov
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Klimkin called the events in Azov “a new level of aggression”
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Russia: Three ships of Ukraine went in the opposite direction
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Spoken poet ‘FreeQuency’ shares poems on Black identity
Morgan Hume
In celebration of Black History Month, Program Council (PC), Black Student Union (BSU) and the Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion brought spoken poet and Kenyan immigrant Mwende “FreeQuency” Katwiwa to campus for a performance on Feb. 20. Last year, FreeQuency, who identifies as they/them,...
Tags: black history month, Black Student Union, CSDI, FreeQuency, program council, Spoken Poetry
Leigh Bardugo brings new novel “King of Scars” to Brookline Booksmith
Sarah Turley
New York Times Bestselling author Leigh Bardugo visited Boston on Jan. 30 as her sought after book tour reached the Brookline Booksmith. Approximately three hundred people crowded the two floors of the shop to snag the newly released novel, ask the author questions, and seize the opportunity to have t...
Tags: Book launch, Brookline Booksmith, King of Scars, Leigh Bardugo
Native American Gyasi Ross promotes activism with poetry
Shayla Manning
Students of all backgrounds were drawn together to kick off the start of Native American Heritage Month with “Activism Through Spoken Word” on Thursday at an event held by The Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion. The event featured speaker Gyasi Ross, who is a member of the Blackfeet Nation,...
MFA Exhibit Allows Spectators To Relive Childhood Classic ‘Winnie-the-Pooh’
Harper Wayne
“Winnie-the-Pooh: Exploring a Classic,” the newest installation at the Museum of Fine Arts, transports visitors into the world of the famous children’s book. Spectators can feel “Winnie-the-Pooh” books come to life on the walls of the exhibit, instilling a feeling of being at home as a child wai...
‘Crash Course’ brothers visit Boston to promote ‘An Absolutely Remarkable Thing’
Sarah Lukowski
You can now say that there are two Green authors. Hank Green, brother of author John Green, released his first book, “An Absolutely Remarkable Thing” on Sept. 25. Following the release, Green brought his book tour to the Wilbur Theater in Boston on Sept. 26 with John as a special guest, which brou...
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Movie Review: The Bling Ring [2013]
The Bling Ring [2013]
Screenplay: Sofia Coppola, Nancy Jo Sales
Genre: Crime/Drama
Starring: Katie Chang, Israel Broussard, Emma Watson, Claire Julien, Taissa Farmiga
A funny thing happened while watching The Bling Ring. About halfway through the film, as the characters questioned their level of fame, my girlfriend whispered to me that “if this were real, they would have their own reality show by now.” When I informed her that the film is based on a true story, she couldn’t believe it (her prediction wasn’t too far off either — one of the girls actually was on a reality show called Pretty Wild, and of course, they also got a movie).
The concept behind The Bling Ring *is* absolutely ridiculous, and if it weren’t true, the film could easily be seen as a scathing satire of today’s obsession with celebrities and socialites.
When Marc Hall (Nick Prugo) transfers to a new high school, he quickly becomes friends with the fame-obsessed Rebecca Ahn (Rachel Lee). They bond over a joint or two before Rebecca gets a wild idea — why don’t they break into a rich home while the owners are out of town? Seemingly eager to make a new friend, Marc agrees, and the two of them hit up the abandoned house of an acquaintance. In there, they go to town, stealing clothes, jewelry, cash — basically anything that looks appealing to them.
Breaking into these mansions becomes a hobby for the two of them, and soon they have a few friends getting in on the action. Nicki (Emma Watson), Sam (Taissa Farmiga) and Chloe (Courtney Ames) are more than willing to join them, especially once they start targeting the homes of celebrities. Paris Hilton, in particular, is hit multiple times while she’s out of town. Her house is the easiest to get into — she simply leaves the keys under the doormat (why is that not surprising?).
The five of them continue robbing these targets over and over again, occasionally bringing more friends (and even Sam’s 13-year-old sister) along. They use their newfound money to buy even more clothes and jewelry, not to mention bags of coke when possible. They are “living the life”, at least in their eyes.
Of course, as this is based on a true story, there is no happy ending for these delinquents. This is shown as such at the beginning of the film when we hear Nicki give a spectacularly ditzy update to the press (“I might want to be the leader of a country someday, for all I know”). Emma Watson nails this role, expertly portraying the overwhelming superficiality present in her character. In fact, this entire group of young actors all excel here, with newcomer Israel Broussard being a major highlight as well.
At times, The Bling Ring feels like a bit much. Most of the film shows these kids getting high and breaking into homes, and none of the characters are exactly likeable. Director Sofia Coppola (responsible for two genuinely great films — Lost in Translation and the underrated Somewhere) nails the party lifestyle that this group so actively pursues, but the film may be too repetitive for its own good. Did we really need to see them go nuts over finding more Louboutin, Rolexes and other designer items more than two or three times? We see them break into Hilton’s home on multiple occasions — though I’m sure she loves the attention (her real house was even used in the movie, and she makes a cameo appearance).
Still, The Bling Ring is an entertaining film. There is something alluring about the trash culture that our society is so enamored with these days, and this film puts that all on display, for better or for worse.
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Excellent review, I’m a fan of Sofia Coppola’s films so I plan on seeing this soon.
Thanks, Vinnie! If you’re a fan of Coppola, I’m sure you will enjoy this.
storiesfrmiraq.wordpress.com says:
oh my god this review is awesome, i am really excited to see the movie. thanks, keep up the good work!!!!
Thank you! Hope you enjoy the movie. 🙂
The style from Coppola can only go so far. It isn’t until we realize that these characters are boring, vain, and repetitive with their day-to-day activities that we realize the movie may be just a tad bit uninteresting. Good review Eric.
Oh yeah, these characters are vain alright. I didn’t think the film was uninteresting, but it did start to get repetitive after a while. You can only show Paris Hilton’s house getting robbed so many times, ya know?
Nice review mate. Quietly looking forward to this, looks decent enough. Also, Emma Watson.
Thanks man. I’d say this is worth a watch — Emma Watson kills it in this.
ninvoid99 says:
I love this film. It’s so fun to watch and I had a hell of a time watching it while knowing that these kids will do anything to be part of that world. I think it’s Sofia’s most accessible film since “The Virgin Suicides” as well as her funniest one to date though it does get very grim towards the end.
Great observations. Agreed about this being Sofia’s most accessible film. Even though these kids aren’t likable at all, there’s something intriguing about the trash culture they inhibit. It helps that the story itself is so ridiculous that it has to be true.
The Focused Filmographer says:
I’ve been seeing mediocre to “okay” scores for this one. I will be seeing it soon. I like what it made your girlfriend think. Media loves to highlight stories like these and create TV shows. Lol. Nice review. Glad to know Emma nails it again. She is doing quite well in her post-hp career.
Haha so true, T. Yep, Watson seems to be having the most success of the Harry Potter bunch. Between this and The Perks of Being a Wallflower, she is really cementing herself as a strong young actress. Her cameo in This Is the End was great as well. 🙂
Great review! I’ll definitely see the movie, I like Coppola’s movies, as you said Somewhere is very underrated, i thought it was great. Her directing style is so unique and I bet this one has a killer soundtrack as her other movies do.
Thanks! This one *does* have a killer soundtrack. It’s pretty spot-on with the party lifestyle these characters so desperately crave, so there’s stuff like Kanye, Rick Ross, Azealia Banks, etc. with a few indie jams thrown in.
The Blog of Big Ideas says:
A film for our times. It’s troubling to see all of these young kids become so obsessed with stardom for the sake of stardom, and this is a movie that illustrates the problems of the empty and superficial mentality of some of today’s youth.
The funny thing about all of these robberies is that the celebrities that live in these homes might not even be aware that some of their crap went missing, given that they don’t tend to wear things twice or use the same piece of jewelry on more than one occasion. I mean, how “sweet” would it be to have a filthy rich neighbor who doesn’t even realize he’s being robbed.
The choice for cast is interesting and Sofia Coppola at the chair is incentive enough to watch this film.
Nice review
You nailed it, Niels. This is, unfortunately, a film for our times. Paris Hilton was robbed multiple times and she was completely oblivious about it. It wasn’t until a different celebrity posted security cam footage that it was even known that these robberies were happening. So ridiculous.
The Vern says:
Really good review, Eric You captured how I felt about this movie accureatly. I too felt that it became repetative in certain scenes but I do love that Sofia Coppola is doing something different then the usual quiet ones she does. This is one I would watch again. Emma Watson is fantastic in this role
Thanks man. Yeah, it was pretty cool to see Coppola do something like this. She’s been on a roll lately — can’t wait to see what she does next.
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Lights Camera Reaction says:
Seeing this on Friday, I’m really excited. The soundtrack for this film is awesome.
Coppola certainly has a knack for putting together great soundtracks. Hope you enjoy the film!
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Islam and the Secular State
In his new book, Abdullahi an-Na`im argues that Muslims need a secular state to live their religious lives. Alongside his immensely informative account of modern developments, he makes a sustained argument against state enforcement of Islam along two major lines. First, it makes no religious sense for a state to force Muslims to follow God’s will, because Muslims should act from conviction and choice. An-Na`im makes a second argument that is parallel to the first: not only is it futile and religiously counter-productive to enforce Islamic piety, but doing so also distorts and impoverishes religion.
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Posts from 2018
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New Lead Minister Announced
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The Trinity United Church Search Committee is pleased to announce that Robin Jacobson will be our next Lead Minister! Robin comes to Trinity United from North Lonsdale United Church in North Vancouver, where he served for eighteen years.
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Year to Date Financials
TUC YTD 9-30-18 Click on the link above to view the new format for presenting Trinity United Church’s financials for the year to date 2018, through September 30th.
Board Report – Sep 2018
The Trinity Board met in late August and is scheduled to meet again on September 30th. A key component of the Board’s work is to update and develop policies related to the Board’s operations and the work of the Lead Minister and Ministry teams. This is the focus of our work at present. The Board expects it will be able to create a clearer picture of the fundamentals of our new Governance Model with an updated Policy Book that will…
Board Report – July 3
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Ministry Profile and Search Report
The Ministry Profile and Search Report put together by the Ministry Profile and Search Committee is now available. Please click on the link to view the report: Ministry Profile and Search Form Final
Ministry Profile and Search Team
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EFAN SPRING MEETING HIGHLIGHTS
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The 6th Vernon Cub and Scout troop received their certificate from Scouts Canada to operate in 2108, marking 65 years as a sponsored project of Trinity United, Vernon. This was celebrated as part of worship in the Sunday morning service.
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Hello, Trinity friends! I am very happy to accept your invitation to come and experience church life together for the season of Lent and into the season of Easter this year. Here is a little about my background: I am newly retired from full time ministry after having served in solo and team ministries in both rural and urban United Church congregations, starting first in the Kootenays, then the central heartlands of Alberta, and most recently in Vancouver. I discerned…
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Get a little badass on two wheels in Alberta’s Badlands
By Travel Like This on June 20, 2019 No Comment
Sometimes you just need to hightail it out of the city to a place that makes you feel free.
Stealing a little solitude at the otherworldly Horsethief Canyon. Photo: Doug Firby
By Lisa Monforton
and Doug Firby
Sometimes you just need to hightail it out of the city to a place that makes you feel free. For us, that’s Alberta’s Badlands and our exit strategy is on a 600 cc Yamaha motorcycle.
Escaping the daily grind cubicle, we exit Calgary within minutes. By Kilometre 100, we’re grinning. OK, it’s really more like an audible giggle, but no one can hear as the wind envelops us from helmet to boot.
The long and arching road as you enter the Red Deer River valley near Bleriot Ferry. Photo: Lisa Monforton
Wheat fields and Alberta’s endless sky unravel like a blanket beyond the windscreen. We’re heading north and east to one of our favourite hideaways – Alberta’s Badlands.
The quiet highways here have enough bends to keep the ride interesting. The otherworldly scenery, colourful steeped-in-history landmarks, the curving Red Deer River, and sites around every corner offer perfect excuses to get off the bike and stretch your legs.
Around Kilometre 120, we’re entering a parallel universe. On Highway 9 near Drumheller, we gear down and let the engine hold us steady at 70 km/h as we descend the undulating road into Dinosaur Valley. All at once, the prairie flats are in the rearview mirror and we’re surrounded by weather-worn hills battered by millennia of rain, wind and snow.
It inspires awe to think we’re cruising through this ancient land where massive and toothsome T-Rex and horned triceratops once trod. This is, after all, one of the world’s largest caches of remnants from the prehistoric age.
A few kilometres west of the Royal Tyrrell Museum, we pause to take in the valley’s scenery. Photo: Lisa Monforton
Drumheller Valley is a popular destination for all kinds of motorcyclists, including sport bikers and cruisers on big Harleys. Out here, your city persona can be a secret. “You can effectively disappear from the corporate world for the weekend and just get away from the city,” says Paul Salvatore, with the Town of Drumheller.
At the edge of town, we stop at one of a few gas stations to fill the tank. We’ve got everything we need – leathers, gloves and helmet for protection, a full tank of fuel, and some snacks.
Two main riding loops can be found in the Valley: The Dinosaur Trail and the Hoodoo Trail. You can cover both in a day if you leave Calgary early enough. You can easily make it a whole weekend escape here because there are just so many ways to get lost in the landscape.
Hidden-in-plain-view Horseshoe Canyon
Just outside of Drumheller, drop your kickstand at Horseshoe Canyon. A few hundred metres from Highway 9, hiding in plain view, is a moonscape of desert-hills and gullies. Take a hike if you have the time.
Climb the 106 stairs to the top of the world’s largest dinosaur – a T Rex – for a spectacular view of the valley. Photo: Lisa Monforton
World’s largest dinosaur
Never one to negate its prehistoric beginnings, Drumheller, aka, Dinosaur Capital of the World, revels in its Cretaceous-ness and Jurassic-ness. “A good business does not go extinct,” declares The Fossil Shop, one of the town’s many businesses leveraging the camp of it all. Take a stroll down Tyrannosaurus Drive and Albertosaurus Street downtown, and don’t miss the photo opp atop the 106 stairs in the mouth of the 25-metre-tall T-Rex.
Steal some solitude at Horsethief Canyon
Kicking the bike into third gear, we cruise gently up Highway 838 (North Dinosaur Trail) northwest of town, passing Midland Park and the Royal Tyrrell Museum, which is worth a day’s visit in itself. Rising above the valley, a montage of classic Badlands emblems is in your view: sunny canola fields edge up alongside waving wheat fields, pastoral backdrops to the non-stop pumpjacks bending on bald-prairie knolls. We pull into Horsethief Canyon, named for the old-time horse-stealers who came here to hide from the authorities, and pull some snacks out of our backpack. Pure solitude like this can’t be found in the city.
You gotta stop here for gourmet burgers
If you don’t feel like packing a lunch, head to Bernie & The Boys Bistro. It’s smart to avoid the noon-hour rush because the word is out on this place featured on the popular Food Network program You Gotta Eat Here! Gargantuan gourmet burgers and poutine are their stock in trade.
Take the two-minute ferry across the Red Deer River on the Bleriot Ferry, linking the two sections of the North Dinosaur Trail. Photo: Lisa Monforton
Short but sweet Bleriot Ferry ride
At the northwest tip of the route, we drop into neutral and let the bike roll to the Bleriot Ferry, waiting to convey us and a few cars across the Red Deer River. This ferry is famous for two reasons: It’s the only cable-operated ferry in Alberta and the shortest ferry-crossing in western Canada. It’s free, can fit about 15 vehicles during the summer crush and takes all of two minutes. We fire up the bike, and cruise back to Drumheller on Highway 575.
The Badlands famous hoodoos, created by millennia of wind and rain. Photo: Lisa Monforton
Deep history along Hoodoo Trail
Back in town, the sun is warm, the roads are smooth and light on traffic, so we decide to take the Hoodoo Trail loop along the winding Highway 10. The bike sneaks up to 100 km/h until we come across the first hamlet – Rosedale. We trace the lazy Red Deer River, leaning into curves as we carry on through Lehigh en route to East Coulee. As we draw near, rows of petrified sand dunes and outlandish geologic mushroom-like formations appear on the north side of the highway. We’ll come back to these hoodoos, but first we head to some Alberta mining history.
The Atlas Coal Mine is a National Historic Site and offers a glimpse of Drumheller’s past when coal was king. Photo: Doug Firby
Atlas Mine
Just past East Coulee, the eerie looking Atlas Coal Mine, a National Historic Site, comes into view. Canada’s last remaining wooden tipple towers over the site where coal mining was the region’s economic engine, and a time when boys and men went to work in the “beast of the belly.” If you have time, take one of the tours, like the Unmentionables Tour, which delves into the gritty history of Drumheller Valley’s mining past.
The Last Chance Saloon is the perfect spot to stop for a cold one. It is open 11-9 most days. Photo: Doug Firby
Gear down at the Last Chance Saloon
After a quick stop to appreciate the sandstone hoodoos with some pictures, we head back to Rosedale, drop it into second and head towards one of my favourite roads of the trip – the nine bridges that take you to the Last Chance Saloon in Wayne. Up and down the gears, we accelerate then brake hard as we approach the wood-tracked bridges that take us to the town entrance, which declares: Population: “Then 2,490, Now 82.” The wood-frame Last Chance, built in 1913, has motorcycle-only designated parking spots out front, a nod to the establishment’s annual Motorcycle Madness event in July. In summer, day-trippers and weekenders can easily quadruple the population. You can camp here or stay at one the vintage hotel rooms before heading back to your reality.
More routes and events:
In July, the Last Chance Saloon holds its annual Motorcycle Madness Rally, a weekend of events, including a poker run and a show-and-shine.
East Coulee SpringFest: An annual music festival held in early May. It features a lineup of rock, blues, country, folk and alternative musicians from across western Canada, who play for free. Proceeds go to support East Coulee School Museum.
Dinosaur Valley Half Marathon (with options for 5 K and 10 K) is held annually in September. It’s a gentle and fairly flat course with a couple of small hills.
Canalta Hotel in Drumheller and other locations around Alberta offer a motorcyclist’s program that includes designated parking, a wash station with complimentary soap and sponge, kickstand pads and detailed route maps with attractions. Free breakfast and wi-fi also included in stays.
Lisa Monforton is Editor of Travel Like This and Doug Firby is Publisher of Troy Media. The married couple are also travel partners.
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Google Earth as a River Runner’s Tool
By Susan Hollingsworth
Try to picture all the rivers in your state. Now add the surrounding landscape to the view, from the steep and rugged contours of the mountainside to the widespread farmlands and tiny towns. Add in the access roads and highways needed to get to these rivers. Don’t forget to include all the smaller tributaries of these rivers as well, like thousands of tiny veins branching out from the main arteries. Oh, and you’ll want to know the flow information for these rivers, too.
Having difficulties fitting in all the information? Google Earth can help. More specifically, American Whitewater and volunteer Alex Zendel can help.
More than just standard geographic features on a map, Google Earth allows us to see the intricacies of a landscape from a birds-eye view. For exploratory river runners, this means scouting remote rapids or planning potential take-out routes for newly discovered runs. The rest of us use this application to understand more detail about the rivers and mountains where we play.
American Whitewater, in their never-ending quest to make river recreation more accessible, has created Google Map information specific to every state. With a simple file download, AW’s live river database joins forces with Google Earth’s addicting topographic images.
The files allow river runners to:
Search for a specific river
See immediately if the river is below (orange), above (blue) or at (green) recommended flows
Link directly to the AW page for each river
Get directions to the put-in through Google Maps
Recently, AW volunteer Alex Zendel helped complete a new layer for map-happy kayakers, canoers and rafters. The Wild and Scenic file highlights the nation’s protected waterways under the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. Alex’s work involved updating the map to include the recent 86 new stretches of river now protected under the Act. Last March, Obama signed the Omnibus Public Lands Act of 2009, adding in a handful of newly designated Wild and Scenic Rivers.
Locally, the Northwest is proud to see the Owyhee Canyon and all of the rivers within the Mt Hood National Forest to the Act’s 200+ protected rivers, including the many stretches of the Hood River.
Of course, the map layer also contains the previously designated rivers as well, such as the White Salmon and the Klickitat.
The Wild and Scenic layer, as seen in Google Earth, provides a visual understanding of exactly how much of America’s river network enjoys some form of protection from additional development. While the Act began by protecting only eight rivers, the 254 now designated don’t exactly cover the map. In fact, the layer helps to illustrate the need to help more of our rivers gain extra forms of protection.
Take a look at the map and imagine these Wild and Scenic Rivers as the only sources for clean drinking water, and you may begin to understand where I’m going with this. While this is not the case at all, it is a good exercise in understanding the ratio of protected water sources to non-protected sources. We can only hope that our fresh water resources will never become that sparse.
For now, enjoy your rivers more easily by spending less time doing research and more time paddling!
Susan Hollingsworth, writer and instructor, lives in the Columbia River Gorge where she uses Google Earth to remind her how many rivers surround her home.
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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom- It stumbles but eventually gets up!
Written by T.A. Moreland
Published in Movie Reviews
Photo Courtesy of Universal Pictures Chris Pratt returns to the Jurassic World Theme Park in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
The Jurassic World Theme Park has been closed for four years to the public but the dinosaurs thrive on Isla Nublar without paying onlookers. Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) return to the island when a volcano threatens to end all life there. Owen is especially concerned about Blue, the raptor he bonded within the last Jurassic edition.
While saving the prehistoric creatures from a threat from nature, Owen and Claire learn of manmade threats to destroy the animals completely and another which would exploit them for financial gain.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom struggles to develop underlying plotlines when the entire purpose of these films is to showcase the dinosaurs. The stories are weak, predictable and plagued by a number of “coming out of nowhere rescues” by both humans and creatures.
Returning stars, Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, add stability and familiarity to the film. But among the human cast, the real star is young Isabella Sermon, who plays Maisie Lockwood, whose grandfather, Benjamin helped create the dinosaur-cloning technology. Isabella is amazing!
For cast diversity, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom gets a B+. One of the featured stars, in addition to Pratt and Howard, is a young black actor, Justice Smith playing Franklin, a nerdy, easily frightened, computer tech. There are also other people of color in supporting and minor roles.
Ultimately, the Jurassic Park Series is about the special effects and the Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom doesn’t disappoint. And that’s enough to garner a “See It!” rating.
The film is PG-13 for intense sequences of science-fiction violence and peril and is 129 minutes in length.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom also hints at the next film in the series.
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2006 Associate Award Winner
Patterson Shed Asia, Micronesia Terrestrial
Our Island, Our Future, Micronesia
Our Island, Our Future: Protecting Terrestrial Biodiversity in Pohnpei State, Micronesia
The commercial cultivation of kava in the upland rainforests of Pohnpei, Micronesia is destroying irreplaceable habitat and threatening the water supply for the island’s 37,000 inhabitants, as well as scores of unique endemic species.
The main cause of the devastation is that farmers are attempting to produce kava in unsuitable soils, and are removing trees in order to plant the crop, causing erosion and soil loss.
In response to this, the ‘Grow Low’ campaign was developed in 2001 to raise awareness of the dangers of deforestation in the mountains. The campaign aims to transfer the agricultural skills required for high-yield, sustainable kava propagation in the lowlands to all farmers, and to demarcate the watershed boundaries of upland areas as areas off-limits to agriculture. The effort is coupled with an educational program that explains why it important to conserve watershed. As a result, 42% of upland farmers have moved their cultivation to lower slopes since the project began, and a dramatic decrease in forest clearings, from a total of 1,741 recorded in 2001 to only 13 new clearings in 2005, has been seen.
Patterson Shed leads a team in completing the delineation of the Watershed Forest Reserve, working with the relevant municipalities and local people to build consenses over land rights and ownership. Forest inventories and hydrological studies on surface water and sedimentation are being completed in the proposed reserve to inform where the boundary should lie.
A key aim is to continue working with local farmers using the Grow Low campaign’s sustainable agro-forestry practices within the traditional lowland agricultural areas, and assist the Pohnpei State Volunteer Forest Rangers in educating communities
‘GROW LOW CAMPAIGN’ ATTRACTS GEF FUNDING
We are delighted to announce that shortly after recieving an Associate Award from WFN, the Conservation Society of Pohnpei and ‘Grow Low Campaign’ successfully achieved matched funding from the UNDP-World Bank Global Environmental Fund-Small Grant program!
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Richard Ambrose and Jonny Phillips visit a state-of-the-art milking station that is fully automated and can milk 70 cows three times a day.
JONNY PHILLIPS: This time, we're looking at something which has been consumed by mankind for thousands of years.
RICHARD AMBROSE: We're talking about milk.
NARRATOR:
But first, how is milk created? Well in fact a cow has four stomachs. The first stomach begins to break down the grass before it passes through the second and third stomachs where nutrient absorption begins. Eventually, in stomach number four, gastric juices finish off the digestion process and nutrients extracted from the food are absorbed into the blood stream. In the udder, the blood passes through very small blood vessels, surrounding groups of secreting cells called Alveoli. It's these that actually produce the milk using the nutrients carried in the bloodstream. Aside from the food they eat, cows must also drink plenty of water 18 litres of it produce just 4.5 litres of milk.
JONNY PHILLIPS: And the traditional way of milking a cow was of course by hand using a stool and a bucket, and I'm gonna give it a go.
NARRATOR: Farmers going back to the Iron Age milked cows in this way.
RICHARD AMBROSE: Jonny is that the first time you've done that?
JONNY PHILLIPS: Yeah. She's obviously very full because that's coming out without much encouragement, but, it's not as easy as it might seem.
RICHARD AMBROSE: There you go girls.
JONNY PHILLIPS: The average cow produces about 27 liters of milk a day, but it has been known for cows to produce more than a 100 liters in a day. And you can drink the milk straight from the udder, as I am about to demonstrate. There we go whisky. There we go. Aahhh, that is absolutely delicious.
NARRATOR: Technology has entered the world of the Moo Cow. Richard and Jonny have come to one of the most modern dairy farms in Britain where a laser-guided robot milks the cows. It's called an Automated Milk Harvester and it operates 24/7, allowing the cows to enter of their own free will.
RICHARD AMBROSE:
So talk us through the process, how does it work?
NEIL ROWE: Okay, the cows walk on from this side. Come into the box and stand there. They're identified by a microchip, which they have in a collar on their necks. The computer will then decide whether it wants to milk this cow or whether to let this one go and take the next one. So it's trying to be as efficient as it can. It's always looking to harvest the maximum amount of milk every 24 hours.
JONNY PHILLIPS: Why would it let a cow go then, why would it not milk one?
NEIL ROWE: If she doesn't have enough milk in her udder, it won't invest six and a half minutes of its time for a small amount of milk, it's looking for a cow with about 10 litres of milk.
JONNY PHILLIPS: And sorry, just explain Neil, how does it know whether it's worth milking her
NEIL ROWE: It keeps a running total on every cow in the herd. It can then calculate to within half a liter how much milk is in the cow before it starts to milk her.
RICHARD AMBROSE: And how many cows a day is it milking?
NEIL ROWE: It'll milk 70 cows, 3 times a day. It can do about 200 milkings over the 24 hour period.
RICHARD AMBROSE: And what's the most say, a cow can yield?
NEIL ROWE: We've had cows on here that have given 100 liters in a 24 hour period.
JONNY PHILLIPS: Goodness me.
NEIL ROWE: Which is extraordinary isn't it.
RICHARD AMBROSE: That's massive.
NARRATOR: Once the robot has committed to milking a cow, a brush system first cleans and sterilizes the teats with hydrogen peroxide to prevent any infection being passed on. The orange brush then massages the cow's udder to encourage the production of the hormone oxitocin, which is needed to stimulate the milk flow.
NEIL ROWE: The milk comes down through these tubes, goes through this electronic box and there's 10,000 pounds worth of sensors in there which monitor the quality of the milk. It can see watery substances, cow muck, dirt, blood. Anything which isn't normal in the milk, it will see it, and then it separates that milk out into these buckets and then when the process is finished, it takes about uh, 4 seconds to chill the milk down from 37 degrees down to 2 degrees.
NARRATOR: And it's not just the milk that's chilled. This system can prove much less stressful for the cows. In fact on this farm they're actually living an average of 30% longer than those on farms where they use more traditional milking methods. But what happens if something goes wrong with milking when the farmer is not around? Well, this technology is so advanced the robot just contacts him over the phone!
JONNY PHILLIPS: The system actually automatically contacts you if there's a problem?
NEIL ROWE: It does, yeah. It will ring me immediately, within seconds of identifying a problem. There are about 100 sensors on here that can all detect whether it's working correctly or not. Any one of those finds a problem, rings me straightaway, gives me a message to tell me what the problem is. I can then text back codes to try and fix the problem from where I am, or even if I've got my laptop and a wireless broadband connection, I can connect on anywhere in the world, using the cameras I can see what's going on and I can use my keyboard to sort the problems out.
RICHARD AMBROSE & JONNY PHILLIPS: Wow!
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MLB Power Pros 2008
Publisher: 2K Sports (2008)
What Power Pros lacks in realism it makes up for in pure entertainment value, putting many "realistic" baseball games to shame. MLB Power Pros 2008 features short cartoon characters, not unlike "Miis", or those squat players in old NES baseball titles. During one game my player was taken out due to a knee injury, and I was like, "Wait a minute, these guys don't even have knees!" You can expect a lot of comical animations, like when a batter glares back at the ump after a called third strike. It also looks funny when all the fielder's heads look straight up during a pop-up. Power Pros 2008 is almost exactly the same as last year's MLB Power Pros for the Playstation 2, and that's disappointing. Motion controls are only used in the home run derby mode, and even then, the control is minimal. Still, I will admit that the basic controls are very intuitive. You can pitch a ball or swing a bat with a single press of a button, and pressing the directional pad throws to the appropriate base. Best of all, the games move along at a blistering pace with minimal pauses between pitches, few fouls balls, and no discernable load times once the game begins. That's great, but there are some problems. First of all, pitchers tend to give up way too many runs in the first inning before settling down in the second. The fielders move extremely slowly, minimizing the possibility of a great defensive play. Two very excitable announcers rant and rave but provide little insight. The 58-page instruction book is a complete disaster. Want to know how to steal? The manual will leave you bewildered! When you see at all those pages of tiny text and symbols, you'll wonder how it could possibly have any connection to such a simple, lighthearted game. The options screens are also cumbersome, and the "quick season" mode forced me to sift through dozens of pages of text and menus before tossing one pitch! 2K went a bit overboard with this game, but if you're looking for a casual contest against a friend, MLB Power Pros 2008 is tough to beat. Besides, how many other nine-inning baseball games can you play in under a half-hour? © Copyright 2008 The Video Game Critic.
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If you like this game, try: MLB Power Pros (Playstation 2),
RBI Baseball 18 (Playstation 4), MLB 2006 (Playstation 2),
MLB 08: The Show (Playstation 3), MLB The Show 17 (Playstation 4)
Mad Dog McCree Gunslinger Pack
Publisher: Majesco (2009)
Rating: Teen (alcohol and tobacco reference, crude humor, mild blood, mild suggestive themes, violence)
Uses light gun controller Seasonal summer fun Contains Full Motion Video
This light gun title is a throwback from the not-so-golden days of full-motion video (that would be the early 90's). Mad Dog McCree originally appeared on the 3DO and Philips CD-i, offending dozens of gamers with its erratic controls and poor gameplay. How McCree earned two sequels is a mystery that has baffled scientists for nearly two decades. The fact that this game is now available on the Wii is a paradox that's been known to short circuit supercomputers! Mad Dog McCree Gunslinger Pack includes all three original games, and each one is inexcusably bad. The stages are a series of choreographed gunfights using live, videotaped actors. As bad guys pop up from behind scenery you have a split-second to aim and fire. The predictable locations include a corral, sheriff's office, saloon, and stagecoach. Brief cut-scenes convey a flimsy storyline, and some of the dialogue is hard to make out. The scenery looks realistic enough, and I love how bandits insist on dying in the most dramatic manner possible. You can shoot an outlaw in the face and he'll still have enough energy to dive off of a balcony! This Wii version offers more accurate control than the original games, but the underlying engine is terribly unforgiving. If you don't unload a perfect shot the first time, you're dead - even you fire a second, accurate shot before he returns fire. This lag problem is especially glaring during the showdown stages, which are basically unplayable. I'm sure three or four people were clamoring for McCree's return, but Majesco probably would have been wise to let this sleeping Dog lie. © Copyright 2010 The Video Game Critic.
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If you like this game, try: Mad Dog II: The Lost Gold (3DO),
Mad Dog McCree (Philips CD-i), Mad Dog McCree (3DO),
Corpse Killer (3DO), Target: Terror (Wii)
Rating: Mature (blood, gore, drug reference, intense violence, mature humor, sexual themes, strong language)
Contains violence and gore Contains bad language
A lot of people in the industry threw a tantrum when this game didn't sell well, questioning the viability of the Wii's mature market. Did anybody take a moment to consider the game just isn't very good? MadWorld carries a "mature" rating despite the fact that only minors will appreciate its excessive gore, juvenile humor, and gratuitous profanity. The graphics are rendered entirely in black and white with the exception of the red blood that's splattered liberally throughout each stage. This visual novelty wears off in about 30 seconds, leaving you with one truly ugly game! Objects are sharp up close but appear fuzzy in the distance, making it hard to distinguish thugs and key items. You play a cigarette-smoking musclehead who enjoys impaling creeps and dismembering bosses in his free time. Each stage presents a parade of zombie-like thugs for you to decimate in gritty, urban locations. Pound-for-pound, MadWorld offers more mindless violence than any other game. It's like Mortal Kombat on steroids! Each level has its share of grinders, slicers, spiked walls, and turbines. Points are awarded for eliminating bad guys in the most brutal manner, and performing combos lets you rack up big points. For example, you can throw a tire around a thug to incapacitate him, stick a street sign through his neck, and then toss him in the path of an oncoming subway train. Each stage offers new and imaginative ways to kill, and the formula works for a while. The game is certainly stylish but it has some technical issues. The camera tends to be pulled in very tight, and while this accentuates the gore, it's hard to see things in your immediate vicinity. The movement controls are touchy and the inexact motion controls will have you shaking your Wii-mote like a madman. During boss battles the non-stop prompts make it feel as if the game is playing you and not vice versa. You can only save your progress at the end of each level, and some can be pretty grueling. Like the game itself, the hip-hop soundtrack is edgy but repetitive. The commentators are terribly annoying with their infantile attempts at humor. MadWorld gets credit for originality, but once the novelty wears off the rampant violence gets boring in a hurry. © Copyright 2010 The Video Game Critic.
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If you like this game, try: Mortal Kombat (Genesis),
Red Dead Revolver (Xbox), No More Heroes (Wii),
Mortal Kombat (Xbox 360), Infected (PSP)
When you graft Wii motion controls on top of Madden football, you get a game that's challenging and unique, but not very intuitive. In fact, the first time you play Madden 08 for the Wii, you'll probably think it royally sucks. The visuals are no better than the GameCube incarnations of Madden, and the new motion controls take a lot of getting used to. Let's face it - Madden was pretty complicated to begin with, and forcing you to swing your arms while playing doesn't help matters! Before hiking the ball you can hear the snap count through the controller's microphone, which is pretty cool. Hiking is done by pulling up on the controller, which is no problem at all. Unfortunately, any symbols displayed while calling audibles tend to linger on the screen after you hike the ball, obstructing your vision temporarily. Throwing the ball is performed using a real passing motion, but you'll also need to fiddle with buttons if you want to throw to a receiver other than the default. I wish you could just cycle through your receivers like you could in those old Tecmo Football games. To catch or defend a pass you have to quickly raise both arms. The passing game is a challenge, but I have to admit it feels extra satisfying when you complete a pass - probably because it's so much work! The running game is much easier, but jerking the controllers to perform jukes and stiff-arms takes practice to get the timing right. Be sure your Wii-mote is fully charged, because there's not much room for error in this game. I had problems navigating the play-calling screens, and sometimes had to call a time-out in order to get the play right. When playing against my friend Steve (who helped a lot with this review), I felt pretty silly flailing my arms around, and at one point began laughing hysterically. The graphics are minimal (the crowd is completely flat), but the excellent play-by-play features Al Michaels and John Madden - a huge upgrade from the droning "radio voice" of the 360. Otherwise, Madden 08 for the Wii is a pretty barebones package. Not only is there no half-time show, but you don't even get half-time statistics! When you challenge a play, the camera doesn't zoom in at all, making it impossible to see what transpired. Considering the unorthodox controls and lack of features, It's hard to recommend the Wii version of Madden if you own any other game console. © Copyright 2007 The Video Game Critic.
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If you like this game, try: Madden '93 (Genesis),
Tecmo Super Bowl (Super Nintendo), Madden NFL 08 (Xbox 360),
Super Pro Football (Intellivision), Joe Montana Football (Genesis)
Manhunt 2
Controversial Contains violence and gore
The Wii controller was designed with three basic movements in mind: Swinging a tennis racket, steering a car, and bashing some poor bastard's head into a toilet bowl. In Manhunt 2, you play the role of an escaped prisoner on the run, forced to use brutal tactics to subdue his pursuers. Like a low-budget slasher flick, the game isn't great but provides its share of visceral thrills. Your journey takes you into some grimy "red light" districts of town where you'll prowl dark, rainy alleys and damp basements. These areas and their muffled sound effects help convey a feeling of uneasiness not unlike the movie Seven. Much has been made of the game's violent content, and at least in this Wii version, I was wondering what all the fuss was about. Yes, you do sneak up on thugs and initiate brutal acts by pressing A. To carry out the carnage, you must performing a series of controller movements in response to on-screen prompts. But even so, the visuals are so obfuscated with effects that you can barely make out what's going on! The most explicit aspect of the violence is the "crunching" sound effects. The graphics are about PS2 quality, and the visuals are in fact purposely degraded with fake "interference" in order to make the game look grittier. The controls lack precision, but swinging a controller to punch is cool. Likewise, breaking some low-life's neck by swinging controllers is far more satisfying than merely pressing a button (although still less satisfying than doing it for real). Manhunt 2 is simple stealth fun, and the only items you really need to worry are things like axes, circular saws, plastic bags, hypodermic needles, and crossbows. The cut-scenes and stages are short - which is a good thing. Checkpoints are well spaced, and you can save your progress at any time. Unfortunately, you have to sit through the same cut-scenes whenever you repeat an area, and that's just aggravating. Why can't I skip these? The background story unfolds as you uncover your past, and it's more interesting than your typical stealth tale. I tend to be jaded when it comes to complicated stealth games like Metal Gear and Splinter Cell, but I found Manhunt 2's straightforward brand of mayhem appealing. © Copyright 2007 The Video Game Critic.
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If you like this game, try: Manhunt 2 (PSP),
Manhunt 2 (Playstation 2), Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Playstation 2),
Metal Gear Solid (Playstation), Splinter Cell (Xbox)
Publisher: Nintendo (2008)
If you enjoy breathing air, you'll probably enjoy Mario Kart Wii. I doubt there's ever been another racer as inviting or readily enjoyable. Unlike Mario Kart Double Dash (GameCube, 2003), there's only one character per car, but there's a much wider selection of vehicles to choose from. Besides the standard karts, you can drive off-road four-by-fours, dragsters, stock cars, and motorcycles. The motorcycles are unique because they take up less space on the road and have the ability to execute "wheelies" for mini speed bursts. The game borrows some ideas from Mario Kart DS, like the view-obstructing squid ink attack and the inclusion of tracks from classic Mario Kart titles. If the old tracks give you a "been there, done that" feeling, rest assured the new tracks are amazing. I love the shopping mall's dual levels, escalators, and a bright, palm tree-lined parking lot. The mine-cart track is a virtual rollercoaster, and the snow courses feature mammoth half-pipes. A relaxing autumn stage lets you plow through leaves, and the wet-and-wild island track feels like a virtual water slide! The graphics are comparable to the GameCube, but close inspection reveals a lot of subtle details, like your character pumping his fist when one of his weapons hits. Playing solo is madly addictive and the raucous split-screen mode accommodates up to four players. I hear the on-line action is also superb. The motion-based controls are fantastic, providing the most precise steering ever. Although the included plastic steering wheel is not really necessary, it feels comfortable. Mario Kart Wii would have been an A+ title if Nintendo had shown a little restraint with the power-ups, which are far too ubiquitous. Not only are there item boxes along every stretch of road, but you typically get three items at a time! The trailing karts get the best power-ups, and the leader routinely gets pelted with multiple shells - sometimes going from first to last in two seconds. I was never a fan of the unavoidable purple shell, and that new "POW" block is an unwelcome addition. You feel obligated to immediately unload whatever you pick up just so you'll be able to collect the next batch. The squid ink attack is a neat concept, but it occurs too often. Maybe Nintendo went overboard in an attempt to distance this game from Double Dash. It's not perfect, but Mario Kart Wii is undeniably fun and has universal appeal. © Copyright 2008 The Video Game Critic.
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If you like this game, try: Mario Kart DS (Nintendo DS),
Mario Kart 8 (Wii U), Mario Kart 64 (Nintendo 64),
Mario Kart 7 (Nintendo 3DS), Mario Kart Double Dash (GameCube)
Supports three or more players
Despite having been in decline over the past few years, the Mario Party franchise seems to have been reinvigorated by the Wii's innovative motion controls. The general formula remains the same, as players take turns moving around an elaborate "board" while engaging in mini-games and trying to collect the most stars. I love how each board looks and plays like a completely different game. On the pirate board you collect a star each time you reach the end of the path, but on the city board you must invest coins in hotels which gradually increase in "star value". Coins are used for other purposes as well, including buying "candy" that provides extra options like stealing coins or rolling an extra dice on your turn. But it's the mini-games that really steal the show, and that's how it should be. As everyone knows, the Wii's motion controls are well suited to mini-games, and Mario Party 8 makes the most of them. Whether turning the hands of a clock, navigating a river, shooting targets, or guiding an airplane through obstacles, most games tend to be easy and intuitive to play. Unfortunately, the one-on-three and two-on-two "team" games can be confusing, and should have been axed altogether. MP8's graphics are bright and inviting, with pleasant music and entertaining sound effects. I especially enjoyed the steel drum music of the pirate board, and how your character yells through that little speaker in your controller when it's your turn. Mario Party 8 is fun to play either solo or with friends. Even if you're losing, you'll want to stick around for the "closing ceremonies", since you might be awarded an unexpected "bonus" star that puts you over to the top! One obvious flaw with the game is its slow, plodding pace. You can blame the usual suspects: too many prompts, tedious spinning wheels, unnecessary "cute" animations, and inane, verbose dialogue ("Let's see you all do your best!") Even if you're only playing the 10-turn (short) contest against one person, it can still take over an hour! I can't even imagine playing 50 turns - you'd be playing all day! Had there been a "fast mode" to expedite the action, Mario Party 8 would probably be in "A" territory. © Copyright 2007 The Video Game Critic.
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If you like this game, try: Mario Party (Nintendo 64),
Mario Party 10 (Wii U), Mario Party: Island Tour (Nintendo 3DS),
Mario Party 7 (GameCube), Super Mario Party (Nintendo Switch)
Supports three or more players Suitable for children ET Award for extreme disappointment May contain monkeys
In past years Mario has excelled in sports like soccer, tennis, and golf, so this four-in-one package should have been a slam-dunk. Up to four players can participate in basketball, volleyball, dodge ball, and hockey, with some "party" variations tossed in for good measure. The games incorporate all your favorite Nintendo characters and some very imaginative courts and rinks. Fountains serve as a net in the castle volleyball court, waves wash over the beach dodge ball court, and ghosts swing from chandeliers in the haunted mansion basketball arena. Shell weapons spice things up, and I like how collecting coins let you score extra points. Each sport offers a series of tournaments where you unlock new locations and hidden characters. It sounds like a recipe for awesome, but Mario Sports Mix falters. For one thing, the tournament difficulty is so easy, it's unbearable. The CPU players are so clueless that you can leave the game unattended for minutes at a time without giving up any points. To say Nintendo was catering to pre-schoolers would be an insult to pre-schoolers! Five-minute games feel more like a half hour, especially when each score is followed by unnecessary celebration and score tabulation sequences. And by limiting the basic controls to "shake" and "press A", the games feel simplistic and unsatisfying. Playing Sports Mix with friends is like attending a Wii-mote waggle rally. Moves like diving for errant volleyballs are totally automatic. The passes in dodge ball are too soft and floaty. The extra "party" games are too random to be fun, and the musical one hardly qualifies as a game. Mario Sports Mix was loaded with potential but poor execution makes this a spectacular disappointment. © Copyright 2012 The Video Game Critic.
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If you like this game, try: Mario Hoops 3 On 3 (Nintendo DS),
Mario Tennis (Virtual Boy), Mario Tennis Aces (Nintendo Switch),
Wii Sports Club (Wii U), Tennis (Intellivision)
Mario Strikers Charged
Despite the system's unbridled popularity, one could argue that the Wii hasn't had an outstanding game since Wii Sports. Enter Mario Strikers Charged. I was a bit lukewarm on the original Super Mario Strikers (GameCube, 2005), but Charged won me over from the start. Not only is the single-player mode incredibly addictive and fun, but the multi-player action is the most raucous I've played in years! Making use of the nun-chuck attachment, the control scheme incorporates motion controls without feeling forced or contrived. The thumbstick moves your player, and shaking the Wi-mote effectively clobbers a nearby opponent. These "checking" controls are a great idea, but overly-enthusiastic gamers might accidentally smack their other controller (or hand) in the midst of the mayhem (not that I would ever do something like that). During powered-up "mega-shots" on goal, pointing the controller at the screen allows a defender to move around a pair of hands to block the bombardment of incoming shots. Mario Strikers Charged looks like the GameCube version, but the action is far more chaotic thanks to a healthy supply of weapons and arena-specific obstacles that appear when you least expect. You can lose track of the ball when things get crazy, but you're not likely to lose track of your player since large "player numbers" are displayed over people-controlled characters. Your team is customizable this time around, so you can select teammates with specific physical attributes and skill sets. Team captains possess their own special abilities, but unless you choose an oversized character like Donkey Kong or Bowser, it can be hard to discern your captain from your teammates on the field. Each match only lasts for three minutes, but those are intense minutes! Of course, should you end up in a tight overtime contest, it's not unusual for the match to run over ten minutes. The excellent audio is also worth mentioning, with high-octane music that really gets the adrenaline flowing. That cheesy "elevator music" that plays during the pause screen is pretty funny. Mario Striker Charged is an extremely fun sports title in the tradition of NBA Jam and NFL Blitz. This proves that a Wii game doesn't have to totally rely on motion controls to be a hit. © Copyright 2007 The Video Game Critic.
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If you like this game, try: NFL Blitz (Playstation),
Super Mario Strikers (GameCube), NHL Hitz (Playstation 2),
Mario Hoops 3 On 3 (Nintendo DS), NBA Jam (Super Nintendo)
Mario Super Sluggers
The baseball portion of Wii Sports (Nintendo, 2006) showed a lot of potential, but Mario Super Sluggers fails miserably to capitalize on that promise. This game has too much nonsense and not enough baseball. Graphically this game is on par with Mario Superstar Baseball (GameCube, 2005). You can populate your roster with any number of Nintendo personalities, including obscure characters like Toadette, Monty Mole, and Blue Pianta. That "random roster" option really comes in handy! I was pretty excited about the game's motion controls, but they turned out to be a bust. Pitching, fielding, and batting can be done with controller movements, but the game is designed for short flicks - not realistic baseball motions. The controls terribly erratic, so your character will often begin his wind-up or swing before you're even ready! After a few innings of frustration you'll ditch the motion controls in favor of the old-fashioned sideways configuration (NES style). You'll be glad you did, because it makes the game 12 times better. But even with decent controls, Super Sluggers is a flawed baseball game. The close camera angles are not ideal for grounders, and by the time you locate your fielder, the ball has already rolled past. Runners take off on contact, so many fly balls lead to cheap double plays. There are entirely too many foul balls. Whatever you do, be sure you turn off the star pitches and error items. Not only are these dumb gimmicks irritating, but they're so plentiful that you can employ them constantly! At least the ballparks are interesting, including a palace with an ice-covered surface, a field set against an amusement park backdrop, and a jungle field with overgrown ruins. Each has unique hazards, including rolling barrels, green pipes, and moving glaciers. Super Sluggers lacks a manual instant replay feature, but automated replays and cute animations constantly disrupt the flow of the game. Is it really necessary for Peach to curtsy after every strikeout? Besides the exhibition mode, a separate adventure mode slowly introduces game concepts. The mini-games are pretty weak, and the Toy Field mode is a complete mess. There's no season mode, if you can believe that. Wow, Mario Superstar Baseball for the GameCube is looking better all the time! © Copyright 2009 The Video Game Critic.
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If you like this game, try: Mario Superstar Baseball (GameCube),
Realsports Baseball (Atari 5200), All-Star Baseball 2000 (Nintendo 64),
Wii Sports (Wii), Bad News Baseball (NES)
Mario and Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games
Seasonal summer fun Suitable for children Supports three or more players
Olympic-style video games have been around for 30 years, so it astounds me how Sega managed to botch this one so badly. Mario and Sonic at the London 2012 Games packs over 30 events, including traditional stuff like track and field, swimming, gymnastics, and volleyball. But you also get fringe sports like equestrian, fencing, canoeing, shooting, synchronized swimming, and rhythmic ribbon gymnastics. Instead of tradition button-mashing, most events are played by shaking the controllers with good timing. For example, in swimming you must move your arms to the rhythm, but move too fast you'll tire out. The controls are often oversimplified on the instruction screen, so you'll be caught off-guard when you're presented with a series of non-intuitive prompts during the actual games. London 2012 is brimming with multiplayer action, but it's shallow and unsatisfying. The motion controls can be imprecise and the outcome often hinges on executing a super cheap "special move". Table Tennis is rendered unplayable by the bad controls, and Badminton is just an exercise in mass confusion. The better events like swimming and equestrian are simple and intuitive, but they're the exception to the rule. Most events are mercifully short, but others (like football and shooting) wear out their welcome. Event records are recorded, but there's no player associated with them if you use a Sega character instead of your Mii. The "dream events" are flashy mini-games that have nothing to do with the Olympics. For example, Dream Sprint is a Super Monkey Ball clone. Lengthy and yawn-inducing, you'll be begging for these to end. The main menu lets you play any individual event, but there's no way to put together a list of events to play in a tournament format. This huge oversight makes the game hard to play competitively with friends. The London Party mode should have served this purpose, but it feels like a glorified game show with irritating mini-games that involve collecting rings and answering trivia questions. Bogged down with repetitive cut-scenes and unwanted replays, Sonic and Mario at the London 2012 Games is long on pomp and circumstance and short on gameplay. A clear case of quantity over quality, only younger gamers will find much to like in this hodgepodge of events. © Copyright 2012 The Video Game Critic.
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If you like this game, try: London 2012 (Xbox 360),
Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (Wii U), Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games (Wii),
Beijing 2008 (Xbox 360), International Track and Field (Playstation)
Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games
Supports three or more players Seasonal summer fun Suitable for children
Ever since Summer Games (Atari XEGS, 1984) I've always had a "thing" for these multi-event, Olympic-style titles. In this case, the Sonic and Mario franchises provide a likeable roster of competitors, including Shadow, Knuckles, Tails, Peach, Yoshi, and Bowser. You can even play as your "Mii", who apparently has sprouted little arms and legs! The game is fun to play alone, but absolute gangbusters when played with three or four people. You can select from a series of "circuits" comprised of three events each, with the option to customize your own tournaments. Keeping the number of events small is a good idea, not only because it lets you play a quick game, but because some of these events will really wear you out! As expected, the Wii's motion controls add a new dimension to a genre formerly characterized by crazy button mashing. Running is performed by quickly alternating both hands up and down, which works great. During long-distance events, the game mercifully "locks in" your speed, functioning like cruise control. I love how the hammer throw requires you to twirl the controller around, but other events, like the javelin throw, are far less intuitive. Initiating jumps is done by raising the controller quickly, but until you've played the game a few times, it's hard to determine how much force is ideal. The swimming events require you to move your arms and press the B button at an even tempo. Table Tennis plays like a scaled-down version of Wii Sports Tennis, and is arguably more playable that Rockstar's recent full-blown Table Tennis game. As you might expect, the Wii excels at target-shooting events like skeet shooting and archery. A few events like trampoline and rowing require you to quickly react to button prompts on the screen. But the biggest surprise is the marathon events which resemble Sonic and the Secret Rings (Sega, 2007). Racing through exotic environments, you'll navigate around obstacles and employ power-ups like shells missiles to gain the upper hand. I found all of the events to be fun to some degree, but a few of the control schemes are more complicated than they need to be. "Powering up" before each sprint seems unnecessary, and clapping your hands to excite the crowd is just pointless. Even more annoying is the excessive number of superfluous screens you'll need to hit "A" to page through. Do we really need introductions before every event? How in the hell do I turn off these lame replays? Get on with the game already! Although most events clock in at less than five minutes, Ping Pong and Archery can easily run over a half-hour, wearing out their welcome in the process. Also, I wish the game would record world records based on initials instead of character names. Despite a few missteps however, Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games offers competitive, fat-burning fun for the whole family. © Copyright 2007 The Video Game Critic.
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If you like this game, try: Mario and Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games (Wii),
London 2012 (Xbox 360), Wii Sports Resort (Wii),
Sydney 2000 (Dreamcast), Beijing 2008 (Xbox 360)
Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games
Supports three or more players Seasonal winter fun Suitable for children Supports balance board
As a gamer who loves the Winter Olympics, this should have been my dream game. Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games packs plenty of wintry competition, but its overbearing user interface is awful! The skiing, snowboarding, and ski jump events are just as I had hoped - fleshed-out versions of the mini-games in Wii Fit. The bobsleigh and skeleton events are amusing because you can control them by sitting on the balance board. At long last, I can finally say that I played a game with my ass! Hockey is chaotic but exciting in a Mario Strikers Charged (Wii, 2007) kind of way. The figure skating is a little silly (especially when your character is a gorilla), but hey, chicks dig that kind of stuff. Curling is slow-paced strategy game that's much different from the other events. The controls are generally intuitive, but you'd never know from the convoluted instruction screens. Each event has up to four sub-menus of instructions to wade through! The events tend to be short and sweet, but you're forced to page through endless set-up and results screens. Especially when playing with four players, you'll constantly yelling "press A somebody!" The game does make good use of the split-screen when playing against friends, but since certain characters have specific attributes (Sonic is extra fast, Donkey Kong is strong), one particular player often has a noticeable advantage. The CPU doesn't provide much of a challenge. The unlockable "dream events" should have been called "nightmare events". "Dream skiing" is reminiscent of those out-of-control Sonic Adventure stages where you whiz through loops and get bounced all over the place, and "dream ski jump" uses leftover scenery from Mario Galaxy. Not only do these over-the-top variations feel totally out of place, but they are not particularly fun. In addition to competing in individual events, you can participate in a 16-day "festival" mode that creates a full-scale tournament out of random events. This gives Winter Games plenty of replay value, and I like being able to save my progress at any time. Too bad you're forced to participate in all those super-easy "training" events. An obligatory "party mode" is also included, but its game-show format is painfully tedious. The balance board works extremely well, so why can't it be used in the multi-player or festival mode? Winter Games is one of those titles that only manages to be fun in spite of itself! © Copyright 2010 The Video Game Critic.
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If you like this game, try: Nagano Winter Olympics 98 (Playstation),
Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games (Wii U), Winter Sports 2008 (Playstation 2),
Wii Fit (Wii), ESPN International Winter Sports 2002 (GameCube)
Masters: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12, The
After Tiger's personal life fell apart, it seemed like things could only get better for him. Then he forgot how to play golf. Perhaps these events had some bearing on EA's decision to rename their golf franchise "The Masters", relegating Tiger to footnote status. When I booted up the game I heard relaxing piano music that brought back fond memories of PGA Tour 96 for the PS1. Be careful not to say "Yes" to the Wiimote-plus tutorial prompt, because otherwise you'll be subjected to ten minutes of unskippable misery. After suffering through some agonizing set-up screens, my friend George and I played a very glitchy round of golf. The Masters makes an awful initial impression, beginning with its PS2-quality graphics. The "rough" areas look anything but, and the golfers are freaky mannequins. Is the Wii so graphically weak or is EA just lazy? Worse yet, our balls were spotted in the wrong places with alarming regularity. In one instance we both hit the ball into the water, yet George had to hit from the drop zone while my ball was spotted on the green 15 feet away from the hole! The motion controls are decent, and the fact that you use your actual golf swing gives this game a leg up over other golf titles. The "Road to the Masters" career mode offers a nice variety of events and a "level up" mechanism not unlike Wii Sports. I love the quick loading and the way you can expedite your ball rolls by holding in A. For such a mature franchise however, the Masters lacks polish. Your default shot is always way off, and the interface to adjust your clubs is a real hassle. You'll typically find yourself going with whatever the caddy recommends because it's the path of least resistance. Tiger Woods must have personally advised EA on the putting game, because it totally sucks. Whether using the classic or "precision" scheme, it's hard to judge the strength of your hit. Occasionally the action kicks into a dramatic, slow-motion "heart-beat" mode for a potentially good shot, but the close-up camera angle makes it hard to tell what the hell is going on! There are some interesting courses (like the castle-laden Highlands) but the level of detail is low, and blurring effects are used to hide the low resolution. The jungle course had potential but it's too dense to navigate. One huge flaw is the fact that if you save your progress mid-round, you cannot play any other modes without wiping out your save! Not even a quick round of mini-golf! Speaking of which, the mini-golf mode features fun courses including a boardwalk, jungle, and speedway. If it wasn't for the lousy putting controls this mode may have put this game over the top. As it is, the Masters serves its purpose but EA should really consider hiring a play tester and an interface designer. © Copyright 2011 The Video Game Critic.
Find Masters Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12 on
If you like this game, try: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 (Wii),
Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf 07 (Wii), Pebble Beach Golf Links (Genesis),
Tiger Woods PGA Tour (Nintendo DS), True Swing Golf (Nintendo DS)
Publisher: SNK (2006)
Few software companies are as adept at mishandling their flagship franchises as SNK. Metal Slug Anthology should be an easy A+, but SNK crippled it by incorporating hideous control schemes and an awkward user interface. Since 1996, the Metal Slug games have represented the pinnacle of 2D shooters, featuring insane destruction, fantastic artwork, edgy humor, and imaginative enemies and locales. One or two players are mercenaries in a side-scrolling journey against legions of soldiers and oversized mechanical weapons. Anthology contains all seven editions of the game, which is quite a value considering Metal Slug games typically sell for big bucks on Ebay. But sadly, SNK did everything in their power to taint what should have been every shooter fan's dream. First there's the issue of the controls. Metal Slug games were designed for a joystick and three buttons (jump, shoot, grenade). That shouldn't have been a problem for the Wii controller, but somebody at SNK insisted that the Wii motion controls be incorporated. Consequentially, four of the five control schemes are unplayable. The best one allows you to use the remote like an NES controller, but inexplicably you have to shake the controller to throw a grenade! For a shooter that requires precision and quick reflexes, that's not a good idea! You also have the option of using a GameCube controller, but that's a pain to hook up, and its digital pad isn't even supported! Next there's this business with "continues". The default is "unlimited continues", which is idiotic, considering a chimpanzee could finish these games with that on! You can switch to "limited continues", but instead of letting you specify the number of continues, it's based on difficulty level. On easy you get 30 continues, on normal you get 20, and on hard you get ten. While 20 is reasonable considering how fast you can burn through lives in these games, that still amounts to quite a long play session. Have the people running SNK ever played a Metal Slug game? Besides these user interface issues, the games themselves are outstanding. Some are better than others, but they all feature the same style of non-stop action and spectacular visuals effects. I've always loved Metal Slug, but it's a shame that a new generation of gamers will be introduced to it in such a shoddy package. © Copyright 2007 The Video Game Critic.
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If you like this game, try: Metal Slug Anthology (Playstation 2),
Metal Slug 2 (CD) (Neo Geo), Metal Slug Advance (Game Boy Advance),
Metal Slug (MVS) (Neo Geo), Metal Slug 7 (Nintendo DS)
Rating: Teen Adolescents (animated blood, violence)
Corruption looks just like the previous Metroid Prime games for the GameCube, but its intuitive control scheme propels it to the next level. Using a system similar to Red Steel, you move using the joystick and look around by aiming with the Wii-mote. The first two Metroid Primes were hampered by a lousy targeting system, but the Wii's ability to aim directly at the screen provides a fine degree of precision you won't find on another system. Motion controls are also effectively used to manipulate keys, grapple from hooks, and even disarm enemies! Another novel feature is the abilitiy to control your ship remotely. Your mission requires you to travel between several planets as you disinfect "organic supercomputers" while fending off invading space pirates. A trio of fearsome aliens play key roles in the game, serving as valuable allies in early stages before becoming "corrupted". One looks like something from Aliens, another is a shape-shifter, and the third wears an intimidating mech suit. Metroid Prime 3 contains some breathtaking sequences, including a lengthy battle with a bird monster as you both plunge into an abyss (not unlike like Gandolf versus Balrog in Lord of the Rings). Like all Metroid games, you have the power to transform into a small metal ball to penetrate narrow openings. Corruption incorporates a lot of imaginative morph ball sequences that let you navigate tubes like a hamster while avoiding hazards like giant birds, hovering robots, and electrical changes. For its first two hours, Metroid Prime 3 is linear and maintains a break-neck pace that suggests a major departure from the first two games. Upon arriving on the planet Bryyo however, its gameplay reverts to the more traditional Prime style, with sprawling levels, considerable backtracking, and mind-bending puzzles that will have you reaching for the FAQ. Hardcore gamers will relish the game's ingenious complex design, but casual players may struggle to maintain interest. As with previous Metroid Primes, you can only save your progress in specific rooms (or your ship), and these are strategically placed throughout the levels. Prime 3's graphics are more illustrative than realistic, but the artistry is impressive, as are clever touches like the reflection of Samus on her specialty visors. Prime 3's soundtrack is more organic that its predecessors, including one stage's ominous chanting refrain that calls to mind Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. All in all, Metroid Prime 3 Corruption effectively reinvigorates the franchise with the best FPS controls around and the strongest storyline of the series. Those looking for a more cerebral brand of first-person shooting will be thrilled, but gamers geared more towards mindless "fragging" are in for a headache. © Copyright 2007 The Video Game Critic.
Find Metroid Prime 3 Corruption on
If you like this game, try: Metroid Zero Mission (Game Boy Advance),
Metroid Prime (GameCube), Metroid Fusion (Game Boy Advance),
Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition (Wii), Alfred Challenge (Atari 2600)
Rating: Teen (adolescents)
ET Award for extreme disappointment
It had all the promise in the world, but Metroid: Other M falls short of expectations with a resounding thud. Previews for the game showcased a tantalizing third-perspective - a welcome departure from the first-person view used by the long-running Metroid Prime series. But if you're hoping for a return to the classic 2D formula, your hopes are about to be dashed. Big time. Other M gets off to a dubious start with some incomprehensible cut-scenes filled with pseudo-cerebral exposition and awful voice acting. Samus begins her quest by heading off to a frigate in distress, and once there she runs into her old squad and former commander. But unlike any self-respecting bounty hunter, she proceeds to take orders from the guy like a freakin' lap-dog. Boba Fett must be rolling in his grave right now! It takes a while for the game to gain any traction at all, but eventually it falls into the familiar Metroid formula of blasting scampering aliens, solving puzzles, and rolling into a ball to navigate shafts. Other M requires you to hold the controller sideways (NES style), but again - don't get too excited. The third-person perspective allows for some dramatic camera angles, but shooting your gun uses a bizarre, semi-accurate auto-aim mechanism. It's really hard to direct your shots, and they tend to scatter all over the place. Pointing the Wii-mote at the screen places you into a first-person mode where you can freely look around and fire missiles with accuracy (lock-on). Unfortunately, you're a sitting duck in this mode. That's fine if you're just exploring, but when it comes to fighting bosses, switching between the two perspectives is terribly awkward. And when facing mammoth worms that constantly pelt you with balls of plasma, the scheme becomes an utter nightmare. The special attacks are confusing, and some only function at arbitrary times. I found the stage designs conducive to making the player wander in circles, desperately seeking an escape route. I'm sure a lot of people enjoy Metroid: Other M and God bless them. Personally, I found this awkward hybrid of two game styles to bring out the worst of both. I'm filing this one under M - as in Mess. © Copyright 2010 The Video Game Critic.
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If you like this game, try: Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Wii),
Star Wars: Bounty Hunter (Playstation 2), Metroid: Samus Returns (Nintendo 3DS),
Metroid Zero Mission (Game Boy Advance), Metroid Fusion (Game Boy Advance)
Monster 4x4 World Circuit
Publisher: Ubisoft (2007)
It's no prize, but Monster 4x4 World Circuit is at least more inspired than Ubisoft's insipid GT Pro racer. The problem is, the Wii already has an off-road racer (Excite Truck, Nintendo 2006) which absolutely kicks this one's ass in every which way. Monster's main mode is a series of contests over hilly dirt tracks in locations like Mount Rushmore, an Alaskan port, and a California amusement park. The game primarily focuses on racing monster trucks, but other oversized vehicles are available including a school bus and fire truck. Using the Wii remote to steer works well enough, and the plastic steering wheel attachment feels okay. The sense of speed is modest however, at least until you kick in your turbo by pushing the controller forward. Colored "stunt ramps" allow you to perform stunts for boosts, and these are executed with circular movements that initiate flips and spins. While fun to execute, these don't always register as well as you'd like. Barrels in the road become projectiles when you run into them, setting the trucks ahead on fire and slowing them to a crawl in the process. As you can imagine, these barrels are a major pain in the ass if you're in the lead. Monster's gameplay is not particularly exciting, partially due to its bland tracks. Heck, even the amusement park is devoid of personality. Certain tracks are also marred by ill-conceived flame-throwers which are nearly impossible to avoid (at least without a shield power-up). I was hoping the four-player split screen might redeem Monster 4x4, but its degraded graphics and lack of a map turned it into a muddled mess. My friends and I were ready to quit long before the races actually ended. As I pondered my last-place finish, my friend Scott asked, "Are you really surprised Dave? I mean, you were driving a freakin' school bus!" The single player mode might keep you occupied for a short period of time, but Monster 4x4 just seems pointless after a while. © Copyright 2007 The Video Game Critic.
Find Monster 4x4 World Circuit on
If you like this game, try: Excite Truck (Wii),
GT Pro Series (Wii), 4 Wheel Thunder (Dreamcast),
TNN Motorsports Hardcore 4x4 (Saturn), Stunt Racer 64 (Nintendo 64)
Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars
Publisher: SouthPeak (2008)
Despite its unusual title, Mushroom Men is one of the least original games in recent memory, borrowing elements from every 3D platformer I've ever played. Fortunately it's so well constructed that only a jaded bastard like me would find much to complain about. You assume the role of Pax, a small mushroom forging his way through hazardous environments like a bathroom, garage, and back yard. Pax defends himself against spiders, moles, and rabbits by fashioning weapons using everyday items like batteries, thimbles, and toothpicks. Pax can pull himself up to high platforms via a sticky rope and glide down safely using his own cap head. One interesting twist is your ability to move and activate items using the Wii-mote pointer. You can even hurl certain oversized objects with a flick of the wrist! Mushroom Men's gameplay is very familiar but at least it avoids the common pratfalls that often mar platform titles. The stages are sized just right so you can explore them without feeling overwhelmed. Some puzzles are more interesting than usual (knock a fan onto a rabbit?!), but a few areas border on repetitive. Even so, when the action is in danger of becoming tedious, some new weapon or old-school-inspired mini-game will usually present itself. Mushroom Men makes minimal effort to position the camera, instead relinquishing control to the player. It sounds like a monumental cop-out, but it's nice not having to wrestle with the CPU, and being able to look straight up at the star-lit sky is refreshing. The state of your health is not determined by a meter, but by the number of chunks missing from your head! The difficulty is reasonable, checkpoints are frequent, and saves are automatic. Mushroom Men does falter in a few cases where you're forced to navigate tight spaces, in which case it's hard to see your surroundings and movement is frustrating. Also, shaking the controller to perform attacks is not very precise. The graphics are unspectacular, but the soft, oil-painted style is easy on the eyes. The background music has a whimsical but understated quality, and that's true of the game in general. Mushroom Men is cute without being childish, and quirky without being obnoxious. It's just a likeable little adventure that's suitable for all ages. © Copyright 2009 The Video Game Critic.
Find Mushroom Men The Spore Wars on
If you like this game, try: Spyro the Dragon (Playstation),
No More Heroes (Wii), Star Wars: Republic Commando (Xbox),
New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii), Roc 'N Rope (Atari 2600)
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Two ŠKODA wins at the Tow Car Awards 2018
If you’re looking for your next tow car, then why not take a test drive of the ŠKODA Superb or Octavia? Both models have recently been awarded a win in the recent Tow Car Awards 2018, thanks to their great economy, driving stability at motorway speeds and more than capable performance on the test track. The awards are harshly judged by a range of experts from Practical Caravan, What Car? and The Camping and Caravanning Club, to ensure only the best take home the title.
The Superb won the 1400-1549kg category for the third year running, proving just how tough it is to beat. The vehicle was praised for its great overall ability, with judges concluding; “As a tow car, the Superb puts a tick in just about every box. It’s stable at speed, and powerful enough to quickly overtake dawdling traffic… Impressive official economy figures promise low running costs, and the Superb is great value for money.”
The Octavia took home the award for the 1400kg category and earnt itself a fantastic five-star rating in the process. Commenting on the Octavia’s win, the judges said the model “makes an extremely fine tow car. First and foremost, it’s stable at speed. On the test track our testers were happy to take the Octavia up to the legal limit and beyond. With plenty of passenger space and a huge boot it’s a practical choice for a family caravanning holiday.”
Both models offer factory fitted tow bars, in addition to a number or touring packs and accessories, meaning it’s so easy to personalise your vehicle to fit in perfectly with your lifestyle.
If you have any questions about the ŠKODA range or would like more information about the tow bars available on any of our vehicles, please contact your local Vindis ŠKODA dealership via the links below.
Vindis ŠKODA Cambridge
Vindis ŠKODA Bury St. Edmunds
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Victoria Gold Awards Drilling Contract for the 2016 Olive-Shamrock Exploration Program
Toronto, ON / March 8, 2016 / Victoria Gold Corp. (TSX.V-VIT) "Victoria" or the "Company" is pleased to announce the drilling contract for the 2016 Olive-Shamrock exploration program has been awarded to Kluane Drilling Ltd, Yukon. Kluane Drilling is a family owned and operated Yukon company with global operations. Drilling is expected to start mid-April with two drills, increasing to four in early May.
"Victoria is very pleased to announce Kluane Drilling was awarded the exploration drilling contract focused on the Olive-Shamrock Zone." stated John McConnell, President & CEO. "With Eagle now fully permitted we are focused on other means of adding shareholder value. It is anticipated a maiden reserve on Olive-Shamrock will be incorporated in an updated Feasibility Study later this year".
2016 Olive-Shamrock Exploration Program
The Olive-Shamrock Zone is a near-surface mineralized target situated approximately 2 kilometers from the fully-permitted Eagle Gold project and has the potential to enhance Eagle Project economics by virtue of additional higher-grade ore; increased flexibility in mine planning and lowering capital intensity from shared infrastructure.
A $3.6 million exploration budget is planned for this year's Olive-Shamrock definition and exploration and is slated to begin in April 2016 and is expected to take 3.5 months to complete. The program will consist of diamond drilling, surface trenching and geophysical surveys over the Olive-Shamrock zone with a focus on the previously undrilled areas linking Olive and Shamrock mineralization. The exploration program will concentrate on expanding the strike length of confirmed near-surface, high-grade gold mineralization within the Olive-Shamrock shear zone trend and target the previously un-tested, 300 metre separation zone between the Olive and Shamrock mineralization. Several large chargeability anomalies were defined during the 2014 3D Induced Polarization geophysical survey. Further, the program is designed to result in the maiden Resource Estimate for the Olive-Shamrock Zone.
The technical content of this news release has been reviewed and approved by Paul D. Gray, P.Geo., as the Qualified Person.
The Property covers an area of approximately 555 square kilometers, and is the site of the Company's Eagle Gold Deposit. The Eagle Gold Deposit is expected to be Yukon's next operating gold mine and includes Probable Reserves of 2.3 million ozs of gold from 92 million tonnes of ore with a grade of 0.78 grams of gold per tonne, as outlined in a National Instrument 43-101 feasibility study. The NI 43-101 Mineral Resource has been estimated to host 222 million tonnes averaging 0.68 grams of gold per tonne, containing 4.9 million ounces of gold in the "Indicated" category, inclusive of Probable Reserves, and a further 78 million tonnes averaging 0.60 grams of gold per tonne, containing 1.5 million ounces of gold in the "Inferred" category.
About Olive-Shamrock
The Olive-Shamrock target Olive lies 2 kilometers (km) from the proposed infrastructure at the Eagle Gold Project, along the Potato Hills Trend, importantly, drilling and surface trench results to date indicate the existence of near-surface, high-grade potential feed into Eagle operations. (see New Releases dated May 20, June 24, July 28, August 13, and Nov 4, 2014). Metallurgical testing completed in 2015 (see New Releases dated February 24, and August 7 2015) has indicated that the high-grade Olive-Shamrock Zone is amenable to Eagle Project heap leach recovery at the same crush size as Eagle Project feed.
Olive-Shamrock is defined by a broad gold/arsenic in-soils geochemical anomaly and lies on the intrusive-sediment contact of the Potato Hills Trend (as does the Eagle Deposit) and is punctuated by several historically exploited high-grade sulphide veins. The Olive area was mined on a small scale from shallow shafts and adits in the early 1900's and via placer mining in creeks draining the area. The Olive vein system is located near the top of Olive Gulch and consists of gold-bearing quartz-scorodite-arsenopyrite vein material centralized in a shear zone structure. More detail and a current summary of all Olive-Shamrock Zone exploration can be found on the Company's website.
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How Walmart creates growth with design
Rachel Arthur June 4, 2018
Liz Bacelar and Dan Makoski
Design is all about helping shoppers live better lives, says Dan Makoski, vice president of design at Walmart, on the latest episode of TheCurrent Innovators podcast.
Speaking to Liz Bacelar, founder of TheCurrent, during a live recording hosted by MouthMedia Network at Spring Place in New York, he explains how the enormous e-commerce redesign he has spearheaded for the world’s largest retailer, all came down to this focus on elevating the shopping experience for the changing customer of today.
“Design is best when it serves people. And all people need great design and that’s why I am excited to experiment with Walmart, which is this everyday brand, and see how design can make a difference,” he explains.
This intention to emotionally connect with the consumer through design came from the top, Makoski notes. The permission he was given to think about people’s hearts from the CEO, was a big leap for a commercial business of this size, he adds. But it’s that style of leadership, coupled with the smart investments the organization has been making in other e-commerce businesses, that is keeping it competitive with, and still more than three times the size of Amazon, in overall revenue.
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That’s not to say the company doesn’t still have a lot to do, however. Its online sales alone are less than a tenth of what Amazon makes ($118.57 billion vs. $11.5 billion respectively in 2017), making this redesign part of a big strategy to drive growth.
When Walmart bought Jet.com a couple of years ago, Makoski explains, there was a sense of courage and of charting new territory in the e-commerce space. The aim has to been to channel that focus on innovation through the design of the new website to create something for both the shopper and the business, to ultimately add value to each.
Dan Makoski“The conversation at Walmart has not been, let’s change ourselves. The conversation has been, we are the world’s largest company, we are the Fortune number one, our retail footprint is 1.5x the size of Manhattan. And, our customer base is not monolithic; it’s not just one type of shopper, so let’s bring in Jet.com, ModCloth, Bonobos, and let’s create a redesign of Walmart that now allows us to [have] a wider conversation,” he comments.
During the episode, Makoski also dives into the power of thinking about human language, how the retail giant is continuing to compete with Amazon, and just how his work assists large corporations to think about innovation in new ways.
Catch up with all of our episodes of TheCurrent Innovators here. The series is a weekly conversation with visionaries, executives and entrepreneurs. It’s backed by TheCurrent, a consultancy transforming how consumer retail brands intersect with technology. We deliver innovative integrations and experiences, powered by a network of top technologies and startups. Get in touch to learn more.
BFC and Current Global host leadership event focused on industry growth
Larissa Gomes June 21, 2019
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Ishkah
Ishkah grew out of an idea back in August 2017, a conversation between two people from different ends of the country. A conversation about the possibility of collaborating on a project. Initially to be a one off venture, working on an existing written instrumental. The pair chatted about the possibilities, and from this conversation, evolved Ishkah.
Ishkah are…
April Jarocka: An artist, author, lyricist and vocalist.
Ricky Humphrey: Composer, instrumentalist and engineer.
A biog, in brief…
Ricky, the former bassist for the band ‘RISE’ (who had supported Kula Shaker, Tiny Monroe and Audioweb), had created a solo project entitled Nature Kills. The project, he felt, had run its course, and a new challenge was required.
Ricky was aware of April, as she had added her voice to a track that had been created by a facebook group, all of which were Mick Karn fans. Ricky was impressed mostly by the vocal he had heard, and hung on to this for a number of years. Once the Nature Kills project had run its course, Ricky remembered what he had heard and messaged April. The conversation was both promising and exciting. April agreed to adding her voice to a track of her selection, an instrumental that Ricky had written under the guise of ‘ToxicEar’, an experimental, bass driven exercise.
So, files were exchanged. Ricky says on receiving Aprils vocal; “Hearing it for the first time against my own composition, I was just blown a way, my jaw had hit the floor and a kind of energy was buzzing all over my body, a very strange reaction and not one I had experienced before.” Ricky played the song several times, even insisting that his wife listen to it, she too was equally impressed.
April and Ricky were equally impressed on how well the track had developed, new parts were written to compliment the vocal even further, and the track shared on social media. A great response was received, and the pair galvanised by this, agreed to work on another track. This amounted to a few and a conversation was then had about forming a partnership, a group, which of course required a name.
Ricky: “Ishkah, was selected as the project name, purely because it sounded and felt right. Many names were in the hat, but this one just kept re-imerging, April is responsible for it. It seemed to fit comfortably within the realms of Psychedelia, within Mysticism, we had already and inadvertently created an ethnic vibe within what we were doing, so it fitted our sound, perfectly.”
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By: Lexy | 07-11-2018 | Body Count, News
Photo credit: infowars.com
Clinton Body Count Series #5: Woman Set to Testify Against Clintons Blown Up in Home Explosion
New Jersey couple dies in a home explosion. Caroline Paladino was apparently set to testify to Grand Jury against the Clintons this week..
House explosion in New Jersey {Video below}
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The couple, John Paladino, 73, and Carole Paladino, 72, were the only people inside the home in Newfield, New Jersey when the blast occurred shortly after 6 a.m.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Flames are seen burning where a New Jersey home exploded early Saturday morning. Two people were killed in the blast, officials said. The cause of the explosion is not currently known. <a href="https://t.co/GA3X6tGIjb">https://t.co/GA3X6tGIjb</a> <a href="https://t.co/7wJt79kqte">pic.twitter.com/7wJt79kqte</a></p>— ABC News (@ABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1015662071638298625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 7, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Investigators have not revealed what caused the blast but have said they do not suspect any foul play.
Neighbors said the couple had lived in their home for decades, and it was where they raised their children.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Just your average run of the mill HOUSE EXPLOSION on a nice Saturday morning in NJ… <br><br>News7 link-> <a href="https://t.co/DwNz1Yiz7n">https://t.co/DwNz1Yiz7n</a> <a href="https://t.co/zHunb4gjKQ">pic.twitter.com/zHunb4gjKQ</a></p>— Rev. Scott Anthony (@ScottAnthonyUSA) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottAnthonyUSA/status/1016125604737974272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Wow…another one to add to the long list of deaths associated with the Clinton Crime Syndicate. <a href="https://t.co/YEzOprrbih">https://t.co/YEzOprrbih</a></p>— Lisa Mei Crowley (@LisaMei62) <a href="https://twitter.com/LisaMei62/status/1016132065287385089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
It looks as though we have more lives to add to the Clinton body count.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I catalogued every death I could find if anyone is interested in looking further. More than 200 deaths related to Crooked Hillary and her husband. <a href="https://t.co/RdXVONVsZw">https://t.co/RdXVONVsZw</a></p>— Robert Horan (@Robby12692) <a href="https://twitter.com/Robby12692/status/1015111895995609088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2018</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
The expected testimony centered on a notorious pharmaceutical company who gave money to the Clinton Foundation in a bid to cover up their drug price gouging crimes.
According to reports, ‘US Federal Grand Jury had been impaneled to hear testimony from witnesses presented before it by FBI investigators and/or US Attorneys’.
On July 7th, the report continues, a massive explosion occurred that obliterated a two-story house. The shock wave jolted people from their beds as much as a mile and a half away.
‘As per standard protocol and procedures, this report details, SVR analysts, in their replying to the MoD’s request for information about this “event”, conducted a database search of the two persons named as having been killed in this explosion– Carole Paladino, age 72, and her husband John Paladino, age 73—with, and very surprisingly to them, a SVR database “target hit” on Carole Paladino being revealed as she had previously been identified by SVR analysts as being a “probable witness” against the Clinton Foundation.,
‘Now deceased Carole Paladino was the lead school nurse for Millville Public Schools located in Cumberland County, New Jersey—and whose inclusion in the SVR’s database of “potential witnesses” against the Clinton Foundation was due to her being a “central identified and named figure” in the creation of a document titled “Training Protocols For The Emergency Administration Of Epinephrine” for the New Jersey Department of Education.’
‘Epinephrine (also called adrenaline), this report explains, is a hormone used to treat anaphylaxis—that is a serious allergic reaction that is rapid in onset and may cause death—and whose administering of is done via a medical device known as an epinephrine auto-injector (EpiPen)—and that the Carole Paladino collaborated on report for its “emergency administration” led New Jersey to pass a law requiring all schools in their State, both public and private, to purchase it—and their passing another law allowing New Jersey school nurses to, also, use EpiPens without parental permission.’
‘Whether knowingly, or not knowingly, Carole Paladino, by her being a “main target” person in the plot to force all New Jersey schools to purchase EpiPens, she became embroiled in one of the largest medical scams ever known in US history—that began when the American global generic and specialty pharmaceuticals company Mylan N.V. suddenly began funneling money to the Clinton Foundation—and that nearly immediately after which, saw Gayle Conelly Manchin take over as the head of the National Association of State Boards of Education—and who spearheaded an unprecedented effort that encouraged States to require schools to purchase medical devices that fight life-threatening allergic reactions—that, in turn, helped pave the way for Mylan N.V., maker of EpiPens, to develop a near monopoly in school nurses’ offices throughout the United States—with New Jersey is one of the 11 States drafting laws requiring epinephrine auto-injectors be bought by schools—and that the Obama-Clinton regime conspired with using their “EpiPen Law” that gave funding preference to States that did what Gayle Conelly Manchin told them to do.’
‘Unbeknownst to the American people, this report notes, is that Gayle Conelly Manchin is the mother of Heather Bresch—who, in 2012, right after her mother took control of the National Association of State Boards of Education and began her campaign to force schools to buy EpiPens—became the CEO of EpiPen maker Mylan N.V.—with Heather Bresch, upon taking control, raising the price of EpiPens over 400% to $600 per dose and skyrocketing her personal worth to over $27 million—and whose “protection” for this vile plot was provided by her father, and Gayle Conelly Manchin’s husband, Democratic Party US Senator Joe Manchin.’
‘To an even greater scandal-catastrophe awaiting Hillary Clinton, as it dwarfs too near insignificance her EpiPen one, this report further notes, is her “active and knowing” participation in the United States opioid crisis—that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns whose drug overdoses attributed to in the US have increased by 13.3 percent from August 2016 to August 2017, and now total 67,344 deaths per year—nearly all of which were deliberately caused by Oxycontin-maker Purdue Pharma—who, after funneling tens-of-millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation, saw the Obama-Clinton regime to a “blind eye” to their flooding of America with opioids—and as exampled by Democratic Party US Senator Joe Manchin’s home State of West Virginia being flooded with more than 780 million opioid pills, that roughly equals 433 pills for every man, woman, and child in his State.’
‘This report, after describing the horrific opioid crisis in America, concludes with SVR analysts noting that this past week, also, provided an explanation as to why the FBI task force investigating Hillary Clinton and her Clinton Foundation has been increasing their electronic communications with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee—and that is due to a shocking court case currently underway in Knoxville, Tennessee—that was brought against the Clinton Foundation bribed pharmaceutical giant Purdue Pharma by Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III on behalf of the citizens of his State—and whose shocking to the conscious just released, by order of the court, documents stunningly reveal:
“Purdue’s own records show company founders and executives pressed its sales team to push Tennessee doctors to prescribe deadly dosages of Oxycontin on a long-term basis while lying to doctors about the dangers.
Purdue leaders lied to the medical community, politicians and the public not only about the dangers of Oxycontin but created a false narrative – that long-term use of opioids didn’t create addicts but instead caused “pseudo addictive” symptoms.
The groups sought to convince the public they had a right to opioids. Tennessee’s legislature was pushed by one of those advocacy groups to pass a law requiring doctors to prescribe opioids if a patient insisted.
Purdue also used fake advocacy literature, such as pamphlets, videos, and social media, to convince the public that long-term use of opioids led to a higher “quality of life.”
The firm sent doctors fake literature with similar claims but added material on how Oxycontin – Purdue’s financial rainmaker – was better for patients than other opioids on the market.”
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<span style="margin-top:15px;rgba(42,51,6,0.7);font-size:12px;">Credit:<a href="http://www.theeventchronicle.com/cabal-exposed/new-jersey-couple-set-to-testify-to-grand-jury-against-the-clintons-die-in-new-jersey-home-explosion-2/"> The Event Chronicle </a></span
American nurse Carole Paladino (above) identified by SVR as being “probable witness” against Clinton
Related Coverage: <a href="http://thegoldwater.com/news/29430"> Clinton Body Count Series: #1. How FBI Agent David Raynor Stabbed And Then Shot Himself </a>
Related Coverage: <a href="https://thegoldwater.com/news/29628"> Clinton Body Count Series: #2. Who Killed Seth Rich? </a>
Related Coverage: <a href="https://thegoldwater.com/news/29923"> Clinton Body Count Series: #3. John F Kennedy Jr. dared to run for the same Senate seat as Hillary! </a>
Related Coverage: <a href="https://thegoldwater.com/news/30536"> Clinton Body Count Series: #4. Shawn Lucas Who Filed Fraud Case Against DNC and Hillary Found Dead! </a>
http://impiousdigest.com/us-federal-witness-due-to-testify-against-hillary-clinton-for-drug-crimes-killed-in-massive-explosion/; http://www.theeventchronicle.com/cabal-exposed/new-jersey-couple-set-to-testify-to-grand-jury-against-the-clintons-die-in-new-jersey-home-explosion-2/
Permission to use the report, noted in this article, in its entirety is granted under the condition it is linked back to its original source at WhatDoesItMean.Com. Freebase content licensed under CC-BY and GFDL.
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joe No. 30917 2018-07-11 : 04:16
same old same old! nothing ever done! congress and the rest of the DC authority rjust ers! do nothing feckless people!
emerald No. 30929 2018-07-11 : 08:48
@ politically ryt what are your thoughts , and would you be friends if some one had a history of negative connections.. apparently the media just plays people with bit and bites , thus easy job for writers ~~~like whatever right ? news like whatever right ?? use other people to comment , where are your thoughts ~ yeah your media apparently , wow did yah get a thrill . use some-elses video ,make a buck or two ? so what is your comment …. perhaps your clintons buddies sweethearts / your just a site on internet like all the rest … fillers and fodders / news is under category of ENTER TAIN MENT .. life goes on right next story ~.
Lexy No. 30950 2018-07-11 : 12:20
>>30929 If you read all of my articles you will know my thoughts. I don’t hide how I feel about the Liberals at all. I try to keep these criminal acts in the news so they aren’t forgotten.
MaryEllen No. 30952 2018-07-11 : 12:47
Will these people EVER be investigated???
To Tell The Truth No. 30955 2018-07-11 : 13:10
My guess is that more investigations of this evil, vile pair come to light, the number of Cunton protagonists committing suicide by shooting themselves in the back of the head, 3 or 4 times will expand into the thousands.
Another on a very long list. Big Pharm is killing Americans & our government has been complicit from go. This is why they outlawed marijuana… Bc they know they can't compete with it's medical capabilities. Wake up America
You've been flim-flammed!
You've been flim-flammed! And they are going to kill who ever it takes to keep it that way!
BamaCowboy No. 30973 2018-07-11 : 15:34
Coincidence??? Hard to read all of Lexys articles on this topic and not be convinced otherwise. Lexy puts it right out there for all to see. Can someone forward them to the FBI please?
Michael M. No. 30976 2018-07-11 : 17:11
What a great series Lexy. Keep up the pressure!!
Rocky Lee No. 30984 2018-07-11 : 18:20
As nutty as this must sound in the small space here the Clintons were the organizers of 9-11. The targets were actually WTC 7 and the section of the Pentagon that housed the backup files I had asked for. The FBI investigation dealt with child trafficking and the control of politicians who are pedophiles by the Clintons with the help of a Chinese supported underground. Several Saudi Royals pay top dollar for the "right" child and supplied the tools for the job. I believe they hit the Pentagon with a Northrop Snark.
I had inadvertently started the investigation by telling the FBI about the poison the Chinese organization uses in assassinations. The FBI looked into the supply line and then found threads that started to unravel leading to the Clintons and one other older Foundation in NY. Mueller was used to cover it up. The Clintons and Bush families are friends.
I find it funny the Liberals always say, Hillary has been investigated, but never convicted of a crime. My question is, how do you investigate someone when the witnesses keep turning up dead?
It seems the Clinton Cartel is becoming emboldened in their methods. This seems a blatant thumbing of the nose to those that are pursuing the story. To just explode a home in the middle of a community is outrageously defiant. They seem to be saying, "Yeah, so what are you going to do about it?"
We need a very strong group of Patriots to get to the bottom of this story and to make it END NOW!
Keep digging up the stories, but PLEASE stay safe Lexy. You are doing great, but obviously dangerous work. WTP are behind you 100%. I can't help but feel the Storm in near.
BackRoad NC No. 30988 2018-07-11 : 19:23
This is no coincidence. The Clintons are a n obvious crime family. Please tell me we’ll see them in cuffs
Autonomous Collective No. 30997 2018-07-11 : 21:18
New Jersey couple dies in a home explosion. Woman was set to testify against the Clintons’ this week.
Testimony centered on a notorious pharmaceutical company who gave money to the Clinton Foundation in a bid to cover up their drug price gouging crimes.
Jay M No. 30999 2018-07-11 : 22:03
Interesting article & series. I don't believe in coincidences. Somewhere in our justless department there has got to be at least one person saying wtf?
I mean… Really.
Love the series!
So many of these are people about to testify, how can all this NOT be an FBI investigation? Even more troubling, what if there is FBI info that hasn’t been revealed? Thanks Lexy for keeping this out there.
Lisa No. 31004 2018-07-11 : 23:58
I think Lexy is a powerhouse! And, from what I've read, could be in danger! Please be safe. Excellent work!
Bruce No. 31144 2018-07-13 : 13:13
Awesome Lexy. Keep up the good work and the truth told.
Good Article. No. 31157 2018-07-13 : 15:45
Clinton Death Count will continue until she is held to some sort of account for her actions. And yes witnesses are dead but the 3 letter agencies know and could do something about it if they really wanted. An avalanche of Rocks should fall on this evil family…. the Clinton Cartel that is.
tj No. 31188 2018-07-13 : 21:38
i sure wish that someone who has been personally damaged by the terror duo,
would hurry up and bomb them.
SAvery No. 31192 2018-07-14 : 00:18
Great article, Lexy, but I believe nothing will ever come of bringing the Clintons to justice, with all of these occurrences that are beyond coincidental. Clinton’s have the key to Pandora’s box and will take everyone connected down with them, if prosecuted. Think there will be Immunity to blow up the entire Deep State, and the Clinton’s dare you to roll the dice!!
JonHumanity transvestigation has proven that both Bill and Hillary Clinton are satanic transsexuals.
Anonymous No. xxxxx No. 31440 2018-07-16 : 21:00
Why would you even THINK that these zebras are able to change their stripes!. Wish for something that matters!!
Ruger1 No. 31505 2018-07-17 : 13:33
Why Can't these 3 Letter Agencies get the Testimonials of these Witnesses on Video, or have them Put on Around the Clock Protection?? Unless the Agencies are in the Pockets of the Clinton Cartel and are the ones Responsible for the Witnesses Ending Up Dead with a Double Tap to Their Back of Their Heads!!!!!!
And with the Clintons… There Are No Coincidences!!!!! How High does the Body Count have to Rise before Bill & Killary end up in Prison??
The story repeats itself Thinking of the case "Marc Dutroux" where the Chief Prosecutor blows the turnip off and does not mean anything to me 27 Witnesses unnatural Dying before you could make a statement.
Another great article! I would like to address something that was mentioned but isn't the topic. Opioid medication. There are people who have chronic diseases that cause life long pain which usually increases as time goes by. To these people, opioid medications are life changing. If prescribed by a responsible doctor who keeps an eye on this patient and routinely checks that this medication is in the patients system and that they are using them not selling them, it is and should always be perfectly okay. People who suffer in this way should not be made to feel dirty or like they are addicts. When it makes the difference between that person being bedridden and pretty much feeling useless and giving them at least part of their lives back. Of course their bodies become dependant on the medication after a while and it would be dangerous to just stop the medication. There's a difference between addiction and a person who suffers severe pain whose body is dependent on the medication because they have been taking for a while. It's inhumane to let people suffer because other people are having problems with addiction. My doctor told me one time that she wouldn't be surprised if the government doesn't make getting opioid medication outside of the hospital almost impossible. Our government doesn't seem to be able to handle anykind of crisis in a wise way. Just for some background I am someone who has someone I love who suffers pain and a different someone I love who suffers from addiction. I want both to get the help they both need but making one suffer because of the other is a ridiculous way to fix it.
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37 percent of voters say Trump's tweets hurt the stock market
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Thirty-seven percent of voters polled said President Trump Donald John TrumpCNN's Camerota clashes with Trump's immigration head over president's tweet LA Times editorial board labels Trump 'Bigot-in-Chief' Trump complains of 'fake polls' after surveys show him trailing multiple Democratic candidates MORE's tweets have a negative impact on the stock market, according to a new American Barometer survey.
The poll found that 21 percent of voters surveyed said the tweets have no effect on the stock market, while 19 percent said Trump's Twitter comments have a mostly negative effect, but sometimes positive, effect.
Thirteen percent said the tweets had a mostly positive impact mixed with some negative effects, with 9 percent saying the tweets have a positive effect on the stock market.
The survey results come about a week after Trump tweeted that he could raise tariffs on China if it did not agree to overhaul its trade practices.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down almost 800 points and the S&P 500 dropped more than 3 percent following the tweets.
"The stock market does not like uncertainty, and the president's Twitter feed is nothing but uncertainty," political analyst Bill Schneider told Hill.TV's Joe Concha on "What America's Thinking."
Schneider said Monday that every morning it's uncertain "whether he's going to attack China, or if he's going to make peace with China. Whether he's going to embrace [Russian President Vladimir] Putin, or whether he's going to go after Putin. The stock market doesn't like that."
The American Barometer is a daily survey conducted by the HarrisX polling company on behalf of Hill.TV.
The consumer preferences poll was conducted Dec. 7–8 among 1,000 registered voters. The sampling margin of error is plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
— Julia Manchester
What America's Thinking: July 15, 2019
Biden support slips below 30 percent in new poll
Former Vice President Joe Biden's support in the latest Hill-HarrisX poll of Democratic voters has fallen below 30 percent, his lowest mark in the survey so far.
Poll: 73 percent of Americans say women's national soccer team should receive equal pay
A overwhelming majority of Americans said in a poll released on Friday that the U.S. women’s national soccer team should receive about the same pay as the men's team.
Almost half of Americans say they are less likely to support lawmakers who are in favor of repealing ObamaCare, according to a new Hill-HarrisX poll.
Trump approval rating ticks up to 47 percent
President Trump’s approval rating has ticked slightly upward, according to a new Hill-HarrisX poll released on Wednesday.
What America's Thinking: July 9, 2019
Poll: Majority of voters say racial segregation persists in America
A majority of Americans say racial segregation persists across the U.S., decades after the civil rights movement, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds.
Poll: Plurality backs criminal prosecutions for illegal border crossings
More Americans say they favor criminal prosecutions for people who illegally cross the border than punishing them with civil fines, according to a new Hill-HarrisX poll.
Poll: 36 percent of voters say DC, Puerto Rico should get statehood
More than a third of voters say they believe Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico should be granted statehood, according to a survey released Wednesday.
Poll: One-third of Americans say news media is the 'enemy of the people'
One-third of Americans say the news media is "the enemy of the people," according to a new Hill-Harris X poll survey.
Harris surges past Warren to claim third place in post-debate poll
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) surged past Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) to rank third in the Democratic field after the first primary debate last week, according to a new Hill-HarrisX poll.
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Republican voters are more likely to be motivated by a desire to defeat the opposing party than Democratic voters, according to a new Hill-HarrisX poll.
Trump approval at 45 percent, disapproval at 55 percent in poll
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Here are the companies you can trust with your data, according to the EFF
by Bryan Clark — in Security
The Electronic Frontier Foundation today released a handy graphic letting you know which of the major players in the tech world have your back when it comes to government data requests. Like most tech problems, the issue isn’t a simple one. But the EFF’s list breaks it down into five data points in an attempt to educate consumers about which companies share their values.
Tracked data points were:
Follows industry-wide best practices: Publishing law enforcement guides, requiring a warrant before disclosing user content to the government, and publishing a transparency report.
Tells users about government data requests: Companies that commit to providing their customers information about pending data requests.
Promises not to sell out users: Definitions vary, but typically revolves around use of app/website data for surveillance purposes.
Stands up to National Security Letter gag orders: Companies that challenge NSL gag orders before bending to the request.
Pro-user public policy Reform 702: Where companies stand on internet surveillance by the NSA.
It’s not an all-encompassing list by any means, but it does include most of the tech companies you deal with regularly — 26 in total. Adobe, Dropbox, and others scored top marks, while companies like Comcast and AT&T are just as awful as you’d expect.
Each data point comes from a larger report, ‘Who Has Your Back? 2017: Protecting Your Data From Government Requests,’ which you can view here.
Read next: Dell's new convertible tablet ditches the power cord
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The Oster Flip Nonstick Belgian Waffle Maker nearly made it to the winners' list. Its design is similar to that of the Hamilton Beach, featuring a drip tray for easy cleanup and a folding handle for compact storage. The waffles it produced were evenly browned, but, once again, they required too much time to cook, resulting in dense and soggy waffles.
The Black and Decker G48TD earns a nod from the lifestyle website Groom and Style, and many positive reviews from users who like that it can make four waffles at a time -- a plus for larger families, although you'll get more even browning if you let the heating plates warm back up for a minute or two between uses. Of course, that four-waffle capacity means this waffle iron has a larger footprint that single-waffle irons, and you can't stand it on end to save storage space. But most say they're more than willing to give up some counter space to this appliance and a little bit of control over the final waffle color in exchange for its versatility and the ability to give it a thorough cleaning.
Electric waffle irons are available in flip and stationary models. Proponents of flip waffle makers suggest that they heat more evenly by better distributing the batter throughout the plates. After testing both styles with different batters to see if this was truly a useful feature, we found that our three high-end picks cooked all the batters on the top and the bottom evenly. There was no difference between our flip model and a high-end stationary model. We did, however, find the flip a useful function when comparing lower-end models cooking the thinner buttermilk batter. Ultimately, we didn't pick any low-end flip models because, although they may have heated more evenly than our budget picks, they cooked the batter so slowly that the waffles ended up too dense and heavy.
Bryan is our cooking and kitchen expert, with more than 15 years of experience of cooking and testing kitchen products. When outside of the kitchen, he enjoys woodworking, photography, videography and figuring out how to live a more eco-friendly lifestyle. He thoroughly enjoys discovering the best, whether it’s ingredients or equipment, and finding products that can stand the rigors of daily use.
What we liked: This compact and lightweight model from Black+Decker is a great multitasker for any small kitchen. It makes thin waffles with shallow wells, crispy on the outside and slightly chewy on the inside. On average, it makes waffles in about eight minutes—longer than ideal, but still respectable compared with other affordable options. The large surface makes four square four-inch waffles at a time, but it still has a low profile, making it a good fit in tight spaces. The plates on this unit are reversible, revealing a flat griddle, which opens up into a large cooking surface for eggs and pancakes and can accommodate large sandwiches with its adjustable hinge. The plates are removable and dishwasher-safe.
This did the job, but it sure wasn't streamlined. Here is a photo from a World War II era training pamphlet. The subject was "How to use electrical appliances." Many rural households were just getting electricity due to the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) and the pamphlet was intended to get folks up to speed with the rest of the country. This photo shows the Government-approved method of "seasoning" a waffle iron (you put oil on it and let is burn in, creating the organic equivalent of Teflon). Any vegetable oil will do.
The ones we definitely tend to avoid are the machines which claim to be able to make both great American and Belgian waffles. The old cliché “Jack of all trades, master of none” almost always holds true when it comes to models which supposedly are versatile enough to produce terrific waffles whether you prefer them thin or thick. The optimal construction of a waffle maker is very different for each type, and there’s no way a quality machine can do justice to both.
I have to admit, I have always eaten Belgian Waffles a little differently than everyone else. Unlike the majority of people that probably like their waffles sweet, I tend to prefer mine totally different. For the sake of typical presentation, and how my wife likes to eat her’s, I will show them with Butter and Lakanto Maple Flavored Monkfruit Syrup on them. I on the other hand like to eat mine with sausage patties, 4 over-easy eggs (one on each waffle section) and Jalapeno Tabasco sauce. Maybe I was just born to be Keto, LOL!
What we didn’t like: This is a big and bulky unit, making it a difficult fit in small spaces. Without a drip tray, there is potential for mess. (However, because it's a flip model, you need less batter to fill up the iron, so drips are also less likely.) There was some unevenness in cooking, with the edges browning a touch faster than the rest. The deep wells and fixed plates make cleanup difficult.
Allow the waffle maker to cool completely before cleaning it. Wipe the plates down with a soft, damp cloth or paper towel. Brush any crumbs off with a soft kitchen brush. Use a rubber spatula to pick off any pieces of batter stuck to the plates. For really stubborn spots, cover them with cooking oil, wait 5 minutes, then wipe them away with a soft cloth.
After narrowing the list of finalists to six waffle makers, we ordered them and put them through a series of tests in our office, all of which were designed to measure the differences between each of our finalists. We took the data we gained from our testing and factored it in alongside the features that each waffle maker offers (indictor lights, ability to flip, etc.).
Like most electric waffle irons, the Cuisinart WMR-CA waffle maker isn't meant to be submerged, and the waffle plates are built right into the machine, so you can't remove them for a good scrubbing. Surprisingly, removable plates are relatively rare, especially in the American/traditional waffle maker category. But the Black and Decker G48TD (Est. $40) has them, which makes it very convenient to use. Not only do the non-stick waffle plates pop out for easy cleaning, they also have a completely flat reverse side (also non-stick). Flip the plates to their flat side and open the G48TD's lid all the way, and you have yourself a mini griddle for cooking things like pancakes and bacon; or close the "floating" hinged lid and use it to toast sandwiches.
The Presto FlipSide 3510 Belgian Waffle Maker draws an unqualified recommendation and Best Buy designation from a professional test kitchen. Thousands of happy owners agree, saying it makes the best waffles they've ever eaten and does so consistently, waffle after waffle. The 3510 is small enough for even the tiniest kitchen, and includes a nice array of features that make it very simple to use. Durability is another plus, with some owners reporting they've had theirs for years.
The versatile four-waffle size allows you to feed large or small crowds, but this sturdy machine is still relatively compact, and it can easily store vertically or horizontally. Not only is it about the same price as our former top pick, the Proctor Silex 26016A (which is no longer being manufactured), it even feels of better quality and comes with more great features.
We’ve covered plenty of brunch-worthy appliances and tchotchkes in the past, including a waffle iron for Instagram-worthy waffles, eggcups à la Call Me by Your Name, the best French presses and pour-overs, and even skillets to make the perfect Chez Panisse–style eggs. Here, we’re doing a deep dive into the best waffle-makers available on Amazon. (Note that reviews have been edited for length and clarity.)
The drip tray included with the BELLA waffle maker makes cleanup even easier. After cooking several dozen waffles, we still found very little that needed to be cleaned from the waffle maker itself once the drip tray was removed. In addition, the nonstick surface was effective — however, it didn’t particularly stand out compared to the rest of the field.
Hamilton Beach's Belgian style waffle maker makes round waffles that can easily be split into eight individual waffle sticks, which kids and adults alike will love (we're already dreaming of setting up a waffle dip buffet table at brunch, plus the opportunity to carry waffles with us on the go). The product's deep grids — in addition to the deep overflow channel around their edge — make it near impossible for even the klutziest cook to spill.
What we liked: The All-Clad is well built and sturdy, and heats up quickly and evenly for perfectly crisp, light, and consistent waffles. The crunchy, golden waffles made with this model are tall and square, with deep nooks. The All-Clad makes two waffles at a time in under four minutes and reheats fast, requiring just two minutes between batches. It browns evenly along the surface and between the top and the bottom of the waffle, even without a flip mechanism. A drip tray is fitted to the back of the unit to contain spills for easy cleanup. This unit is also compact, as it's equipped with cord storage and locking handles.
The Presto 03510 FlipSide Belgian Waffle Maker turned out to be a great little machine. I have made waffles about 10 times since purchasing the machine, and the waffles have turned out pretty much the same each time. We have found that certain mixes work better than others, but this is to expected. The two things I like most are 1) the timer, and 2) the relatively easy clean-up.
The Chef's Choice Pro Express Waffle Maker is the most advanced waffle maker in our guide. It's full of patented technology like the "Quad" baking system that lets you customize the flavor, texture, and color of your round Belgian waffle. But the big selling point here is that it will bake your waffle in less than 90 seconds. Yep, a minute and a half folks. That transforms this sturdy unit from a weekend warrior to an everyday appliance.
Wells was known for jazz, waffles, and celebrities throughout the 30s, 40s and 50s. One story about Well's seems to be widely told and re-told. During late 1950s, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Kim Novak were dating. One morning after breakfast at Wells' Kim's fur coat was found to be "missing" from the coat-room. Frank Sinatra made a stern announcement to the crowd about the missing coat and it appeared back the next day.
Use your Deluxe Waffle Bowl Maker over and over again with nonstick plates that clean easily preserve the perfect waffle bowl shape. Whether you’re in the mood for a decadent sundae or a crispy taco shell, it can do it all. Create your delicious, Instagram-worthy and treat with zero extra assemblies. Simply plug in your waffle bowl maker, and you’re practically ready to dig in.
We went on a Sunday morning and the place was crowded but we we're seated down pretty quickly. We were offered the option to seat inside or outside, we decided to sit inside since it was a bit chilly. The seating arrangement we're kind of too close to each other but doesn't seem to bother anybody. The menu were pretty straight forward. They had three specials which they offer including a Khalua flavored hot chocolate with vodka (Just what I need on a Sunday morning ;) Overall, a great place to start your morning.
A stovetop waffle maker is essentially a hinged pair of cooking plates that fasten together. To cook waffles, you put the batter inside the waffle maker and put it on the stove, flipping it over to cook both sides. This was how people cooked waffles before electric waffle makers existed, and some people who grew up making them this way may prefer a stovetop model.
Hi Kamran, I’ve always had a thing for waffles. It is my idea of what a perfect Saturday morning breakfast should be – waffles that are crispy on the outside but moist on the inside. I have tried countless recipes in the past and have settled on two go-to recipes, one uses baking powder, the other is yeast based and uses butter. Interestingly enough both of them yield very similar results. I’ve always liked them, but didn’t love them. I have never tried a recipe that uses oil instead of butter until I tried your recipe and I LOVE it! I couldn’t finish using up the batch on the same day so I put the leftover batter in the fridge. I used it up the next day (which is this morning), the result is just as fantastic. Would you mind if I put this on my blog http://lemonchilli.nz, and quote you with a link to your website?
Hamilton Beach® Waffle Makers are designed for quick cleanup, and in select models, an overflow channel, nonstick coating, and pre-measured batter cup all help prevent messy spills. Nonstick surfaces are easy to clean with a damp cloth, and select models take convenience one step further with removable, dishwasher safe grids for the easiest cleanup imaginable.
We are including a look at Table Broilers here because they are part of the "make it at the table" ethos that prevailed when electric appliances were relatively rare and consequently tres chic. Wealthy hostesses missed no chance to show off their shiny new appliances. In turn, companies like Manning-Bowman sold appliances that were more like chrome sculpture. When appliances became more commonplace, they were removed from the table and relegated to the kitchen.
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Haiti Untold: Nonviolence and Humanization at the Grassroots
Randall Amster January 27, 2010
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A number of commentators have questioned the accepted logic that disasters bring out the worst in people, directly challenging the pervasive “looters run amok” imagery often perpetuated by the media and held out by lawmakers as a rationale for military occupation. Having done relief work following Hurricanes Andrew and Katrina, I have found that people are more likely to work together – even if only out of necessity – when severe hardship strikes. In fact, it is precisely the isolation and individualism of ordinary daily life that tap into our worst instincts, while the removal of these impediments can actually liberate our better qualities.
As Dustin Howes recently observed, “the vast majority of people in Haiti responded to the earthquake with the apparently just as natural of an impulse to help one another.” The New York Times has uncovered a widespread ethic of “communal rationing” in Haiti, in which “no matter what is found, or how hungry the forager, everything must be shared.” As the article explains, many Haitians “are finding ways to share. In several neighborhoods of Carrefour, a poor area closer to the epicenter, small soup kitchens have sprung up with discounted meals, subsidized by Haitians with a little extra money…. [Three women there] started cooking for their neighbors the day after the earthquake. On many mornings, they serve 100 people before 10 a.m. Smiling and proud, the women said they did not have the luxury of waiting for aid groups to reach them in their hilly neighborhood.”
This is the untold and largely unreported state of the crisis in Haiti. Amy Goodman filed a series of reports for Democracy Now! from places where relief had yet to be delivered. In Leogane, the epicenter of the quake where perhaps 90% of the city had been destroyed, Mayor Santos Alexis noted that aside from people occasionally taking food from destroyed stores, “there’s no violence really in Leogane.” Still, the mainstream relief agencies remain obsessed with security concerns, to the extent that they will drop small amounts of food from above rather than land and talk with the people on the ground. As Mayor Alexis lamented, the people “feel humiliated, because of the airplane flying and dropping some bread to them. They feel very embarrassed by that.” Haitian expatriate blogger Wadner Pierre likewise reflects on these unfortunate realities, and how they stand in contrast to baseline Haitian values:
My beloved country is one where people know how to do ‘konbit’ (put their hands together) to help their brothers and sisters. But because so many of the organizations now involved in the relief effort do not know Haiti well and do not have Haitian employees who speak the local languages, the situation may worsen… Why are American relief organizations… humiliating people by dropping food and water to them by helicopters? Would they treat American citizens in this manner?
When we consider the practice of nonviolence, one of the foundational premises is humanization, of both self and other. In Haiti, the chasm between survivors and most of the aiders prevents the discovery of a mutual humanity from which empathy may spring, making truly “humanitarian” relief efforts problematic if not impossible. A key aspect of grassroots work in the region has been to reclaim this basic humanity, providing a voice to the Haitian people themselves so that we can see, across the chasms of distance and status, that they are people with the same complexities and desires as ourselves. (A 2008 grassroots video project called “Looking Through Their Eyes” effectively captures this sense of commonality.)
Sasha Kramer, co-founder of the nonprofit organization SOIL (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods), which collaborates with local communities on “empowerment” projects, has been living and working in Haiti since 2004 and reflected on the current situation in an interview with Goodman:
[W]hen the large aid groups circulate around Port-au-Prince, they’re often in sealed vehicles with their windows up, and what this means is that they’re not able to develop good relationships with community leaders. Often they don’t speak Creole, as well, a lot of their international employees. So when a large disaster like this happens, and they need to be able to get into the neighborhoods to distribute the food, they are afraid to go in, because they don’t have the connections they would need in order to keep them safe and distribute the food in an organized manner… So it’s been this very self-perpetuating process, where, at this point, the Haitians on the ground who are ready to do something have no way to connect with the people down at the UN base who have all the materials to make a difference.
In an update on SOIL’s blog, Kramer elaborated on this critical issue that directly impacts whether life-saving aid reaches the people who need it:
I have been amazed to visit friends working with large NGOs in Port au Prince only to learn that they are forced to operate under security restrictions that prevent any kind of real connections to Haitian communities… The creation of these security zones has been like the building of a wall, a wall reinforced by language barriers and fear rather than iron rods, a wall that, unlike many of the buildings in Port au Prince, did not crumble during the earthquake. Fear, much like violence, is self perpetuating. When aid workers enter communities radiating fear it is offensive, the perceived disinterest in communicating with the poor majority is offensive, driving through impoverished communities with windows rolled up and armed security guards is offensive and, ironically, all of these extra security measures actually increase the level of risk for aid workers…
This distancing effect prevents aid from reaching desperate people and sows the seeds of conflict in an already precarious situation. Against this, grassroots groups like SOIL have made long-term commitments to (and close personal connections with) the communities they seek to empower, developing “integrated approaches to the problems of poverty, poor public health, agricultural productivity, and environmental destruction,” and “developing collaborative relationships between community organizations in Haiti and academics and activists internationally.” (Their important work is depicted in a recent video report from New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof.)
The challenge of fostering nonviolence in a disaster zone can be met through basic approaches such as this that focus on collaboration and solidarity. “We should get to know the Haitian people and make a commitment to improving their lives in the long term,” notes a recent blog focused on promoting “non-military ways of solving conflict.” In this spirit, in 2006 a Campaign for the Reduction of Violence was launched in Haiti, working toward “the peaceful transformation of conflicts, in cooperation with five key sectors: young people, women, artists, media workers and teachers.” This largely unnoticed spirit of nonviolence in Haiti, as Wadner Pierre wrote in November 2008, often emerges in time of crisis, and is intimately connected to the nonviolent struggles of people around the world:
[W]hen I think about these non-violent resistances – the Indian Resistance against Britain’s rule in Indian, the Civil Rights Movement in the United States against segregation, the Chilean Resistance against the former dictator General Augusto Pinochet in Chile, the South-African Resistance against Apartheid, the Haitian resistance in the 1990s for the return of constitutional order in Haiti when former Haiti’s first democratically elected President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was ousted in 1991, and the ongoing resistance in grassroots movement for Aristide’s second return from his exile in South-Africa – I have no doubt that non-violence philosophy is the best way that smart and intelligent people should and must use to overcome suffering, and to defeat any violent and oppressive system… I wrote this article/analysis to pay homage to… my adoptive father, Father Gerard Jean-Juste, a follower of Dr. King, who committed his entire life in fighting for social justice and equality for all Haitians whoever they are and wherever they are.
If Haitians are to surmount this time of profound crisis and rebuild their society, these values of social justice and conflict transformation must be given space to reemerge. The untold stories of people practicing true humanitarianism in Haiti can serve to remind us that, even in a disaster zone, those in great need can offer hope and guidance in our shared struggle to create a peaceful world. As SOIL’s Kramer concludes:
The most striking thing I have noticed while visiting the many camps throughout the city is the level of organization and ingenuity among the displaced communities. Community members stand ready to distribute food and water to their neighbors, they are prepared to provide first aid and assist with clean up efforts, all that they are lacking is the financial means to do so… Each day I am awed and humbled by the dedication and compassion of my colleagues, both Haitian and international and touched by the outpouring of love and support that we have received from around the world.
These lessons of nonviolent cooperation may well determine Haiti’s future in the days ahead.
Randall Amster
Randall Amster, J.D., Ph.D., teaches Peace Studies at Prescott College, and is the Executive Director of the Peace & Justice Studies Association. His most recent book is the co-edited volume Building Cultures of Peace: Transdisciplinary Voices of Hope and Action (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009).
More By Randall Amster
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Nathan Schneider says:
Thanks for this essay, with some great anecdotes in it. Be sure, also, not to miss Rebecca Solnit’s recent piece at Guernica about so-called “looting” in Haiti.
K-Man says:
coincidientially sascha kramer has a great articel on counterpunch today, http://www.counterpunch.org/kramer01272010.html – maybe people will finally start to get it b4 its too late?
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Hell & Hope in Haiti: “Hope is found in the people of Haiti. Despite no electricity, little shelter, minimal food and no real goverment or order, people are helping one another survive. Men and boys are scavenging useful items from the mounds of fallen buildings. Women are selling mangoes and nuts on the street. Teens are playing with babies. Beautiful hymns are lifted as choirs calling to god in every sheet camp every evening. People pray constantly. The strikingly beautiful tap tap cabs trumpet in god we trust or merci Jesus on bright colors.” — Bill Quigley
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/29
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<p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="575" height="344" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Xb9AiHkhg5o&hl=en_US&fs=1&" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="575" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Xb9AiHkhg5o&hl=en_US&fs=1&" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></p> <p>A number of commentators have questioned the accepted logic that disasters bring out the worst in people, directly challenging the pervasive “looters run amok” imagery often perpetuated by the media and held out by lawmakers as a rationale for military occupation. Having done relief work following Hurricanes Andrew and Katrina, I have found that people are more likely to work together – even if only out of necessity – when severe hardship strikes. In fact, it is precisely the isolation and individualism of ordinary daily life that tap into our worst instincts, while the removal of these impediments can actually liberate our better qualities.</p> <p>As Dustin Howes <a href="https://wagingnonviolence.org/2010/01/emergency-nonviolence/" target="_blank">recently observed</a>, “the vast majority of people in Haiti responded to the earthquake with the apparently just as natural of an impulse to help one another.” The New York Times has uncovered a <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35071395/ns/world_news-the_new_york_times/" target="_blank">widespread ethic</a> of “communal rationing” in Haiti, in which “no matter what is found, or how hungry the forager, everything must be shared.” As the article explains, many Haitians “are finding ways to share. In several neighborhoods of Carrefour, a poor area closer to the epicenter, small soup kitchens have sprung up with discounted meals, subsidized by Haitians with a little extra money…. [Three women there] started cooking for their neighbors the day after the earthquake. On many mornings, they serve 100 people before 10 a.m. Smiling and proud, the women said they did not have the luxury of waiting for aid groups to reach them in their hilly neighborhood.”</p> <p>This is the untold and largely unreported state of the crisis in Haiti. Amy Goodman filed a series of reports for Democracy Now! from places where relief had yet to be delivered. In Leogane, the epicenter of the quake where perhaps 90% of the city had been destroyed, <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/22/t_trembl_journey_to_the_epicenter" target="_blank">Mayor Santos Alexis noted</a> that aside from people occasionally taking food from destroyed stores, “there’s no violence really in Leogane.” Still, the mainstream relief agencies remain obsessed with security concerns, to the extent that they will drop small amounts of food from above rather than land and talk with the people on the ground. As Mayor Alexis lamented, the people “feel humiliated, because of the airplane flying and dropping some bread to them. They feel very embarrassed by that.” <a href="http://www.dominionpaper.ca/weblogs/wadner_pierre/3135" target="_blank">Haitian expatriate blogger Wadner Pierre</a> likewise reflects on these unfortunate realities, and how they stand in contrast to baseline Haitian values:</p> <p>When we consider the practice of nonviolence, one of the foundational premises is humanization, of both self and other. In Haiti, the chasm between survivors and most of the aiders prevents the discovery of a mutual humanity from which empathy may spring, making truly “humanitarian” relief efforts problematic if not impossible. A key aspect of grassroots work in the region has been to reclaim this basic humanity, providing a voice to the Haitian people themselves so that we can see, across the chasms of distance and status, that they are people with the same complexities and desires as ourselves. (A 2008 <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU363rznyJw" target="_blank">grassroots video project</a> called “Looking Through Their Eyes” effectively <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x6bHsDGjjA" target="_blank">captures this sense of commonality</a>.)</p> <p><span id="more-3412"></span>Sasha Kramer, co-founder of the nonprofit organization SOIL (Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods), which collaborates with local communities on “empowerment” projects, has been living and working in Haiti since 2004 and <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/22/security_red_zones_in_haiti_preventing" target="_blank">reflected on the current situation</a> in an interview with Goodman:</p> <p>In an update on SOIL’s blog, <a href="http://www.oursoil.org/content/fear-slows-relief-efforts-pap" target="_blank">Kramer elaborated</a> on this critical issue that directly impacts whether life-saving aid reaches the people who need it:</p> <p>This distancing effect prevents aid from reaching desperate people and sows the seeds of conflict in an already precarious situation. Against this, <a href="http://www.oursoil.org/believe#mission" target="_blank">grassroots groups like SOIL</a> have made long-term commitments to (and close personal connections with) the communities they seek to empower, developing “integrated approaches to the problems of poverty, poor public health, agricultural productivity, and environmental destruction,” and “developing collaborative relationships between community organizations in Haiti and academics and activists internationally.” (Their important work is depicted in a recent <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb9AiHkhg5o" target="_blank">video report</a> from <em>New York Times</em> journalist Nicholas Kristof.)</p> <p>The challenge of fostering nonviolence in a disaster zone can be met through basic approaches such as this that focus on <a href="http://www.truthout.org/solidarity-not-charity-helping-haitians-help-themselves56268" target="_blank">collaboration and solidarity</a>. “We should get to know the Haitian people and make a commitment to improving their lives in the long term,” notes a <a href="http://blog.timesunion.com/wagingpeace/our-haitian-friends-and-neighbors/1351/" target="_blank">recent blog</a> focused on promoting “non-military ways of solving conflict.” In this spirit, in 2006 a Campaign for the Reduction of Violence was launched in Haiti, working toward “the peaceful transformation of conflicts, in cooperation with five key sectors: young people, women, artists, media workers and teachers.” This largely unnoticed spirit of nonviolence in Haiti, as <a href="http://wadnerpierre.blogspot.com/2008/11/best-way-to-respond-to-violence.html" target="_blank">Wadner Pierre wrote in November 2008</a>, often emerges in time of crisis, and is intimately connected to the nonviolent struggles of people around the world:</p> <p>If Haitians are to surmount this time of profound crisis and rebuild their society, these values of social justice and conflict transformation must be given space to reemerge. The untold stories of people practicing true humanitarianism in Haiti can serve to remind us that, even in a disaster zone, those in great need can offer hope and guidance in our shared struggle to create a peaceful world. As SOIL’s <a href="http://oursoil.org/content/fear-slows-relief-efforts-pap" target="_blank">Kramer concludes</a>:</p> <p>These lessons of nonviolent cooperation may well determine Haiti’s future in the days ahead.</p>
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41. A presentation for Aut(Fn), (with H. Armstrong and B. Forrest), J. of Group Theory 11 (2008), 267- 276.
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39. Automorphisms of two-dimensional right-angled Artin groups, (with Ruth Charney and John Crisp), Geometry & Topology 11 (2007) 2227-2264.
38. Morita classes in the homology of Aut(Fn) vanish after one stabilization, (with Jim Conant), Groups, Geometry and Dynamics 2 (1) (2008) 121-138.
37. The cohomology of automorphism groups of free groups, Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Madrid 2006, European Mathematical Society Publishing House, Zurich, 2006.
36. Erratum to: Homology stability for outer automorphism groups of free groups,(with A. Hatcher and N.Wahl), Algebr. Geom. Topol. 6 (2006), 573–579.
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33. Geometry of the space of phylogenetic trees (with L. Billera and S. Holmes), Advances in Applied Math 27 (2001), 733-767.
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30. A Whitehead algorithm for surface groups (with G. Levitt), Topology 29. (2000), no. 6, 1239–1251.
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'Public Space in the New American City: Atlanta 1996' w/ Arthur Lubetz, 1994
'West Hollywood Civic Center Design Competition' w/ Arthur Lubetz Associates, 1987
'On the Waterfront: Projects for Three Rivers' exhibit, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts w/ Arthur Lubetz Associates, 1991
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Jill Watson was an extraordinary person who inspired others through her work and her teaching. Her memory is the inspiration for the wats:ON Festival, honoring Jill’s interdisciplinary philosophy as an artist and her commitment to the arts.
Jill was a Carnegie Mellon University alumna, faculty member in the School of Architecture, and Master of Fine Arts candidate who died in the TWA Flight 800 plane crash on July 17, 1996.
The wats:ON Festival is made possible by the love, generosity, and support of Jill’s family, who established an endowment in her honor to celebrate and share the arts. 2017 marked the twentieth anniversary of the wats:ON Festival, which continues a legacy deeply rooted in the spirit and culture of the College of Fine Arts.
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The Full Monty celebrates 20 years
newsdesk 24th August, 2017
-Featured, Front Page, Photo, Sheffield News celebration, Film, The Full Monty
Next week marks 20 years since the release of The Full Monty, the low budget film set in Sheffield about former steelworkers who decided to put on a male strip show. The film went on to make millions at the international box office and created stars of many of the cast members including Robert Carlyle and Mark Addy. Sheffield Live! reporter Azz Mohammed visited the site of one of the iconic Full Monty scenes where he met with members of the Unite the union Brass Band who featured in the film.
First UK screening for Palestine documentary
Boys Who Like Girls premiere launched at Sheffield Doc/Fest
Wilderness film premiere at Sheffield Doc/Fest
Sheffield Doc/Fest calls it a wrap
Sheffield Doc/Fest celebrates 25 years
Yorkshire Roses prepare for inaugural quidditch tournament
Disney on Ice steps up search for new talent
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DoF asks CoA to waive rule on sale of gov’t assets
Posted by wefilipinosinc on June 25, 2019 0 Comments
THE Department of Finance (DoF) said it will pursue talks to get the Commission on Audit (CoA) to relax its rules to facilitate speedier disposal of nonperforming government assets.
In a statement Tuesday, Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III said he has instructed the Privatization Management Office (PMO) and the Philippine Deposit Insurance Corp. (PDIC) to discuss the matter with CoA and state-run banks.
“Tell them this CoA requirement that we sell at market value isn’t working because we just keep on adding to the titles particularly with the PDIC and we’re just getting overwhelmed,” Mr. Dominguez said.
“I want a meeting with the CoA, mainly with the representatives from PMO, PDIC, the banks, the two (government) banks. The central bank may want to participate,” according to Mr. Dominguez.
Mr. Dominguez said CoA Circular No. 89-296 issued 30 years ago requires the sale of nonperforming government assets at their appraisal value is hindered the disposal of idle properties.
According to Mr. Dominguez, it would be better for these assets to be sold at discounted prices to attract more buyers.
Mr. Dominguez noted that PMO has 28,000 land titles to dispose of while the PDIC has around 23,000.
“The objective is to ask CoA to cooperate with us and propose ways of turning these assets into cash, because cash helps the economy,” Mr. Dominguez said.
“Selling it even at a discount allows to be redeveloped and used. Right now, it’s just an expense,” Mr. Dominguez added.
The DoF said the PMO is not covered by the 30-year-old CoA circular. The CoA issued a memo earlier stating that “CoA Circular No. 89-296 does not apply to foreclosed assets held by PMO and sold in the ordinary course of business” and “the assets/properties held by the PMO pursuant to Proclamation No. 50 and sold in the regular course of its business are not within the purview of CoA Circular No. 89-296.”
The CoA said it had no comment on the matter as yet. — Reicelene Joy N. Ignacio
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Back in 1961, NASA had barely 15 minutes of human suborbital flight under its belt when JFK issued the challenge of landing a man on the moon by decade's end.
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The SpaceX crew Dragon capsule was undergoing a ground test when it exploded and was destroyed.
Aerogel could warm Mars' surface enough to allow us to grow plants, while blocking harmful UV radiation. The research was published in Nature Astronomy.
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This is the Quietest Place in the US, Says Acoustic Ecologist
Need some peace and quiet? Head to the Pacific Northwest. Gordon Hempton, who started project 'One Square Inch of Silence' to find places on Earth void of man-made sounds, found the quietest spot lies within a rainforest.
Bizarre Duck-Billed Dinosaur Discovered in Texas
Miquel Crusafont Catalan Institute of Paleontology researchers identified the Aquilarhinus palimentus, a new species of duck-billed dinosaur that roamed Texas 80 million years ago.
Watch as Camera Captures Orion's Abort Test in Mid-Air
NASA successfully tested the Orion spacecraft's launch abort system Ascent Abort-2. The test is critical in paving the way for future manned missions, including Mars.
NASA astronaut Walt Cunningham remembers mission that made Apollo 11 possible
Cunningham was on board the first Apollo mission to carry a crew into space, Apollo 7.
The Chandrayaan-2 mission was called off when a "technical snag" was observed in the 640-ton, 14-story rocket launcher, Indian Space Research Organization says.
Electric device on bed starts fire
Officials say never leave a device charging on the bed
There are only about 75 Southern resident killer whales left in the wild. Humans are the reason.
A KING 5 special presentation explores the three reasons why the Southern Resident killer whales aren’t flourishing and how we can help boost the population.
Staying "human" in a hyperconnected society
Offline is the new luxury! Futurist and author Anne Ahola Ward talks about how to stay "human" in a hyperconnected society.
Amazon to train third of US workforce with technical skills
Amazon plans to train thousands of U.S. workers for skilled technical positions.
Answering the top questions about Apollo 11
These are the top questions people have been asking online about Apollo 11 and the moon landing.
A modern-day treasure hunt on the grounds of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, has been a challenge to cryptographers for 30 years. The fourth and final piece of the puzzle remains unsolved to this day.
11 fascinating numbers about Apollo 11
For the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, here are some obscure numbers about the mission.
'Moon Trees' May Grow in Your City From Seeds That Went to Space
Astronaut Stuart Roosa brought 500 seeds with him into space on the Apollo 14 mission. Now, they can be found across the U.S. in the form of 'moon trees.'
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Senate GOP drops push to 'defund Obamacare'
Posted: 9:11 AM, Jun 07, 2016
<p>In this Oct. 6, 2015, file photo, the HealthCare.gov website, where people can buy health insurance, is displayed on a laptop screen in Washington. The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association said in a report released Wednesday, March 30, 2016, health insurers gained a sicker, more expensive patient population through the Affordable Care Act's coverage expansion. Its report offers an early glimpse at customers who have gained coverage in the past couple years. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)</p>
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans controlling the Senate are abandoning an effort to use their power over the federal purse strings to block implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
The more pragmatic approach came Tuesday on a huge $164 billion spending measure and reflects a hope by top Republicans like Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky to remove veto bait from must-pass spending bills in hopes of advancing them more easily with Democratic support.
President Barack Obama has already vetoed separate legislation aimed at repealing the law, and he has easily kept language to "defund Obamacare" out of the final versions of annual funding bills.
Top bill sponsors Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., instead focused their efforts on boosting medical research, year-round Pell Grants for low-income college students, and a major boost in funding to treat opioid or heroin addicts.
The measure sailed through a Senate Appropriations panel Tuesday morning by voice vote and was the first time in seven years that the measure — which funds the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education and is the largest of the domestic appropriations bills — has been drafted on a bipartisan basis.
The measure would increase health research funding at the National Institutes of Health by $2 billion to $34 billion; almost doubles, to $261 million, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention opioid abuse programs; and restores Pell Grants for summer school for an about 1 million students.
Blunt said year-round Pell Grants would "help students stay on track for graduation, accelerate program completion by taking courses year-round, and, ultimately, enter or re-enter the workforce sooner and graduate with less debt."
Last year, Blunt inserted several policy "riders" aimed at curbing Obamacare, blocking a Labor Department "fiduciary rule" on retirement investment advice that's opposed by much of the financial services sector, and preventing the national labor Relations Board from streamlining votes to certify union representation. That measure advanced through the Appropriations Committee on a party line vote and was bundled into a year-end "omnibus" spending bill after the most controversial policy provisions were stripped out.
Murray praised the measure for not including "any new policy riders that would have poisoned the bill."
Top Senate leader McConnell has been trying, with some success so far, to revive the moribund appropriations process in which both House and Senate are supposed to separately debate and amendment 12 annual spending bills funding the operating budgets of every federal agency. The Senate has passed three of the 12 bills, but the House has passed only a single measure.
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Salt River Project to reduce dam water flows
By: Jon Erickson
The Salt River Project plans to cut river water levels flowing into the Valley by 90 percent compared to this week's peak flows, a spokesperson said.
The cut, planned for no later than Saturday morning, will curtail flows from the Granite Reef Dam, north of Mesa.
Water that flows from Granite Reef forms the Salt River, which flows into Tempe Town Lake and then through central Phoenix.
Flows peaked earlier this week after heavy rain fall.
The reinvigorated Salt River collapsed part of Gilbert Road north of Mesa this week.
Repair plans will be drafted when the river dries up, a Maricopa County Department of Transportation spokesperson said.
Downstream from Tempe Town Lake, the Salt River is normally a dry river bed through central Phoenix.
The rain-fueled river this week washed away Isaac Russell's home, who lived along the river bed with his girlfriend.
"It's not the easiest, but you get by," Russell said.
He has been homeless for three years after kicking a heroin habit and losing his job.
This week's pop-up river washed away Russell's family photos and important documents from a camp near 19th Avenue, he explained.
His old tent is twisted around tree limbs at a former camp just downstream from Tempe Town Lake.
"We just want somewhere where we can be left alone," Russell said.
An SRP representative said crews fly over river beds before water releases to check for river bed dwellers. SRP did not know of any such people before the recent releases, the representative said.
The river bed is marked as off limits, with trespassers subject to prosecution.
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Israel to re-open Gaza border
An Israeli military source has indicated the army may allow the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and occupied Gaza to re-open.
Husni Mubarak's government urged the UN to intervene
Around 4000 people have been strandedon the Egyptian side of the Rafah border corossing as they attempted to get home over the last 19 days.
However, Cairo has received assurances the crossing will open for eight hours straight on Friday.
An Israeli military source told Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmad Abu al-Ghait "there is a very high chance that it will reopen tomorrow".
Earlier, al-Ghait had urged the United Nations to intervene to help those suffering at the border.
Israel claims the Palestinian Authority originally exacerbated the problem by rejecting an offer to use a small alternative route via Israeli territory.
But the alternative would only allow 200 people a day to reach the occupied Gaza strip, and would not have helped Palestinians that support families by working in Egypt.
"I had to bury my wife in a cemetery at the Egyptian side after I failed to convince the Israelis to let me bring her body back to Gaza"
Salih Lubad,
Palestinian widower
Israel's Physicians for Human Rights then wrote a letter to the Israeli Defence Minister, Shaul Mofaz, saying that Israel is responsible for the unnecessary suffering of children camped out in the summer heat.
Occupation forces have even prevented the dead from being brought to Rafah for burial.
Salih Lubad was prevented from taking his wife's body to Gaza after she died in Cairo, despite appeals to the military and Israeli human rights groups.
"I had to bury my wife in a cemetery at the Egyptian side after I failed to convince the Israelis to let me bring her body back to Gaza to be buried in the family cemetery."
The US, France and Egypt have called upon Israel to reopen the terminal and allow the stranded Palestinians to cross into the Gaza Strip.
Israel said that it closed the terminal because it received warning that Palestinian resistance was planning to attack Israeli employees working in the terminal.
SOURCE: Aljazeera + Agencies
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JL Chave’s 2015 L ‘Hermitage Rouge & Blanc … History in a Bottle
Heart racing gear. The Unicorns of JL Chave will be wines for a very special occassion. They are up there with the very best from around the world.
Today we offer the 2015’s Rouge and Blanc from JL Chave!
In 1996 during my first week at Yarra Yering, Doc handed me a bottle of wine, with simple instructions, enjoy. It was a 1983 Auguste Clape Cornas. Wow! The sophistication and personality of this wine were insane. It just screamed DRINK ME! The beautiful texture, incredible depth of fruit, and, elegance. The complexity of the wine entranced.
A year later in Prevelly Park in Margaret River, I picked up a bottle of JL Chave Hermitage Blanc, I can’t recall the year. Needless to say, once again, mind blown! This is without a doubt one of the greatest Marsanne Roussanne blends of the world. Just like the Rouge, it is a rich, ripe wine, somehow, it remains elegant and refined. Complexity, seamless layers, and, incredible texture are words that I find myself repeating again and again with these two producers.
In 1999 I found myself cruising through the Rhône Valley. Dining at Le Chaudron in Hermitage, I completely miss read the menu and ordered a plate of offal, don’t get me wrong I love a little offal, but, a full plate, was a bit much. Fortunately, I had no problem with the wine list. On it the epic 1990 JL Chave Hermitage, the elegance and sophistication, married with incredible power and such beautiful tannins took me back to the 1983 Cornas from Clape. It remains in the top 10 wines I’ve ever drunk!
At the time, in Australia, when you saw this intensity of flavour it was typically in a wine that was over the top, clumsy, and with a less than pleasing texture. These two makers were doing something incredible, they were taming the beast. Moving from Death Metal to Mozart!
Producers like Clape, Chave, Allemand, Jamet, and, Paris are amongst those leading the Northern Rhône by example toward wines of as Nick Stock put’s it, “…greater depth, definition and interest across the board. Much like the Southern Rhône, refined ideals and methods elucidate this region’s fascinating and expressive terroirs. It’s something we feel very positive about.”
About JL Chave
The following video is a fascinating insight into a year with JL Chave, it is one of the best pieces of work I’ve seen in an attempt to follow a winery through a season. It’s in French, even if you don’t speak French it’s a great watch!
The commitment of Chave to acquire prime but forgotten land and re-establish vineyards is an exciting development for the region. “Before phylloxera these were special sites,” Chave explains as he surveys steep terraces above and below a narrow road cut through a newly planted south-facing hillside. “The difficulty today is finding the people willing to do the work.”
The current generations in charge, father Gérard and son Jean-Louis, use their knowledge, experience and spread of lieux-dits to craft wines that combine all the power, longevity, nuance and refinement that the Hermitage hill is capable of.
The expertise that Gérard and Jean-Louis draw upon is not only their own, but, also the accumulated wisdom of their ancestors, transmitted down through the generations since Chaves began making Hermitage in 1481, continuing a five-century dynasty of extraordinarily high quality and pure expression of great terroir that is unmatched.
The near vertical vineyards of Hermitage
As Andrew Jefford writes in The New France, “The Chave line … could make a fair claim to be France’s winemaking royal family: in no other of France’s great terroirs is the largest individual landholder so deeply rooted in time and place, so supremely competent, and so modest a custodian of the insights and craftsmanship of the past.”
The key to the perfect balance of Chave Hermitage, whether rouge or blanc, is in Gérard and Jean-Louis’ remarkable blending skill, a process that begins anew with each vintage. Like Jamet and Clape, the Chaves assemble their vintage cuvées from their expertly farmed array of sites, each with its own character, to create singular blends of great nuance, harmony, depth and ageing potential.
Traditionalists to the core, Chave has never released a cru Hermitage despite how impressive some of the individual cuvées are—the blend is all. As Gerard told Stephen Tanzer in 2000, “We create a wine that no early taster knows. Every year we start from zero in assembling the blend.”
While the components and their percentages are different every year, the one constant in the Hermitage rouge is the Syrah from Bessards which provides the cuvée’s backbone with the fruit from its steep, granite slope; as Gerard said to The Wines of the Northern Rhône author John Livingstone-Learmonth, “Bessards is our essential climat; you can’t make a Grand Hermitage without it.”
Likewise, the base for Chave’s heroic Hermitage blanc is the plot of century-old Marsanne vines in their Péléat monopole, which provides rich and intense fruit without heaviness. The usual final blend for the blanc is 80 to 85% Marsanne with 15 to 20% Roussanne.
While both colours are revered worldwide as the very essence of Hermitage, endlessly complex wines that surreally balance their richness and depth with elegance and finesse, it can come as a surprise to many that the blanc will live as long, if not longer than the rouge. In the 1980s, we tasted a Chave Blanc from the 1920s that was breathtaking.
In vintages where the Chaves feel that the surreal harmony of the rouge won’t be compromised, the heroic Cuvée Cathelin is bottled separately. It contains the same lieux-dits, made in the same way, but their percentages are different; the goal is a wine that has a bit more of all of the classique’s elements. Painfully rare, only 200 cases are produced in those vintages deemed appropriate.
In addition to their benchmark Hermitage wines, Chave has long made a beautiful, traditionally styled St. Joseph rouge from their vines in the historic centre of the appellation; this is a model St. Joseph with its round black raspberry, black olive, violet and woodsmoke aromatics, firm underlying structure and fine balance.
The Chave’s methods for all of their wines are thoroughly traditional—perfectionist farming, low yields, full ripeness, minimal new oak, minimal intervention and no filtering. There are no secrets, just unmatched attention to detail and instinctive feel for growing and winemaking. Centuries in the making, this approach has one goal: a pure rendering of noble northern Rhône terroir.
The Map below from American Sommelier shows a great fly over of Les Bessard.
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Not yet bottled, the 2015 Hermitage has perfection written all over it and reminds me of the 2010. Graphite, charcoal, liquid rock, and sensationally pure crème de cassis notes all soar from the glass of this full-bodied, concentrated, opulent 2015. This is a big, sexy beast of a Hermitage, yet it has the classic minerality, purity, and balance shown by just about every wine made from this estate. Forget bottles for 4-5 years, count yourself lucky, and enjoy over the following 4-5 decades. (JD) (1/2018)
After tasting several intermediate blends that will ultimately be combined in some proportion to create the 2015 Hermitage, I would not be surprised to see the final result achieve perfection. Although massively ripe and concentrated, there is still a feeling of balance and elegance in the wines that I fully expect to carry over into the final product. As the blending process isn’t complete, Jean-Louis warned that it was too early to say if there would be a Cuvée Cathelin, which is typically an outstanding parcel that, for some reason, doesn’t work in the rest of the blend. (JC) (12/2017)
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
As usual, tasted vineyard by vineyard from barrels. 1) from Les Beaume: Powerful, deep-pitched cherry, blueberry and violet character; intense mineral and spice overtones add vivacity. 2) from Meal: Densely packed but uncannily fresh and energetic, displaying sweet raspberry, cherry, spicecake and floral pastille qualities and a core of juicy acidity. 3) from Ermite: Superb depth of dark fruit and floral character; a core of minerality provides energetic lift and focus, giving an impression of energy, not weight. 4) from Bessards: Mineral and floral notes accent ripe blackberry and cherry, and a sexy Asian spice flourish lends an exotic touch and back-end cut. The final wine should be a knockout and I envision that it will come off as a hypothetical cross of Chave's 2009 (power and heft) and 2010 (energy and structure). (4/2017)
2015 Hermitage Blanc
Matching the otherworldly 2009, the 2015 Hermitage Blanc is a perfect wine and certainly one of the greatest whites ever made from this hallowed estate. The normal blend of 80% Marsanne and 20% Roussanne from the l’Ermite, Péleat, and les Rocoules lieux-dits, it exhibits a huge, opulent bouquet of buttered citrus, flower oil, orange marmalade, quince, and honeysuckle that’s to die for. This majestic, full-bodied Hermitage Blanc has a huge mid-palate, thrilling purity of fruit, and a finish that won’t quit. It’s capable of lasting for 4-5 decades, but still has the sexiness of the vintage front and center and will be enjoyable early in its life. (JD) (1/2018)
Tasted in components. Number 1, from Peleat: High-pitched citrus fruit and floral qualities hearken to Chablis. Becomes more floral with air and shows superb definition. Number 2, from Rocoules: Deeper and more round but not lacking for energy. Offers juicy pear, peach and honey flavors backed up by a core of zesty minerality. Number 3, from Ermite: Sappy, densely packed orchard fruit flavors display a smoky mineral note that gains strength on the back half. The resulting wine looks to be a monument of its vintage and appellation, showing a remarkable interplay of depth, power and energy that I only occasionally encounter with the very best white Burgundies. I've little doubt that it will outlive many people reading this, assuming that they're of legal drinking age. (JR) (7/2017)
Chave continues to make a full-throttle, concentrated and unctuous Hermitage Blanc, and refuses to buy into the ridiculous trend toward making Sauvignon Blanc-like whites from this tiny, magical terroir. God bless him for that and there are few whites I’d rather drink than a mature Hermitage Blanc from this genius winemaker. Starting with the latest vintage and tasted from multiple barrels, the 2015 Hermitage Blanc will be a sensational wine. This rich, unctuous beauty has terrific purity and depth, with the classic concentration, extract and fat that’s the hallmark of the estate’s Hermitage Blanc. White currants, buttered citrus, toasted bread and hints of flower oil are just some of the nuances here and this beauty will deliver the goods. (JD) (12/2016)
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Act II (popcorn)
Act II (Tokio album)
Act II or Act Two or Act 2 may refer to:
Act II (popcorn), a brand of popcorn in North America
Act Two (Collabro album), 2014
Act Two (The Seldom Scene album), 1973
Act II (Tokio album), 2005
Act II: The Father of Death, an album by The Protomen, 2009
Act II: The Meaning of, and All Things Regarding Ms. Leading, an album by The Dear Hunter, 2007
Act 2: The Blood and the Life Eternal, an album by Neverending White Lights, 2006
"Act II", 1993 concert tour by Prince, see Act I and II
Act Too Group, Sussex UK theatre troup
Act (drama), a division or unit of a drama
Act III (disambiguation)
Act One (disambiguation)
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Act II is a brand of popcorn in North America that is ostensibly based on the look and taste of movie theater popcorn. It is made and distributed by ConAgra Foods. Act II was preceded in the popcorn market by Act I, an early microwave popcorn that had to be stored in the refrigerator. Act I was introduced in 1981. In 1984, Act II, a shelf stable microwave popcorn was released, becoming the first mass-marketed microwave popcorn.
Act II was manufactured by the Golden Valley Microwave Foods (frequently abbreviated as GVMF on the packaging) company of Edina, Minnesota. GVMF was later bought by ConAgra Foods in 1991.
The Edina facility was closed and manufacturing moved to other manufacturing plants in the USA and Mexico.
The popcorn bag used in Act II was invented by James Watkins, a former engineer for the Pillsbury Company in Minneapolis, MN and then Founder/President of Golden Valley Microwave Foods.
List of popcorn brands
Act II - Brand website
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Act II is the ninth studio album by Japanese band Tokio. It was released on February 2, 2005. The album reached third place on the Oricon weekly chart and charted for seven weeks.
Use in Popular Media
"Ambitious Japan!" was used in Donkey Konga 2: Hit Song Parade
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The military, also called the armed forces, are forces authorized to use deadly force, and weapons, to support the interests of the state and some or all of its citizens. The task of the military is usually defined as defense of the state and its citizens, and the prosecution of war against another state. The military may also have additional sanctioned and non-sanctioned functions within a society, including, the promotion of a political agenda, protecting corporate economic interests, internal population control, construction, emergency services, social ceremonies, and guarding important areas. The military can also function as a discrete subculture within a larger civil society, through the development of separate infrastructures, which may include housing, schools, utilities, food production and banking.
The profession of soldiering as part of a military is older than recorded history itself. Some of the most enduring images of the classical antiquity portray the power and feats of its military leaders. The Battle of Kadesh in 1274 BC was one of the defining points of Pharaoh Ramesses II's reign and is celebrated in bas-relief on his monuments. A thousand years later the first emperor of unified China, Qin Shi Huang, was so determined to impress the gods with his military might that he was buried with an army of terracotta soldiers. The Romans were dedicated to military matters, leaving to posterity many treatises and writings as well as a large number of lavishly carved triumphal arches and victory columns.
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Hurricane Helms on why he left TNA, keeping the Broken Hardy gimmick
By Aaron Varble - July 16, 2017
Shane Hurricane Helms brought flocks of fans to him during his run with WWE as they stood back because a Hurricane was coming. But for the last few years, Helms has been a staple in TNA. His mind for the pro wrestling business was greatly utilized in a backstage capacity until recently.
Hurricane spoke to The Sheet Podcast where he went into several subjects including why he left TNA in the first place.
“I think the technical term is bovine defecation. The street term is bullshit. Of course, financial played a part into it. But the reason there were too many agents or producers is because he brought in his buddies who aren’t qualified to be there. So if you hadn’t brought in unqualified people to put into those positions the situation would never have arisen.”
“I caught some residual heat when the contractual situation with Anthem and the Hardys broke down. I got text messages asking me what did I know.”
Adding, “Just a lot weird, angry texts and very unprofessional and inappropriate texts to me. To the point where there had to be a phone call made and then I had to get loud. I’m not putting up with this. And having to tell Jeff, ‘You’re not going to talk to me in-person like you’re talking to me on this phone. At least you better not.’ My reputation for how I handle myself in the business is kind of well-known. Then he seemed to calm down. When we got to TV it was kind of like, ‘Is everything cool?’ And he assured me it was and nothing was going to happen and whatever residual heat that was there wasn’t there. But even when I met Ed (Nordholm) the next time there was some kind of weird standoffishness towards him.”
“But I still had my hopes up because of the job I was doing. I liked being an agent, I liked coaching people, I like teaching people and stuff like that. I was enjoying it and I was staying positive, but the writing was on the wall.”
Hurricane also went into depth about the subject of TNA keeping the Broken Hardy gimmick and how some regard it as a petty decision.
“That’s exactly what it is, and I know firsthand that Matt and them does a lot of the production of some of those events that came out of their pocket. Creatively, especially in the initial launch, it was a hundred percent Matt. Jeff started helping, and of course Jeremy Borash helped them with his part of it. People that got involved, we all chipped in a little bit. I was making airport runs to go pick up talent. I booked Hornswoggle for the thing. I facilitated his booking. That’s not my job to do, I don’t get paid to do that. But I was doing it to help out. There were so many people that were chiming in because Impact didn’t have the money and the financial backing to do it so we all chipped in. So there’s a lot of really personal pride that’s attached to this. And Anthem had shit to do with it. And Jarrett, Jarrett don’t have a creative bone in his damn body.”
Credit for quotes goes to The Sheet Podcast
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About MRBS
Meeting Room Booking System MRBS 1.7.1
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The system can be configured to use one of several methods of authentication, including LDAP, Netware, and SMB. See your system administrator if you are having trouble logging in. Some functions are restricted to certain users, and other users will get the message You do not have access rights to modify this item . See your system administrator if this is not working correctly for you. If the system is configured to use LDAP authentication, this means that you login with the same username and password as you use for getting email e.g. Mark Belanger and MyPassword .
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William Barr makes no apology for handling of special counsel report
Posted 2:26 pm, May 1, 2019, by CNN Wire
Attorney General William Barr expressed no regrets Wednesday over his handling of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, defending his decision-making in the face of a new letter from Mueller that objected to Barr’s characterization of the special counsel investigation.
At a public Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Barr downplayed the significance of Mueller’s letter raising concerns about the attorney general’s four page-letter summarizing Mueller’s conclusions, saying Mueller told him he was worried about media coverage and did not think Barr’s letter was inaccurate.
Democrats scoffed at Barr’s explanations, repeatedly clashing with the attorney general over his handling of the Mueller investigation and his decision not to prosecute for obstruction of justice. They accused Barr of “purposely misleading” Congress and the public about Mueller’s concerns.
But Barr made no apologies for how he released the Mueller report, even as Mueller’s letter to Congress — which stated Barr’s four-page summary “did not fully capture the context, nature and substance of this office’s work and conclusions” — upended the hearing just hours before it began.
“I think this whole thing is sort of mind-bendingly bizarre,” Barr said of the controversy over Mueller’s letter.
READ: Attorney General William Barr’s prepared testimony on Mueller report before Senate committee
Barr argued that he chose to release a full, redacted version of the Mueller report, which he was not required to do. And he said he had a responsibility to make a decision on whether to prosecute President Donald Trump for obstruction of justice after Mueller did not do so.
“Once we heard that the special counsel was not reaching a conclusion on obstruction, the Deputy (Attorney General Rod Rosenstein) and I discussed and agreed that the Department had to reach a decision. We had the responsibility to assess the evidence and set forth in the report and make a judgment,” Barr said. “We concluded that the evidence developed during the special counsel’s investigation was not sufficient to conclude the President committed an obstruction of justice offense.”
Barr’s comments did little to appease Democrats, however, who pressed him on his previous testimony that he did not know of concerns raised by Mueller’s team. One Senate Democrat accused Barr of “masterful hair-splitting.”
“Mr. Barr, I feel that your answer was purposely misleading, and I think others do, too,” said Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the longest-serving Senate Democrat.
Partisan divide in questioning
The hearing underscored the deep divisions over the special counsel’s investigation into Russian election interference and obstruction of justice, and how the details that have been released about the probe have done little to sway hardened opinions on Capitol Hill.
While Democrats pressed Barr about how he handled the Mueller investigation, Republicans focused their questions over how the FBI’s Russia investigation began. There were numerous references to the anti-Trump text messages sent by FBI officials and the legality of a foreign surveillance warrant obtained on a Trump adviser.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham vowed in his opening statement to investigate all of those matters further. As for the Mueller investigation, Graham declared: “For me, it is over.”
Barr also expressed some of his own misgivings about the special counsel’s probe. He said he was surprised Mueller didn’t reach a conclusion on obstruction, and he questioned why the investigation even took place if he wasn’t going to do so.
“I think that if he felt that he shouldn’t go down the path of making a traditional prosecutive decision then he shouldn’t have investigated. That was the time to pull up,” Barr said.
The attorney general also downplayed one of the key episodes of obstruction of justice that Mueller’s team included in its report, when Trump ordered White House counsel Don McGahn to fire Mueller, and McGahn refused.
“Now there’s something very different between firing a special counsel outright, which suggests ending the investigation, and having a special counsel removed for conflict, which suggests that you are going to have another special counsel,” Barr said.
Democrats call on Barr to resign
Mueller’s letter to Barr added a new level of scrutiny for the attorney general, who was already facing sustained attacks from Democrats accusing Barr of mischaracterizing Mueller’s findings.
Numerous Democrats, including House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, called for Barr to resign after Mueller’s letter was revealed.
Barr is making his first appearance before Congress on Wednesday since the release of a redacted version of Mueller’s report last month. The attorney general’s relationship with Democrats has soured over the past two months, as Democrats accused him of misleading the public with his summary letter, questioned his decision to clear the President on obstruction of justice and issued a subpoena to try to force him to provide Congress with the full, unredacted report.
Wednesday’s hearing is the first of potentially two days of hearings where Barr will be pressed by Democrats on his handling of the Mueller investigation. In a sign of the deteriorating relationship between Capitol Hill Democrats and Barr, his second-day testimony before the House Judiciary Committee is now in doubt over a dispute between the panel and the Justice Department over the format of the hearing.
As Barr appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the House Judiciary Committee voted to allow Democratic and Republican staff a half-hour to question Barr — a stipulation that has the attorney general threatening not to show.
“The letter is obviously a request by the special counsel … asking the attorney general to release the introduction and the summaries of the report because the special counsel felt that the attorney general’s public statements were misleading,” House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler told reporters Wednesday. “The attorney general’s failure to do so was just another step in trying to mislead the public, to shield for the President and mislead the public into what the report was all about. He completely misrepresented it for another month.”
Barr says Mueller didn’t object to his letter
Barr described his conversations with Mueller both leading up to the conclusion of the investigation and after his four-page letter was released, in an effort to defend how the investigation ended and a redacted version of the report was released.
Barr said he was surprised when Mueller told him he wasn’t reaching a conclusion on obstruction of justice. Mueller also said, according to Barr, that he wasn’t declining to make a decision to prosecute solely because of a Justice Department legal opinion that a sitting President cannot be indicted.
Addressing the criticisms over Mueller’s letter, Barr said that Mueller told him in a followup phone conversation that he did not think Barr’s four-page letter was inaccurate. Rather, Barr said that Mueller said press reports on the letter were inaccurate, particularly when it came to Mueller’s decision not to reach a conclusion on obstruction of justice.
Mueller’s letter, however, only references Barr’s summary, not any media reports.
Democrats also zeroed in on Barr’s response to a question last month whether there were concerned about how Mueller’s findings were represented from members of Mueller’s team.
“You said, ‘No, I don’t know,’ after you received this letter. What am I missing?” asked Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois.
“I talked directly to Bob (Mueller), and Bob told me that he did not have objections to the accuracy,” Barr responded.
“Attorneys don’t put things in writing unless they are pretty serious about them,” Durbin shot back.
Barr: ‘It was my baby’
In his opening statement, Barr explained he didn’t think it was in the public interest to release piecemeal portions of the report, which is why he says he provided the four-page summary on March 24 and then worked to release a public version, even though Mueller wanted Barr to release the executive summaries his team had written.
“I didn’t feel that it was in the public interest to allow this to go on for several weeks without saying anything, and so I decided to simply state what the bottom line conclusions were, which is what the department normally does, make a binary determination: Is there a crime or isn’t there a crime?” Barr said.
“The body politic was in a high state of agitation, there was massive interest in learning what the bottom line results of Bob Mueller’s investigation was, particularly as to collusion,” Barr added.
Democrats say that Barr cherry-picked lines from Mueller’s report to make it sound as rosy as possible for Trump, when Mueller detailed numerous contacts between Trump’s team and Russians and instances where Trump sought to interfere in the investigation.
But Barr argued that the Justice Department regulations put him in charge of the report once Mueller’s investigation concluded, and he worked to put out as much of the report as he could.
“(Mueller’s) work concluded when he sent his work to the attorney general. At that point, it was my baby,” Barr said. “And I was making a decision as to whether or not to make it public, and I effectively overrode the regulations, used discretion, to lean as far forward as I could to make that public. And it was my decision how and when to make it public, not Bob Mueller’s.”
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NYT, Washington Post: Some Mueller investigators say their report is worse for Trump than Barr says
Democrat clarifies comments on reaching ‘tentative date’ for Mueller testimony
Trump reverses course, says Mueller ‘should not testify’ before Congress
Barr says redacted version of Mueller report to be released within a week
Mueller expressed misgivings to Barr about 4-page letter
Mueller: Charging President Trump was ‘not an option’
Justice Dept. expected to release redacted Mueller report Thursday
Barr says Mueller examined 10 instances of possible obstruction by Trump
Pelosi says Barr ‘lied to Congress’
Nadler on Trump impeachment: ‘All options are on the table’
House committee votes to hold Barr in contempt after Trump invokes executive privilege
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Fatal Injury Claims: UK Law Setting Out Who Can Claim Compensation
Fatal injury claims are compensation claims for death caused by accident. Discover the UK claims process, the amount of compensation you can claim, the laws which decide who and what can be claimed with free online legal help from a specialist fatal accident claims solicitor.
What is the UK fatal injury claims process?
The fatal accident claims process in the UK is very involved with the first step to establish the cause of death being a coroner’s inquest.
Click fatal accident to see the page I have written setting out all the steps to making a fatal accident claims in the UK following an accident or criminal act.
How much compensation are fatal injury claims worth?
The amount of compensation you can claim in the UK depends on your relationship to the deceased and whether you were classed as being dependent on the deceased.
Click fatal accident compensation to see examples of how much you can claim.
What are the laws which your lawyer must refer to to decide if you have a claim?
Below is a brief description of the UK laws – known as statute and legislation – with a link to the detailed statute.
This is a useful reference source, but you should rely on your solicitor to interpret the legislation on your behalf to ensure you win your claim and receive the correct level of compensation.
Fatal Accidents Act 1976 – UK Law Relating To Fatal Accident Claims
This Ministry Of Justice website sets out the UK law relating to fatal accident claims made on behalf of the bereaved or dependents of the deceased. The Fatal Accidents Act 1976 sets out who has the right to make such a claim and the sums of compensation that can be claimed.
Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1934
This Act sets out the types of compensation that can be claimed in the UK for fatal accident claims made by the deceased’s estate. It includes funeral expenses and pain and suffering of the deceased in the period before death.
Can you receive free legal assistance if a love one has died and you are considering fatal injury claims?
“Yes” – click fatal injury claims to see the free legal help my website has to offer. You can speak to me in person, start a claim or have your own fatal injury claims question answered online.
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Regional Collaboratives for Climate Change - A State of the Art
Developed by the Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC) in 2019, this report summarizes the findings of a survey of 15 Regional Climate Collaboratives (RCCs) that are supporting climate change action at the regional scale in the United States. RCCs are networks that coordinate adaptation (and sometimes mitigation) work across jurisdictional boundaries in municipal regions of the U.S. and often include local and state government representatives as well as nonprofit, academic, and private partners. The report provides a summary of the common factors of success, challenges, barriers, and roles that RCCs are playing in advancing adaptation in their regions, as reported in surveys of RCC representatives. It offers insights on how municipalities are working collaboratively to advance climate adaptation and mitigation goals at the regional scale. The report also includes recommendations to improve the effectiveness of regional collaborations on climate action going forward.
The report opens with an overview of Regional Climate Collaboratives: what constitutes an RCC, how they form, and how they fit in the bigger picture of climate action across the U.S. It describes how networks come together to amplify their messages around climate action, exchange best practices, and pool resources for reaching common goals.
This resource was featured in the May 23, 2019 ASAP Newsletter with the following description:
“One of the most significant challenges for locally-oriented climate adaptation practitioners is one of scale: how does one build the resilience of regional social, economic and built systems across the highly fragmented jurisdictional boundaries of municipalities and counties? Over the past decade, a new form of networking for local climate action has emerged at the metro-regional scale to address this challenge – networks that have been dubbed Regional Climate Collaboratives (RCCs). “Bound together by a shared focus on place, Regional Climate Collaboratives (RCCs), are harnessing the power of networks to build resilience to climate impacts and, in some cases, to reduce the emissions driving those impacts” (Regional Collaboratives for Climate Change, p. 4).”
ISC identifies the following common characteristics of Regional Climate Collaboratives:
Contiguity: participants share adjacent or overlapping boundaries
Shared systems: participants share and benefit from the same systems (natural, social, economic, infrastructure etc.)
Local Leadership: While state or federal representatives and staff may participate, collaborations rise primarily out of local concerns and goals.
ISC found that these organizations were often formed with the understanding that working together could help them all leverage and connect their own existing networks with others in the region, implement more effective solutions without being inhibited by administrative borders, and provide a consistent strategy for protecting shared ecosystems like watersheds and coastal areas that their jurisdictions both impact and rely on.
Factors of Success
The report discusses some main themes that RCCs identified as contributing to their success:
Co-production of regional solutions: RCCs had the most success when they created solutions collaboratively, operated as a single production network, and ensured collaboration was cross-sectoral.
Engagement: RCCs emphasized the importance of maintaining continuous relationships with stakeholders and communities across elections and turnover.
Tracking progress: RCCs also consistently highlighted the importance of meaningful member participation, saying that the RCC is only as successful as the collaborative members are engaged. Several indicated that they had processes for tracking and evaluating member participation, and that this monitoring was beneficial in showing organization efficacy and garnering funding. Several respondents also indicated that annual strategic priority setting was an essential part of ensuring member participation.
Providing training and tools, and research and analysis: RCCs reported that it was important for their members to have access to high-quality training and tools, as well as for audiences to view their organization as a reputable source of training, tools, research, and analysis.
Goal and priority setting: RCCs emphasized that it was crucial to their success to have clear and agreed upon goals and priorities that were developed and pursued collaboratively.
Key Barriers and Gaps in Capacity
The report discusses some prominent themes that RCCs surveyed identified as common barriers to success:
Lack of resources: RCCs identified challenges in acquiring sufficient staff resources and funding. Particularly, the work necessary to build relationships with communities, especially communities that have historically been underserved, was identified as an area that needed more staff time and funding support.
Public communications: While RCCs identified successful public communication as key to their missions, many indicated it was still something they struggled with.
Integration: RCCs face challenges working with local entities to integrate climate goals and commitments into everyday operations.
Achieving regional impact: RCCs also reported that there were gaps in research, data, and analysis that were necessary to inform action and achieve regional impact.
The Role of Regional Climate Collaboratives in Equity
This report examines the role of RCCs in supporting equitable adaptation. RCCs generally viewed themselves as both well-positioned to address inequities in the regions they spanned and in part responsible for doing so, referencing close relationships with communities and connections between equity concerns and climate adaptation. Notably, many communities of color and historically marginalized communities face heightened risks from climate impacts, but often have fewer resources and capacity to address and protect themselves from these risks. RCCs identified the need for additional expertise and improved representation of these communities in the organizations. Many of the RCC’s surveyed also noted the need to better integrate and advance equity in collaborative work.
The report concludes with overall takeaways and recommendations advancing regional efforts to prepare for climate impacts. Recommendations for RCCs include focusing on joint production of strategies to create greater regional impact, ensuring integration and adoption of climate commitments at the local level, improving research and analysis to better inform policy development and implementation. The report also recommends that RCCs expand the representation of communities of color and historically marginalized communities to advance more equitable climate action at the regional scale.
The report drew from lessons documented in the Georgetown Climate Center’s Lessons in Regional Resilience report and a series of case studies. Most of these case studies were based on work led by the Local Government Commission, which facilitates six regional collaboratives in California through the Alliance for Regional Collaboratives for Climate Adaptation (ARCCA), including their Regional Adaptation Collaborative Toolkit, and other literature on regional coordination on adaptation.
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Toddler falls from window in College Point, Queens, cops say
A toddler fell from a second-story window in College Point, Queens on Friday, Jan. 13, 2017, police said. Photo Credit: Theodore Parisienne
By Lauren Cook lauren.cook@amny.com Updated January 13, 2017 4:40 PM
A 2-year-old girl was rushed to the hospital after falling from a second-story window in Queens Friday morning, police said.
Officers who arrived at the home on 23rd Avenue in College Point said the toddler was conscious and alert. She was taken to Cohen's Children's Medical Center and is expected to be OK.
According to an NYPD spokeswoman, the toddler had crawled over to the window and lifted the screen after her mother put her down on a bed while doing housework around 11 a.m. She fell two floors to the concrete below, the spokeswoman said.
So far, police said no criminality is suspected.
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Government Shutdown Raises Food Safety Concerns
Thursday, Jan. 10th, 2019
by Maggie Mead
WASHINGTON, DC - The government shutdown is now three weeks in, and there’s no end in sight. While all federal agencies are suffering, the Food and Drug Administration is facing unique challenges. In response to the shutdown, the FDA has been forced to suspend a large portion of its inspections, sparking concerns about possible foodborne illness outbreaks.
"This is a departure from practices during past shutdowns, and part of our continuing effort at FDA to focus our resources on areas of highest potential risk to consumers during the shutdown," wrote FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb on Twitter on Wednesday.
With 41 percent of FDA employees out of work, there are definite repercussions. While imported food inspections have continued at their normal rate, domestic inspections have slowed, reported CNBC. This is the first week that inspections are to be postponed, as there were no inspections conducted during the two weeks around the holidays.
The shutdown is not a completely new occurrence—the 2013 shutdown lasted 16 days, though during that time, domestic inspections were stopped entirely. This time, the FDA is taking a different approach with just a slowdown in inspection operations.
"We've taken a different posture based on sound public health and legal rationale," Gottlieb wrote.
Seafood, cheese, baby formula, and other “high risk” foods, making up 31 percent of all domestic inspections, will continue to be analyzed. However, non-high risk foods like peanut butter and flour have been known to become contaminated in the past.
"Foodborne illness can happen with any kind of food," said Sarah Sorscher, Deputy Director of Regulatory Affairs at the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
Advocacy groups have expressed concern that the longer the shutdown lasts, and the FDA conducts inspections at a decreased rate, the higher the risk of a food safety incident.
"It's bad news for consumers," Thomas Gremillion, Director of Food Policy at the Consumer Federation of America, told CNBC via email. "FDA inspections help to flag issues like listeria contamination and rodent infestations that prevent foodborne illness outbreaks."
Even if the FDA does flag a potential food safety problem, due to the furlough, its laboratories may not be fully staffed, leading to delayed responses. There are additional concerns regarding the return of furloughed staff at the end of the shutdown, whenever that might be. Most food inspectors already make less than $40,000 per year, often living paycheck to paycheck. As the shutdown rolls on, many federal workers are looking for employment elsewhere, meaning there may be a shortage of staff returning to work.
AndNowUKnow will continue to report on the government shutdown and the effect it has on food safety.
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Katie Baker
First Meetings, Last Memories
Early this fall, I went over to a friend’s room for a little college football-watching session. Andrew Dwyer was there of course—would he ever miss an opportunity to hang out and watch football—but something was different about him. Something about his hair—
He had cut his hair into a mullet.
And this wasn’t your everyday, hockey-player, I –missed-a-haircut, accidental mullet. It was a work of art: top hair slicked back, side hair shorn almost to the point of nonexistence. Business in the front, party in the back.
Meanwhile, Andrew had on his classic ensemble—Fisher’s Island golf shirt, shorts, and reefs—hardly congruent with the new ‘do.
“I like the haircut,” I remarked.
Those of you who knew Andrew know what happened next. He shrugged, as if it were nothing out of the ordinary, and in a completely serious tone explained,
“I’m just keeping it real.”
I’m going to miss his sense of humor.
It was subtle, hard to explain in writing, but never failed to make me laugh to the point where I felt self-conscious. I can remember exactly how he delivered his trademark lines, and the look on his face when he’d say them. He was always smiling—that’s what I remember most.
From time to time, at like 2 a.m., we’d have long, earnest conversations, sometime outside Toad’s, sometimes on Instant Messenger, in which we’d discuss the important things in life: TV shows and movie quotes, usually.
I consider myself a movie quote connoisseur, but he had me smoked every time. I stumped him once, pulling out the “meow” line from “Super Troopers,” which he immediately contested because “Super Troopers” was not a classic, and he had not seen it.
“’Super Troopers’ is a modern classic,” I said.
He looked at me, shaking his head, clearly displeased. “The only modern classics are ‘Austin Powers,’ early Adam Sandler, and Chris Farley movies,” he said with a seriousness usually reserved by most people for discussing the economy or politics.
I’m going to miss our conversations. They were sometimes serious, sometimes sarcastic, always funny, always refreshing. Andrew kept me on my toes, and if I made a comment, a joke, or a statement that wasn’t up to par, he’d let me know.
Last Wednesday, a week ago from the time I write this, Andrew walked me home from Toad’s. This was nothing new—he’d helped me home from many a toads’ night—but this time I was quite a handful. I’d lost my jacket somewhere inside and was cold and in tears, worried what my mom would do to me when she would found out that I was down a jacket, a cell phone, and wallet.
But like the friend he was, Andrew dealt with me. He gave me his jacket and walked me to my room. On the way, I managed to trip and fall, biting partway through my tongue in the process and sending myself in hysterics.
The next day, he sent me an IM, teasing me for being, in his words, an emotional roller coaster. I told him I’d bring his jacket by his room.
When I got there, he had already left for New York City.
I’m going to miss his friendship.
I still have the cut in my tongue that I sustained that night. I figured he’d be giving me a hard time about it when he saw me next. I never would have thought it would outlast him.
I’ve been completely devastated lately, but then I get some images in my mind—Andrew as a roll of Lifesavers on Halloween, Andrew dancing it up at the DKE formal, Andrew heating up leftover sesame chicken on his George Foreman Grill, Andrew kicking back at his house at Fisher’s, Andrew lighting up when I mentioned his favorite two words: “Joe Millionaire,” Andrew wandering around the DKE backyard, missing a flip-flop but never missing a smile—and somehow, it makes me feel better.
He was always happy, he was always making everyone around him happy, and most importantly, he was always surrounded by people who loved him, right up to the end.
Andrew, I’m going to miss you.
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Blockchain power trading for low-cost apartments
Ben PotterSenior Reporter
Residents of a visionary new affordable housing development in Fremantle will be among the first apartment-dwellers in the nation to be able to trade their surplus solar power with their neighbours.
Landcorp, the development arm of the government of Western Australia, is offering three one-bedroom apartments in the Gen Y development at an old school site in the Fremantle suburb of White Gum Valley complete with shared solar panels and a large battery.
The purchasers – expected to be young people paying about $400,000 for each apartment – will be able to trade their surplus share of the solar energy with each other over a secure blockchain platform hosted by Perth startup Power Ledger.
A new front in the energy revolution sweeping Australia's suburbs has been opened up with the help of (from left) Landcorp's Frank Marra, Power Ledger's David Martin and architect David Barr. Trevor Collens
The infill development is part of a larger WGV development site on land formerly occupied by schools, where a range of developers are offering energy-efficient, affordable housing in a range of prices and building styles.
As more dwellings are built and sold, the occupants will be able to trade solar power across the development and eventually with rooftop solar households elsewhere in Perth under an arrangement with energy retailer Synergy.
So-called "peer-to-peer" or neighbour-to-neighbour trading of surplus solar energy is a new front in the energy revolution sweeping Australia's suburbs. Small retailer Powershop has just launched solar trading commercially after a successful trial in Melbourne.
Challenge to big retailers
As well as allowing householders to sell their surplus power at a higher rate than they can sell it to the grid, peer-to-peer energy trading offers extra backup to the power grid as intermittent wind and solar energy expand at the expense of reliable but dirty coal generation.
It's a challenge to big retailers such as AGL Energy, Origin Energy and Energy Australia to move more quickly on their own "behind the meter" offers in a market where sales of grid power have been declining for several years.
"Distributed energy" produced by small-scale solar panels and batteries is rapidly becoming competitive with grid power at the point of generation. Korean giant LG, maker of LGChem batteries, predicts a fivefold surge in annual storage battery sales.
Power Ledger players (from left) John Bulich, Jemma Green and David Martin hope to sign a deal with a major power distributor in Victoria soon. Aaron Bunch
Jemma Green, co-founder and chairwoman of Power Ledger, said apartments were a quarter of dwellings in Australia and 35 per cent to 40 per cent of new developments, representing an untapped growth market for solar energy.
"With the infill targets we have nationally, we are going to see a lot more of these projects," Ms Green told The Australian Financial Review.
Deal in Victoria
Most apartment-dwellers have been locked out of the solar energy revolution because they don't control their roofs and metering in apartment blocks typically doesn't allow solar power to be fairly allocated among occupants.
Power Ledger's blockchain platform will credit and charge Gen Y occupants and others for the solar power they buy and sell. Power Ledger is also planning trials of its blockchain-based energy trading platform at a retirement village in Busselton in southwest WA, and New Zealand. It hopes soon to ink a deal with a major power distributor in Victoria.
Pupils at Rongamai Primary School, Auckland, which is participating in the Power Ledger energy trading trial. Supplied
The Gen Y apartments come with 9KW of solar panels and 10KWh of batteries supplied by China's BYD, which also produces electric trucks and vehicles and counts investment legend Warren Buffett among its major investors. The federal green bank, Arena, funded half the solar panels and batteries.
Ben Potter writes on energy, climate, health and technology from Melbourne. Connect with Ben on Twitter. Email Ben at bpotter@afr.com
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Whitelisting pushing out antivirus at some security-minded retailers
Ellen Messmer (Network World) 04 October, 2012 19:46
The influential Payment Card Industry (PCI) rules call for use of antivirus software to protect debit and credit cards, but some retailers have found a substitute that's been accepted in place of it: whitelisting technology.
Application whitelisting works on a host computer to prevent unauthorized applications from running. The official PCI rules published by the PCI Security Standards Council don't include any mention of it, but some merchants and retailers are saying that their PCI-certified auditors are signing off on whitelisting as a substitute for antivirus software, which is giving them what they say is a needed A/V break.
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"We started out with antivirus," says Bruce Snyder, manager of IT retail operations at Lacrosse, Wis.-based convenience store chain Kwik Trip, which has 436 locations. But on the store's point-of-sale (POS) systems in particular, running antivirus turned out to be hugely resource-intensive, enough so that it was even slowing down POS devices and impacting customer service.
Kwik Trip decided to try whitelisting technology -- its vendor is Bit9 -- as a substitute for antivirus since whitelisting should stop malware from executing. But as a sizeable "Level 1" retailer in the PCI-compliance world, Kwik Trip needed to have its PCI qualified security assessor (QSA), McGladrey, sign off on the change. The PCI auditor did, approving whitelisting as a substitute for antivirus. "They allowed us to do that, to replace A/V with whitelisting as a 'compensating control,'" Snyder says.
Today, Bit9 software is running only on Kwik Trip's POS terminals, but will be extended to store PCs by the end of next year, Snyder says. He adds that he hopes the PCI Council considers broadening the data-security rules to include whitelisting in the future.
Another large retailer and Bit9 customer, Louisville, Ky.-based Thorntons, had a similar experience related to PCI compliance in its convenience stores. And its PCI QSA, Trustwave, also gave the thumbs-up to whitelisting, says Jeffrey O'Gara, network administrator there. Traditional A/V was difficult to maintain with the updates, and more megabytes to run, than whitelisting, he says.
The PCI Security Standards Council did not provide anyone to discuss whitelisting, but a spokeswoman noted: "If another type of solution addresses the identical threats with a different methodology than a signature-based approach, it may still be acceptable to meet the requirement."
Forrester analyst Chenxi Wang says it's not that common to hear about retailers subject to PCI rules using whitelisting as an approved substitute for A/V, but this phenomenon is occurring a lot outside the PCI-focused world.
Even though antivirus software is still widely used, there's increasing skepticism about the value of antivirus to prevent malware infections, Wang says. "If you ask them, 'do you use A/V today,' they say 'yes.' But if you ask them how effective it is, they all say A/V hasn't worked in a long time."
The downside of whitelisting has often been considered the difficulty in updating legitimate applications, but Wang says that this issue is fading as whitelisting products have gotten better. "It's not that much of a burden on the user experience," she says.
Ellen Messmer is senior editor at Network World, an IDG publication and website, where she covers news and technology trends related to information security. Twitter: @MessmerE. Email: emessmer@nww.com.
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The Prevent Duty: safeguarding children and young people against radicalisation and extremism
Advice October 2015
On 1 July 2015 the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015 introduced the Prevent Duty on schools and colleges, as well as specified authorities such as local authorities, health and the police, “to have due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism”.
The taxman cometh
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Changes to the Lifetime Allowances limit are likely to mean more of us paying tax on our pensions, says Stephen Casey.
ASCL Response to the Education and Adoption Bill
Advice July 2015
ASCL sent the following briefing to all MPs on the Education and Adoption Bill Committee.
Unlocking potential
Secretary of State for Education Nicky Morgan sets out her priorities for the next five years and says she is committed to working with ASCL members to achieve them.
Deregulation Act 2015
Advice September 2015
The Deregulation Act 2015 received Royal Assent on 26 March 2015. The DfE has provided details on the commencement of provisions set out within Schedule 16 (Schools: Reduction of Burdens), that will come into effect on 1 January 2016 together with those provisions that now will not be commenced.
Leader article February 2015
ASCL is expanding its presence in the English regions to help meet the changing needs of leaders. Brian Lightman explains the thinking behind the move.
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Applications for 2016 Social Mobility Foundation Programmes now open
Advice December 2015
The Social Mobility Foundation (SMF) supports ambitious young people from less-privileged backgrounds to access top universities and careers.
Influential focus
Leader article December 2015
Six months after the General Election, we have a much clearer understanding of how the political land lies. Whatever the challenges may be, there are numerous opportunities for us to influence policy makers both in government and in opposition, says Brian Lightman.
‘Coasting’ schools
Advice June 2015
ASCL Deputy General Secretary Malcolm Trobe is giving evidence today to the parliamentary committee scrutinising the new Education and Adoption Bill. The Bill strengthens the Education Secretary’s powers to compel schools rated as ‘inadequate’ to become academies.
Sea-change for ‘coasting’ schools
The Education and Adoption Bill 2015-16 would give the Secretary of State (SoS) greater powers to act when schools are deemed to be ‘coasting’ and to create academies. Katie Michelon of Browne Jacobson LLP explains the changes.
Area Based Reviews
Guidance paper October 2015
This guidance paper is relevant to all senior staff working in post-16 settings who may be involved in area reviews, and for all those who have an interest in the significant structural reforms likely to occur in colleges and other post-16 providers.
New duty to report incidents of female genital mutilation (FGM)
The Serious Crime Act 2015 introduced a new duty on teachers, social workers and healthcare professionals to report to the police known cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) involving victims aged under 18.
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Leader article July 2015
While many schools and colleges now actively address homophobia for students and staff, leaders who are members of LGBT communities still face a dilemma in ‘coming out’. Carol Jones highlights the challenges and looks at what ASCL is doing to meet leaders’ needs.
Disqualification under the Childcare Act 2006 - statutory guidance for schools
Advice March 2015
New guidance on disqualification under the Childcare Act 2006 and disqualification by association has now been published by the DfE. This replaces the guidance published in October 2014.
Briefing on the Education and Adoption Bill
As indicated in the Conservative election manifesto, the government intends to strengthen the Secretary of State’s powers of intervention through the new Education and Adoption Bill. The main points related are as follows.
Preventative measures
The new Counter Terrorism and Security Act 2015 places a significant responsibility on schools and colleges and leaders need to ensure they have plans in place to help carry out their duty, says Anna Cole.
An Exploratory Evaluation Framework: safety, safeguarding and radicalisation
This exploratory evaluation framework is relevant to all school leaders and staff in all schools and colleges and outlines the statutory duties in relation to safety and safeguarding, the Prevent duty, equalities, British values and the curriculum.
Autumn DfE announcements
DfE ministers have said that they are committed to implementing all of the Conservative party’s manifesto promises on education by the end of this Parliament in 2020. We have already seen evidence of that with the announcements before recess about the Ebacc and coasting schools.
Peter Kent unveils plans for a new foundation, backed by teachers and governors, to nurture leadership development and says if the government is serious about letting the profession lead the system, it should fund the idea.
Room for manoeuvre…
Many voices in the education world have called for a ‘period of stability’ now that a new government is in place. But that does not mean a let-up in meeting the significant challenges facing us, says Brian Lightman.
Delivering a clear message
Leader article April 2015
The incoming government has a golden opportunity to work with the profession to create a world-class education system, says Brian Lightman. But it will need to focus on a few key priorities.
GCSE and A level subject reforms 2016 - 2017
Advice April 2015
ASCL has received a lot of queries recently about which subjects are going to be reformed for first teaching in 2017 and which are not. Here are documents detailing the specifics of the changes, which we hope prove helpful.
The rise of cross-phase, multi-academy trusts (MATs) and the spread of system leadership beyond individual heads are trends rapidly reshaping our educational landscape.
Time for a new discourse - trusting school leaders
Leader article May 2015
Tired rhetoric about failing schools on one side and government interference on the other must end, Brian Lightman told this year’s ASCL Annual Conference. It’s time for a new discourse, one based on trusting school leaders.
Coasting Schools Consultation
Guidance paper November 2015
This guidance paper is relevant to senior and system leaders in maintained schools in England. It outlines the DfE’s proposed definition of a ‘coasting’ school and details the consultation process.
Queen’s Speech outlines the Government’s plans for a new Bill on Education
Advice May 2015
Today’s Queen’s Speech outlined the Government’s plans for a new Bill on Education.
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel (Paperback)
By Ottessa Moshfegh
Entertainment Weekly’s #1 Book of 2018
“One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound.”
— Entertainment Weekly
From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes.
Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?
My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.
Named a Best Book of the Year by:
The Washington Post, Time, NPR, Amazon,Vice, Bustle, The New York Times, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Entertainment Weekly, The AV Club, & Audible
Ottessa Moshfegh is a fiction writer from New England. Her first book, McGlue, a novella, won the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and the Believer Book Award. She is also the author of the short story collection Homesick for Another World. Her stories have been published in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, and Granta, and have earned her a Pushcart Prize, an O. Henry Award, the Plimpton Discovery Prize, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Eileen, her first novel, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction; My Year of Rest and Relaxation, her second novel, was a New York Times bestseller.
“Darkly comic and ultimately profound new novel. . . Moshfegh’s extraordinary prose soars as it captures her character’s re-engagement.” —New York Times Book Review
“The bravado in Moshfegh’s comprehensive darkness makes her novels both very funny and weirdly exhilarating . . . As in Eileen, Moshfegh excels here at setting up an immediately intriguing character and situation, then amplifying the freakishness to the point that some rupture feels inevitable. Her confidence never flags; hers are the novels of a writer invigoratingly immune to uncertainty and self-doubt.” —Slate
“One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound.” — Entertainment Weekly
“It’s another acerbic character study from an author making a career out of bringing absurdly unlikable people to life. No one can discomfit a reader quite like her.” — AV Club
“Moshfegh is the novelist for me right now; there’s such freedom and puckishness in her prose, and grandmaster technical wizardry, too.” —Parul Sehgal, The New York Times
“Ottessa Moshfegh is easily the most interesting contemporary American writer on the subject of being alive when being alive feels terrible. She has a freaky and pure way of accessing existential alienation, as if her mind were tapped directly into the sap of some gnarled, secret tree . . . Watching Moshfegh turn her withering attention to the gleaming absurdities of pre-9/11 New York City, an environment where everyone except the narrator seems beset with delusional optimism, horrifically carefree, feels like eating bright, slick candy—candy that might also poison you.” —The New Yorker
“My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a strange, exhilarating triumph . . . Moshfegh writes with a singular wit and clarity that, on its own, would be more than enough. (Her 2015 debut, Eileen, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and Rest has already been optioned for film by Australian actress Margot Robbie). But the cumulative power of her narrative—and the sharp turn she takes in its last 30 pages—becomes nothing less than a revelation: sad, funny, astonishing, and unforgettable.” —Entertainment Weekly
“Ingenious, darkly comedic . . . . The novel speeds to the best last page of any book I’ve likely ever read . . . My Year of Rest and Relaxation could easily swing into a memory-bending thriller, or a dark odyssey into the dangers of the pharmaceutical industry — but instead Moshfegh anchors it to her premise of a girl who’s simply, truly, lost — a perfect portrait of someone who desperately wants to be asleep, in order to finally feel awake." — Vice
“This book isn’t just buzzy and maniacally entertaining—it’s a mean-spirited, tenderhearted masterpiece.” —New York Post
“’My Year of Rest and Relaxation’ is the most poignant, vulnerable, mature, and—dare I say it?—sincere work that its gifted author has yet produced.” —Boston Globe
“In flat, deadpan, unembellished prose recalling the cadences of Joan Didion and the clear-eyed candor of Mary Gaitskill, Moshfegh portrays the vacuous interior life (she has virtually no exterior life) of a narcissistic personality simultaneously self-loathing and self-displaying . . . My Year of Rest and Relaxation is laced with blackly comic interludes. Though passive to the point of virtual catatonia, the narrator can’t avoid interacting with a very few other people who include a “lover” named Trevor of such astounding sexist oafishness he might have stepped out of one of the more fatuous episodes of Sex and the City: “I interpreted Trevor’s sadism as a satire of actual sadism.” Even funnier than Trevor is a radiantly nutty therapist named Tuttle who prescribes drugs extravagantly, promiscuously, and unquestioningly, prattling away in a unique psychobabble . . . Yet My Year of Rest and Relaxation is most convincing as an urbane dark comedy, sharp-eyed satire leavened by passages of morbid sobriety, as in a perverse fusion of Sex and the City and Requiem for a Dream.” — New York Review of Books
“A darkly comic yet penetrating story about pain, destruction, and human connection . . . Moshfegh's piercing prose strips away any of the romanticism of this kind of hibernation, and the further readers (or at least, this reader) go down the young woman's determined path to let go, the tighter they will feel themselves holding onto their own realities and, more specifically, everyone they love in it.” —Bustle
“Rest And Relaxation' Is As Sharp As Its Heroine Is Bleary . . . bizarrely fascinating . . . Moshfegh knows how to spin perversity and provocation into fascination, and bleakness into surprising tenderness.” —NPR
“One of the pleasures of reading Ottessa Moshfegh is that – unusually, these days – she rarely writes in the present tense. Instead, the sense of immediacy, the sense of being inside a character, the sense of things happening and having psychic value, both to the writer and her reader, is provided by the structure and content of her sentences. Matter of fact, full of bravado yet always wryly observational, these stack up steadily to construct the brisk interior landscape of her third novel, My Year of Rest and Relaxation . . . One of the other pleasures of reading Moshfegh is her relentless savagery. All this is delivered as comic – it is comic – but it’s not exactly funny, though of course we laugh.” —Guardian
“Because this is a novel by the superabundantly talented Moshfegh — she’s an American writer of Croatian and Iranian descent with a name like that of an avant-garde London restaurant — we know in advance that it will be cool, strange, aloof and disciplined. The sentences will be snipped as if the writer has an extra row of teeth . . . Moshfegh is an inspired literary witch doctor. She invents many of the drugs her heroine ingests, the way Don DeLillo invented Dylar, to placate the fear of death, in ‘White Noise.’ These have serio-comic names like Valdignore and Prognosticrone and Maxiphenphen and Silencior. There was a joke at Rolling Stone magazine that if the drugs ran out at a party, one could find Hunter S. Thompson and suck on him. Depressives without prescriptions could lick Moshfegh’s heroine’s elbow . . . If she’s on downers, the prose in “My Year of Rest and Relaxation” is mostly on uppers. Like its narrator, this is a remorseless little machine. Moshfegh’s sentences are piercing and vixenish, each one a kind of orphan. She plays interestingly with substance and illusion, with dread and solace on the installment plan. This book builds subtly toward the events of Sept. 11 . . . Moshfegh writes with so much misanthropic aplomb, however, that she is always a deep pleasure to read. She has a sleepless eye and dispenses observations as if from a toxic eyedropper . . . Though this novel is set nearly 20 years ago, it feels current. The thought of sleeping through this particular moment in the world’s history has appeal.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times
“Darkly hilarious . . . [Moshfegh’s] the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud while drawing blood.” —Vogue
“You’ll emerge from this darkly hilarious novel not necessarily rested or relaxed but more finely attuned to how delicately fraught the human condition can be.” —Marie Claire
“Electrifying. . . Moshfegh’s narrator’s final gesture, transforming herself into a piece of half-living art, echoes the odd and combative passivity of Herman Melville’s Bartleby, a scrivener who suddenly, inexplicably, refuses to perform his duties. . . . In a country that celebrates doers, such a preference is grotesque, an inversion of the American ideal of prospering through hard work. But it also serves as a reminder that there is something to life outside the economic exchange of time for money and money for goods, even if that unnamed thing is obscure and perplexing and just a bit monstrous--particularly as a woman. Literature may not have the all the answers, but it can show us the power and allure of saying no.” —Vanity Fair
“I was cringing during every moment of Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation, and yet I could not put the book down . . . Moshfegh’s protagonist is brutally dreary, and the brutality of her dreariness is often very funny, but the book is really quite serious . . . The book seems to anchor itself to “real” experiences of pain and to validate itself by their relevance . . . But it is mostly, almost by juxtaposition, about the realness of a more subtle and very private expression of pain, no matter the cause, no matter how seemingly trivial. That’s what kept me reading even as my cringing muscles grew sore: feeling in my screwed-up face, barked laughs, and watery eyes the translation of that private kind of pain into something I could share.” —Claire Benoit, The Paris Review
“There’s a casually intimidating power to Moshfegh’s writing – the deadpan frankness and softly cutting sentences – that makes any comparison feel not quite right.” – Anne Diebel, London Review of Books
“Moshfegh’s ear remains as merciless as ever. Like a latter-day Flaubert, she delights in vanity and mediocrity, and in the absurdist heights both can reach whenever the occasion calls for a few sincere words.” —Harper’s Magazine
“When we are recommended a book we usually ask, ‘What is it about?’ But with Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation, we ask, ‘What isn’t it about?’ This novel takes on self-hatred, feminism, sexuality, mental health, family, and big pharma—AND it’s really f*cking funny. I don’t even want to tell you too much because I went in blind, loving Ottessa from her novel Eileen (also worth a read) and found myself hooting and hollering, vibing on a very different tip than her other work put me on. I’m so impressed that just one lady has written all these very special different things. Also, this book cover will have you kissing millennial pink goodbye and walking over to hot pink’s corner. About time!” —Lena Dunham
“Moshfegh has a keen sense of everyday absurdities, a deadpan delivery, and such a well-honed sense of irony that the narrator's predicament never feels tragic; this may be the finest existential novel not written by a French author. . . . A nervy modern-day rebellion tale that isn't afraid to get dark or find humor in the darkness.” — Kirkus, starred review
Fiction / Humorous / Black Humor
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Home > Departments > Recreation and Parks > Program Division > Inclement Weather Policy Questions
Inclement Weather Policy Questions
All Recreation activities are operating on a normal schedule.
Q. How are notifications of countywide weather announcements posted?
A. Weather related announcements that affect the entire County will be made on this website as well as announced on WBFF Fox 45, WMAR, WBALTV, WJZ TV 13 and WBAL 1090 AM. You can also contact your community recreation and parks office to find out your program's operating status.
Q. When are recreation programs canceled due to winter weather?
A. Weekdays
When schools are closed by snow, ice or other severe weather conditions for the entire day or before regular dismissal time, all recreation programs at school-recreation centers as well as Recreation and Parks sites are canceled. You may view the current Baltimore County Board of Education status on their website.
If the snow emergency plan is put into effect after regular school dismissal, all recreation programs are canceled at the time of implementation.
Weekends and Holidays
During a winter or other severe weather event when school is not in session, recreation programs will be canceled with the implementation of the snow emergency plan. Weather related announcements that affect the entire County will be made on this website as well as announced on WBFF Fox 45, WMAR, WBALTV, WJZ TV13 and WBAL 1090 AM.
Q. When may recreation programs resume after being canceled due to winter weather?
A. Weekdays (*see Exception)
If schools open at regular time the day after closing, recreation programs will proceed according to schedule.
If schools open on a delayed basis, recreation programs will resume with the commencement of school.
If schools remain closed:
programs at school-recreation centers are canceled; and
programs at Recreation and Parks sites may resume when the snow emergency plan has been lifted and local staff has received approval to reopen a specific site. Contact your local community recreation and parks office to find out whether your program is operating.
You may view the current Baltimore County Board of Education status on their website.
*Exception
If schools are closed more than one day as a result of winter or other severe weather, programs conducted at school-recreation centers may resume when the snow emergency plan has been lifted and local staff has received approval to reopen a specific site. Contact your local recreation and parks community office to find out whether your program is operating.
Recreation programs may resume when the snow emergency plan has been lifted and local staff has received approval to reopen a specific site. Contact your local community recreation and parks office to find out whether your program is operating.
Q. How do I know when the snow emergency plan is in effect?
A. When the snow emergency plan is in effect, there will be an announcement on the upper section of the Baltimore County website.
Q. What happens during a non-winter type weather event, such as a hurricane or tropical storm?
A. This will be treated like a winter weather event in that recreation programs may be canceled should road conditions, power outages, high winds, flooding, etc., warrant that action. Announcements will be posted on this website as well as announced on WBFF Fox 45, WMAR, WBALTV, WJZ TV13, WBAL 1090 AM. You can also contact your local community recreation and parks office to find out whether your program is operating.
Q. How does school closing due to high temperatures affect recreation programs?
Indoor Recreation Programs
Programs that are held inside a school or community building will meet if the facility is air-conditioned. If air conditioning is not available, the program will be canceled for the day.
Outdoor Recreation Programs
Each recreation and parks council and its programs decide on the parameters by which each activity meets during hot weather. Under these weather conditions, coaches and parents are expected to use appropriate judgment in determining the length and type of outdoor activity. Each parent knows their child's health condition and should discuss their concerns with the child’s coach.
In either case, contact your local community recreation and parks office to find out whether your program is operating.
Q. Who determines if fields or diamonds are playable?
A. Determining playability is a very localized issue as the amount and duration of precipitation varies from site to site. Recreation staff will make the decision on playability Contact your local community recreation and parks office to find out whether your program is operating. To ensure countywide consistency in determining whether or not a field or diamond is fit for play, the Department has developed criteria for field playability.
Q. How does lightning and thunder affect outdoor activities?
A. Upon the first sound of thunder or sighting of lightning all in attendance at the outdoor activity should immediately go to their cars or enter a building. No one will be allowed to resume play until 30 minutes after the last sound of thunder or the last sighting of lightning. Recreation staff has complete authority to enforce this policy at a Baltimore County facility. In the absence of recreation staff, volunteer coaches and officials must follow this policy.
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Navigation Path: Home›Supervisory practices›Tasks› Authorisations
The ECB is the authority in charge of all banking authorisations in the euro area, whether banks are large or small. It is also the direct supervisor of the biggest entities, indirect supervisor of the smaller ones, and ensures consistency and high supervisory standards throughout the whole system.
National competent authorities have an important role – for example as the entry point for authorisations, as members of the JSTs, and as direct supervisors of the smaller institutions. We are coordinating with our colleagues in the NCAs to ensure a consistent approach and high standards in the key operational and policy issues relating to Brexit.
List of national application forms
These are the procedures which apply to both significant and less significant institutions. They also apply to subsidiaries of non-euro area banks within the euro area.
The common procedures enable the ECB to apply the single European rulebook and ensure consistency in terms of how Member States transpose EU rules into national law.
Common procedures include:
Granting a banking licence to a new company or extending an initial licence
Authorising an acquisition of a participation in an existing institution
Withdrawing a banking licence
Acquisition of qualifying holdings
The ECB must authorise the acquisition of a participation in an existing institution if this participation counts as a “qualifying holding”, in others words if the acquirer reaches one of the relevant thresholds of 10, 20, 30 or 50%.
Supervision. Explained.: What is a qualifying holding?
The criteria assessed by the ECB are the following:
reputation of the proposed acquirer
fitness and propriety of the board members to be appointed by the proposed acquirer
financial soundness of the proposed acquirer
ability of the target to continue to comply with prudential requirements following the acquisition
whether the transaction involves, or increases the risk of, money laundering or the financing of terrorism
A qualifying holding must be authorised or objected to within 60 working days, with a maximum extension to 90 working days.
Withdrawal of authorisations
Both the ECB and the relevant national supervisor have the right to initiate the withdrawal of a banking licence in certain circumstances. A licence will be withdrawn if a credit institution ceases its activities or no longer meets the applicable prudential requirements.
A change in supervisory status can mean a change in the amount of the annual supervisory fees to be paid to the ECB.
The timing depends on the circumstances of the case, for instance whether a winding down of activities is required or whether the credit institution has ceased its activities.
Withdrawal initiated by the ECB
Withdrawal initiated by the national supervisor / bank
“Fit and proper” assessment
The ECB only takes fit and proper decisions for significant banks. When assessing the fitness and propriety of the members of a management body, it applies the relevant national and EU law.
ECB Guide to fit and proper assessments (revised May 2018)
Fit and Proper Questionnaire
Privacy statement for the processing of personal data related to fit and proper assessments under European banking supervision
The management body of a credit institution must be suitable to carry out its responsibilities and be composed in a manner that contributes to effective management and balanced decision-making.
Ensuring that institutions’ management bodies are “fit and proper” not only enhances the safety and soundness of the institution concerned, it also strengthens the banking sector as a whole by increasing public trust in the people managing the euro area’s financial sector.
Supervision. Explained.: What is fit and proper supervision?
The ECB considers five criteria within the fit and proper assessment:
Conflicts of interest and independence of mind
Time commitment to duly perform the functions
Collective suitability of the board
When appointments are part of a licensing or qualifying holding procedure, the fit and proper assessment forms part of the assessment for granting the licence or for the acquisition of the qualifying holding.
National legal deadlines are applied.
Guide to fit and proper assessments (update May 2018)
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If you can ship it, we can paint it.
The Digital Art department provides the cleanest graphic designs. Selection includes the following but are not limited to:
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A multidisciplinary artist based in Raleigh, North Carolina and a Marine Corps Veteran with 8 years of service in active duty. Born in the Philippines and a product of a broken family, drawing became an outlet for him as a way of coping within the daily life of living in rural province of Cavite. He was later adopted by his Aunt and Uncle and moved to Manila. With their care and support, he continued devoting himself creating and studying art in different styles and medium. Art became his passion, and it led him to developed a keen interest on pop culture and fine arts; winning multiple titles in journalistic art contests while growing up in the city. In October 2006, he moved to the Unites States to continue his education and to experience the American culture. While finishing the last couple years of High School, he worked at several freelance art jobs, painting commissioned murals and have also won various art competitions. In October 2009, with a sense of pride and patriotism, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. In training, he was chosen to be the “Art Recruit” producing creative artwork for display as a symbol of pride in the platoon. After arriving to his first unit, his undeniable skills were immediately discovered by his superiors and this allowed him the opportunity to paint several murals aboard the S.S. Wright in Baltimore, S.S. Curtiss in San Diego and Marine Corps Auxiliary Landing Field, Bogue North Carolina. Since then, his artistic abilities have expanded into numerous categories such as drawing, painting, sculpting, photography and digital arts. After 8 years of honorable service, he now owns and operate a multidisciplinary design company that provides each client’s creative needs ranging but not limited to custom, digital and fine art.
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Brexit: Fears over emergency co-operation at Irish border
By Cormac Campbell BBC News NI South East Reporter
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-44860448
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Image caption An Irish Air Corps helicopter helps to fight a gorse fire in County Armagh
In the borderlands of south Armagh, Brexit is all pervasive.
With free movement, commerce and security topping the agenda, the issue of how emergency services respond to crises on the zig-zagged frontier has largely been an afterthought.
That changed last week as gorse fires swept through the Ring of Gullion.
Pictures of an Irish Air Corps helicopter scooping water from Camlough Lake to douse a huge blaze on Slieve Gullion highlighted the current level of cross-border co-operation.
Irish Air Corps called to gorse fire in NI
A few miles away at Flagstaff, fire crews from Newry drove through County Louth unimpeded on their way to the remote beauty spot.
Flagstaff overlooks Carlingford Lough - an area which has long been the subject of debate in relation to just where the border is located. To this end, mussel and oyster farmers have free reign of the lough whilst one of the navigation towers from Warrenpoint Port is located in the Republic.
But with the potential for a hard frontier, there are concerns that emergency operations such as those last week could be delayed or impeded.
Such is the concern at Newry, Mourne and Down Council, that last week it met with the fire service to discuss how such operations would be delivered post-Brexit.
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Image caption The gorse fire covered an area of approximately 100 acres in south Armagh
According to the council's chair, Councillor Mark Murnin: "We are currently assessing the amount of damage that has been done at both locations. We'd like to put on record our appreciation to the fire service and also to the Irish Air Corps for their help at Slieve Gullion."
The Slieve Gullion fire came perilously close to houses and was just a few hundred metres from the site of building works at the new Killeavy Castle hotel.
'So essential'
Abby McSherry, of the Ring of Gullion Landscape Partnership, said: "It was a close run thing with some homes, certainly it was very urgent.
"But it wasn't just houses, it was forestry as well. If the fire had got in to the forestry there would have been thousands of pounds of damage as it would have, quite literally, gone up in smoke.
"We don't know what the final Brexit agreements will be. But certainly if that sort of co-operation is prevented or made more difficult it really will have an impact.
"The co-operation is so essential, I would hate to see it disappear."
Rasharkin gorse on fire for 24 hours
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Great Transitions: The Origin of Humans
Paleobiology
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This film explores the major fossil finds from Africa that provide insights about the evolution of humans from other primates.
Like any species, humans have an evolutionary history involving divergence from other animal groups. Paleontologists try to reconstruct this evolutionary history using the fossil record. This film discusses some of the most important hominid fossils and how they illuminate key phases of human evolution, focusing on three traits: larger brains, use of tools, and bipedality.
The “Abbreviated Film Guide” provides a short summary of the film, along with key concepts and connections to curriculum standards.
An audio descriptive version of the film is available via our media player.
Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, bipedal, fossil, hominin, Laetoli, primate, Zinjanthropus
White, Tim D., Berhane Asfaw, Yonas Beyene, Yohannes Haile-Selassie, C. Owen Lovejoy, Gen Suwa, Giday WoldeGabriel. “Ardipithecus ramidus and the paleobiology of early hominids.” Science, 326, 5949 (2009): 75–86.
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Activity for The Origin of Humans
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Great Transitions: The Origin of Tetrapods
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Shop Talk: The ins and outs of Berkeley businesses
By Berkeleyside staff Nov. 5, 2013, 1 p.m. May 6, 2017
UC Press is moving out of Berkeley in the spring of 2014. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel
UC PRESS After 30 years at 2120 Berkeley Way near Shattuck Avenue, the University of California Press is moving this spring to a new location near Lake Merritt in Oakland. One of the reasons for the move is that upcoming construction on the Acheson Commons development will be disruptive, according to Alison Mudditt, the press’s director. The completed apartment complex will surround UC Press on three sides, and the building will “lose much of our existing natural light,” she said in a letter. The current building is also not large enough to handle UC Press’ projected growth. “There is no available Class A office space in Berkeley that meets our needs,” Mudditt wrote in a recent newsletter. UC Press plans to lease, not buy, the new space.
KID DYNAMO The children’s clothing store Kid Dynamo recently moved around the corner from its original location on Shattuck Avenue into the space once occupied by the Earthly Goods outlet. The new 1,400 square foot store at 2108 Vine St. is light and airy and chock-full of colorful children’s clothes, books, and games. Owners Holly Tomlinson and Erin Carter wanted to expand and also wanted to start carrying a selection of products for older kids. The old store only carried girls sizes up to 7 or 8; the new store carries sizes up to 14 for girls and 10 for boys. The owners also emphasize locally made products and try to avoid toys made in China because of concerns about working conditions. Kid Dynamo in planning to bring Santa to visit every weekend in December.
TELEGRAPH MEDIA Stephen Buel, the former editor of the East Bay Express and the San Francisco Examiner, and his wife, Judy Gallman, have purchased The Monthly, Oakland Magazine, and Alameda Magazine from the Alameda Publishing Group. The deal closed on Oct. 11, and the company recently moved into new headquarters in Oakland. The Monthly has been distributed in Berkeley since 1970. Gallman has been editor of Oakland and Alameda magazines for the last year and she has just taken over the editorship of The Monthly from Sarah Weld. “I left my heart in the East Bay,” said Buel. “I worked over here as a journalist for at decade at the Express, I finished graduate school at Berkeley in 1980; it felt like home. It’s the market I care about most and know about most.” Buel and Gallman do not plan any immediate changes to the magazines but Buel, who is handling the business operations, will increase his ad sales staff, he said.
Photo: Bonita Fish Market
BONITA FISH MARKET Bonita Fish Market has opened up in the center of Berkeley, a block from Trader Joe’s. Owner Hong Nguyen said the business is modeled after Monterey Fish Market on Hopkins Street in North Berkeley. The shop had its grand opening on Friday, Nov. 1. Nguyen is working with Truc Vuong, a commercial fisherman who will supply the market with fresh seafood daily. The shop is located at 1941 University Ave., and is offering 20% off to customers throughout November. Bonita is open daily from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. The shop can be reached at 510-529-4372. (Hat tip: Shifra de Benedictis-Kessner of the Downtown Berkeley Association)
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SIERRA NEVADA Sierra Nevada’s Torpedo Room tasting room in West Berkeley in the Reid Building at 2031 Fourth St. will be opening by Nov. 15. Ryan Arnold, Sierra Nevada’s spokesman, said construction is still wrapping up, and the business will then need to have its final inspection and approval before opening its doors but has sent out tickets to a Nov. 15 celebration. “We’re going to get it rolling as soon as we’re able,” Arnold said Friday.
Dan Cook, the mead maker, tests the mead at Urbano Cellars in Berkeley. Photo: Emilie Raguso
MEAD KITCHEN The Mead Kitchen, which we featured on Nosh in April, is finally hitting the streets with its honey brew, crafted by mead maker Dan Cook. Via co-owner Paul O’Leary, mead is already available on tap at Lanesplitter Pizza & Pub in West Berkeley, 2033 San Pablo Ave. Two more Lanesplitter locations (in Oakland and Emeryville) are coming soon, along with the Albany Taproom. More locations will be added in the coming months. Said O’Leary via email, “We’ll be offering three different types of mead on tap, OrangeGinger, Simcoe (Hops) and Cherry mead. Each bar will probably only have one tap dedicated to us at a time, so it’ll be a bit of a surprise for customers which of our mead is available at any given time.” Simcoe mead will be available at Urbano Cellars in refillable bottles. Read more about The Mead Kitchen on Berkeleyside Nosh.
FILIPPO’S Reader Lisa Sibony tipped us off to the closure of the Berkeley Filippo’s at 2930 College Ave., which she learned about via a letter posted in the restaurant window earlier this week. “So sad,” she wrote. “We absolutely loved their pizza!” A new restaurant, called Cugini, will be moving in. But, according to staff at Solano Avenue’s Cugini in Albany, the College Avenue location of the restaurant of the same name “is an independent business that has nothing to do with us.” The staffer said the new Cugini had plans to open this week, but had no information beyond that. We couldn’t find anything else online, and the Filippo’s phone number had been disconnected, but we’ll let you know if we can uncover more details. Filippo’s still appears to be open in Oakland at 5400 College Ave.
Shop Talk is our regular column in which we post updates on Berkeley businesses — openings, closings, new directions, relaunches, relocations. If you’re a Berkeley business with news, or a Berkeleysider who has spotted a change in your neighborhood or on your travels, shoot us an email with the details. Read previous Shop Talk columns. Check out also our weekly Bites column, which provides food news for the whole East Bay.
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Testing of a drug candidate used in conjunction with a gluten-free diet that is designed to help protect people with celiac disease against inadvertent gluten exposure launches
A new celiac disease clinical trial is launching in March 2019. ImmunogenX, a California company focused on advancing research and therapies to aid in celiac disease management and diagnostics received funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the study, which is being conducted at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
This clinical trial will test ImmunogenX’s drug candidate latiglutenase (IMGX003), which is made up of a combination of two gluten-specific enzymes that degrade gluten. The study will monitor how well latiglutenase relieves symptoms and prevents intestinal damage in people with celiac disease.
The clinical trial process, which all drugs must go through before they are available to patients, takes many years. We first wrote about latiglutenase, formerly known as ALV003, in 2011 when it was being developed by Alvine Pharmaceuticals and completed a successful Phase 2a clinical trialwhich forms the basis for the current trial. A follow-up study completed in 2015, called the CeliAction study (Phase 2b), was inconclusive about the effect of latiglutenase on intestinal healing because all groups, whether on placebo or latiglutenase, experienced improved intestinal health. Researchers hypothesized this was due to all groups following the gluten-free diet more carefully (trial effect). Notably, a subset of participants who still had TTG antibodies in their blood showed significantly fewer symptoms when given latiglutenase.
ImmunogenX acquired latiglutenase in 2016 (IMGX003) and is continuing its development. ImmunogenX was awarded this NIH grant in Fall 2017 to further study latiglutenase and a new diagnostic technology called CypCel, which is a minimally-invasive way to monitor intestinal health over time instead of an endoscopy and biopsy.
INFOGRAPHIC: How Drugs Move through the Clinical Trials Process
This new clinical trial will test latiglutenase compared to placebo in participants who are regularly consuming a specific amount of gluten. Intestinal biopsies will be collected from study participants at the beginning and end of the study to measure any change in their intestinal lining. Participants will also report their symptoms daily using the Celiac Disease Symptom Diary (CDSD©).
In addition to studying the effects of latiglutenase, CypCel will be used in this study to measure the health of the small intestine prior to and after study treatment. The CypCel test involves taking a single dose of simvastatin, a widely used cholesterol-lowering drug. The concentration of simvastatin measured in a patient’s blood determines the health of the small intestine. A reduced simvastatin concentration is correlated with intestinal recovery. CypCel measures intestinal health without an endoscopy and biopsy and could help people with celiac disease and their doctors monitor the effectiveness of the gluten-free diet.
If latiglutenase is shown to be successful in this trial and in future trials, it would be used in conjunction with a gluten-free diet and would help protect people with celiac disease against inadvertent gluten exposure. Studies show that even while following a strict gluten-free diet, many people with celiac disease are still regularly exposed to gluten.
Celiac disease research studies such as this one can only be successful with participation. At the 2017 Beyond Celiac Research Symposium, celiac disease researchers emphasized that research will only move forward with the participation of people with celiac disease. Your participation in research – whether it is completing a survey, participating in a focus group, or joining a clinical trial – helps advance the celiac disease community towards a future of being able to eat without fear.
Beyond Celiac is working with ImmunogenX to recruit for this clinical trial as part of our commitment to helping accelerate research. If you are interested in participating, you can learn more and see if you qualify at CeliacShield.com. You can also learn more about the study at ClinicalTrials.gov.
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Charity calls for Scottish hotels to accommodate for deaf guests
By Liam Garrahan contact
09-Aug-2015 - Last updated on 10-Aug-2015 at 11:03 GMT
Only a small percentage of Scottish hotels sufficiently cater for deaf guests
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Scottish charity Action on Hearing Loss Scotland has called on Scottish hotels to better accommodate for the needs of deaf guests.
Around one-in-six people are now legally deaf or hard-of-hearing, and with Scottish tourism booming the charity wants hotels to take notice.
Their study found that only 24 per cent of the 268 hotels in Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Fort William, Glasgow, Perth and Stirling said that they had a hearing loop at their hotel’s reception to aid those with hearing problems.
71 per cent of the hotels did not have specialist equipment to help their deaf guests but instead had a list of guests who needed to be woken up if there was an emergency.
The director of Action of Hearing Loss Scotland, Delia Henry, said that she wants visual and sensory aids including vibrating and flashing alarms installed in hotels to increase the safety of deaf guests.
“We want hotels across Scotland to equip their reception desks to be more accessible for guests who are deaf or have hearing loss and ensure that vibrating and flashing alarms are available so that they are not unnecessarily solely dependent on the reactions of staff during emergency situations.
“People who are deaf or hard of hearing have the legal right to enjoy the same level of service as other guests and will be disappointed to see that more work needs to be done by so many hotels to meet their communication needs.”
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Approved Document Q
A new regulation has come into force, changing the way doors and windows need to be certified.
Approved Document Q (AD Q) came into effect on 1 October 2015, meaning that dwellings built in England will now have to include a minimum level of security. This has huge implications on the specification of doors and windows for developers, manufacturers, and installers.
When does Approved Document Q apply?
It applies to all new buildings (even flats), unless the work started before 1st October 2015 or if it was started before 1st October 2016 and either a building notice or the plans were submitted before 1st October 2015.
What are the requirements of Approved Document Q?
It states that “Reasonable provision must be made to resist unauthorised access to any dwelling and any part of a building from which access can be gained to a flat within that building.” In short, if there is any way that someone can gain access to a dwelling via a door or window, that door or window must be reasonable in regard to these regulations.AD Q goes on to explain what reasonable means.
First, it gives a set of absolute standards for doorsets (appendix B). If a manufacturer meets these standards they have complied with Document Q. These are unlikely to be useful for the majority of cases because they apply only to doors of certain sizes shapes and materials.
Secondly, ADQ states that products are considered reasonable as long as a company can provide test evidence for every variation of their product meeting PAS 24:2012 or equivalent standard (STS 201, LPS 1175, STS 202 and LPS 2081 are listed in AD Q) via a UKAS accredited (or equally credible) laboratory. Again this will be prohibitively expensive since every size and variation sold will require its own test.
Finally, AD Q allows for 3rd party certification of products. In this case the certifying body tests key configurations of the product to give them confidence of the manufacturing process.This certification has the same credibility as using test evidence but also gives confidence in the factory production control and audit testing which form part of the certification. It makes sense that the certifying body should be UKAS accredited or similar since UKAS accredited test labs should be used. Due to the reduction of tests necessary, this process ought to be lower in cost and hence make more sense for the majority of manufacturers.
Does AD Q apply to existing buildings?
No, this regulation only applies to new dwellings, and doesn’t include replacement windows or doors, or windows or doors in extensions. However, it would make sense to fit AD Q compliant windows and doorsets in existing buildings for the following reasons:
Existing buildings are as much at risk from burglary as new dwellings
The additional cost of fitting an AD Q complaint window would be minimal if tackled at the point of installation,whereas an upgrade to a compliant specification at a later stage (for example after a burglary) would normally require replacement windows and doorsets to be fitted.
As new housing developments become more secure as a result of AD Q, burglars may divert their attention to other locations – increasing the risk for existing developments.
The option of an enhanced level of security on a product could be used to either gain a competitive advantage or provide an opportunity to upsell to an enhanced product.
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BMW X Series : BMW X4 : Driving Dynamics
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BMW X4 M40i.
With the BMW X4 M40i, BMW M GmbH once again demonstrates its years of
expertise in the construction of exclusive sporty automobiles. This automobile impresses
with an outstanding combination of unadulterated dynamics, comfort and everyday
practicality.
M Performance TwinPower Turbo inline 6-cylinder petrol engine
The M Performance TwinPower Turbo inline 6-cylinder petrol engine combines impressive performance with thrust that is maintained well into the high rev range, thus setting new standards in the vehicle segment of the BMW X4. The power unit with a forged steel crankshaft provides revving power that is typical for BMW M: Between 1,350 and 5,250 rpm, a maximum torque of 465 Nm is available. The 3.0-litre engine achieves its maximum output of 265 kW (360 hp) between 5,800 and 6,000 rpm. The BMW X4 M40i reaches 100 km/h from a standing start in just 4.9 seconds. This impressive performance is achieved with combined fuel consumption of 8.6 litres per 100 km and CO2 emissions of 199 g/km, demonstrating an exceptional balance of dynamics and efficiency – and once again highlighting the exceptional engineering know-how of BMW.
The specific exhaust system was optimised to ensure a charismatic, individually regulated sound and ideal exhaust back pressure. It has an intelligent valve control and, thanks to the Black Chrome tailpipe finisher on both sides, is recognisable in an instant.
Typical M Performance driving dynamics
Thanks to a wealth of adaptations, the BMW X4 M40i impresses with driving dynamics that only M Performance automobiles can offer. Comprehensive fine-tuning of the suspension elevates the lateral and longitudinal dynamic characteristics to a whole new level, thereby meeting the requirements of even the sportiest drivers. Many systems were adapted for the typical M Performance driving dynamics, including the rear-biased BMW xDrive as well as the electronically controlled damper system and variable sport steering.
The standard-feature 8-speed Steptronic Sport transmission with gearshift paddles on the steering wheel enables both more comfortable and extremely sporty gearshifts as well as improved downshift spontaneity. The drive train is connected sportily and directly, which, together with standard-feature Launch Control, ensures lightning-quick starts. Conversely, large brake discs on the front axle and optimised brake pads on all wheels guarantee outstanding stopping power, even in the sportiest driving situations.
The M genes in the design of the BMW X4 M40i allow the vehicle to exude full-blown dynamics as soon as you set eyes on it. The sporty look is characterised by a number of individual and highly exclusive details. This is provided by the components of the standard-feature M Sport package, including specific adaptations of the front and rear bumper.
Even when viewed from a distance, the BMW X4 M40i stands out in a crowd, with the exclusive look of the 20" light alloy wheels Double-spoke style Bicolor making it instantly recognisable. Available in the 8.5 J x 20 (front) and 10 J x 20 (rear) format, these wheels have ultra-high-performance tyres. Special design elements in Ferric Grey in the air inlets of the wide front apron and the kidney grille slats add to the presence of the vehicle. Striking sporty exterior mirror caps, which are also available in Ferric Grey, are irresistible – even to the wind. Twin tailpipe finishers in Black Chrome add an additional touch of dynamics to the powerful rear of the vehicle.
Inside the BMW X4 M40i, numerous features help to create a sporty ambience. Top-quality materials and an M specific design with an eye for detail further increase driving pleasure. On the door sill finishers, the “X4 M40i” lettering catches the eye immediately. The decor trims, which are available in Aluminium and several other variants, boost the sporty-technical look. A further example is the electronic model designation under the rev counter. The M leather steering wheel is perfectly contoured for your hands, enabling the vehicle to be controlled with the greatest precision. And when cornering, the perfect ergonomics of the sport seats for driver and front passenger provide lateral stability and excellent comfort.
VARIABLE SPORT STEERING.
The variable sport steering with Servotronic enables a direct and agile driving style with less physical effort when steering. It reacts to the angle of the steering wheel independently from the current speed with various steering ratios. This reduces the steering movement required when steering at particularly large angles. This significantly increases agility and improves handling in sharp turns, along narrow roads or when making sudden swerves while using a particularly sporty driving style. It also increases comfort when parking, turning and manoeuvring. For small steering angles, the system provides excellent directional stability and a very high degree of steering precision.
DRIVING DYNAMICS.
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With its specially constructed chassis, high-performance engines and an array of top-quality standard equipment, the BMW X4 offers impressive agility.
PERFORMANCE CONTROL.
The Performance Control distributes engine and braking control to the individual wheels when turning. Because the outer wheels have to move a longer distance than the inner wheels when turning, the BMW Performance Control intervenes by means of engine output and controlled braking: The outer wheels get more power while the inner wheels get less, maximising traction on each of the wheels. This means that the vehicle practically turns itself, thus increasing driving safety and comfort.
8-SPEED STEPTRONIC SPORT TRANSMISSION WITH GEARSHIFT PADDLES.
The 8-speed Steptronic Sport transmission adapts to suit individual driving style. It is perfect for everything from comfortable cruising through to a very dynamic drive.
In addition to automatic gear selection, it is of course possible to shift gears manually at any time. Shifting is accomplished using the shortened gear selector lever or gearshift paddles on the steering wheel.
In Sport mode, the gear shifts are configured for maximum performance. The particularly fine graduation of the eight gears optimises the acceleration process and the engine is always maintained at a level of performance that guarantees the ultimate in power and efficiency. Maximum acceleration is made possible by Launch Control: This feature shifts automatically in order to make use of the motor's optimum rpm range.
When travelling at high speeds, the additional eighth gear reduces the required engine speed, thereby also reducing the fuel consumption and engine noise. This is also where the newly developed, highly effective converter clutch comes into play. The 8-speed Steptronic Sport transmission delivers maximum efficiency and incredibly smooth gear shifts.
CHASSIS.
The chassis is specially tuned to suit the BMW X4 and impresses with excellent road-holding, perfect handling and top-class agility – and, at the same time, guarantees comfort at all times. With Dynamic Damper Control with Comfort, Sport and Sport+ modes, the driving characteristics can be adapted individually. The wide track of the BMW X4 and its five-arm rear axle also enable high-speed cornering with minimum roll.
Dynamic Damper Control
The Dynamic Damper Control makes it possible to ideally adjust the damper characteristics to suit any given driving situation, improving comfort and driving dynamics. In addition to the standard Comfort setting, which minimises bumps and other unpleasant vehicle movements, there are two other programs available: the Sport and Sport+ modes. In these modes, the dampers are automatically tightened to allow for a sportier driving style.
BMW xDRIVE.
The intelligent BMW xDrive four-wheel drive system adapts perfectly to even the most challenging road surface conditions, ensuring outstanding traction at all times. With xDrive and Dynamic Stability Control (DSC), the vehicle remains directionally stable and on track. Split second response times allow xDrive to distribute drive power flexibly between the two axles for optimum grip. In this way, xDrive combines the advantages of all-wheel drive – traction, directional stability and safety – with classic BMW agility.
xDrive status
A clear message even in difficult situations: xDrive Status shows the big picture. When driving over rough terrain, the driver has access to information relevant to off-road driving both on the instrument panel and in the central Control Display. In addition to an easily readable compass for orientation (only in conjunction with Navigation system), the longitude and transverse slope of the vehicle as well as the current steering lock angle are also shown – not only numerically, but also with a graphic 3D display of the car itself.
DRIVING EXPERIENCE CONTROL.
Driving Experience Control lets the driver choose between the Comfort mode, for standard engine and transmission settings, the ECO PRO Mode, geared towards efficiency, and the Sport mode, which enables even more dynamic driving. The fuel-efficient ECO PRO Mode intelligently adjusts the characteristics of the accelerator pedal and transmission, as well as the heating/air conditioning settings.
The ECO PRO Mode reduces fuel consumption by up to 20 percent. The "coasting" function (only available with Steptronic transmission), Route-Ahead Assistant and ECO PRO Route (only available with Navigation system Professional) further help to conserve fuel. The Route-Ahead Assistant uses the navigation system to assess local road conditions and give tips in advance. If there is a speed limit change around the next curve, the system advises the driver to slow down before turning.
ECO PRO Route also helps to ensure efficient use of fuel. It suggests an efficiency-optimised route that takes into account the volume of traffic, individual driving style and local conditions. The "coasting" function allows the vehicle to coast along the road at up to 160 km/h when the driver takes his or her foot from the gas without braking. In Sport mode, the car responds more directly, allowing for a sportier driving style.
Take it to the next level: When the Sport mode on the Driving Experience Control is switched on, the engine and suspension of the BMW will react even more directly for a more dynamic drive.
The Sport mode is activated with the Driving Experience Control switch in the centre console. This activates a pre-defined configuration of engine and suspension settings, which, depending on the equipment fitted, are significantly more dynamic than the standard settings. For example, the engine becomes even more responsive. For models with the Steptronic transmission, the timing of the gearshifts is made considerably sportier. In Sport mode, the current output (kW) and contingent torque (Nm) are also shown in the central display. This feature is only available in conjunction with the Navigation system Professional. In conjunction with the adaptive suspension, the suspension becomes more agile. If the BMW is equipped with variable sport steering, the power steering is reduced, giving the driver an even more direct steering experience.
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Bombardier inks 10-year, US$191M maintenance contract
The contract covers maintenance for Italy's transport agency Trenitalia's fleet of 50 very high speed trains
by Canadian Manufacturing.com Staff
The Frecciarossa 1000 has a top commercial speed of up to 360 km/h, making it the fastest train in Europe
BERLIN—Bombardier Transportation has won a 10-year contract to maintain Trenitalia’s fleet of 50 V300ZEFIRO very high speed trains, known in Italy as the Frecciarossa 1000.
The contract will be executed in association with Bombardier’s consortium partner AnsaldoBreda, an Italian rail transport engineering firm. Bombardier Transportation’s share of the contract is valued at approximately 154 million euro (US$191 million).
“Our target is to optimize the availability and reliability of the new vehicles with the adequate preventive and corrective maintenance program once the vehicles enter revenue service by mid-2015,” said Jean Baptiste Eymeoud, head of Services Execution, Bombardier Transportation, Western Europe, Middle East, Africa (WMA). “This contract and its duration represent a great achievement for the Frecciarossa 1000 and will reinforce Bombardier’s long-term commitment to Italy.”
Bombardier’s services execution team in Italy is already responsible for the maintenance of more than 200 vehicles in the country.
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Water is buried beneath Martian landscape, study says
To find the water, Italian researchers analyzed radar signals collected over three years by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft
by Emiliano Rodriguez Mega, The Associated Press
According to the European Space Agency, Mars has had water on it in the past, with its dried out river channels and minerals that can only form in liquid water. PHOTO: ESA Science/Twitter
NEW YORK—A huge lake of salty water appears to be buried deep in Mars, raising the possibility of finding life on the red planet, scientists reported Wednesday.
The discovery, based on observations by a European spacecraft, generated excitement from experts. Water is essential to life as we know it, and scientists have long sought to prove that the liquid is present on Mars.
“If these researchers are right, this is the first time we’ve found evidence of a large water body on Mars,” said Cassie Stuurman, a geophysicist at the University of Texas who found signs of an enormous Martian ice deposit in 2016.
Related: New Mars discoveries advance case for possible life
Scott Hubbard, a professor of astronautics at Stanford University who served as NASA’s first Mars program director in 2000, called it “tremendously exciting.”
“Our mantra back then was ‘follow the water.’ That was the one phrase that captured everything,” Hubbard said. “So this discovery, if it stands, is just thrilling because it’s the culmination of that philosophy.”
The study, published in the journal Science, does not determine how deep the reservoir actually is. This means that scientists can’t specify whether it’s an underground pool, an aquifer-like body, or just a layer of sludge.
To find the water, Italian researchers analyzed radar signals collected over three years by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft. Their results suggest that a 12-mile-wide (20 kilometres) reservoir lies below ice about a mile (1.5 kilometres) thick in an area close to the planet’s south pole.
Our #Mars Express satellite has detected liquid #water hidden under the planet’s south polar ice cap. Full story: https://t.co/RC8QSxvBwe pic.twitter.com/NyZSdxxU0G
— ESA Science (@esascience) 25 July 2018
They spent at least two years examining the data to make sure they’d detected water, not ice or another substance.
“I really have no other explanation,” said astrophysicist Roberto Orosei of Italy’s National Institute of Astrophysics in Bologna and lead author of the study.
Mars is very cold, but the water might have been kept from freezing by dissolved salts. It’s the same as when you put salt on a road, said Kirsten Siebach, a planetary geologist at Rice University who wasn’t part of the study.
“This water would be extremely cold, right at the point where it’s about to freeze. And it would be salty. Those are not ideal conditions for life to form,” Siebach said.
Still, she said, there are microbes on Earth that have been able to adapt to environments like that.
Orosei said, “It’s tempting to think that this is the first candidate place where life could persist” on Mars.
He suspects Mars may contain other hidden bodies of water, waiting to be discovered.
Our planetary neighbour has been a popular target for exploration, with rovers on its surface and other probes examining the planet from orbit. In May, NASA launched another spacecraft, the InSight Mars lander, that will dig under the surface after it reaches a flat plain just north of the Martian equator in November.
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Toronto council wants Ottawa to ban sale of handguns within city limits
European Central Bank says rates will remain low for months
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sport, raiders, canberra raiders, nrl, jack wighton, jordan rapana, joey leilua, michael oldfield, state of origin, nsw blues
Canberra Raiders five-eighth Jack Wighton's burning desire to play at State of Origin level has been given a boost as a form and injury crisis grounds his teammates and rivals alike. Chances to prove himself don't come much bigger than they do this week - Wighton will lock horns with two of the best in the business when Canberra meet the Sydney Roosters at Suncorp Stadium on Sunday. Roosters duo Cooper Cronk and Luke Keary have set the benchmark for halves pairings and the latter is firming for the NSW Blues' No. 6 jersey. It means the versatile Wighton's best chance will come on the bench or at right centre for June 5's series opener against Queensland at Suncorp Stadium. Incumbent centre James Roberts has been dropped to reserve grade while his Brisbane teammate Jack Bird has suffered a season-ending knee injury, and Raiders hopeful Joey Leilua is recovering from neck surgery. Wighton and Canberra skipper Jarrod Croker could both find themselves in the mix - although the Raiders captain would need to shift to the other side of the park to make an Origin debut. "I'd love to be back in the mix for Origin, you can only take that as a positive," Wighton said. MORE CANBERRA SPORT "It's every kid's dream so you just have to take it as it comes. I'd love to be anywhere on that park and in that kind of arena." While he won't wear the No. 6 in the Origin arena, Wighton's injection into the discussion suggests Canberra coach Ricky Stuart's decision to shift him from fullback has been a major success. The move into the halves saw Wighton study his rivals intently in a bid to build his arsenal - this weekend's counterparts included. "You take in a little bit of everyone. You've got to have a look at what everybody else is doing, but also you've got to be your own style too," Wighton said. "That's what I've got to do. I'm a bigger five-eighth so I do it with my own style more. "They're both class halves. Every week I'm trying to improve, and so far so good. I'll just keep at it, take baby steps, and we'll be alright." Leilua is recovering in the intensive care unit following surgery and is expected to be moved into the ward later this week. His likely season-ending neck surgery is a cruel blow for the Raiders centre given he had begun to force his way into the State of Origin equation after a stellar start to the season. But the Raiders have the benefit of a ready made replacement in Michael Oldfield set to slot in against the Roosters as he looks to build on his impressive try-scoring record in lime green. The lethal "Leipana" combination was enough to strike the fear of god into rival teams but winger Jordan Rapana laughs he won't be penning a nickname for the new-look right edge for some time yet. "We've got to start scoring a few tries and get a combination going first," Rapana said. "We've got a big task for me and Oldy, so we're looking forward to the challenge. [Oldfield] is his own player, BJ is his own player. "BJ is going to be missed, we know what he can do on the field and the threat he can be in attack. But look, Oldy is a quality player that has done the job many times before in the past. "I know he will fill those shoes, whatever is required of him, he'll do a great job. I'm looking forward to building a combination with him. "BJ is going to be out for quite some time, so there is no better way to start than against the top of the table team in the competition. "I spoke to [Leilua] the day before his surgery, but he would still be out to it. It would be good [to get a win for him]."
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Canberra Raiders star Jack Wighton eyes State of Origin
Caden Helmers
David Polkinghorne
Canberra Raiders five-eighth Jack Wighton's burning desire to play at State of Origin level has been given a boost as a form and injury crisis grounds his teammates and rivals alike.
Chances to prove himself don't come much bigger than they do this week - Wighton will lock horns with two of the best in the business when Canberra meet the Sydney Roosters at Suncorp Stadium on Sunday.
Jack Wighton has been thrown into the State of Origin equation. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong
Roosters duo Cooper Cronk and Luke Keary have set the benchmark for halves pairings and the latter is firming for the NSW Blues' No. 6 jersey.
It means the versatile Wighton's best chance will come on the bench or at right centre for June 5's series opener against Queensland at Suncorp Stadium.
Incumbent centre James Roberts has been dropped to reserve grade while his Brisbane teammate Jack Bird has suffered a season-ending knee injury, and Raiders hopeful Joey Leilua is recovering from neck surgery.
Wighton and Canberra skipper Jarrod Croker could both find themselves in the mix - although the Raiders captain would need to shift to the other side of the park to make an Origin debut.
"I'd love to be back in the mix for Origin, you can only take that as a positive," Wighton said.
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"It's every kid's dream so you just have to take it as it comes. I'd love to be anywhere on that park and in that kind of arena."
While he won't wear the No. 6 in the Origin arena, Wighton's injection into the discussion suggests Canberra coach Ricky Stuart's decision to shift him from fullback has been a major success.
The move into the halves saw Wighton study his rivals intently in a bid to build his arsenal - this weekend's counterparts included.
"You take in a little bit of everyone. You've got to have a look at what everybody else is doing, but also you've got to be your own style too," Wighton said.
"That's what I've got to do. I'm a bigger five-eighth so I do it with my own style more.
Jack Wighton's move to five-eighth has been a masterstroke. Picture: Karleen Minney
"They're both class halves. Every week I'm trying to improve, and so far so good. I'll just keep at it, take baby steps, and we'll be alright."
Leilua is recovering in the intensive care unit following surgery and is expected to be moved into the ward later this week.
His likely season-ending neck surgery is a cruel blow for the Raiders centre given he had begun to force his way into the State of Origin equation after a stellar start to the season.
But the Raiders have the benefit of a ready made replacement in Michael Oldfield set to slot in against the Roosters as he looks to build on his impressive try-scoring record in lime green.
The lethal "Leipana" combination was enough to strike the fear of god into rival teams but winger Jordan Rapana laughs he won't be penning a nickname for the new-look right edge for some time yet.
"We've got to start scoring a few tries and get a combination going first," Rapana said.
Canberra Raiders centre Joey Leilua is recovering from neck surgery in hospital.
"We've got a big task for me and Oldy, so we're looking forward to the challenge. [Oldfield] is his own player, BJ is his own player.
"BJ is going to be missed, we know what he can do on the field and the threat he can be in attack. But look, Oldy is a quality player that has done the job many times before in the past.
"I know he will fill those shoes, whatever is required of him, he'll do a great job. I'm looking forward to building a combination with him.
"BJ is going to be out for quite some time, so there is no better way to start than against the top of the table team in the competition.
"I spoke to [Leilua] the day before his surgery, but he would still be out to it. It would be good [to get a win for him]."
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61 York Street Offices
Location: Sydney, NSW
For gods perceive future things, mortals present things and wise men things about to happen.
PHILOSTRATOS
‘Life of Apollonius of Tyana’ VIII 7
AIA NSW Architecture Award, Commendation 2018
World Architecture Festival for Commercial Architecture, Shortlisted 2018
In walking through a city, a moment’s punctuation can change one’s life forever. A moment can turn into a second of consciousness.
At 61 York Street, the past and future meld into one in a composition that is defined by a familiar and contemporary dimension of 2.4m; a dimension that translates to all measures of the building; all proportions; all elements. The composition is refined by the relation of ‘rondo’ in musical composition in both vertical and horizontal reading.
Pedestrian movement toward the north articulates a ‘whiteness’ that searches for the defining moment of the white AWA tower; whilst pedestrian movement south outlines a sandstone image to frame York Street and Town Hall at the end of York Street; the cacophony of sounds omnipresent screaming the history of York Street in one image; 61 York St reflecting all past adjacent colours from Transport House’s rich green to the white sands and darker shades of the street; to offer something the sum of these, but something new nonetheless.
61 York Street sits neatly within the extant fabric of a fine street wall. It offers space and a façade that subtly changes for the pedestrian in a walker’s part of our city. It offers a fine entry hall, open to the elements, five storeys in height, offering space plus light back to the city; light in its lantern-shades of music patterns that flicker through the white shades of glass. A simple plan develops beyond the façade to include enclosed balconies, separating the users from the street with a space of interstitial function; loosely labelled as a balcony; the bases of which lay in the tenets of our culture and our everyday desires; informality, composure and repose. A structural, services and movement core on the south end of the building allows clear-span structure. Windows at both ends of the plan provide ample light within the core space.
The grain of light entry yields an image of Wynyard Park from inside. Like the structure of the human body, the building’s surface provides many clues as to its form and where the structure emerges; it is raw and transparent as a form that holds. All services are placed tightly adjacent to the core and these services relate and provide to the structure, a 4.5 star energy rating which, in a profound movement of the City of Sydney Council, is now a requirement of all structures of this kind.
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Birmingham Olympic Hopefuls Aim For More Success In Tokyo
The body in charge of investing hundreds of millions in UK athletes has told Capital nothing will be left to chance at the next Olympic Games.
Strategists at UK Sport are now working out how to spend their budget of around £550million ahead of the next Olympic Games.
They'll calculate every athletes' chances of winning a medal and assess which are most likely to do so.
Simon Timson, Director of Performance, says nothing will be left to chance and that every athlete aiming for a medal in Tokyo will get the investment they need.
He's still hoping TeamGB will be able to repeat their success in Rio:
Britain finished 2nd in the Rio medals table ahead of China with only the United States ahead of them.
Wolverhampton gymnast Kristian Thomas says deciding whether to increase or cut funding to individual sports and athletes is tough. He believes UK Sport seem to be making the right calls so far.
Kristian, who didn't manage a medal at Rio this summer, says the funding is crucial to programmes like theirs:
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Film review: The Hateful Eight
Samuel L. Jackson stars in The Hateful Eight
Published: 12:00 Tuesday 12 January 2016
It’s a shame that writer-director Quentin Tarantino has recently announced his intention to quit film-making after his tenth film (although, frankly, we’ll believe it when we see it), because his eighth – making a welcome return to the Western genre after Django Unchained – shows the writer-director at the top of his game.
Set in post-Civil War Wyoming, the film stars Kurt Russell as John ‘The Hangman’ Ruth, a grizzled bounty hunter transporting feral outlaw Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) to the town of Red Rock to be hanged. As their stagecoach ploughs through the snowy wastelands, Ruth reluctantly takes on two further passengers: former Union soldier Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), who has since turned bounty hunter and is transporting bodies of his own; and ex-Confederate Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), who’s travelling to Red Rock in order to become their new Sheriff.
However, when a blizzard forces the party to seek shelter at Minnie’s Haberdashery, they find Minnie herself mysteriously absent and are welcomed instead by four suspicious-looking strangers: whiskery Southern General Sandy Smithers (Bruce Dern), loquacious Englishman Oswaldo Mowbray (Tim Roth), taciturn, physically imposing cowboy Joe Cage (Michael Madsen) and Mexican Bob (Demian Bichir), a supposed friend of Minnie’s, who says she’s been called away. But what’s really going on? And why is there a single jellybean on the floor?
Given that Tarantino insisted on shooting the film on the epic-landscape-favouring 70mm format, it seems odd that, a few lovely snowy exterior shots aside, the film mostly unfolds on a single set (indeed, it would make a great play). To that end, the film feels like an Agatha Christie mystery blended with a Sam Peckinpah movie, only with Tarantino teasingly holding back the violence and bloodshed for as long as possible – you know it’s coming, but the waiting is wonderfully tense.
Tarantino’s love of playing around with structure and chronology is well documented and he puts his story-telling tricks to good use here, telling the tale chronologically up until the intermission at around the 100 minute mark (the film itself runs to around three hours), and then using various rewinds, perspective shifts and flashback sequences in the second half. Thankfully, he’s opted to ditch his cameo this time round (just as well, as they’re almost always terrible), opting instead for a brief spot of cleverly placed narration during a key sequence, which ends up being a fairly rare example of a director talking to his own audience during a film.
Needless to say, the script is stuffed to the gills with Tarantino’s delicious dialogue, with Jackson particularly well served in the memorable speech department. However, the dialogue also serves as an effective device for building tension, as it becomes increasingly clear that all is not quite what it seems, with the various speeches either being used as a deliberate distraction or, in one brilliantly orchestrated scene, as a provocative, expertly wielded weapon.
The performances are superb across the board – Russell and Jackson (both clearly enjoying themselves) are exactly as good as you’d expect them to be, while Leigh almost steals the film as Daisy, despite having hardly any dialogue.
Similarly, character actor Goggins is superb as Mannix, in an intriguingly written part that feels like a supporting player being violently elbowed into centre stage.
This a thrillingly directed and superbly acted Western that rewards every second of its arse-challenging running time. Is a Western trilogy too much to hope for?
Tim Roth and Walton Goggins in The Hateful Eight
Clitheroe cake artist's spectacular Easter creation for charity
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Mike Keane
Professor, ARC Laureate Fellow
School of Economics - PhD Economics, Brown University | MA Economics, Brown University | BS Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
m.keane@unsw.edu.au
Mike Keane CV
Room 439, UNSW Business School building - Ref E12
Labour economics, empirical microeconomics, econometrics, consumer choice behaviour, marketing, health economics
Keane M;Stavrunova O, 2016, 'Adverse selection, moral hazard and the demand for Medigap insurance', Journal of Econometrics, vol. 190, pp. 62 - 78, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2015.08.002
Keane MP;Wasi N, 2016, 'Labour Supply: The Roles of Human Capital and The Extensive Margin', Economic Journal, vol. 126, pp. 578 - 617, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12362
Keane MP, 2016, 'Life-cycle Labour Supply with Human Capital: Econometric and Behavioural Implications', Economic Journal, vol. 126, pp. 546 - 577, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12363
Keane MP, 2015, 'Effects of permanent and transitory tax changes in a life-cycle labor supply model with human capital', International Economic Review, vol. 56, pp. 485 - 503, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/iere.12112
Keane M;Rogerson R, 2015, 'Reconciling Micro and Macro Labor Supply Elasticities: A Structural Perspective', Annual Review of Economics, vol. 7, pp. 89 - 117, http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-080614-115601
Ching AT;Erdem T;Keane MP, 2013, 'Invited Paper—Learning Models: An Assessment of Progress, Challenges, and New Developments', Marketing Science, vol. 32, pp. 913 - 938, http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/mksc.2013.0805
Keane M;Wasi N, 2013, 'COMPARING ALTERNATIVE MODELS OF HETEROGENEITY IN CONSUMER CHOICE BEHAVIOR', Journal of Applied Econometrics, vol. 28, pp. 1018 - 1045, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jae.2304
Johnson M;Keane MP, 2013, 'A Dynamic Equilibrium Model of the US Wage Structure, 1968-1996', JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS, vol. 31, pp. 1 - 49, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/666698
Keane M;Rogerson R, 2012, 'Micro and macro labor supply elasticities: A reassessment of conventional wisdom', Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 50, pp. 464 - 476, http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/jel.50.2.464
Johar M;Savage E;Stavrunova O;Jones G;Keane M, 2012, 'Geographic Differences in Hospital Waiting Times', Economic Record, vol. 88, pp. 165 - 181, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4932.2011.00785.x
Keane M, 2011, 'A Smooth Mixture of Tobits Model for Health Care Expenditure', Health Economics, vol. 20, pp. 1126 - 1153, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hec.1777
Keane MP, 2011, 'Labor supply and taxes: A survey', Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 49, pp. 961 - 1075, http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/jel.49.4.961
Keane MP, 2011, 'Human Capital, Taxes and Labour Supply', Economic Record, vol. 87, pp. 37 - 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4932.2011.00736.x
Bernal R;Keane MP, 2011, 'Child care choices and children's cognitive achievement: The case of single mothers', Journal of Labor Economics, vol. 29, pp. 459 - 512, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/659343
Johar M;Jones G;Keane M;Savage E;Stavrunova O, 2011, 'Waiting times for elective surgery and the decision to buy private health insurance', Health Economics, vol. 20, pp. 68 - 86, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hec.1707
Fiebig DG;Keane MP;Louviere J;Wasi N, 2010, 'The generalized multinomial logit model: Accounting for scale and coefficient heterogeneity', Marketing Science, vol. 29, pp. 393 - 421, http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/mksc.1090.0508
Erdem T;Swait J;Broniarczyk S;Chakravarti D;Kapferer JN;Keane M;Roberts J;Steenkamp JB E M;Zettelmeyer F, 1999, 'Brand Equity, Consumer Learning and Choice', Marketing Letters, vol. 10, pp. 301 - 318, http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1008135224357
Keane M, 2015, 'Panel Data Discrete Choice Models of Consumer Deamnd', in The Oxford Handbook of Panel Data, Oxford University Press, USA, pp. 548 - 582, https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-panel-data-9780199940042?cc=au&lang=en&
2009-2013: Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, 'How the Allocation of Children's Time Affects Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Development'
2009-2011: Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, 'The Effect of Hospital Waiting Times on Demand for Private Health Insurance'
2007-2010: Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, 'Effects of Maternal Work, Day Care Use and Other Investments in Children on Child Cognitive Outcomes'
2006-2007: Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, 'Modeling Health Insurance Choices and the Design of Health Insurance Markets'
2000-2003: National Institutes of Health, 'An Analysis of Earnings Inequality and Earnings Mobility', with John Geweke
1998-2000: National Council for Eastern European and Eurasian Research, 'Consumption in Poland During Economic Transition', with Eswar Prasad
1998-2001: National Science Foundation, 'Consumer learning about Quality and its Role in Consumer Choice', with Tulin Erdem
1998-2001: National Science Foundation, 'A Political Economy Model of Congressional Careers', with Antonio Merlo
1995-1997: National Science Foundation, 'Theoretical and Empirical Issues in Consumer Decision Making', with Tulin Erdem
1995-1997: U.S. Department Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, contract to Battelle Memorial Institute, SGA 94-04 'An Examination of School to Work Transitions in the NLSY', with Ken Wolpin
1992-1995: National Institutes of Health, 'The Career Decisions of Young Men', with Ken Wolpin
1994-1995: Institute for Research on Poverty, 'The Dynamics of Earnings and Poverty', with John Geweke
1995-1999: National Institutes of Health, 'Public Welfare and Life Cycle Decisions of Young Women', with Ken Wolpin
Prestigious joint appointment for Michael Keane
Prestigious fellowship for Michael Keane
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Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire stand up for cocoa farmers
15th Mar 2019 | Source: graphic.com.gh
Mr Joseph Boahen Aidoo, CEO, COCOBOD, and Mr Kone Brahima Yves, Le Conseil du Café-Cacao, exchanging the declaration after the signing at Abidjan in Cote d'Ivoire
The two lead growers of cocoa have jointly rejected aspects of a global standard on cocoa production as inimical to the fortunes of smallholder farmers and the cocoa industries in the two countries in general.
Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, who supply about 60 per cent of the world's cocoa,insist that those aspects of the International Standardisation Organisation (ISO) 34101 Standards on Sustainable and Traceable Cocoa production would increase cost, make farmers and their farms vulnerable to third parties and generally impede production when finally implemented.
Consequently, they have unanimously called for a holistic review of the standards to incorporate the “local realities” of farmers in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire or risk resistance and rejection when it comes to implementation.
The two countries served the notice at a joint declaration in Abidjan today (Wednesday).
The declaration was separately read by the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), Mr Joseph Boahen Aidoo, and his Ivorian counterpart, the Director General of the Le Conseil du Café-Cacao, Mr Kone Brahima Yves.
The two asked the global community to put the 34101 series on hold until all inimical clauses are expunged and a consensus reached on a mutually beneficiary standard on Standards on Sustainable and Traceable Cocoa production.
Farmers first
This is the first time the two West African neighbours are speaking with a common voice on an issue that affects both countries.
In his remarks after reading the declaration, Mr Aidoo said the position of the two countries was to ensure that other stakeholders in the cocoa business did not impose themselves on cocoa farmers in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire.
“We are not against international standards,” Mr Aidoo said and added that COCOBOD and Le Conseil du Café-Cacao were also concerned about safety in the cocoa production value chain.
“But essentially, to sit and watch international bodies impose standards on our farmers is what we do not like,”he explained.
Final voting
The declaration by the two countries comes at a time when the European Union's Committee for Standardisation (CEN) is voting to adopt the fourth part of the ISO 34101 series, which bothers on requirements for certification schemes.
Already, the committee has voted on the initial three parts, which are on requirements for sustainability management systems, requirements for performance (related to economic,social and environmental aspects) and requirements for traceability.
“This makes the ongoing voting,which commenced this month, a significant one: a positive conclusion will mean that the ISO 34101 series was now effective and all cocoa producers
would be required to comply,”COCOBOD’s CEO said.
But given the restrictions that some of the clauses are set to impose, Mr.Aidoo said cocoa farmers in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire would be disadvantaged if the ISO 34101 series were adopted in
their current form.
He said the voting was to pre-empt an action by Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire,hence the need for the two countries to fast-tract their action to avoid being overtaken.
“We believe that if we do not work fast on these standards and they are published and signed to, it will get to a time when their cocoa will not be bought if our farmers do not meet the standards because with every cocoa they want to trace it to the farmer and the farmer has to meet some standards,”he said.
Definition of farm He said one of the clauses that was an impediment to cocoa farmers in the two countries had to do with the definition of farmer.
“They require that all farmers should register as entrepreneurs and be able to borrow.
If you default, the bank has the right to take over the farm.
Our farmers do not have that acumen to register as entrepreneurs and we see this position as alien to our system of farming,” he said.
They also expose farmers and their farms to possible takeovers by persons that might have contributed to the farms.
With cocoa farming in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire being dominated by smallholder farmers, majority of whom do not have access to large tracts of lands for commercial farming, he said
clauses like those could not be met.
The Director General Le Conseil du Café-Cacao explained that the two countries were not against the ISO 34101 series in principle but only wanted a document that would serve the general interests of farmers, buyers and consumers.
In its current form, he said the ISO 34101 series was only beneficiary to the buyers and consumers, and not farmers who produce the beans.
Abidjan Declaration
The latest declaration by the two countries on the ISO 34101 Standards on Sustainable and Traceable Cocoa is one of the fruits of an earlier declaration by the presidents of both countries, Messers Alassane Ouattara of Cote d’Ivoire and Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of Ghana.
Dubbed the Abidjan Declaration, the March 26,2018 consensus reaffirmed the determination of the two countries to define a common strategy towards a sustainable solution to the in general and the two countries in particular.
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There's a battle raging in the City about the pound's future
Will Martin
Sep. 4, 2017, 2:06 AM
Analysts are divided over whether the pound will drop to parity with the euro.
Some analysts estimate that the pound and the euro will hit parity this year.
They cite the strengthening eurozone economy and Brexit uncertainties that they believe will drive the euro up and the pound down.
Parity has never happened in the 18 years in which the euro has existed.
Others believe that while the euro may strengthen a little more against the pound, parity is unlikely.
LONDON — There's a debate kicking off in the City of London over the pound's relationship with the euro.
In the year following Britain's vote to leave the European Union last June, analysis of sterling largely focused on its unprecedented drop against the dollar, which saw the currency plunge to a low not seen since the 1980s, and suffer the biggest single day fall of any major reserve currency in history.
But the pound's value against the euro has come sharply into focus more recently. The single currency has sharply appreciated against the dollar, from a low of $1.05 in April to $1.19 on Monday, as investors look to the improving economic fortunes of the eurozone as a reason to buy into the euro.
Around this time last year, calls were widespread that the euro would fall to parity with the dollar, but now, the more likely scenario is that the euro rises to parity with the pound.
There is a growing divide among forecasters about whether or not sterling will end up being worth less than the euro for the first time since the single currency came into existence in the late 1990s.
UBS Investment Bank was among the first to put its head above the parapet, telling Business Insider in January of this year that a realignment of the UK's bloated current account deficit, as well as Brexit-related economic weakness would drive down the pound to be worth €1.
"Our strategists are pricing in more weakness to come. Again, we've gone a long way, and yet the uncertainty that the Article 50 procedure is likely to bring further weakness," Chief European Economist Reinhard Cluse said.
Morgan Stanley's UK economics team has also recently argued for pound-euro parity in the near-term, even going so far as to forecast that the pound will end up being worth substantially less than the euro, as a combination of a stronger euro and a weakening pound forces the change.
On the one hand, Morgan Stanley argues, the euro's historic move beyond parity with the pound will be driven by continually increasing confidence in the eurozone economy, which will prompt major currency buyers to add a greater allocation of the euro to their portfolios.
"We expect EUR to stay strong as pension funds and insurance companies (such as those in Switzerland and Japan) start to increase their net EUR currency exposure from historically low levels," the team writes.
However, what will also drive the move is the weakness currently apparent in the British economy and the uncertainty surrounding Brexit negotiations, both of which will drive down the value of the pound.
"GBP is likely to weaken in its own right, driven by weak economic performance, low real yields and increasing political risks," the team wrote earlier in August.
Also throwing its weight behind a euro-pound parity call is Europe's biggest bank by assets, HSBC, which argues along similar lines as Morgan Stanley and UBS.
Several major firms may believe in euro-pound parity, but the view is far from the consensus in the market, with many more seeing the current downturn in the pound's fortunes against the euro coming to an end soon.
Writing last week economists Viraj Patel, Petr Krpata, and Chris Turner from Dutch lender ING argued that there are four prominent reasons to suggest that while the pound could go a little lower against the euro, it is unlikely to hit parity. ING's explanations are among the most cogent and thorough when it comes to pushing back on euro-pound parity calls, so Business Insider decided to look in depth.
First up, the trio suggest that the pound's recent weakness is starting to look "excessive relative to the near-term political risks at stake."
"This is certainly the case for EUR/GBP, which based on our estimates is trading around 4% above its short-term financial fair value," they add.
Here is the chart:
Secondly, ING's team believes that political will on both sides will ensure that a reasonable Brexit deal will be achieved.
"For GBP's politically-driven weakness to persist and extend all the way towards parity against the EUR, we would argue that 'hard Brexit' risks would need to notch up another gear," ING says.
"In reality, the only way this could occur over the next six months is if we get a nightmare Brexit scenario in October - that is a complete breakdown of UK-EU negotiations."
It should be noted that the note was sent before Brexit Secretary David Davis and chief EU negotiator Michel Barnier held a tense press conference in which Barnier claimed that British and EU negotiators have made no "decisive progress" on the key issues being discussed in the first stage of Brexit talks.
"We're quite far from being able to say sufficient progress has taken place," Barnier said on Thursday.
Third, Patel et al argue, the pound is "cheap, very cheap."
"We see GBP as extremely undervalued, with the very stretched valuation likely putting a limit on the scale of further downside. EUR/GBP is rich by a staggering 20% based on our medium-term Behavioural Equilibrium Exchange Rate (BEER) valuation framework," they write.
"Even if we control for the post 2015 rise in GBP fair value due to improving UK terms of trade and declining UK government consumption, EUR/GBP would still be overvalued by 14%."
Finally, the analysts argue, markets are now happy to wait and see when it comes to the Bank of England, having previously expected a hike in rates in the medium term.
"The latest round of key UK economic data has put talks of a BoE rate hike on the back burner, with the breakdown of 2Q GDP highlighting the current weakness of the UK consumer," they say.
Other financial forecasters and research house to argued against parity include Pantheon Macroeconomics — one of the only forecasters to correctly call this year's general election — and Oxford Economics, as well as numerous major banks.
With the euro-pound cross currently trading at 0.92, meaning that every euro is worth 92 pence, the single currency would need to appreciated roughly 8.5% more to hit parity, making it a tall order.
It may happen, but it will almost certainly not be a quick process.
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The best facial sunscreens you can buy
Erin Mayer, Jada Wong, Business Insider US
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Yes, you really should be wearing sunscreen daily – even in the winter or when it’s cloudy – to protect your skin from short- and long-term UV damage.
La Roche-Posay Anthelios Ultra-Light Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50 is the best face sunscreen because it’s a broad spectrum pick that’s as comfortable to wear as it is good for your skin.
I don’t think you need me to go into all the possible annoyances when it comes to wearing sunscreen, especially on your face. A lot of formulas are seriously lacking in the comfort and “ease of use” departments. And yet, you really should be wearing it every single day, regardless of season or level of cloud cover. Ain’t no rest for the wicked, or for UV rays.
But from pilling to white cast to that heavy, oil-slicked feeling, there are plenty of reasons why you might hesitate to reach for your bottle in the morning. There are some dud sunscreens, but there are also great options to be found once you know where to look. The trial-and-error is well worth it, I promise. After all, we’re not just talking anti-aging here – sunscreen use is vital for cancer prevention and your overall long-term health.
And while we’re on the subject of long-term health, we’re doing our best to keep up with recent sunscreen news as well as try each and every one of our picks for you. We’ve also proactively removed some of our previous picks as they were chemical formulas made with oxybenzone, a known coral reef-destroying ingredient that is unfortunately common in a lot of sunscreens, and are keeping an eye out on avobenzone, which has been shown to be absorbed into blood quite quickly but the verdict is out on the effects it has on our bodies and the ocean.
As well-researched and thorough as our picks are, everyone should do their own due diligence about formulas and the ingredients found in sunscreens, as well as how certain ingredients negatively impact our oceans and sea life – not to mention our bodies.
Here are the best face sunscreens you can buy in 2019:
Best face sunscreen overall: La Roche-Posay Anthelios Ultra-Light Mineral Sunscreen
Best tinted face sunscreen: ThinkSun Everyday Face Sunscreen, Naturally Tinted
Best powder face sunscreen: ColorScience Sunforgettable Mineral SPF 50 Sunscreen Brush
Best clear face sunscreen: Supergoop! Unseen Sunscreen
Best solid sunscreen: Raw Elements Tinted Facial Moisturizer
Updated on 6/4/2019 by Jada Wong: Updated copy, formatting, links, prices, removed our pick for best moisturizing sunscreen because it was formulated with coral reef-killing oxybenzone, swapped in ThinkSun Everyday Face Sunscreen, Naturally Tinted as our best tinted face sunscreen, and added Raw Elements Tinted Facial Moisturizer as our best solid sunscreen.
Keep scrolling to check out our top picks.
The best face sunscreen overall
La Roche-Posay Anthelios Ultra-Light Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50 is a physical sunscreen that protects from UVA/UVB rays and free radicals without making you look pale and shiny.
Physical sunscreens – formulas that block UV rays by forming a sort of shield over the skin – can be really uncomfortable. Many of them feel heavy, pill up when you try to rub them in or apply makeup on top, or give the skin, especially darker complexions, a strange white cast.
La Roche-Posay Anthelios Ultra-Light Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50 delivers the UVA/UVB and free radical protection you can expect from physical sunscreens without the negative side effects. The formula contains 6% titanium dioxide and 5% zinc oxide to shield the skin from sun damage and an antioxidant complex called senna alata to protect from environmental damage.
This sunscreen comes in a lightly tinted version or a non-tinted version. The tint will prevent white cast and flashback in photos, but it’s not a foundation. There’s not really any coverage. You can apply other complexion products over the top, so you don’t have to worry too much about color-matching. The tint is really there to make it easier to wear if you have a medium to deep skin tone. If you opt for the non-tinted, you’ll get more of a traditional white liquid sunscreen formula that absorbs easily into the skin.
La Roche-Posay Anthelios sunscreens are popular with both shoppers and experts. This one in particular has more than 1,000 Amazon reviews and has been recommended by Refinery29 Senior Beauty Editor Lexy Lebsack. She writes, “It’s incredibly light and soaks in immediately, but it’s also hydrating enough to take the place of my morning moisturizer.”
The brand’s sunscreens have recently been recommended by The Strategist, Allure, Health, Elle, and Redbook.
Pros: Tinted and non-tinted, protects from UVA/UVB rays and free radicals, water resistant up to 40 minutes, safe for sensitive skin
Cons: Pricey
Buy La Roche-Posay Anthelios Ultra-Light Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50 on Amazon for $28.47 (originally $33.50)
The best tinted face sunscreen
ThinkSport’s Everyday Face Sunscreen in Naturally Tinted is our tinted pick for minimizing the white cast that comes with all zinc oxide-based mineral formulas.
One of the biggest reasons most people shy away from mineral sunscreens is the tell-tale white cast that results from the zinc oxide – which is what’s keeping your skin protected from harmful UVA/UVB rays. But cosmetically, it’s understandable that a chalky cast is not ideal, especially on deeper skin tones. That’s why ThinkSport has included a tinted version of its original mineral sunscreen.
Like the OG, the tinted version is made without major chemical actives that are harmful to the ocean and aquatic life, and potentially harmful to ourselves, like avobenzone, oxybenzone, parabens, phthalates, and more, and instead uses non-nano zinc oxide to protect skin.
The tinted formula blends out easily onto a variety of skin tones, though we can’t guarantee that it’ll look realistic or natural on deep skin tones as the formula is still made with zinc oxide. It’ll undoubtedly still look better than the original though, and you should take comfort in knowing that your skin is well-protected. After all, rays today, raisins tomorrow.
ThinkSport’s zinc oxide-based formula is also non-nano, so it’s safer for coral reefs and aquatic creatures than nano formulas – and infinitely better than chemical ones.
Nearly 60% of the 230+ Amazon reviewers rate it 5 stars, with people deducting a star for the sunscreen being runny and looking opaque when exposed to sweat or water, and rubbing off on clothes – especially if you sweat. One Amazon reviewer said she was able to wash it out, but that the collar where the sunscreen was seemed to look dingy after a while. – Jada Wong
Pros: Tint provides better alternative for wearing bare-faced or under makeup, non-nano formula is safer for coral reefs, mineral formula is better for general health
Cons: Can rub off and stain light clothing, tint might not match deep skin tones
Buy the ThinkSun Everyday Face Sunscreen, Naturally Tinted on Amazon for $11.65
The best powder face sunscreen
ColorScience Sunforgettable Mineral SPF 50 Sunscreen Brush is a powder sunscreen that solves the eternal problem of reapplying sunscreen over makeup.
It’s the number one conundrum for makeup-wearers who want to protect from sun damage – how do you reapply SPF during the day? Most experts agree that sunscreen should be reupped in two hour intervals, but that’s difficult to do with a typical liquid or cream formula if your skin is coated with foundation, concealer, and the whole works – unless, of course, you don’t mind rearranging your entire face Picasso-style while you’re at the office.
ColorScience Sunforgettable Mineral SPF 50 Sunscreen Brush provides a simple solution. The concept is completely genius. It’s a tinted mineral sunscreen powder that comes in the ultimate portable packaging – a twist-up brush that deposits the product. You don’t have to worry about spillage in your purse or packing a bulky compact and a separate brush on the go.
I would caution against using this as your only SPF, since it’s hard to make sure you’re using enough product. But it’s amazing for adding more coverage on top of whatever SPF you apply before foundation in the morning.
The product available in four skin-tone shades – Fair, Medium, Tan, and Deep. The main downside is the applicator – several reviewers complained about having difficulty getting the powder to come out at first.
The ColorScience Sunforgettable Mineral SPF 50 Sunscreen Brush has been featured on sites like Bustle, Allure, and Refinery29.
Pros: Portable, lightweight, can be used over makeup, comes in four colors
Cons: Brush applicator can be difficult to use, pricey
Buy the ColorScience Sunforgettable Mineral SPF 50 Sunscreen Brush on Amazon for $65
The best clear face sunscreen
Supergoop! Unseen Sunscreen is a clear, lightweight, broad spectrum SPF that is literally undetectable once applied to the skin.
Supergoop! Unseen Sunscreen certainly has a promising name. Permission to get your hopes up, because the product it represents doesn’t disappoint. It’s an invisible, fragrance-free chemical sunscreen with SPF 40 that doubles as a primer for foundation or BB cream.
The Unseen Sunscreen formula delivers multifaceted protection from a variety of skin-harming factors. There’s avobenzone 3% for UV rays, red algae for blue light exposure, and anti-inflammatory extract of frankincense. Rounding out the hero ingredients are meadowfoam seed oil for hydration and diatomaceous earth to control oil production. It is a chemical sunscreen though, so keep that in mind.
Second only to the innovative formula is the pleasant application process. The product goes on completely clear so it won’t leave a white cast on even the deepest of skin tones. Unseen Sunscreen earned a 2018 Allure Best of Beauty award, and the publication tested it on a variety of complexions with glowing results. It’s also a top pick from experts at The Wirecutter.
This sunscreen has a 4.5-star rating on Sephora based on almost 700 reviews. “So glad there is finally an invisible effective sunscreen! This does everything they say it will, and it feels like nothing on,” writes one shopper.
Pros: Invisible finish, doubles as primer, fragrance-free, holds a Clean at Sephora seal
Cons: Pricey for the size
Buy Supergoop! Unseen Sunscreen at Sephora for $32
The best solid sunscreen
Raw Elements
For solid sun protection – literally and figuratively – and a tint that could pass as a light coverage base makeup, try Raw Elements Tinted Facial Moisturizer Certified Natural Sunscreen.
Solid sunscreen sounds like it’d be hard to apply or that it’d melt in the sun, but after a long weekend in Florida, neither of that happened. Instead, I found that this was easy to use and easier to reapply thanks to the sheer tint, velvet-y finish, and plastic-free tin.
Just like you’d do with a cleansing oil, you scoop up a little of the product from the tin and apply to your face. No matter how little or much you use, it’ll be sticky at first but then it dries down a little. It does still look a little greasy, but I’d rather be protected from harmful rays than pout at a little shine.
The organic formula is made up of non-nano zinc oxide, but also has sunflower and hemp seed oils to hydrate, green and black teas to ward off free radicals, and cocoa and mango butters to nourish skin.
The sheer tint evened out my medium skin tone a little, and could pass for a light coverage base makeup. I found myself looking forward to applying this over the course of the weekend because I knew how sheer the “coverage” was and didn’t have to worry about getting a ghost face like with some others. There’s an untinted one as well that’s meant for both face and body, and according to Senior Guides Reporter Owen Burke, it’s less greasy than the tinted version.
As much as I love the formula, I also truly appreciate that this comes in a plastic-free, biodegradable, and recyclable tin. I’m conscious of my plastic consumption, but one thing that trips me up is beauty product packaging with all the various types of bottles, caps, pumps, and more that can’t be tossed into one universal recycling bin. This tin is infinitely easier to figure out because there are only two pieces to the whole thing, and if you don’t want to get rid of it, you can reuse it to hold mints, as a travel jewelry case, as a coin case for the car – this tin is your oyster.
I do have to dock a star here because the formula does have its cons. Since it’s solid, it’s hard to use the recommended 1/2 teaspoon for proper sun protection. And because this one has such a thin viscosity, it’s also hard to apply a lot at once, and if you try, you’ll wind up really greasy.
I didn’t have an issue with the product melting in the tin during 85-degree weather in Florida, but it could be a possibility if temps get higher, so I’d suggest carrying this around in a bag just to be safe. – Jada Wong
Pros: Non-nano zinc formula, tinted formula offers sheer coverage, solid doesn’t ment in 85-degree heat, recyclable and biodegradable packaging,
Cons: Formula can be greasy on skin, hard to apply the proper amount
Buy the Raw Elements Tinted Facial Moisturizer Certified Natural Sunscreen at Amazon for $16.49
Buy the Raw Elements Face and Body Certified Natural Sunscreen at Amazon for $17.49
How to choose a mineral sunscreen that’s safe for the environment
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Editor’s note from Insider Pick’s senior guides reporter Owen Burke:
While zinc oxide and titanium dioxide have been researched, tested, and mostly endorsed as reasonably safe sunscreen ingredients for many decades, the jury is still largely out on the active organic compounds used in chemical sunscreens, which are considerably younger.
Although mineral-based sunscreens are preferable because they have been tested extensively and deemed largely safe for people and the environment, they are not entirely free from controversy, either.
Zinc oxide and titanium dioxide are powders that can be manufactured as ultra-fine nanoparticles (measured in nanometers, or billionths of a meter), which allow these thick sunscreens to go on sheerly without leaving a white residue, and appear to be harming reefs, too. Plus, as with most powders, they’re also potential respiratory toxins in high enough concentrations.
NPR reported in 2015 on a study published in the journal “Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology,” which estimated that some 6,000-14,000 tons of sunscreen end up lathering coral reefs worldwide every year. This past year, forensic ecotoxiclogist Craig Downs, Ph.D., told Vogue to look for products with “non-nano” ingredients larger than 150 nanometers, at which size their toxicity level to sea creatures – and you, as a respiratory threat in spray-ons – becomes minute.
Navigating the retail market with this information can be tricky. Terms that suggest environmental and social responsibility like “reef-safe” and “non-nano” are largely, if not entirely unregulated, so take them with a grain of salt, and do your best to find brands that support these claims. We will, too.
Check out our guide to the best mineral sunscreen
The best eco-friendly mineral sunscreen you can buy
Mineral sunscreens are highly effective, and far less toxic to small aquatic creatures that can metabolize chemical-based sunscreens, but they usually leave a streaky white mess.
We’ve tested several mineral sunscreens to find the best ones that are effective, look good, and won’t hurt the environment.
Here are our top picks for the best mineral sunscreen you can buy:
Best mineral sunscreen overall: Thinksport’s SPF 50+ Sunscreen
Best daily option: Goddess Garden Organics Everyday SPF 30
Best spray-on sunscreen: Bare Republic Mineral Spray Vanilla-Coco SPF 50
Best for the face: Raw Elements’ Tinted Facial or Face & Body (both SPF 30)
Best for the water: Manda’s SPF 50 Organic Sun Paste with Thanaka
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The Skincare Ingredient Japanese Women Swear By (That You Haven't Heard Of)
by Audrey Noble
Previously an associate editor at Byrdie, Audrey now freelances for many other publications including Harper's Bazaar, Popsugar and Time magazine.
The hunt for firm skin is fervent and one of the most sought-out side effects when looking for a good skincare product. Many ingredients claim to increase cell turnover rate and improve skin's elasticity, but as of late, we've been noticing a certain name popping up more and more when it comes to our skin's firmness. You've probably seen it, if not given it a second thought, as well. We're talking about CoQ10. According to Refinery29, CoQ10 is nothing new. In fact, it's been a hero ingredient in Japanese beauty for years.
So what exactly is it?
We asked Kayo Better Body Care co-founder Christine Bullock; Union Square Laser Dermatology dermatologist Shereene Idriss, MD; HiQ Cosmetics owner Patrick Pickens; and plastic surgeon Michelle Yagoda, MD, to break it down for us. Scroll down to see what they had to say.
What is coQ10?
According to Bullock, coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10 for short) is a naturally produced bodily enzyme and one of the most fundamental antioxidants. "It produces around 95% of your body's energy, neutralizing free radicals that age the skin and keeping cells health," she says. When we're younger, she explains, we're able to produce as much CoQ10 as we need for energy. As we got older, aging and stress slow down the CoQ10 creation process, and our supplies diminish. Yagoda explains that as an antioxidant, CoQ10 neutralizes free radicals and reduces the effects of external stress factors like sunlight and pollution.
The ingredient has been around in the U.S. for a while, actually, but is having its moment now because consumers are getting smarter about skincare. "Many ingredients initially gain popularity in Japan prior to achieving the same status in the U.S. because Japanese consumers demand more research and development from manufacturers and lawmakers, they are more educated about products' effects, and consumers are more confident about efficacy at the time of purchase," says Yagoda.
"Asian markets tend to be on the cutting edge of skincare, with star ingredients being more readily accessible, earlier on, as the Asian consumer is better versed when it comes to skincare and the ingredients that go into their routines," says Idriss. "As a matter of fact, Asian beauty brands invest heavily in research and development alone, allowing them to come up with innovations faster than their U.S. counterparts."
What are the skin benefits?
While naturally occurring CoQ10 can be digested for energy, it can do a number of things in skincare products, including the below:
1. Energize cell activity: "This energy is needed to repair damage and make sure the skin cells are healthy," says Bullock. "Active skin cells get rid of toxins easily and can make better use of nutrients. When your skin ages, all these processes slow down, causing dull and sallow, wrinkled skin."
2. Reduce sun damage: "The skin is damaged by exposure to the sun's UV rays, which provides a source of free radicals, which can be damaging to the cells' DNA," says Pickens. "The potent antioxidant function of CoQ10 helps it to protect the skin at the molecular level from the damaging effects of the sun and from damage by free radicals."
3. Even out skin tone.
4. Stimulate collagen and elastin production. "CoQ10 supports the bodies ability to produce collagen and elastin," says Bullock.
5. Improve hydration.
How do you incorporate it into your skincare?
The good news is that it is pretty safe to mix with other ingredients. "We have found that CoQ10 works great with a lot of other ingredients and products," says Pickens. "We have countless clients that apply our CoQ10 facial serum after prescription retinoids (Retin-A, etc.). In addition, as aforementioned, we believe it is great to apply before and after sun exposure."
Yagoda says to mix with similar ingredients for best results. "Because CoQ10 is fat-soluble, it mixes best with like ingredients," she says. "It may be broken down more quickly when combined with retinol or glycolic acid."
While topical application is generally suitable for all skin types, you might want to take caution if you have certain skin conditions. "If you have a history of vitiligo, approach topical CoQ10 products with caution," says Idriss. "CoQ10 has been shown to block an enzyme known as tyrosinase, which is necessary for creating pigment. By blocking it, it may lead to worsening of depigmentation in those who suffer from vitiligo."
Products to buy:
Eucerin Sensitive Skin Experts Q10 Anti-Wrinkle Face Creme $11
"It's fragrance-free, alcohol-free, non-comedogenic, and gentle enough for sensitive skin," says Idriss.
Kayo Better Body Care The Body Beautiful Creme $56
Made with CoQ10 and extracts of açaí, noni, mangosteen, and pomegranate, this will not only make your skin feel super nourished but also produce a noticeable difference in complexion.
HiQ Cosmetics Facial Serum $125
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After the Google Pixel 3
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After the Google Pixel 3, what’s next for the AR craze?
Monday, October 15th 2018 by Oprah Flash
Unless you’ve thrown away your phone, laptop and radio by now you would have heard the news that Google has just released a whole shedload of new hardware, most notably its latest flagship smartphone, the Pixel 3.
Along with a few other advancements, Google revealed it has revamped the camera technology and introduced Playground, a new Pixel camera mode to enhance your Augmented Reality experience while you’re taking pictures.
Instead of obsessing over the iPhone X-esque notch and why it hasn’t got more RAM, the new phone release got me thinking, is this AR stuff just a craze or is it giving us an insight into what other technological developments will soon become commonplace?
Dance with Childish Gambino
The AR you may be used to is changing. On the Pixel 3, as well as giving you the chance to figuratively dance with Childish Gambino or hang out with Eleven from Stranger Things, thanks to AI it can recommend AR characters and interactive Playmojis based on your surroundings.
Aparna Chennapragada, the vice president of Product, Google AR/VR, said: “Our phone’s camera has become an important part of our lives. Thanks to advancements in computer vision, our camera can understand our world and help in new ways.”
Manufacturers have been toying around with AR features for a number of years now, but when the Pokemon Go game burst into the scene it brought AR down to a consumer level that everyone could get to grips with.
The new Playground mode on Pixel 3 gives you an enhanced AR experience
It’s all a bit of fun but is it just a novelty? In short, no. Yes it can help you while away the hours playing with AR Snapchat filters or challenging your friend to Star Wars-inspired game of AR chess but it also has real world uses and benefits.
Among medical professionals, AR assisted systems can help make physical exams quicker and more efficient by giving instant access to a patient’s records without the need to log into the computer. It can also make an innovative difference in operating theatres by enabling the use of live feeds to remote specialist surgeons.
In fact, the high demand for faster, more powerful services is part of the driving force behind the development of a new and improved mobile network.
In a recent Intel report, researchers said: “5G will accelerate content consumption, including mobile media, mobile advertising, home broadband and TV, and improve experiences across a broad range of new immersive and interactive technologies – unleashing the full potential of augmented reality, virtual reality and new media.”
In the report it is predicted that the technology with help create a paradigm shift in how we consume, create and share social content.
Holographic calls
If the 5G predictions are anything to go by the hype around AR could be replaced by holograms in the not-too-distant future. In September, Vodafone made the UK’s first holographic call using 5G.
Using 5G technology the call was made in manchester, featuring Women’s Football Captain, Steph Houghton MBE who appeared as a live 3D hologram to a audience at Vodafone’s head office in Newbury. During the call Ms Houghton’s hologram gave football tips to an 11-year-old Manchester City fan.
As daunting and futuristic as this sounds, 5G is being trialled as we speak so you could be make hologram calls of your own in the not too distant future.
For now though, you can stick to taking cool AR pictures on your phone.
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The term "blue carbon" refers to the massive amount of carbon stored in the vegetation and soils of many coastal ecosystems, including the salt marshes of California. There is a growing interest from coastal managers to better understand and quantify the blue carbon stored in, and released from, these environments. In part, this interest stems from emerging carbon markets which could, conceptually, allow carbon trading to help support wetland restoration and conservation. Dr. Keller will share results from a number of collaborative projects exploring the ecology of blue carbon in coastal California salt marshes.
Jason Keller is the Interim Dean of the Schmid College of Science and Technology at Chapman University. He earned his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from the University of Notre Dame and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. His ongoing research engages undergraduate collaborators in the investigation of carbon cycling in a variety of wetland ecosystems, ranging from peatlands in Minnesota to salt marshes in California.
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Using the HI/LO switch
QuietComfort® 2 Acoustic Noise Cancelling™ headphones
The audio attenuator HI/LO switch is used to adjust the output volume for different audio sources. It has no effect on noise reduction.
Before using your headphones for audio, note the setting on the switch. The switch is at the headphone end of the audio cable, which is inserted into the headphone. If it is in place in the headphone, take hold of the audio cable as close to the left earcup as possible. Gently pull it out to access the switch, as shown below.
Select the appropriate setting for the sound source you want to use:
LO is typically used for airline audio or audio devices that use AC power, such as a home stereo system
HI is typically used for battery-powered audio devices
Then insert the switch into the opening on the left earcup and press it in so it's flush with the side of the earcup.
Connect the headphone plug to an audio source and be sure the audio source volume is turned down. You are now ready to put on the headphones and turn on headphone power switch (located on the right earcup) to enjoy both audio and noise reduction. Use the volume control on the selected audio source to make volume adjustments.
If the HI/LO switch is set to LO and you have to increase the volume control on the audio source above the halfway point, remove the headphones. Change the switch to the HI position. Turn the volume control on the source down low. Put the headphones on and slowly increase the volume on the source.
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Chemist pleads Fifth in drug case
By John R. Ellement Globe Staff,October 11, 2012, 2:10 a.m.
Annie Dookhan left a Boston courthouse after refusing to testify at a hearing involving 2011 drug charges. (AP)
Some of Annie Dookhan’s former co-workers are expected to testify publicly for the first time Thursday about the inner workings of the closed Jamaica Plain lab where Dookhan is accused of mishandling evidence, when they are called as prosecution witnesses during the drug possession trial of Shawn Drumgold.
On Wednesday, Drumgold’s attorney, Rosemary Curran Scapicchio, wanted Dookhan, who was a chemist at the now-closed drug lab, to explain why her initials appear on lab notes from three tests done in Drumgold’s case.
But in a hearing in Roxbury Municipal Court to determine whether Drumgold’s case should be thrown out because of Dookhan’s involvement, Dookhan appeared with her attorney, Nicholas Gordon, and invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
Scapicchio contends that Dookhan tested the suspected crack cocaine and heroin that Boston police allege Drumgold was selling in January 2011.
Jake Wark, a spokesman for Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley’s office, sharply disputed Scapicchio’s assertions that Dookhan participated in the drug testing in the case.
“She was an employee at the lab,’’ Wark said. “She signed off the drug certificate as a notary public. Only.’’
Dookhan is free on $10,000 cash bail after pleading not guilty last month to two counts of obstruction of justice and falsely claiming to have a master’s degree in chemistry.
Authorities fear that she may have tainted the evidence in some 34,000 criminal cases during her nine-year career at the Department of Public Health and have placed her former co-workers on administrative leave with pay while they investigate Dookhan, the lab, and its employees.
Scapicchio said the chemists have to explain “why Annie Dookhan’s initials appear on some worksheets that relate to this case and list her as the confirmatory chemist when her name doesn’t appear anywhere’’ in the final paperwork sent to law enforcement from the Jamaica Plain lab.
The attorney for the five chemists, James McDonagh, said the Drumgold trial is the first time his clients have been subpoenaed as witnesses since the drug lab scandal broke this year. Dookhan handled some 60,000 drug samples and has admitted to State Police that she manipulated results in some tests in the last “two or three years.”
On Wednesday, McDonagh said all five chemists were willing and ready to testify.
He said there have been no allegations of misdeeds against his clients and there would be no reason for them not to answer questions.
“There may be a perception, but there is no misperformance or malfeasance with these people at all,” McDonagh said.
He added that the problem at the Jamaica Plain lab was limited to Dookhan. “This is a one-situation, one-person” problem, he said.
McDonagh said his clients are anxious to get back to their jobs. “They are waiting to go back to work,” he said. “That’s all they are waiting to do. They want to go back.”
Only one witness took the stand at the start of Drumgold’s trial Wednesday, Boston police Detective Jean Moise Acloque, who said Drumgold was arrested when police raided a Roxbury home and found him near seven bags of heroin and 12 bags of crack cocaine discovered in the kitchen.
Acloque also testified that Drumgold was not the target of the raid, that a man in his 70s who uses a wheelchair was the focus of the investigation. But under ferocious questioning by Scapicchio, Acloque said officers knew that Drumgold had won a $14 million judgment from the city for civil rights violations and that they had charged Drumgold because he was standing closest to the drugs when police went into the kitchen.
Drumgold was convicted of first-degree murder in the 1988 slaying of 12-year-old Darlene Tiffany Moore, who was shot while sitting on a mailbox on a Roxbury street. Drumgold served 15 years behind bars, but had his conviction overturned when The Boston Globe and Scapicchio raised questions about the investigation and the failure of police to turn over potentially exculpatory evidence about a key eyewitness in the case.
Scapicchio said Drumgold has not yet been paid the $14 million judgment because the City of Boston has appealed the verdict to the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Wark said in a statement Thursday that though Drumgold did not receive a fair trial, he was not exonerated in Moore’s killing. Drumgold also admitted to facts sufficient for a conviction on cocaine and heroin possession charges in West Roxbury District Court in 2006 and Dorchester District Court in 2009, Wark said.
Mayor Thomas M. Menino planned to sit down Thursday with public safety officials to discuss how to prepare for the flood of inmates that could be released from prison because of potentially tainted drug evidence. The meeting at City Hall, which is expected to include Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis III and Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley, will focus on strategies to help inmates reenter society.
“We believe it will have a major impact on our city,” Menino said Wednesday. “The district attorney has been talking about 500 to 700 individuals will be released from incarceration, released on the streets of our city.”
Andrew Ryan of the Globe staff contributed to this report. John Ellement can be reached at ellement@globe.com.
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The Top Five Twitter Clients for Windows 7
Windows Platform / By Anurag Ghosh / Windows 7 News and Support: All The Latest News, Tips, Opinions & Events As Windows 7 Prepares For Launch
TweetDeck is your one-stop client for managing social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and Google Buzz. The newest tweak also provides location-based Foursquare updates, giving you plenty of ways to stay in touch with your social buddies.
The app interface can be divided into multiple columns, making it easier for you to manage your favorite social sites. You can split twitterers you follow into groups and have separate columns for mentions, multiple twitter accounts and additional services like Stocktwits, which lets you keep track of stock charts and news in real time. You can also get updates from TweetScoop, a trend-mapper that detects popular hash tags, keywords and trends in the Twitter stream on a separate tab.
TweetDeck is an Adobe Air application, which may be its biggest drawback because it becomes slower than Twitter clients that use .NET. The app is notorious for being a RAM hog, but its easy-to-use interface and cool design compensates this negative aspect. Overall, the app is a must-download if you want an application that streamlines social networking and provides a clutter-free interface to manage all your social networking accounts at one place.
Seesmic Desktop
TweetDeck’s competitor, Seesmic Desktop is as good as the granddaddy of Twitter clients for Windows and Mac. It utilizes Microsoft Silverlight, is completely cross-platform (which means it can be installed and used on both Mac and Windows OS) and supports all popular social networks and can handle multiple Twitter accounts. The beautiful translucent design and well-spaced tabs makes the app attractive and less cluttered.
Since its development, Seesmic has integrated several social networks to provide a streamlined social networking experience to users. Besides LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, the app supports MySpace, Ning and other social networks.
Seesmic Desktop has a simple interface and is suitable for non-geeks who are using a Twitter client for the first time. However, this Silverlight app consumes more RAM and hence will perform slow in low-end PCs. Even with the best graphics card and CPU, the app has shown to be quite sluggish. If you are not comfortable with the slow performance of the desktop app, switch to Seesmic Web, which easily launches on your browser without downloading any third-party application framework.
Using Seesmic Desktop, Twitter users can run multiple accounts effortlessly. They can also view direct messages, mentions and replies for each account separately. The interface can be customized by choosing different view modes and adding various color shades to the background. While the customizable options are few, the interface is sleek and user-friendly.
Improving with every new update, Seesmic has also released a native client. You need to have .NET framework 3.5 installed on your PC before you can install this application. While Seesmic Windows is faster than Seesmic Desktop, there may be some glitches as the app is in beta testing phase.
Tweetz is a nice lightweight Windows 7 sidebar gadget that’s as efficient and convenient as its rival desktop clients. The application is clean, compact and has a less desktop-like footprint. It consumes fewer resources than other clients and has separate tabs for mentions and messages. The app’s Tweet Editor rests at the bottom of the small program, making it easier for users to type in their 140 character rants right from the desktop.
The latest update offers plenty of features, including the integration of the new twitter 2.0 API to ensure more security and hot keys to send tweets and shorten links. The new improvement also includes multiple languages and some great themes. The themes are subtle and the fonts provide better detection of screen names, hashtags and links. The application notifies any new retweets, messages and status updates with a cute chirpy sound.
Tweetz is a Twitter-only Windows sidebar gadget, is convenient and useful for those who want to tweet, message and mention right from their desktop.
Sobees
Sobees Desktop is one of the few best native Twitter clients for Windows. Like other applications, this app supports multiple social networking sites. You will have to install the latest .NET version to run Sobees on your Windows PC. The client is known for its simple, stylish interface and has plenty of layouts to choose from.
The Windows application offers an uncomplicated user interface. There are quite a few customization options, including layout selections for each social network and transparency styles. Being a Windows-only app, Sobees has a smaller memory footprint compared to other clients. It performs faster than TweetDeck, Seesmic and other cross-platform Twitter apps for Windows.
One of Sobees Desktop’s notable features is its multi-column and multi-row layouts. There are up to 16 layouts to choose from. You can select your favorite layout by simply clicking the app’s Change Layout button. After choosing one, just drag-and-drop your social networks to each portion. Other key features include a spell check button to check spelling errors as you type and an option to update status on multiple services.
Sobees may not be as popular as other Twitter clients, but it sure offers plenty of layouts and key tweaks to provide a simple, smart way to tweet and share FB posts via a slick desktop client.
Destroy Twitter
Destroy Twitter is the most lightweight cross-platform app amongst all Adobe Air-powered Twitter apps. It packs tons of features while keeping RAM usage as low as 25 MB. Compared to TweetDeck, that’s pretty low. The application is useful for Twitterers looking to make the most out of the popular micro-blogging and social networking site.
The app interface is smooth and there are plenty of customizable options. Users will like the uncluttered interface, which will easily allow them to browse through DMs, tweets and @mentions quickly. The app also has a nice search feature that offers real-time results. When minimized, the app will only notify you of any new tweets via pop-up messages. You can either disable the pop-ups or choose a place where you want the messages to appear on your desktop.
There are plenty of customizable features. You can change the font size, add a beautiful theme and filter out those users and hashtags that you don’t want to see on your timeline. With a focused UI, good features and plenty of tweaks available, Destroy Twitter is your best Twitter client for Windows.
Before choosing a Twitter client for Windows 7, make sure you check their features and see if there are plenty of customizable options.
If you are looking for the best overall Twitter client, then I recommend Destroy Twitter, which is a Twitter-only app and is much lighter than other Adobe Air and Silverlight-based clients.
If you want the fastest app, then you must choose the ones that go native. Windows-only apps like Sobees offer impressive features while utilizing less memory. But if you go by popularity ratings, then TweetDeck or Seesmic will be a good choice.
TweetDeck Desktop
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Scientists verify a way of how to improve resolution of most powerful microscopes
Researchers from Tomsk Polytechnic University (Russia) and Bangor University (UK) have experimentally verified anomalous amplitude apodization for non-spherical particles for the first time. This phenomenon makes it possible to boost the magnifying power of microscopes and to more effectively record molecules and viruses. The study results were reported in Journal of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves.
"If we mask part of an ordinary lens surface with an optical filter, it will increase the magnifying power of the lens. But peak field intensity drops dramatically. The same effect is typical of spherical particle-lenses in nano-scopes or high-definition optical microscopes with a magnifying power of 50 nanometers. If we use non-spherical particles, including cylinders with illuminated butt-ends, as lenses, and if we mask part of the surface, it will simultaneously boost their magnifying power and peak field intensity. This is called the amplitude mask apodization effect," Professor Igor Minin from Tomsk Polytechnic University's faculty of electronic engineering noted.
Non-spherical particles function as super-lenses accumulating evanescent (damp) waves that can form an image with unprecedentedly high definition levels.
In their work, scientists cite experimental data confirming the existence of the amplitude mask apodization effect in the millimeter waveband. During their experiments, cuboid dielectric particles, part of whose surfaces (about 45 percent) are covered with a copper amplitude mask, showed a 36-percent increase in magnifying power, with peak field intensity levels increasing by over 30 percent.
You could say that spherical particle-lenses boost the magnifying power of nano-scopes only through the loss of energy. But when we use non-spherical particles, the magnifying power increases at a rate commensurate with the greater peak field intensity levels," Minin added. The long-term development of this technique will make it possible to obtain images of large biological molecules, viruses and the internal elements of living cells using non-spherical particles.
Experts will no longer have to painstakingly prepare various samples. For example, this is an important aspect of fluorescent microscopy. The amplitude mask apodization effect has a wide range of applications where sub-wavelength focusing is required. These are medicine, non-destructive testing, flaw detection, on chip processing and data transfer systems, etc.
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Bojo Guksa
Korean priest
Bojo Guksa, secular name Chi-nui Buddhist priest who founded the Chogye-jong (Chogye Sect), now one of the largest Buddhist sects in Korea. It is derived from Ch’an, the Chinese form of Buddhism, known…...
Kichizan
Japanese painter
Kichizan, the last major professional painter of Buddhist iconography in Japan. He was a priest, associated with the Zen Buddhist Tōfuku-ji (temple) in Kyōto. Of the Buddhist paintings that he did for…...
Kumarajiva
Buddhist scholar
Kumarajiva, Buddhist scholar and seer, famed for his encyclopaedic knowledge of Indian and Vedantic learning. He is recognized as one of the greatest translators of Buddhist scriptures from Sanskrit into…...
Paramanuchit
Siamese religious leader and author
Paramanuchit, prince-patriarch of the Siamese Buddhist church who was a prolific writer on patriotic and moralistic themes in verse and prose. He became abbot of Watphra Jetubon and was later created krom…...
T'aigo Wangsa
Korean Buddhist monk
T’aigo Wangsa, Buddhist monk, founder of the T’aigo sect of Korean Buddhism. T’aigo entered into Buddhism at the age of 13 and at 25 passed the national Buddhist service examination. He practiced at a…...
'Phags-pa
ruler of Tibet
’Phags-pa, Tibetan scholar-monk who set up a Buddhist theocracy in Tibet. ’Phags-pa was a member of the Sa-skya-pa school of Buddhism, which was based at the Sa-skya monastery and which was noted for its…...
Mingdi
emperor of Han dynasty
Mingdi, posthumous name (shi) of the second emperor of the Dong (Eastern) Han dynasty (ad 25–220), during whose reign (ad 57–75) Buddhism is thought to have been introduced into China. Legend recounts…...
Ŭisang
Ŭisang, Buddhist monk and founder of the Hwaŏm (Chinese: Hua-yen) sect of Korean Buddhism. He devoted himself to the propagation of the teaching of the Avataṃsaka-sūtra (Garland Sutra), which provided…...
Rin-chen-bzang-po
Rin-chen-bzang-po, Tibetan Buddhist monk, called the “Great Translator,” known primarily for his extensive translations of Indian Buddhist texts into Tibetan, thus furthering the subsequent development…...
Paramārtha
Indian Buddhist missionary and translator
Paramārtha, Indian Buddhist missionary and translator whose arrival in China in 546 was important in the development of Chinese Buddhism. The basic teachings of the consciousness-oriented Yogācāra school…...
'Brom-ston
Tibetan Buddhist monk
’Brom-ston, Tibetan Buddhist, member of the school of the 11th-century reformer Atīśa. He translated much of the Buddhist sacred literature, including Tantra texts, into classic Tibetan and possibly (c.…...
Buddhist philosopher
Nagarjuna, Indian Buddhist philosopher who articulated the doctrine of emptiness (shunyata) and is traditionally regarded as the founder of the Madhyamika (“Middle Way”) school, an important tradition…...
Watsuji Tetsurō
Japanese philosopher and historian
Watsuji Tetsurō, Japanese moral philosopher and historian of ideas, outstanding among modern Japanese thinkers who have tried to combine the Eastern moral spirit with Western ethical ideas. Watsuji studied…...
Sir Alexander Cunningham
British army officer and archaeologist
Sir Alexander Cunningham, British army officer and archaeologist who excavated many sites in India, including Sārnāth and Sānchi, and served as the first director of the Indian Archaeological Survey. At…...
Taixu
Chinese Buddhist philosopher
Taixu, Chinese Buddhist monk and philosopher who sought to revitalize modern Buddhism throughout the world. Taixu received his early training in Buddhism in the Tiandong Monastery near Ningbo. In 1912…...
Anezaki Masaharu
Japanese scholar
Anezaki Masaharu, Japanese scholar who pioneered in various fields of the history of religions. After graduating from Tokyo Imperial University (now the University of Tokyo), Anezaki went to India and…...
Fyodor Ippolitovich Shcherbatskoy
Russian scholar
Fyodor Ippolitovich Shcherbatskoy, Western authority on Buddhist philosophy, whose most important work was the influential Buddhist Logic, 2 vol. (1930–32). Educated in comparative linguistics, Sanskrit…...
Tao Sheng
Chinese Buddhist monk
Tao Sheng, eminent Chinese Buddhist monk and scholar. Tao Sheng studied in the capital city of Chien-k’ang (Nanking) under Chu Fa-t’ai, spent seven years with Hui Yüan in the monastery at Lu-shan, and…...
Dungkar Lobsang Trinley
Tibetan historian
Dungkar Lobsang Trinley, Tibetan historian and Buddhist scholar who at the age of four was recognized as the eighth reincarnation of the Lama of the Dungkar monastery--Dungkar Rinpoche; later, however,…...
Japanese priest
Takuan Sōhō, Japanese Rinzai Zen Buddhist priest responsible for the construction of the Tōkai Temple. Takuan was a poet, calligrapher, painter, and master of the tea ceremony; he also fused the art of…...
Dao'an
Dao’an, pioneer Chinese Buddhist monk who facilitated the assimilation of Buddhism in China through his work in translating Buddhist scriptures into Chinese. Dao’an’s work influenced Kumarajiva, the greatest…...
14th Dalai Lama
14th Dalai Lama, title of the Tibetan Buddhist monk who was the 14th Dalai Lama but the first to become a global figure, largely for his advocacy of Buddhism and of the rights of the people of Tibet. Despite…...
Shinran
Japanese Buddhist philosopher
Shinran, Buddhist teacher recognized as the founder of the Jōdo Shinshū (True Pure Land School), which advocates that faith, recitation of the name of the buddha Amida (Amitabha), and birth in the paradise…...
Nichiren
Japanese Buddhist monk
Nichiren, militant Japanese Buddhist prophet who contributed significantly to the adaptation of Buddhism to the Japanese mentality and who remains one of the most controversial and influential figures…...
Hōnen
Hōnen, Buddhist priest, founder of the Pure Land (Jōdo) Buddhist sect of Japan. He was seminal in establishing Pure Land pietism as one of the central forms of Buddhism in Japan. Introduced as a student…...
Philip Kapleau
American religious leader
Philip Kapleau, American religious leader, a leading popularizer of Zen Buddhism in the United States and the founder of the Rochester Zen Center, a major venue of Zen meditation and education. During…...
Indian emperor
Harsha, ruler of a large empire in northern India from 606 to 647 ce. He was a Buddhist convert in a Hindu era. His reign seemed to mark a transition from the ancient to the medieval period, when decentralized…...
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Indian spiritual leader
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Indian spiritual leader who preached an eclectic doctrine of Eastern mysticism, individual devotion, and sexual freedom. As a young intellectual, Rajneesh visited with and absorbed…...
Ennin
Ennin, Buddhist priest of the early Heian period, founder of the Sammon branch of the Tendai sect, who brought from China a system of vocal-music notation still used in Japan. At the age of 8 Ennin began…...
Ashikaga Yoshimasa
Japanese shogun
Ashikaga Yoshimasa, shogun (hereditary military dictator) who helped promote one of Japan’s greatest cultural eras. His attempts to select an heir, however, brought on a dispute that caused the great Ōnin…...
Milarepa
Tibetan Buddhist master
Milarepa, one of the most famous and beloved of Tibetan Buddhist masters (Siddha). His life and accomplishments are commemorated in two main literary works. The first is a biography by the “Mad Yogin of…...
Keizan Jōkin
Keizan Jōkin, posthumous name Jōsai Daishi priest of the Sōtō sect of Zen Buddhism, who founded the Sōji Temple (now in Yokohama), one of the two head temples of the sect. At the age of 12 Keizan entered…...
Hakuin, priest, writer, and artist who helped revive Rinzai Zen Buddhism in Japan. Hakuin joined the Rinzai Zen sect about 1700. He subsequently became an itinerant monk, during which time he first experienced…...
Sylvain Lévi
French orientalist
Sylvain Lévi, French Orientalist who wrote on Eastern religion, literature, and history and is particularly noted for his dictionary of Buddhism. Appointed a lecturer at the school of higher studies in…...
Philip Whalen
Philip Whalen, American poet who emerged from the Beat movement of the mid 20th century, known for his wry and innovative poetry. Whalen served in the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1946 and attended Reed College,…...
Hui-yüan
Chinese Buddhist priest
Hui-yüan, celebrated early Chinese Buddhist priest who formed a devotional society of monks and lay worshipers of the Buddha Amitābha. The society inspired the establishment in later centuries (6th–7th)…...
Thubten Jigme Norbu
Tibetan religious leader, scholar, and activist
Thubten Jigme Norbu, (Tashi Tsering; Taktser Rinpoche), Tibetan religious leader, scholar, and activist (born Aug. 16, 1922, Takster, Amdo, Tibet—died Sept. 5, 2008, Bloomington, Ind.), was identified…...
Chi-tsang
Chi-tsang, Chinese Buddhist monk who systematized the teachings of the San-lun (“Three Treatises,” or Middle Doctrine) school of Māhāyana Buddhism in China and who is sometimes regarded as its founder.…...
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“We did not admit to anything,” Hampton told the Observer in a phone interview Wednesday. “And the reason we settled was because if we went through the hearing process, it would take four to five years, and to let that mess drag on that long is wrong.”
Hampton said he will issue a longer, more detailed statement to the Observer and on Facebook in the next day or so.
When the USDA filed its complaint against the attractions last year, Lazy 5 officials issued this statement: “According to very recent comments from the USDA, there has never been a problem with the actual care of our animals, but rather our documentation and record keeping.“
That image was at odds with the allegations in the 2018 federal complaint.
Lazy 5 is a well-known, long-time regional family destination. The city of Charlotte lists Lazy 5 on its “Charlotte’s Got A Lot” tourism-related website.
The complaint in part said Lazy 5 “failed to obtain veterinary care” for animals, including for Mary the giraffe’s “overgrown, misshapen rear inside hooves,” a Sika deer’s “multiple wounds to the right side of its body” and for three Aoudad sheep’s limps, the Observer previously reported. Two federal inspections in 2017 found those conditions, according to the complaint.
A 2015 inspection found a pregnant camel “whose breathing was audible and labored, that had swelling in the facial area and feet, and that had reddened enlarged blood vessels in her left eye,” according to the complaint.
The 2015 inspection also found a female Mouflon sheep “in the drive-through area that had a head bob and an irregular gait, and was limping,” the complaint states.
During federal inspections in 2016 and 2017, visitors were seen feeding animals from their cars without a Lazy 5 attendant present. During a heavy rain in 2017, “inadequate shelter” was provided for “several sheep, goats, lambs and kids.”
In their statement emailed to the Observer in response to the 2018 federal complaint, Lazy 5 Ranch and The Farm at Walnut Creek also said they had worked “with the USDA to discuss their past interpretation of regulations and our future working relationship ...
“We have received two ‘No non-compliant items’ inspection reports in March 2018 and today, October 17, 2018,” according to the statement. “As always, we encourage our visitors to come and visit the animals and ask our staff if there are any questions or concerns.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals revealed the federal complaint in an October 2018 news release.
“A $20,000 penalty is a step, but the only way to stop animals from suffering at Henry Hampton’s hands is to stop renewing his license to exhibit them,” PETA Foundation official Delcianna Winders said in a statement Wednesday.
It’s taken years of inspections, complaints, and citations as well as a lawsuit—but today, all that matters is that two bears are saying goodbye to their virtually barren concrete enclosures at a decrepit roadside zoo and are headed to their new h
A PETA "zebra"—wearing little more than bodypaint—was in downtown Charlotte on Tuesday, the day of UniverSoul Circus' opening-night performance.
Three people found stabbed in a northwest Charlotte home
Plans for lakefront development in University City move forward
What’s in the water at the North Carolina Zoo? Yet another baby chimp is on the way
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Pilkington, Trinity O.
Hip or Knee Replacement Surgery
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☆☆☆☆☆ Five stars indicates that, using our analysis methods, a surgeon has met two criteria (1) based on the surgeon's outcomes and number of cases, we can be at least 95 percent confident that his/her better-than-average outcomes were not just the result of good luck; and (2) the surgeon's outcome rates were among the best 1/5th of all surgeons studied.
☆☆☆☆ Four stars indicates that, using our analysis methods, while the surgeon did not meet our criteria to qualify for a 5 star rating, the surgeon performed better than average and based on the surgeon's outcomes and number of cases, we can be at least 90 percent confident that his/her better-than-average outcomes were not just the result of good luck.
☆☆☆☆ Three and a half stars indicates that, using our analysis methods, the surgeon's outcome rates were among the best 1/5th of all surgeons studied but the surgeon did not have enough cases that we can be at least 90 percent confident that his/her better-than-average outcomes are not just the result of good luck.
☆☆☆ Three stars indicates that (1) the surgeons' rates were not among the best 1/5th of all surgeons studied and (2) neither can we be 95 percent confident that, the surgeon had worse-than-average outcomes that were not just the result of bad luck.
☆☆ Two stars indicates that, using our analysis methods, while the surgeon did not meet our criteria to get a 1 star rating, the surgeon's outcomes were worse than average and, based on the surgeon's outcomes and number of cases, we can be at least 95 percent confident that his/her worse-than-average outcomes were not just the result of bad luck.
☆ One star indicates that, using our analysis methods, a surgeon has met two criteria (1) based on the surgeon's outcomes and number of cases, we can be at least 95 percent confident that his/her worse-than-average outcomes were not just the result of bad luck; and (2) the surgeon's outcome rates we calculated were among the worst 1/5th of the rates we calculated for all surgeons studied.
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Homepage > Press Releases > Easton Middle School Musicians Benefit from Artist-in-Residence Program Returning
Easton Middle School Musicians Benefit from Artist-in-Residence Program Returning
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 7, 2019
CONTACT: Don Buxton 410 819-0380
or Amy Steward 410-829-0436
#1: University of Maryland’s Mid-Atlantic Brass was the Talbot County Artist-in-Residence for the 2018-2019 school year at Easton Middle School. Pictured is Mid-Atlantic Brass Artist-in-Residence Lauren Patin on French horn playing with Easton Middle School band students Jostin Barrios-Sanchez on flute, Rafael Tobar Gonzalez on French horn, and Brian Matthew on bass drum in the back.
#2: Pictured left to right are Mid-Atlantic Brass members Lauren Patin (French horn), Matt Larson (trombone), Jisang Lee (tuba), John Walden (trumpet), and Dylan Rye (trumpet).
#3: Easton Middle School 7th-grade musicians, left to right, Isabelle Ludwig and Kate Adelman receive master classes on French Horn with Mid-Atlantic Brass Artist-in-Residence Lauren Patin.
#4: Trombonist Matt Larson gives lessons to 7th-grade trombone players, left to right, Samuel Rogers, Johnny Galvez-Perez, Jaelynn Ashburn, Caleb Wooters, and Julian Hutchison.
#5: Trumpet players, Dylan Rye (left) and John Walden (right) work with 7th-grade Middle School trumpet players Omar Alvarado-Aguilar, Nick Wilburt, Daijah Roberts, Robert Norbury, Davonta Pinkett, Philip Horner, and Angel Fernandez-Perez.
This past school year, band students from Easton Middle School (EMS) enjoyed having the University of Maryland’s Mid-Atlantic Brass visit them as part of the Talbot County Art’s Council’s ongoing Artist-in-Residence Program. The brass quintet made four visits to EMS, providing master classes with EMS band students. This year students in four sixth-grade band classes experienced World History with World Music in an effort to show the importance of the arts in societies around the world. Each visit involved a 45-minute presentation by the quintet, as well as class time to help develop a meaningful relationship between quintet members and the students they mentored. In addition, seventh and eighth-grade band classes received master classes from the visiting artists.
According to Nancy Larson, representing the Talbot County Arts Council, “This latest project was initiated by members of the board of directors of the Talbot County Arts Council who were dismayed by the near total absence of young people attending Mid-Shore Area performances of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, and Chesapeake Music. A study group concluded that younger people might begin attending if they could be introduced to classical music in various appealing forms at the secondary school level.”
Don Buxton adds, “This opportunity enabled Chesapeake Music, who is a partner in the program, to enhance what our organization is already doing in the schools. Chesapeake Music’s YouthReach Program has introduced students to music through school assemblies and one-on-one residencies provided through the organization’s First Strings Program in Talbot County schools for many years. This year, through a generous donor we have been able to offer free tickets to come to concerts which was very well received.”
The objective of the program is to provide the student body a rare opportunity to learn from the skill and experience of graduate-level musicians, to both inspire a lifelong love of classical music among the general student body and allow music students to benefit from the skill and enthusiasm of young professional-level musicians, who are qualified as music teachers and who are participating as volunteers.
Donna Ewing, Band Instructor at EMS, comments, “The University of MD graduate students greatly enhanced our program, giving students a chance to hear and learn from accomplished musicians. Having four sessions allowed The Mid-Atlantic Brass to get to know the students and the students eagerly looked forward to their return. It was a joy to watch the interaction between our students and the Mid-Atlantic Brass and to hear the musical growth made over the four sessions!”
The Mid-Atlantic Brass asked students about which popular arrangements they would like to hear performed. Among the songs selected included “Star Wars March of the Resistance,” and Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
Lauren Patin, the French horn player with Mid-Atlantic Brass comments, “We have definitely seen improvement being here all year. It’s been cool to be out of the University of Maryland bubble and be with students who don’t have access to something like this.”
Dylan Rye, trumpet player with Mid-Atlantic Brass, states, “The most rewarding thing was the one-on-one interactions with the kids.”
Trombonist Matthew Larson, adds, “It was fun when they didn’t know the trombone could do some of the things it did musically.”
Mid-Atlantic Brass, comprised of students from the University of Maryland (UMD) School of Music, has been performing around the DC metro area for the past two years. Last spring, they were recognized and invited to be a part of the UMD School of Music Honors Chamber Showcase. The University of Maryland portion of the initiative is being managed by Dr. Robert DiLutis, Professor of Clarinet and Director of the Community Engagement Office at the School of Music.
Talbot County Public Schools has been involved through the encouragement of former fine arts supervisor Dr. Marcia Sprankle and her successor, James Redman. The EMS component is managed by band director Donna Ewing with the assistance of chorus director CJ Freeman. Chesapeake Music has been represented by executive director Donald Buxton and Hanna Woicke, chair of the YouthReach Committee. Participating Talbot County Arts Council board members are Nancy Larson and Bill Peak. Housing during the quintet’s overnight stays in Talbot County has been organized by Chesapeake Music president Courtney Kane, with generous hospitality provided by Hanna and Peter Woicke and Liz Koprowski.
If the pilot program proves successful, it is hoped funding will be found to continue the initiative in future years at Easton Middle School and possibly expand the project to include other local schools. The program is made possible by a grant from the Artistic Insights Fund of the Mid-Shore Community Foundation, with funds from an Arts-in-Education grant from the Talbot County Arts Council, using revenues provided by the Maryland State Arts Council. Carpe Diem Arts also supported the program.
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Chichester youngsters can be happy with their hockey
Chichester's under-12 boys at the In2 event
Chichester’s under-12 boys represented the club superbly at the In 2 Hockey South finals.
Chi HC have had an amazing year with adult and junior teams all playing well and doing the club proud.
Our successes came from an incredible work-rate, clever opportunism, great unselfish team play and distribution, all with the courage of lions.
One of the under-12s’ parents said: “Our small (and my goodness they were small compared to other teams) boys were phenomenal. To lose on flicks was gutting.
“We went 3-0 up in the first half, completely blind-sided Guildford, but then they woke up, and were lightning quick, amazing skills and generally awesome.
“We never ever stopped fighting, right to the end, when all but three were in tears. No-one ‘left anything on the pitch’. Our successes came from an incredible work-rate, clever opportunism, great unselfish team play and distribution, all with the courage of lions. The supporters were in tears at the end too.
“The three coaches encouraged and nurtured, I cannot praise them enough, both for today and over the years. We received an awful lot of praise from coaches from the biggest clubs in the country.”
Meanwhile, Chichester Hockey Club hosted a junior festival at Chichester College.
Nine clubs from Hampshire, Surrey and Sussex participated, bringing 11 under-eight teams and 18 under-ten teams to experience festival hockey as it should be played – with great spirit, enjoyment and with no lack of skill… all in the sunshine.
The players played their hearts out and the sidelines were packed with friends and families.
The festival was the finale to an excellent season for the Chichester youngsters. They have played at a number of festivals across the region, developing their skills enormously.
They have attended Monday-night training sessions since September, which has helped them improve their skills. Largely this is thanks to the commitment of the many volunteer coaches and helpers, led fantastically by head coach Claire Greenway come rain or shine.
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Waste to Wear: Meet the Sustainable Brand That Turns Trash Into Hats
by Trang Chu Minh
Corporate Social Responsibility Platform YourCause Gets Acquired for $157 million
Photo credit: Topiku
Topiku makes SoCal streetwear-inspired hats from textile offcuts, leather scraps and HDPE plastics typically found in buckets. Monty Hasan, Founder of Topiku set up the sustainable fashion brand after meeting artisan villagers in his native Indonesia, who crafted bags from upcycled waste materials such as billboards.
The $3 trillion apparel industry accounts for 10% of global carbon emissions, making it the second most polluting industry after oil.
According to a recent report published by Quantis, more than 80% of fashion’s carbon footprint is generated during production, which means that mitigating the environmental impact of garment products requires brands to reevaluate their sourcing.
Transforming trash into treasure
In 2015, a year after he first considered the idea of producing upcycled hats, Hasan returned to Indonesia to source for a hat manufacturer, and whilst looking for road directions during a torrential rain, he had a serendipitous meeting with the hat-producing community of Desa Rahayu, Cigondewah, who has since become his production partner for Topiku.
Topiku’s logo, hat patches and adjustable straps are made from salvaged shoe, belt and jacket leather, the brim is created from recycled plastic buckets, and the buttons placed on top of the hats are recycled from aluminium and tin cans.
The base of the hats are produced from textile offcuts and adorned with Indonesian batik motifs, which are sourced from Indonesian fashion label Danar Hadi. Topiku also works with a local textile manufacturer to source leftover and deadstock fabrics from curtain production – the majority of curtain offcuts are made from GOTS-certified organic cotton, a lower-impact source of the ubiquitous clothing fabric.
Responsible supply chain management
“By developing an ecosystem of responsible waste material management, producers with leftover materials can make a quick buck on something that would be thrown away, input costs are lower, which allows for more flexibility for increased labor wages, and landfills receive less waste. It’s a win-win-win for everyone.”
Monty Hasan, Founder, Topiku
Unlike most apparel companies, Topiku doesn’t outsource its production to a third party contractor, and works directly with the hat-making artisans, which allows the brand to maintain ethical work conditions and efficient production processes.
The greatest challenge the eco-friendly venture has faced so far is finding a reliable source of waste fabric. Instead of engaging intermediaries to procure the leftover textiles as they had done initially, they are now partnering with the factories directly, which has removed a significant bottleneck in their manufacturing.
Social and environmental impact
“Our environmental footprint is drastically lower as we do not use any new inputs to create fabrics, the most intensive processes being fiber production and dyeing. This also allows us to have a lower cost-per-unit, which we then can reinvest into our hat-makers. By paying them almost double of the local minimum wage, we help the artisans maintain salaries closer to living wages, teaching them that working with trash can earn them more cash.”
Topiku works with Waste4Change, a social enterprise championing sustainable end-to-end waste management, to sponsor the health insurance of 14 waste pickers and to fund sustainable waste management education and clean-up programs.
“We can now proudly say that our hats are 95% made from upcycled and recycled waste materials. There’s always room for improvement, and we hope that the last 5% from the buckle can be replaced with an alternative source soon.”
Topiku is constantly on the look-out for more sustainable fabric alternatives, and is currently evaluating the potential to use recycled polyester from plastic bottles (rPET) in its manufacturing.
Debunking common sustainability myths
Hasan wraps up our interview by demystifying some of the gravest sustainability challenges, especially in countries such as Indonesia, the world’s second largest plastic polluter after China.
“Greenwashing” brands often exploit the sustainability agenda as a post-production marketing ploy, but being eco-friendly is not enough to be labeled sustainable, admits Hasan. “Planting a tree won’t be enough to offset your carbon footprint if your fabric sourcing is energy and water intensive – as well as generates harmful chemical byproducts.”
Although a supporter of beach clean ups, Hasan believes that waste must first be stopped upstream by educating communities on the detrimental impact of careless littering and by providing a viable alternative to single-use products.
“The biggest misinformation I see is the amount of people who support ocean clean ups. They’re great and all, but until you tackle the issue on land, you’re not addressing the problem! It’s like trying to bail water out of a sink with a cup; you might slow down the sinking, but you’re not patching the hole.”
Resolving Indonesia’s waste problem
Indonesia has no central government infrastructure for waste management – weekly waste collection services that are taken for granted in other parts of the world are a foreign concept in the country.
Social enterprises such as Waste4Change or the Plastic Bank, a Canadian venture, which has recently introduced a blockchain-powered app to help scavengers monetize plastic waste in Bali, are thus taking on the challenge of building out a more responsible waste management ecosystem.
Bank Sampah, which translates as ‘waste bank’, provides a grassroots solution for more sustainable waste collection. Modeled on traditional banking services, households and waste pickers deposit their non-organic waste in a neighborhood trash bank (some also accept organic waste, while others encourage composting at home), which is then sold to factories for reuse or recycling. Deposits are weighed and given a monetary value, which can be withdrawn in cash form after deducting a fee to cover the overhead costs of the waste bank.
“I suggest social enterprises to look more upstream in the supply chain. To change the standards of our society, we can’t just offer a product sold to consumers, but a solution that proves our sustainable processes ARE an environmental, social, and financial improvement to the norm.”
These Brands Are Making A Fashion Statement From Ocean Waste
Indonesia ocean waste plastic waste Recycled Plastic topiku upcycled
Trang Chu Minh
Asia Correspondent & Regional Representative. Based out of Singapore and Indonesia, Trang is in charge of editorial content and strategy for Causeartist in Asia, leading the media platform’s expansion in the region. In addition to her role at Causeartist, she divides her time between content and marketing strategy at Thomson Reuters, as a freelance contributor to publications focused on social and environmental issues, and as a consultant on international development projects on topics ranging from sustainable development to education and women’s rights.
Trang Chu Minh December 19, 2018
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Mica-Kidd voters oust commissioner
November 05, 2014 at 5:00 am |
Voters in the Mica-Kidd Island Fire District narrowly voted to recall Commissioner Chris Shelton during Tuesday's general election.
According to an unofficial tally, the number of votes for recall was 262, with 222 against recall. A simple majority was needed for the recall to pass.
The vote came despite a recent decision by Kootenai County Deputy Prosecutor Ken Brooks and District Attorney Charles Lempesis that Shelton did not have an illegal executive session while conducting district business.
Shelton earlier told The Press he was frustrated that the recall ballot language accused him of violating executive session rules when it was determined that he had not.
A fire district resident alleged that Shelton was responsible for not following the law in calling for an executive session on July 25.
Some community members also said Shelton had lost touch with residents' "desires and wishes," and they complained about a fee schedule which was developed to charge people for services provided by the fire district.
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Xiaomi Posts Strong Growth in Three years, Before IPO Filing
Smartphones May 3,2018 0
The worldwide smartphone market continued to weaken in the first quarter of 2018, with Samsung to regain the first place in the smartphone league table and Xiaomi to provide the only bright spot among the top 10 smartphone vendors.
Canalys says that first quarter smartphone shipments were down 3.4% on the same period in 2017 at 337 million units. A 21% year-on-year decline in the world's largest market, China, has dragged the global market into the red, with growth in markets such as India and Africa unable to offset the fall. Samsung retook first place in the overall smartphone league table, displacing Apple, which led in Q4 2017, while Chinese vendors Huawei, Xiaomi and Oppo maintained their respective third, fourth and fifth positions.
Xiaomi recorded triple-digit percentage growth this quarter. "Xiaomi has done a great job recovering its position in its home market," said Canalys Senior Director Nicole Peng. "While China has been a growth engine and profit driver for Xiaomi's rising service revenue, overseas market expansion has helped it boost market share, both of which will be critical to the success of its IPO." Of Xiaomi's 28.1 million shipments in Q1, close to 57% shipped outside of China. "It is important to note that Xiaomi's rapid expansion will bring with it substantial overheads, which will make sustaining its original lightweight cost structure increasingly difficult."
Apple grew iPhone shipments by 3% year on year by maintaining its shipment strength in its key markets, the US and China. US shipments were up 8% year on year at 16.7 million, while China was relatively flat at 9.3 million, down just 0.6% annually.
Xiaomi's IPO
Xiaomi is bringing its initial public offering to Hong Kong, where it could raise about $10 billion in the largest listing globally in almost four years.
The listing is expected to give Beijing-based, Cayman-domiciled Xiaomi a market value of between $80 billion and $100 billion.
The IPO could be launched as early as the end of June, according to reports.
Xiaomi plans to spend most of the IPO proceeds on three areas: research and development, overseas expansion, and investments, according to its filing.
Alongside smartphones, Xiaomi makes dozens of internet-connected home appliances and gadgets, including scooters, air purifiers and rice cookers.
The company boasts large gross margins - 60 percent last year - from internet services, including gaming and advertising linked to its homegrown user interface, MIUI, which had 190 million monthly active users as of March 2018. Yet margins on its smartphones are very thin.
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Bobby Flay Divorce: Stephanie March Claims HER Powerful Palate Made The Iron Chef Successful – She Wants The Credit!
BY John Panichella on May 22, 2015 | Comments: 3 comments
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According to reports, Bobby Flay’s estranged wife, Stephanie March, is claiming that without her he would not be a successful chef – because nothing was allowed in his restaurant unless it first gained her seal of approval.
March is claiming that she tried all of Flay’s dishes and that if she did not like them, he would not use them in his restaurant, and she feels that she deserves to be paid accordingly since every plate that is served in Flay’s restaurant was hand picked by her first.
TMZ has discovered that March has gone as far as to file legal documents to set aside their prenup and alleges that it is unconscionable for the courts to enforce a prenuptial agreement that leaves her with virtually nothing, as March feels that she played an instrumental part in Flay’s success.
She goes onto say that Bobby always told her that she had “an amazing palate,” and would heavily rely on her verdict after she tasted his new recipes. Stephanie March goes on to allege that she tried a large amount of food items in their home and would give tell him yay or nay on the recipes, leading to a finished product. She specifically names Bobby’s restaurant in New York City, Bar Americain.
Here’s the irony in the situation, March claims that for Bobby’s NYC restaurant, Bolo, she was the driving force in adding tapas to the menu after a vacation to Spain, even though Bobby was against the idea. He went ahead and added them to the menu, and the restaurant became a huge success. So where’s the irony? The restaurant actually did not last and eventually closed down. We think you should have a better track record than a closed restaurant if you are going to claim you are the reason of a person’s success.
Stephanie goes on to say that she helped with the design aspect and the ambiance of all of Bobby’s restaurants.
A source tells TMZ that Bobby Flay does not agree with anything Stephanie says, and holds firm on his belief that he and his businesses are successful due to his talent in the food industry.
Bobby and Stephanie’s current prenuptial agreement grants Stephanie $5,000 a month and a $1 million buyout for their family home together.
What do you think? Does Stephanie March deserve more money or should she keep her mouth shut and move on with her life? Let us know in the comments below.
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The Celtic League
Secretary Contact Details
An Conradh Ceilteach
Éire (Ireland) remains divided. The 26 counties of the Republic have, much to the annoyance of English colonial detractors, prospered financially with independence but there are many social issues that need to be addressed.
The Irish language, Gaeilge, has a broad speaker base in the republic due to the teaching requirement in school but the native speaker numbers are shrinking. It continues to make strides every year and recent developments include:
the Official Languages Act in 2003 which compels all public bodies to provide services in the Irish language;
Irish being declared an official language of the EU in 2007 (the only Celtic language thus far to get such recognition);
the first mobile phones with Irish as a menu option on them being offered by Samsung in 2008;
new Irish-medium schools opening every year.
In the north, the language was effectively outlawed in schools until the 1990s. There remains a huge sectarian divide in society and the most intransigient elements of unionism / loyalism are being marginalised and the nationalist / republican voice is being heard. This division will never be overcome until an all-Ireland republic is established.
Chairperson of the Éire Branch: Cathal Ó Luain
Secretary of the Éire Branch: Caoimhín Ó Cadhla
An Conradh Ceilteach Facebook
ACTIVITIES OF THE IRISH BRANCH OVER THE YEARS
Engaging in correspondence in the national media on a range of issues to increase interceltic consciousness and provide information about the other Celtic countries.
Organisation of pickets and demonstrations at the French Embassy in support of Brittany and Bretons such as Yann Ber ar Mat who was imprisoned for refusing compulsory French military service or the Bretons who were held for years without trial.
Organisation of joint demonstrations at Irish Government buildings and the British Embassy with language organisations such as Conradh na Gaeilge agus Cymdeithas ir Iaith Gymraeg ( Welsh Language Society) in support of demands for language rights.
Organisation of summer schools in Ireland for Celts from other countries. sometimes in conjunction with local co-operatives (Dublin, Clear Island , Connemara). Irish classes with lectures on Irish history, culture and language.
Bringing speakers from the Celtic political movements (SNP, Plaid Cymru, Mec Vannin etc.) in other countries to Ireland to outline their political situations and aspirations. Lectures on Breton and Cornish history, culture and language.
Organisation of trips to the Isle of Mann to get to know the country and its political and language activists. Attendance of Irish branch members at the Llewellyn commemoration in Cilmeri, Cymru. Organising a trip to Edinburgh to partake in an Independence First demonstration.
Organisation of evening of Manx poetry and dance and bringing of Manx musicians to Club an Chonradh for Manx/Irish traditional music and song session. Organisation of general interceltic sessions when possible.
Publishing occasions and launches such as that for ‘ The Black Paper on Irish Education’ (a joint publication of Craobh na dTeicneolaithe ,Conradh na Gaeilge and the Irish Branch CL), the launch of ‘‘For a Celtic Future (published by the League in honour of Alan Heusaff) and the launch of CARN 100, which contained a special poetry supplement in all Celtic languages and at which launch poems were read in all the Celtic languages.
Supporting the campaigns of the Celtic League such as the Military Monitoring Campaign and giving TV and Radio interviews on specific aspects of these. Implementation of Celtic League AGM resolutions and ensuring Irish Branch representation at and participation in AGMs.
Supplying material on poltical, current affairs, language and cultural matters for the Irish section of CARN magazine and previous League publications.
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Bendigo Bank signage is seen at a branch in Adelaide - AAP
Bendigo profit dips but banks on RC lift
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank shares have taken a dive after a 2.4 per cent dip in first-half profit, but the regionally focused lender hopes to benefit from the big four's public relations disaster at the royal commission.
In revealing a flat $219.8 million first-half cash earnings result on Monday, Bendigo Bank managing director Marnie Baker told investors that an "uneven playing field" in the banking industry had not only inhibited the growth of smaller lenders but also served as a catalyst for the wrongdoing uncovered at the financial services inquiry.
"Trust in the banking sector was and is still at an all-time low," Ms Baker said.
"We know consumers are looking for an alternative, and as an organisation that puts the interests of customers first, we are well-placed, given the strength of our product offering, our market leading customer service and our price competitiveness to be that for them."
Subdued earnings knocked the bank's share price down by as much as five per cent in early trade on Monday, with first half statutory profit also taking a hit, down 12.3 per cent to $203.2 million.
Ms Baker pointed to tighter lending standards, as well as diminishing margins and increased costs due to tougher regulatory conditions for the decrease.
Net interest income for the half decreased $11.5 million to $656.5 million, while expenses increased by $18.7 million or 4.2 per cent on salary increases, and an increase in legal costs and software licence fees.
Ms Baker said Kenneth Hayne had made strong recommendations on how to better deliver for customers, and added there was considerable scope for government to supplement the final report.
"(But) we do need to watch out for the unintended consequences on the availability of credit, and demand leaking into the unregulated sector," she said.
Ms Baker said any changes from the Royal Commission would likely be procedural and policy related rather than structural.
Shares in Bendigo and Adelaide Bank were trading 5.11 per cent lower at $10.58 at 1120 AEDT on Monday, down from $11 a year ago.
The bank announced a fully franked interim dividend of 35 cents per share, in line with the prior period.
BENDIGO BANKING ON TRUST
* First-half cash earnings down 2.4pct to $219m
* Net interest income down $11.5m to $656.5m
* Statutory profit down 12.3pct to $203.2m
* Interim dividend unchanged at 35 cents per share, fully franked
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Sarthe Chambres D'Hotes
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La Maconniere
La Fl�che B&B
You will be received in a very quiet environnement . You ha a big room of about 50 m� with shower and toilet. We have a double bed, if necessary, we can add one for 1 person. Have a look at our swimming pool of 12*5 m !
Chambres D'h�tes La Rivetiere
Courcemont B&B
Chambres d'H�tes - La Rivetiere is located near the red cross near the city of Le Mans in the departement of Sarthe (Pays de la Loire) in France, at about 25 minutes North of le Mans, in the Sarthe region close to a pleasant village called Beaufay. Amidst the peace and tranquility of our natural setting, you will feel refreshed and enjoy your breakfast in an unusual setting.
Le Fresne
Solesmes B&B
Welcome to the Fresne ! Marie-Armelle and Pascal welcome you in Solesmes in the heart of the Sarthe Valley
Moulin De La Diversi�re
Savign� Sous Le Lude B&B
In the heart of Loir Valley, next to the zoo of la Fleche and the chateau du Lude,Anne and Jean-Marc welcome you in their old watermill next to the river in their 2 gites or guest houses: Calm, Charming,comfort,old materials,swimming pool and "table d'h�tes" are at your disposal.
La Maison Janvier
Thorign�-sur-du� B&B
In front of the church of Thorign�, Vincent and B�a renovated the house of their family, built in 1855 by their ancestors. They propose you 4 rooms for 4 winds : "Autan" "Mistral" "Z�phyr" "Aliz�"
Le Moulin Calme
Luceau B&B
The Loir valley welcomes you a charming cottage built...from a splendid watermill became a pleasant hostel in a typical regional style soft and quiet. You will find the confort you are looking for five rooms from two to familial suite.You will enjoy fishing, boating and cycling.
Les Ormeaux
Dissay Sous Courcillon B&B & Gite
Bed and breakfast in the heart of nature in a farm in the eighteenth century, situated between the Loire Valley and the Loire Valley
G�te De La Chevalerie
Sill�-le-philippe B&B & Gite
Isolated farmhouse renovated on wooded plot in the countryside near Sarthe Le Mans circuit and the 24 H - kitchen - dining room, living room with central fire place -4 bed-rooms with independent bathrooms (3), toilets (3), the outdoor barbecue -bowling enlightened -
Chambres Et G�tes Au Chateau De Bezonnais
Ecommoy B&B
rooms in the castle. Beds and breakfast in the castle. 3 homes in the parc for 4/6-5/8-8/10 persons. park of 15 hectares closed.
G�te "le Petit Tenu" Agr�� 3 Epis
Nouans B&B & Gite
Lodging in Sarthe "Le Petit Tenu" near motorway
Domaine De Brusson
Soulitre B&B
The Ch�teau de Brusson, situated 1 km of the village of Soulitr�, is surrounded by garages and several constructions. It was rebuilt during the Directoire. Its architecture is full of elegance. The park is planted with olds trees and is overlooking a beautiful countryside. 100 acres of land, with fields, woods, and ponds lay in front of the house , where you may see roes, ducks, stags or herons.
Ch�teau Du Plessis
Noyen Sur Sarthe B&B
The Plessis is an area of relaxation of hunting and fishing to provide exceptional words love and passion of their meaning. A travers 5 activit�s principales Chaspli ( domaine du Plessis ) souhaite que chaque personne qui se pr�sente comme un "client" reparte comme un ami. Telle est la conception de notre activit� et nous esp�rons qu'il en sera de m�me pour vous. Through five principal activities Chaspli ( du Plessis area ) wants each person who presents himself as a "client" as a friend leave again. This is the philosophy of our business and we hope it will be the same for you. Pour se faire, la chasse , la p�che , l' h�bergement , la table d'h�tes , et m�me l' �v�nementiel ...Autour et avec notre environnement vous vivrez des instants hors du temps. To do so, hunting, fishing, accommodation , the host table , and even the events around ... and with our environment you will experience moments out of time. A bi ent�t A bi ent�t Amiti�s Friendships Patrick Idais
La Thibaud
Lavernat B&B
In the heart of Sarthe, between Le Mans and Tours, and close to the Forest of Berc�. �La Thibaud� is situated at the edge of the forest which has many footpaths and allows access to the long hiking trail (GR36).You can take the opportunity to relax on our 12 acres, enjoy long walks, cycle rides and even go pony trekking. The barn conversion comprises of a living-room with 2 sofa beds, a bathroom with shower and W.C., and a mezzanine bedroom with a double bed (sleeps 6).
Le Petit Chaton
Parign� L'�v�que B&B
We are at 10 min of the Circuit Of "24 hours of le mans", And we have a swimming pool !!!
Ch�teau De Ch�ronne
Tuff� B&B & Gite
Two hours drive from Paris, the ch�teau de Ch�ronne is surrounded by landscaped park, a 17th century garden and a pond. This indexed French National trust castle offers you : - Bed and breakfast - Party entertaining organisations (weddings, cocktails, dinners, concerts, seminars...) - Events (24 heurs du Mans. Le Mans Classique)
Ferme De La Fontaine
Oisseau-le-petit B&B
4 double rooms in a friendly atmosphere in a setting of flowers,meadows,greenery and old stone.Other facilities include : TV lounge and covered swimming pool.Generous breakfasts. Look our site : ferme-de-la-fontaine.com
Le Chesn'art
Ancinnes B&B & Gite
It is a very quiet and silencious home for 6 people, near the forest and the village, at half an hour from Le Mans ,(45km), 10 minutes from Alen�on(10 km) near (5km from the motor way )
Le Chaton Rouge
St Pierre Du Lorouer B&B
�Surrounded by the countryside of the Valley du Loir, between vineyards and forests; the B&B of 'Le Chaton Rouge' welcomes you with open arms. Located in the middle of the picturesque, small village of St Pierre du Lorouer, Le Chaton Rouge is an ideal place to stop-over thanks to its accessibility and numerous activities & sights close by.
La Ferme Du Prieure
Sceaux Sur Huisne B&B
In the middle of the "perche sartois" at sceaux s/huisne", behind the church with it steeple so particulary, is the lavoir of "la ferme du prieur�" the little out building and it pond supplied by a spring are among a very safe and verdant space who dominate huisne's meadows. at hundred meters in below are the relics of thermes gallo-romains of sceaux s/huisne water city at a time.
Au Grimartin's
Fresnay Sur Sarthe B&B
In an atypical house with the cordial colors, the accesses of Fresnay on the Sarthe, a small city of character, you feel on your premise. Four Rooms has topics with room-of-bath private. Private swimming pool, bicycle has provision.
Gite Les Ormeaux
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Chambres d'hotes du Port Gautier
Vouvray-sur-Loir B&B
Located 1.3 km from the village of Vouvray-sur-Loir and 1 km from Varennes Lake, this B&B offers rooms with free Wi-Fi internet access. Mar�on is a 5-minute drive away and Ch�teau-du-Loir Train Station is 12.4 km from the B&B. Guest rooms are simply decorated and equipped with a wardrobe. They each have an en suite bathroom equipped with a shower and complimentary toiletries upon arrival. Breakfast is served each morning at the B&B and guests have access to a kitchen with a microwave and fridge during their stay. Additional facilities include free parking and a garden where guests can relax during the summer.
Les Cabanes de Do
Le Mans B&B
Located in the centre of Le Mans within a garden, Les Cabanes de Do offers original B&B accommodation in individual cabins. The La Sarthe River is just 100 metres away. All rooms are located in the individual cabins and feature a private terrace with outdoor furniture, a garden view, a flat-screen TV, tea and coffee making facilities, a refrigerator and a fan. The en suite bathroom includes a shower and hairdryer. Breakfast is provided each morning at Les Cabanes de Do and will be served in the comfort of your room at your desired hour. Restaurants can be found within walking distance. Free WiFi access and free private parking are also available. Le Mans 24 Hour Circuit is only 10 km away and the Jardin des Plantes is a 20-minute walk from the property. Additional features include free wired internet in the rooms and free private parking on site.
La Barillerie
La Barillerie is a former ancient winery located in La Fl�che, in the Loire Valley. The historical building of the Prytan�e National Military School is a 12-minute drive from the property and the La Fl�che Zoo is 12 km away. Offering a garden and a terrace, this bed and breakfasts features heating, interconnected rooms and a library. A daily maid service and free WiFi are provided and all the rooms have garden views. At La Barillerie breakfast is served daily and one of the rooms offers a kitchenette and an outside dining area. Many restaurants can be easily reached by car. An array of activities can be enjoyed on site or in the surroundings, including horse riding, cycling and hiking. Baug� Pontign� Golf Club is 28 km from the accommodation and Tours Loire Valley Airport is 84 km away. The property offers free parking.
Le Petitepinay
Moitron-sur-Sarthe B&B
Le Petitepinay is set in Moitron-sur-Sarthe. This property offers access to free WiFi. A continental breakfast is available daily at the property. The bed and breakfast offers a barbecue. Hiking can be enjoyed nearby. Le Mans is 35 km from Le Petitepinay, while Alen�on is 25 km from the property.
CATHERINE & DOMINIQUE
Marign�-Laill� B&B
Situated in Marign�-Laill� in the Pays de la Loire Region, 25 km from Le Mans, CATHERINE & DOMINIQUE boasts a seasonal outdoor pool and sun terrace. Free WiFi is provided throughout the property and free private parking is available on site. Located upstairs with no lift, rooms include a TV. Some units have views of the pool or garden. Every room has a private bathroom fitted with a bath or shower. You can play table tennis at the bed and breakfast. Tours Loire Valley Airport is 51 km away.
"Pilier aux Lumi�res"
Le Mans B&B & Gite
Situated in Le Mans, near Le Mans Town Hall, Le Mans High Court and ECOFAC Business School, "Pilier aux Lumi�res" features free WiFi. The units come with parquet floors and feature a fully equipped kitchenette with a microwave, a dining area, a flat-screen TV, and a private bathroom with shower and a hairdryer. A fridge, an oven and stovetop are also available, as well as a kettle. Le Mans Circuit is 7 km from the apartment, while Louis-Aragon Multimedia Library is 1.3 km from the property. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 97 km from "Pilier aux Lumi�res".
Chambres d'Hotes Bellanger
Sarg� Les Le Mans B&B
Situated in Sarg� Les Le Mans, 6 km from Le Mans, Chambres d'Hotes Bellanger provides a garden and free WiFi. Some accommodation includes a terrace and a cable flat-screen TV, as well as air conditioning. A continental breakfast is served daily at the property. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 99 km from the bed and breakfast.
La Trinit� sur Mer 100S
La Trinit�-sur-Mer B&B & Gite
La Trinit� sur Mer 100S is set in La Trinit�-sur-Mer. Free WiFi is offered. The apartment includes a kitchenette with an oven and a microwave, as well as a coffee machine. A TV is provided. Saint-Barth�lemy is 44 km from the apartment, while Vannes is 30 km from the property.
lily's rooms
Mulsanne B&B
Situated in Mulsanne, lily's rooms offers accommodation with free WiFi and access to a garden with a barbecue. A continental breakfast is available each morning at the property. The bed and breakfast offers a terrace. Le Mans is 15 km from lily's rooms, while La Fl�che is 42 km away. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 81 km from the accommodation.
Beaumont-sur-Sarthe B&B & Gite
Located in Beaumont-sur-Sarthe, Duplex offers accommodation with a shared lounge, free WiFi, a 24-hour front desk, and an ATM. Guests staying at this apartment have access to a fully equipped kitchen. The apartment includes 1 bedroom, a living room, and 1 bathroom with a hair dryer. A flat-screen TV is provided. A continental breakfast is served each morning at the property. The apartment offers a children's playground. A car rental service is available at Duplex. Le Mans is 28 km from the accommodation, while Alen�on is 24 km away.
Gu�c�lard B&B
Set in Gu�c�lard in the Pays de la Loire region, Welcome features a garden. Guests have access to free WiFi. Guests at the bed and breakfast can enjoy a continental breakfast. Welcome offers a terrace. Le Mans is 19 km from the accommodation, while La Fl�che is 26 km away. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 91 km from the property.
Odalys City Le Mans Centre Congr�s
Odalys City Le Mans Centre Congr�s is located in Le Mans. Complimentary WiFi is available. All units feature a flat-screen TV, a private bathroom and a fully equipped kitchenette. Guests at the apartment can enjoy a buffet breakfast. Le Mans Circuit is 7 km from Odalys City Le Mans Centre Congr�s. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 97 km from the accommodation.
AU PARFUM DES LAVANDES
Pr�cign� B&B
Set in Pr�cign�, 23 km from La Fl�che, AU PARFUM DES LAVANDES offers a garden and free WiFi. Each unit is fitted with a balcony, a fully equipped kitchen with a dishwasher, a seating area with a sofa, a flat-screen TV, a washing machine, and a private bathroom with bath and a hairdryer. A microwave, a fridge and oven are also featured, as well as a kettle and a coffee machine. The bed and breakfast provides a children's playground, a barbecue and a terrace. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 95 km from AU PARFUM DES LAVANDES.
r�sidence Beau soleil
Allonnes B&B & Gite
Set in Allonnes in the Pays de la Loire region, r�sidence Beau soleil has a balcony and garden views. It offers free WiFi and a restaurant. The apartment features 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a bath. If you would like to discover the area, hiking is possible in the surroundings. Le Mans is 8 km from the apartment, while La Fl�che is 37 km away. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 101 km from r�sidence Beau soleil.
Appartement Antares
This self-catering apartment is located 500 metres from the historic centre of Le Mans and 900 metres from Le Mans Train Station. It includes a living room with a dining area, a TV and free Wi-Fi access. Antares apartment has a kitchen equipped with kitchenware, induction hobs, a fridge and a microwave. There is 1 separate bedroom and a bathroom with a shower. The apartment has lift access. Guests can enjoy meals and outings in the city centre or prepare meals at the apartment. Grocery shops are 100 metres away. Pr�fecture Tram Stop is 200 metres away, allowing easy access to the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The Sarthe River is a 10-minute walk from the apartment and the A11 Motorway is less than 15 minutes by car.
Parign�-l?�v�que B&B
Located in Parign�-l��v�que, just a 15-minute drive from the famous Le Mans Racing Circuit, Le Petit Chaton offers an outdoor swimming pool, terrace and garden. The A28 motorway is ideally located a 20-minute drive way. All rooms feature a view of the garden, a TV and a wardrobe. The en suite bathroom includes a shower. A continental breakfast serving homemade jams, fresh orange juice, bread and French pastries is provided each morning and can be enjoyed by the swimming pool. The host can also prepare French traditional cuisine, upon request. Additional features include free Wi-Fi access throughout and free private parking on site. Parign�-l'�v�que is only a 10-minute drive away and Le Mans 24 Heures Golf Club is 7 km from the property.
Located 48 km from Alen�on, Beating Heart offers pet-friendly accommodation in Le Mans. The property features views of the garden is 40 km from La Fl�che. Free WiFi is featured . This self-catering apartment offers 1 bedroom, a living room and a private bathroom with a shower. A kitchenette is also available. The nearest airport is Tours Val de Loire Airport, 75 km from the property.
Maestra Robinskaia
Maestra Robinskaia offers accommodation in Le Mans, 300 metres from Culture and Convention Centre of Le Mans. The unit is 300 metres from Louis-Aragon Multimedia Library. Free WiFi is featured throughout the property, which is located 9 km from Le Mans Circuit. The kitchenette comes with a dishwasher and an oven, as well as a coffee machine. A flat-screen TV with cable channels and DVD player, as well as a CD player are offered. There is a private bathroom with a bath. The apartment offers private parking on-site upon request, with an additional cost. Breakfast can be enjoyed in the morning, upon prior reservation. A lounge with a piano is also available to guests, upon prior request. ECOFAC Business School is 400 metres from Maestra Robinskaia, while Le Mans Town Hall is 700 metres away. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 74 km from Maestra Robinskaia.
Au Jardin de Lisa
Cherreau B&B
Located in Cherreau, Au Jardin de Lisa offers accommodation with free WiFi and flat-screen TV, as well as a garden and a shared lounge. There is a private bathroom with shower and a hairdryer in each unit, along with free toiletries. A continental breakfast is available daily at the bed and breakfast. Au Jardin de Lisa provides a terrace.
Studio 4 personnes hyper centre
Studio 4 personnes hyper centre in Le Mans features accommodation with free WiFi, 7 km from Le Mans Circuit, 400 metres from ECOFAC Business School and 1.2 km from Culture and Convention Centre of Le Mans. The apartment, set in a building dating from 19th century, is 1.8 km from Louis-Aragon Multimedia Library and 2 km from Le Mans High Court. The apartment is located on the ground floor and features 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV and a fully equipped kitchenette that provides guests with a dishwasher and a microwave. Le Mans Town Hall is 2.1 km from the apartment, while Le Mans IUT is 5 km from the property. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 96 km from Studio 4 personnes hyper centre.
La Petite Foucaudiere
Mansign� B&B
Situated in Mansign�, La Petite Foucaudiere offers accommodation with free WiFi and flat-screen TV, as well as barbecue facilities. There is also a kitchenette in some of the units equipped with a dishwasher, a microwave, and a toaster. A continental breakfast is served daily at the property. The bed and breakfast offers a terrace. Guests can go hiking or relax in the garden. Le Mans is 39 km from La Petite Foucaudiere, while La Fl�che is 18 km away. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 90 km from the accommodation.
Le Doyenn� - Chambres d'H�tes
Housed in a 19th century private mansion and built on the city's high wall, Le Doyenn� is a bed and breakfast situated in Le Mans. It offers free WiFi. The property is set 200 metres from Le Mans High Court and 200 metres from Le Mans Town Hall. The units at the bed and breakfast are equipped with a seating area, a flat-screen TV with satellite channels and a private bathroom with free toiletries and a bath or shower. Le Doyenn� features certain units with garden views, and rooms are equipped with a kettle. All units include a desk. Full English/Irish and continental breakfast options are available daily at the accommodation. ECOFAC Business School is a 7-minute walk from Le Doyenn�, while Louis-Aragon Multimedia Library is a 9-minute walk from the property. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 75 km from the property.
Villa du jardin des plantes 56 Rue Pr�martine
Located just 8 km from Le Mans Circuit, Villa du jardin des plantes 56 Rue Pr�martine provides accommodation in Le Mans with access to a spa and wellness centre, a terrace, as well as a 24-hour front desk. The property features garden and city views, and is 1.5 km from ECOFAC Business School. This apartment comes with 1 bedroom, a kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a flat-screen TV, a seating area and 1 bathroom with a shower. The apartment offers a hot tub. Guests at Villa du jardin des plantes 56 Rue Pr�martine can enjoy hiking and cycling nearby, or make the most of the garden. Le Mans High Court is 1.7 km from the accommodation, while Le Mans Town Hall is 1.8 km away. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 100 km from Villa du jardin des plantes 56 Rue Pr�martine.
Comme � la maison
Providing a garden and free WiFi, Comme � la maison provides accommodation in Le Mans. A continental breakfast is served every morning at the property. Le Mans Circuit is 4 km from the bed and breakfast, while ECOFAC Business School is 2.4 km from the property. Tours Loire Valley Airport is 94 km away.
Le Magnolia
Mayet B&B
Boasting a garden, a terrace, and a shared lounge, Le Magnolia offers accommodation in Mayet with free WiFi and garden views. This property offers access to a patio. The bed and breakfast offers a continental or buffet breakfast. If you would like to discover the area, cycling and hiking are possible in the surroundings. Le Mans is 31 km from Le Magnolia, while La Fl�che is 33 km away. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 79 km from the property.
La Maison des Pilotes du Mans
La Chartre-sur-le-Loir B&B & Gite
Located in La Chartre-sur-le-Loir, La Maison des Pilotes du Mans provides accommodation with a balcony and free WiFi. The accommodation is 46 km from Joue-les-Tours. The apartment comes with 1 separate bedroom and includes a kitchen with a microwave, fridge and dining area. Le Mans is 49 km from the apartment, while Vend�me is 42 km away. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 39 km from La Maison des Pilotes du Mans.
Logement entier aux portes du circuit des 24h!
Arnage B&B & Gite
Logement entier aux portes du circuit des 24h! offers accommodation in Arnage, 5 km from Antar�s and 4 km from Le Mans Exhibition Centre. Guests have access to free WiFi. Bugatti Circuit is 3.7 km from the apartment. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 87 km from the property.
Degr� B&B
Les terrasses is set in Degr� and offers a garden and a terrace. The bed and breakfast features garden views and is 14 km from Le Mans. The bed and breakfast also has 1 bathroom with a bath, a shower and a hairdryer. Guests at the bed and breakfast can enjoy a continental breakfast. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 119 km from Les terrasses.
Le Moulin de Monternault
Montreuil-le-Henri B&B
Set in a renovated 15th-Century mill, this B&B is 2 km from the centre of Montreuil-le-Henri. It offers a 2-hectare garden, an outdoor swimming pool and a terrace with outdoor furniture. Free Wi-Fi access is available throughout the property. All the soundproofed rooms at Le Moulin de Monternault feature wooden floors and a private entrance. They also provide a private bathroom with a shower. A hairdryer and ironing facilities are available upon request. Guests are invited to enjoy a continental breakfast every morning at Le Moulin de Monternault. Guests can eat their own meals on the property's covered courtyard. Le Mans Circuit is 38 km from the property. This B&B also offers free private parking and secure parking for motorbikes for free.
Lake House France
Beaumont-Pied-de-Boeuf B&B & Gite
Located in Beaumont-Pied-de-Boeuf, this property offers apartments in a private lakeside setting. For�t de Berc� is less than a 5-minute drive away. Free WiFi access is available throughout and free private parking is possible on site. The apartments have a shower room and a fully equipped kitchen. Each also includes a lounge area with a TV with French and English channels and a DVD player. One of the apartments also offers a terrace. A continental or full English breakfast are available every morning with an extra cost and the kitchen in the apartments have a built-in oven, a hob, dishwasher and an electric kettle. A restaurant and bar can be found within 500 metres. A basketball court, a children�s playground and p�tanque facilities are 500 metres away and Ch�teau du Loir is 8 km from the property. Le Mans race track is 25 km from the property and Tours Airport is 60 km away.
Suite Sainte Anne
Beaumont-sur-Sarthe B&B
Suite Sainte Anne is located in Beaumont-sur-Sarthe, on the edge of the river La Sarthe. The guest house offers an elegant suite and guests can use the canoes, the bikes or relax in the garden. With a view of the river and the city, the suite at Suite Sainte Anne features parquet flooring and original fireplaces. Featuring a shower, private bathrooms also come with a hairdryer. There is an equipped kitchenette with a microwave and a refrigerator. A continental breakfast with French pastries, fresh bread and fruits is provided daily. At Suite Sainte Anne you will find barbecue facilities and a terrace. An array of activities can be enjoyed on site or in the surroundings, including cycling, fishing and hiking. The property offers free parking.
L'Arche aux Moines
Ruaudin B&B
L'Arche aux Moines features accommodation with a garden and free WiFi. Guests at the bed and breakfast can enjoy a continental breakfast. Guests can also relax in the shared lounge area. Le Mans is 12 km from L'Arche aux Moines. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 92 km from the property.
La Valise A Cheval
M�zi�res-sur-Ponthouin B&B
Providing a garden, La Valise A Cheval offers accommodation in M�zi�res-sur-Ponthouin. An American breakfast is served each morning at the property. There is an in-house restaurant, which specialises in American cuisine. The bed and breakfast offers a terrace. If you would like to discover the area, cycling is possible in the surroundings. Le Mans is 28 km from La Valise A Cheval, while Alen�on is 45 km away.
Le temps d'une pause
Monc�-en-Belin B&B
Located in Monce en Belin, 6.5 km from Le Mans Race Track and 6 km from Le Mans Exhibition Centre, Le temps d'une pause is a property dedicated to your wellbeing. An infrared sauna, a hot tub and herbal tea room are available free of charge. Massage treatments can be booked at a surcharge. The property offers accommodation in a double room or in an apartment. Each unit has a private bathroom with bathrobes and free toiletries. Some units include a seating area to relax in after a busy day. You will find a shared kitchen and a shared lounge at the property. Bike hire is available at this bed and breakfast and the area is popular for hiking. Tours Loire Valley Airport is 66 km away. Free WiFi access and free private parking are available on site.
La planche pin�on
Teloch� B&B
Featuring free bikes, a garden, and a bar, La planche pin�on offers accommodation in Teloch� with free WiFi and garden views. There is a seating area, a dining area and a kitchen complete with a dishwasher, a microwave and a fridge. The bed and breakfast offers a continental or buffet breakfast. La planche pin�on offers a terrace. A barbecue is available on site and both hiking and cycling can be enjoyed within close proximity of the accommodation. Le Mans is 18 km from La planche pin�on, while La Fl�che is 40 km away. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 80 km from the bed and breakfast.
La Bigoti�re
Villaines-sous-Malicorne B&B
Featuring a garden and a terrace, La Bigoti�re provides accommodation in Villaines-sous-Malicorne with free WiFi and garden views. This bed and breakfast with lake views features 1 bathroom with a shower and a hairdryer. Hiking can be enjoyed nearby. Le Mans is 42 km from the bed and breakfast, while La Fl�che is 8 km away. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 80 km from La Bigoti�re.
Location 24 heures du Mans
Louplande B&B
Situated in Louplande in the Pays de la Loire region, Location 24 heures du Mans has a garden. The property features garden views. The bed and breakfast has a flat-screen TV. There is a seating area, a dining area and a kitchen complete with a microwave, a fridge and an oven. Le Mans is 16 km from the bed and breakfast, while La Fl�che is 38 km from the property. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 110 km from Location 24 heures du Mans.
Maison Le Mans
Maison Le Mans is situated in Le Mans, 2.1 km from Le Mans Circuit, and features a terrace, garden, and free WiFi. This apartment is 6 km from Culture and Convention Centre of Le Mans and 7 km from Le Mans High Court. The apartment has 2 bedrooms, a flat-screen TV with cable channels and a fully equipped kitchen that provides guests with a dishwasher, a microwave, a washing machine, a fridge and an oven. ECOFAC Business School is 6 km from the apartment, while Louis-Aragon Multimedia Library is 6 km from the property. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 96 km from Maison Le Mans.
Le clos Saint Germain
Located in La Fl�che, 4.2 km from Zoo de la Fl�che, Le clos Saint Germain features accommodation with free WiFi, a garden with a terrace, and access to an indoor swimming pool. Each unit is equipped with a fully equipped kitchen with a dishwasher, a seating area with a sofa, a flat-screen TV and a private bathroom with bath and free toiletries. A microwave, a fridge and oven are also provided, as well as a coffee machine. A buffet breakfast is available daily at the bed and breakfast. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 73 km from Le clos Saint Germain.
Nuit�eJour Le Mans
Situated in Le Mans, Nuit�eJour Le Mans offers accommodation with free WiFi, a flat-screen TV and a kitchen. There is also a dishwasher, microwave and a coffee machine. There is a shared lounge at this property and guests can go cycling and fishing nearby. Le Mans Circuit is 3.7 km from the apartment. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 94 km from the property.
Offering city views, Belin is an accommodation set in Le Mans, 2.9 km from Le Mans Circuit and 5 km from Culture and Convention Centre of Le Mans. Free WiFi is offered. The apartment has 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom with a shower and a hair dryer. A dishwasher, an oven and a microwave can be found in the kitchen. ECOFAC Business School is 5 km from the apartment, while Louis-Aragon Multimedia Library is 5 km from the property. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 93 km from Belin.
Maison/Studio au MANS - Jardin des plantes
Maison/Studio au MANS - Jardin des plantes is situated in Le Mans, 8 km from Le Mans Circuit, 700 metres from Le Mans High Court, as well as 1.3 km from ECOFAC Business School. The property is 2.4 km from Louis-Aragon Multimedia Library and 5 km from ENSIM Engineering School. The apartment is located on the ground floor and features 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV with cable channels and a fully equipped kitchen that provides guests with a microwave, a fridge, a washing machine, an oven and a stovetop. Le Mans Town Hall is 1.4 km from the apartment, while Culture and Convention Centre of Le Mans is 2.2 km from the property. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 97 km from Maison/Studio au MANS - Jardin des plantes.
Chambres d'h�tes Le Pont Romain
Montfort-le-Gesnois B&B
Located in 1-hectare park, close to a river, this B&B features en suite rooms with a fireplace and antique furniture. The continental breakfast is offered daily and other meals can be requested to the owner. Each room at Le Pont Romain is soundproofed and equipped with free Wi-Fi and an electric kettle. Interconnecting rooms are also available for families and groups. A Roman bridge can be visited close to the property. The Sittellia Water Park is 3 km away while the Montfort Castle is a 30-minute drive away. Le Pont Romain is accessible via the A11 motorway, which is 2.5 km away.
Chateau de la Balluere
Pirmil B&B
A classified historic building dating back to the 14th and 15th centuries, Chateau de la Balluere offers a French garden, a restaurant, free Wi-Fi in public areas, and a spa and wellness centre is available with a supplement. The rooms at Chateau de la Balluere feature a seating area, a wardrobe and the private bathrooms are complete with bath tub or shower. The suite also has a flat-screen TV and a fireplace. A continental breakfast is available daily, and the restaurant serves traditional French cuisine for dinner. Meals are prepared with seasonal products and are available with prior reservation. Located in the hills of the Sarthe valley, Chateau de la Balluere is 30 km from Le Mans and the owner can come pick you up from the station in the property�s Rolls Royce at an extra charge. La Fleche Zoo is located 32 km away.
Le Champ De La Ferme
Saint-Gervais en-Belin B&B
Located in Saint-Gervais-en-Belin, a 10-minute drive from 24-hours of Le Mans Circuit, Le Champ De La Ferme offers an outdoor, heated pool with a sun terrace and fully-equipped rooms with TV and hot drinks facilities. With free Wi-Fi access, each room here will provide you with a private bathroom with free toiletries. One of the private bathroom is external to the room. The continental breakfast includes fresh bread and hot drinks. Barbecue facilities, a refrigerator and a microwave are also here, at your disposal. At Le Champ De La Ferme you will find free bikes. An array of activities can be enjoyed on site or in the surroundings, including cycling, horse riding and hiking. The property offers free parking.
La Chenaie
La Chenaie is situated in Saint-Gervais en-Belin. Guests staying at this bed and breakfast have access to free WiFi. The bed and breakfast is fitted with a flat-screen TV. Guests at the bed and breakfast can enjoy a continental breakfast. La Chenaie offers a terrace. Guests at this property can enjoy hiking nearby, or make the most of the garden. Le Mans is 16 km from the accommodation, while La Fl�che is 35 km away. Tours Loire Valley Airport is 82 km from the property.
Le Jarrier Chambre D'Hote - B&B
Saint-Georges-le-Gaultier B&B
Le Jarrier Chambre D'Hote - B&B offers accommodation in Saint-Georges-le-Gaultier. Extras include free toiletries and a hairdryer. Guests have access to a private lounge and dining room at the property. Le Mans is 37 km from Le Jarrier Chambre d'H�te, while Bagnoles de l'Orne is 39 km from the property.
Maison pour les 24 heures automobiles du Mans
Arnage B&B
Located in Arnage, Maison pour les 24 heures automobiles du Mans offers free WiFi, 5 km from Antar�s. Some units include a seating area and/or a terrace. A continental breakfast is available every morning at the property. Guests can relax in the garden at the property. Le Mans Exhibition Centre is 3.7 km from the bed and breakfast, while Bugatti Circuit is 3.4 km away. Tours Loire Valley Airport is 85 km from the property.
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La Marchanderie
Spay B&B
Boasting barbecue facilities, La Marchanderie features accommodation in Spay with free WiFi and garden views. This bed and breakfast offers a garden as well as a terrace. The bed and breakfast comes with a flat-screen TV, a seating area, a kitchenette with a microwave, and 1 bathroom. Guests wishing to travel lightly can make use of towels and linens for an additional supplement. A continental breakfast is served daily at the property. Le Mans is 11 km from La Marchanderie, while La Fl�che is 37 km from the property. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 101 km from the accommodation.
La Chambre de Lucile
Located 24 km from Le Mans Race Track, LA CHAMBRE DE LUCILE, a bed and breakfast, is a property situated in Mayet. The room features views of the garden. The guest room at this bed and breakfast is fitted with a microwave, dishes, refrigerator, kettle, coffee machine and dining area. It also features separate toilet and a private bathroom with shower. A dressing room is offered. Mayet Train Station is 3 km from LA CHAMBRE DE LUCILE and 6 km from A28 motorway. Le Mans is a 40-minute drive away.
Chambre � louer
Le Lude B&B
Chambre � louer is situated in Le Lude and offers a garden. Guests staying at this bed and breakfast have access to free WiFi. Le Mans is 46 km from the bed and breakfast, while Saumur is 48 km from the property. Tours Loire Valley Airport is 53 km away.
Charmant studio Vieux Mans / centre
Charmant studio Vieux Mans / centre in Le Mans features accommodation with free WiFi, 7 km from Le Mans Circuit, 200 metres from Le Mans Town Hall and 300 metres from Le Mans High Court. The property is 4 km from Le Mans IUT and 4.1 km from ENSIM Engineering School. This apartment features 1 bedroom, a kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a flat-screen TV, a seating area and 1 bathroom with a shower. Popular points of interest near the apartment include ECOFAC Business School, Louis-Aragon Multimedia Library and Culture and Convention Centre of Le Mans. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 97 km from Charmant studio Vieux Mans / centre.
La Haute Forge B&B
Thoir�-sur-Dinan B&B
Situated in Thoir�-sur-Dinan, 50 km from La Fl�che, La Haute Forge B&B features a garden and free WiFi. The bed and breakfast offers an outdoor swimming pool, a barbecue and a sun terrace. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 65 km from La Haute Forge B&B.
appartement dans propri�t�e priv�e
Laign�-en-Belin B&B & Gite
Boasting a garden, appartement dans propri�t�e priv�e features accommodation in Laign�-en-Belin with free WiFi and garden views. Guests staying at this apartment have access to a fully equipped kitchen. Opening onto a terrace, this apartment comes with 2 separate bedrooms. The apartment also offers a flat-screen TV and 1 bathroom with a shower. Le Mans is 17 km from the apartment. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 79 km from the property.
Bel appartement en plein centre ville
La Fl�che B&B & Gite
Situated 5 km from Zoo de la Fl�che, Bel appartement en plein centre ville features accommodation in La Fl�che. The units have a fully equipped kitchen with dining area, a microwave, kettle, and a fridge. Hiking and fishing can be enjoyed nearby. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 74 km from the apartment.
Maison Pr�martine
Within 7 km of Le Mans Circuit and 1 km of ECOFAC Business School, Maison Pr�martine provides free WiFi and a garden. The property is 2.4 km from Louis-Aragon Multimedia Library and 5 km from ENSIM Engineering School. This bed and breakfast with garden views features 1 bathroom with a bath, shower and free toiletries. Continental and � la carte breakfast options are available daily at the bed and breakfast. Popular points of interest near Maison Pr�martine include Le Mans High Court, Le Mans Town Hall and Culture and Convention Centre of Le Mans. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 97 km from the accommodation.
Chateau de Montaupin
Oiz� B&B
An 18th-century mansion, Chateau de Montaupin is a B&B set in a 1-hectare park, 28 km from Le Mans. It features an outdoor swimming pool, a terrace and free Wi-Fi is available in public areas. Decorated with antique furniture, the rooms all include a fireplace, individual heating and views of the garden. The en suite bathrooms are complete with bath or shower, toilet, and free toiletries. A continental breakfast is served daily at Chateau de Montaupin, and you can also choose to share meals with other guests and enjoy traditional cuisine. The hosts can prepare dinner upon prior reservation. Chateau de Montaupin is conveniently located near numerous hiking trails and the A11 motorway is 30 km from the property. Free private parking is possible on site.
TheSecretGarden-France
Courdemanche B&B
Housed in a 19th-century farmhouse, TheSecretGarden-France is 3 km from the centre of Courdemanche and 10 km from La Chartre-sur-le-Loir. It offers a terrace, barbecue facilities and free Wi-Fi access. Each room includes a wardrobe, an electric kettle and a private bathroom with a shower. A shared living room with a TV and a DVD player is at guests� disposal. A continental breakfast can be enjoyed every morning at TheSecretGarden-France. Meals prepared by the hosts can be served on request and guests have access to a shared kitchen. Activities including tennis and water sports can be enjoyed in Lac de Varennes, located 16 km away. The A28 motorway is 26 km away and free private parking is available on site.
Le Gite de la Muraille
Set in Le Mans, within 7 km of Le Mans Circuit, Le Gite de la Muraille offers accommodation with air conditioning. The apartment, set in a building dating from 16th century, is 600 metres from the Le Mans High Court and features free WiFi. The 1-bedroom apartment is fitted with a living room with satellite flat-screen TV, and a fully equipped kitchen. The property also has 2 bathrooms with a bath. A bicycle rental service is available at the apartment. Le Mans Town Hall is 700 metres from Le Gite de la Muraille, while ECOFAC Business School is 1 km away. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 97 km from the accommodation.
Au Jardin De L'�ventail
Set in Le Mans, Au Jardin De L'�ventail offers accommodation with free WiFi and flat-screen TV, as well as a garden and barbecue facilities. A terrace is available for guests to use at the bed and breakfast. Le Mans Circuit is 7 km from Au Jardin De L'�ventail, while ECOFAC Business School is 1.3 km from the property. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 99 km from the accommodation.
Bois Gaillard
Bois Gaillard, a property with a garden, is located in La Fl�che, 9 km from Zoo de la Fl�che. The accommodation has free WiFi. A continental breakfast is available every morning at the bed and breakfast. Bois Gaillard offers a terrace. If you would like to discover the area, hiking is possible in the surroundings. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 77 km from the accommodation.
La Roseraie
La Roseraie is located in Beaumont-sur-Sarthe and offers free bikes, a garden and a terrace. This bed and breakfast also features free WiFi. A continental breakfast can be enjoyed at the property. Le Mans is 28 km from the bed and breakfast.
Moulin de Champrond - Sarthe
Champrond B&B
Featuring free WiFi and a hot tub, Le Moulin de la Ronce - Champrond - Sarthe offers accommodation in Les Pinardi�res. Free private parking is available on site. There is a gift shop at the property. The area is popular for fishing and hiking. Le Mans is 42 km from Le Moulin de la Ronce - Champrond - Sarthe, while Vend�me is 42 km away. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 74 km from the property.
Le Paradis Manceau
Located in Le Mans, 6 km from Le Mans Circuit, 400 metres from Culture and Convention Centre of Le Mans and less than 1 km from Louis-Aragon Multimedia Library, Le Paradis Manceau provides accommodation with a patio and free WiFi. The property has city views and is 1.8 km from Le Mans High Court and 1.8 km from ECOFAC Business School. The apartment features 2 bedrooms, a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchen with a dishwasher and a microwave, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a shower. Le Mans Town Hall is 1.9 km from the apartment, while Le Mans IUT is 4.3 km away. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 96 km from Le Paradis Manceau.
B&B PELTIER
With city views, B&B PELTIER is located in Luceau and has a restaurant and bar. Free WiFi is provided. The units come with tiled floors and feature a fully equipped kitchenette with a fridge, a dining area, a flat-screen TV, and a private bathroom with shower and a hairdryer. Continental and � la carte breakfast options are available daily at the bed and breakfast. A terrace is available on site and hiking can be enjoyed within close proximity of B&B PELTIER. Le Mans is 49 km from the accommodation, while La Fl�che is 42 km away. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 59 km from B&B PELTIER.
Manoir de la Basse-Cour
Asni�res-sur-V�gre B&B
Set in Asni�res-sur-V�gre, Manoir de la Basse-Cour offers accommodation with free WiFi, air conditioning and access to a garden with an outdoor swimming pool. There is a fully equipped private bathroom with shower and a hairdryer. Continental and buffet breakfast options are available every morning at the bed and breakfast. A terrace can be found at Manoir de la Basse-Cour, along with a shared lounge. Le Mans is 40 km from the accommodation, while La Fl�che is 33 km from the property. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 119 km from Manoir de la Basse-Cour.
T2 COCOONING PROCHE CENTRE VILLE ET GARE
Located 8 km from Le Mans Circuit and 1.1 km from Louis-Aragon Multimedia Library in Le Mans, T2 COCOONING PROCHE CENTRE VILLE ET GARE offers accommodation with a kitchen. The property has garden views, plus is 1.8 km from Le Mans High Court. The apartment features a flat-screen TV. The apartment also provides guests with 1 bathroom with a bath or shower. Staff at the reception can help guests with any questions that they might have. Le Mans Town Hall is 1.9 km from the apartment, while Culture and Convention Centre of Le Mans is 2.1 km from the property. Tours Loire Valley Airport is 99 km away.
Studio entre le Mans et Tours refait � neuf
Dissay-sous-Courcillon B&B & Gite
Studio entre le Mans et Tours refait � neuf is set in Dissay-sous-Courcillon and offers a terrace. The accommodation is 48 km from Saint-Pierre-des-Corps. The apartment is composed of 1 separate bedroom, a fully equipped kitchenette, and 1 bathroom. A flat-screen TV is featured. Tours is 47 km from the apartment, while La Fl�che is 47 km away. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 38 km from Studio entre le Mans et Tours refait � neuf.
Studio au calme
Sabl�-sur-Sarthe B&B & Gite
Studio au calme is located in Sabl�-sur-Sarthe and offers free bikes and a terrace. The property has garden views. The apartment features 1 bedroom, a flat-screen TV, an equipped kitchen with a microwave and a fridge, a washing machine, and 1 bathroom with a shower. Guests at the apartment can enjoy hiking and fishing nearby, or make the most of the garden. Laval is 44 km from Studio au calme, while La Fl�che is 25 km away. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 98 km from the accommodation.
APPARTEMENT TOUT CONFORT 3 MIN GARE PROCHE CENTRE
Set 6 km from Le Mans Circuit, 700 metres from Culture and Convention Centre of Le Mans and 1.2 km from Louis-Aragon Multimedia Library, APPARTEMENT TOUT CONFORT 3 MIN GARE PROCHE CENTRE offers accommodation located in Le Mans. This apartment is 2.1 km from Le Mans Town Hall and 5 km from Le Mans IUT. The apartment consists of 1 bathroom and a living room. ECOFAC Business School is 1.7 km from the apartment, while Le Mans High Court is 2 km from the property. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 96 km from APPARTEMENT TOUT CONFORT 3 MIN GARE PROCHE CENTRE.
Le Ch�teau de Mondan
Sitting in a 6-hectare park, Le Ch�teau de Mondan is located in Mondan, just 2 km Gu�c�lard. You can enjoy the garden and relax on the furnished terrace. It also offers an outdoor swimming pool. All of the spacious rooms at Le Ch�teau de Mondan feature a unique d�cor and a parquet floor. Each room is equipped with a desk, an electric kettle and a coffee machine. The private bathroom is fitted with a shower, a hairdryer and free toiletries. A continental breakfast is included and served every morning in the dining room. Free Wi-Fi is available in the entire Le Ch�teau de Mondan. Free private parking is possible on site and Le Mans is 20 km from the property.
Maison Conti
Montmirail B&B
Maison Conti is set in an 18th-century building located in Montmirail, a 40-minute drive from Le Mans. The daily breakfast includes fresh pastries and homemade jam, and you can borrow bikes for free. Each individually decorated room features antique furniture and a seating area. Free Wi-Fi access is provided and the private bathrooms are complete with free toiletries and a hairdryer. Breakfast is served in the dining room, where you can enjoy freshly-squeezed orange juice, seasonal fruit and Italian coffee. La Fert� Bernard with its train station is situated 15 km from this B&B and Perche Regional Park is a 20-minute drive away.
La Maison Cremyll
Chahaignes B&B
Offering a garden and furnished terrace, La Maison Cremyll is located in the countryside of Chahaignes. Free WiFi access is available throughout. All rooms are located on the 1st floor and are individually decorated in a traditional style. Each room features a garden view and a private bathroom with a shower. Breakfast is included in the rate and served each morning in the dining room. Packed lunches and evening meals can also be provided, upon prior reservation. Secured, free private parking is possible on site and Tours Loire Valley Airport is 37 km away. Walking paths and cycling trails can be found in the area and there is lake beach in Mar�on, just a 10-minute drive away.
Le Clos Manceau
Le Clos Manceau offers accommodation in a quiet district of Le Mans, a 20-minute walk from Le Mans Cathedral and Le Mans old town. This entirely refurbished house offers free WiFi throughout. Each room offers views of the garden, where breakfast can be served on request. A welcome package will be offered at le Clos Manceau. Le Mans Town Hall is 1.5 km from Le Clos Manceau, while Le Mans central rail station is 3 km from the property. Guests will have easy access to public transportation from the property. Tours Loire Valley Airport is 76 km away.
Abrikota
Saint-Christophe-du-Jambet B&B
With garden views, Abrikota is set in Saint-Christophe-du-Jambet and has free WiFi. Units feature a fully equipped kitchenette with a microwave, fridge, kettle and coffee machine. There is a private bathroom with shower and a hairdryer in each unit, along with free toiletries. A continental breakfast is available every morning at the bed and breakfast. Le Mans is 32 km from Abrikota, while Alen�on is 29 km from the property.
La Villegiature
With Zoo de la Fl�che reachable in 3.8 km, La Villegiature offers accommodation, a restaurant, a seasonal outdoor swimming pool, a garden and a shared lounge. Complimentary WiFi is featured. There is a private bathroom with shower in all units, along with a hairdryer and free toiletries. A continental breakfast is available every morning at the bed and breakfast. Guests at La Villegiature can enjoy hiking and cycling nearby, or make the most of the sun terrace. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 73 km from the accommodation.
Appartement Etoile
Appartement Etoile offers accommodation in Le Mans, a 15-minute walk from Le Mans Train Station. Appartement Etoile is 300 metres from Place de la R�publique and le Mans old town. There is a seating area, a dining area and a kitchen complete with a dishwasher, an oven and a microwave. A flat-screen TV is provided. Le Mans Race Course is 6 km from the property. The nearest airport is Tours Loire Valley Airport, 94 km from Appartement Etoile.
Chez St�phane et Sylvie
Set in Le Mans, Chez St�phane et Sylvie features accommodation 3 km from Le Mans Circuit and 3.7 km from ECOFAC Business School. Free WiFi is offered. A continental breakfast can be enjoyed at the property. Guests can relax in the garden at the property. Louis-Aragon Multimedia Library is 5 km from the bed and breakfast. Tours Loire Valley Airport is 94 km from the property.
Mimi la Sardine
Situated in Saint-Gervais en-Belin, 10 km from Le Mans Race Track, Mimi la Sardine is a B&B featuring flea-market style decoration. Among the various facilities are free bikes and barbecue facilities. Free WiFi is included. All units are fitted with a TV with cable channels, a coffee machine, a bath, free toiletries and a desk. Each room comes with a shared bathroom and a private toilet. Some rooms feature a garden view. Guests at the bed and breakfast can enjoy a continental breakfast. A range of activities are offered in the area, such as cycling and hiking. Le Mans is 15 km from Mimi la Sardine. Tours Loire Valley Airport is 62 km from the property.
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The Music Lesson
Content : . The Music Lesson, Scene of The Barbier of Seville by Rossini
. Did Victor Hugo like music ?
. Franz-Peter Schubert, Musician of Vienna
. Bicentenary Schubert
. Robert Schumann, Musician of Zwickau
. Richard Wagner, Musician of Meudon
. The Canso from Gasto Febus to Gabriel Fauré and Frédéric Mistral, ‘lyrical Koïné’ or ‘Voice of a People’ ?
. Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) Musician of the Ariège
. Gabriel Fauré, Musician of Verlaine
. The last recital of the Hall Gabriel Fauré
. Rachmaninov at Ivanovka
. Tony Poncet, Tenor (1918-1979)
. The Violetta of the Century
. Schwanengesang (Schubert)
. An die Musik (CD1, CD2)
. Homage to Yves Nat (1890 -1956)
. Tourgueniev - Gounod - Mireille
Tourgueniev - Gounod - Mireille
Ivan Turgenev’s judgments throughout his correspondence are of a biting and cruel irony in the musical field : but sometimes he comes back on his affirmations as aptly stated by himself :”In general I see that in accordance with my praiseworthy habit I initially went too far to the right (in respect of Melle Lind), then veered too much to the left ... she is a charming singer who does certain things better than anybody, but ... but ... but she is not a tragedian, but plays a little in the German manner, but I know a certain person with (sic) whom I have compared her a bit absent-mindedly, etc...etc ”, or “Yesterday I went to see Melle Patti in L’Elisir. She is very nice, her voice is charming, intonation exactly right and perfect purity, but she is not a singer and especially not an actress ...the audience adores her” (37 curtain calls for Mireille in St Petersburg), she looks as though amused like a queen.”
Finally, “the day after my arrival in St Petersburg I went to the Italian Theatre. It was Norma on the programme with Mme de Giuli ... a very high voice, not very strong ... but piercing and untiring ... the low notes are hollow and trembling. She has little taste, warmth, with a dramatic, or rather melodramatic accent : (in Casta Diva she sings as though in love with the moon), she lacks nobility, she exaggerates - as a singer - for as an actress she is pretty much a dummy ...”
In 1846-47 as well as in 1864, Turgenev can use, when he wants to, his critical sense in the vocal and in the scenic domain. “Let us talk a bit about Robert le Diable given here the day before yesterday, I tell you truly : the performances of Berlin were a hundred thousand lengths of a lance above those of London. Fraschini is monstrous, hideous, horrible in the role of Robert; his shrill, strangled voice gets on one’s nerves; and also he looked like a hare who gives himself to the devil, completely demoralized. Staudigel has lost his voice, Mme Castellan spoilt hers altogether by wanting to produce chest-notes.”
There are some highly interesting judgments concerning vocal technique, to be explained only by an instinct for singing which was sharpened by his permanent contacts with the Viardot Family and also with Manuel Garcia (author of the Ecole de Garcia, a complete treatise of the Art of Singing) in whose company he will attend a performance of Gounod’s Faust on 15 September 1859. Other comments inform us about the habits of the time, which allowed singers to introduce arias other than the ones in the score (in Romeo e Giulietta by Zingarelli, la Malibran puts an aria of Mercadante in the place of the aria of Sigismond chosen by La Pasta), or passages inside arias : “In Quando lascia la Normandie”, she (Melle Lind) introduces a delightful passage; if it was she who found it, I congratulate her. Pity I am not a musician to note it down for you.”
Turgenev is sensitive not only to the traditional production (he proves it by criticizing that of Don Juan in St Petersburg and especially by detailing that of Mireille, which he comments at length while giving very limited space to the singers), but also perceives the so-called vocal production which he seeks to explain to his correspondent. “I would have wanted that you, Madame, would have seen her (Melle Lind in La Somnambula or in Robert (...). She had some very fine moments in the duet with Bertram; when he takes her by the arm, she gives a muffled, lengthy cry or rather a kind of spoken shiver (God knows whether you will understand me), something one does when being cold and fearful at the same time, really something very true and of great effect.”
Is it the passionate friendship the author of these letters feels for Pauline Viardot, is it the interest he has in her parts, which can explain his attitude on the occasion of the Faust performances in Paris (he leaves it to her brother Manuel to convey his comments to Pauline Viardot) or those of Mireille, whose production he describes in harsh terms, while appreciating the music of the first two acts, “these two diamonds” in the words of the English musical critic Chorley, but whom the heroine does not seem to move, since in passing one gleans sentences like “Melle Carvalho sings delightfully”.
Scudo, in his critique of Gounod’s Faust (19 March 1859) uses the same terms, but hints that “her frail voice” shows signs of fatigue in the scene in the church; or after a second hearing of the opera : “Melle Miolan is perfect in Mireille, she produces some adorable phrases” : “Et moi quand par hasard” (sic) or “C’est aujourd’hui que l’église des Saintes”. In fact, in this passage, and very strangely so, the writer takes effect for cause and praises the music by vaunting its interpreter.
This is not a case here, as for Sappho, of a part conceived for Pauline Viardot’s voice, a voice which opens out towards the lower register, Turgenev notes : ”I am glad you do not sing Otello”, he says to her, “you now need larger and grander things, but of a higher register in the phrasing” as in the French mélodie which will be taken by Gounod and Fauré to its well-known heights of expression, this formation of coloratura with sometimes tragic inflexions which the flexibility of Maria Malibran’s voice, helped by circumstances, might have attained.
Turgenev is silent on Faust and also on Mireille, although intimately involved with the vocal creation of Sappho; then suddenly we witness a kill without preceding banderillas in his commentary on the performance of Roméo et Juliette, Tuesday 18 June 1867 : “The performance is detestable ... never ever has there been a yelling, howling, spewing, yapping like that. All sing false like the devil - and Mme Miolan - on the pretext of playing the passionate woman - howls and cries like the others with a hoarse, tinny voice like from a cauldron, in the manner of Theresa”.
Cf : Thérésa, pseudonym for Emma Valadon, concert-Café singer.
Should Mme Miolan’s merit have come down so badly within three years, she who in 1875 will be the first Marguerite of Gounod’s Faust at the Palais Garnier ?
Is this not, rather, a case of crystallized annoyance, to the point of exasperation, in the face of Gounod’s third score where more than ever this echo of a religious lyricism disliked by the Russian poet is in evidence? Let us look at his critique of 19 March 1864 where there is mention of a “huge devil of a scene with a procession etc ...” (the hymn of Saint Gens followed by the chorale Laus Sion Salvatorum, the mystical song Sainte Ivresse and the death scene of Mireille), and that of Roméo, where Turgenev turns his back on Verona in favour of the Gérolstein : “I would prefer to go twenty times in succession to La Grande Duchesse to returning to Roméo.” “Requiescent in pace ! Dixi et animan meam slavavi ” (sic). She who was at the origin of this profound ennui on the night of 18 June 1867 carries the responsibility for this fiasco. Does she not carry others ?
What astounds all the more is that Turgenev does not mention in his correspondence the curious shortening, then the pure and simple amputation of the Scene of The Crau which, obviously, he has never seen or heard integrally. As for the performances of Monday 28 March 1864 and Thursday 14 April of the same year, Mistral confides to Aubanel as early as February 1864 : “Difficulties have arisen between Gounod and La Carvalho who would like to make a cut (the crossing of the Crau) in order to make her part easier. Gounod sticks to his scene and he is right; hence a tug of war, which is not what I need”.
(Cf. Mistral’s letter to Aubanel, Lis Isclo d’Or : a critical study by Jean Boutière, Director of the Institut d’Etudes Provençales at the Sorbonne. Didier 1970).
Turgenev points out ironically that Melle Mireille dies of a sun-stroke while singing an ecstatic song which is only “Halévy of the 4th order”. That Halévy, should it be of less beautiful water than the first opera of the young French composer back from Rome, whom Maria Garcia will defend so boldly that she achieved a crazy success in Clari, lending to this part the whole magic of her expression ?
Cornélie Falcon and Adolphe Nourrit created Les Huguenots by Meyerbeer. Pauline Viardot writes, “the Opera counts on Les Huguenots, Le Prophète and Sappho as the main subjects of my winter” and we note the following reference in a letter from Turgenev (concerning the last performances of The Prophète), “Mr Jules Jasmin names you twice in the following way :”Imagine yourself in paradize between two hells, Beloved Rose between two chaperons, la Viardot between two tenors from the province”. If Turgenev upholds that a bad performance cannot kill a masterpiece, cuts and transformations can disfigure an opera which is original in its story and its Provençal climate, a work which demands one total voice and not the voice, even if “pearl-like”, of Mme Miolan-Carvalho (in Mistral’s own terms who, of course, was thinking of this “diamond” demanded by the singer who had the full support of her Director-husband).
(Cf. Sonnet to Dono Miolan-Carvalho. Lis Isclo d’Or) ... Mistral was to change his mind rapidly.
It is possible, says our Ivan the Terrible, that the talent addresses the dilettanti, the people with taste - and that nearly makes you wish not to be one of them - ... true nature is indeed far hotter, it is more opaque, more vulgar, if you like. And also there is not this theatrical verve, this boldness, this casualness which characterizes the artist.
It does not seem that Gounod was satisfied in his lifetime with the orchestral tempi and with the casting of the feminine title roles. Mireille was presented to the public on 19 March 1864 “weakened, denatured”. In the Scène of the Crau, “still redoubtable, although mutilated”, Mme Carvalho, fear-stricken, “failed completely”. “There was resentment against the singer not only for having forced Gounod to take the jewel out of his score, but for having refused to wear, at least in the first few performances, “an authentic Provençal costume”, although she had received “a collection of drawings of costumes of the women of Arles” (and of the county) from the painter Bonaventure Laurens.
What we know, through Turgenev, of the dramatic talent of Adelina Patti, does not commit us to believing that on 28 November 1888 she could have overwhelmed the audience at the Palais Garnier on the occasion of the first performance of Roméo et Juliette, the composer’s baton being very exceptionally helpful. The voice of Sappho (that of Eva Dufranne en 1884) (Cf: First performance of Sappho, 16 April 1851, Le Peletier Hall, with Pauline Viardot in the title role) inspired Gustave Moreau; but the light of Greece was followed by that of Provence and of Italy; “a counterpart to offset the satiny and dreamy music of Sappho’s ode is now needed”, Pauline Viardot confided to Turgenev.
Ô ma lyre immortelle, sang Gounod; Marguerite and Juliette will know how to make its strings vibrate.
However, there are good grounds to bet that in spite of the Mireille at St Petersburg or the one at the Théâtre Lyrique Gounod regretted for a long time, and profoundly so, not to have been understood by the very people to whom he had confided his most intimate hopes : F. Mistral and the Provençaux, who had wept when Monsieur Pépin (name used by Gounod in the register of the Hôtel de Ville Verte at St Rémy, where he is supposed to have worked on the score of Mireille) had given his work for the first time at St Rémy, on the breathless harmonium of the Echo des Alpilles.
Neither was George Sand to figure in the Mortuorum prouvençau - although cited at Note XI of Song II of Mirèio - ** which, however, accommodates those writers in the French language who are in favour of the Félibrige (it is true that at the time of George Sand’s death (8 June 1876) Frédéric Mistral was entirely occupied by the preparations for his wedding), and unlike the great Lamartine, who from Milly to Laeken past Maillane was capable of reinstating the Art of Singing in its due place, Gounod was not either to see, at least up to this day, his name figuring next to Mistral and this in spite of the efforts deployed by Bonaventure Laurens or by some great Maillanais, be it Mistral himself.
Disregarding the pressing intervention of the painter Hébert (whose ties with Mistral and Caroline Miolan-Carvalho are well-known), would another singer have reconciled the work of Gounod with that of Mistral under the patronage of the Poet of St Point ? Who would be able to tell, if not the shepherds and the inhabitants of the“mas” sung by F. Mistral in a language which could not be made more golden by any lyrical colouring in the world, because it is the very language of the sun ...
In 1939, Reynaldo Hahn reconstitutes the original opera in five acts, eliminates the waltz and the conventional dénouement and reintroduces the Scene of The Crau with the singer Jane Rolland. It was then appropriate for René Russier to write : “We now wish that a last stage in the return to the true Mireille be accomplished. We are expecting from M. Busser in his current presentation the literary adaptation of the Provençal poem as entrusted to a Charles Maurras or an Emile Ripert.”
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Frédéric Mistral, Gounod’s Mireille was premiered in Provençal, thus wearing again her luminous dress, the very language of the poet of Maillane, Nobel-Prize for literature in 1904, for, according to Villemain and Lamartine, France is rich enough to have two literatures and the entire Midi is found in the remark of Sauveur Selon : “Every time Mireille must sing and speak in French, I feel like hiding away.”
If ever there was a vocal production, the historical recording of 1980 illustrates with a new form the royal path rediscovered by Maria Callas.
Mistral, Gounod... (and Turgenev, also sensitive to this so-called vocal production !) are not waiting any more for their lyrical interpreter, this voice Musset had in mind, which produces on us an impression analogous to the flavour of a wild fruit : the Magyar-Rumanian audience recognized it immediately in her who sang this part for the first time : Monsegur Vaillant, accompanying herself in Scene and Aria of The Crau on the stage of the Opera of Cluj-Napoca (Rumania) on 15 November 1982. A few verses of Song I of Mistral’s Mirèio, spoken by Claude d’Esplas, Honorary President of the Amis de Charles Gounod, served as a prelude to this “international première”, on whose subject we can only repeat, in the very words of Charles Gounod at the time of Sappho : “She knew the score so well that she accompanied it ... in total by heart on the piano. This is perhaps the most extraordinary musical feat of strength I have ever witnessed, measure of the astonishing abilities of this prodigious musician.”
All the rest is literature, as Louis Viardot, director of the Théâtre Italien, said to Turgenev, a lover of voices worthy of this name.
Mario de L’Islo
Carpentras (Provence) 1980
Translation : Dagmar Coward Kuschke (Tübingen)
Mirèio : Lou Cant dóu Soulèu : L’Opéra de Gounod en provençal et les Chants des Félibres
Réf : V/30/ST/7228 STEREO
Cf : Lou Felibrige, Capoulié Reinié Jouveau, 1981
Correspondance d’ Ivan Tourgueniev à Pauline Viardot et à sa Famille
Editions l’Age d’Homme 1972 Henri Granjard et Alexandre Zviguilsky
Ivan Tourgueniev, Nouvelle Correspondance Inédite Tome I et II .
Introduction et notes par Alexandre Zviguilsky, ouvrage publié avec le concours du C.N.R.S.
Librairie des Cinq Continents 1971
* Letter from Claude d’Esplas to Marcel Carrières, dóu Felibrige
Dear Mr Carrières,
I have received your book La Musique Occitane de 1550 à 1800; I am reading it with great interest. But how astonishing to find written by you on p. 142 “But also, in spite of what one could rightly say about it, the Georges Bizet of the Arlésienne, the Gounod of Mireille ...”.
Would you allow me to be bold enough to ask you what it is that one “could rightly say ?”.
Concerning the “cantico tant bèu que sabon li Santen”, would you go along with me in thinking that it inspired Ch. Gounod in “Es aujourd’uei que la Gleiso di Santo”...”, since you are lucky enough to live not far from the blond church “di Tres Mario.” ?
Please forgive us the somewhat abrupt character of these questions : it only reflects the lively and legitimate interest roused by your remarks.
Pla amistousamen,
Longo mai
Claude d’Esplas
P.S. Did the “Widow” Mouret perhaps deserve a satisfecit ?!..
**Song II, note XI Mirèio, Frédéric Mistral
The golden Goat (la Cabro d’or), treasure or talisman, which according to the people was buried by the Saracenes under one of the antique monuments of Provence. Some claim it is lying under the mausoleum of saint Rémy, others, in the grotto of Corde, others still, under the rocks of Les Baux. “This tradition, says George Sand (Les visions de la nuit dans les campagnes), is universal; there are few ruins, castles or monasteries, few celtic monuments which do not hide their treasure. All are guarded by a diabolical animal. M. Jules Canonge has represented as gracious and beneficial the poetic appearance of the golden Goat, guardian of the wealth hidden in the heart of the earth.”
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This timeline shows how the US-China trade war led to Trump and Xi's high-stakes meeting
Published Fri, Nov 30 2018 1:26 PM EST Updated Fri, Nov 30 2018 6:53 PM EST
John W. Schoen@johnwschoen
Jacob Pramuk@jacobpramuk
President Donald Trump (3rdL) holds a bilateral meeting with China's President Xi Jinping (2ndR) at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., April 7, 2017.
Carlos Barria | Reuters
President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to meet at the G-20 summit in Argentina as they try to de-escalate a mounting trade war marked by a series of tariffs.
Below is a timeline of the major actions so far in the trade conflict during the Trump era, as well as the products the tariffs have affected so far.
The Trump administration has one of its best opportunities yet Saturday to de-escalate a potentially ruinous trade war with China.
President Donald Trump will hold a dinner meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G-20 summit in Argentina. The leaders of the world's two largest economies will try to make progress toward a trade deal as businesses and investors fear a mounting series of tariffs could damage the global economy.
The G-20 summit is underway, but what does it mean for investors?
The U.S. has already put tariffs on $250 billion in Chinese goods, and could slap duties on an additional $267 billion in imports. Beijing has responded with tariffs on $110 billion in U.S. goods targeting politically important industries such as agriculture.
Trump, who campaigned in 2016 on cracking down on what he called Chinese trade abuses, comes into the meeting with a specific set of demands. He wants to address alleged Chinese theft of intellectual property, forced technology transfers, ownership of American companies in China, and tariffs and nontariff barriers, among other issues.
The White House has shown optimism about making progress, but Trump has threatened even more tariffs if the sides cannot reach a deal. Washington and Beijing appeared to have a difficult task in striking a concrete trade agreement even as Trump seeks a political win on one of his signature issues.
On Friday, a senior administration official said Trump "doesn't feel pressure to make a deal for the sake of a deal" and feels "he has more time." The president has gotten information from advisors that the economy "continues to show resilience and strength" despite a recent slide in U.S. stock prices, the official said.
Here is a timeline of the U.S.-China trade conflict during the Trump era that led up to the dinner, and the products the tariffs have affected so far:
Tariff lists
The list of goods covered by the trade war runs to thousands of specific items, from aircraft to zirconium.
While American consumers may notice an immediate impact with higher prices on TV sets and sneakers, tariffs on intermediate goods will also eventually be passed along.
Here are the lists of goods subject to tariffs, along with additional products that may yet get hit if the trade war continues to widen.
Click on a product category to filter the lists. Hover over the charts for details:
— CNBC's Eamon Javers contributed to this report
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China's 'Ghost Cities' Warn of Property Bubble: Chanos
Matthew J. Belvedere | @Matt_Belvedere
Published 11:08 AM ET Thu, 7 March 2013 Updated 8:22 AM ET Fri, 8 March 2013 CNBC.com
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Chanos: Avoid Chinese Property 'Bubble' 5:13 PM ET Thu, 7 March 2013
Avoid investments that rely on the Chinese real estate market because the bubble there is getting "bigger, and bigger, and bigger," hedge fund manager Jim Chanos told CNBC on Thursday.
"Anything that's depending on the Chinese economic miracle I would be careful of," Chanos said in a "Squawk Box" interview.
(Read More: Why China's Property Market Is Getting Scary)
Nelson Ching | Bloomberg | Getty Images
Residential apartment buildings stand in the new district of Kangbashi in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China.
The founder of Kynikos Associates, said it was "somewhat controversial" when he started to warn about real estate in China three years ago. But he added, "[the] property bubble is visual. You can't miss it [now]."
He was referring to the growing problem of so-called "ghost cities" there, which were the subject of a "60 Minutes" investigation this past weekend.
Correspondent Lesley Stahl reported, "We discovered that the most populated nation on Earth is building houses, districts and cities with no one in them … desolate condos and vacant subdivisions uninhabited for miles and miles and miles and miles."
That's because construction accounts for about half of China's $8 trillion economy, Chanos estimated and pointed out that while gross domestic product there slowed to a still fairly robust growth rate of 7.8 percent last year, "corporate profitability there imploded."
(Read More: How the US Shale Gas Boom Could Derail China)
The Short Story on China 7:53 AM ET Thu, 7 March 2013
He argued, "It's the nature of the [economic] growth. If it's all sticking a shovel in the ground, you get whatever you want."
"But at the end of the day, what's sustainable?" he asked. "Because, as I keep pointing out, every time you finish a building [there], under this model, you have to put up another one."
Comparing the potential Chinese real estate bubble to the one that burst in the U.S. in 2008, Chanos said, "Unlike our buyers who walked away and left it to the banking system and the Fed to sort of bailout. These people are going to lose their life savings. And that could be a big issue in China."
(Read More: No Hard Landing for Luxuries in China: Pro)
He said he analyzed Chinese government figures and concluded that China is on pace to develop about twice as much in the coming years as it had built in the past three.
"Avoid anything having to do with the Chinese property market — steel, cement, iron ore," he advised investors, saying that he's been shorting these sort of plays.
—By CNBC's Matthew J. Belvedere; Follow him on Twitter @Matt_SquawkCNBC
Matthew J. BelvedereSenior Editor
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North Carolina Inshore Fishing
We know the sound waters on the Outer Banks because we're on it everyday!
NC inshore fishing is something we take seriously at Carolina Sunrise. We work hard to make sure we are aware of the changes that happen daily on the waters of the Currituck sound here on the Outer Banks. While this takes lots of time to amass this knowledge and expertise, it is something that we are happy to share with our customers and friends. Ultimately we believe the sharing of knowledge will help us become better NC inshore fishermen. You never know which tip or trick might turn you on to a great day spent fishing.
The following excerpt from "The Wright Stuff", by Phillip Gentry published on April 26, 2010 in the North Carolina Sportsman Magazine details some of the tips and techniques that we use daily at Carolina Sunrise.
Ask Capt. Aaron Beatson of Carolina Sunrise Guide Service in Kill Devil Hills about his favorite mode of air travel, and he’ll invite you to climb the ladder to the flying bridge of his boat. From that vantage point, he scans the horizon for signs of feeding trout among the vast shallow grass flats of Kitty Hawk Bay.
Beatson specializes in inshore fishing the northern reaches of the Outer Banks and claims the Kitty Hawk area is vastly untouched, in the shadow of the Oregon Inlet area some 25 miles to the south. Like most OBX anglers, he fishes for everything that swims but has an affinity for trout fishing and says his backyard is a great place to find some gators.
“Most people who come to vacation here don’t realize how good the fishing can be,” Beatson said. “The area is very protected from the wind, and it’s a relatively small body of water when compared to Currituck or Albemarle Sounds. It’s a lot like fishing a small pond, only there are a number of creeks, points and shallow bars that are great places to catch speckled trout.”
Beatson offers some suggestions when heading out into Kitty Hawk Bay in search of trout. The first is to make note of any long points that stick out into the bay. Trout are ambush feeders and will hold on a long point very similar to the way a largemouth bass will, in fact it’s not uncommon to catch a stray largemouth in times of lower salinity. Beatson recalls some 20 years ago when they used to hold bass tournaments out of Kitty Hawk Bay and further north in Currituck Sound.
His second go-to area will be anywhere he can find moving water. Tide fluctuations are rarely significant in the Kitty Hawk area, but a steady wind out of the west or southwest will move water around these points. Other great moving-water locations include a number of bridge funnels that pass water from one side of Colington Island to the other or from surrounding marshes. He also suggests that much of the bottom in these areas will be covered in submerged grass and grass is a trout haven.
“Where there’s grass, there’s shrimp and where there’s shrimp, there’s going to be trout,” said Beatson. “Most of the grass will be submerged and may be hard to see unless the sun is high overhead. There are areas where the grass comes to the surface, and a floating mat of grass is a great place to throw a shrimp imitating bait.
“You can move around the grass to fish or boat upwind of any grass and just let the wind and current push you across the area while you cast to the grass or fan-cast open water. I have a lot of success throwing a Heddon Super Spook Jr. around the grass beds and working (it) over the top of submerged grass.”
One of Beatson’s dead giveaways to locating trout is to find an oil slick on the water. Seeing a slick is much easier in calm water and indicates the presence of feeding trout.
“Look for an oil slick, like gas or motor oil floating on the water. A round slick is better than a longer or oblong slick because it’s harder to determine which end the fish are on. It’s created by the blood and oils of baitfish that have been attacked by trout, and believe it or not, it smells like watermelon. If you’re running across the water and suddenly start smelling watermelon, cut the motor and start looking for that slick, because there’s trout feeding somewhere nearby.”
Beatson will often start his mornings out at the Wright Brothers Bridge over Currituck Sound (US 158), which is less than five miles from the entrance to Kitty Hawk Bay. He works the concrete pilings before heading to the bay. The vast expanse of structure may be intimidating at first, but they also hold a lot of trout.
“I usually start out with popping corks and use a Berkley Gulp! curlytail grub or shrimp under the float,” he said. “It’s only about a 10- to 15-minute run to the bridge from the public launch on Bay Drive at Mile Marker 6.5. You don’t need to run hard, because the water will shallow up quickly in some places. The main draw at the bridge is where I usually fish anyway. The deeper water edges hold more fish than the shallow piers.”
While he starts out with artificials, he’s not opposed to using live bait if he happens to come across some, especially around the bridge structure. If he lucks up on a pinfish, which readily attach the Gulp! baits, he’ll put the unlucky bait stealer back out under a cork or free-line the bait deep after cutting the fins off.
“A lot of bigger fish move under that bridge early in the morning, and using a live bait will often catch you a big redfish, flounder or hungry trout,” Beatson said. “Any kind of live bait that you can pick up — a live spot, pinfish, mullet or shrimp — works great.”
Since trout are typically surface feeders, he will employ a brightly colored popping cork to both attract the trout’s attention and suspend the bait a foot or so below the water’s surface. Suspending a plastic mullet or shrimp-imitating bait on a long-shanked jighead underneath a popping cork, and then positioning the cork beside a vertical bridge piling is usually more then a trout can resist.
“I’ll sometimes let the cork just sit and bob beside the piling,” he said. “This also floats my bait above any grass and keeps it free of submerged oyster beds. Probably the biggest reason I like corks is that they are a no-brainer to fish. Cast them out, pop them a few times and let them sit. You got a fish when the cork goes under.”
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Échangeur
Bidon Vil
Introduction film program 'Friction Building’
Hallo iedereen, bonjour à toutes et à tous, hello everybody - Welcome to this evening called “Friction Building” - referring to the growing tensions that surround our country’s colonial heritage.
We will start with a brief introduction to the program, that will take about 15 minutes. Than we will watch 4 short films. We know that there are at least a few people who don't speak Dutch, so we’ll do the talk in English. We hope that’s ok with you.
As an introduction, we’ve organized a number of unfinished thoughts concerning the program in 6 paragraphs, which I will read to you now:
(1) Friction is Building
When in 2015 the “Rhodes must Fall” movement was kicked off, or at least accelerated, by the disfiguring and removal of a colonial statue at Rhodes university in Cape-town, South-Africa it caught the attention of mainstream media worldwide. At the time, it didn’t spark much reflection on our own colonial heritage in the Belgian press. Newspapers reporting on it described a remote event, far removed from our national borders. Little or no connection was made to local issues.
When in 2017, however, Charlottesville’s protesters topled confederate statues, the event was addressed differently. Practically all popular newspapers referred to the debate on Belgium’s omnipresent colonial monuments. The question was raised whether it wasn’t time to face our own colonial past and its present continuations - amongst which, the many physical manifestations on squares and streetcorners.
Attention to these issues is not new. In Belgium, activist groups like Memoire Coloniale, Présence Noir or Decolonize Belgium have been questioning the presence of colonial statues for many years. Their concerns, however, usually don’t make headlines. How come that this time newspapers that we’re reporting on an event in another continent were also referring to Ostend, Antwerp and Brussels?
Do we, as Belgians, maybe just identify more easily with social struggles in the United states than with those in South-Africa? Or does the increasing visibilty of phenomena like refugee crises and different forms of extremisms, together with the continued efforts of activists, make reflection about colonization inevitable, and are we really experiencing a slow shift in our collective understanding of coloniality? The many events on decolonial thinking that are being organized, the publications that are being made, the many social movements that are born…sure seem to suggest that a collective urge to break the silence on past and present forms of colonialism is growing.
(2) so what to do with all those buildings
“Tear them down to the ground, store them at the museum, put up signs as big and heavy and detailed as the constructions they’re contextualizing or maybe even erect new monuments displaying different histories…”, many people have suggested ways of actively dealing with problematic statues. Others have warned for the obsession with symbols and objects. They claim it to be a superficial discussion distracting from the invisible legacies of colonialism. Isn’t not getting a job because your last name is “Harrak” a far more pressing issue than some old stones nobody cares about?
On the one hand I’d say yes, I think it’s important not to overestimate the monument. It is an outdated form, and it’s presence goes unnoticed most of the time. The monument just offers a way in – it present us with a concrete, almost practical starting point for an abstract and layered conversation.
On the other hand, these images do carry a violence within them, sometimes explicitly, as in the statue of Pater De Deken, sometimes implicitly. It’s not unlikely that even though we may claim not to notice them, unconsciously these depictions do find their way to our perception of life, and of relations between people. Maybe we don’t perceive monuments as harmful, because we experience them as natural, banal and unquestionable extensions of the city. But doesn’t that give them great potential for making their political messages seem just as natural, banal and unquestionable?
Furthermore, if a group of people feels excluded from public squares, isn’t that in itself enough to just get rid of them all, or at least transform them into something new?
(3) a privilege to be bored
The spreading of awareness on these issues seems inevitability to go hand in hand with weariness, with fatigue. More than once I heard my friends say “Really? again, with the post-colonial stuff?”
A few months ago I was talking to another friend. She told me that, shocked as she was by the events in Charlottesville, she was also excited with all the attention it directed to Belgian colonial monuments. I remember saying “yes, ofcourse”, but also telling her that I was worried about how to seize the moment, how to use the momentum that the events had created. How to make sure that we, as citizens, can have a profound conversation and really come to the core of the issue, without becoming fed up with it, bored by repetition.
She responded: “what a luxury to be fed up with it. As if it is a only a thought-exercise, and not a very real, constant expression of violence. I don’t care about it becoming boring, we need to repeat this over and over and over.”
(4) who else is coming?
We are Anne Reijniers and Rob Jacobs. We are two white, Belgian artists and researchers, who work together with Congolese artists and researchers, that is the position we’re speaking from. Tonight, however, it’s not only us talking. Although it was practically not possible for them to be here, Andrés, Ana and Mamadou will speak through their artistic work. This evening is an attempt to have a conversation between artists in different places, who grew up on different sides of colonial history, and who are involved in different social struggles as a consequence of those histories.
(5) a cinema of exclusion and inclusion
The development of documentary filmmaking itself is closely intertwined with colonialism; ethnographic film evolved as a method to document, study, classify and thereby control the colonized. The history of political and artistic documentary, however, shows us that the medium can also be a powerful tool to accomplish quite the opposite: to unsettle categories, to destabilize stereotypes and create images that contradict dominant discourses.
But when making a program of political and artistic documentaries, questions concerning inclusivity and exclusivity arise. Isn’t this event, for example, designed with a very specific audience in mind: one already concerned with issues of coloniality, interested in the arts, having access to the media communicating about this event and understanding the codes used in that communication?
I’d say yes, this is a problem, but in my opinion it does not make it illegitimate. I stand by the point my friend made: there’s a need to repeat this over and over and over. And doing so, we can test out different forms: some forms will speak to some audiences, some forms will speak to others. I don’t think the academic article is irrelevant because it is too dense, nor are the slogans shouted in the streets useless because they’re too superficial: I think we need it all: and the academic articles, and the rally’s, and the experimental film programs, and the guided city tours, and the political parties, and the community meetings, and the online fora, and the art centers for refugees.
What is important is that we strive towards a situation in which people in all those different realms have a safe space to speak and to be heard, and that we keep on looking for ways to loosen up boundaries between those realms.
This Saturday at 14:00 there's an event taking place at Globe Aroma in Brussels, a community art center where lots of newcomer and refugee artists work. The event is called "one alarm, many voices”, it is a reaction to last Friday's police raid at Globe Aroma. I think we should all go.
(6) four films in conversation
Four films, made in four different contexts, show us contemporary uses of remnants of a violent past. The films address material remains of colonialism (like Lisbon’s statues of proud explorers in ‘Occidente’), as well as immaterial consequences (like the loss of a language in ‘Ciudad Maya’), and the intricate ways in which those are intertwined.
But Anne will tell you something more about the films.
I will tell you something about the two first films. After we screened them, I will present the two last films. After all the films we can have a conversation with you.
1 - Mamadou Khouma Gueye - Kedougou (2017, 23’)
Kedougou is a city located south east of Senegal 750 km from Dakar. After Senegal obtained independence, a power struggle broke out between Senghor and Mamadou Dia, two members of the ruling party. Mamadou Dia was tried for high treason and exiled to Kedougou. Since this event, “Kedougou” symbolises prison in the collective imagination.
In this film we follow Ibrahima who takes up residence and works inside the ruins of this famous prison. In his selfmade foundry, he makes pots, pans and other kitchen utensils. We follow him in one of his working days, while prison walls tell the story of the dark hours of Senegalese post-independence politics.
2 - Andrés Padilla Domene - Ciudad Maya (2016, 24’)
In the city of Merida, in Mexico, a group of young urban Maya, operate mysterious technological instruments to do some sort of archaeological survey of a ruined site. However, the monuments they are scanning are not ancient, but modern replicas.
The film adresses the resistance of urban Mayans today to colonial fantasies. It shows urban Mayans studying the colonial imagination by looking at images in a foresaken Maya-themed restaurant. They use techniques of etnography and archeology in a playful way. Doing so, they bring the authority of scientific accounts of Maya culture into question. At the same time we see and hear a Mayan computerspecialist translating computer related terms to Maya. In a very constructive act of resistance, he updates a language that runs the risk of becoming lost.
3 - Anne Reijniers & Rob Jacobs - Échangeur (2016, 33’)
Échangeur, this is the film Rob and I shot in 2015.
In the streets of Kinshasa, young Congolese imagine their version of the colonial past. An empty pedestal that used to carry a Belgian monument functions as a junction, a point of intersection that connects different interpretations of the colonial past, displayed in artistic performances.
For this film we worked together with Congolese artists. It is one form of output of a larger project, an ongoing exchange between young people in Belgium and DRCongo, who are looking for ways to relate to the colonial past. At this moment we are working on a new film about politically engaged performers. In this mid-length film, all script-writing, directing and editing is done by us, side-by-side with Congolese cineasts Paul Shemisi and Nizar Saleh, whom we met during the making of Échangeur.
4 - Ana Vaz - Occidente (2015, 15’)
A film-poem that speaks of colonial history repeating itself. The oppressed become masters, antiques become reproducible dinner sets, exotic birds become luxury currency, exploration becomes extreme-sport-tourism, monuments become geodata. A spherical voyage eastwards and westwards marking cycles of expansion in a struggle to find one’s place, one’s sitting around a table.
'Occidente' is an experimental film, that comes from a desire to bring separated things back together, a collagist impulse to approximate that which has been disassociated through power, logic and reason. The film reacts on a narration of history in which things are smoothed out, and linearly organized. 'Occidente' tries to disorganize, to run away from this logic.
Friction Building is a program of short films dealing with colonial heritage, that was presented at Extra-City, Antwerp on 15/02/2018.
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